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We have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit. When Greg heard the “Holy Ghost” mentioned in church as a child, it freaked him out! Has his understanding of the Holy Spirit changed? Today, dive with Greg into 2 Corinthians 6:1-10. “We own nothing and yet we have everything.” You can always have joy even though your heart may be aching right now.  Listen for 14 minutes of encouragement… at just the right time. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Help us Bring HOPE and Encouragement to Others Texting the word GIVE to 833-713-1591 Website https://www.hopeisheretoday.org/donate Shopping on Amazon, select HOPE is Here as your favorite charity (EIN: 83-0522555) Login through this link > https://smile.amazon.com/ch/83-0522555 

This Bachelorette recap features real-life dating advice taken from the most recent episodes of the show. Marni and Man Panelist Chris Gillis talk about the mesmerizing episode where Greg Grippo breaks up with Katie! Does Katie have her love shield up? Is Greg too ‘real' for TV?   Key takeaways from this episode:  Navigating conflict in a relationship Ask higher-quality questions How to have a successful long-term relationship Gaslighting or authenticity?   Were There Off Camera Communication Between Katie and Greg? [2:06] When Greg declared his love it was the rawest and most memorable moment in Reality TV. Greg Grippo was supposed to be THE guy for Katie. He was always more focused on the relationship, not the drama the producers prodded. Marni points out several instances when Katie pleaded for Greg not to go but ‘on camera' Greg never mentioned he was going anywhere.  Does Katie have an unwarranted fear of abandonment that she pushed on Greg?    Where is the Katie we knew and loved from the beginning of the season? Did she turn into a robot? She barely responded when Greg said he loved her. Things heated up quickly. The thing that killed Katie and Greg was their inability to deal with conflict in a relationship.     Team Greg [19:29] Marni thinks Greg is in love with Katie but he does not care about the theatrics of the show. She thinks he got scared about falling in love with Katie. Chris thinks Greg dated with dignity, and once the game show aspect of the show was over he wanted to get real but Katie couldn't commit. Men love being the knight in shining armor but Katie wouldn't allow herself to accept it. Katie has a hard time receiving love. She has her love shield up.  To have a successful long-term relationship:  Both parties need to be committed to individual growth. Both parties need to be committed to the growth of the relationship.  Greg was honorable. He collected data and the data he collected was not a good match for him. Both Marni and Chris believe Greg will not agree to be in the spotlight after the show ends. They believe he was in it to find love.   Do the Guys Who Said Goodbye Still Want Katie? [49:51] Marni asks Chris if he thinks the guys Katie asked to leave the show feel they dodged a bullet, or do they want to be with Katie now that she is free? Both Chris & Marni think the good guys Katie let go feel like they dodged a bullet.  Katie told the producers off camera she loved Greg but never told Greg to his face.  You are going to have issues in a relationship at some point but when you are dating with intention and self-worth you will have established trust and commitment and be able to work through conflict.    Make a Connection: Visit Our Website Join Our Dating Den Facebook Community Here! Learn how to attract your perfect equal...watch our latest training here! Interested in working with us? Book a Breakthrough session at DWDVIP Get a Free Coaching Session with Marni on Our Podcast - Sign up Here to Be a Guest On Our Show Download a Complimentary Copy of our Book - How to Find a Quality Guy Without Going on 200 Dates

Learn more at organize365.com/podcast/defining-housework-maintenance In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business (361 & 362). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in Podcast 418. There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don't think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job.  A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of the first challenges we faced is that we do not have a common vocabulary around work inside the house like we have for work in the workplace. As part of our research, we needed to define the words we were using in the survey questions. That meant, we needed to define housework. This is the final episode of a four part series that defines and explains the different kinds of work we all do inside of our homes.  Today, I am sharing some details about the fourth kind of housework - maintenance. Home maintenance tasks are the tasks that the owner of the property is responsible for in order to increase the value of the home. This includes things like painting, updating flooring, replacing HVAC units, and purchasing a new roof. It is technically optional, but it is in the best interest of the property owner to keep the maintenance up to date. It is an investment the owner makes to protect the value of the property. Maintenance can be done directly by the owner, or it can be done indirectly by hired help. Renters have very little, if any, maintenance expenses and responsibilities.  In the most recent research, Organize 365® discovered two important things. Home maintenance is the kind of housework where external help is most often hired by the homeowner. Home maintenance is also the only category of housework that is most often completed by men.  When Greg and I first purchased our home, my dad taught me a very important lesson. His advice was to make any desired improvements to our home as soon as possible, so we would get the most enjoyment from our purchase. He was so right! I also remember my aunt recommending an annual home maintenance budget of 5% of the value of the home. That is a lot of money. You may not spend the whole amount every year, but larger expenses can use up several years worth of the budget.  If you own your home, I want you to think about being the landlord of your home. This will help you determine what maintenance tasks are most important. The Organize 365® Household Reference Binder is helpful in keeping track of your maintenance needs and documentation that the necessary tasks have been completed. Having an organized system for my documents and information has helped me to make decisions about when to replace and when to fix certain appliances. I can also better predict my maintenance expenses because all of my papers are easily accessible and organized.  I hope that you find these descriptions of housework helpful and I want you to think about how you can become more efficient with your housework to do the work you are uniquely created to do!

When Greg de Villers died of an apparent suicide in 2000, his wife Kristin was distraught. But an investigation revealed he had been murdered with a lethal dose of fentanyl — and Kristin had the knowledge, the means, and the motive to do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our Beginnings Greg and his business partner at the time launched Hoss Tools in 2009 with our signature product, the Single Wheel Hoe. When Greg was around 15 years old he enjoyed gardening at home and his mother bought him his first high-arc wheel hoe to use. He used the tool often but found he didn't like the type because, as he says, the attachments were clunky and difficult to adjust. Later on, he found a Planet Jr wheel hoe online that he liked but the supply was very limited, making them difficult to find. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention and Greg decided to make his own wheel hoe from American parts in the USA. So the adventure began! Newer Items Since then Hoss has ventured out into other areas of farming and gardening to provide more quality products to you; from wheel hoes and irrigation products to the Hoss Garden Seeder, Premium Garden Seeds, and pest control. The Hoss Garden Seeder is a USA-made product that is customizable to fit your exact needs. It has two wheels that are situated on the front and backside of the seed plate to ensure your seeds are deposited perfectly within your rows. Our innovative seed plate design makes planting easy and allows you to customize your planting to meet your exact needs! We have 35 items in our irrigation options along with a few bundles that are available, such as Mainline Tubing, Mainline Tees, Valves for your Mainline Tubing, and 8 mil. and 15 mil DripTape, and everything else from a simple system to a complete irrigation array. Under our Premium Garden Seeds tab, you will find 48 categories of flowers and veggies that are filled with many varieties of each. You'll find almost anything you're looking for from flowers, like our Chocolate Cherry Sunflower and Roselle Hibiscus, to herbs, like Thyme and Borage, and even our AAS winners, such as Red Burgundy Okra and Cinderella's Carriage Pumpkin.  We also have both organic and synthetic pest control options for you. If you're looking to have a more organic farming plan we carry several options such as Diatomaceous Earth and Monterey Garden Insect Spray. On the other side, we carry more potent options such as Garden Phos and Fungi Max. Coming Soon We are excited to tell you about a couple of new things headed your way. First is a line of micro-greens and growing kits. As more and more people have shown an interest in growing their own micr-greens at home for salads, garnishes, and stir fry needs, we are bringing products to help you get started growing these nutrient-packed plants from your own home. Worm Farming We are going to look at what goes into worm farming and even using worms in the garden. We will look at the pros and cons of worm tea, which is one byproduct of using a raised worm composter, as well as looking at using worm castings, or worm excrement. Greg plans to visit a local worm farm and talk with the owner of the operation to find out what she has to say about the benefits of using worms in the garden and also any downsides that worms may have. More To Come We have many wonderful things going on here for you and can't wait to bring more as it becomes available. And as always, we will be testing all of these new items and retesting our current stock to ensure we offer you only the best. Products of the Week Hoss Straw Hat Hoss Pepper Bandana Serrano Pepper Watch the Complete Show on YouTube Below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPUDZw0fp_c

Professor Greg Jackson joins Tim to talk about what it takes to pass the American citizenship test, what's on it, and what all means. Do you think you could pass the test? You may be surprised. You may know Greg from previous episodes where we discussed George Washington, the history of the American Flag, or the history of the U.S. Capitol building. Greg is a historian and history professor at Utah Valley University. And he's the host of the very popular podcast called, “History that Doesn't Suck.” In this episode, we explore the test to become an American citizen. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shapingopinion/Citizenship_Test_auphonic.mp3 Less than two years ago, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation decided to conduct a test to find out just how much Americans actually know about their country, its history and what it means to be a citizen. The country failed. But let's be more specific. The survey found that two out of three Americans would not pass the test that's required to become a U.S. Citizen. First, a little background on that test. Before an immigrant to the United States can take the Oath of U.S. Citizenship, he or she must pass a naturalization test that's administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It's a two-part test. There is a civics test. And there is an English language test. While some accommodations may be made for age and physical limitation, applicants for citizenship are expected to demonstrate they can read, write and speak words in ordinary and daily usage in the English language. And they have to demonstrate that they have a basic knowledge and understanding of American history, government and tradition. So, when the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, conducted its survey, here are some highlights – or lowlights – of what it found. Only 13 percent, or almost 1 out of 10 Americans knew that the Constitution was ratified in June 1788. Most thought it was 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed. 60 percent, that's 6 out of 10 Americans, did not know the countries the U.S. fought against in World War Two. More than half of those surveyed did not know how many justices are on the U.S. Supreme Court. There are nine. People who were 65 years old and older scored best with 74 percent answering at least 6 out of 10 questions correctly. Those 45 years old and younger did the worst. Only 19 percent were able to pass the exam. I know what you're wondering right now. You're wondering if you could pass the exam yourself.  Well, before you try to answer that, we decided this may be a good time to take the mystery out of the test. Links History that Doesn't Suck Podcast Greg Jackson, Utah Valley University Sample Civics Test, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services 12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup (Barnes & Noble) Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass (Barnes & Noble) Ken Burns' Documentaries, Barnes & Noble About this Episode's Guest Prof. Greg Jackson Dr. Greg Jackson is best known for being the Creator, Head Writer, and Host of History That Doesn't Suck and contributing as a historical consultant to the podcast American Elections: Wicked Game. Greg is Associate Professor of Integrated Studies and Assistant Director of National Security Studies at Utah Valley University, where he teaches courses spanning US, European, and Middle Eastern history. Greg earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. When Greg isn't researching, teaching, or podcasting, he's usually hanging with his family, cycling, rock climbing, or indulging his love of languages. Greg speaks fluent French, rusty-but-conversational Spanish, and has some working ability in Arabic and Classical Latin.  

This week's Misfit Entrepreneur is Greg Salsburg. Here's the first line from his online bio: Greg Salsburg has been ostracized by society since birth and became a disappointment to his family and all those who came in contact shortly thereafter. His freakish nature, early adoption of donning loud footwear and love for all things “Seuss'ian” made him a pariah on the playground. Intrigued? How could you not be? Greg is the CEO and Founder of STiR Communications. STiR-communications is a business consultancy firm that leverages the ubiquitous channels of distribution to advance clients messages and bottom line objectives. Greg's success has spanned decades and is truly impressive working with everyone from Four Seasons to JP Morgan and even having Muhammed Ali and The New York Yankees as clients. He's won countless awards and has been a 20 under 20 recipient, 30 under 30 recipient, and 40 under 40 recipient. How's that for consistency. Although his forward facing role is directing STiR-communications strategic and creative forces, it's his transformational work with business leaders behind the scenes; through his mindful practice and real word acumen, that has earned him the nickname the “Consigliere Consultant.” But, for Greg it was not a straight up rise to success. He was a multi-millionaire who lost every penny and had to re-invent himself. He did this by embracing humility and seeking wisdom. It's this journey and what he learned and put into practice to create his success 2.0 that I want him to share with you today. Greg started off in news and sports in New York and with NBC TV and sports. He transitioned from there into marketing because it just wasn't fulfilling. He met someone who was starting a business called Café Hollywood which was later changed to Planet Hollywood and became the worldwide director of marketing and public relations. This changed the trajectory of his life. Greg had a unique ability to communicate, and it shined through. It was a leap of faith to go from journalism to marketing at a global level. He was always very impressed with those that had an entrepreneurial spirit and could build and create something from nothing vs. seeing it and reporting on it from the sidelines. This eventually led to him creating his own marketing and PR company after his success and learning journey at Planet Hollywood. At one point you had everything and were living a rockstar lifestyle, then lost it all. What happened and was there a moment or an epiphany that changed everything? When Greg was at Planet Hollywood, it was more than a restaurant – it like running a Hollywood studio and he was surrounded with stars and agents every day. He went on to work in Motown and run 6 Flags Amusement. He was in the right place at the right time, but felt he had a bit of imposter syndrome. He grew up with professionals that had very little failure, but not much risk taking. When he started to taste his first bit of adversity, he crumbled. He didn't know how to handle it emotionally. He went from not having any failures, to having a larger one and the good money after bad to try and save it, but he was blinded by arrogance from his previous success. He went from great wealth to losing it all. Now, through the journey he has been on, he has gained it back “20 fold in all areas of life.” What did you learn on the journey and what did it teach you? People tend to believe success is bi-fricated into power and wealth. The truth is that is a 3-legged stool and the greatest component is the “emotional balance” needed alongside the other two areas. If you are not in tune emotionally, it doesn't matter how much power or wealth you have, it will never be enough. Your EQ cannot be out of balance as you cannot operate in a peaceful manner. EQ is misunderstood and not thought about that much.  Define it for us and then tell us more about the 3 areas we need to understand. When Greg was living the rockstar life, it seemingly was good and more was better. But, it was almost an angry position that it took to get it and maintain it. Emotions were never talked about and it was about the “grind.” There was a feeling that if you worked more and slept less, you were better or more successful. Any emotional talk was dismissed and repressed. It was not “manly” to talk about it as it meant weakness. Greg new this was wrong. He could feel it to be the missing piece, so he started to learn and study more about emotion and consciousness. He watched the towers drop on 9/11 from his balcony, he realized that the world would never be the same and how fragile life was and it was this realization that spurred him to change and help others in a bigger way with life mission. He pursued who he knew he should be. Consciousness is the key to living a good life and being your best self. How do the 3 areas intersect with EQ? At the 21 min mark, Greg talks about “PE Ratio and what it really means and its impact.” It's best to listen. With the pandemic, it caused people to have a reset, but the truth is that we've had a pandemic all along that has been widely ignored, which is an emotional disservice to ourselves and those around us. We have ignored the internal workings of ourselves. It is real and measurable and we need to do better. VUCA- Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. This is part of life in all areas, but how do we deal with it better? We offset volatility with a vision. Vision changes volatility. Understanding changes uncertainty and makes it easier. Take the time to truly understand. Clarity will help with the complexity. You need agility to offset ambiguity. ¾ of all health issues are caused from stress. People are not tuning into the areas of consciousness they need to deal with stress in a better way and leaders need to foster this. Feelings/emotions are personal to each person, but understanding them and learning to work with the better is key to a better life and leaders must take time to understand help people in this area and they have to start with doing this themselves in order to be effective. The CEO needs to also be the Chief Emotional Officer. One of the things I like about your messaging is the blend being bold and audacious with a hint of sarcasm and comedy – is that the secret to standing out in today's world? It comes from being authentic. Authentic is what helps you standout. You must find your honesty and authenticity and move it away from the center to the edges where the most excitement is. Explain the significance of why STiR is spelled the way it is… Greg wanted to be the opposite and deliver a different product and stir things up in the marketplace But he did not want to make it about “I,” but “WE.” So he made sure the “I” was a lot smaller in the name because it's not about him. What are the elements of a great communication strategy? A great strategy is not a one-size fits all. The companies that have the best strategies are not trying to be like the others in their marketplace. Companies that stand for something and have a mission and weave that into everything in a deeper, more connected way with a smaller, devoted tribe win. Those that really tell a story and remove the hypocrisy of business. The medium (humor, seriousness, etc.) will be different for each one, but it all comes down to emotion and tapping into it. Any company really doing it well? It was different pre and post pandemic. One that is doing well is Danny Meyer. They are doing an amazing job in hospitality post pandemic. Hospitality was hit particularly hard during the pandemic. Danny stood up for his people and go out and explain publicly why it was so important to get help for the industry and not lose the vitality and backbone it provides to the American economy. He was also on the front line in NYC helping businesses with way to keep going and stay in business. He believes people matter, caring matters, and showcases it throughout his restaurant group. When the chips were done, he put profits aside for people. It is conscious leadership at its best What is the changing dynamic of business and important to understand post-pandemic? Retail has accelerated at least a decade in some ways to a demise, but others adapted in big ways where they had not or were not willing to do so. Consumers now have the power. The workers have much more of a say and much more power. It's not a top-down approach anymore. With the ability to work from anywhere and now the proof that it works, the talent pool is now far great for businesses. But, it is also a much great flexibility for workers and consumers. The means leaders must be in tune with the areas that matter most with the people they deal with on a regular basis or they will lose them.   Best Quote: You must find your honesty and authenticity and move it away from the center to the edges where the most excitement is.   Greg's Misfit 3: Be a go-giver, not a go-getter. Your mind must be stronger than your feelings. You must hustle and work smart, but don't just simply be grinding or you'll be left with dust.   Show Sponsors: Free Account of 50% off Premium on Issuu: www.Issuu.com/Podcast promo code: Misfit 5 Minute Journal:  www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Journal

The Jamco is back on the hosting duty (we know you missed him) His guests are the first ever father and son duo guests, Greg and Jordan Little. Greg Little is a preacher at Victory Baptist church in NORTH CAKALACKAH, and they will have a great conversation about Religion and Faith and what that means from an opinion from passive believers. We will hear the unconventional way that Greg found faith and what his responses are to the people who do not believe or are unsure of faith themselves. The Jamco and Greg have a looooong conversation about Territory wrestling. When Greg was younger he would get Mid Atlantic Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling on his local TV station. They talk about the many different territories that were around in the 70's and 80's. We then flip over to Jordan Little who is the voice of Chris McIntyre on the wrestling show GSF. Jordan talks about the current wrestling scene, and we flip back and forth between Greg and Jordan in the comparisons in the business from today to yesteryear. Check out The Mid Atlantic Title Belts that Greg has his hands on https://ibb.co/Zzv3K5p https://ibb.co/vzRqkCt https://ibb.co/XCpwhbR Jordans RantNRave Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZSkOQnVkw3r5HMrZRxled You can catch FWZ on Twitter and Facebook https://twitter.com/FWZCollection https://www.facebook.com/FWZCollection

