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This episode contrasts work-life integration with traditional work-life balance, emphasizing the need for fluidity in managing personal and professional responsibilities. The importance of individual accountability and organizational support are highlighted. The episode discusses ways to help employees achieve sustainable work-life integration. Tune in to learn more. Check out Stress-Free With Dr G on YouTubehttps://youtube.com/channel/UCxHq0osRest0BqQQRXfdjiQ The Stress Solution: Your Blueprint For Stress Management Masteryhttps://a.co/d/07xAdo7l
Imagine breaking new ground in a field that's ripe for innovation and brimming with opportunities. Sara Hedge, CDI Contractors' BIM VDC Coordinator and a trailblazer for women in construction, joins us to share her transformative journey from architecture and interior design to spearheading digital construction. Her story is not just about personal triumph but also about how she's leveraging her expertise to foster diversity and inspire a new generation through technology and engagement in organizations like NAWIC and WLI.This episode isn't just about shattering glass ceilings; it's also about shattering old norms of construction practices. Sara takes us through the initial resistance her team faced while shifting to 3D modeling and how they overcame operational challenges, leading to project successes that set a new benchmark for innovation at CDI. We peer into the intricate process of reimagining an underground utility tunnel with cutting-edge scanning technology and discuss the necessity of internal buy-in for adopting such transformative tech. It's a candid look at the trials and triumphs of embracing change.As we wrap up our conversation, Sara, who has managed projects worth over $1.5 billion, forecasts the exciting role of AI, AR, and VR in the construction industry's future. While acknowledging the hurdles of technology adoption, she highlights the importance of empathy and education in smoothing the transition. Join us as we explore the not-so-distant dream of teleportation devices and reflect on the significant time-saving and connectivity potential such innovations could offer. It's an episode packed with vision, expertise, and a glimpse into the future of construction technology. Contact the Future Construct Podcast Produced by BIM Designs, Inc! BIM Designs, Inc.: minority-owned, US-based, union-signatory preconstruction technology firm, offering turnkey BIM modeling, laser scanning, coordination management, and other VDC solutions to the AEC industry. Schedule a free consultation: sales@bimdesigns.net. Subscribe to our weekly blog and our Future Construct Podcast Suggest a podcast guest
Happy MLK Day! His name is Ben Baller, not Ben Humble & he's here to discuss: Studio almost being done, WLI at Trump International, Keith Lee bailing on The Bay restaurants, the repercussions of divorce, Trusting people, cutting people off, the professional golf space, what he's watching, endosing Vivek, Michael Rapaport getting protested in Portland & more. This episode is not to be missed! Visit www.WashedGolf.com This Episode is brought to you by BetterHelp www.betterhelp.com/baller If you are interested in NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL Soccer, UFC & more Picks daily, weekly, monthly or single sport Signupat www.CaptainPicks.com & Follow @TheCaptainPicks on Instagram Produced by: DBPodcasts www.dbpodcasts.com Follow @dbpodcasts on Instagram & Twitter Music by @lakeyinspired Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw @yuyuthemaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Women can reshape the world. It's time to challenge societal norms, particularly the undervaluing of women's contributions, including caregiving and household work, and it's time for women to support each other and advocate for a more equitable distribution of household labor to empower women as leaders. After all, supporting one another is the key to achieving true power and equality. We have the ability to make an impact! In this podcast episode, Belinda Ellsworth, host of "Work From Your Happy Place," interviews Belinda Clemmensen, founder of the Women's Leadership Intensive, discussing the challenges women face in society and the workplace, the undervaluing of caregiving and household work, and the need for women to support each other. Belinda Clemmensen provides tips for women to rise as leaders and emphasizes the importance of reshuffling priorities and promoting equality. She also shares her own superpowers and skills and talks about her proud achievement of starting a women-centered organization. Belinda Clemmensen advises giving oneself time to understand the business and shares her upcoming projects. Key Learnings from the Episode:[00:03:14] Belinda Clemmensen's background and journey[00:13:06] The undervaluing of women's work[00:14:50] Supporting and empowering women[00:24:13]Identifying personal strengths[00:35:24] Belinda's advice for starting a business About Belinda Clemmensen A change-maker, Belinda Clemmensen believes women are not only capable of changing the world, they will be a driving force in making it happen. When we look out at the world, we see that change is needed and we can help.This passionate belief is what drives Belinda as a leadership development professional and what led her to build the Women's Leadership Intensive; our mission to inspire, empower, support, and equip women to lead the change the world needs.Many women feel we don't fit the traditional leadership box. We know we have more to contribute, but it's not always easy to reach that potential. As a leader, it is essential to know who you are and lead as YOU.With over 25 years of experience Belinda has helped leaders step into their potential and connect to a place of purpose where their unique strengths can serve to make organizations and communities better.In addition to founding WLI, Belinda is a proud co-founder of the Leader Coach Intensive, a unique program that builds world-class coaches – Tomorrow's Leaders Today. Current Promotion/Link Mentioned in the Podcast: https://www.womensleadershipintensive.ca/book How To Connect With Belinda Clemmensen Instagram https://www.instagram.com/womens.leadership.intensive/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/womensleadershipintensive LinkeIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-clemmensen-6aa94014/ About the Host - Belinda Ellsworth is a Speaker, Trainer, Best-Selling Author, and PodcasterShe has been a professional speaker, mover, and shaker for over 25 years. Having built three successful companies, she has helped thousands of entrepreneurs make better decisions, create successful systems, and build business strategies using her "Four Pillars of Success" system. Belinda has always had a passion and zest for life, with the skill for turning dreams into reality.How to Connect with Belinda:Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/workfromyourhappyplaceLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindaellsworthInstagram -https://www.instagram.com/workfromyourhappyplace/Website - www.workfromyourhappyplace.com Join my membership program and discover the art of creating and sharing amazing experiences with like-minded people, all from the comfort of your own home. You get to connect with others online, learn new skills and techniques, and grow your network without ever having to leave your computer screen. To know more, click on the link https://workfromyourhappyplace.com/vip/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4939248/advertisement
Today, Mike has a special treat for you! It's one of the most riveting, soul-searching, and transformative episodes of Capability Amplifier yet.Why should you listen… NOW? Because today Mike is talking to the entire founding group of Wealth Longevity International.As founders and entrepreneurs, we sometimes hit that point where we look ahead and think, "Do I have fewer days ahead than I've had behind?" And as we push on, the isolation of success, outgrowing certain relationships, the hunt for deeper connections... These all become part of our reality.We dove headfirst into this topic with the incredible minds behind Wealth Longevity International. Together, we peeled back the layers of the health and financial stresses that all entrepreneurs face.
Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Lisa Prime, from the City of Cambridge and Laura Taylor from York University in Episode 3.
Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Jocelyn Deeks from Bousfields Inc. Cheyanne Hammell from PCL Construction and Cyndi Rottenberg-Walker from Urban Strategies Inc. on Episode 2.
Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Dana Anderson from MHBC and Claire McIntyre, Oxford Properties Group in Episode 1.
His name is Ben Baller aka The Washed Lord & he's here to discuss: Not taking the credit on the path to success, the value of spending time with the kids, spoiling family, being helped through rough times, being a professional golfer in the amateur space, playing Bel Air Country Club For Money, relating to a friend, having a podcast studio at the new house, RIP Jonas, salty Scottie Pippen, changes in the sneaker game, teaching kids, people acting up in society & those boycotting Target, the story of Michael Block, San Diego & WLI, choosing a winner for Par 3 Giveaway, subscriber meet up, Be Better Merchandise & more. This episode is not to be missed! Subscribe to Par 3 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par-3-podcast-with-j-r-smith-ben-baller-stephen-malbon/id1665308291 If you are interested in NBA, MLB, NHL Soccer, UFC & more Picks daily, weekly or monthly subscribe at www.CaptainPicks.com & Follow @TheCaptainPicks on Instagram Join the 8 million men worldwide who trust MANSCAPED™ and get 20% Off + Free Shipping, with the code BALLER at Manscaped.com. Produced by: DBPodcasts www.dbpodcasts.com Follow @dbpodcasts on Instagram & Twitter Music by @lakeyinspired Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw @yuyuthemaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listen to Part I of the interview HERE. And be sure to check out Bob Enyart's 4 Part interview with Jane Albright on her Flood models controversy articles! *Pastor Kevin Lea: RSR hosts Fred Williams & Doug McBurney welcome Pastor Kevin Lea of Calvary Church Port Orchard WA for a deep dive into his presentations - Part I & Part II, (along with faithful co-laborers) of Hydroplate Theory to the headquarters staff at the Institute for Creation Research. *Planet 9 From Outer Space: The predicted discovery of “Planet 9” (or Planet X) by atheists, and old earth cosmologists to explain the argument of the perihelion, has never come to pass. But Dr. Robert Brown's peer-reviewed journal article describing the origin of distant TNOs from within our solar system did! *The First Creationist Hydroplate Conference: September 21-23, 2023. Join Fred, Doug and an “A-List” of RSR favorites for the first conference on Creation and Hydroplate Theory Science! Attend virtually by registering today at: Hydroplate.org. *Engineering, Credentials & Evidence: We are thankful for Pastor Lea and the HPT advocates like Rob Brown (see him at RMCF 2023), Bryan Nickel (See his HPT Video Series) and the others who gave the presentation to ICR that Walter Brown has never had the opportunity to give, (Walt Brown received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He has taught college courses in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Brown is a retired full colonel (Air Force), West Point graduate, and former Army ranger and paratrooper. Assignments during his 21 years in the military included: Director of Benet Research, Development, and Engineering Laboratories in Albany, New York; tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy; and Chief of Science and Technology Studies at the Air War College. For much of his life, Walt Brown was an evolutionist, but after many years of study, he became convinced of the scientific validity of creation and a global flood. Since retiring from the military in 1980, Dr. Brown has been the Director of the Center for Scientific Creation and has worked full time in research, writing, and speaking on origins). *The Empire Strikes Back: Read some of the history HERE (part I) and HERE (part II) explaining the resistance to the Hydroplate Theory by so many of our wonderful brothers in the Lord. *Prayers for ICR & Randy Guliuzza: Join us in lifting up ICR and their Chief Randy Gulliuza in prayer! (And watch this interview Randy did with the Babylon Bee)! And pray for us at RSR that we will remain humble enough to always pursue the truth. *Closing Argument: Hear Pastor Lea's passionate delivery of the simple gospel! *RSR's Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory: Pick up your own copy on DVD, Blu-ray, or HD video download today!
