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In this powerful video, “Our Coach Who Art in Heaven: How To Pray,” we dismantle Progressive Christian ideology and return to the biblical truth about prayer. If you've been confused by modern teachings that water down the gospel, twist Scripture, or redefine God, this is your wake-up call. This video calls all Christians—whether you're a Calvinist, non-Calvinist, or Progressive Christian—to examine how we've been taught to pray and who we're really praying to.
In this powerful video, “Our Coach Who Art in Heaven: How To Pray,” we dismantle Progressive Christian ideology and return to the biblical truth about prayer. If you've been confused by modern teachings that water down the gospel, twist Scripture, or redefine God, this is your wake-up call. This video calls all Christians—whether you're a Calvinist, non-Calvinist, or Progressive Christian—to examine how we've been taught to pray and who we're really praying to.
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(2 Timothy 3:16) Every Word from God is "God breathed"—it is connected to His very nature and life. Today we learn more about how God gave His Word to man and see the amazing proofs of divine inspiration in the Bible. (0975250326) ----more---- The Inspiration of Scripture Is God perfect? If God is perfect, would everything that comes from God comes out of God? Be perfect. If that's the case, then would you say God's breath? Is perfect. Someone says, that's a strange line of questioning. Not at all, because the Bible says that the word of God literally was breathed out from God. In other words, it came directly from God's very nature. It came from God's heart to us. Here's the verse 2 Timothy 3:16 says, "16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" Now, we can't believe that the word of God is profitable if we don't believe the word of God is inspired. We use the word inspired fairly loosely today. Writers say, I had a moment of inspiration. Speakers say I felt inspired to say something, but the word inspiration in two Timothy 3:16 is not some some passing surface emotion. No, the word inspiration there literally means God-breathed. It was breathed out from the very nature of God. It came directly from God. To man. Is God's Word Perfect? So I ask again, is God perfect? Oh, yes. God is perfect. If God is perfect, would everything that comes from God be perfect? Yes. Everything that comes directly from God would be perfect, untainted by sin and corruption. If everything that comes out of God is perfect, then would not the very God-breathed words of Scripture be perfect? One of the great struggles that people have is whether the word of God can be trusted to be perfect in every way. My question is this: Does it come from a perfect God? We're going to talk more about how God preserved his word through the ages and God's promise to do that. But let me just say right up front that to question the authority and the accurateness of scripture is to question the very nature of God. In fact, the Bible says that God has set his word above his name. Do you understand? God's name is on the line? Is God powerful enough to preserve his word? Is God wise enough to give his word perfectly the first time? All of this goes to our theology, to what we believe about God. So I read again that all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. Aren't you glad it's been given that God spoke through the Bible writers? So that when they wrote it was without error, without omission, and without exaggeration, we might say it this way. It was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Human Penman and the Bible And that doesn't mean that God made men robots. He never does that. He allows men to work with him. What a privilege to be laborers together with God. And such was the case for these Bible writers. The truth was conveyed in such a way that it employed those men. For example, the human penman personal experience comes out. There's no doubt. They're giving firsthand accounts many times. You can see Peter's personality shine through. You can hear Paul's educational background come through their historical accounts and read the gospel according to Luke. And it's very obvious that a medical doctor, a physician, someone with knowledge of the human body and of those types of things is writing a very detailed account. So, the information is given directly from God through men, and he employs and uses those men, their backgrounds, their style of writing. It's wonderful. And before scripture was written down, information, truth, historical accounts, and information handed down through parents were passed along verbally. Words that were passed on from generation to generation. But aren't you glad God wrote it down for us? He wrote it down on the pages of holy scripture. So we're not resting on dreams and visions and experiences. Now, somebody said, I wish we had the truth in black and white. You do have the truth in black and white. God gave us the truth in his holy word. It is literally the voice of God to us. Lemme give you some examples. Acts 28:25 is a beautiful expression the Bible says, "25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers," Then who does he say is speaking? The Holy Spirit was speaking. He was speaking through Isaiah, but Isaiah was simply the mouthpiece, if you will. But the word was the very word of God. How about this one? Peter chapter one, verse number 11 says, searching what or what manner of time the spirit of Christ, which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow who was speaking through these prophets, the spirit of Christ. Which was in them. A Peter would use a similar expression in his second letter. In 2 Peter 1:21, read this "21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." It was God speaking through the man. The truth was always, no matter what the means was, the truth was always given by the inspiration of God. That inspiration extends to the very words, not just the general ideas. God didn't just give us the big idea. He inspired the very words that were given. We believe that he inspired every word, not just some of them. The only thing in your Bible that's not inspired are the chapter and verse divisions. Chapter divisions were inserted by a man named Stephen Langston. Who died in about 1228, and the verse divisions were added in 1551. Now let me just pause and say I appreciate chapter in verse divisions because they ate in our study, but those divisions were not given by inspiration. What was given by the inspiration of God was the very words in the Word of God. Proofs of Scriptural Inspiration There's so many proofs to the inspiration of scripture. There are internal proofs. For example, think of the unity of the Bible. A book written over 1,600 years, by 40 different human penman in different languages on three continents covering 1,600 miles and yet perfect unity, no contradiction. You read its internal claims repeatedly, phrases like, "Thus saith the Lord," "God said," and "The word of the Lord came." Those kind of statements appear more than 2,000 times in the Bible. The word claims to be holy. It claims to be the Oracles of God. Think of how truthful and transparent the scripture is. There's not another book on earth where the author would speak so plainly about the great failings of men that a man, a human pen, when would write down his own sins. They're given by inspiration of God. It's more than the words of men, and there are only internal proofs. There are external proofs. It's powerful. No other book has literally transformed people's lives. I. Somebody said that where the Bible was best known, civilization rose to its highest levels. It's the first book in printing, the first book ever printed. It's the first in literature. No book has ever been translated intoes. It's the first in history, theology, prophecy, biography, and so many language laws. Why is that? Because it is the very word of the living God. The Eternal Truth of the Bible Did you know that the average life of a bestseller is about five years? That's all. And that 75% of all books go to the scrap heap within 90 days. Yet the Bible is still the bestselling book of all time. Why is that? Because truth is timeless. It is the eternal truth of the living God. It was Carlisle who said, no lie can live forever. Friend, the word of God is forever settled in heaven. It is indeed the word of the living God. God still alive and so is his word. And I want to challenge you today to spend some time meditating on God's word and realize that it is not simply the word of David, Paul, or Moses. This is the word of the living God. Ask the God of the word, the author who lives inside of you to use his book to speak to you today. Outro and Resources Repeating what other people have said about the Bible is not enough. We must know the biblical reason behind what we believe. We hope you will visit us at etj.bible to access our Library of Bible teaching resources, including book-by-book studies of Scripture. You'll also find studies to watch, listen to, or read. We are so grateful for those who pray for us, who share the biblical content and for those who invest to help us advance this ministry worldwide. Again, thank you for listening, and we hope you'll join us next time on Enjoying the Journey.
Devotional Time - Philippians 2:5-8In a Word - PerfectSound Words - Attitude is EverythingFabric of Family - Facing UnemploymentJust a Minute - An Attitude of GratitudeHave a Bible Question - What does it mean to be poor in spirit?