Listen in as Greg Foster, Realtor and Video Marketing expert shares with me and Carla Johnson, tips on how he went from a NEW Youtube channel and within 6 months dominating his local market and getting a stream of leads weekly, without paying 1 dime in marketing costs!Check out his incredible story and the tips to help you dominate your market on Youtube for 2021!For more information about Greg visit over at Market Boss, https://www.facebook.com/mymarketboss/​Key Moments in This Episode========================03:10​ When Greg started his youtube channel and why03:50​ How to determine what videos to create?05:55​ How to get your videos ranked on page one of Google?15:11​ Do you use scripts? Do you memorize scripts?16:24​ Tools (equipment) Greg uses in his business.22:05​ Whats your marketing costs to generate the leads you get from YouTube?28:57​ How being YOURSELF will get you warm and hot leads ready to do business with you.31:24​ How to create additional streams of income from your Youtube channel.Tools that Greg mentioned:*Tube Buddy - For seo, search videos to create and more! https://www.tubebuddy.com/Loyoutube​*Telepromoter - http://bit.ly/parrotteleprompterlo​*Prompt Smart Pro App (for Android and Iphone) https://promptsmart.com/​*Keywords Everywhere - To find good keywords to target for ranking. https://keywordseverywhere.com/​*Support the show by making a small donation here https://supporter.acast.com/take-action-with-lo-show *Want to Learn How to Buy and Sell Houses Virtually Using Your Cell Phone and Laptop? Click the link for a free action step guide here http://freeguide.veuniversity.net/​*Visit our site at Virtual Entrepreneurs Academy, https://www.veuniversity.net/​Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/take-action-with-lo-show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to ONE. In each episode Robert interviews ONE Christian to hear their story. Join us in learning about the ONE body of Christ, ONE story at a time. Visit https://www.northpark.com/one for links to the audio-only PODCAST on your favorite podcast platform. In Episode 12, we talk with Mari Harris who’s been at NorthPark for about 4 years. Mari is married to Greg, a former Marine and Los Angeles police officer, and they have three grown children. Because of Greg’s deployments, they’ve lived all over the country and world including North Carolina, Hawaii, and Okinawa, Japan! Mari shares her spiritual journey and how being involved in a local church has been so significant in her life. When Greg was overseas, a church in N.C. was instrumental in their family’s life. And at NorthPark, the Women’s Ministry Tuesday evening Bible study has been a huge blessing. Especially this past year, even meeting over Zoom, the women of NorthPark came along Mari to support her through the grief of losing twenty friends to Covid while working at a live-in Senior care facility in L.A. County. Mari’s warmth and faith are a beacon of light as Jesus shines through her even as she tenderly shares the traumas of 2020. Join us and be encouraged that Jesus is using the people and pastors of NorthPark to bring God’s grace into this world in significant and life-changing ways.

Joe and Greg talk about gear and the guitar life! What more could you ask for? They discuss Joe's new signature Epiphone, Greg's new amp, practicing, Clapton, Les Pauls, Pedals, and more. Greg kicks off Season 2 with Joe Bonamassa!4:53 - The time Greg drooled incessantly over one of Joe’s original Fender Broadcasters, and a discussion about Telecasters in general7:41 - Joe’s first vintage guitar - a Candy Apple Red ’72 Fender Strat14:53 - Joe’s current perspective on vintage gear18:29 - The importance of practice, putting in your 10,000 hours, and removing your ego from your instrument26:43 - Eric Clapton, his diversity of a player, and his undeniable gusto as a player37:45 - When Greg and Joe first met, and how they’re getting through stay-at-home life43:34 - Joe’s new signature Epiphone guitar, Greg’s new tweed amp from Koch amps, and a whole lotta pedal talk56:41 - Joe’s Les Paul journey through his career, and how amps play a very important role in his playing72:01 - If Joe was forced to chose 2 of his guitars….Total Length: 78:49

What a treat we have today. Not only is it the beginning of Season 2, but it's also the week that we feature LVL Lacrosse and one of the greatest players in the games history, Mark Millon. LVL Lacrosse is the brain child of Muamer Razic. Muamer came to the USA as a refugee from Bosnia, and with the help of a dedicated team, has built LVL lacrosse. The mission of LVL is "to help you reimagine your game by providing you with unique player enhancement tools designed to take your game to a whole new level." It's safe to say they are well on their way as the first round of their new training and playing products has already sold out! What does Season 2 have to offer? Not only will we continue to have fantastic guests on the show, but we've also added a new intro (shout out to Chazz Woodson), we have a new home at www.laxallstars.com/goingoffsides (great place to get 20% off lacrosse products), and we have a custom Growing The Game shirt in the LAS Shop. We run the show with little to no ads, which means we'd really appreciate your support by visiting the shop or using our codes! Last Week: For our Season 1 finale, we welcomed Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation, he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don’t think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Chazz has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in the sport. On episode 24, we spoke to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother, Mike, are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on eBay to one of the sport's most exciting brands. In the past, you may have known ECD for their mesh, but it has quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products, such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ, he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com. Follow along with Chazz Woodson and his team @Hampton_MLAX on twitter. This and Next Week: Next week, we welcome Wes Berg and Scott Fitchett (MSN Lazer), who will discuss the development of MSN Lazer, a Canadian company that creates not only some of the coolest custom works of art, but also extremely high quality wood shafts. Check out their product line at https://msnlazer.ca/. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

What a treat we have today. Not only is it the beginning of Season 2, but it's also the week that we feature LVL Lacrosse and one of the greatest players in the games history, Mark Millon. LVL Lacrosse is the brain child of Muamer Razic. Muamer came to the USA as a refugee from Bosnia, and with the help of a dedicated team, has built LVL lacrosse. The mission of LVL is "to help you reimagine your game by providing you with unique player enhancement tools designed to take your game to a whole new level." It's safe to say they are well on their way as the first round of their new training and playing products has already sold out! What does Season 2 have to offer? Not only will we continue to have fantastic guests on the show, but we've also added a new intro (shout out to Chazz Woodson), we have a new home at www.laxallstars.com/goingoffsides (great place to get 20% off lacrosse products), and we have a custom Growing The Game shirt in the LAS Shop. We run the show with little to no ads, which means we'd really appreciate your support by visiting the shop or using our codes! Last Week: For our Season 1 finale, we welcomed Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation, he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don't think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Chazz has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in the sport. On episode 24, we spoke to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother, Mike, are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on eBay to one of the sport's most exciting brands. In the past, you may have known ECD for their mesh, but it has quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products, such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn't working at HQ, he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com. Follow along with Chazz Woodson and his team @Hampton_MLAX on twitter. This and Next Week: Next week, we welcome Wes Berg and Scott Fitchett (MSN Lazer), who will discuss the development of MSN Lazer, a Canadian company that creates not only some of the coolest custom works of art, but also extremely high quality wood shafts. Check out their product line at https://msnlazer.ca/. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what's going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

What a treat we have today. Not only is it the beginning of Season 2, but it's also the week that we feature LVL Lacrosse and one of the greatest players in the games history, Mark Millon. LVL Lacrosse is the brain child of Muamer Razic. Muamer came to the USA as a refugee from Bosnia, and with the help of a dedicated team, has built LVL lacrosse. The mission of LVL is "to help you reimagine your game by providing you with unique player enhancement tools designed to take your game to a whole new level." It's safe to say they are well on their way as the first round of their new training and playing products has already sold out! What does Season 2 have to offer? Not only will we continue to have fantastic guests on the show, but we've also added a new intro (shout out to Chazz Woodson), we have a new home at www.laxallstars.com/goingoffsides (great place to get 20% off lacrosse products), and we have a custom Growing The Game shirt in the LAS Shop. We run the show with little to no ads, which means we'd really appreciate your support by visiting the shop or using our codes! Last Week: For our Season 1 finale, we welcomed Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation, he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don’t think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Chazz has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in the sport. On episode 24, we spoke to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother, Mike, are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on eBay to one of the sport's most exciting brands. In the past, you may have known ECD for their mesh, but it has quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products, such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ, he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com. Follow along with Chazz Woodson and his team @Hampton_MLAX on twitter. This and Next Week: Next week, we welcome Wes Berg and Scott Fitchett (MSN Lazer), who will discuss the development of MSN Lazer, a Canadian company that creates not only some of the coolest custom works of art, but also extremely high quality wood shafts. Check out their product line at https://msnlazer.ca/. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

What a treat we have today. Not only is it the beginning of Season 2, but it's also the week that we feature LVL Lacrosse and one of the greatest players in the games history, Mark Millon. LVL Lacrosse is the brain child of Muamer Razic. Muamer came to the USA as a refugee from Bosnia, and with the help of a dedicated team, has built LVL lacrosse. The mission of LVL is "to help you reimagine your game by providing you with unique player enhancement tools designed to take your game to a whole new level." It's safe to say they are well on their way as the first round of their new training and playing products has already sold out! What does Season 2 have to offer? Not only will we continue to have fantastic guests on the show, but we've also added a new intro (shout out to Chazz Woodson), we have a new home at www.laxallstars.com/goingoffsides (great place to get 20% off lacrosse products), and we have a custom Growing The Game shirt in the LAS Shop. We run the show with little to no ads, which means we'd really appreciate your support by visiting the shop or using our codes! Last Week: For our Season 1 finale, we welcomed Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation, he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don't think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Chazz has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in the sport. On episode 24, we spoke to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother, Mike, are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on eBay to one of the sport's most exciting brands. In the past, you may have known ECD for their mesh, but it has quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products, such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn't working at HQ, he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com. Follow along with Chazz Woodson and his team @Hampton_MLAX on twitter. This and Next Week: Next week, we welcome Wes Berg and Scott Fitchett (MSN Lazer), who will discuss the development of MSN Lazer, a Canadian company that creates not only some of the coolest custom works of art, but also extremely high quality wood shafts. Check out their product line at https://msnlazer.ca/. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what's going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

What a treat we have today. Not only is it the beginning of Season 2, but it's also the week that we feature LVL Lacrosse and one of the greatest players in the games history, Mark Millon. LVL Lacrosse is the brain child of Muamer Razic. Muamer came to the USA as a refugee from Bosnia, and with the help of a dedicated team, has built LVL lacrosse. The mission of LVL is "to help you reimagine your game by providing you with unique player enhancement tools designed to take your game to a whole new level." It's safe to say they are well on their way as the first round of their new training and playing products has already sold out! What does Season 2 have to offer? Not only will we continue to have fantastic guests on the show, but we've also added a new intro (shout out to Chazz Woodson), we have a new home at www.laxallstars.com/goingoffsides (great place to get 20% off lacrosse products), and we have a custom Growing The Game shirt in the LAS Shop. We run the show with little to no ads, which means we'd really appreciate your support by visiting the shop or using our codes!Last Week:For our Season 1 finale, we welcomed Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation, he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don’t think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Chazz has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in the sport.On episode 24, we spoke to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother, Mike, are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on eBay to one of the sport's most exciting brands. In the past, you may have known ECD for their mesh, but it has quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products, such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ, he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com.Follow along with Chazz Woodson and his team @Hampton_MLAX on twitter.This and Next Week:Next week, we welcome Wes Berg and Scott Fitchett (MSN Lazer), who will discuss the development of MSN Lazer, a Canadian company that creates not only some of the coolest custom works of art, but also extremely high quality wood shafts. Check out their product line at https://msnlazer.ca/. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For our season one finale, we welcome Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don’t think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Coach has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in lacrosse.Earlier This Week:On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.comThis and Next Week:Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences.Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For our season one finale, we welcome Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don't think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Coach has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in lacrosse. Earlier This Week: On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn't working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com This and Next Week: Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what's going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

For our season one finale, we welcome Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Coach has spent the last 15 years teaching and coaching in Florida while having one of the more interesting pro careers. A veteran of both the MLL and LXM pro tour, along with several tournaments, Chazz has been a figure in the lacrosse world for many years. During our conversation he speaks about his current role and Hampton University, his education at Brown, playing professionally, and he shares with us many details that I don’t think the average lacrosse fan would ever know. Coach has been involved in so many different roles in lacrosse, we were tempted to call him the most interesting man in lacrosse. Earlier This Week: On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com This and Next Week: Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com Last Week:Episode 23 was another great one as we talk with Florida Southern Head Coach Marty Ward. Marty is one of the best and most thoughtful coaches in the game, and he speaks with us about growing up off the reservation, having lacrosse be a major link to his heritage and culture. He also talks about how COVID has affected his scheduling and practice planning this year. He also gives us some hints as to what players within the Iroquois program are primed to make waves in college this year.This and Next Week:For our season one finale, Friday we will be featuring Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn't working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com Last Week: Episode 23 was another great one as we talk with Florida Southern Head Coach Marty Ward. Marty is one of the best and most thoughtful coaches in the game, and he speaks with us about growing up off the reservation, having lacrosse be a major link to his heritage and culture. He also talks about how COVID has affected his scheduling and practice planning this year. He also gives us some hints as to what players within the Iroquois program are primed to make waves in college this year. This and Next Week: For our season one finale, Friday we will be featuring Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what's going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

On episode 24 we speak to the social media myth ECD Greg. Greg Kinneally and his brother Mike are the brains behind the ECD Lacrosse. ECD has grown from Greg selling his custom string jobs on ebay to one of the sports most exciting brands. In the past you may have known ECD for their mesh but they have quickly and thoughtfully expanded into other products such as heads, shafts, and apparel. When Greg isn’t working at HQ he is probably on a lacrosse field somewhere combining his passion for lacrosse with his passion for video editing. The product of these passions are often seen online as highlight reels and even ECD commercials. Check them out at www.ecdlax.com Last Week: Episode 23 was another great one as we talk with Florida Southern Head Coach Marty Ward. Marty is one of the best and most thoughtful coaches in the game, and he speaks with us about growing up off the reservation, having lacrosse be a major link to his heritage and culture. He also talks about how COVID has affected his scheduling and practice planning this year. He also gives us some hints as to what players within the Iroquois program are primed to make waves in college this year. This and Next Week: For our season one finale, Friday we will be featuring Hampton Head Coach and Former MLL/LXM Pro, Chazz Woodson. Next week we will have another two episode drop, Wednesday we will have Muamer the CEO/Founder of LVL Lacrosse and Friday we welcome the legendary Mark Millon. Both episodes are sure to be full of great info, stories, and experiences. Make sure to hit us up on Instagram @going_offsides_podcast and twitter @goingoffsides to see what’s going on with the pod, who we're having next, and for some sweet giveaways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/going-offsides/message