Listen to Part I of the interview HERE. And be sure to check out Bob Enyart's 4 Part interview with Jane Albright on her Flood models controversy articles! *Pastor Kevin Lea: RSR hosts Fred Williams & Doug McBurney welcome Pastor Kevin Lea of Calvary Church Port Orchard WA for a deep dive into his presentations - Part I & Part II, (along with faithful co-laborers) of Hydroplate Theory to the headquarters staff at the Institute for Creation Research. *Planet 9 From Outer Space: The predicted discovery of “Planet 9” (or Planet X) by atheists, and old earth cosmologists to explain the argument of the perihelion, has never come to pass. But Dr. Robert Brown's peer-reviewed journal article describing the origin of distant TNOs from within our solar system did! *The First Creationist Hydroplate Conference: September 21-23, 2023. Join Fred, Doug and an “A-List” of RSR favorites for the first conference on Creation and Hydroplate Theory Science! Attend virtually by registering today at: Hydroplate.org. *Engineering, Credentials & Evidence: We are thankful for Pastor Lea and the HPT advocates like Rob Brown (see him at RMCF 2023), Bryan Nickel (See his HPT Video Series) and the others who gave the presentation to ICR that Walter Brown has never had the opportunity to give, (Walt Brown received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He has taught college courses in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Brown is a retired full colonel (Air Force), West Point graduate, and former Army ranger and paratrooper. Assignments during his 21 years in the military included: Director of Benet Research, Development, and Engineering Laboratories in Albany, New York; tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy; and Chief of Science and Technology Studies at the Air War College. For much of his life, Walt Brown was an evolutionist, but after many years of study, he became convinced of the scientific validity of creation and a global flood. Since retiring from the military in 1980, Dr. Brown has been the Director of the Center for Scientific Creation and has worked full time in research, writing, and speaking on origins). *The Empire Strikes Back: Read some of the history HERE (part I) and HERE (part II) explaining the resistance to the Hydroplate Theory by so many of our wonderful brothers in the Lord. *Prayers for ICR & Randy Guliuzza: Join us in lifting up ICR and their Chief Randy Gulliuza in prayer! (And watch this interview Randy did with the Babylon Bee)! And pray for us at RSR that we will remain humble enough to always pursue the truth. *Closing Argument: Hear Pastor Lea's passionate delivery of the simple gospel! *RSR's Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory: Pick up your own copy on DVD, Blu-ray, or HD video download today!
*Paster Kevin Lea: RSR hosts Fred Williams & Doug McBurney welcome Pastor Kevin Lea of Calvary Church Port Orchard WA for a deep dive into his presentation, (along with faithful co-laborers) of Hydroplate Theory to the headquarters staff at the Institute for Creation Research. *Attend! The First Creationist Hydroplate Conference: September 21-23, 2023. Join Fred, Doug and an “A-List” of RSR favorites for the first conference on Creation and Hydroplate Theory Science! Attend virtually by registering today at: Hydroplate.org. *Not the Hydroplate Theory: But it was great to see John Knox and our fellow workers at the Babylon Bee's “straight” news site Not the Bee cite Walt Brown in a story about unrelated water possibly trapped within the earth's mantle. While those waters, (if they exist) are not necessarily related to Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory we welcome the boys at the Bee to link to Walt as often as they can! *Can I Get a Witness? Since none of us were there at the time of the flood, (except Jesus Christ), we must turn to His Word first in analyzing flood models, and everything else in life!
Listen to Part II of the interview HERE! *Paster Kevin Lea: RSR hosts Fred Williams & Doug McBurney welcome Pastor Kevin Lea of Calvary Church Port Orchard WA for a deep dive into his presentation, (along with faithful co-laborers) of Hydroplate Theory to the headquarters staff at the Institute for Creation Research. *Attend! The First Creationist Hydroplate Conference: September 21-23, 2023. Join Fred, Doug and an “A-List” of RSR favorites for the first conference on Creation and Hydroplate Theory Science! Attend virtually by registering today at: Hydroplate.org. *Not the Hydroplate Theory: But it was great to see John Knox and our fellow workers at the Babylon Bee's “straight” news site Not the Bee cite Walt Brown in a story about unrelated water possibly trapped within the earth's mantle. While those waters, (if they exist) are not necessarily related to Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory we welcome the boys at the Bee to link to Walt as often as they can! *Can I Get a Witness? Since none of us were there at the time of the flood, (except Jesus Christ), we must turn to His Word first in analyzing flood models, and everything else in life!
To celebrate the last week of Women's History Month, WLI co-chair Margaret Hogan (Denver), talks with three Littler associates who have shaped their legal careers in the area of traditional labor. Listen as Kameron Miller (Charleston), Ashton Hupman (Washington D.C.) and Brittany Stepp (Philadelphia) tell their stories of being women attorneys in a field that has traditionally been dominated by men.
Imagine a life where you could 10x your income, improve your quality of life, and increase your healthspan and lifespan at the same time.Sounds too good to be true, right? Well… it's not!Wealth Longevity Institute is a game-changer, and you can be a part of it. As a partner, you'll have access to high-value, upscale clients and the opportunity to join Regan and Mike in their mission to help people achieve their full potential.Regan Archibald and Mike Koenigs are the founders of Wealth Longevity Institute, and they have an exclusive invitation for you to join them as a partner. They work with customers to improve their health, longevity, and business growth.Here's how it works. Their longevity experiences include full diagnostics, bloodwork, and personalized plans to help you lose weight, gain energy, and eliminate diseases.On the business front, Mike teaches you how to build and grow your business, incorporate and use AI, and how to start and launch a business in as little as a week (then you can add your unique twist.)For example, Krisstina Wise taught wealth creation, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson taught The Five Pillars to Living Without Regret and they've even done an event at Wizard Academy where every participant presented and taught something in front of an audience.At the Wealth Longevity Institute, they're all about specific results. They've helped their participants achieve incredible things. One client lost over 36 pounds in just four months and got off five medications. They identified an undiagnosed brain aneurysm for another participant, and for three others, they were able to start correcting significant blood issues right away. Even Mike's 90-year-old mother-in-law had some noticeable improvements. That's the kind of value they offer.Partnerships are exclusive, and they only work with businesses that have real clients and real businesses. No startups or coaches, sorry. You need to be an influencer and be able to put a minimum of 20 people into a room.Take the first step towards transforming your life and becoming a partner with Wealth Longevity Institute by heading over to the website and filling out the application.They have already done the thinking, the work, and the marketing, so all they need is you and your expertise.If you're interested in making your next 10 years your healthiest, most fulfilling, and meaningful 10 years, then Mike highly recommends you give the podcast a listen. Grab your headphones and tune in to Capability Amplifier now!Key Takeaways (01:00) What is a Free Zone? (09:04) In depth, comprehensive blood lab results. How they work and why they can have a major impact on your health (15:48) What's the experience and why we're doing it (35:40) Who is the Wealth Longevity Institute for? (40:25) The vision and dream for the Free Zone Additional Resources Download their presentation deck and find the application buttons to become a participant or collaborator here: WLI.Live To learn more about Regan and peptides visit: ThePeptideExpert.com
The end of a calendar year provides an excellent time to take stock of all we accomplished as time draws to a close, while also examining the goals we wish to achieve as we turn the page toward new opportunities. How are you poised to lead the discussion around "what's next," for yourself or your business?On this week's Mind Your Business, we discuss the value of leadership development as we outline the upcoming Watauga Leadership Institute cohorts. Dr. Jim Street, owner of Ridgeline Leadership and WLI curriculum coordinator details the upcoming Watauga Leadership Challenge and Watauga Leadership Development courses. He also discusses the benefits of professional introspection, and how that type of assessment can be valuable to businesses and individuals who are engaged in a growth mindset.Mind your Business is produced weekly by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce. The radio show airs each Thursday morning at 10:05AM on WATA (1450AM/96.5FM) in the High Country. The podcast version of the program is made possible each week by Appalachian Commercial Real Estate and sponsored in part by Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.Support the show
Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this fourth and final episode, they speak with Eli Bauwah, who shares the importance of queer spaces and building community connections to support one another with Eli Bauwah. Jc Elijah (Eli) M. Bawuah (he/him) is a practicing Urban Planner and Public Consultant with multi-disciplinary experience gained by working in a spectrum of city and community-building roles. He has worked on development applications, master plans, social plans, mobility/transportation projects across Ontario. Eli has co-developed equity initiatives centering the lived experiences and voices of Toronto's diverse urban stakeholders, while fostering collaborative environments that generate values of reciprocity and sustainability. To Eli, leadership is about allowing yourself to be vulnerable while advocating for what you believe in that may benefit someone other than yourself. This is why he co-founded the Mentoring Initiative for Indigenous and Planners of Colour (MIIPOC). With the goal to advance diversity and representation amongst city-builders and leadership, the Mentoring Initiative for Indigenous and Planners of Colour (MIIPOC) focuses on establishing a national network between experienced planners and emerging planners from marginalized communities. As a former Committee Member of the City of Toronto's 2SLGBTQ+ Council Advisory Body, he advised and helped to inform strategies aimed at removing barriers faced by the queer community.
Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this episode, they speak with Cheryll Case, who shares how one can make the changes that we want to see in our communities and what we can do to support the move to building more equitable and inclusive cities. Cheryll Case is an Early Career Canadian Urban Leader with the University of Toronto School of Cities, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, and is founder, and principal urban planner of CP Planning, a planning firm that facilitates partnerships between the government, academic, charity, private, and non-profit sectors to align on a human rights approach to the planning and delivery of housing. This includes designing, implementing, and guiding national, city-wide, and neighbourhood specific affordable housing programs to protect and increase affordable housing supply. She is a co-editor and co-author of House Divided: How the Missing Middle Can Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis.
Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this episode, they speak with Clarence Qian and Chantal Lee, who provide their unique perspective from those entering the Toronto city building industry and how they experience their sense of community. Clarence Qian Clarence Qian is the Director of Development at Distrikt and has responsibility for the management and execution of value creation strategies across Distrikt's development portfolio. Prior to joining Distrikt, Clarence was a project manager at BDP Quadrangle, one of Canada's leading architecture, design, and urbanism firm, where he worked on various international and domestic mixed-use master plans. He also managed the planning, design, and construction of several award-winning mid and high-rise projects in Toronto. Prior to BDP Quadrangle, Clarence was a project manager at Bowan Group, a leading full-service design and development firm in Shenzhen, China, where he worked closely with numerous development partners to ensure the successful execution of real estate projects across Asia. Clarence holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is actively involved with the Urban Land Institute, currently serving on the Management Committee as Student Committee Co-Chair for the Toronto District Council. Clarence was an Urban Leadership Fellow at the School of Cities, University of Toronto, and he has contributed as a guest studio critic at OCAD University. Chantal Lee Chantal Lee is an urban planner who is passionate about creating thriving cities through effective urban planning, design and policy. Chantal received her Master of Science in Planning at the University of Toronto. She is currently a Transportation Planner at LEA Consulting and a Student Committee Co-Chair at ULI Toronto. Previously, she has worked as a Community Planning Assistant for the City of Coquitlam and a Sustainability Analyst at JTS Consulting. Chantal has also volunteered for city-building non-profit organizations such as Our Greenway Conservancy and Evergreen Brick Works.
Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this episode, they speak with Eldon Theodore, Partner at MHBC, to discuss the opportunities planners have to effect change in the planning process, when to pick your battles and how to be a driver for change. Eldon Theodore, is a Partner with MHBC, specializing in land use planning and urban design. Mr. Theodore holds an Honours Bachelor Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo and a Masters Degree in Urban Design Studies from the University of Toronto. Mr. Theodore is also a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) with the Canada Green Building Council. Mr. Theodore specializes in providing Urban Design and sustainable development services to public and private sector clients across Ontario. His experience includes the application of urban design and sustainable initiatives through policy preparation, site design analysis, community visioning, design briefs and community design guidelines. Mr. Theodore is also trained in conducting intensive design charrettes to help establish places of distinction and create value in a community. As a LEED AP, Mr. Theodore's design expertise also extends to the evaluation, design and accreditation of sustainable sites and built form. Mr. Theodore's land use planning experience includes obtaining development approvals (Subdivisions, Condominiums, Site Plans, Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments, Consents, and Minor Variances), project coordination and management, undertaking special studies and associated research, expert witness at the Ontario Municipal Board and presentations to Committees, Council and the general public. Mr. Theodore is a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario. Mr. Theodore is also Chair of OPPI's Community Design Working Group, and Treasurer of the Congress for the New Urbanism's Ontario Chapter.