In this episode, we sit down with Chad, the mastermind behind Cornerstone, Utah's premier event production company. Discover the untold stories of how Chad and his team have shaped the Silicon Slopes Summit and countless other top tech events. From his early days at WordPerfect to navigating the challenges of COVID-19, Chad shares his journey, insights, and the incredible people who have influenced his path.00:00 - Introduction and Background00:15 - Cornerstone's Role in Silicon Slope Summit00:37 - Chad's Career Beginnings01:25 - WordPerfect's Growth and Acquisition02:08 - WordPerfect's Work Culture02:53 - Transition to Event Production04:13 - Building the Podcast Studio05:19 - Impact of Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton07:07 - Advanced Education Opportunities09:14 - Alan Ashton's Influence09:56 - Timpanogos Storytelling Festival12:07 - Support from Corrine Clark13:02 - Corrine Clark's Battle with Cancer15:05 - Leaving WordPerfect16:49 - Starting Cornerstone19:00 - First Major Client: Bush Creative21:01 - Reluctance to Relocate22:07 - Working for U.S. Satellite24:33 - Success with U.S. Satellite27:14 - Pitching to Corrine Clark28:55 - First Major Success: Iomega32:30 - Impact of COVID-19 on Events34:17 - Building Studios for Virtual Events36:07 - Industry Challenges During COVID-1938:05 - Developing a Streaming Platform41:05 - Post-COVID Event Landscape42:14 - Hybrid Events and Their Future44:26 - Importance of In-Person Events45:17 - Diversification in Event Production46:09 - Support from Smith EntertainmentIf you enjoyed this video and want to support us please leave a LIKE, write a comment on this video and Share it with your friends. Subscribe to our channel on YouTube and click the icon for notifications when we add a new video. Let us know in the comments if you have any questions. Our website: https://www.siliconslopes.comShow Links: https://www.cornerstoneav.comSocial:Twitter - https://twitter.com/siliconslopesInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/siliconslopes/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/silicon-slopes/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aEtQ1KJrWhJ3C2JnzXysw
On this episode of Lochhead on Marketing, Christopher Lochhead, a three-time CMO and a leading figure in category design, gives his Pirates Perspective into the critical concept that "the category makes the brand, not the other way around." This principle underscores the importance of understanding and defining a category in marketing, as it can profoundly influence consumer perception and the overall success of a brand. Through engaging stories and practical examples, Christopher illustrates how effective category design can lead to market dominance. Additionally, Christopher highlights Microsoft's strategic shift in the tech industry, emphasizing the importance of a unified category approach. Welcome to Lochhead on Marketing. The number one charting marketing podcast for marketers, category designers, and entrepreneurs with a different mind. Understanding Category Design Category design is a strategic approach that involves creating and defining a new market category, thereby positioning a brand as the leader within that category. This concept is pivotal because it shifts the focus from competing within an existing market to creating a new space where the brand can dominate. Christopher emphasizes that successful brands are those that not only understand their category but also actively shape it. The Category Shapes the Brand Christopher's central thesis is that the category makes the brand, not the other way around. This means that the success of a brand is largely determined by how well it defines and owns its category. By focusing on the problems they solve and the experiences they create, companies can differentiate themselves and achieve lasting success in their respective markets. Case Studies: Barcade and Qualtrics Christopher then shares compelling examples to illustrate the importance of category design. One notable example is Barcade, an innovative arcade bar that successfully carved out its niche by blending the nostalgia of classic arcade games with a vibrant bar atmosphere. By defining its category clearly, Barcade attracted a dedicated customer base and differentiated itself from traditional bars and arcades. Another significant case study is Qualtrics, a company that transformed its market position through a focus on experience management. Christopher contrasts Qualtrics with its competitors, such as Medallia and SurveyMonkey, to highlight the impact of effective category design. While Qualtrics successfully defined and owned its category, the other companies struggled to differentiate themselves, leading to varying degrees of success in the marketplace. Microsoft's Journey Christopher recounts the story of Microsoft and its journey to dominate the office productivity software market. Initially, Microsoft faced fierce competition from established players like WordPerfect in word processing, Lotus in spreadsheets, and dBase in databases. Despite launching competitive products, Microsoft struggled to gain significant market share. The turning point came when Mike Maples Sr., a key figure at Microsoft, discovered an anomaly in sales data during a trip to Australia. He learned that bundling applications together and offering them at a discounted price led to a significant uptick in sales. This insight prompted Maples to rethink the problem: instead of viewing these applications as separate categories, he recognized that they collectively addressed a larger issue—productivity for office workers. To hear more about Christopher Lochhead's Pirate Perspective on Brand and Category Design, download and listen to this episode. You can also check out more Pirates Perspective at Category Pirates. Don't forget to grab a copy (or gift!) of one of our best-selling books: Snow Leopard: How Legendary Writers Create A Category Of One The Category Design Toolkit: Beyond Marketing: 15 Frameworks For Creating & Dominating Your Niche A Marketer's Guide To Category Design: How To Escape The “Better” Trap,
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Packed show for you this week! We share EU concerns about Meta using your data to train AI without your consent, why the impact of AI on climate change shocks us and we consider Revolut's venture into mortgages. We also have some leaks about next week's Samsung Unpacked event, touch on Tesla's recent success and mark the passing of WordPerfect's co-founder Bruce Bastian. Plus, with guest John Breen, CTO with Neg8 Carbon, we share a new way to deal with the climate crisis.https://neg8carbon.com/—----- Listen On Apple, Spotify Or YouTubeApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-radio-ireland/id256279328Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5vAWM1vvHbQKYE79dgCGY2YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TechRadioIrelandRSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/techradio
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
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Emerging technologies simplify many aspects of life, but they also make it increasingly challenging to safeguard privacy in both personal and professional settings. As a lawyer, it is essential for you to stay informed about how to protect privacy by utilizing the appropriate tools and equipment. Paul Secunda joined us today to talk about protecting your privacy, building open communication between employer and employee, tech tips to focus on your work, and more. Paul Secunda is a partner at Walcheske Luzi LLC. He leads the ERISA litigation unit, which focuses on retirement, medical, and disability class action litigation. He also serves as a consultant, testifying expert, and mediator in the fields of employee benefits and workplace law. Paul is a former labor and employment law professor with 18 years of experience at two law schools, focusing on employment law and employee benefits. Throughout his career, Paul has been engaged in litigating, teaching, and writing about workplace law, handling tasks from reviewing employee handbooks to managing complex class action lawsuits and submitting amicus briefs to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Paul's expertise spans employee rights and the practical application of technology in both professional and personal contexts. Join Paul and me as we talk about the following three questions and more! What are the top three tech tips you would advise any lawyer to maintain a separation from work and personal time? What are the top three tech rights an employee has when it comes to utilizing a personal tech device for a BYOD firm? What are your top three tech tips to ensure focus at work, to help prevent necessary work during personal time? In our conversation, we cover: [01.28] Tech Setup - Paul's current tech setup. [09.00] The Balance – Balancing technology as a small law firm. [10.00] Tech tips – Paul shares some tech tips for separating personal and professional life. [11.40] Clients - How to work with overbearing clients? [13.26] Superiors – Paul explains how you can handle your superiors. [16.38] Open Communication – The importance of open communication between employer and employee. [20.06] Tech Rights – Paul explains how employee privacy rights differ significantly between public and private workplaces. [25.44] Tracking Software – Paul explains why he would advise against letting your employer put tracking software in your computer. [29.52] Focusing on work – Paul shares three tech tips you can use to focus on your work and prevent working on your personal time. Resources: Connect with Paul LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/paul-secunda-a17228/ Website - walcheskeluzi.com/ Equipment Mentioned in the Podcast Fujitsu Scanners - thescannershop.com/fujitsu-scanners/ HP Printers - hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/printers/laserjet-pro iPhone 15 Pro - apple.com/iphone-15-pro/ MacBook Air - apple.com/macbook-air/ Software & Services Mentioned in the Podcast Adobe Acrobat Reader - get.adobe.com/reader/ Clio - clio.com/ Sanebox - sanebox.com/ TurboScan - play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.piksoft.turboscan WordPerfect - wordperfect.com/en/ Transcript 00:00:00] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Episode 90, Balancing Your Use of Technology Between Your Work and Home with Labor and Employment Lawyer, Paul Secunda. [00:00:19] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Paul is a former Labor and Employment Law professor with 18 years of experience at two different law schools specializing in ERISA and Employee Benefits Law. He is now an attorney with Woltersky Luzzi, LLC. Paul's legal career has been devoted to litigating, teaching, and writing about workplace law issues, handling all aspects of the employment relationship, from reviewing employee handbooks and summary plan descriptions, to litigating complex class action cases, and submitting amicus briefs to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. [00:00:46] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Paul caught my attention with his law journal article, The Employee Right to Disconnect, after I come across California's recent Employee Right to Disconnect bill. This bill would require employers to create a written policy guaranteeing California employees the right to disconnect from work communications during non working hours. [00:01:01] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Join Paul and me as we discuss how employees, including lawyers, have rights and practical uses of technology in both their workplace and their private lives. Enjoy! [00:01:09] #Add Read #1: Consider giving us a five star review on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast feeds. [00:01:09] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Have you been enjoying the techsavvylore. page podcast? Consider giving us a five star review on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast feeds. [00:01:21] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Paul, welcome to the podcast. [00:01:23] Paul Secunda: Thank you for having me. [00:01:24] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: I appreciate you being here and to get things started, [00:01:26] Our Guest's Current Tech Setup! [00:01:26] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: please tell us what your current tech setup is. [00:01:28] Paul Secunda: Well, currently I'm working on a MacBook Air, about 11 inch screen and being assisted by the new iPhone 15 pro. [00:01:37] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Nice. And is your MacBook Air, is it an M1 chip or an M2, M3, or are we looking at an Intel processor? [00:01:43] Paul Secunda: This is from 2023, and I believe it's an M2 chip. [00:01:48] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Very nice. How do you like the speed? [00:01:50] Paul Secunda: The speed is much better than my previous iteration from 2019, which was a much slower processor, so I very much appreciate it. [00:01:59] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So, I'm guessing that was an Intel chip? That is correct. So you should really notice like a boost. [00:02:04] Paul Secunda: And when you're working and jamming away at five different things at the same time, it really does make a difference as far as getting stuff done on a timely basis. [00:02:12] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: How has the battery been on that? [00:02:14] Paul Secunda: The battery's been okay. I would say I could go about three or four hours. But I'm on a high light and I am meaning I'm, I have a high brightness, I should say, and that seems to drain the battery, but I need that just to see things better, but I'm mostly plugged in most of the day. [00:02:31] Paul Secunda: So I don't really go without the plug, whether I'm at a deposition or whether even if I'm in the courtroom, I usually find a plug to plug in. So I haven't really had to test it that much. Do [00:02:43] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: you carry a backup battery with you? [00:02:44] Paul Secunda: I do not. [00:02:45] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: But I want to check out the anchor. Product line, they come up some really good backup batteries that are usually fairly light will fit in your suitcase or your briefcase. [00:02:52] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: I should say, [00:02:53] Paul Secunda: okay, well, I'm ready right now, [00:02:55] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: just sort of as an emergency. And if you go like on Amazon or something similar, I'm sure you'll find a deal at some point anchors had like 20 percent off. Here and there, and there's some good options. There's also of course other brands, but I would go with a reliable brand to make sure that the battery is made well, gonna last a while, and also doesn't cause some sort of like back feed, some sort of back charge by accident. [00:03:17] Paul Secunda: No, that's, that's really much appreciated because needless to say, that can be a lifesaver. [00:03:21] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And any other tech that you use? [00:03:23] Paul Secunda: Well, I, I did mention the phone, but really I'm a fairly lean and mean operator, I guess. [00:03:29] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So I have to ask, do you have a printer and do you use it a lot? [00:03:32] Paul Secunda: I tried to avoid printing out copies. [00:03:35] Paul Secunda: Can I use an app called TurboScan? In other words, I did take whatever I get in the mail or from others and put it in PDF form almost immediately. I digitize. And thereafter, whether I'm dealing with, let's say, a deposition, a court reporter, or various chambers, I try to stick mostly with PDF files. This is also true with dealing with opposing counsel. [00:04:01] Paul Secunda: We tend not to send things to each other by snail mail anymore. I send documents in discovery through servers and or digital files. [00:04:11] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Do you have a PDF reader of preference? [00:04:13] Paul Secunda: Adobe Acrobat. [00:04:14] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Okay. [00:04:15] Paul Secunda: Yeah, I use Word, Microsoft Word for my word process. [00:04:18] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And you don't use Pages? Apple Pages? [00:04:21] Paul Secunda: Well, only when it, sometimes I get documents in Pages form. [00:04:26] Paul Secunda: Really? And so what I'll do, unusual, unusual, but what I'll do is I'll redo the format into Microsoft Word. It's what I'm comfortable operating in. [00:04:34] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So I have to ask, the app that you use, when you get a lot of, Documents. I mean, isn't that a little time consuming to have to take a picture page by page by page? [00:04:43] Paul Secunda: Yeah. If I were to get a lot of documents, like a bundle, we'd feed it to the printer we do have in our office. Okay. And I would put it onto a thumb drive and then put it on my server that way. But if you're dealing with anything, let's say less than 25 pages, which is a lot of my documents, It's very handy. [00:05:01] Paul Secunda: It's very easy to use and the, the pages that are generated are very accurate and look good. [00:05:06] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Yeah. I use the Fujitsu scan snap, which is considered like a staple of any cell loan, small practitioners. It's an ADF on a document feeder that. Takes 50 pages at a time and could really move through a lot of documents. [00:05:20] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: When I started practice way back when I was dealing with a lot of large VA files, Department of Veterans Affairs files for my clients. And that could be like a thousand, two or three thousand pages. And that would just taking, of course, also back then the iPhones and other smartphones, PDF capture was not as good as it is today. [00:05:38] Paul Secunda: That is true. And so I guess I should say in talking about PACs, since you've brought up the printer, I am using a Let's see if I can find it here. An HP laser jet pro. You eight zero. Wow. Yeah. So [00:05:53] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: how many pages can you fit into the scanner of that printer? [00:05:56] Paul Secunda: I think the feeder is up to 50 pages. [00:05:58] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Cool. And you know about inkjet superstore, right? [00:06:01] Paul Secunda: I do, because we all know that inkjet could drive you into bank. [00:06:04] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Although I haven't had to order for them in like a couple of years, because since COVID, everything's really gone, really, really gone digital. [00:06:12] Paul Secunda: Yeah. And that's what I was trying to say, which is I really don't do unless it's sent to me. I am not one to send other people things by hard copy. [00:06:22] Paul Secunda: I really do try to avoid it, not just because it's inconvenient, but all that sustainability stuff as well. [00:06:27] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Gotcha. Gotcha. I'm with you on that. So you have an HP printer and what you have an all Apple. [00:06:34] Paul Secunda: No, this is very interesting. I'm the only person in my office who