One of the most vexing questions brands are asking themselves today is how to get a solid ROI from influencer marketing. At Fancy.com, Greg Spillane thinks he has the answer.  When Greg came on as the CEO of Fancy in 2019, he was tasked with re-inventing and rebuilding the brand. Known as the “turnaround guy,” he had experience coming into distressed companies and pivoting them into viable businesses. Fancy was right up his alley. The company was known for lavish parties, and even handing out $1,000 gift cards to celebrities, models, and influencers. After Fancy blew through $100M in investment money, and with no profit in sight, Greg knew there was work to be done. With a new focus on profitability, and building on the impressive technology that Fancy created, Greg figured out a model that created a win-win opportunity for brands and influencers. On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, Greg discusses how he approached his role when he was brought in to turn around this struggling brand. He details the influencer, channel and email strategies he’s implementing to turn engagement into transactions. Plus, he talks about how to build a sustainable company, the things to consider when building out a board or taking on investment money, and his thoughts on when building an app is beneficial or just a distraction. Enjoy!   Main Takeaways: Influencing the Influencer Market — Most companies have yet to figure out how to get a solid ROI from utilizing influencers. Tune in to hear how Fancy is creating a mutually beneficial relationship by providing a platform that allows both the influencer and the brand to grow and monetize their user bases. Do You Really Need An App?  — When store owners start to have success, many begin to think about that next platform and are eager to jump into building their own app. But Spillane says this may not be the best move for many brands. Before diving into the world of apps, think about what will be different about the app versus the desktop. If the answer is nothing, then you will probably be just fine with a mobile responsive website instead.   Building a Viable Business  —  When taking over as CEO at Fancy, Greg had to re-invent and re-build the business from the ground up and turn the focus toward profitability. Having open and honest communication with the team is crucial during these pivotal times. New CEO? Take it Slow — Oftentimes, new CEOs come into a company and try to do too much too soon. Instead, spend the first 90 days listening, getting buy-in, and letting the problems — and many times the solutions — reveal themselves. For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length. --- Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce --- Transcript: Stephanie: Perfect. Welcome back to another episode of Up Next in Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles, co-founder of Mission.org. Today we're chatting with Greg Spillane, CEO of Fancy.com. Greg, welcome. Greg: Thank you, Stephanie. I'm so excited to be here and speaking with you. Stephanie: I know. I'm really excited to have you on. I was going through Fancy.com before this, and I think I've found at least three things that I want to order after the show that I actually have not seen anywhere else. One was an air plant that was on top of an amethyst crystal. I haven't seen that. And the other one was like a chilling beer mug. It looked Awesome. So that's where my mind's at right now. Air plants and beer mugs. Greg: Well, perfect. I'll tell you what, I'll hook you up with a solid discount code and even something you can send out to your audience. Stephanie: Oh, I like it. This interview is already going great. Greg: Yes. Stephanie: So, you have such an interesting story. Fancy is a really good story. I was hoping actually, we can just start and dive right in about what is your role and how did you come to Fancy? And what is Fancy.com? Greg: Sure. Yeah. My background is I guess, little atypical. I mean, I came out of school really as an athlete. I attended undergrad on a football scholarship. So I was a little bit of a meathead type of guy earlier in my life. And was introduced to the internet and really computers really early on. I was one of those guys that had a computer when I was 10 years old, connecting with my 2,400 baud modem to BBST, doing all those types of things. So that's schools, technology is where I studied, I got out. I started my career as an engineer. I quickly realized coding all day is just not for me. And that's kind of where my entrepreneurial journey started. I actually founded an agency. Greg: We were doing customer development for people. A lot of digital transformation stuff really early and sort of the internet booms like early 2000s and built a couple of different products sort of just for happenstance. And I took them to market in a subscription-based model. Well, before SaaS was really even a term. And had some success and had an opportunity to sell that company. So that was great. I decided to go back to business school at that point. And then really spent the better part of the next eight years or so in kind of the management consulting world specific around technology, sort of like big Fortune 100 type of systems implementations, et cetera. And great cushy, all that stuff, like good pay. But I just, I didn't want to be like sort of a cog in a giant wheel. Greg: So a business school colleague of mine had just taken over this company based out of San Diego, was founded by a guy who had already had a billion dollar exit. It's kind of more of an incubator of sorts. Was like four or five companies that had come together and he was asked to run it. And he was looking for a guy who had sort of a tech marketing business development background. And brought me in and I left sort of the cushy corporate world to get back into the crazy world of entrepreneurship. Led that company through a pivot. We ended up eventually rebranding as Events.com. We spun off one of our divisions and sold it to private equity. And it was a nice little ride. And that gentleman ended up moving back into the private equity world and opened up a firm in a venture front and would invest in a number of different companies. Greg: And somehow I became like this turnaround guy that he would bring me in to these companies that had all this potential that they invested in, but for one reason or another was somewhat distressed. And that's ultimately how I got introduced to Fancy. He came in, they sit on the board of directors here, they invested in the company in late 2018 and there were some things that needed to be changed. Obviously, Fancy has been a company, been around for a really long time. So I was brought in, made the CEO in March of 2019. But a little bit more about Fancy, the company itself was founded in 2010, tremendous amount of early success. I think we're talking about people like Jack Dorsey was on the board of directors early on. Even today our board of directors is sort of a who's who of people. Greg: But our company had over 12 million users since our inception. Really found it as more of a social network, Pinterest of sorts. A place to really kind of find and share just really cool and interesting and unique products. And then there was a natural evolution into commerce. And we've had a lot of highs. And the company never had an issue with users or experience, it was really around profitability and finding a way to make this into a viable business model. So we did end up having a situation where there's a couple of insolvency moments which ultimately led to the transition. But I've come in and there's still such a great userbase and foundation in here. And we've sort of been pivoting the company and turning things back around. It's been a fun little ride so far. We're really excited about the future. Stephanie: That's great. So when thinking about coming in and turning around companies, either at Fancy.com or just holistically from like a higher level of what you've done in your past, what is the first maybe 90 days look like when you are looking at a company and figuring out how you want to change it and what's going wrong? Greg: Yeah. Good question. So having done this a handful of times now, I can tell you that I made a lot of mistakes the first couple of times doing it. And I think that it really prepared me for the role I took on at Fancy. I'll tell you what not to do. First, what not to do is go in and start making changes too quickly. To go in and sort of like point out every mistake that the company's ever made. One of the easiest things in the world to do is be a critic. And you can go into a company that's somewhat distressed or has had some issues, and you could just start just tearing things apart. Whose decision was this? Why are we doing this? This doesn't make sense. And even though you can quickly come up with the right direction and the right solution for what you need to do, you can lose your people. Greg: And ultimately, your people are the most important assets you have in many cases. So what you do need to do when you go into a company and you want to turn around, and I think it's something that I was able to do at Fancy even though there were a lot of tough decisions and tough changes, is get the buy-in from your team. A lot of times you do that by just listening and just acknowledging all the great things that they've done in the past. And truthfully, most of the issues that you're going to eventually have to address, they already know they exist and they know what they are. So let them tell you, and you'll start to kind of pull out the solutions. Then when you have to make those really difficult changes that impact people's lives and careers and whatever it may be, the people that you need and people that you keep are on board because they see the rationale and they understand it. And a lot of ways, they're the ones that have kind of helped you, guide you. Greg: So I guess just to summarize that, the one thing that I've learned over time and that I don't think I did really early on in my career is to just take super account of the people and the human aspect of what they're going through and being a new person coming into an established company and having to make change, but doing it in a way that keeps them engaged and let them believe in you and want to continue to be part of the company. Stephanie: Yeah. I love that. So when it comes to Fancy.com, it seemed like before you, it was a pretty fancy environment. Like maybe really nice parties and things like that. Did you have any struggles maybe when it came to convincing the employees like we can't keep doing that? Because many employees are probably like, "I'm used to this and I'm very used to going here and interacting with these people and having this kind of swag." I don't know if that's the case for Fancy.com, but did you encounter any of that pushback when you were kind of evolving the environment to focus on profitability? Greg: Yeah. I did. Funny story, at least I think it's funny. We had the storage unit in Manhattan. And I went into it one day and just a bunch of old fancy stuff, swag and different products, people incentives for revaluation. There are just box. And I open up this box and it's got these thick, like metal credit cards. They're the size of credit cards, but they're kind of like solid steel. And it's like, "Thank you for visiting Fancy. We value you. Here's a $1,000 gift credit to use at Fancy, coupon code." And there are like- Stephanie: Oh my gosh. Greg: ... Hundreds of these things. I mean like a stack, like a box full of them, probably even had thousands of them. Stephanie: Oh my gosh. Greg: I'm like, "What is this?" I go, "We were just giving away, like handing out $1,000 gift cards?" And so I went back to the team uptown. And the founders apparently would go to these parties in New York City and they would have models and celebrities and hip hop artists and athletes and et cetera. And they would just walk around the party just kind of talking and they would just give these $1,000 gift cards away to people. Stephanie: Wow. That's super fancy. Greg: That is super fancy. Right. Right. That's how you go through $120 million in capital in a period of time. Stephanie: Is that what you encountered when you came in? It was like $120 million of capital was kind of spent maybe in not the best ways and you had to kind of get out of the hole? Greg: Well, yes and no. So the positive, and this is what really is I think exciting about the opportunity and one of the reasons why I decided to pretty much route my life and spend the last, however many months in New York. I'd been a Southern California guy, is, yes, that a lot of money went to waste. And there was a lot of money spent on parties and those types of things. But along the way, they built an amazing technology platform. So Fancy is all proprietary and really the underlying technology that's built upon... The mobile app that we have is really rock solid. I'm in technology. And I've been in technology throughout my life and our mobile app, we have, I think today like give or take like 2.7 million active installs of the Fancy app, iOS, Android. Stephanie: Wow. Greg: Fancy.com domain name, the site itself is generating however many hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month just to sort of organic and SEO. Our dataset, we've had over 12 million Fancy accounts created. We've done several million transactions. We're working with however many merchants, some 800 merchants. We're a global company. Last year alone, we sold a product to 135 countries. So there was this asset pool that was built with that money that went out that as a startup you would just never be able to replicate. You just couldn't do those things if you were starting from scratch. Greg: But then because of some of the shortfalls of the company, and this is more from a business perspective, the current valuation and as we've raised last money, I mean, we're just closing out a small little bridge note right now and a $12 million valuation, which is insane. I mean, the intrinsic value of our assets far exceeds that number, but because of the situation that's where we're at. So I look at it as a huge opportunity and an amazing asset pool that we sit on. But short answer to your question is there was a lot of money spent on parties that like Tiësto was deejaying at. They had no business rationale really other than just getting the Fancy brand out. Stephanie: Oh my gosh. I mean, I kind of wish I was at that party, but I don't know if I want to be an investor in that company per se or the CEO at that time. So that sounds like a big turnaround project. Maybe to talk a little bit about Fancy, so there's a lot of products on there, a lot of really cool products, was there any business decisions around product selection or how to curate them or personalize things or around like sourcing new products that you're implementing right now to maybe make the user experience better and to not show thousands of products at once and more personalize it to the people when they're coming onto the website? Greg: Yeah. Really kind of all those things in some way or another. And it's still a work in progress. And we're implementing, actually we partnered with a great company, is actually a portfolio company of Raptor which is the investment firm behind Fancy right now called Luminoso. Greg: And they have a bunch of amazing AI technology, machine learning technology that's being implemented in everything from search to recommendation. Sort of a lot in the social aspects we have in our site how we're going to be able to better make recommendations and curate products more effectively. So like all of that stuff has been unchanged. We did a significant culling of the amount of products that we were on our site when I came on board. I think it was, actually like 400,000 products that were live. Stephanie: Wow. Greg: It just didn't really make sense. Like you can't be a curated marketplace or a highly curated marketplace with that many products available. We were much more open earlier on in regards to who we would let come sell on our site. And what that did is, there were some quality issues in regards to who that merchant was and whether they were fulfilling, and is the product really what they said that it was? So we've moved much more towards like a closed marketplace. We do have an internal brand development curation team who thoroughly vets all of the sellers on our site. Greg: And our philosophy, where we're moving towards as a company is this concept of the rise to the direct consumer brand. We just see so many amazing purpose-driven brands. And I think that's the key. Like Amazon has almost been a victim of their own success fulfilled by Amazon and Alibaba and all these different people who are just trying to source product and get in on Amazon and sort of like tweak with the algorithms. Getting like commoditized products that there's not really a brand behind it. A lot of these people, these entrepreneurs who are selling these products never even take possession of the product. They're not designing the products. They're just sourcing them and trying to sell them. Greg: And we're trying to be the anti-Amazon in that regard. So we want to work with the, sort of like the Allbirds of the world before they are the Allbirds. And get those products on. And we look at it as a huge win-win because we know consumers are attracted to those brands and purpose-driven brands. Brands that have a story. Brands that potentially have a charitable aspect or a self-sustainable aspect. And those are the type of products that they want to find. They want to cut through the clutter. I mean, there're sites out there that have this stuff. I mean, you go to Etsy, you're talking millions of products. And it's like, how do you find these products? How do you get through some of the other junk that's out there? Greg: And then on the brand side, customer acquisition is really difficult and platforms like Instagram and Google are really saturated. That's one of the main channels that people have now to reach out to their consumers. Everyone's talking about influencers and how they can leverage influence more effectively. But I don't think anybody's really cracked that code really well. So we have a huge audience and we spend a lot of time trying to build up the products, the brands that we feature. And we come up with a fair and equitable revenue split. And we reach out to the audience. People come to us to find these brands that have been curated and it doesn't cost anything to be on our platform for the brands. So they're guaranteed to make money when we sell products. And we're going to continue to build on that thesis. Stephanie: I love that. So maybe to zoom in a bit on the customer acquisition piece, you're talking about Facebook and Google, they're getting pretty saturated and pretty expensive. What channels are you guys finding success in right now to bring customers to these new brands and products? Greg: Yeah. It's a great question. So we're really lucky because we really, since I've been here, have not spent a ton of money on having to do sort of paid ads. I mean, we do a little bit here and there and we handle retargeting and that type of stuff, but we have a tremendous amount of organic traffic that just finds us. We're a well optimizer, very high search engine authority. So a lot of people come upon Fancy.com and naturally go there. We also have a mobile app that has a very different shopping experience. It feels much more like a social shopping experience where there's dynamic feed of products and people can like and share and then recommendations are made by what they like. Greg: So we do, do some advertising in regards to getting people to download our app. We found that we have a really high lifetime value for people who have downloaded our app. I think right now our average user opens the app like 5.4 times a month or something like that. So it's relatively sticky. We're working on conversions and optimize the conversion rates on that. Because of the social aspect, those are lower than some more traditional Ecommerce. But the area that we're really focused on and really growing is to continue to build upon our influencer model, our affiliate model and partnering with micro-influencers. The technology is on our site in which they help sort of guest curate. Greg: And this is going to be a big part of our upcoming release, guest curate, different selections of products whether it's for home decor, or whether it's fashion-based, whatever it is, with the idea of, we're creating a great experience for our userbase. But then we want to help sort of build their own personal brand with the idea that there's a quid pro quo. We pay them a percentage of sales and we can attribute when they've driven traffic to the site or anything that's been sold which provides an incentive for them to share and drive people to the Fancy platform and then vice versa. Obviously, we're providing them with an avenue to create more exposure for themselves. Because if it's not being hidden, we want people to know who this particular curator or influencer or thought leader in the space is. Stephanie: Cool. I love that. So it's a good segue into influencers because we've had a lot of people in our audience ask about that and wonder how to even... Like, "Is it successful working with influencers? How do you go about engaging with them?" So what does maybe the back-end look like for Fancy when it comes to building up this influencer network and what kind of success are you seeing? And how would you maybe advise a smaller brand to start this, if you think they should? Greg: Yeah. The influencer models can be tough. And it's definitely something we talk a lot about. We've been toying around, we've done a lot of user research and space. What I would say is the traditional influencer model of, "Hey, let me find a micro-influencer. Let me pay him X amount of money, depending on their size. And let me have them do a post talking about our product or driving people to our site." The experience that we've had ourselves and then with brands that we've worked with is, you're really not going to get an ROI there. It's doesn't necessarily pencil. At least that's what we've seen. I'm sure there's some people out there that have been able to figure that out. Greg: So we're looking at it a little bit differently. At least our approach to it is, we want to create more of a platform that influencers can leverage and become a little bit more native in what they're doing that helps them expand their own reach, expand the value to their userbase. And then ultimately monetize that userbase because that's really what the influencers, especially micro-influencers are looking to do. But it has to be done somewhat organically, at least from what I've seen. And if it's just a matter of paying an influencer, because you want them to use your product or post your product or tag you in something like that, I don't know. I have not personally seen that ROI. I think it takes a lot of time and patience. I've seen some companies, some of the brands that you've talked to that have tried it. They've kind of given up after a couple months of doing it because they just haven't seen the return that they've wanted. Greg: So I think that, that's kind of one component of it. I think it can be kind of difficult to go that route. From my experience, some of the influence could be a little bit difficult to work with but not all of them. So we kind of pick and choose. We do a lot of reach out through our own Instagram account. We have about 350,000 followers. So that helps and it gives us some legitimacy. We're usually able to engage and we got some great people who follow us on Instagram. And that's another big advantage as well. So that's typically where we open up discussions. And then we try as much as possible to look at it from a pure win-win perspective. And we want to be a technology company. So we want to be able to provide them with more of a platform that sort of ties into what they're already doing and allows them to effectively monetize their audience to try to do it as authentically as possible. Stephanie: Yep. So how are you building a platform? I'm trying to imagine what that would look like from the influencers' perspective. Like, is it just a platform based around Fancy products? Or is it kind of separate where it's a platform for their them to influence but other products can be there as well? Or how do I think about that? Greg: So the way the platform currently works right now is we can create a profile on Fancy for a particular influencer which they can curate their own lists, different groupings of different products, et cetera, that they like. So what we bring to the table is, a, we bring in the fulfillment infrastructure. We have the relationships with all the different brands. They've already been vetted. We handle all fulfillment. We handle all shipping. We handle all payment processing. We handle all fraud detection, returns, customer support, et cetera, et cetera. And then what we can do with them is we can give them the ability to go on Fancy, create a profile. It can be done honestly, and we have done it in more of a white-labeled capacity in the past, where it looks almost like their own personal website, their own storefront in which they're able to pick sort of unique and interesting products and kind of populate it. Greg: But in a lot of cases, it's done more of in like a traditional profile on our site. And then we have attribution on that. So it works in more of an affiliate model from, any traffic or any users they drag to our site we can track it and ultimately we can pay them per the performance of what they've done. And then, I think what makes us interesting versus like, let's say in Amazon who does some affiliate type of stuff is we do have a little bit more of an authentic kind of lifestyle brand through Fancy and a little bit more legitimacy with kind of being cool and sort of having new, initially unique stuff versus Amazon, which is great for commoditized products, but isn't necessarily where you want to buy your fashion from. Greg: So that lifestyle brand plus the uniqueness of our products, it's something that a lot of times their users and micro-influencer and influencer working with the type of imagery we use, et cetera, is typically more engaging and more in line with what they're trying to accomplish with their own profile anyways. Stephanie: Got it. Yeah. That's really interesting thinking. It's probably easier than for a brand to just work with you guys to then get access to that influencer network and hopefully be chosen to be on one of those lists or whatnot. Greg: Yeah. It's funny you say that. That's something that we have, as a company have done in the past and have done pretty successfully. When I came in, I really wanted to simplify our business model and I wanted to kind of bring out all these sort of different one-off type of deals, but we've had a lot of brands, like big brands. I mean, like global brands that have come to us and have paid us six figures to connect them with users on our site or influencers on our site in kind of joint marketing efforts. You mentioned T-Pain. And you saw that T-Pain- Stephanie: Yeah. I saw he was called the VP of, I think product testing, but VP had quotes around it. Greg: Yeah. So like, he did a big thing with us, Purple mattresses. You've probably heard of Purple. Purple community was however many, a couple of years ago, we did an entire... We sort of middled an entire campaign with T-Pain. And T-Pain did a bunch of different videos and interesting kind of things. It's created a bunch of content for Purple mattresses that of course was featured on Fancy, but then Purple was taking this content and they were repurposing it for their own purposes. Greg: So there are opportunities there. Like I said, it's a little bit of when you come into a company and you're running the turnarounds, you've got to kind of cut. You got to like really focus. So I'm really, I'm trying to focus on just creating a great user experience trading win-win with our merchants and the different brands that we're partnering with. And then do the best that we can in order to help that experience for our consumers be a better experience by bringing in influencers or people who can really create interesting collections of products that we think ultimately people like yourself, the consumers the world will find value in. Stephanie: Yeah, that's awesome. So when talking about building a company now, and we've been talking quite a bit about around, like the turnaround story and how to rebuild it, one thing I have not touched on that I think it would be great too is developing a board of directors. So a lot of brands right now, if they're thinking about raising money and of course, like the board of directors question always comes up of like, "Who do you want on your board?" And I was hoping you could kind of touch on your guys' board of directors and what's helpful? What's that? Like, how should someone think about having a board and putting that together? Greg: That's a great question. Obviously, you want a board of directors that's going to be supportive of you. You want a board of directors that's going to be helpful, right? Stephanie: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Greg: That has connections. That's going to be involved. I've had boards where it's like all they want is reporting, reporting, reporting, which you're going to provide anyways. I mean, you, of course are providing your reporting to your board. But it's like a really effective board isn't necessarily a babysitter of the money or whatever that's been invested. And just kind of like that. I mean, that's helpful. I guess it helps keep you accountable. But what you really want from a board is a group of people that are willing to get involved and make introductions and are actually taking an interest and listening to what you're doing and provide you with valuable advice and help you answer difficult questions. Greg: And a lot of times you don't get that with your board, especially if you get kind of a fund that comes in and maybe you get someone on the board. It's a board, so you can take over. And you're a part of 100 portfolio companies and they're not even really paying attention. They don't really know what you're doing. They don't know your industry, et cetera. I've been really lucky here at Fancy. We have a small board. It's only four of us, well, were five of us, including myself. The chairman of our board is Jim Pallotta. Jim Pallotta is the owner of Boston Celtics. Just actually recently sold A.S. Roma, which is the Rome Premier League soccer team. He's a billionaire. Extremely accomplished investor based out of Boston. Super well connected. And is just sharp as a tack. Greg: And he's involved just enough. Like the perfect amount. Like wants to make introductions, wants to makes his connections. Has just an amazing Rolodex and he is willing to open his Rolodex at anytime to make a connection for the company. And then we have François Pinault who's basically the chairman of Kering. He's married to Selma Hayek. You might know him. He's the guy who donated like $300 million to the Notre Dame when it burnt down, [inaudible 00:30:38]. And so they own Gucci and lots of gallery, like one of the largest luxury houses in the world. So once again, extremely well connected credibility across the board. When you're talking to brands, we're trying to bring on direct to consumer brands. And one of the largest shareholders of this company and board members say owns Gucci, that goes a long way. Greg: So I'm really lucky, very supportive. There are people who have brought more to the table than just money. Really an active interest in the company and making those things. As far as building your own board, look, a lot of times your board members are going to be your biggest investors and you go out and raise capital and unless you've got an amazing idea or you just really doing something special, as much as you want to say you can go out there and pick your investors, that's a lie. So someone's going to write a cheque and you're trying to raise capital, in many cases, you're going to take that capital. And along with that capital comes board seats. So you don't always have the control that you would like in that situation, but if you do have the ability to pick your board, I think you can pick your advisors a little bit more easily. But you want people who are going to be more than capital to the table. You want people who are going to get actively and involved and they're not afraid to open up the Rolodex and make connections. Stephanie: Yeah. I completely agree. It's something you see at least here in Silicon Valley. Sometimes people are excited maybe about really big brand name, investment firms or large amounts of money. And I've always asked the question of like, "Well, how can they actually help you? Like, can they spend time with you? Can they actually give you introductions? Are they willing to do that?" I think not for certain. At least I've heard certain investment firms, once you get to a certain level, they're not going to spend time with you unless they invest a very large amount of money and they have a lot of skin in the game. And outside of that, it might actually be better to work with someone who's in your industry, knows it, can introduce you to people. So, I completely agree. The same thing with building a board or thinking about that. You might not always have the options to do so, but if you do, choose someone who can actually help you and spend time with you. Greg: That's exactly right. Stephanie: So earlier we were talking about, you guys have an app and your desktop version, how did you go about thinking about building out an app? You said it had a different user experience and buying experience and a lot more of a social aspect there. Like how do you think a brand should think about like, "Should I have an app?" Because I think at one point, every brand probably considers building their own app along with their desktop version. Greg: Yeah. No, absolutely. You know what's funny? Or whatever. Six, seven, eight years ago when these were the app... It got super hot and everybody wanted to build an app. Things were different. And sort of like the technology, especially just around mobile responsive websites was different. And to get a really good mobile experience in a lot of cases it helped have a native mobile app. You were able to tap into so many functions or features that weren't necessarily available with mobile web. But what we see today and where we sit and the kind of conversations we have in our product meeting is, we have a great mobile responsive platform. The mobile experience on Fancy.com is really good in our opinion, or it's as good as you would need it to be, is as good as all the other products that are out there. Greg: So for us to replicate our mobile web experience on app, just to have a couple of different features that you get with native didn't necessarily make sense for us. So we did look at it differently. And with our mobile app, the way mobile is structured right now it's of truly much more of a discovery-based experience. It's the kind of experience that people open up and, "This is what our data shows and the testing that we've done." People open up our app because they're just interested to scroll through and will get really interested in cool and unique products. And we focus very heavily on using lifestyle imagery through that. And these are social aspects. People can like and they can build their lists, and they can share, and they can follow other people and they can get updates of what people who they follow or influencers that they're following have liked other products or other products that are on lists and those types of things. Greg: And that would be really difficult to replicate in like a true mobile lab experience. So when we look at it and we look at our product strategy, we ultimately look at web. So Fancy.com and then our mobile experience for that is a little bit more of a traditional commerce-based experience. You go to it, you have categories, you search and find the things you like, hopefully you transact. Well, we look at mobile as much more of, sort of a stickier, joyous engagement where you just want people to kind of open it up similar to how we open up Instagram 25 times a day. Nobody opens Instagram absolutely because you want to buy anything. You're just kind of opening it up because there's like cool images and there's things that you're going to discover. And it's going to bring kind of a little moment of joy in our lives. Greg: We're sitting there in the bank and... That's a lot of how the experience with the Fancy app has been created. Our thought is that people will discover things and they'll find things and they'll like things and personalization will happen through our mobile app and then many cases, they'll end up going to web to transact. Stephanie: Oh, can they currently transact on the app, or is it more of a discovery platform right now that transfers over to those [crosstalk 00:36:09]? Greg: They can transact on the app. Stephanie: Okay. Greg: A large part of our business still occurs mobile. But definitely the experience that we want to have is... I guess that would be my big takeaway to any company out there that was considering building a native mobile app if they're in the commerce world, is why? Like, what difference are you going to offer on mobile versus you're going to offer on web. Because the truth of the matter is people don't need to download another app. And if they can get everything that they need by just going to your domain name through your Google browser or whatever it is in their iPhone, then save the trouble. Stephanie: Yeah. I love that. So how are you thinking about balancing the social aspect on the app? You had mentioned conversions weren't as high as like traditional Ecommerce sites, which makes sense if people are kind of going on there just to see new things and maybe not always having an intent to buy. But how are you going about balancing that to keep people moving along and get them to check out, but also have fun and engage with other users? Greg: Yeah. The big thing with us right now, and big focus is around, number one, personalization. We're doing everything we can to continue to make the experience more personal. I think that, that's something that... There's been kind of an area where I don't think we've always done a great job on that is that, we've very much had a point of view that Fancy has taken in regards to kind of what we think is cool and what people who we want to think it's cool and that kind of gets pushed out. Where I want to have a little bit more, based on your interactions, based on what you've liked, what you've shown, that I can kind of avoid showing you stuff that isn't relevant to you. Greg: That's a big component of that from that perspective. It's a good question. We really, we're okay with conversions being lower with the app because we also have really high engagement and repeat users. So these are people who are just opening up the app quite frequent, maybe some people open up the app on a daily basis. And those people aren't going to buy something on a daily basis. And they're not necessarily going to Fancy because they want to buy something, but they ultimately do buy. Greg: So I think for us, the more the experience gets better, the more sticky it is, the more people want to open up the Fancy app and kind of just enter into that sort of social commerce world, the more people who are eventually going to transact, even though it isn't a straight kind of equation like on a return on ad spent, like you do with more of a traditional website. We have a particular product, somebody goes to that site because they're looking for that product. And then, thought they converted, but they didn't. They didn't convert. Now we're going to do retargeting. We're working at it as a little bit more of an engaged experience. So it's not a huge concern for us from that perspective. Stephanie: I'm guessing you would have to have a different set of metrics when it comes to, how's the app performing versus how is desktop performing? What kind of metrics are like your go to things to check in on the health of the app versus desktop? Greg: Yeah. No, that's a good question. So we track, obviously, just simple things like total sessions, users, new users, app downloads, uninstalls. My dashboard has all that information. Time on app, number of products they've clicked into. We do look at conversion rates across the board. How many users came in? How many times did they convert? Average order value. Standard stuff like that. But when we think about the app and the experience itself, we're really looking at things like, how many users did we have? But how many sessions did we have? So what's the average session per user, Because in our app experience, it is about having people come back and using the app for multiple times. Greg: And then when they do open up the app, how much time are they spending on a typical basis interacting with the app? What are they doing? So those are a lot of things that we look at. And then from a bigger picture, obviously, we're not spending a ton of money trying to attract you on app downloads, like outward spending, but we still have a tremendous amount of new app downloads that happen on a pretty regular basis. So we look very closely at how many new app downloads and what our uninstall rate is. Stephanie: Cool. Yeah. That's really good. Good to know. When it comes to personalization, are there any tools right now that you guys are really excited about? I know you mentioned one that was maybe within a portfolio company that you guys work with, but are there any tools that other brands should be looking into right now when it comes to personalization? Greg: Yeah. Right now we're spending some time on our ESP or our email service provider. And we're looking at a couple of different providers in that space. But that's something where there's some really cool providers out there that do some amazing stuff in regards to personalization around all messaging, not just email, but also push, because obviously for mobile apps. And that's something that we're probably going to adopt here and if not next quarter the quarter after that, and try to revamp the way we do our outbound. Greg: We have about a million people on our email list right now. We send out a ton of emails. I told you about, it's like 2.7 million active installs to the app where you push notifications. And then that number is from our push notifications. So when we actually do a push notification, It'll tell you how many we've delivered. So that is about 2.7. So we do a lot of outbound messaging and I think there's a huge opportunity for us to do more personalization with that messaging. Stephanie: That's great. Yeah, it'd be really cool to bring you back in a couple months after you've done the email stuff and talk about what you've seen with your app and your push notifications and kind of hear an update on all that. Greg: Yeah, absolutely. Stephanie: All right. So we can have about 10 minutes left. I feel like you're going to have some great answers for the lightning round, so I want to make sure that we have enough time for it. So the lightning round brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This is where I'm going to ask you a question and you have one minute or less to answer each question. You ready to go Greg? Greg: All right, let's do this. Stephanie: All right. I'm going to start with the hardest one first because like I said, I think you'll have a good answer. What one thing will have the biggest impact on Ecommerce in the next year? Greg: Oh man. Look, COVID has been terrible but unbelievable for Ecommerce. And I think that the one thing that it's done is it just increase the adoption rate and made it gone through the roof. People like my parents who never bought anything from Amazon, never bought anything from Postmates or anything like that are now just doing it. And even as stores and retail locations of brick and mortar continue to open back up, I think the cat's out of the box. I think the adoption rates are going to continue to rise. I think they're just going to be many more direct consumer brands that are going to continue to come about. Greg: There's going to be new technology that innovative companies out of Silicon Valley are going to come up with that are going just make the experiences better, whether you're talking about augmented reality or different types of things. So I just think that the overall continued adoption of Ecommerce is just going to make the pie, the $7.2 trillion global retail market, the Ecommerce side of that is just going to continue to expand and grow. I don't think, there isn't any stopping site. Stephanie: Yeah. I completely agree. I love that answer. What's up next on your reading list? Greg: Oh, good question. I tend to go back and forth between like more auto, biographical and then just like fiction. I'm a big Stephen King guy. I typically read all his books. I just, whatever, kind of just, moving in, in time. But right now I'm reading Eric Larson's newest book on Churchill, Winston Churchill. And it's really focused on 1940, 1941, in England where the Germans were just bombarding England with bombers and the US hadn't entered the war yet. And Germany was just a powerhouse. I mean, it just looked like they were just trying to bomb them into submission and then Churchill would not submit. And we all know how that ended up turning out. But just so amazing to learn about that guy especially as kind of a CEO of a company where you're faced with, sometimes it just feels like overwhelming odds and you have to be honest with your team and they have to realize the gravity of the situation, but at the same time motivate them and give them the confidence that you can overcome is exactly what he did. And it's been a really good read. Stephanie: Oh, that's good. I will have to check that one out. If you were to have a podcast, what would the podcast be about and who would your first guest be? Greg: So I'm an ex-athlete. I talked to you a little bit about that. So I was actually football player in college. I'm kind of a jock. I still like to do a whole bunch of things. And I learned so much of what I do in a professional world from my athletic career, just dealing coaches and the meritocracy involved and just working hard and showing up on time and competing every day and all those types of things. So I think what I would like to do is, I'd love to have a business focused podcast that had athletes turned business people who are able to talk about their experiences, especially guys in the NFL, experiences [inaudible] of coaches like Bill Belichick, et cetera, and how those principles are translated into the professional world. Greg: I mean, I think someone like a Tom Brady would be a great first guest. He started up his own, [inaudible] TB12, and he's got kind of like a whole supplement line. I'd love to talk about how he's translated, sort of what he's done. Professionally he's the greatest quarterback ever. And how he's having success now and in a business capacity. Stephanie: That sounds like a really good podcast. I will find you a sponsor, Greg, and we will get that off the ground. Greg: Let's do it. Right? Stephanie: Yeah. I like that. That's good. All right. How do you stay on top of Ecommerce or industry trends? What kind of sources are you looking at or tools are you using or resources do you rely on to stay on top of things? Greg: A lot of reading. Yeah, obviously that's the answer anybody would have. Right? But I'm just, I have a number of, sort of hashtags or subject lines that I'm following in my Flipboard account. Every morning I open it up and flipping through and seeing what other people are doing. I also like to read about some of the bigger players in the space that are public. So even following companies like Overstock.com, Wayfair, Etsy, have had tremendous growth in the last several months. I mean, I think Overstock.com stock went from like $3 a share and marched to almost $100 a share most recently. So jumping into their quarterly reports and their 10-K's, as public companies they have to disclose everything. I love to read kind of what they're seeing, what they're doing, where they want to go with things. So that's always helpful pulling a lot of ideas and insights from some of the bigger competitors in the space. Stephanie: That's really good. We haven't had anyone talk about going through their quarterly reports yet. So I love that. That's something I enjoy doing as well, but I thought I was the only one. Greg: No. It's [crosstalk 00:48:32]. Stephanie: Well, Greg, this has been such a good interview. Like I said, we need to bring you back for round two to hear how some of these experiments are going, but where can people find out more about you and Fancy? Greg: Yeah. Well, obviously Fancy.com is the site. You can go into your App Store, Android Store, we'd love for you to download it. You can reach out to me directly. I literally just love people just email me. I get them all the time. So greg@fancy.com. Super easy. One G. And then, like I said, we're raising a little bit of a round of equity right now. We're actually doing it partially through a equity crowdfunding site called Wefunder. So anybody that's says shouldn't learn anymore, wefunder.com/fancy, can see a video and see T-Pain and learn a little bit more about the opportunity. I think it's a pretty attractive investment considering where we're at and what our opportunity is, especially the valuation of our company today. Stephanie: Yep. I completely agree. We will link up that video because it was pretty great. All right, Greg. Well, thanks so much for coming on the show. It's been a pleasure. Greg: Thank you, Stephanie. Great being here.