Part of the WLI 2022 Summer Series Program recorded July 14, 2022. Have your ever watch a television show, movie, or YouTube video and recognized a song from your favorite musician? Did you wonder how it was possible for the producer to use the copyrighted music? This presentation reviewed the basics of licensing an existing song for use in production which may be shown at a movie theater, on TV, via streaming, or other platforms. It was presented by Albany Law School alum Ilyse Wolde Tretter '85, who is an experienced lawyer with her own practice and has years of music licensing experience. More from the Career and Professional Development Center: https://www.albanylaw.edu/about/career-and-professional-development-center The Women's Leadership Initiative at Albany Law School: https://www.albanylaw.edu/student-experience-support/womens-leadership-initiative
Se hace un llamado a las egresadas de CEDPA, WLI y Counterpart International para asistir a la Reunión Cumbre de Seguimiento que se llevará a cabo los días 3 y 4 de marzo de 7 a 10 hs. Tiempo de México si no tienes información o tienes alguna pregunta puedes comunicarte a través de info.wli@counterpart.org o en el Facebook de WLI donde puedes inscribirte.
In this week's episode of First Lady and Friends, Utah's First Lady, Abby Cox, is joined by Pat Jones (CEO of Women's Leadership Institute, Co-founder and owner of Dan Jones & Associates, and former Utah senator) to talk about understanding the need for equality at a very young age, the impact that sports can have on business, and how her entrepreneurship helped her succeed during college. Pat also opens up about her experience with market research, how it led her to run for office, and why it's so necessary to have more women at the table in politics. Lastly, we talk about some of the initiatives that Pat is currently working on with WLI including the ElevateHER Challenge and a political development series, as well as some of the barriers that still exist that limit growth for women in the state. To learn more about WLI and some of the amazing initiatives that the institute is working on, you can visit their website here: https://wliut.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is Whole Life Insurance and IS it really a scam like Dave Ramsey and others say it is?Our guest today is my friend and insurance agent Barry Brooksby. Barry Brooksby has been involved in the financial and investment industry since 2001 and helped build a multi-million dollar real estate empire. He has an extensive background in real estate investing and financial services and is an Infinite Banking Practitioner working with clients nationwide. He is the Founder and CEO of Focus Wealth Group, specializing in wealth & protection strategies, and tax-free money planning. He's a co-author of the book, Tax-Free Money for Long-Term Care!, and author of Infinite Banking: The Powerful Tax-Free Strategy that Allows You to Capitalize on the Velocity of Money. Barry speaks on topics such as real estate investing, tax-free retirement, guaranteed income planning, Infinite Banking, and high cash value whole life insurance.We will do a deep dive into the numbers with a whole life insurance policy and why large corporations like Chase and AT&T and wealthy individuals use these vehicles to save, grow and protect their wealth in a tax-free environment.Inflation, tax and even a small 1% fee can erode much of your retirement account, even with a 6-12% “average (link - https://youtu.be/X0SHoqpdjFQ) ” rate of return. Find out why WLI may make sense for you!Helpful Resources:Infinite Banking: The Powerful Tax-Free Strategy that Allows You to Capitalize on the Velocity of Money - https://www.wealthandfreedomnexus.com/downloads.htmlTax-Free Money for Long-Term Care! – https://www.wealthandfreedomnexus.com/downloads.htmlHeads I Win Tails You Lose by Patrick Donohoe - https://amzn.to/2RmPZ0FBecoming Your Own Banker by Nelson Nash - https://amzn.to/2Rqz39jQ & A with Barry - https://www.wealthandfreedomnexus.com/q-and-a-with-barry.htmlTax “Savings” Plan? Not So Much… - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tax-savings-plan-so-much-john-rickgarn/Connect with BarryFocus Wealth Group - https://focuswealthgroup.com/mainStay connected with Wealth and Freedom Nexus!Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wfreedomnexus/Twitter https://twitter.com/WFreedomnexusYouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHknisS7CBlnD6mgTJugA7wWebsite & Blog www.wealthandfreedomnexus.comAs always, be sure to follow, subscribe, rate and share this podcast with other like-minded individuals who are in pursuit of wealth and freedom!
Tom and John are joined on Wealth Talks by Dr. Steve Hryszczuk. Dr. Hryszczuk, a Life Benefits client for many years, has carefully managed his policies to successfully invest in real estate as well as financing other things in his life. Today, he shares the different ways he has been able to use his policies, as well as sharing some sound thinking for investing in real estate. He sends 2 pictures of the foundations for the new Hryszczuk family home and writes... Here's a metaphor of how I view my WLI [whole life insurance] It's stable, predictable and always available. Maybe not the most sexy part of my house, but without it the whole edifice will collapse.
“Reset is not about going back to normal. It’s about building a better normal for everyone.” WLI is hosting a Reset Symposium, on May 19th, in efforts to cultivate an on-going feedback loop for participants to build community, share insights and knowledge, test and iterate on solutions in a post pandemic city. This symposium is a conversation inviting diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives on the collective realization, reckoning and reset needed for cities to build back better. Gail Borthwick and Andrea Katz discuss with Saira Muzaffar, the catalyst for the reset symposium, the unique format of the symposium - blurring the lines between experts and participants - and the outcomes they hope to achieve. WLI’s Reset Symposium will be occurring virtually on May 19th, registration is available on ULI Toronto Events Page: https://toronto.uli.org/events/detail/850609E0-456E-4CD6-922C-211F40B7CDF9/
On this weeks episode, I chat with Ambassador Dr. Kema Chikwe, a dynamic politician, distinguished public administrator, educationist, gender and social engineer and activist, writer and diplomat. She is the Founder and Chairperson of the Women Leadership Institute (WLI) - WLI is an international leadership development organization focused on developing the leadership capacity of women across Africa. Dr. Chikwe shared memories from her childhood and insights into her approach to parenting. She reflected on her career accomplishments, the gap she identified in governance and the work she is doing through WLI to close that gap- raising a critical mass of women who are leadership conscious and equipping them with the skills they need. Dr. Chikwe studied French at the Advanced Teachers' College Owerri and obtained a further degree in French from Queens College, City University of New York. She has a doctorate in Curriculum Education from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.Dr. Chikwe is a renowned writer; her books are included in both the Nigerian and American curriculum. The books include Kema Chikwe: Across Borders, Women of My Era, Village Boys, First School Day for Adaeze, Kame Chameleon tours the garden, My Precious Book and other publications. She served as Nigerian Ambassador to Ireland from 2008-2011, a former Nigerian Federal Minister of Transportation and Federal Minister of Aviation. The first woman to hold either position in Nigeria. AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES WEBSITE: www.africanbusinessstories.com AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/afribizstories/ AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/afribizstories
BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE Eve Picker: [00:00:15] Hi there, thanks for joining me on Rethink Real Estate. I'm on a mission to make real estate work for everyone. Real estate can help to solve climate change, can house people affordably, can create beautiful streetscapes, unify neighborhoods and enliven cities. So I'm on a journey to find the most creative thinkers and doers out there. I'm not the only one who wants to rethink real estate. You can learn more about me at EvePicker.com or you can find me at SmallChange.co, a real estate crowdfunding platform with impact real estate investment opportunities open for investment right now. And if you want to support this podcast, join me at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where there are special opportunities for my friends and followers. Eve: [00:01:29] Today, I'm talking with Libby Seifel. Libby's life is built around big causes. She has spent much of it professionally focused on affordable housing and much of it personally focused on women. Libby's interest in housing came about when she lived through gentrification in her own neighborhood in Boston. There she saw her own godmother pushed out of her apartment into distressed public housing, and that convinced her that mixed income housing was a far better solution. She went on to get degrees at MIT in Planning and Urban Studies and became the founding Executive Director of Tent City Corporation, a non-profit developer of a ULI, award winning, mixed income housing development in downtown Boston. At that time, mixed income housing and sustainable development were considered somewhat of an oddball concept, says Libby. Now they're widely accepted as good planning. And then she founded her own firm. She was the only woman in the room when she started her career. Today, that has changed a little, but not nearly enough for Libby, who has founded a quickly growing women's development collaborative to support women developers. I'm a member of the Women's Development Collaborative, so I've seen firsthand the strength of Libby's focus. If you'd like to join me in my quest to rethink real estate, there are two simple things you can do. Share this podcast or go to Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate to learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers and subscribe, if you can. Eve: [00:03:32] Libby, I'm really happy to talk with you today. Thanks for joining me. Libby Seifel: [00:03:38] Thank you. Eve: [00:03:39] So I've known you for quite some time. I was trying to remember how long that was, but I just couldn't. It's been a long time. But still, I was really surprised when I read your resume and you've done so much and there's probably more that you haven't talked about, which I'm hoping we're going to talk about today. But I wanted to start with a quote I read that you were going to be a doctor and and I'm wondering what happened. Libby: [00:04:07] That's interesting story. So, I think what happened was that I got really, really interested in urban planning and I was actually talking with somebody about this recently that I had the great fortune of having Lewis Mumford as one of my professors, my freshman year in college. And I was coincidentally reading The City and History, which is his famous book. And he was such a wonderful storyteller and really conveyor of what was going on in the earlier part of the 20th century with respect to thinking about what cities could be and how they could be. And so he looked at it both historically and as a visionary, and he was very dedicated to sustainable development. About having development that was holistic, where people could walk to, walk in their communities to the grocery store where they could live together. Eve: [00:05:16] And that was before this was the thing, right? Libby: [00:05:18] This was before it was a thing. This was, yeah, it was. I mean, there's, we can talk about the criticism and there are pieces about the movement that he was part of that was very white focused. So I want to just say that up front. And I understand and and that but this sort of it was kind of the city beautiful, but it was really more country beautiful movement. He lived for it pretty much his whole life after he moved out of New York City, in Amenia, New York, which is an absolutely beautiful part of New York. And if you've never driven up the Hudson Valley, it is absolutely exquisite. And Amenia is off the Hudson Valley inland. And it's a beautiful farming community near the border of Connecticut and on, coincidentally, a rail line that goes into New York City. Eve: [00:06:11] I've been on that train. It's fabulous. Libby: [00:06:13] You've been on that train. So you know what I'm what I'm talking about. So, and my uncle's an architect, so my mother never wanted me to be an architect or an urban planner, which is what I am now. She wanted me to be a doctor and specifically she wanted me to be an ophthalmologist. So I was like, no, but I love visual arts and I love visual science. And I actually studied that. So alongside of studying urban planning, I studied neurophysiology and urban, just a lot of urban studies. And and I prepared to be a doctor. And I finally convinced my mom that if I got a master's in urban planning alongside of my undergraduate degree, I'd be so much more competitive to be a doctor. So, so that's the funny story. But on a more serious note, I was able to study with Dr. Land at Polaroid on visual art and visual science. And I have a very deep appreciation for the arts and colors in particular. And I like the idea of creating a colorful world where we all can participate and be part of this. You know, it's the utopic view, but my life is really dedicated to making the world a better place. That's what I try to do. Eve: [00:07:41] That's wonderful. Libby: [00:07:41] And I think Lewis Mumford and people like him are just very inspirational to us in this field. Eve: [00:07:50] You were lucky. Libby: [00:07:50] And I wouldn't really be here without him. And then actually the other clincher to all of this was that - it's a story that kind of leads into my career - is that I moved to Boston, I went to school in Cambridge at MIT, and I moved to Boston with my college roommate, who's now still a very good friend of mine and a real estate developer and investor. And we moved into the South End neighborhood of Boston, which is a really incredible neighborhood now. And then when we moved in there, it was a neighborhood very much in transition and it