uses Apple, all the other partners that I have, of which there are four other partners on a HP slash Lenovo type of platform. [00:06:47] Paul Secunda: And so the way we handle that is we use a Clio, which is just a management software interacting with a Google business server, this kind of application. [00:06:58] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So you have a Google business account, correct? And why don't you use. Google Docs versus Microsoft Word. [00:07:04] Paul Secunda: I just am a dinosaur, I guess. I've been in practice for 27 years and I just feel more comfortable. [00:07:11] Paul Secunda: It's not that I don't use Google Docs. I do. And in fact, some clients prefer to use Google Docs and I've I've certainly I have that capability, especially when we're working on documents together. It can be very, but if I'm writing a brief or if I'm writing other types of documents, I tend to feel just more comfortable in the Microsoft world when we're talking about something like that. [00:07:35] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Fair enough. Fair enough. So wait, you're not using WordPerfect. [00:07:37] Paul Secunda: I'm not using it. It's funny. I started my life using WordPerfect. When I was in college and law school, I was a WordPerfect guy, and somewhere in the late 90s, early 2000s, maybe when I became a law professor, which was in 2002, I started using Microsoft Word and never went back. [00:07:53] Paul Secunda: So at this point, it's been over two decades I've been on Microsoft Word. [00:07:57] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Do you believe that they still make WordPerfect and that some lawyers actually still use WordPerfect because of whatever little, the macros that they made, that they're afraid to start over again, which is amazing. [00:08:07] Paul Secunda: I have co counsel who use WordPerfect and Needless to say, we've come up with a way of interacting that doesn't get all sorts of codes and other problematic things in our documents. [00:08:17] Paul Secunda: But yes, there are a few people still out there. They're diehards, I would say. [00:08:20] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: How well does the conversion work between a WordPerfect document and a Microsoft Word document going back and forth with the file itself? [00:08:28] Paul Secunda: I would compare it to, have you ever used the converter on like an Adobe and gone to a Microsoft Word document? [00:08:34] Paul Secunda: Yes. So there are problems, right? You have to go through that document and take out codes and other types of information that is either wrong, or like, for instance, it messes up the footnotes, but you have to then remember the footnotes. So I would say it's very similar. I would say that you run into a lot of the same types of problems between Word Perfect and Word that you see between like Adobe and Word. [00:08:55] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: I commend you for you guys being able to work through that. [00:08:58] Paul Secunda: We are a. As a sole practitioner, you will understand that as a very small office, we do a lot of things on our own. We have no secretaries, no administrative assistants, no paralegals. We do our own work, and so when we do it, we try to do it in a way that is most comfortable for us individually. [00:09:17] Paul Secunda: But also we need to interact as a firm. So we're trying to have a tech balance there. If you will. [00:09:23] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Yeah. I used to use open office, but I had a paralegal law clerk who had been with me for a while. And it just became too much for her that ultimately ended up getting Microsoft office just because I wanted to sort of keep the peace. [00:09:35] Paul Secunda: But people have a lot of, this comes up also in the PowerPoint world. When you're used the Google version or with the spreadsheets, people are very comfortable with Excel. So fine. There's a comfort there for a lot of people, including myself. Yeah. Well, let's get into the questions. Yeah. Okay. Please. [00:09:53] Q?#1: What are the top three tech tips you would advise any lawyer to maintain a separation from work and personal time? [00:09:53] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: What are the top three tech tips you would advise any lawyer to maintain a separation from work and personal time? [00:09:59] Paul Secunda: Well, the first thing is to put down your darn phone, right? I mean, no one can contact you if you're not constantly getting push notifications by text or by email or by some chat feature. Put down your phone, turn it off. It's good for your mental health and it will be very hard for people to reach you. [00:10:17] Paul Secunda: Now, needless to say, a lot of people are not going to do that because they feel at least in emergency situations that they need to be contacted. Intactable. So if you're going to keep your phone on, which gets into number two, I would tell you to really evaluate what's being asked. And when I say evaluate, I mean, consider the duration of how long it will take to do what's being asked. [00:10:40] Paul Secunda: If it's something that will take you a minute or two, okay, no big deal. And if you're helping someone out, go do it. But if you're talking about hours and interrupting your sleep, then really, I think you, you need to write back to the person who is writing you and ask them. them the priority and what's involved that requires you to do this kind of after the whistle blows. [00:11:00] Paul Secunda: And the third thing I would say to you is talk honestly and openly during the work day with your colleagues, whether they be. Your superiors, your people who are at the same level, people who are your subordinates. Have an honest conversation about electronic communications after the day's over. Because I think a lot of people fail to do that, and sometimes there's just a misunderstanding that can be dealt with if done proactively. [00:11:28] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Well, how would you handle, say, an overbearing client? I think in the news, we're aware of at least one potential client like that, who expects to have his calls answered. at any time of the day. [00:11:38] Paul Secunda: Well, I think my same advice holds up. I think even with overbearing or maybe even anxiety laden people, because that's sometimes what you're talking about people who are just nervous and therefore overbearing, having an open, honest conversation at the beginning of that representation. [00:11:56] Paul Secunda: If you're Ernie or whatever business you're in and you have a client, set expectations. I think expectation setting is something that unfortunately doesn't happen because people are not having these basic conversations maybe the way they were 20, 30 years ago before the dawning of the age of social media. [00:12:12] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: What's interesting somewhat on the flip side, my day job, I represent veterans before the Department of Veterans Affairs. And one of my former clients called me on a Sunday, and I wasn't very, I wasn't necessarily happy about that. And I let it go to voicemail and I checked the voicemail if I recall this correctly, I believe I checked the voicemail. [00:12:29] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: I think he left me a voicemail and he was professing suicidal ideation, like eminent suicidal ideation. [00:12:35] Paul Secunda: And of course, you're not a mental health counselor. So I guess when you should have probably, I mean, I guess you did have to respond and try to get him to the appropriate person. [00:12:43] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And that's what I spent a couple hours that night doing. [00:12:46] Paul Secunda: Well, that's obviously worth it. No one will tell you, you didn't do the right thing. But that's what I was saying in the beginning, if your phone's on, or if you're listening to your voicemail, evaluate it, I mean, needless to say there, there's nothing to evaluate. It's a life and death situation. It's easy. [00:13:00] Paul Secunda: You have to do what you had to do. But it's also needless to say that most employers who contact. Employees after hours don't do so in life and death situations. It's a matter of just feeling entitled to have your time and your attention even after the workday is over. [00:13:17] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So I think you've kind of talked about how attorneys should handle clients. [00:13:21] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: How about handling their superiors? [00:13:23] Paul Secunda: Well, delicately, right? I mean, the problem is you have a power imbalance, right? Right. And one of the reasons in the article that I wrote back in 2018, 2019, the right to disconnect that I ended up focusing on occupational safety and health as opposed to wage and hours or autonomy or other bases, which you could make these kind of distinctions is because to me, workplace safety and health is a universal So. [00:13:51] Paul Secunda: Right and therefore a human right and therefore the idea is that power imbalances between different people in the workplace between bosses and subordinates should matter less or even if the boss doesn't realize then the subordinate has recourse either through Bringing up a regulation if it exists within your state, occupational and safety agency, or federally. [00:14:13] Paul Secunda: But at least it can be placed within a framework which your boss is hopefully going to at least acknowledge and discuss with you. [00:14:21] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So the right to disconnect law that we're That kind