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.

Years ago the so-called “secret” to B2B company growth was getting leads.  If you got enough email addresses or phone numbers that you could give to your sales team, you were going to make BANK. Not any more. Everyone is on LinkedIn, social media accounts are 1-click away, and business emails get scraped and sold daily. It sucks… but it’s true. The question isn’t how to get leads, it’s “How do I make them stop and listen?” My latest guest on the Escape Velocity Podcast has built a multi-million dollar business solving that problem. Greg Segall is the CEO and founder of Alyce.com, a corporate gifting platform that uses artificial intelligence to help sales teams buy the perfect gift for prospective clients. Instead of leading a business relationship with “ME, ME, ME”… …corporate gifting allows businesses to invite the attention of a prospective client with a well-timed, valuable, and appreciated gift. It works. It works so damn well that it’s grown into a $120 billion industry in the United States alone. Now Alyce.com has taken a bite from that pie, growing from 15 people to over 110 in less than a year-and-a-half, and closing nearly $17M in funding. That kind of explosive growth is fascinating… so I just had to sit down with Greg and pick his brain for how it all went down. By his own admission, Greg believes in being open, honest and vulnerable… meaning he’s happy to share everything about his business. In this ep, we chat about: - How Alyce had to pivot radically from a referral service - The ‘Oxygen, Aspirin, Vitamins’ framework - Why defining your core vision creates growth - Attracting talent in a remote workforce - How to expand a company internationally - Managing down (getting more from your staff) - Why he insists on having a coach - Leadership, management and execution One thing I love about Greg is that he believes in making a difference. This becomes important to founders when the days are long, the work is tough and profits lose their shine. When Greg’s company sends a gift, the recipient has the option to accept it, exchange it or to donate the money to charity instead. Considering the size of this industry, even with a small percentage of recipients choosing the charity option, Alyce.com could become the single most charitable business… in the entire world. Just let that sink in. Tune in to Greg’s podcast episode right here. -- Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome. + Instagram (behind the scenes): http://instagram.com/danmartell + Facebook (live trainings + Q&A): http://FB.com/DanMartell + Twitter (what I'm reading): http://twitter.com/danmartell

What if you had the chance of opting into a second life after death?  In the Amazon original series Upload, Robbie Amell plays computer programmer Nathan Brown, a handsome but self-centered computer programmer who dies under suspicious circumstances and finds himself in Lake View, a utopian virtual after-life.  As Nathan acclimates himself to his new existence, he befriends Nora Antony (Andy Allo), his virtual handler. Nathan and Nora grow closer as they work to solve the mystery surrounding Nathan’s untimely demise. Upload is a sweet and whimsical comedy, with profound observations about technology, love, class and the meaning of life.  Amell, who’s made the sci-fi genre his playground with roles on Netflix's Code 8 and the CW series' The Tomorrow People and The Flash was immediately drawn to creator Greg Daniel’s futuristic vision in Upload. Amell shares "When Greg and I talked about the script and the show he said if this digital after-life was created by people then it would have the same problems the real world has with division of wealth and income inequality.” Amell also shares his audition process in landing the role of Nathan, why fans are rooting for Nora and Nathan to be together and why the idea of a virtual afterlife appeals to him. 

When Greg and Brigida decided to move from California to Germany, they did it with just a small amount of money and two dogs. And they were met with adversity from almost the moment they arrived. This is their story of how they made their time in Germany work. We also talk about life with small kids, what it's like to move to another country when you suffer from anxiety, and German beer. Connect with Greg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cainde9Greg's brewing recipe site: https://www.brew-wizard.com/Other notes:Spargel (asparagus) drive-through in Brandenburg: https://twitter.com/rbb24/status/1249718683330633731?s=20My guest appearance on the Desi In Wonderland YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/7-fSWHmF3tELinks to more The Germany Experience episodes, my newsletter, and my social media: thegermanyexperience.de/subscribeJOIN THE THE GERMANY EXPERIENCE FACEBOOK GROUPVisit the official The Germany Experience website.