was a neighborhood very affected by urban renewal. And these were the times when wholesale displacement of people occurred, where they were moved out of their homes. Where a vibrant neighborhood that had been very colorful and dynamic, was changed through urban renewal, and the community had been promised development as part of their protests against urban renewal. They had formed a tent city in protest to say we did not want to be moved. And a group of folks reenacted this tent city event, this demonstration, and I was coincidentally in college at the time and was at a studio that was dedicated to working on studying this site called Tent City, which was the site where this protest had occurred. And so I took the studio and I was forever transformed. I got very involved with the community. I was living there. We really wanted to make this housing happen. We wanted it as mixed income housing. We wanted it to be a resource for the people who have been displaced in the community. And we wanted it to be a place where people of all income levels could live together in a great, absolutely great site in Boston, right next to that Back Bay Station, which ultimately got built. I mean, that's part of my whole history, but ultimately got built with that vision and that dedication of that group of people totally transformed my life. Eve: [00:10:14] And that also got a ULI award, right? Libby: [00:10:17] It did. It did. It got a ULI award. And it is great to visit. It's right next to Copley Place. There's a whole story about Copley Place. We could talk about later if you wanted, but it's next door to Copley Place. It's next door to Back Bay Station, which is where the Amtrak station is and the light rail. And it's also next door to the moved underground railway that used to be an elevated railway, a streetcar through Boston, through the South End in a southern part of the South End which was then put into an underground tunnel. And on top of it is the most amazing set of community gardens. Eve: [00:10:57] Yes, I've been in them. They're stunning. Libby: [00:10:58] You've been in them. And the walkway... Eve: [00:11:01] That was the Big Dig, right? Libby: [00:11:02] Yeah, well, it's not the Big Dig, but the Big Dig is amazing. The Big Dig is over by the waterfront of Boston. This is actually in the Back Bay, South End, part of Boston. It's the orange line. And you wouldn't know because you're going underneath it if you're riding it. But it is on top of it. There are these amazing community gardens. Eve: [00:11:25] The gardens are gorgeous. Libby: [00:11:27] Yeah. Eve: [00:11:27] Including, you know, community vegetable gardens. Libby: [00:11:31] Exactly and each neighborhood block actually participated in the design of each garden and walkway at the end of their block. Another mentor and person that got me into this was Ken Kirkmeyer, who lived in the South End, who was the President of Tent City Task Force. And he was actually the project manager that spearheaded this project and worked with the neighbors to create this marvelous place to walk the South End corridor. Eve: [00:12:04] So Boston and all that really formed your professional path. And where did that lead you? Where are you now? Libby: [00:12:12] So I now live in San Francisco, across the country. Eve: [00:12:18] Very different. Libby: [00:12:20] Yes. But I think sister cities. We're on the water. We have a long history of progressive politics. Though, it's quite different out here than it is in Boston and a very, very strong set of values when it comes to preserving history, to recognize the importance of neighborhoods and community and thoughtfulness about design. A lot of architects and designers. In fact, when I when I was making the decision to leave Boston and come out here, I can't tell you how many people told me not to come because there's way too many planners out here, urban planners and architects and real estate economists. And it was going to be very hard to move, unfortunately, chose the time to move, which was one of the recessionary times we had across the industry. But it all worked out and I love it here. It's a beautiful city and the Bay Area is an absolutely lovely place to be. And there are so many challenges and I thrive on challenges. So there are so many urban challenges in the Bay Area to work on. Eve: [00:13:34] What sort of challenges? What do you work on? Libby: [00:13:36] Well, first, you know, like in Boston, but even worse, the cost of housing is just phenomenal out here and out of reach of so many people. And it exacerbates the haves and the have nots. So that's a big challenge that I work on a lot, both as a volunteer and in my profession. It's also that we have we have to be very conscious of sea level rise, much of the Bay area is on water, as it makes sense, we're on the bay. We're on the ocean, San Francisco straddles the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. And so, we're virtually surrounded by water on three sides. And we have the possibility of our downtown in San Francisco being underwater in the not-too-distant future. The history of San Francisco, like Boston, there's a lot of the city is on fill. We have natural hills that we took down, many of them to build fill, and we filled in a lot of the areas that when you come to visit San Francisco and you're walking around that land used to be either marshland or ocean, very deep ocean or bay. So actually bay, not ocean, but through the ocean, water intrudes. So that's a big challenge. We also have earthquakes. Just to keep things interesting. So that shakes us up every once in a while. And we're at risk of an earthquake, particularly in the East Bay, happening again. So we have to be very conscious of resilience in so many ways. So that makes our our life challenging. And we have we have it's an absolute blessing and a curse. As many people say, we have the most amazing set of folks in technology. I mean, many of whom are M.I.T. alums and Stanford alums who have formed this tech corridor and biotech corridor that we have all through the through the Bay Area Peninsula and Silicon Valley, which is absolutely amazing and makes our economy incredibly strong and robust. And California's incredibly strong and robust. But alongside of that, it ends up pushing up the price of land and the price of development so it can make it very hard for small businesses to be successful. Sometimes small retail businesses, the rents can get very expensive. That can make it more difficult for them. So, we have a lot of challenges. Eve: [00:16:18] So how does that like, how does that color the work that you do? You now have your own company, right? And you do consulting work? And is it mostly around affordable housing or what challenges do you confront in that work? Libby: [00:16:33] Great question. So, I do a lot more than affordable housing work, but my passion and heart is around affordable housing. I just want to say on one of my volunteer efforts, because I want people to know about this, I'm the co-chair of the Utilized San Francisco Housing the Bay Steering Committee, and we are dedicated to promoting and producing more housing in the Bay Area through our work. And we have an upcoming summit that's happening June 2nd, 3rd and 4th. This will be our fourth summit that we've had where we bring together a very diverse group of speakers from around the world and the United States to talk about the Bay Area's housing situation, but also more generally, the housing situation across the United States and what are great strategies and tools and best practices that we can use to improve our housing situation. Which includes building all types of housing for all types of people. It's very invigorating to be part of the housing the Bay effort. And this summit always inspires me every year to do more. And in my practice, I work with a lot of cities and developers that are dedicated to building affordable housing and mixed income housing, which is even tougher to do. Tent City was able to hit the timing right with the funding and the commitment by the city to make that mixed income housing development happen. And it had a unique location, but it's been it's very difficult to get the funding together and the financing that is necessary to do mixed income housing at scale. We do have a strong inclusionary housing set of regulations, but here in many cities in the Bay Area, so we do a lot of work and inclusionary housing, which means that a portion of housing is restricted for occupancy or dedicated to occupancy by persons of usually very low, low and moderate income, which is HUD speak is federal housing agency speak for people that earn typically less than the rest of us or about the same. Eve: [00:19:05] Critical for the function of the city, right? Libby: [00:19:08] Right. Eve: [00:19:09] Often service workers and ... Libby: [00:19:11] Essential workers, yep. Eve: [00:19:12] And people who keep places going. Libby: [00:19:15] Yep, exactly. Eve: [00:19:17] If they live too far out, then those places are not going to work anymore. Libby: [00:19:20] Exactly. Exactly. And trying to figure out how to do this with the private market. So I work a lot on the private market side. I'm the number cruncher behind the scenes and the strategist trying to work on these projects. And so, we're constantly trying to thread the needle to figure out how can we keep the private market still building housing while including housing for more people of a greater and more diverse set of backgrounds and incomes? Eve: [00:19:54] Yeah, it's a really big challenge. Libby: [00:19:58] It's really big. Eve: [00:20:00] Well, I want to shift gears a little bit, because I also know about another one of your passions, which is also very close to my heart. And that is how to increase the visibility of women in the real estate industry, in particular real estate developers. And so I've kind of watched you over the years put together a little group that's become the Women's Development Collaborative, and it isn't so little anymore. And I wanted to talk about that. Where did this come from? Why did you start it? Libby: [00:20:35] That's a great question. I guess I mentioned the Urban Land Institute or ULI earlier, and I've been a member of ULI now for, realizing it's been three decades or more. It's an organization that's dedicated to advancing development across the world, globally, and since I've been involved for so many years. When I first got involved, I was often the youngest person in the room and many of these national conferences, and I was often the only woman or one of the few women. And it was very important to me to find, I guess, soul sisters or wise women in this industry. It had been a struggle in my career at different I know, right, to be the only woman. And it was definitely... Eve: [00:21:31] I was the only woman developer in Pittsburgh for quite a while. So, I ... Libby: [00:21:35] Yeah. You were? Well, and Eve, I don't know if you remember this, but how we met was we were at a conference for the Women Presidents Organization in San Francisco. Eve: [00:21:47] Yes. Libby: [00:21:47] Many, many years ago, and you and I both were involved in that. And that's an organization that's dedicated to women entrepreneurs and building capacity. It's a peer-based group. It actually also inspired the Women's Development Collaborative. So it's worth talking about for a minute in case anybody on the line, a woman entrepreneur, it's a great group. Eve: [00:22:09] It's a great group. Libby: [00:22:09] But what was incredibly funny was there's this entire ballroom, one of San Francisco's largest ballrooms, with tables all across it on a Saturday morning with signs on it of like, you know, are you in consumer affairs? Are you in you know? I don't know. Do you do retail product, apparel, whatever? But all across the room, everything. There was one table in real estate, and it was at the table. You and I, we were the only ones at the table. Eve: [00:22:40] And it's really not a whole lot different today, Libby. What really scares me. Libby: [00:22:49] It's true. It's true. So, I mean, it's better, we're working very hard at ULI. So the origin story of the Women's Development Collaborative goes back to these times. And ULI, which still often continue but have gotten better because a number of women that were part of this informal network of wise women, soul sisters that came together to meet on a regular basis at the spring and fall meetings of ULI, which are national meetings when we get together across the country. And we would meet, whether it was for dinner or breakfast or whatever, and we would share ideas about development and best practices and what we were doing. And one of my mentors, she said to me, well, you need to we need to do something more than this. Like these women's receptions in these gatherings are fine, but we need to actually make a difference. We need to improve leadership. And so a number of us got together and helped form what's now called the Women's Leadership Initiative, or WLI within ULI, which is dedicated to advancing women's leadership in the entire real estate industry. And that's been phenomenal and that's gone on since 2012. And again, anyone in the real estate industry should follow that because WLI is wonderful. But at the same time, there we had this niche group that was really focused on development and we recognize that development itself, which is part of the entire landscape of real estate, that you needed support and nurturing and showcasing. And so we started to alongside of the WLI activities, I continue to organize with a lot of other women, events around this spring and fall meetings where we would showcase women developers. We'd go tour their projects, we hear from them, we learn from them. And it's just been so inspiring to see these projects. Eve: [00:25:02] It really has been. Libby: [00:25:03] And then we had to go virtual because there was no Toronto meeting. And so now we're online. So, you can find us at the Women's Development Collaborative online. And we are really trying to build our presence across the United States and Canada. We have a number of women involved from Canada to really promote and advance women's success, leadership, innovation and collaboration and building transformative developments. Eve: [00:25:35] I need to tell you, like I I was also a member of ULI for many years, and then I stopped my membership because I really didn't feel like I belonged