of brought you to my attention. The one that came out in California or is coming out in California. I don't think it's passed yet. [00:14:30] Paul Secunda: No, it's just been introduced recently. [00:14:32] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So are there any states that have this law? And what I'm kind of curious to know is if those that do, has any employer or say former employer been sued for violating that law? [00:14:42] Paul Secunda: So it did come up in New York a year or two ago. I'm not sure that really anywhere. I am not aware of any lawsuits over the right to disconnect. [00:14:51] Paul Secunda: One of the issues. And you see this with the California law, which has just been introduced by a democratic assemblyman out in California, is that they're trying to figure out how to implement it. Like, so for instance, California has a very stringent labor code that goes well on many states in the country. [00:15:08] Paul Secunda: And this is, this would be a state based law. But one of the things that relies upon is this wage and hour distinction, where if you're going to work Your work, you should get overtime. If you're going to put the hours in, you should get paid. No one should But the problem with that, of course, is not all workers are created equally under wage and hour law. [00:15:27] Paul Secunda: You have exempt workers and you have non exempt workers. And the exempt workers we usually refer to as salaried workers and the non exempt workers, you know, are hourly workers. So if you're an hourly worker, great, you work an additional two or three hours, you get an additional two or three hours of pay. [00:15:42] Paul Secunda: But if you're a salaried worker, and you're being paid a certain amount of year, no matter how many hours you work, and then you're putting over six hours a night extra, well, that can really add up. So I personally am not a fan of the California approach that is being considered right now, which, again, is based on this wage an hour idea, because I think out a number of workers. [00:16:04] Paul Secunda: I think it makes more sense if you want a universal right to go to the occupational safety and health route. [00:16:10] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Oh, interesting. [00:16:11] Paul Secunda: Yeah. [00:16:13] Ad Read #2: Consider Supporting the Show by Buying Us a Cup of Coffee or Two! [00:16:13] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Pardon the interruption. I hope you're enjoying the techsavvylary. page podcast as much as I enjoy making them. Consider buying us a cup of coffee or two to help defray some of the production costs. [00:16:21] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Thanks and enjoy. [00:16:23] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Well, let's go back to the question, though, because I think you've given us, I think, two answers. One, of course, is turn off your phone or don't have it with you. The second is better screening. [00:16:33] Paul Secunda: What would be their third? Well, I think the third is honest and open communication. I think if you are, again, it goes back to what we might call the third is expectation setting. [00:16:43] Paul Secunda: If you never talk to your employer about how you feel about them contacting you at 11pm at night, and then you start doing work at that time for them, don't be surprised when they ask you again a week or two later. Like, you've set that expectation. But on the other hand. It happens in the beginning, or if you can even address it as part of your beginning work with that employer, then it's less likely that the expectations would be misunderstood. [00:17:09] Paul Secunda: Look, I understand that American workers are suffering a huge power imbalance in the workplace. In this country, More than almost any other country in the world because we adhere to this employment at will flexibility for employers where you can be fired for a good reason, bad reason, no reason at all. [00:17:27] Paul Secunda: But on the other hand, I also understand that that's why we have laws and that's why if we can get something on the books that deals with the right to disconnect in a universal manner that applies to all employees. Hopefully employers will come over time to respect that kind of right that employees have to that time to themselves [00:17:47] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: what you don't pulling it back just a little bit more toward tech. [00:17:51] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: The one thing I'm surprised you haven't mentioned being an Apple user yourself is the focus modes that the Mac OS. IOS provide you, do you use that? [00:18:00] Paul Secunda: I have tried them in the past. You have purple mode, you have a sleep mode, you have a drive mode or just universal, do not disturb. I'm looking at it right now. [00:18:09] Paul Secunda: As you can also create your own focus modes. [00:18:12] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Oh, you can do a custom one too. [00:18:13] Paul Secunda: You can set up any custom mode you want. I found it distracting to be honest. I even in the car and the driving mode had been turning on automatically. I have a hands free. Voice only way of responding to, uh, text messages. And I enjoy that. [00:18:29] Paul Secunda: So I guess what I'm saying is, and maybe we should take a step back. I am not saying that there should be a blanket prohibition against people working after work. There are some people who, maybe like me and maybe like you, are workaholics and enjoy working after work. And they shouldn't be prevented. I don't want to become paternalistic here. [00:18:48] Paul Secunda: I'm not saying, even if you want to, I know better what you need and therefore you shouldn't do it. What I'm trying to say is, in a world of an imbalanced workplace between the power the employer has and the less power that employees have, there should be some kind of legal intervention, regulatory intervention that provides employees who want to have the right to be left alone when they go home at night. [00:19:13] Paul Secunda: So for me, and this goes to the Apple's various kind of focuses, I just found it distracting because I do want to interact with people at different times of the day. And even during sleep, I tried that, but then I found that there were people who, like my family, who needed to contact me and, It would have been nice to know if I had gotten up during the middle of the night, that there was something going on. [00:19:34] Paul Secunda: So I've turned them all off, to be honest. I, I did not enjoy them personally, but I could see how for others, the focus mode would make sense. [00:19:42] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Well, the focus mode definitely comes in handy when I'm recording. [00:19:45] Paul Secunda: Yeah, I can understand. [00:19:47] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Last thing I need is dings, alarms, bells and whistles and the phone going off in the middle of a recording. [00:19:53] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: But let's move on to question number two. Go ahead. [00:19:55] Q?#2: What Are the Top Three Tech Rights an Employee Has Qhen It Comes to Utilizing a Personal Tech Device for a BYOD Firm? [00:19:55] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: what are the top three tech rights an employee has when it comes to utilizing a personal tech device for a BYOD firm? [00:20:01] Paul Secunda: Yeah, I'm going to sound a little bit redundant here, but it's about expectations that in the privacy world. So in employee privacy, first of all, I have to separate the world into two different areas. [00:20:12] Paul Secunda: One is the public employment world, right? The other. Private employment world. In the public employment world, believe it or not, because the government is your employer, you have constitutional rights. They're not vibrant constitutional rights, but you do have the right under the Fourth Amendment, uh, which is the privacy amendment under the Constitution, and even under the First Amendment, uh, to a certain amount of autonomy and privacy in the public workplace. [00:20:36] Paul Secunda: Uh, and then you're saying, well, don't I have that in the private workplace? And the answer is, you don't. Definitively, no, you do not. And the problem is there is no state action in the private workplace and therefore under our state action based Constitution, you don't have a right to privacy just because of the constitution to the extent that you have privacy rights in the private workplace They're either granted to you statutorily or by the common law. [00:20:59] Paul Secunda: So statutorily, there are Now, in a number of states, somewhere between 10 and 15, what we call off duty conduct statutes, and basically off duty conduct statutes say is as long as you're engaged in legal, lawful, recreational activity outside the workplace, your employer has no business seeing you. Now, obviously, this becomes a little gray when you get into certain types of contact. [00:21:26] Paul Secunda: Maybe using marijuana on your own time, or engaging in certain, let us say, avant garde sexual types of proclivities. So, those have been litigated, and to be honest, the cases are all over the place. In the common law, there is, under the tort restatement, a right to be free from an invasion of privacy. And the invasion of privacy right comes in a lot of different flavors. [00:21:51] Paul Secunda: It can be akin to a defamation right, where people can't put you in a false light. Or it can be just a matter of autonomy. That your autonomy is sacred and People shouldn't interfere with what you consider your own private affairs. So in that