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:37-38 (NIV).My friend Kathy is an amazing Christian, who wants to share God's love with everyone she meets. A few years ago, she invited me to meet her at a local strip club, so we could tell her friends, who work there, how much God treasures them. Kathy told me, many of these dancers didn't want anything to do with Christianity because of things church people had done to them. Since I'm also bitter about church culture, she knew I'd fit right in. That night, I was amazed by the beautiful souls of the dancers I met. I was so inspired by these women that I continued to work in strip club ministries for a long time after that first night. Though the ladies who worked in the clubs had very different stories than mine, I loved the community I found with them. I never struggled to talk to them, to see their strength, or to sincerely desire the best possible life for each one of them.On the other hand, it was always a struggle for me to deal with how much I hated the men in the clubs. See, there are often abusive jerks in the clubs, who think having a little money means they can talk to women like they're garbage. I have seriously sat and prayed, “God help me not punch this guy in the throat.” I hated them. My rage towards these jerks extended to all the men in the clubs, and it blinded me to seeing them as anything else. It took a lot for God to change my heart in this area. Softening my heart took years. I struggled. Not just a little, I intensely struggled with emotionally unhealthy vengeful hate.In the last chapter, I mentioned praying for abusers. My most memorable experience of praying for abusers, took place as I drove to a strip club one night. I vented to God. I was bitter, self-righteous, and full of hatred. I despised the abuse I had seen, but I didn't want to see the whole picture. I wanted people to blame. I saw my friends only as strong survivors and their customers only as abusive jerks. The messes in this world are seldom so neatly divided. Obviously, I still had a long way to go on my journey towards fully living in the peace and hope Jesus provides.As I drove, I ranted to God about my whole, ugly, hate-filled mess. Finally, the truth about my attitude came out. I said, “OK God, why aren't you fixing this?” There it was. My real issue: I was still mad at God for the things I'd been through.Honestly, I didn't struggle so much with the abuse I endured. I was angry about the shame heaped on me by church people. Why didn't God break through and yell at them? Why didn't he make it clear how much he cared about me? As I was recovering, I needed to know he still loved me. Unfortunately, people who should have told me how much God still loved me, told me he didn't let bad things happen to people who love him. They told me I was “forgiven”, but I'd always have to pay for my mistakes. The way they misrepresented God, filled me with bitterness. It tainted everything I did. I desperately wanted to protect my friends, who are dancers, from ever feeling the shame I felt. Deep down, I also didn't want to deal with the anger I felt towards God. My anger towards God was too raw and painful to face, so I stuffed it. But stuffed emotions never stay stuffed, so mine came out as hatred towards the men.Somehow, when I finally voiced my real frustration, in my car that night, I had a sense of how incredibly beautiful God's way really is. I knew those church people were wrong. Now, so was I. I was reminded of a truth I didn't want to believe: “Hate doesn't change anyone”. Though I knew this was true, in that moment, hate felt better and I wasn't ready to let go of it. So, while driving, I angrily blurted out, “OK God, I see it, but if you want me to care about these guys you are going to have to do it through me. I can't do what you're asking.”I want you to know, this was not a nice eloquent prayer session. I was angry. I was yelling in my car like a crazy woman. I was real about all the pain I saw and how much I hated it. I was arrogant and bold. Little did I know, I was about to be humbled, yet profoundly honored. God was about to show me a glimpse of how he sees the men I hated.As I went into the club, I forgot all about my prayer and began joking around with my friends. I didn't associate my ranting prayer with anything that could happen that night. Simply because, I did not talk to the men, ever. I was merely going to avoid them, as usual, while hating them a little less. Turns out, God was preparing me to meet Greg, a man who was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, and needed to know how much God still loves him.Greg came up to talk to the dancer I was talking to. I tried to slip away unobtrusively, but my friend said, “This lady is a Christian, you should talk to her.” So, Greg turned to me, not for a conversation, but to tell me how much he hated religion.I listened to Greg's rant. Amazingly, God was honoring the challenge I had issued earlier: “If you want me to care, you are going to have to do it through me.”As Greg continued his story, I knew God was working on me. Despite my bitterness, I heard the deep hurt behind Greg's angry complaints about the religion forced on him as a child. He had experienced rejection and shame for not living up to their standards.After a while, Greg finished his beer. He turned to me with a sudden seriousness and said, “I don't want Jesus to forgive me because I don't deserve it.”The anger in his voice turned to despair as Greg told me the story of his sophomore year in college. He had pressured his roommate, who had just broken up with his girlfriend, to go to a party with him. His roommate never drank but gave in because he was feeling low. Greg remembered handing his roommate a drink with the promise, “this will fix you.”. He had no idea how depressed his roommate really was that night. After just a few drinks, his roommate jumped onto a motorcycle; sped up the curvy mountain roads; then drove off of the only overlook with a broken guardrail. Greg never forgot getting the news of his friend's suicide.As he sat there beside me in a strip club, recounting this trauma from over twenty years ago, I began to actually see Greg. I saw how he was weighed down by guilt. I saw how he blamed himself for all kinds of problems around him. I saw a desperate, hurting soul looking for solace in the company of these dancers. I saw a glimpse of how God sees him. I saw hope for him. I saw how he struggled with the same shame that Jesus had freed me from.When Greg said, “I don't deserve Jesus' forgiveness.”, I saw the glaring truth of my hypocrisy. I remembered that I too had said the same thing to God twenty years earlier. As a young overwhelmed mother, I had cried out to God. “I can't raise these children. I'm too messed up. I don't deserve them.” Like Greg, I felt I didn't deserve good things in my life because of what I'd done. My path was different from Greg's. I dealt with my shame by throwing myself into church work. But, no matter how good I got at following the rules in church, I couldn't shake my shame. I knew I could never measure up and never deserve God working in my life. Like Greg, I knew how much I didn't deserve forgiveness.When I finally got to the point of desperation where I cried out: “I can't do this. I don't deserve my children.” I came to the end of me. I got quiet and I listened. I felt the calming, peaceful presence of God reminding me of the story of the Apostle Paul. Paul was responsible for the deaths and imprisonment of many early Christians. God completely forgave him and empowered him to be one of the key leaders of the early Christian community. In comparison to Paul, it seemed ridiculous to think God couldn't work with my mistakes. I didn't deserve forgiveness. Thankfully, God gave it anyway, and he also empowered me to accept it.Yet, here I was, all these years later, condemning all these men for the sins I saw in them. Why was I so ready to see people like Greg as hopeless, when I knew God didn't see him that way?After a while, Greg didn't want to hear any more. He ended our conversation with, “Listen. I know all about your religion. I can't follow all of those rules. I just think Jesus wants me to care about people.”I told him he was absolutely right on both points and God still loves him. He shushed me and said, “He shouldn't”I didn't push anymore. I simply promised Greg I would be praying for him.This morning as I read Luke 6, I remembered exactly how judgmental I can be. I haven't seen Greg in years. But I still pray for him to know how much God longs to walk through this life with him, to give him the peace, healing and hope he has been seeking.It is crazy miraculous, (like healing the blind kind of stuff!) that I ever talked to Greg. It is proof of how much God wants to reach out to him. Literally, twenty minutes before I went into the club, I would have immediately judged him and refused to talk to him. Graciously, God broke through my judgmental pride to give me a glimpse of how he sees Greg.I thank God for being so patient with me. I thank him for being way more loving and accepting than I can ever comprehend. I thank God for not giving up on the Gregs in this world, who don't know how loved they are. I also thank God for being patient with the religious Cindys of this world, who get a little bit better, then think they can condemn the rest of the planet for not living up to our messed-up standards.Before you judge me too harshly, remember this not judging thing is hard. If you don't think so, then you aren't doing it right! Our society seems to thrive on judging other people. I mean let's all be honest and admit: deep down, wouldn't we all love to be Judge Judy and hand out sassy judgments to everyone we find annoying? Our desire to justify ourselves by condemning others is why Jesus' calling in Luke 6:37-38 is seriously hard stuff.In those verses, Jesus calls his follower to be gracious in how we see people, forgive freely and give generously. Thankfully, Jesus didn't simply throw out these commands then say, “Good luck with that. I'm watching.”In the rest of Luke 6, Jesus taught some pretty amazing points to free us from being shame-filled judgers.Consider carefully who you follow.Jesus continued by saying “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.” Luke 6:39-40 (NIV).We aren't supposed to “judge” in a negative, hypocritical sense but we are supposed to make wise judgments about who we follow. Don't expect anyone to lead you somewhere they aren't going. If you want to be gracious in your assumptions of others (non-judgmental), forgiving, and generous, then you need to actively seek leaders who model these traits.Sounds like no-brainer advice until you think about how often we surround ourselves with people who make us feel better, instead of people who challenge us to be better. Real growth comes from finding people who will confront us in our shortcomings and model areas where we want to grow.Deal with the mess in your life so you can help others with theirs.“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.” Luke 6:41-43 (NIV).Jesus uses an exaggerated word picture to tell us two things: First, we all need to deal with our own mess. Secondly, there is actually very little we can accurately judge in other people's lives.Seeing our own mess accurately is no easy task. I often joke that denial is my favorite coping skill. One clear indicator that I'm denying my own mess: when I judge people harshly, it is because of something I'm not willing to deal with in myself. For example, in my opening story, I judged the men harshly because of “my plank” which was me being angry with God.When we refuse to deal with the messes in our lives, they don't go away. They pop up everywhere and influence everything we do. They have power over us. They become a nagging voice of shame, constantly telling us we are not good enough. We compensate by comparing ourselves to others. We look for problems in their lives so we can say, “See. I'm not so bad.” We live with the shame of trying to deny our messy plank, and we compensate by being judgmental.Jesus' advice frees us from the cycle of personal shame and doubts which cause us to judge others. He gives us the power to deal with all of our real issues, our deep hurts, and our shame. Healing all of these hurts can be a long process. Sometimes, we just aren't ready to admit our deepest hurts. Amazingly, even while we are in the process of simply admitting the hurts are there, Jesus provides freedom. When we admit we have a “plank”, it frees us to know we are going to deal with it. We no longer have to stuff our deepest pains and pretend we are “OK”. We get to admit, we aren't OK, but we will be! The peace we find from Jesus' acceptance of us and our “messy plank”, frees us from the need to build ourselves up through judging others.But what about the speck? Are we supposed to just deny other people have problems? Surely, we are supposed to help.Absolutely, we should help other people with their problems. We just need to realize; we only see the tip of the iceberg. We don't know all of their struggles. We only see a speck of their pain and the struggles in their lives. Of course, we should help people with problems we see. We just need to be sure we start with a humble attitude, which comes from being fully aware of our own mess, God's patient grace with us, and our very limited perspective. This humble attitude frees us from condemning others.Years of working with at-risk youth has given me unique insight into our “plank-eyed” tendencies to judge with condemning certainty, based on a “speck” of information. For example, I always think of Matt, one of my favorite students of all time. Matt was a young man with a huge heart and a tough home life. His mom worked two jobs just trying to make ends meet. His father was not in the picture and his older brother was a drug addict who, at seventeen years old, had already been arrested twice. Matt did everything he could to help his mom. He was consumed with not wanting to be another man who let his mom down. He worked his butt off trying to help her. His grades, appearance, and health suffered from the heavy load he was shouldering at such a young age. When I was assigned to be his tutor, I sat in on meetings where his teachers judged him as lazy and apathetic. The truth is, he worked harder than any of them; he was just ashamed to tell anyone. From their limited perspective, they saw his actions, then judged his motives. And they were dead wrong.Matt needing support at school was the “speck” his teachers could see. When they judged him, they no longer felt responsible for helping him with that speck. They hadn't dealt with the “planks” in them, which made them so ready to judge a thirteen-year-old boy.When we condemn from our limited perspective, it always points to our own plank. We miss the joy of helping people in the small areas where our lives intersect. “Holy speck helping” begins with “humble plank acknowledging”.Your focus determines your direction.I can't imagine anyone reading the previous two points and not wanting to apply them. We all want to follow wise leaders and to be non-judgmental, encouraging people. We all want to see the best in others and inspire those around us to greatness. I'm sure you've never thought: “What I really want out of life is to harshly judge everyone who makes me feel uncomfortable about anything I struggle with.”Despite our desire to be encouraging, judging people is a trap we have to constantly battle. How do we read these stories and Jesus' teaching about not being judgmental and really live differently?Jesus addressed the continual nature of our struggle in the next part of his lesson on not judging. He said:“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Luke 6:43-45 (NIV).The “fruit” in our lives comes from all the things beneath the surface, deep in our souls. In order for our lives to produce good things, like not judging people, we have to store good things in our hearts and souls. In other words, if we want to accept people the way Jesus did, we have to continually focus on who he is and how he accepts people. It is a discipline we practice because of our desire to honor what Jesus has shown us. Our focus determines our direction. When we focus on ourselves, our hurt and our shame, we remain stuck in lives full of shame-filled judging. Thankfully, when we determine to focus on Jesus and his acceptance of us, we are freed from shame filled judging and we get to grow and accept others.Doing these things will help you build your life on a solid foundation that will not fail you when times are tough.“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” Luke 6:46-49 (NIV).Jesus ended this sermon with a final challenge comparing and contrasting the two responses to his message. Everyone believes being gracious, forgiving, and generous are good things but few people focus on growing in these areas.The foolish man building his house on sand reminds me of so many teens I've talked to through the years. I've helped several young people whose parents neglected and abused them because of drug addictions. These teens were using drugs while telling me, they didn't want to be like their parents. They believed they could just quit when they had families because they'd care too much about their kids to use drugs. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for any of them. None of them had learned any coping skills for the struggles in life. Instead of building their lives on different decisions, they escaped the hard emotions of their teen years by self-medicating with drugs. When they had families, they had no foundation for dealing with adult stresses. Sadly, they became the thing they hated most.In life, we don't get to suddenly have great character when we need it. Wanting to be good isn't enough. Character is built over time through frequent choices. We will all have hard times in our lives which will shake us and reveal our true character. If we follow the principles Jesus teaches in Luke, he will prepare us for these times. He helps us see ourselves accurately, then empowers us to change, grow, and become the good people we want to be. If we continually build our lives on the principles he taught, the hard times will not destroy us, they will reveal the strength of our character.So, whatever your shame struggles are, there is hope for you. You can quit judging yourself and others.Trust me. It's a journey.

Cash is a king and you can’t survive without cash. You also cannot take advantage of opportunities without cash. If you’ve prepared well, you have a big cash reserve right now and you will be able to maximize your return on luck during this period. However, what happens if you don’t currently have enough in reserves?   Greg Crabtree is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, and financial expert. He is the CEO of Crabtree, Rowe & Berger, PC, a CPA firm that focuses on helping businesses create sustainable profits, manage tax implications, and more. Greg is also the author of the book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits, in which he shares his core principles on how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine.   When Greg wrote his first book, it was during a time where the market had just recovered from the recession. During his research, he found that a fully capitalized business, which means businesses that had two-months of core capital targets achieved, were the ones that took advantage of their situation the most and not only survived the recession but thrived from it.   Greg realizes that not every business has two months of cash on hand, which just means that businesses currently facing a crisis need to think creatively on how to navigate through situations like this. Whatever is happening in the world today, take a look at your profit engines and ask yourself, “Am I going to be losing money or am I just not going to make as much?”   If you’re going to be losing money, look at the balance sheet right away and see how much runway you might have. Then, start cutting things that don’t make sense for your business right now. One of Greg’s travel clients realized that it made the most sense to turn off their paid search as fewer people will be willing to travel right now.   There are big ripple effects happening all across industries. Investors are hesitant to invest, restaurant and service industries are down, people are staying home more. However, that doesn’t mean all businesses are affected equally. Greg’s real estate clients are OK in this uncertain time. Take a look at your particular industry and see if this is a disaster for you.   Greg believes most industries have 90 days of runway to wait and see what this pandemic might turn into before it puts businesses in a tight situation. He is hopeful that by June things will be a little more clear and the pandemic situation will be positive. Most of Greg’s clients right now are growing between 10-30% a year. Greg’s advice is to reduce unnecessary spending, be cautious about staff adjustments, and ride it out. And remember, the stock market is not an accurate indicator of the economy.   Interview Links: Simple numbers.me Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits, by Greg Crabtree Greg on LinkedIn   Resources: Scaling Up Workshop: Interested in attending one of our workshops? We have a few $100 discounts for our loyal podcast listeners!Scaling Up for Business Growth Workshop: Take the first step to mastering the Rockefeller Habits by attending one of our workshops. Scaling Up Summits (Select Bill Gallagher as your coach during registration for a discount.) Bill on YouTube  

Greg Pellegrom is the Co-Founder & CEO of SmileSnap, a Virtual Consultation software for the dental industry.  His 15 years as an accomplished Orthodontic Sales Professional with 3M Unitek, Opal Orthodontics, and Acceledent has given him tremendous insight into the rapidly changing landscape of dentistry.  It was during this time that Greg recognized the difficulty many of his doctors were having, attracting new patients.  Also witnessing the explosive growth of the DTC aligner market, he decided it was time to create a way for dentists to connect with patients through a convenient and transparent digital experience.  He is driven to “get more people off their couch and into your chair”. SmileSnap launched in 2019 and is headquartered in Denver.  When Greg isn't grinding away at startup life, he can be found enjoying everything, Colorado.  These include sporting events, concerts, hiking, snowboarding, and the best craft beer scene in America.  His wife of 20 years and two boys (17 & 13) are his biggest supporters!!    SHOW NOTES: In this digital era, as a practice owner, you either evolve with your practice or be part of it history. Here are some benefits of having virtual consultations in your practice: It offers convenience to your patients. It saves time for both you and your patient.   REFERENCES: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight   For more information on Greg Pellegrom and Smilesnap, you can send him an email at greg@smilesnap.com or visit their website at www.smilesnap.com.   DINO'S BIO: Dino Watt is a dynamic, highly sought after keynote speaker, private practice business advisor, best selling author, and certified body language and communication expert. As a business relationship expert, Dino understands that people are the heart of any business. His interactive training style will bring your audience to roaring laughter and move them to tears. Whether he is training on C.O.R.E Culture, Sales and Sales Support, or Making love and business work, your audience will rave about Dino and the energy he brings to every event. Dino has spoken for MKS, American Association of Orthodontists, PCSO, Pitts Progressive Study Group, The Shulman Study Club, Keller Williams, Sotheby's, DentalTown, Ortho2, OrthoVoice, and many others. Out of all the accolades Dino has received, the one he is proudest of is title of PHD, Passionate Husband and Dad. Dino has been married to his wife Shannon for 24 years and together they have raised 3 amazing adults.