there, for a couple of reasons. One was the whole woman thing. But also, I was working on quirky, small interstitial urban projects. And when I was a member of ULI just there was there was nothing there was no one talking about that. So I stopped attending. And actually, when you started inviting me to the Women's Development Collaborative meetings was when I decided to join again because I finally felt like there was sort of a space emerging for developers like myself. That and the small-scale development group, which has been also pretty wonderful to see emerge. But I think... Libby: [00:26:28] Yes, yes. Eve: [00:26:29] Times are very different, but it is incredibly inspiring what you're doing and you have a lot of stick-to-it-ness. And it's also very frustrating to see how slowly things have changed. I mean, what do you think about that, for women? It's very slow. Libby: [00:26:43] Yeah, it is really slow, but it is it is getting better bit by bit. You know, it is, I was looking at some data and it is it is improving, but it is very, very hard. And it's I think that, you know, I, I think that a couple of things that we have to think about and think about deeply, which is that in addition particularly to the history of African-Americans in the United States and their inability to first secure and hold property or even keep property right after the civil war. Property was actually stolen away from them, it was often stolen away back from Native Americans as well. So, we have had a history in our country of not respecting and honoring property for persons of color. But at the same time, when we think about the history and it's not just of the United States it's of the world, women were not allowed to own property. And it also varied state by state. And I believe it still does. And a lot of states that there are different rules that make it very hard for women to hold property or to transact. So it's not just discrimination in the sense of how you show up. Like if you're a woman, you're obviously different as you enter a room, but it's also the rules by which we play. So getting through the those rules... Eve: [00:28:21] Not just the rules, but the culture that those rules perpetuate, Libby: [00:28:25] Yeah, and the culture. Eve: [00:28:25] Because even if there are no rules there, you know, I have to say I, I own a small portfolio of buildings and I have two female bankers to thank for it. Without them, I would not own that portfolio of buildings, which is really an extraordinary thing to say, right? Libby: [00:28:44] It is. It is. And, you know, that's part of what WDC is trying to work on. I mean, we have we have a lot of ambitions and it's and it's hard to even figure out what to prioritize because there's so many challenges. But alongside of really promoting women developers, we want to expand women in the workforce and the development supply chain for developments because of exactly what you said, that we need more women bankers. We need more women equity investors. I mean, that's something we want to talk about, right? That that women just aren't investing as much as men. Eve: [00:29:24] Oh yeah, women investors. Why do women not invest? I don't understand. Libby: [00:29:32] Well, and I think it's I think there's a history of this. Like I think there's an education process. I mean, that's partly what WDC is a big part of our mission is to educate. But I'm now recognizing it's not just educating and building up women developers like educating ourselves about each other or, you know, the service providers, introducing them to women developers. It's also about educating the broader community. I was listening to your podcast with Stephanie Gripne and I absolutely loved the conversation that you had about the fact that in essence, you know, part of this is a perception issue that if we think about it, everyone is an investor, as Stephanie said. She said when we make a choice to buy, she used buy milk. That was her analogy. When we buy milk, we make a conscious choice whether we're realizing that it's conscious or not, that we're using milk. We're choosing a type of milk that's sold by a certain company. And we may be choosing it based on price, but we may be choosing it based on the fact that we recognize the farms or the farms where it came from. Or in these days, we might be making a choice not to buy cow milk. We might be buying almond milk or soy milk, and we may be looking at how that was grown. So we have to, I think women are the biggest consumers in our country. So struck by this, after I listened to that podcast, that we are the ones that we lead the buying. If you look at all the consumer surveys, women are the buyers in our society. We are the retail shoppers. We love to shop. We do comparison shopping, et cetera, et cetera. We need to learn as women how to do the same thing with real estate investment. We need to get educated about it, it's it's a much different world than buying milk, but at the same time it is it is how the milk is, where the milk sits right in our society, these buildings. Eve: [00:31:49] What's interesting to me, if I think about researching where milk comes from, so I can make an informed decision, that makes my brain hurt compared to understanding a real estate project and what I might invest in. So I think it's partly what you're trained in, what you learn, how you're educated. It's not I don't think it's harder to do. It's just different. Libby: [00:32:12] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're absolutely right. It's it's not harder to do. It's just different. But we're not educated in it. I mean, I don't know how you feel about this, but I never learned really what I do today. Like when I was in school, they didn't teach me what I what I practice right now. I learned real estate by reading books, honestly. Eve: [00:32:39] Oh. How did I learn Securities Law? Yes, yeah. Libby: [00:32:46] Yeah, exactly. Like reading books so and getting educated in it. And now I mean I'm grateful. I'm able to teach, I'm teaching now at UC Berkeley. I'm a lecturer part time, but I just absolutely love being able to teach. And what I recognize is I teach public private partnerships, which is a lot of my work is how to get the public in the private sector to work together, whether it's on a deal that the public sector is sponsoring or whether it's just a deal a private developer wants to do. And they need the support of the public sector, which is pretty much every project ever. Eve: [00:33:24] Yes, that's right. Libby: [00:33:26] Especially in the Bay Area. If you don't have public support, you're not going to get your project. And what I recognize is there are so there are so few classes that actually teach people how to do this and how to do it well or how to do real estate development and how to do it well. Luckily, ULI has offers a lot. And as you said, the you know, the small scale development council, that they focus on that and have some great trainings through ULI. But it is not something that is taught to the average person. It's not like we go to school and we learn about how buildings are built. Eve: [00:34:03] Right. Libby: [00:34:03] And so I think we have to start to educate the general population and in our case with the women's development, collaborative women in particular, and including women in our field, because what I'm even finding out is through the WDC, I've been asking women like, do you invest in real estate? And the answer is often is pretty much no, we don't we don't know. We don't know how to do it. We don't understand it. So that's a mission for someone in our and where... Eve: [00:34:39] I can sense a class coming along that you and I can conduct. Libby: [00:34:43] Exactly. I'm so excited about this. I really want to do this, Eve this spring or summer. I want to do a class in how to invest in real estate and why. It's like how to invest in real estate and why should we care and why should we do it. And I think it's critical. Eve: [00:35:01] Yeah, it's also something else about real estate, you know, that I think over the last few decades, everyone's been trained to think about quick returns. And real estate isn't that. You just have to think about the long haul. Libby: [00:35:19] Right. Eve: [00:35:20] And I'm always stunned when I hear from people saying I invested there and they're going to give me my money back in six months. Can I do that in real estate? And I'm like, no, what can you do in six months in real estate? It's, it's a different thought process. Libby: [00:35:38] It's absolutely a different thought process. And I also think that the real estate is much more long term in the investment horizon that many capital providers, meaning institutional and private investment capital, which is what fuels a lot of real estate development in the United States and across the world. It is usually focused on five-to-seven-year time horizons. And in terms of equity investment, a lot of the money that is coming in. So, their preference is that they can make their money back, they can get their money back and a return within a five-to-seven-year horizon. And that puts you on the one hand, it puts a certain discipline in the market, but it also means that it goes at counter purposes for, you know, the idea of patient capital, because buildings are they're going to I mean, if we build them well, they should last for a very long time, if not forever, like they do in Europe. And some buildings have a lifetime. Kind of you think at a minimum of 50 years, if we're doing a good job, that should be the minimum life and hopefully it's much longer than that. So the time horizons have to be much longer. But as you said, you know, in many consumer markets, it's a much shorter time horizon, six months or a year. It is just not it's not realistic in real estate. Eve: [00:37:15] Tell me, how much has WDC grown since you started it? How many members how many of your meetings and what do you do now that it's covid-19. Libby: [00:37:28] Right. Right. So so first of all, we are very much still a start-up organization. We're reaching out to anyone that's interested in joining, please Google Women's Development Collaborative and reach out. Our organization has about I guess we have 400 to 500 women on our email list and our LinkedIn group now I think it's around 300 people. So it's still very much a growing group. Our meetings are intentionally intimate and small, usually 30 to 40, maybe 50 people, 50 women. We are intentionally keeping this focused on women. We are trying to think about how do we bring in men as allies, because that's critical, particularly as we start to think about some of our next goals of what we want to do as an organization. But the goal of WDC is to really build our capacity and to create a safe space for us to as women, to be able to provide advice and guidance to other women and to be open about our deals and what we're what we're experiencing and to provide advice. So that's the scale we're at. And I think to myself, how big do we really want to be? Do we want to be another ULI? What is the scale that we really want to be at, and I and I think it's a, it's a question that we have to ponder as the group of us, because I think we cherish having the ability to know one another and to get to know one another. So, we want to keep that part of WDC alive because it's so important to all of us. Eve: [00:39:22] So this year, programming is changed because of the, at least last year, because of the pandemic. Libby: [00:39:27] Yes. Eve: [00:39:28] And I thought as I watched it, it was sort of an amazing opportunity. To move this group along a bit fast and not be reliant on ULI meetings twice a year and the people who can afford to show up there. Libby: [00:39:42] Yes, yes, that's true. It is. That is one thing about being online that we can provide better access to, just across the country and people can access it. We will definitely keep an online program, even if we could hopefully go back to meeting in person, maybe even as early as this fall in Chicago at ULI. But what we what we have right now are a series of programs that we've been evolving. You do such an amazing job at Small Change in branding. I've learned so much from you about this. Eve: [00:40:23] Thank you. Libby: [00:40:24] And really, it's incredible. And one of the programs that we have very much inspired by you and this podcast, though I didn't even know when I when I was first thinking about it, I didn't even realize you were on this podcast quest. And then when I started talking with you, you actually agreed to be the first person to participate. And it's called In Conversation with Developer. So, it was in conversation with the developer, Eve Picker. And we've done a series of these. And each conversation is just so fascinating like this. Your podcast about how did the women make the decisions they did to be developers, who has provided them support along their way, etc. So those have been really, really inspiring. We also have these project forums that are dedicated to helping women developer and emerging developer present the challenges that she's facing regarding her development project and receive advice from a panel of seasoned professionals to help her overcome these challenges. And thankfully, Eve, you also participated on one of those project forums as well, were you able to be part of a panel to provide advice? We call it kind of instead of a shark tank. It's a guppy tank. It's a place it's a safe space where people can feel comfortable and really get honest advice about how to move forward. So, we've had several of those. We've we're doing three this year. We've had three already last year in the year before. So, we're building our program there. So, if anyone out there is an emerging developer, that's an option for you to consider. And then I'm just going to do one other program. We have a number of others. But the other one I want to talk about is the investment forum, because this is where tying to our discussion earlier, we are really trying to build our collective muscle to invest in and advance successful development partnerships. And that investment forum is featuring conversations with women developers and investors about how deals are done. And it's actually a learning experience for developers and potential investors. So that's what we're dedicated on. And that's the program where I really want us to collaborate on thinking about how. How can we get more