situation, it goes back to what is your legitimate expectation of privacy? [00:22:10] Paul Secunda: If you're at your employer's brick and mortar business and you're in the bathroom, you have a fairly significant right to privacy, right? There's going to be very little reason that an employer should be spying on you on your bathroom breaks. On the other hand, if you're in your office and you're on your computer and they want to make sure that you're not engaging in Amazon shopping or other inappropriate activities, they can do a basic keystroke surveillance and that is considered acceptable if it's business based. [00:22:40] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: I want to pause you on that one specifically. So since we are more at a work from home right now and say the employee Perhaps a lawyer is working from home on their computer and they have to be button seat from like 8am to 5pm and they're working on whatever. Does the employer have a right to watch those same keystrokes and or more so put like certain monitoring software in the person's own personal computer? [00:23:09] Paul Secunda: I would say it depends on the expectations and the workplace policies that are in place. I mean, If you and your employee handbook have an electronic communications policy that says we will be keeping track of what you're doing during the day, we expect that you will only focus on our business during the workday, then that's a re, then, then an employee says, well, I didn't realize they were doing that when they signed an acknowledgement form saying I realized they were doing that. [00:23:37] Paul Secunda: That's problematic for the employee. A lot of employers, it goes without saying, including law firms, don't have electronic communication policies. Or if they do, they're much more narrow. Don't, don't surf porn. Don't, won't shop. But how about the in between when your kids call you or have to deal with something that's come up during the day that's almost akin to an errand? [00:23:58] Paul Secunda: That's less clear. And so, What I would say is, in my, I've been an employment lawyer for over 27 years now, and I would tell you, and mostly on the employee side, and I would tell you that, generally speaking, most employers do not have such restrictive workplace policies. If anything, as the employee becomes more sophisticated, has more discretion during the workday, like most attorneys, this isn't a huge issue. [00:24:25] Paul Secunda: It's more in. Kind of the warehouses, the blue collar workplace where employees are being monitored much more diligently. Take for instance, the Amazon drivers or even people who deliver packages for UPS or Federal Express. Right being very closely, not only because they want to keep track of where the packages are, but they want to make sure that you're not stopping off and getting a beer when you should be delivering the package to Mr and Mrs Jones. [00:24:53] Paul Secunda: So I really don't think there's a an answer I can give you. I mean, you could see how I kind of. Very lawyerly kind of divided the workplace. And then I said, well, even in the private, you have statutory protections and common law protections. And then even then it depends on what's in your workplace policies and what kind of expectations you've established with your workers, [00:25:14] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: but would you generally speaking without giving legal advice, would you advise someone who's like, all right, I don't want to specify lawyers, but you advise a lawyer. [00:25:25] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Who has a work from home policy to allow their boss to put on their personal computer, some sort of tracking software sites that they look at typing times logged in, et cetera. [00:25:39] Paul Secunda: Absolutely not. I would push back very hard against that. An unnecessary violation of my privacy and autonomy. And that's because I believe what lawyers do is not so necessarily only within the time bounds of the day. [00:25:52] Paul Secunda: I think lawyers, because of the discretion and the creativity they bring to their work, tend to do their work at various times of the day. So perhaps the right to disconnect means something different in our industry than it might mean Let's say in a blue collar industry, but I would advise if an employer said to an attorney, a young attorney, Hey, I understand you're going to be working remotely. [00:26:16] Paul Secunda: Please know that we're tracking you. I would say I'm going to look somewhere else. I don't know many firms that do that, to be honest, [00:26:23] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: but there was some articles. I remember a couple of years ago during COVID that they were employers were actively tracking some of their employees. And I'm talking about lawyers. [00:26:33] Paul Secunda: Yeah. I mean, There's an exception to every rule. I think it's, I think first of all, it leads to very low morale and less productivity. So I think it's foolhardy. I think if you're going to have professionals working for you, giving them independence and discretion is part of saying you trust and believe in them, but I'm not the employer and therefore people do all sorts of different things for different reasons. [00:26:54] Paul Secunda: I'm saying personally, and it's not legal advice. If someone came to me and said, Hey, I'm going to track you. I'd say, okay, well, I'm not working for you because to me, personal privacy and autonomy are important intangibles in my life. [00:27:09] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So from the obvious of not looking at porn, not shopping, not looking at information to overthrow the government. [00:27:16] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Are there any other tech tips you might give employees when it comes to things they should obviously not do with devices that are BYOD or even if it's the employer's device? [00:27:28] Paul Secunda: Yeah, there are a lot of employees and actually this was very relevant because last week the Federal Trade Commission came out with a new proposed rule about getting rid of all covenants not to compete. [00:27:40] Paul Secunda: Needless to say, that will be tied up in litigation for the next two to three years. So any such rule will probably be enjoined until it's worked out by the courts. But needless to say, there are employers who have employees who have sensitive information which they have protect, whether it be through confidentiality provisions. [00:27:58] Paul Secunda: They can do it through non solicitation clauses or non competition clauses. And so what I would say to employees is again, make sure you understand what information you have that is protectable by your boss. I mean, in the law area, we're not allowed to have covenants, not to compete under our professional rules of conduct, but nevertheless, you are under an obligation under attorney, uh, client privilege and other privileges to keep things. [00:28:26] Paul Secunda: Confidential under also the model rules of professional conduct. So maybe law is kind of a little unique, but in, in other parts of the workplace, you have to understand that depending on the types of information you have, if you're dealing with pricing information or customer databases or trade secrets, then yeah, you don't want to be kind of dealing with that type of information without Providing some protection. [00:28:50] Paul Secunda: Let me give you an example in the legal. When I exchange Discovery as a litigator with other law firms, either the other law firm or I don't just send that information attached to an email, almost never. We always use a server which has dual authentication. So we make sure the person getting it is only getting it because they have a user ID and a password. [00:29:12] Paul Secunda: Plus they didn't have to authenticate. They are who they say they are. So that is the reality of whether you're using Dropbox or a lot of these large law firms these days have their own servers with the capability of sending out large swaths of documents. So. There's an example of where you just don't want to deal with sensitive documents in a way that they can be intercepted or used inappropriately. [00:29:38] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Let's move on to our last question. Sure. [00:29:40] Q?