Episode Description: In this episode the Guided Podcast, Greg speaks with Bruce Richards the Fly line designer for SA fly lines, before retiring in 2009.  Greg talks to Bruce about how he started his journey into Fly fishing and then how he got involved into making and producing the worlds best fly lines. Bruce shares with us some great fast fly line technologies, and advancement that he personally developed or took part in. Bruce also talks about how the species-specific lines once introduced changed the way we fish fore ever.   Greg asks Bruce about the most recent technology in fly lines from the textures and how it improves your cast and gives longer life to your line. Bruce also talks about the coatings on the fly lines that he developed. . When Greg and Bruce talk about how one can improve their cast and prevent tailing loops mishaps and such Bruce who is casting instructor gives us some great tips to help anglers out.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform. Guided Tips Mentioned In this episode of Guided the guest had mentioned a tip or to help you get started or up your game in this industry. Here is todays episode tips from our Guided Podcast Guest. Learn how to hold your rod still while waiting on the line behind to straighten out to prevent knots and mishaps Learn to cast and apply power smoothly for better results.       Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other noteworthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Scientific Anglers Fly Lines Scientific Angles Josh Jenkins Scientific Anglers   Contact Guest Website: Scientificanglers.com Sponsor Contact Website: scientificanglers.com Social: @scientificanglers   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode of the Guided Podcast or our Guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that every week on Tuesdays were have our show “Fly Fishing Insider Podcast” featuring the industry’s brands, innovators and trailblazers. Thank you for your support!

From Paul Dulski comes the next short horror b rated flick. Terror Trail, set on an actual place surrounded by supernatural stories. It is known as The Bennington Triangle, which shares the same type of atmosphere as their neighbors over in Massachusetts where they have their own called "The Bridgewater Triangle". This short film was written by Tristin Notte, co-written with Paul.  Plot; When Greg hikes up Glastenbury Mountain to clear his head, he doesn't realize he'll be prey.  Right now you can pre-save the campaign by visiting http://bit.ly/octttks  -------------------------------------------------------- What to expect on Terror Trail. Cast: Greg Hewitt (Greg), Kaitlyn Graham (Jen, Voice), Tristin Notte (John) and Jeremy Pratico (Eric, also from The Passenger). Special Effects: Tessa Baker, Katie Kenworthy and Kaitlyn Graham Filming at: Glastenbury Mountains, Glastenbury, VT. Release Date: July 2020 on YouTube. -------------------------------------------------------- http://ehpodcasts.com/terrortrail http://octspiritsprod.wordpress.com  

  Episode Description: In this episode the Guided Podcast, Greg speaks with Capt Joel Dickey the owner Of Joel Dickey of Joel Dickey guiding, based out of the Florida Keys, USA.  Greg talks to Joel about how he started his journey into Fly fishing and with a strong love of fly fishing for tarpon. Joel and Greg talk all about tarpon fish and the myths of making 80ft casts into the wind for theses fish. As Joel tells us that if you cast 40 ft with accuracy your more than likely to succeed more.  We also talk about the lines and leaders that Joel uses for theses fish. Greg asks Joel about the challenges and obstacle’s he faces when it comes to the conservation issues with in his state on tarpon. And sadly, Joel tells listeners that the kill tournaments and shooting of theses fish are common practices and how we as anglers can and must protect the tarpon fishery with in the USA. When Greg asks Joel what his set up is for success on the water, he guides in he gets super technical and breaks down the steps for success for all tarpon anglers willing to fish for theses species.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform. Guided Tips Mentioned In this episode of Guided the guest had mentioned a tip or to help you get started or up your game in this industry. Here are todays episode tips from our Guided Podcast Guest. Be aware of the conservation issue that surround the fishery you love and do your part to protect it. The leader set up that Joel uses is 60-20-20 and is designed for success as mentioned in the show. Try different lines for fishing for tarpon, like Joel does for different conditions throughout the day.   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other noteworthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Scientific Anglers Fly Lines SA amplitude fly lines SA Absolute leader SA Grand Slam Thomas and Thomas Fly rods Segler reels   Contact Guest Website: captianjoeldickey.com Social: @captjoeldickey   Sponsor Contact Website: scientificanglers.com Social: @scientificanglers   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode of the Guided Podcast or our Guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that every week on Tuesdays were have our show “Fly Fishing Insider Podcast” featuring the industry’s brands, innovators and trailblazers. Thank you for your support!

Guided EP # 2 Alice Owsley. Episode Description: In this episode the Guided Podcast, Greg speaks with Alice Owsley the owner of Riverside Angler guiding, based out of Yellowstone Montana, USA.  Greg talks to Alice about how she started her journey into Fly fishing while on a trip to the Oregon area. Once there it begins her love of the sport had begun. Alice was hooked and stated to work in fly shops which progressed to walk and wades and eventuality going to a guide school. It was there where she had met Lorrie Anne Murphy and Patty Riley to which they encouraged Alice to guide in Alaska for a few seasons.    Greg asks Alice  about the challenges and obstacle’s her home guiding waters and the sate is facing in which Alice shares with listeners some big conservation concerns with in the state of Montana that effect the fish , but she also offers us tips in what we can do a in small part to make a big impact. Greg can clearly see that Alice is extremely passionate for the fish and protecting her guiding waters for years to come. When Greg asks Alice what her set up is for success on the rivers she guides, Alice tells us it starts with the fly and moves to the new Absolute tippet in which Alice swears by the green colour and the product strength as she was one of the early day field testers on this new product from SA.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform. Guided Tips Mentioned In this episode of Guided the guest had mentioned a tip or to help you get started or up your game in this industry. Here are todays episode tips from our Guided Podcast Guest. Learn the fishery for better success learn the bugs, hatch’s and importance of respecting your fishery. Walk slowly to the river, watch for tell tale signs of fish being present look at the birds, bugs, hatches and runs. Always bring a few different colour sharpies to easily change the presentation of your fly, you will be surprised at what this can do for your catch rate.   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other note worthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Scientific Anglers Fly Lines SA amplitude fly lines SA Absolute leader Lorri Anne Murphy Patty Riley Fire Hole Ranch   Contact Guest Website: riversideanglers.com Social: @riversideanglers     Sponsor Contact Website: scientificanglers.com Social: @scientificanglers   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode of the Guided Podcast or our Guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that every week on Tuesdays were have our show “Fly Fishing Insider Podcast” featuring the industry’s brands, innovators and trailblazers. Thank you for your support!

You may have heard me talk about my insanely strong-willed eldest son and how he threw us for a loop as a child. You may have heard me describe how he spit in my face, threw books at my head, and tried to run away at age seven. In those early years, I honestly feared he would end up in prison. Things have changed drastically since then. When Greg and I overhauled our parenting, we started to see some improvement in his behavior. And eventually, he grew into a top-notch young adult, bearing no hint of his former “my way or the highway” mentality. Today is the day you have been waiting for, my friend because you get to hear from him. When he was home from college for Christmas break, he graciously agreed to allow us to interview him about his transition from a strong-willed child to a strong and caring leader. Nothing was scripted, and we had no idea what he was going to say, so that makes it even more interesting. His transformation over the years has been nothing short of remarkable. I hope you will listen and gain some hope or perspective that might help you in your parenting journey. Find show notes here: http://www.lynnettesheppard.com/42/ Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtoraisegrownups/ Follow along on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raisegrownups/

Episode Description: In this episode the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast, Greg speaks with Kayla Lockhart the owner of Kayla Lockhart fly fishing, Based in Portland, Oregon, USA.  Greg talks to Kayla about her emotional childhood pat and growing up in foster care family’s. Until the early age of 15 when she decided to emancipate herself from her foster family and start life growing up on her own. Kayla opens up fully about her family history with substance abuse and how her family was not present in her or her sister’s lives. This is an emotional podcast episode when Kayla tells us like it was for her and how her journey shaped her to who she is now. We also learn from Kayla that age 23 she went down the road of what is now her fly-fishing addiction. Kayla talks about how she joined a fly-fishing group called the lost boys and with their guidance together shaped and provided her the skills to progress in the sport. Fast forward to today and Kayla is hosting multi trips, teaching casting and offering empowerment to others as well as giving back through fly fishing. Let’s not forget about Kayla working for Fly Lords on a trip to the jungle last spring, in which she shares with us some great stories from that trip. When Greg asks Kayla about her passion and love of the Mayfly Project, she tells us about how the team at project mayfly is allowing her to create her own chapter with in Portland and the PNW to be a mentor to many in need.  Kayla is a huge advocate in this organization and what they are doing.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform.    Top take away from this Episode Overcome your fears and just do it. leaving foster care and making your own path.       2. Go all in if your going to give your time or services back,                like Mayfly project and teaching casting Don’t over think things or waste opportunities such as trips to Columbia   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other noteworthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Redington KC Badger Farbank Ascension bay lodge Fly Lords Mayfly Project   Contact Guest Website: kayla.flyfishing@gmail.com Social: @kayla__lockhart   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode or our guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that twice a month on Fridays were have our other Scientific Anglers Sponsored show “Guided Podcast” featuring the top Guides and brand ambassadors from with in the fly-fishing industry. Thank you for your support!

Episode Description: In this episode the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast, Greg speaks with Geoff Klane the owner of Brackish Flies and guiding, Based in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.  Greg talks to Geoff about how he started his journey into Fly fishing with his LL Bean rod and Reel combo. In which, Geoff tells us like most anglers starting out the black woolly bugger was his go to fly before he started to conquer the fly-fishing game. Greg asks Geoff what the earlier day challenges were in which Geoff describes just figuring it out. Fast forward to today and Geoff is all in on this fly-fishing thing as he states its freedom in fly fishing. Greg asks Geoff about his love for tying flies and how he has gone from beginner to pro and even now ties commercially and custom fly’s as well. Geoff tells listeners a funny story about how he got a Cabela’s tying vise set and quickly outgrew and returned it for credit. If only all fishing gear was able to be returned for credit. Geoff also talks about selling fly’s on Instagram and how this is becoming a great platform to do so for tyres. We also learn that Geoff has now taken up rod building like he didn’t have enough time already and he’s quite the builder with in his area. When Greg asks Geoff what’s it like to represent as guide the many great rivers and waterways in his home state Geoff informs us how amazing this fishery is and what anglers can expect while upon his guiding services. Geoff and Greg get into carp fishing on the fly and how the sport of catching carp on the fly is on the rise in the USA. Geoff and Greg talk many things carp and Greg learns a thing or two about this fishery.  To sum up the conversation Geoff puts it “you like seeing your backing don’t you”  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform.    Top take a way from this Episode Try new fishery’s and you’ll be surprised at how amazing they can be EX: carp fishing on the Fly        2.. Go all in on everything you do if you love it, like Geoff has            with guiding, tying and rod building        3.Be humble as Geoff is when it comes to his many fly-                       fishing  business as humble and grateful as possible.   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other noteworthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. American Carp Association Wayne Boone Regal Vise Cabela’s   Contact Guest Website: brackishflies.com Social: @brackishflies   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode or our guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that twice a month on Fridays were have our other Scientific Anglers Sponsored show “Guided Podcast” featuring the top Guides and brand ambassadors from with in the fly-fishing industry. Thank you for your support!

Episode Description: In this episode the Guided Podcast, Greg speaks with Conway Bowman the owner of Conway Bowman guiding, based in San Diego California, USA.  Greg talks to Conway about how he started his journey into Fly fishing at such a young age growing up in San Diego. Conway also talks about how he traveled with family and fly fished the country at early ages. Conway tells us he also got his passion and start into big game saltwater fly fishing with a strong love of fly fishing for Mako sharks. Greg asks Conway about what is required to start successfully in this fishery and the technological aspects of catching theses fish. To our surprise Conway shares that its about poppers and the makos are taking the flies from the surface. He also touches on his own system for creating fly lines to catch theses sharks. When Greg asks Conway what’s it like to represent many great company’s as an ambassador such as Scientific Anglers and to which Conway reply he just loves being apart of this team he states and how feedback in product development has been outstanding. Lastly Conway talks with us about the steps that a new fisher should take prior to entering into this fishery and how you can benefit but taking theses steps too.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform. Guided Tips Mentioned In this episode of Guided the guest had mentioned a tip or to help you get started or up your game in this industry. Here is todays episode tips from our Guided Podcast Guest. Learn how to fight big fish, both physically and mentally Learn to cast accurately at 50 ft with extremely large flies. Learn the fishery and learn the habits, tide changes, moon phases and food sources and more on mako shark fishing Learn and practice how to hook set mako sharks as this takes much skill and practice. Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other noteworthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Scientific Anglers Fly Lines Scientific Angles Amplitude fly lines Scientific Anglers Titan Fly lines Contact Guest Website: Conwaybowman.com Social: @conwaybowman Other: Conway Bowman Fly Fishing World   Sponsor Contact Website: scientificanglers.com Social: @scientificanglers   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode of the Guided Podcast or our Guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that every week on Tuesdays were have our show “Fly Fishing Insider Podcast” featuring the industry’s brands, innovators and trailblazers. Thank you for your support!            

Episode Description: In this episode the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast, Greg speaks with Paula Shearer the owner of Paula Shearer on the fly guiding, based in Calgary, Canada.  Greg talks to Paula about how she started her journey into Fly fishing at such a young age growing up in BC Canada.  Paula also talks about how she travels with a fly rod always while she was training to represent Canada in the Olympics for skeleton racing. Paula jokes how she is a competitive person and an athlete, even when she’s on the water its game on for Paula as a guide with her clients to make sure she’s putting them on fish. Greg asks Paula about the early day challenges and obstacle’s her guiding business faced or is currently facing? To which Paula shares with the listeners the steps she has taken to over come many of them. Paula also talks about how her ambition to always grow in fly fishing has pushed her to new levels such as being a casting instructor, travel brand ambassador and Calgary’s top guide and what Greg would say is one of Canadas best female Fly Fishers. When Greg asks Paula what’s it like to represent many great company’s as an ambassador such as G-Loomis, Simms, Yellow dog adventure travel, Costa eyewear and Hatch outdoors just to name a few. Paula states it’s a great to give theses great brands feedback in product development and help work with them to improve new gear for fly fishers alike.  Paula also makes mention of her upcoming travel programs with Yellow dog and her hosted trips still available at the time of this podcast, we learn that she is going to some truly wonderful world class locations to fish.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform.    Top take a way from this Episode Learn as much as you can and never stop, as Paula has shown with reading water, entomology and fly casting.      2. Follow your passion, but expect major life changes and                   embrace them, Paula was training for Skelton prior to being           a guide. Be happy! Paula jokes with us about the importance of this.   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other note worthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Simms Yellow Dog Adventure Hatch Outdoors G Loomis Costa Sunglasses fishingbc   Contact Guest Website: psonthefly.com Social: @paulashearer   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode or our guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that twice a month on Fridays were have our other Scientific Anglers Sponsored show “Guided Podcast” featuring the top Guides and brand ambassadors from with in the fly-fishing industry. Thank you for your support!

Episode Description: In this episode the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast, Greg speaks with Scott Wilday the owner of LidRig, based in Colorado, USA.  Greg talks to Scott about how he started his journey into Fly fishing with his brothers influence and in which the passion began from there. Scott tells us how a day of golf with family transformed his focus and his creative mind began with what is now called Lid Rig. Scott shares early day success stories with listeners after being introduced to the R&D team with Fishpond another Colorado based business. And taking the product to shops and being bought out in the 2nd shop. Greg asks Scott about the early day challenges and obstacle’s Lidrig faced or is currently facing and Scott share with the listeners the steps lidrig has taken to over come many of them, however some challenges are still present in which we discuss. Scott also mentions how he reached his lightbulb moment and currently in production of V2 of the LidRig, due to feedback and criticism. When Greg asks Scott if he’s worried about possible knockoffs upcoming of his product scot proudly mentions a great story of how a day on the water lead him to his legal team who has started pattens for the lidrig. And finely Scott shares his social media challenges that the brand faces which to no surprise are the same we all face together.  To learn more about this great episode and our guest please subscribe to the show or download us on your favorite podcast listing platform.    Top take a way from this Episode Act on great ideas, as they come and go. But Scott acted and produced.      2.. Give action to plans and ideas dispute the roadblocks or                know how, much like Scott calling Fishpond. Feedback is key with a product or service in early day steps. Take it and run with it much like Scott did.   Other mentions in this Podcast: This area contains links to company’s, products, people, organizations and other note worthy mentions that were talked about during this episode interview on the Fly-Fishing Insider Podcast. Theses mentions are from both the guest or host of the show. Please enjoy the referenced links. Fishpond         2. Orvis      3.IFTD/ AFFTA Dupe a Fish Douglas Outdoors Lidrig Contact Guest 1.Web: Lidrig.com 2. Social M: @lidrig   Like the Podcast, Show Us: If you liked this episode or our guest, then please tell us and leave a podcast review for this episode! Do you have a great idea for guest or an Episode? Please let us know, you can reach the team at. www.flyfishinginsiderpodcast.com we are also very social where you can find a tone of great fly-fishing content, giveaways, tips and more follow us on Instagram @flyfishinginsiderpodcast or find our Facebook page Fly fishing Insider Podcast. Also did you know that twice a month on Fridays were have our other Scientific Anglers Sponsored show “Guided Podcast” featuring the top Guides and brand ambassadors from with in the fly-fishing industry. Thank you for your support!

We’re joined this week by self-proclaimed grinder Greg Long, the owner of Pro-Active Health known by many as the Zen Cowboy. We talk about his 23 year history as a chiropractor, how he utilizes yoga within his practice, and how a yoga teaching course in Bali resulted in his unique nickname. Like many kids growing up in Alberta Greg was certain he’d grow up to play for the Edmonton Oilers. When time came to apply for college and he was without an offer from the Oilers he attended a career fair and watched a lecture about chiropractic medicine. The lecture was put on by a chiropractor who still operates his own practice and Greg says that something in the lecture just spoke to him and he was super intrigued to pursue the opportunity. When Greg first came home after that that lecture and told his mother was … “not stoked.” She had heard some of the popular myths at the time about chiropractors she was worried about her son’s career choice, but has since come around. And while the general public consciousness and acceptance of chiropractic medicine has changed immensely in the past two decades Greg recalls chiropractors like himself being viewed as the black sheep of the medical world early in his career. In 2002 Greg had the opportunity to open his own practice in Cochrane which has since grown to include massage therapists, osteopaths, other chiropractors, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and the use of yoga as movement therapy. Greg absolutely gushes about the team at his practice and how without a single weak link in the group they’re able to achieve their goal of making sure all of their patients Leave Better. Let’s Meet For A Beer! Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagram Greg Long - Zen Cowboy: instagram Pro Active Health: website | facebook | instagram

Greg is the founder and CEO at Octopus Energy After a short sojourn in the video game industry when he finished his GCSE’s Greg returned to university to do a degree in Economics. He landed his first professional role in the marketing department at Proctor & Gamble. When Greg started at P&G the concept of technology and marketing being closely entwined was very alien. But with the advent of the consumer-facing internet that all changed and the two disciplines began gelling together. Greg seized on the developing digital marketing industry by creating a product we’d now identify as a cloud-based Saas CRM. He was one of the first individuals in the world to produce a type of technology like this. The product was reasonably successful and let Greg sold it for a tidy profit. Selling this product gave Greg enough capital to build a big business in an area that really matters. Not long after he founded Octopus Energy. He started Octopus Energy because he is passionate about bringing fairer practices and better value to the people of Britain.