women in the investment world? Eve: [00:43:03] Yes, that's critical. So what are some potential strategies you're thinking about for promoting investment or encouraging women to invest? Libby: [00:43:16] So we've been working on an investment framework that's a gender lens framework for how we could evaluate investments in women led developments. And that's been a process. We've been very informed by the Small Change metrics and thinking about how crowdfunding could be a potential tool to encourage investment in women led developments. But we also realized that we needed to define what we meant by women led development, and we needed to think about the whole ecosystem, like I talked about earlier, about all the women that could contribute to it. So we're focusing right now on WDC taking on four dimensions of activities to empower women developers to expand economic opportunity, which means expanding women in the workforce and the development supply chain, as we talked about earlier, expanding access to capital. So building on the same theme. So, both getting women, individual women investors to invest in real estate, but also just to promote investment more broadly from men and women and institutional corporations in development. And then we want to make sure that these developments benefit women and communities, and so we've come up with a set of principles and you and I speak. There's a lot of 10 principles books. So, we have 10 principles of transformative development that benefit women and communities. And we're using these four criteria, these four activities, as a way to measure women developers and their development to provide recommendations. So the screening process to provide recommendations to women and to men about developments that they may invest in. So, four lenses are women in leadership in development, women in the supply chain and workforce, women capital providers and benefiting women and communities. And out of these criteria, we developed 10 questions. We spent a long time actually refining these 10 questions that really it was more like 15. We refined it went through a number of rounds. And what's really been great is we had this whole community of women developers who've beta tested this scoring process a lot. And you were one of them. So, thank you so much, Eve. Eve: [00:45:53] It's great. Libby: [00:45:54] Women from around the country and we learned a lot through this beta testing. And we think we have an investment framework that can work alongside of the Small Change index and other crowdfunding platform. Eve: [00:46:09] And other ESG indices, right? Like... Libby: [00:46:13] Yes. Eve: [00:46:13] It's a very particular woman-centric real estate lens. It's great. Libby: [00:46:20] Yeah. And so what we're hoping to do, our next step is that we are really trying to work on the strategies that are going to enable us as a small organization, you know, where can we make impact first and how can we make impact first? But our hope is to actually encourage some individual investment and crowdfunding investment in specific real estate developments that will be placed through this investment framework lens. That's our first goal. Eve: [00:46:52] It's pretty big. Libby: [00:46:54] It's a big goal. It's a really big goal. Eve: [00:46:56] It's a very big goal. So, I have to wrap up and I just have one final question for you, and that is, what are you most excited about right now? Libby: [00:47:08] It's so many things that I'm working on, but I think what I'm most excited about with WDC and my work generally is just the number of wonderful young and emerging women developers and and women who want to be developers. There is this community of women that are both really younger and older. It's women who've been in their careers in real estate for a number of years. For example, a woman architect who's decided that she wants to be a developer after having been leading her practice for a number of years and is actually her first project, is going to be building a building for herself and her community of professionals that she works with. So the building will be bigger than just her architectural practice. It will include others in it as well. And then younger women developers who are starting out, who are really interested in changing the world and in leading development companies. And it's very exciting to talk to them and hear what they're doing and how they're going about it and trying to support them. We have another colleague that you and I know who is developing is working on a mixed use project in her community that is going to be transformative for that community, be a place where people can gather. And whereas she says one plus one can equal much more than that. And that's Molly McCabe, who you've also interviewed here in your podcast. Eve: [00:48:50] Yes. Libby: [00:48:51] So I just thought that constantly inspires me to have to just have that sense that there is this community and this future of women in development that we can encourage and build upon, which is fabulous. Eve: [00:49:06] Well, thank you so much for your time, Libby. I have really enjoyed our conversation and I'm going to be seeing a lot more of you. Libby: [00:49:14] Yes, I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much, Eve. Eve: [00:49:32] That was Libby Seifel, Libby's career has been one built from her heart. First, she worked on affordable housing concepts that were ground-breaking at the time, having witnessed firsthand how crushing gentrification and displacement can be. And now she is focused on the small number of women in the room. She has puzzled over the years, as have many of us, why there are so few women who take the leap into real estate investment and development. She intends for the Women's Development Collaborative to be a safe place for women who are testing the waters to land. A place where they will be supported by their peers as they emerge as women developers. Please share this podcast so that more women learn about Libby and the Women's Development Collaborative. You can find out more about this episode on the show notes page at EvePicker.com or you can find other episodes you might have missed or you can show your support at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where you can learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers. A special thanks to David Allardice for his excellent editing of this podcast and original music. And thanks to you for spending your time with me today. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.
Building designs shape the built environment we all experience, but many of these buildings are not designed by BIPOC. In this episode, Camille Mitchell, a Black architect from Gensler and the Co-Founder of Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT) and Black Architects and Interior Designers Association (BAIDA) talks to Saira Muzaffar, Director of Marketing at BTY and a member of WLI about her career path, ways to diversify the architecture and design profession, and advice for industry leaders. Send us your feedback at toronto@uli.org if you have any suggestions for topics you'd like Conversations with WLI to consider for future episodes.
Melissa Forman and Producer Jim talk about the top songs to give birth too
In today's episode, WLI Co-Directors of Partnerships Nancy Lin and Monique Nickolov have a conversation with Judith Martinez, CEO and Founder of InHerShoes; Camille de la Rosa, Content Creator & Jr. Social Strategist; and Bidisa Mukherjee, Bay Area Chapter Lead Catalyst. InHerShoes is a non-profit that has been committed to catalyzing courage for girls around the world since 2014. As part of WLI's upcoming partnership with InHerShoes, today's podcast hosts and guests discuss what women's empowerment means to them, what InHerShoes' work in this space looks like, and what they would each do if they were "1% more courageous." Stay in touch with WLI by liking us on Facebook (Women's Leadership Initiative at Yale), following us on Instagram (@yalewli), and checking out our website at yalewli.org. Our theme song is from “Entwined Oddity” from Blue Dot Sessions. Other music used throughout the podcast is from Ketsa's “A Road Less Travelled” and “Summer.”
Registration is underway for the 2021 Watauga Leadership Institute courses, a series of community leadership development classes administered by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce.Dr. Jim Street, Curriculum Coordinator for WLI, and Founder of Ridgeline Leadership, joins us to discuss this year's course offerings, and to provide details on the new SOLO class (Single Owner Leadership Odyssey). Mind Your Business is produced weekly thanks to a partnership between High Country Radio and Appalachian Commercial Real Estate.Support the show (https://www.boonechamber.com/membership-information)
«Perfect Blue» (1997) es la obra maestra del gran Satoshi Kon, la primera de 4 grandes películas que llevaron la animación a sus límites de edición y potencialidad onírico. Pues aquí estamos nosotros hablando de ella. Y aquí unos enlaces: Perfect Blue (1997) - IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156887/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Ohayo (オハヨウ) Satoshi Kon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYUFBnAmK28Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTEThe Use of Red in Perfect Blue - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9iZfedoiYPerfect Blue Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nK1cITu4oo&list=WLI'm The Real Thing: Perfect Blue at 20 — Talk Film Society https://talkfilmsociety.com/articles/perfect-blue-20-yearsPerfect Blue (Anime) - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/PerfectBlue Puedes usar Twitter para comentar, quejarte o lo que sea…: @devuelta, @pjorge y @GuionAusente. Y si te gusta más el email (¿de verdad?): callateya@guionausente.com y yotengoalgoquedecir@guionausente.com. Elige la dirección que mejor encaje con tu personalidad. Puedes usar Twitter para comentar, quejarte o lo que sea…: @devuelta, @pjorge y @GuionAusente. Y si te gusta más el email (¿de verdad?): callateya@guionausente.com y yotengoalgoquedecir@guionausente.com. Elige la dirección que mejor encaje con tu personalidad.
Please welcome an American Business Association award-winning executive, turnaround expert, growth strategist, educator, and author, Bridgette Chambers! Bridgette talks, culture, strategy, and the impact mindset makes and breaks our teams and businesses. We thank Bridgette for joining us and hope you enjoy the episode!#WLI #maysbusiness #womeninleadership Bridgette Chambers is an American Business Association award-winning executive, turnaround expert, growth strategist, educator, and successful business author. Chambers has been recognized more than a dozen times by the American Business Association, including Turnaround Executive of the Year, Maverick of the Year, and Female Executive of the Year. Chambers is a proud Aggie and Executive Professor with the Management Department of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. She received her MBA from Texas A&M. Chambers serves as an advisor and strategist to leading growth firms, where she works with board members, investors, and employees on strategic initiatives. Chambers released the Amazon bestseller, Profitable Problem-Solving in 2015, and co-authored “From the Court to the Boardroom” in 2017 with four-time gold Olympian and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member, Lisa Leslie.
In this episode of Womxn of Yale, one of WLI's Conference Directors, McKenna Christmas '23, interviews Remembering 50 contributor Cherie Hart '79 on her time studying at Yale, reporting for the National Enquirer, her thirty years of experience working for the United Nations Development Programme, and her current project Chat in the Flat which benefits COVID-19 aid. This episode covers material not only found in Celebrating 50 but also in Cherie Hart's autobiography From Hollywood to Holy Wars. Cherie Hart is a writer and documentary producer. She spent 30 years as a press officer for the United Nations Development Programme in New York, Bangkok and Istanbul. Prior to joining the UN, she wrote for the National Enquirer, was a television reporter, and a magazine writer. -- Our “Remembering 50” book features the voices and stories of alumni of all gender identities, backgrounds, and career paths. Our book will be available to order after our book launch event on September 10. For more information, please visit yalewli.org/remembering-50. Stay in touch with us by liking us on Facebook (Women's Leadership Initiative at Yale), following us on Instagram (@yalewli), and checking out our website at yalewli.org. The Womxn of Yale's theme song is "Entwined Oddity" from Blue Dot Sessions. Other audio used throughout the podcast include excerpts from Ketsa's "A Road Less Travelled" and "Summer."
WLI recently published a book, titled Remembering 50, in honor of 50 years of coeducation at Yale College. In this episode: the book's inception, development, and creation—from an idea, mentioned in passing, to an anthology of personal stories from alumni and current students from Yale College and various professional schools. Join Communications Director Julia Zheng in conversation with Jen Huang and Ananya Kachru, the two co-Presidents of WLI! "Remembering 50" is available to order at yalewli.org/remembering-50. Stay in touch with us by liking us on Facebook (Women's Leadership Initiative at Yale) and following us on Instagram (@yalewli). The Womxn of Yale's theme song is "Entwined Oddity" from Blue Dot Sessions. Other audio used throughout the podcast include excerpts from Ketsa's "A Road Less Travelled" and "Summer."
Today we bring you a conversation with three amazing women working together on an exciting and important program at the University of Montana - The Women's Leadership Initiative. WLI's purpose is to accelerate women's careers of impact. It was initiated by former UM president Royce Engstrom in 2015 and was relaunched by President Seth Bodnar, with the generous support of Clearwater Credit Union and private contributions from folks like Denise Grills. In this conversation, we speak with Denise about why she invested in WLI. Denise is joined by UM Psychology Professor and Department Chair Chris Fiore, a key faculty advisor to the program, as well as Glenda Bradshaw, board member of Clearwater and owner of Clyde Coffee.