#3: What are Your Top Three Tech Tips to Ensure Focus at Work to Help Prevent Necessary Work During Personal Time? [00:29:40] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: What are your top three tech tips to ensure focus at work to help prevent necessary work during personal time? [00:29:46] Paul Secunda: Yeah, well, one we've already discussed, and this is a harder one, which is you can't turn necessarily your phone off, but what you can do is eliminate a lot of those push notifications. [00:29:56] Paul Secunda: This is from personal experience. Used to have every newspaper and every person possible able to kind of get through my screen and kind of tell me they're looking for me or want to sell me something, tell me about a new news tip. And what I would tell you is go to your notifications, whether you're on an app or another phone and really only limit them to the things that you really need. [00:30:19] Paul Secunda: And even with. And your text, you can set up VIP lists so that only those people who are most important in your family, your children, your spouse, whatever, can get in contact with you. I've done that increasingly. So that's number one. Number two, it's a matter of, Learning how to screen your text, emails and other information that you're looking at in a efficient manner. [00:30:44] Paul Secunda: I have, I use an Apple mail, right? And it has kind of a preview where within probably 5 to 10 seconds, I can tell from just when it comes up whether I need to deal with it now. An hour from now, tomorrow, a week from now, and then I categorize stuff that way using that technology. So that's number two. And then number three, I would say it's just a matter of focus, which is kind of funny to say. [00:31:10] Paul Secunda: I don't mean focus like the Apple tech focus, but you have all this technology coming at you through computers and phones and don't people use the telephones I'm told, but you have to focus. I mean, we are a society of attention. Deficit disorder. And I, I don't mean that cavalierly or in a flip way. I mean that honestly, as a society, we have trouble paying attention. [00:31:34] Paul Secunda: We're being pulled in a hundred different direction. And so this is where it's very unique to each person's individual circumstance. What allows you to focus for me? I can't have music on. I can't have other like talk radio or talk, whatever, because it's too, I need complete silence, but someone else Might be able to put on their air pods and put on some soft music in the background and that's the way they kind of tune other things out. [00:31:58] Paul Secunda: So my point is use tech to allow you to focus. That would be my third point. [00:32:03] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Well, I'm going to go back and pull a little bit on your last two answers. Your second answer, this is something I want to share. I use a service called SaneBox and it sort of adds onto your email. Are you familiar with it? I'm not. [00:32:17] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So SaneBox is a monthly subscription. It's like 10 bucks a month. I think you'd have to double check. And what it does is it allows you to set special rules into your email. And quite frankly, like it works with all, like almost all different email server types, whether it's Gmail, whether it's personal, whether it's this or that or whatever. [00:32:35] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And it works in the background, not on your computer, but on a server. And if you put, say, an email, like, a constant solicitation. Right. If you put it in the same black hole box, you'll never see that again. In other words, if they send you another one, you'll never see it again. So, I'm just Throw it in there just to help kind of declutter. [00:32:53] Paul Secunda: As opposed to unsubscribing from every unwanted piece of spam you get. [00:32:57] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Well, the problem with unsubscribing is you're telling them there's a warm body there. [00:33:02] Paul Secunda: Yeah, and then that gives them more incentive to try to get in contact with you. [00:33:06] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Whether it's through that in particular email or perhaps like a different service they may be working with as well. [00:33:12] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: So it opens you up to more spam email. But it also has some neat tricks to it like saying. Tomorrow, say next week, so that it doesn't stay in your inbox right now, but it goes, disappears for a day or a week or three hours or until 5 p. m. and then it repopulates to help manage. And like, it also, there's some other functions I'm probably not remembering, but I encourage you to take a look at it. [00:33:36] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Somewhat of a godsend for me because Lord knows I'm getting more and more. Spam and I no longer answer my own phone because half the calls are not business. Right. Yeah. The other thing I do, you know, you talk about focusing at work and as a small and solo practitioner, you're sort of like the, you wear many hats. [00:33:55] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And when I have to focus on writing a brief, what I'll do sometimes. Or often is I will take my laptop and I'll go to a Starbucks or coffee shop and just plant myself there for like an hour and a half or two hours and I can usually pop out some solid writing and I'm not constantly being interrupted by everything else that's going on around here. [00:34:15] Paul Secunda: That makes a lot of sense too. [00:34:16] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: And if it's too noisy in there, I just pop in my Apple AirPod Pro Mac to the headphones, and I can drown out most of the noise, but I'm usually pretty good about drowning out noise around. [00:34:27] Paul Secunda: Yeah, well, that's a good, that's a good skill to have, I have to say. [00:34:31] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Yeah, the only thing I can't deal with is screaming children and crashes. [00:34:36] Paul Secunda: Yeah. [00:34:37] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: No offense to parents out there. [00:34:39] Paul Secunda: Yeah, I can't help you with that one, but yeah, I understand. [00:34:42] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Excellent. Paul, I wanna thank you for being here. [00:34:44] Where You Can Find Our Guest! [00:34:44] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Please tell us where people can find you. [00:34:46] Paul Secunda: They can find me online at kunda E-S-E-C-U-N-D-A. Mm-Hmm at zeke luzi.com. It's a difficult Wisconsin name, so I'm gonna spell it. [00:34:55] Paul Secunda: W-A-L-C-H-E-S-K-E-L-U-Z i.com. That is the name of the law firm I'm at in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. And my email and contact information is there. And if you'd like to hear more about the right to disconnect or any other employment law topics, feel free to give me a ring. [00:35:13] Paul Secunda: I will be sure to have all that in the show notes. [00:35:15] Paul Secunda: And if there's anything else you'd like to share, please feel free to send it to me before we publish. But again, Paul, I want to thank you for being here. [00:35:21] Paul Secunda: It's a pleasure, Michael. So nice to talk to you today. Likewise. [00:35:24] Thank You for Listening and Join Us in Two Weeks for a New Episode! [00:35:24] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: Thank you for joining me on this episode of the techsavvylawyer. page podcast. Our next episode will be posted in about two weeks. [00:35:30] Michael D.J. Eisenberg: If you have any ideas about a future episode, please contact me at michaeldj at the techsavvylawyer. page. Have a great day and happy lawyering.
Mark Todes has a fascinating story to tell. The South African technologist and entrepreneur is TechCentral's guest in the final episode of season 1 of the popular TCS Legends podcast. Todes, who is perhaps best known for helping fight Telkom's attempts in the 1990s to extend its telecommunications monopoly to the internet, has a storied career that began in the mid-1970s in the pre-PC era of mainframes and minicomputers. In this episode of TCS Legends, Todes tells TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod about the founding of Compustat with his long-time business partner Mendel Karpul and how they went on to develop a word processor called GhostWriter (the name of which Microsoft later tried to wrestle away from them). In the show, Todes chats about: • How he and Karpul got their start selling a bureau-based accounting solution for pharmacies – and how they got their first big break. The solution was developed in Fortran using punch cards and ran on a minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation; • Their development of Survey 2000, a cadastral land surveying system – their first product for personal computers (developed by Hewlett-Packard, prior to the launch of the original IBM PC); • The development of GhostWriter, which became an early DOS-based competitor to the likes of MultiMate, WordStar and WordPerfect. • The launch of Internet Africa, a pioneering South African internet service provider that was later sold to Datatec (and later to Naspers); • The early days of the internet industry in South Africa, the formation of the Internet Service Providers' Association and the existential fight with Telkom over whether the telecommunications operator's government-sanctioned monopoly included the provision of internet services; • Working with Naspers, Mweb and the late Antonie Roux; • The launch of Korbitec (and its later sale to Naspers); and • How he and Karpul became early pioneers in the CD-ROM business. There's much more than this to Todes's story, making him one of the true legends of South Africa's technology industry. Don't miss this concluding episode of season 1 of TCS Legends. The series will return for season 2 in 2025. TechCentral