Greg Brooks – House Flipping or Flopping In this episode, Greg Brooks joins in to discuss flipping houses. First, he learned the ins and outs of mortgages. Then one day, a guy called him and said he knew about a relationship Greg had with the bank. His first flip was sold to a guy he didn’t even know, and he was called to help him negotiate with the bank. Later, the guy called back saying he was ready to do it again. Right now is the most dangerous time to get into this industry. The margins are very thin because the wholesale side has become extremely expensive. Real estate is all about location, and this is what Greg looks for when buying a house. You also have to look at some other factors like the exterior of the home. If the exterior of the home is unkempt, you can assume the inside of the house is even worse. Days of buying homes on auction websites are done. Greg uses cash on hand to purchase a home he is going to flip. If you are using a private investor or another source of money, be cautious that you are not spending too much in interest. On average, Greg is working on twelve to fifteen homes at any given time. When Greg first started in the late 90s, there were a lot more mobile homes on the market. If the mobile home is not too old, you can get a decent return on a flip. Greg has crews that work exclusively for him, and some that work for him part-time when needed. Occasionally, they build homes from scratch; however, there is a lot of competition in this, and the expenses are enormous. The hardest part of rehab is the unknown. Greg suggests not buying a home that is going to be a lot of work. Light rehab is what a house flipper should be aiming for. For instance, changing out light fixtures, vanities, and painting. The goal is to make money. If you are tearing out bathrooms and completely redoing them, then your return may not be as high. The most expensive room in the house to rehab is the master bathroom. Sometimes plumbing will need to be moved, and that can be an expensive and lengthy endeavor. Greg buys houses 1980 or newer because the plumbing and electrical wiring are old and out-of-date if it was built before then. Enjoy the show! IN THIS EPISODE: [01:45] How Greg began flipping houses [06:15] Determining what house to buy [08:25] Investing using another person’s money [10:35] Purchasing seasonal homes [11:30] Mobile home side of the business [13:45] Building homes from scratch [15:00] Don’t buy anything that is a lot of work [17:05] Average length of a flip [20:50] Today is the wrong time to get into house flipping [22:55] Greg’s most challenging flip [25:15] Advice for newbie flippers QUOTES: “You don’t make money when you sell a house, you make it when you buy it.” “The most expensive room to rehab is the master bathroom.” “I try and stay 1980 or newer.”

Join me (@godfatherxusa) as I discuss with (@gregstyliades) the life of Punk Rocker & Real Estate Agent Greg Styliades. Greg plays bass and travels the world touring in his band Senses Fail. When Greg is not on tour he is selling real estate where he lives full time in Buffalo New York.

In 2018, 67% of all US venture-backed companies with an IPO used Silicon Valley Bank. Today, about 50% of all venture-backed tech and life science companies in the US use them. SVB is the future of banking, and Greg Becker, CEO of SVB, is leading the charge. When Greg started over 25 years ago, SVB only had $50 million assets under management. Now, they have $57 billion. In this episode, Chad and Greg talk about how SVB is funding the next generation of leaders in the Valley and around the world. Greg also shares his philosophy for company and career growth and how he overcame one of the biggest mistakes of his career. Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right!

FirstLight Home Care, TeamLogic IT and Corporate Financial Options on Franchise Business RadioGreg BenageFirstLight Home Care of Northwest AtlantaGreg Benage spent the past ten years with U.S. Bank in several product management roles within the retail payments business. He managed credit card loyalty marketing for five years, small business credit card product for three years, and consumer credit card product for the last two years. His responsibilities included product strategy and new product development, marketing strategy, market and competitive intelligence, and customer engagement and loyalty initiatives. Prior to joining the bank, Greg spent more than ten years in small business, first as an entrepreneur and then as an executive with the company he sold his business to. Greg earned his bachelor's degree from Tulane University and is pursuing an MBA at the University of Georgia. Maria Benage hails from Moscow, Russian Federation, and spent three years working as a nurse after graduating medical college. She then returned to school, earning a master's degree in English language and linguistics from Moscow State Pedagogical University. Upon graduation, she worked as a translator and in business support roles with several international companies and law firms with offices in Moscow. After immigrating to the U.S., she worked for three years in client services and procurement with a company that imported books and journals from publishers in Europe and Asia for academic and research libraries, including the Library of Congress. Greg and Maria have shared the goal of owning and growing their own business for several years. Both have been caregivers for aging loved ones, and non-medical home care was always at the top of their list of potential business opportunities. Greg's mother lived with the couple for the last four years of her life, and both Greg and Maria served as her primary caregivers during this time. In the last four months of her life she was in and out of the hospital and rehab, and Greg and Maria gained firsthand experience with the in-home care industry. Before immigrating to the U.S., Maria lived with her grandmother and was her primary caregiver for many years following the untimely death of Maria's mother. For Greg and Maria, the potential for return on investment and long-term growth and profitability are important considerations in any business opportunity, but the decision is also a personal one born from these experiences with Greg's mother and Maria's grandmother. They feel a deep sense of empathy for those who need some extra help and companionship, and they understand from their own experiences the stress and anxiety borne by family members who want to know that their loved ones are getting the care they need. Greg and Maria also want to build a business that has a purpose beyond profit and loss, one that makes a positive contribution to their community. When Greg and Maria communicated these goals and desires to their franchise broker, Pamela Currie, she came back with one recommendation in the home care space: FirstLight. Greg and Maria believe this is because the company's core values, its purpose and its “why,” are so closely aligned with their own. As the process has unfolded, Greg and Maria have also been impressed with the experience and vision of the executive management team, and with the fact that everyone with FirstLight they've spoken to has continued to emphasize those core values, that purpose, and the ways in which they guide everything the company does and how it does them. Based on their experience with FirstLight Home Care to date, Greg and Maria are not surprised by the excellent satisfaction ratings the company has earned from franchisees. Greg and Maria have been married for twelve years and live in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Topics to Discuss: 1. Professional background prior to launching your home care business? 2. What were you looking for in a franchise? 3. What is the industry outlook for home care? 4. Why did you choose FirstLight? 5. What did the startup process look like? 6. Tell us about the kinds of services you provide and the people you provide them to. 7. When did you launch, and how have things gone so far? 8. What are your plans going forward? Web Site / Social Media Links: http://www.NWAtlanta.FirstLightHomeCare.comhttp://www.facebook.com/FirstLightNWAtlanta https://twitter.com/FLHC_NWAtlanta https://www.instagram.com/firstlightnwatlanthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gregbenageHoward Page TeamLogic IT - Atlanta MidtownHoward has been involved in high tech and cyber-security for many years and last year made the decision to start a TeamLogic IT franchise in Atlanta. In addition to his work, helping small businesses navigate the complicated world of tech, he teaches a course on Creativity at Emory, UGA and KSU. Topics to Discuss: My storyHow creativity works to my advantage in my business.Some client storiesWeb Site / Social Media Links: www.teamlogicit.com/MidtownAtlantaGAhttps://www.facebook.com/TeamLogicITMidtownhttps://twitter.com/ItMidtown https://www.linkedin.com/in/howard-page-a2026b1John QuattrocchiCorporate Financial OptionsJohn Quattrocchi, CPA works with restaurants, franchisors and franchisees. The crown jewel of his services is complete end to end outsourced bookkeeping accounting, tax and CFO level financial management. An affordable and effective solution for busy and expansion minded business owners, John Q is always willing to adjust his services to meet the needs of his clients.Topics to Discuss:How I help businesses start and grow.What motivates me and what is my passionWhat are the roadblocks to success and how do I help overcome themWeb Site and/or Social Media Links:www.CorporateFinancialOptions.comThe Franchise Business Radio show is a platform to bring together franchise professionals and resources to connect, educate, and collaborate to serve the franchise community and the franchise consumer. Spotlighting Leaders in the Franchise Industry, experts in funding, legal, marketing and consulting.Franchise Business Radio hosted by:Pam Currie, FounderFranchise IntellectMade possible in part by:Franchise Intellect, visit: http://www.FranchiseIntellect.comAlso made possible in part by:Franchise City, visit http://www.Franchise.cityTo nominate or submit a guest request visit: http://www.OnAirGuest.comTo view guest photos from this show, visit: http://www.ProBusinessPictures.com

Seventeen years ago, Greg Buzek was working as a Product Development Manager making anti-theft devices. They were the type of devices designed to deactivate if merchandise left a store without being purchased. Greg made a very good living at this, but found himself completely unfulfilled inside. Something wasn't quite right in his life. It was at a casual lunch one day with the Pastor from his church, when the first seeds would be planted. Pastor Kelly Lyons worked with small groups and missions at the church, and he needed help. He asked Greg to work in missions, and although Greg was engaged in the talk, internally, he was full of fear: "I’m a business guy, I have nothing to offer." Before he got back to his desk that afternoon, he was fired from his job! "Okay Lord, you have my attention." But now what? It kept coming back to helping the people of Liberia. Yet, Greg knew nothing about Liberia. So Greg prayed about this big decision in his life, "Lord, All I know about Liberia is that Chet’s over there, and he’s had malaria three times, been shot at, had an AK47 pointed at his chest from an 8-year-old - If I need to go to Liberia, you’ll need to make it real clear to me". As Greg was driving home, he sees a man pushing his car up the road. Something tells him to stop and help the guy out. When Greg gets out of the car, he notices a bumper sticker that might as well have been a red-neon lit sign that said: “I Support Liberia” What are the chances? This man was from Liberia. As the two men were talking, the stranger explains to Greg that Liberia is in real bad shape and going into a Civil War. Greg explains that he has had it on his heart to go to Liberia, the stranger tells Greg he is nuts! Greg Buzek was still not excited about this crazy idea of going to Liberia, but the evidence was starting to stack up against him. Chuck Smith, the Senior Pastor, explained to Greg "Beware of signs and wonders. Make sure you have scriptures backing up whatever you believe God is calling you to do". Just days later, in his studies, the first scripture presented was Genesis: 12:1; Get thee out of thy country. The next five scriptures all has a similar message. Greg Buzek's life was about to change and would never be the same again... The story continues on the Brink of Greatness Podcast… The Next Leap Forward Broken families, illness, poverty; there are over 143 million orphans around the globe. A few startling facts from UNICEF tell a story...  A Child dies every 5.2 seconds, that is over 16,000 children every single day. In the New York Foster care system, 60% of the children who age out end up in a homeless situation. More children age out of care systems in one week than are adopted in an entire year. The stats could go on forever, but they all end in one conclusion: Far too many children are suffering unnecessarily; disease, famine, lack of resources, crime, trafficking. If we are to put a dent in this worldwide problem, it will take an army of many, but it starts with one! Greg Buzek recognized this need and through his faith and trust, he took the leap forward to make that difference. Retail Orphan Initiative was born to raise awareness and provide real-life solutions by combining the resources of many with the art of streamlining to that critical moment of need. They not only do this in over 24 countries, but they also focus efforts in the United States.  Retail Orphan Initiative has interacted in over 188 Projects, raising millions of dollars, rescued 1,200 girls, helped support 1,412 Adoptions, built 19 schools, worked on brining clean water to communities. It's an impressive list of accomplishments that change on a daily basis depending on the need. The Brink of Greatness salutes our Brink Thinker Greg Buzek and the incredible team that is working for the good of humanity! For Further Insight: Website: https://www.retailroi.org/ DONATE: https://www.retailroi.org/donate/

Everyday you have the choice to between mediocrity and excellence. When Greg was just twelve years old, he was out late in a bad part of town with some friends. He ended up getting beat up pretty bad by some older teenagers. In that moment, as a kid, he was the victim. Then from the moment after that, he chose not to be the victim again. He chose to learn some martial arts and workout. He still travels world to all sorts of places! "We are cautious but I refuse to live in fear." We have opportunities to choose every single day. Every moment we choose what we feel and how we react. Now we don't play the victim, we have the blessed gift to choose and by playing the victim you are giving up your power to do that, to your life! To live the life we want to live we have to choose deliberately. Don't let life lead you, you lead it. The quality of your life comes down to the little choices you make every single day. So make those choices count! Helpful resources: These stories you're telling yourself are ruining your life! What to do when you don't feel like it Make each day count

When Greg is out of town Amiira’s friends Moon Zappa and Jackie Greenberg drop by to talk about the magic of Christmas traditions and the realization that there are FOUR parts of giving and receiving gifts. Then Moon fills Jackie and Amiira in on proper butt plug etiquette and the ladies bring the R-E-A-L when a potential suitor gifts Moon a necklace made of dried vegetables plus a bonus impromptu poem by Jackie about said necklace.  We zing zag to the confusion of people who try to lead from behind.  The discovery of white holes, the inverse of black holes lead to possibility of positive chaos explosions and the disappearance of funny men and Producer Land wins Christmas Eve with his family’s We Love Jesus and Grilled Cheesus tradition!

Achieving the extraordinary and optimising your performance. HealthHackers Ep 25 features the sports scientist, two-time Olympian, pro-athlete consultant, celebrity trainer and co-founder of London’s Centre for Health and Human Performance, Professor Greg Whyte OBE. When Greg’s not advising professional athletes, like boxer Anthony Joshua, he’s busy coaching celebrities to conquer major endurance challenges... He’s the man who trained comedian David Walliams to swim across the English Channel, Gary Barlow, Cheryl Cole and Chris Moyles to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Eddie Izzard to run 43 marathons in 51 days, Davina McCall to complete a 506 mile ultra-triathlon, Dermot O’Leary and Olly Murs to trek across the driest desert in Africa, John Bishop to cycle, row and run from Paris to London, and BBC Radio 1’s Greg James to tackle five triathlons in five days. In this episode you’ll hear: -Greg’s three steps for anyone who wants to achieve the seemingly impossible -how he designs training plans for non-athletic celebrities attempting monumental endurance challenges -which of his celeb clients has impressed Greg the most -the positive mental gains we could all get from setting a New Year challenge -Greg’s top methods for faster recovery during extreme training -why we shouldn’t fear exercise-induced inflammation -the reason Greg thinks post-training ice baths are a bad idea -which ‘expensive’ muscle recovery therapy he doesn’t endorse -how Greg helps people with cancer to potentially reverse muscle loss caused by chemotherapy -his most fascinating discovery about human performance during his career so far -why we need to keep challenging dogma -Greg’s proudest sporting career moment -plus, how Greg turned a long-held scientific belief on its head by proving it was wrong Watch the video or read the article at HealthHackers.uk

Rubber Soul brought The Beatles to another level, and a young music snob finally took notice of the Fab Four from Liverpool. When Greg first listened to this album, he was blown away and it's had a profound impact on his life ever since. Enjoy this conversation with Daniel and Greg about what makes the record so great. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, Google Play and mrjonesandme.buzzsprout.com. Music: https://bensound.com.

Gregory Rockson is the founder and CEO of mPharma, a digital healthcare company present in Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe. You can connect with him @Rockson2 and @mPharmaHealth on Twitter. MPharma is a digital healthcare company that is helping Africans access high-quality medications. When Greg left for the US to study at university, he wanted to be a doctor. But he quickly realized that he could have a greater impact by studying the business of healthcare on the continent. How often have you gone to a pharmacy which didn’t have the drug that you needed? It’s a problem that is common across the continent and has a devastating impact on Africans, especially those who have illnesses requiring regular treatment, like diabetes, cancer or heart disease. Greg wanted to tackle this problem. Hence, mPharma was born. He built an e-prescription platform that would allow seamless communication between doctors and pharmacies so that patients could get their drugs on time. But he realized that this was the tip of the iceberg. The bigger issue was that Africans can’t afford drugs due to high costs. High quality drugs are expensive. What is mPharma bought the drugs, using its purchasing power to negotiate better prices from the pharmaceutical manufacturers? Partnering pharmacies could then buy the drugs on consignment, drastically lowering costs for consumers. Greg has taken it a step further, developing a product that allows consumers to buy drugs in installments. I love mPharma, which is incredibly innovative and driving real change in Africa’s healthcare sector. Without further ado, here’s my conversation with Greg Rockson.

I cannot wait to share today’s story with you! It is truly miraculous. Greg Bond is a realtor and investor, and joined us at our Mastermind we held in Orlando last week. We started the meeting with a positive focus, which is how we start every meeting at RWN to get the brain thinking on positive solutions, rather than stuck in a negativity bias - which is what it’s been trained to do over thousands of years in a flight for safety. When Greg got up and shared his positive focus, the room was silent, and I was left in tears. So I asked him to share this beautiful story with you here on the RWS. Enjoy! www.RealWealthShow.com  

This week on Failure To Launch we watched Time Slip. John Taylor from Duran Duran is "The Hacker" and he's finally hacked the mainframiest mainframe of all. The mainframe of the future, allowing him to see visions of what is to come. What does this modern Nostradamus do with his power? Watch people getting it on. A la The Twilight Zone, this vision of the future is the story of Greg and Jenny committing the crime of love in a cold robotic future where everything is on fire. When Greg intentionally wipes their records from the security system he is shocked to find that the security system "Lee" no longer recognises him and won't let him back in the office, so Greg has no choice but to KILL LEE. Listen to find out if Greg and Jenny can survive this stupid STUPID game of cat and mouse on this week's Failure to Launch. Reviewers: James Ferris, Alex Malone, Harry Brimage, Andrew Cherry Soundboard: David Shaw

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This is basically just a review of a book that I re-read for the second time. Grayson (on our house flipping team) suggested this book to me, and it’s really been helping me deal with feeling overwhelmed with everything. Sometimes you read a book at one point in your life, but don’t get all of the advice and actionable material. This book is called “Essentialism” by Greg Mckeown, and it’s just great. There are so many visual representations of how you get overwhelmed. The circle with all of the short arrows are definitely where I was at. Then, there’s another circle with a single long arrow that shows where the most essential things are, and should be going. This is where we should all be, and this is where I want to take Flip Pilot and LeadPropeller. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what’s the most essential part the business, taking time to look at the big picture, to get a clear idea of what we really should be doing. What’s most important to us so that we can get rid of those little arrows. So many of us as real estate investors can tend to feel really overwhelming. If you burn yourself out, you’re not going to be running a successful business. One story in this book is about journalism, but can definitely be applied to other aspects. When Greg was in a journalism class, the professor said to come up with a lead for a story about faculty meetings. Every student was coming up with stories about the different departments, and the goals from those meetings, and the overall impact on the university. The lead that the students didn’t take into account was that there wouldn’t be class on this day. The important take away was thinking about the audience’s point of view. The people reading this journal were the students - they didn’t care what the meetings were going to be about. The students reading just cared about if there was going to be class or not. So, thinking about things from the audience’s point of view helped to shape the best possible story about a subject that the students would have otherwise not cared about. Seeing the bigger picture and coming up with a strategy that’s intentional is the best thing you can do for your business. The trade off should never be a detriment to your business. If you’re giving something up to do something else, make sure that something else is worth it. Another clear point in this book is taking time to play. That’s so true. If you’re not taking time for yourself, then you’re going to burn out and give up. If you keep running forward, you’ll die. Taking time for yourself will help you get more creative in your real estate investing business. I take my time on Sunday to plan my week, but I always start with scheduling the fun things to do with my family. Then, when I’ve put time aside for that, I add in the work stuff. If you’re not giving yourself time to have fun, you’re not going to be running a successful real estate investing business. Do it to get recharged. If you guys haven’t read this book, do. It’s a great game changer for running the best business possible. Knowing what’s important and what’s not is difficult, but essential (hah, get it?). It’s like cleaning out your closet. If you see a shirt and think “I don’t wear this, but I might”, you end up keeping all of the close instead of clearing things out. If something you need to make essential isn’t a clear “yes”, then it’s a “no”. Think about it like a scale of 1 - 10. If it’s not a 10, then it has to go. Plane and simple. That will keep you on the right track that your real estate investing business needs. You can get this book in the link below! I highly recommend it if you need help with finding out what’s essential and what’s not. And don’t forget to join the Flip Pilot group on Facebook to network with other active real estate investors who have a 30k foot view of their business!