In today's episode, we speak with the five founders of WLI, who started the organization in 2006 because they felt that Yale required an official organization that would empower and celebrate womxn and offer opportunities for leadership and development. We are joined by Alexandra Suich (Senior Correspondent for Politics, Technology, and Society at the Economist), Allison Pickens (Fortune's Most Powerful Women, investor, board director and former COO of Gainsight), Marissa Brittenham (Head of Strategic Partnerships at Cityblock Health), Rebecca Taber (Founder and Co-CEO of Merit America, former Director of Government and Non-Government Partnerships at Coursera), and Tamara Micner (Writer, Performer, Journalist currently developing the solo show Holocaust Brunch w/ support from several prominent UK theater organizations). These incredible women talk to us about what it was like starting an organization focused on women's empowerment in a male-dominated environment, how their experience at Yale and leading the WLI affected their life post-Yale, and share advice for young women interested in similar career paths. Stay in touch with us by liking us on Facebook (Women's Leadership Initiative at Yale) and following us on Instagram (@yalewli).
Albany Law School has a storied history of supporting women in the law. Kate Stoneman, Class of 1898, was the first woman admitted to practice law in New York State—and the first woman to graduate from Albany Law School— paving the way for thousands to follow. The Women's Leadership Initiative at Albany Law School is dedicated to normalizing female success and continuing that legacy through the development and advancement of Albany Law School students, alumnae, and members of the broader community. This special edition of the podcast is a conversation with the initiative's founding donor, Albany Law School trustee K.C. Petillo-Décossard '05 (hosted by Assistant Dean of the Career and Professional Development Center Mary Walsh Fitzpatrick). The Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) is an innovative effort by Albany Law School's Career and Professional Development Center and Office of Alumni Engagement, which will work together to: - arrange leadership training opportunities for students and alumnae; - organize networking events and integration with the law school's Alumni Initiative in Mentoring program; - develop a fellowship program. The WLI will draw on the partnership, counsel of senior partners, and alumni leaders throughout the country, particularly in the Capital Region and New York City. More about Kimberly C. Petillo-Décossard '05: https://bit.ly/37eLP2p
Part three of a three-part series, Diversity and Inclusion Beyond Gender, SheWithHe hosts Ren Matterson and Leo Tomszay from PCL Construction. Both leaders in the construction industry WLI convenes a discussion on the importance of leadership buy-in and strategies to use to respond to diversity and inclusion challenges.
Conversations with WLI convenes the She with He committee in part two of a three part series discussing diversity and inclusion beyond gender. Meghan Wong sits down with Divya Shah and Eric Tilley, leaders in public infrastructure and commercial real estate to explore diversity from their experiences and talk about what it takes for a company to "walk the talk."
Conversations with WLI is a new podcast from the WLI Toronto SheWithHe committee, convening a series of conversations discussing diversity and inclusion, beyond gender. The first of a three-part series dives into the experiences of real estate and development lawyers Sharmini Mahadevan and Marc Kemerer, interviewed by Kim Mullin.
The relaunched WLI podcast, Conversations with WLI, kicks off the 2020 series with an introductory episode highlighting the evolution of WLI. Sitting down with committee members, Robyn and Gail, chatting about where WLI started, where it has come, and where it plans to go.
Bernadette A. DiPino is a fourth-generation Law Enforcement Officer who began her career as a Police Officer with the Baltimore County Police in September of 1985. In April of 1988 she joined the Police Department for the Town of Ocean City, Maryland where she rose through the ranks from Narcotics Detective to Chief of Police; a position she held for nearly ten years. She served ten years on the SWAT Team in Ocean City, with 4 years as the Commander. She was also a Defensive Tactics, Firearms, and Community Oriented Police Instructor. On December 31, 2012 Chief DiPino was selected to serve as Chief of Police for the Sarasota, Florida Police Department. Chief DiPino has served on the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Executive Committee and Board of Directors and represented the State of Florida and State of Maryland for the IACP State Associations of Chiefs of Police (SACOP) and served as Secretary and Treasurer of the SACOP Executive Committee. Chief DiPino is an active member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives (NAWLEE), the Florida Police Chiefs Association (FPCA) and has presented law enforcement best practices to IACP, SACOP, WLI, FPCA and numerous other professional and civic organizations and government panels. During her distinguished career, she received numerous Departmental awards and citations; and has been recognized as Police Officer of the Year in 1987, 1993 and 1997. Chief DiPino earned a BA Degree in Liberal Arts from Salisbury University. She graduated from the F.B.I.’s National Academy, Session 204, in 2001. Chief DiPino lives in the city of Sarasota with her poodle, Sea-Sea. She enjoys playing tennis and loves the beach. Chief DiPino has a daughter, Tabitha, who is a Baltimore County Police Officer and the fifth-generation law enforcement officer to carry on the family tradition
Hey coworkers! In this slightly abbreviated episode, we discuss DragonCon adventures, nerds with nice bodies, nostril-knuckling at the office, getting peeved at pooch people, and a dress code for dogs. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! This week we discuss being moist in the Midwest, mugs in the men's room, coworkers BEARing gifts, working out at work, and "bonding" with your loved ones and coworkers. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! This episode is shockingly devoid of "Derrick Energy" as he takes the week off, so we have the wonderful Britta in to fill the sizable gap for the second time! In this episode, we discuss excessive amounts of wings and things, office doggos, requesting ransom for rover, receiving a "Get out of Termination Free!" card, your manager seeing you on Match.com, and coworker clones. We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! In our sultriest episode yet, we discuss killer commutes, cars that can double as outerwear, alter-ego employment fiascos, going mobile on the commode, time travelers in the toilet, having a phone sex side-gig (Tech Support with the Dirty Bois), and telepathic time travelers. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! This week, we take another stroll down memory lane and revisit some of our favorite moments from episodes 33-38. We'll be back in 2 weeks with another regular episode! Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we take an embarrassing trip down memory lane, then discuss events fun enough to put pants on for, Frank's scorched-earth last donut policy, breaking up with parasitic recruiters, carpeting the town with your potato-gun resumes, and third-party wallet crimes. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we conclude Frank's harrowing tale across the country and discuss him almost being donner... ahem, dinner for his family, Monitaur Seer of All, emails as performance art, snorting pork rinds to get out of a conversation, hog hives, and emojis becoming the modern hieroglyphics. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss Frank's Great Migration to the Pacific Northwest, cultivating maladies to get you out of work obligations, how to keep terminators from chasing you down, turning a social gaffe into a WLI advertisement, and using open-source projects to scope out a heist. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we completely ignore the funny sex number and discuss Frank's first voluntary professional exit (and his gentle ghostly caresses during planning meetings), the off-road office Olympics, bosses overworking you before your start date, how a lazy coworker can up your disguise game, Disney princes for roommates, and the woodland creature exchange rate. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss arborial assault on Frank's house, a cubicle brighter than the sun herself, vegan vampires, the antics of the Laptoppler, making an impactful exit, and martial arts-related moonlighting. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! We don't have a regular episode this week, but we do have an announcement and a bit of the Monstrous Memoir, i.e., stories from the life of Frank! Due to some busy life situations, we are going to be moving to an every-other-Friday schedule for the foreseeable future. We'll have a regular episode next week, but to tide you over, here is a special presentation of Frank! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss Frank's closed restaurant conspiracy (AKA Frank Nearly Eats Downtown), coworkers getting too much praise, how to not give up the goo to a coworker, giving stitches to office snitches, and getting your friends to give a shit about your "no shoes" policy. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we discuss pigs in the crew cab, twenties near the toilet, licking Babe Ruth's (base)balls, ruining the fun of flossing, and the C.H.I.P. (Curtain of Human Interaction Protection). Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Due to vacations, we have a slightly condensed episode this week. We discuss a nearly-catastrophic camping experience, time travelling to find out someone's name, and how to maximize your "fat gains" at the office. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss a corned beef cornucopia, the Dad Joke Olympics in the office, St. Patrick's day pinching, a problem of too many tools in the office, and our pitch for a service called "Uncomfortable Tech Support". We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! We're on Spring Break this week, so here's a clip show of our favorite moments from episodes 27-32! We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with a regular episode next week! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we discuss sacrificing your kids to make them bad ass samurai, pulling your weight at work, home-cooking your lunch, alphabet absurdity, and how to get in a hoodoo battle with your boss. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss a cake buffet fit for a king, how the "magic smoke" can help you get new hardware at work, being insecure about your... password length, hiring your own replacement, and using the Work/Life Imbalance patented Gleeja Board to show your food satisfaction. Enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss how the boy scouts help build better arsonists, bringing the apocalypse to bare with bathroom bacteria, keeping guests from coming between you and pajama time, and how testicular trauma can be a boon in the workplace! We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
WLI has a one on one with the Director of Human Rights at Ryerson University. Gearing up for the March ULI events, It's 2015...Four Years Later, taking a look to our industry leaders to understand how women and men are working together to implement tangible initiatives to bring gender parity and diversity to their work places.