Greg Schwem’s comedic take on the 21st century workplace and work/life balance has landed him on SIRIUS Radio, FOX News, Comedy Central and the pages of Parents Magazine. More than just a business humorist, Greg is also an author, nationally syndicated humor columnist, award-winning greeting card writer and creator of funnydadinc, voted one of the top Dad humor sites of 2016.  He has shared the concert stage with the likes of Celine Dion and Jay Leno. A graduate of Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism, Greg never envisioned a career in laughter. Instead, he settled in Florida, becoming an award-winning reporter for NBC-owned WPTV in West Palm Beach. But the comedy bug bit Greg hard and he returned to his hometown of Chicago, where he honed his standup act in nightclubs. When he began inserting material about business and technology into his act, audience members approached him and said, “You really should come down to my office and tell those jokes.” Behold! A new approach to comedy was born. Greg’s show provides a hilarious look at today’s corporate environment and the latest tools used to conduct business. Indeed, Greg’s client list includes such corporate heavyweights as McDonald’s, Microsoft, General Motors, IBM, Hyatt Hotels, United Airlines and Cisco Systems. What sets Greg apart from other corporate entertainers is his ability—and willingness—to customize material for his audience while working within the parameters of the corporate environment. That means no profanity or politically incorrect material. “That’s never been a part of my show anyway,” Greg recently told a reporter. When Greg hits the stage he already has perused the company’s Internet site, combed the internal message boards and even sifted through numerous PowerPoint presentations. “There is no such thing as too much information,” Greg says. “I know corporate audiences like to laugh at themselves so the more ammunition I get, the funnier it will be. Just don’t give me a 10-K report. There is NOTHING funny about that.” Greg’s preparation always includes a conference call with company executives and, in some cases, an onsite visit. Besides customized material, Greg entertains audiences with stories about tedious business meetings, SmartPhone addiction, “frequently” asked questions and his fascination with the American Girl Doll company. In addition to his hefty speaking schedule, Greg  writes a weekly humor column nationally distributed by Tribune Media Services. He also is the author of Text Me If You’re Breathing: Observations, Frustrations and Life Lessons From a Low-Tech Dad and The Road to Success Goes Through the Salad Bar:  A Pile of BS (Business Stories) From a Corporate Comedian.

When Greg (at 46, a father, a husband, a friend to many, at the height of his career) heard the words, "Mr. Murtha, you have cancer," he and his wife Tracey never realized how abundant life could be in the midst of a such a sobering interruption. With Stage IV Metastasized Cancer and facing death - Greg now confidently says, "I've never felt more alive." How is that possible? Join us and find out. “I’m thankful God used cancer to save me from myself... Frankly, I’ve discovered life is richer because of my interruption than it was without it. It leads me to places where there are people who need to receive what I have to share. It forces me to slow down and make eye contact with God. It makes me solely dependent upon him, and there’s not a better place to be.” gregmurtha.com

250ok has skyrocketed onto the email marketing scene as a must-have for serious email marketers to monitor their inbox placement, design their emails, and protect their email reputation. Unfortunately, many marketers don't even realize that they have an email problem. Email service providers tout deliverability as the delivery of an email message to the receiving internet service provider. That message may not have ever made the inbox, though. It often gets delivered directly to the SPAM folder without so much as a notice to the company who sent it. My good friend Greg Kraios has been leading the email deliverability for years - we worked together at ExactTarget in the early days where his leadership and insight into the email industries led to the development of some incredible monitoring tools for the company. Greg dreamed bigger, though, and left the company to pursue his vision of an email platform that was affordable and provided everything a marketer needed to monitor and improve their email deliverability. When Greg brought entrepreneur, investor, and CTO Ryan Pfenninger onboard, that dream became a reality. The team is now growing as is their toolset.  Special Guests: Greg Kraios and Ryan Pfenninger.

Greg Behrman kicked off his career with a stint at Goldman Sachs before penning the book, The Invisible People, about the global AIDS pandemic. His early success as an author led him to an opportunity to work at the State Department with General David Petraeus in Iraq, advising on strategy to advance American relations with the Muslim world. When Greg returned from Iraq he started NationSwell, a digital media company focused on American innovation and renewal — identifying and profiling social innovators who are developing impactful ways to solve America’s most critical issues. Listen to this week's episode to learn more about how Greg and the NationSwell team (of only 20!) are working hard to do justice to stories that will inform and inspire action.

Born in Peekskill, Darcy Parsons attended school in Buffalo before moving to New York City where she became a producer. She worked on SNL for a few years as segment producer for anything filmed outside of the show. With experience in advertising and producing Darcy eventually moved to Los Angeles and worked in commercials. She opened her own company, Brewster Parsons, which specializes in photo real visual effects, direction, design, and project management. Darcy had invested in the stock market in the late 90's and lost $10,000. She swore she would never invest in the stock market again. Instead she dappled in real estate investment. But when Darcy met someone who knew Tyrone and recommended his class, she decided it couldn’t hurt to hear his method. She was inspired by The Wealthy Investor program because there was accountability and monthly classes to make sure that the students are current with what is happening in the market. As a creative and a visual person, she enjoys that Tyrone's method simplifies something that is so extremely complex. Darcy went to the class for 6 months before making her first trade. She made her first trade with Ebay and made $750 on a volatility trade. She made $2,000 her first month and became a believer. In the Wealthy Investor Program, Tyrone and his students are simultaneously both traders, taking income in off a covered call or volatility trade, and investors who build wealth by building positions on $5 buy signals. Darcy has a few long-term positions in stocks that she uses this technique to build. This basically means that when you buy shares of a stock, you wait for it to go up five dollars to prove that it’s worthy of another round of investing. Darcy also believes that dividends are hugely important. For example, Darcy owns Macy’s stock, which has dropped, but she is still capturing the income from the dividend. She also believes that this stock is a good long-term “date” and plans to hold onto it for a while. Greg Vojtanek grew up outside of Chicago to a middle class family. The extent of his stock market education was a 45 minute lesson in high school. Greg majored in Theater at Lewis University outside of Chicago, IL. Afterwards he moved to Los Angeles to pursue in career in acting, until he moved to NYC for love. While in New York, he first began investing in real estate. He managed a small property in PA. Since he was already interested in investing and residual income, when his sister-in-law, Julie, invited him to the Wealthy Artist program (now The Wealthy Investor Program), it seemed like a natural fit. The system clicked for Greg. He really liked that it was just simple numbers on a page; there was no brick and mortar and certainly no leaky faucets to fix. He started getting really good at covered calls and discreetly started to tell people about it. Slowly he started convincing his family to let him show them his skills. He first started an account for his 13 year-old nephew and later took on his Mom’s account.  When Greg’s brother-in-law had a big break in Hollywood, he knew he was about to come into a lot of money that he didn’t know what to do with. Since Greg was the only guy who knew that could handle money, he asked Greg to move out to LA and work for him. So Greg moved back out to Hollywood and took over his finances by opening a trading account for him.  Now, between managing his own trading account and his job managing others, he is financially independent. He exemplifies this with a recent experience; “I thought I had x amount of dollars in my personal account. I logged on yesterday and it was a lot more than what I thought I had. I don’t really worry about my account value because I know it’s fine. It climbed without me even knowing it.” This has allowed Greg to get back to his creative roots. He is now a writer on a new show premiering next year. When you know you have money coming in every month from the stock market it, Greg says it is “…one less thing to worry about, and for most people that’s 50% of their worries in their life. If you can eliminate that or at least bring that down to like 10%, life becomes a lot easier.” One of the reasons Greg is still trading and taking class is because he loves helping other people, and he love’s putting other people’s minds at ease.  If you aren’t sure if you’ll find success in the stock market, Greg says, “I have met so many walks of life in six years of working with [Tyrone] of people all over the place who figure it out. It may take some people a couple more classes than others. It doesn’t matter, that’s fine. Wherever you are in your life is where you are, that’s fine. And however long it takes you to figure out the numbers or what’s going on, that’s fine. If it takes you a couple minutes, great. If it takes you a couple weeks, great. But you are on your own pace and it is really not difficult.”  To get started, take a few minutes to visit TheWealthyInvestor.net and download the free E-Book Trading Stocks For Wealth. 

Greg is the founder of Coachwell, Inc. and author of The Enemies of Excellence.   For over a decade Greg has coached and consulted leaders to realize their goals and improve their lives. Greg directs the Coachwell team and inspires team members to pursue excellence as an example to others. Coachwell’s mission is to develop positive results by inspiring excellence through professional coaching, certification and coaching systems. Greg lives in Central Oregon with his family where he enjoys the great outdoors. When Greg is not serving leaders, he ski’s at Mt. Bachelor, rides mountain bikes, and hikes with family and friends.   Show Highlights   Coaches and their message of importance of character The definition of character and how you match them with your life The problem with not listening Greg’s defining moment and when his wife said “I’m done …" How to actively listen Why do leaders fail? How ego hurts leaders and what that leads to Wisdom of Proverbs 18:1 The antidote to failure and how to sustain your success Are you using a pre-scheduled calendar? What to look for in a core group Tips for planning   Resources   The Enemies of excellence   Living forward   The 5 dysfunctions of a team   The advantage   Connect   Greg’s email   Greg on Twitter   Greg’s website     "Excellence is not a destination, it’s a journey ..."   -Greg Salciccioli     Do you need accountability? Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Daniel wants to work with you and help you accelerate your leadership development and increase your impact.   Follow Me and Get Behind the Scenes Access on SNAPCHAT!!!   BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE! SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders  Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above.   Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn    Show Sponsors KickUp: KickUp is a professional learning data analytics company that provides an easy-to-use platform to help school leaders optimize their PD resources and efforts by: Soliciting and synthesizing teacher input on PD needs Creating an intuitive, simple dashboard of needs so leaders can take immediate and informed action to support teachers Measuring and reporting on the impact of those efforts over time Schools, districts, and charter networks leverage KickUp’s platform and consultative support to synthesize data so that all stakeholders--administrators, coaches, and teachers--can monitor progress, identify meaningful professional learning actions, and demonstrate and share impact. Audbile: Try over 180,000 titles on any smart device or computer.  I've downloaded and enjoyed books by Charles Duhigg, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk so far.      

This special edition of the MEX podcast takes you hands-on with the user experience of virtual reality, with bonus photos and videos. In episode 12 we went in-depth on the design principles of augmented, virtual and mixed reality with Greg Taylor of Tigerspike. When Greg took delivery of his HTC Vive – arguably the most immersive virtual reality experience available to consumers today – he invited Design Talk hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest to spend an afternoon exploring it in Tigerspike’s London studio. The podcast recounts first-hand impressions of the Vive and expands into a discussion of how this new form of digital experience might change design agency strategy and individual practitioner skills. You can find detailed show notes, with links to everything mentioned, at http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=3933

Greg Vojtanek grew up outside of Chicago to a middle class family. The extent of his stock market education was a 45 minute lesson in high school. Greg majored in Theater at Lewis University outside of Chicago, IL. Afterwards he moved to Los Angeles to pursue in career in acting, until he moved to NYC for love. While in New York, he first began investing in real estate. He managed a small property in PA. Since he was already interested in investing and residual income, when his sister-in-law, Julie, invited him to the Wealthy Artist program (now The Wealthy Investor Program), it seemed like a natural fit. The system clicked for Greg. He really liked that it was just simple numbers on a page; there was no brick and mortar and certainly no leaky faucets to fix. He started getting really good at covered calls and discreetly started to tell people about it. Slowly he started convincing his family to let him show them his skills. He first started an account for his 13 year-old nephew and later took on his Mom’s account.  When Greg’s brother-in-law had a big break in Hollywood, he knew he was about to come into a lot of money that he didn’t know what to do with. Since Greg was the only guy who knew that could handle money, he asked Greg to move out to LA and work for him. So Greg moved back out to Hollywood and took over his finances by opening a trading account for him.  Now, between managing his own trading account and his job managing others, he is financially independent. He exemplifies this with a recent experience; “I thought I had x amount of dollars in my personal account. I logged on yesterday and it was a lot more than what I thought I had. I don’t really worry about my account value because I know it’s fine. It climbed without me even knowing it.” This has allowed Greg to get back to his creative roots. He is now a writer on a new show premiering next year. When you know you have money coming in every month from the stock market it, Greg says it is “…one less thing to worry about, and for most people that’s 50% of their worries in their life. If you can eliminate that or at least bring that down to like 10%, life becomes a lot easier.” One of the reasons Greg is still trading and taking class is because he loves helping other people, and he love’s putting other people’s minds at ease.  If you aren’t sure if you’ll find success in the stock market, Greg says, “I have met so many walks of life in six years of working with [Tyrone] of people all over the place who figure it out. It may take some people a couple more classes than others. It doesn’t matter, that’s fine. Wherever you are in your life is where you are, that’s fine. And however long it takes you to figure out the numbers or what’s going on, that’s fine. If it takes you a couple minutes, great. If it takes you a couple weeks, great. But you are on your own pace and it is really not difficult.”  To get started, take a few minutes to visit TheWealthyInvestor.net and download the free E-Book Trading Stocks For Wealth. 

Coach Mike Rutherford did his "Level One" before there was a "Level One." The group was so small, Greg Glassman introduced each person. When Greg reached Rutherford, he reportedly said, "He is my Coach. I've been learning and copying what Rut does. It is essential to CrossFit now. Our athletes are getting so much better.He is my Coach." Two attendees of the same seminar (Michael Halbfish and Jeff Martin) confirmed that quote. The owner of Bootcamp Fitness KC (CrossFit Kansas City), Rut created the Max Effort Black Box (MEBB) system, and later DBWOD. In "Critical Questions," I talk about automating tasks that aren't worth your time. Last week's big 8-Day Giveaway ended on a massive note, with a free email automation from RunYourGym.com. Almost 300 gyms signed up to get the gift (thanks again, Matt and Jake!) and I see "Couch to CrossFit" posts everywhere. Like many, I thought I'd just take the free gift and roll with it...and then realized just how MUCH content they were giving away. So I signed up to have them automate the program for me because my time is worth more than the $99 they were charging. How do you figure out the value of your time? I provide a simple calculation, and then links to other resources that can optimize your time, like 321GoProject's Momentum Program.

"CBR 73: IPA I, II, and III","The outbreak of spring causes an impromptu show. When Greg is in a hoppy mood there is little time to spare and we break out Single, Double, and Triple IPA's. Beers: Slyfox Pikeland Pils Avery IPA Blue Dot Double IPA Weyerbacher Eleven, Triple IPA (PA) Ranking: Greg - 1. Slyfox, 2.Avery, 3. Hair of the Dog, 4. Weyerbacher Jeff - 1. Slyfox, 2.Avery, 3. Hair of the Dog, 4. Weyerbacher Extras: Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold Preshow Postshow "

"CBR 73: IPA I, II, and III","The outbreak of spring causes an impromptu show. When Greg is in a hoppy mood there is little time to spare and we break out Single, Double, and Triple IPA's. Beers: Slyfox Pikeland Pils Avery IPA Blue Dot Double IPA Weyerbacher Eleven, Triple IPA (PA) Ranking: Greg - 1. Slyfox, 2.Avery, 3. Hair of the Dog, 4. Weyerbacher Jeff - 1. Slyfox, 2.Avery, 3. Hair of the Dog, 4. Weyerbacher Extras: Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold Preshow Postshow "

Jen Beck Seymour and Greg Seymour found themselves bogged down in the daily 9-5 grind as many of us do. They were working long hours in Dallas having spent 20+ years in their corporate jobs earning good money only to live a life of comfort and purchasing their toys, but realized that actually had very little time together to use those toys and spent it with each other. They weren't particularly happy in their situation. Sound familiar at all? When Greg's health appeared to be taking a turn for the worse due to stress, the two decided they must find a better way. They considered other options to stay working elsewhere in the US, but decided that a major relocation and mind-shift was in order. Jen and Greg ultimately decided to retire early, sell the house as well as all of the toys and move south to Costa Rica. This was Greg's idea which did not sit very well with Jen at first, but she eventually warmed up to it and to Costa Rica they went. Listen in to hear their story and the happiness that followed their monumental decision. Where to find them and their books: Blog: www.appalachiantrailtales.com Facebook:@AppalachianTrailTales Instagram:@AppalachianTrailTales YouTube:@AppalachianTrailTales Jen's Jewelry: www.costaricachicaarmcandy.com Books on Amazon: Jen: https://www.amazon.com/Jen-Beck-Seymour/e/B00OADGP70/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1528393281&sr=8-1 Greg: https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Seymour/e/B00T8BD8C4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1528393315&sr=1-1   Stop by www.kindsnacks.com/sports to save 50% off of your first order plus free shipping with the KIND Snack Pack! Join us on Patreon for only $5 a month to get your all access pass to the inspiration that will have you thinking about how you too can live a life outside the box: https://www.patreon.com/AdventureSportsPodcast