This week we discuss anti-social auditorium behavior, how to deal with a doppleganger that steals your free food, easter egg errors, pod people vs. cultists, and agile practices for dogs. We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Frank is finally back to fighting form, and we're ready to fight workplace problems! We talk soda soirees, how to hide your boss's serum, cube-based cursing social experiments, "bring your kids to focus group" day, and terrible troll tootsies. We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Kate Lambert (IBI), Paige Ritchie (Intracorp), and Carla Guererra (Purpose Driven Development, Planning and Strategy) are members of the Urban Land Institute, an independent, nonprofit research and education organization with almost 40,000 members worldwide, over 400 of whom are based in British Columbia. They’re also founding members of the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), with a stated objective of supporting and promoting the advancement of women in all disciplines of the real estate industry.Kate, Paige and Carla visited with Gord and the Price Talks team recently, in advance of this week’s special, sold-out lunch event with the City of Vancouver’s outgoing General Manager of Development, Buildings, and Licensing, Kaye Krishna.In their conversation, they just barely scraped the surface of all the issues related to inclusivity, the inequity in roles for women, and how righting the imbalance matters in city building and real estate development. It’s not just about creating an equal playing field, but about building better developments, communities, and cities for everyone. Read more »
Hey coworkers! It's Frank's turn this week to get laryngitis, so we've temporarily re-cast him. His role is being played this week by friend-of-the-podcast Britta! We discuss blind tattooing, getting enough pay to stay, pet entrepreneurship, salting the earth after leaving a job, and excessive exclamation. We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hey coworkers! Derrick's adventures in the land of infirmity continue, so to give his voice a rest, here's a clip show of our favorite moments from episodes 21-25! We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with a regular episode next week! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss Plumb-ageddon 2.0, changing careers mid-stream, letting chaotic stupidity ruin your office environment, choosing what operating system to walk around in, and walking while unaware of others. Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We officially celebrate the first year anniversary of the podcast, and also kick off the 2nd annual Festival of the Inedible Baby! We couldn't afford a party for each, so we combined them into a single barn burner! We answer as many questions from the audience (both from emails and Twitter) as we can, some of which drift wildly into the weird! We hope you enjoy it! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we debut our new format with 100% less Deep Dive and 100% more Audience Questions and Issues from the Internet! We discuss Frank becoming a YouTube star with his sausage fest, entertaining yourself in an empty office, office nutrition neuroses, dealing with derogatory dicks in the office, and keeping others from crowding your cubicle! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We end the year with a retrospective of 2018, our first year as a podcast! Sit back as we discuss some things that went well, some that didn't go well, and what we would do differently. This is a slightly different speed than most of our episodes, but we hope you enjoy this peek behind the curtain as we discuss the show! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
It's our first winter holiday special! Grab a glass of egg nog, don your favorite ugly sweater, and pull a chair up to the fire as we regale you with our tales of festive delights. We discuss horse heads for the holidays, gift giving between office mates, and office party attendance. We hope you enjoy! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss kid-friendly ghost concerts, coworker misunderstandings, how to overthrow your white-collar overlords, and fellow employee espionage. Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Hello coworkers! We're back with another "best of" clip show of some of our favorite moments from episodes 15-20! We'll be back next week with a new full episode, so we'll see you then! We love you all! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss having to tinkle during a traffic jam, moonlighting, more conference call communication problems, asking your coworkers to call you by your gamertag, and Derrick's childhood nicknames! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we get into the holiday spirit to discuss Thanksgiving and the not-so-savory day after, Black Friday. We go on to discuss single points of failure, using peanut butter taffy to roll your way out of a job, password security dos and don'ts, and Frank plays a game of "Let's Guess Derrick's Password". Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss chuckles at church, churchwave, working after hours, dodging elevator dinguses, and how to ruin games and make people hate you! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We're back to full health and we are rearing to go! In this episode we discuss slime molds and the DAMP methodology, taking a sick day, working for billion-dollar bastards, and dealing with coworkers whose memes are dark and dank. Hamster dance, anyone? Hello? Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Everyone is hale and healthy this week on Work/Life Imbalance. We discuss our flawless physiques, terrible training troubles, and the best way to make a great first impression at your new job! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we have our first Halloween episode! This episode is full of spooky and scary work-related tales, so prepare yourselves! We discuss dangerous driving, wardrobe aggressiveness, the office Halloween costume party, deceased clients, and Cujo in the conference room! Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We're back with another #AllTheHorror special! This time, our friends tell stories of their scariest experiences. Besotted Geek - @BesottedGeekPod 2 Girls on a Bench - @2GirlsOnABench Invasion of the Remake - @InvasionRemake Music for WLI story: ThrillShowX - YouTube Mattia Cupelli - YouTube Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we discuss grocery store preferences, office kitchen etiquette (and how not to be a goddamn barbarian), why you should never meet your heroes (or anyone, really), and how to pretend you aren't an alien or a time traveler. Want to support us? Go to patreon.com/wlicast and join the team of patrons, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we discuss anime awakenings, performance evaluations, project plans with their pretend numbers, and “starter jobs”. Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We've got a super special episode today with special guests from the Invasion of the Remake podcast! As a part of the #AllTheHorror event, Jason, Trish, and Sam join us to talk about office horror movies! Go follow and subscribe to Invasion of the Remake Podcast! Check out their Twitter! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter to catch every special episode from the #WLIPodPeeps and friends, over 20 podcasts and 31 special episodes! Stay tuned! Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, our topics of discussion are: 01:05 - Daily Stand Up: First Inaugural Bigfoot Festival 13:44 - Deep Dive: Death by Social Media 28:45 - Question from the Audience: Playing the Name Game 45:05 - Issue from the Internet: Perfecting the Art of the Read Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
We've got a super special episode today with special guests from the One Giant Leap for Geeks podcast! As a part of the #AllTheHorror event, the guys join us to talk about Derrick's favorite movie of all time, John Carpenter's the thing! Go follow and subscribe to One Giant Leap for Geeks Podcast! Check out their Twitter! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter to catch every special episode from the #WLIPodPeeps and friends, over 20 podcasts and 31 special episodes! Stay tuned! Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, while Frank is off globetrotting, we have another clip show of some of our favorite moments from episodes 9-15! We hope you enjoy it. We'll be back next week with another full episode! Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week, we discuss destroying your diet, problems with parking, cantankerous coworkers, and how to look sharp and make your coworkers hate you! Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss the last Blockbuster on Earth, getting thrown under the bus, queer confusion, undesired babysitting arrangements, and an open invitation to Peter Dinklage! Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week we discuss minor league team wordplay, A Bug's Life 4D Barf-o-rama, MLM mayhem in the office, how to keep secrets, and a scheme to "Bueller" your way to the top! This week's Indie Podcast Corner: The Random Box of the Month Podcast! (@Rbotmpod) Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
The long-awaited (dreaded?) bathroom spectacular has arrived! This week we are joined by Sean Faust of What Does It Matter? Podcast to tackle a backlog of bathroom-related audience questions as well as address finding the primo potty on the premises. Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
Topics of discussion this week are borked books, how to handle interlopers in the office, milking the boss's sausage situation, and how to outlast an asshole. This week's Indie Podcast Corner: The Childhood Remastered Podcast! (@remasteredcast) Want to support us? Go to bit.ly/wlicoffee and buy us a coffee or two, or go to bit.ly/wlimerch and pick up some sweet WLI logo merch! Want to submit a question to be answered on-air? Send them to questions@wlicast.com or go to bit.ly/wliquestion, and we will make comedy gold from it! Other links to our podcast: iTunes Spotify Google Play Stitcher
This week on IAQ Radio we discuss a topic that gets blood pressure up among some in the restoration world. Third Party Administrators TPAs are a fact of life today in many industries and RIA has been helping their members make the adjustments necessary. This week we welcome two widely respected restoration professionals to IAQ Radio. Mark Springer and Phill Rosebrook are both RIA members and were speakers at the recent RIA Strictly TPAs Fall Conference. We look forward to having them join us along with frequent contributor Pete Consigl. Mark Springer If you know Mark Springer, you probably know when the platitude, How are you doing? comes up in conversation, his likely answer is, Living the dream! Thats because its true. Mark has been married to his high school sweetheart, Angie for 20 years and they have been blessed with five beautiful daughters who, fortunately for Mark, take after their mother. Living in Montana accentuates the dream as he is able to pursue doing things he loves like downhill skiing, bow hunting, competitive shooting, and the mountains in general. Its not all hobbies though, Mark also gets to work all over the great state of Montana helping people who have experienced disasters, primarily from fires and floods. He is the President of Dayspring Restoration, a company that specializes in disaster restoration. Dayspring has 6 locations and about 100 team members. Mark has become a mini, (emphasis on �¢??mini�¢??) celebrity in Montana due to several television advertising campaigns where he flooded and burned his house and then demonstrated to the community the restoration process, (these videos can be viewed at www.calldayspring.com). Giving back to his community and his industry has always been a priority for Mark as he serves on numerous non-profit and trade association committees and boards Phillip Rosebrook Jr., Cr. Phillip is a graduate of the University of Oregons Lundquist School of Business. He worked his way through college in the family restoration business. He filled most all roles in the company including working on the cleaning crew, carpet cleaning, water damage emergency services, and other various restoration and construction related services. He ran the retail and wholesale carpet cleaning division managing several employees and coordinating the installation crews. After college Phillip managed the water damage division and scheduled all company production crews. He managed the branch office in Coos Bay, Oregon and served the Southern Oregon Coast region. The office was in a very rural area of the state with a small population yet the office grew from $300,000 in annual sales to over $1,000,000 under his management. In managing this office he filled every role from Estimator to Marketing Manager. After training the new Manager Phillip returned to the main office with oversight of all branch offices. He served as the Education Committee representative for the Western Chapter of Disaster Kleenup International. In 1997 when the company sold, Phillip moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to assist in opening a new office for Rocky Mountain Catastrophe. He was in charge of training the new manager, developing the marketing campaign, implementing systems and procedures and training the water damage and cleaning staff. The office quickly grew to over $300,000 in monthly sales. Phillip joined his father as a Partner in Business Mentors in March of 1998. He specializes in implementing change in restoration companies. He works with the individual managers, key employees and sometimes even the field staff to implement new systems and procedures. He developed the Operations Manual and Personnel Manual that is utilized in all of Business Mentors consulting. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, contributing author to the WLI course book and has authored many articles in Cleaning and Restoration magazine. Phillip is the founding partner of ELC Training a training resource for restoration companies. He is also a faculty member of the Restoration Leadership Institute. Phillip is the father of four children and has been married to Deanna since 2000. He enjoys gardening, hiking, and cycling. Phil lives in Portland, Oregon.
This week on IAQ Radio we discuss a topic that gets blood pressure up among some in the restoration world. Third Party Administrators TPAs are a fact of life today in many industries and RIA has been helping their members make the adjustments necessary. This week we welcome two widely respected restoration professionals to IAQ Radio. Mark Springer and Phill Rosebrook are both RIA members and were speakers at the recent RIA Strictly TPAs Fall Conference. We look forward to having them join us along with frequent contributor Pete Consigl. Mark Springer If you know Mark Springer, you probably know when the platitude, How are you doing? comes up in conversation, his likely answer is, Living the dream! Thats because its true. Mark has been married to his high school sweetheart, Angie for 20 years and they have been blessed with five beautiful daughters who, fortunately for Mark, take after their mother. Living in Montana accentuates the dream as he is able to pursue doing things he loves like downhill skiing, bow hunting, competitive shooting, and the mountains in general. Its not all hobbies though, Mark also gets to work all over the great state of Montana helping people who have experienced disasters, primarily from fires and floods. He is the President of Dayspring Restoration, a company that specializes in disaster restoration. Dayspring has 6 locations and about 100 team members. Mark has become a mini, (emphasis on �¢??mini�¢??) celebrity in Montana due to several television advertising campaigns where he flooded and burned his house and then demonstrated to the community the restoration process, (these videos can be viewed at www.calldayspring.com). Giving back to his community and his industry has always been a priority for Mark as he serves on numerous non-profit and trade association committees and boards Phillip Rosebrook Jr., Cr. Phillip is a graduate of the University of Oregons Lundquist School of Business. He worked his way through college in the family restoration business. He filled most all roles in the company including working on the cleaning crew, carpet cleaning, water damage emergency services, and other various restoration and construction related services. He ran the retail and wholesale carpet cleaning division managing several employees and coordinating the installation crews. After college Phillip managed the water damage division and scheduled all company production crews. He managed the branch office in Coos Bay, Oregon and served the Southern Oregon Coast region. The office was in a very rural area of the state with a small population yet the office grew from $300,000 in annual sales to over $1,000,000 under his management. In managing this office he filled every role from Estimator to Marketing Manager. After training the new Manager Phillip returned to the main office with oversight of all branch offices. He served as the Education Committee representative for the Western Chapter of Disaster Kleenup International. In 1997 when the company sold, Phillip moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to assist in opening a new office for Rocky Mountain Catastrophe. He was in charge of training the new manager, developing the marketing campaign, implementing systems and procedures and training the water damage and cleaning staff. The office quickly grew to over $300,000 in monthly sales. Phillip joined his father as a Partner in Business Mentors in March of 1998. He specializes in implementing change in restoration companies. He works with the individual managers, key employees and sometimes even the field staff to implement new systems and procedures. He developed the Operations Manual and Personnel Manual that is utilized in all of Business Mentors consulting. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, contributing author to the WLI course book and has authored many articles in Cleaning and Restoration magazine. Phillip is the founding partner of ELC Training a training resource for restoration companies. He is also a faculty member of the Restoration Leadership Institute. Phillip is the father of four children and has been married to Deanna since 2000. He enjoys gardening, hiking, and cycling. Phil lives in Portland, Oregon.