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast, where we explore the interplay of technology, society, and the mind. In this special "Stewart Squared" series, we dive into the stories and insights of pioneers who have shaped the digital world. Today, we're thrilled to feature Rob Glaser, founder and CEO of Real Networks, a trailblazer in the realm of streaming media. Join us as Stewart Alsop III and his father, Stewart Alsop II, delve into Glaser's fascinating journey from his early days at Microsoft, revolutionizing the world of software with Microsoft Word, to launching Real Networks and navigating the tumultuous waters of the tech industry. Get ready for a conversation filled with intimate anecdotes, profound reflections on the evolution of digital media, and thoughtful perspectives on the future of technology and AI To find out what happened in the episode without listening to it, feel free to use this GPT to do so (there are system prompts you can use to do so) Timestamps: 5:00 - Early memories of interactions between Rob Glaser and Stewart Alsop, and discussions about the evolution of Microsoft Word and its competition with WordPerfect. 10:00 - Glaser's recount of his time at Microsoft, including his work on applications and the strategic moves that led to Microsoft's success in the office suite market. 15:00 - The founding of Real Networks, the emergence of streaming media, and the technological innovations and challenges faced in the early days. 20:00 - Expansion of Real Networks and its role in the streaming media industry, including partnerships and market dynamics. 25:00 - Rob Glaser's entrepreneurial journey, the evolution of Real Networks, and the impact of digital media on the business landscape. 30:00 - Discussion on the transition of Real Networks from a public to a private company and the strategic reasons behind this change. 35:00 - Conversations about the tech industry at large, the development of AI, and Glaser's perspective on technological advancements. 40:00 - Examination of generative AI, its impact on society, and the ethical and practical challenges it presents. 45:00 - Broader societal and technological issues, including the accuracy of information and the role of tech companies in public discourse. 50:00 - The influence of digital media on society, the concentration of power in large tech companies, and the balance between innovation and control. 55:00 - Concluding remarks, the ongoing relevance of Real Networks in the tech industry, and final thoughts from the participants. Key Insights Rob Glaser's Early Career and Microsoft's Evolution: Rob Glaser shared his experiences working at Microsoft from 1983 to 1993, where he played a pivotal role in reviving Microsoft Word and contributing to the company's growth. His journey offers insights into the competitive dynamics of the software industry and Microsoft's strategy in becoming a dominant player in the office applications market. Inception of Real Networks and Streaming Media: Glaser recounted the founding of Real Networks and its pioneering role in the development of streaming media technology. This insight underscores the challenges and innovations of early internet media, highlighting Real Networks' contribution to making streaming a standard form of consuming content online. Technological Challenges in the Early Days of Streaming: The discussion revealed the technical hurdles Real Networks faced in the mid-90s, such as bandwidth limitations and the nascent state of internet infrastructure. Glaser's account of optimizing streaming for low bandwidth environments underscores the company's innovative approach to delivering audio and later video content. Shift from Public to Private Company: Glaser explained the strategic decision to take Real Networks private after years of being a public entity. This move reflects the changing dynamics and strategic pivoting required to stay relevant and competitive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Impact of AI and Digital Media on the Tech Industry: The conversation delved into Rob Glaser's perspective on artificial intelligence and its implications for the future of technology. His insights into generative AI and its potential applications, as well as the ethical considerations it raises, highlight the transformative impact of AI on the tech industry and society at large. Market Dynamics and Competitive Strategies: The dialogue touched on the competitive strategies employed by Microsoft in the office suite market, illustrating how bundling products like Word and Excel helped Microsoft gain a competitive edge. This strategy led to significant shifts in market dynamics, affecting competitors like Lotus and WordPerfect. Real Networks' Evolution and Current Focus: Glaser detailed the evolution of Real Networks, focusing on its current endeavors in AI and machine learning, particularly in the realm of security and content identification. This evolution reflects the company's adaptation to the changing technological landscape and its efforts to remain at the forefront of innovation in digital media and security.
Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #203 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.This week, Pete, Rob, Eric, Aaron, David, Leonard, Stephanie, Marc, Dimitri and Bill jump on Web3 to talk about:* BAD KARAOKE: "Free-form jazz ensemble", Pete* Mama, don't tell your kids to become coders!* Why a career in music just might be better than coding. At least Gen AI can't generate good music!* Sports update from the 90s with the IoT Coffee Talk crew* April Fool's Day is not the same in an age of everyday nonsense!* Why didn't Wordperfect win out?* Know your customer. They may not be who you think or are dealing with today.* Why closed wins and open is not all that open.* The price of "open", bloatware* Open is the only way to survive? Is it the future?* To standardize or not standardize?* The secret is abstraction, but who is good at it?* Standards are customer driven, dummy!It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. Your hosts include Leonard Lee, Stephanie Atkinson, Marc Pous, David Vasquez, Rob Tiffany, Bill Pugh, Rick Bullotta and special guests. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids' education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.
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Everyone loved Uncle Colm!Comedian and Actor Kevin McAleer joined Dave for a chat ahead of his farewell show in Vicar St in April.
A special messege from producer Sean since we don't have an episode this week.
Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast: Land Rover Edition This is one of our "Land Rover Editions" which is to say, slightly noisy. I'm on my way to and from the Hearing Dogs for a shoot, which is always lovely. Various topics, but mostly "Yvonne's Law: Shoot For Dough Before Shooting For Show". In other words, it's all about your client before it's about us and our lust for awards! haha. Sadly, it does mean you can't always create award-winning or qualification-worthy images on every client job, no matter how much you want to! 00:00 Introduction and Land Rover Editions 01:06 The Journey and the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast 03:04 The Importance of Being Part of the Photography Industry 04:35 The Challenges of Recording Podcasts and Listener Engagement 06:00 The Timelessness of Radio Programs 07:05 The Arrival at Hearing Dogs and the Importance of Initials 07:45 The Challenges of Building a Website and Judging Image Competitions 16:08 The Arrival at the Wedding and Yvonne's Law 20:14 The Wedding Shoot and the Difference Between Shooting for Show and Dough 27:17 Conclusion and Farewell Enjoy! Cheers P. If you enjoy this podcast, please head over to Mastering Portrait Photography, for more articles and videos about this beautiful industry. You can also read a full transcript of this episode. PLEASE also subscribe and leave us a review - we'd love to hear what you think! If there are any topics, you would like to hear, have questions we could answer or would like to come and be interviewed on the podcast, please contact me at paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk. Full Transcript: EP145 Yvonne's Law Introduction and Land Rover Editions [00:00:00] As I'm absolutely certain you can hear, I'm back in the Land Rover. I think maybe, maybe I should call these the Land Rover Editions and actually separate them out from our normal podcasts. Mostly because when I was at the photography show at the beginning of the year, quite a few people came up to me and said how much they enjoyed them. [00:00:24] Though looking in the mirror right now, I do look like I think a pilot, with my microphone, it's either that or Madonna, and I don't know which is better. I'm gonna go with pilot with the microphone on. However, quite a few people came up to me and said how much they enjoyed the podcast, when it's from the Land Rover, the podcast episodes. [00:00:43] Except for Fiona. Fiona told me in no uncertain terms that not so keen, doesn't like them, wish I'd stopped doing them. Sadly however, look at the weather out here, it's just ridiculous. There's a huge flood. Water everywhere. Good job I'm driving this thing, I think. It's going to be an exciting trip. [00:01:03] Note to self drive careful. The Journey and the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast [00:01:06] Anyway, this is one of the Land Rover editions of the Mastering Portrait, no, hang on, yes, no, that's right. I'm Paul. This is a Land Rover edition of the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast. [00:01:33] The challenge with doing these particular versions of the podcast is, of course, the priority is to arrive safely at wherever it is I'm heading. [00:01:44] Today it's the Hearing Dogs: I've got to photograph of some newborn puppies. Well, eight weeks old, so cute, yeah, cute. And also some Christmas stock imagery. The date today is the something of February. What is it? 7th, 8th, 9th something of February. Haven't looked the date up. And we're doing the Christmas, or some of the Christmas stock imagery ready for the end of the year. [00:02:06] Now in some ways it feels absolutely ridiculous that we're doing that, but on the other hand, it's perfectly planned. So I'm actually quite happy about it because normally, every year I've photographed Christmas stock imagery in sort of August, which makes life very tricky when you're trying to hide flowers, make it, the light look slightly bluer. [00:02:25] And ignoring the fact that the dog is panting in the heat. Today, that's not going to be a problem. It's 4 degrees according to the thermometer on the car. It is absolutely tipping it down with rain and has been by the look of it for the past 12 hours because there are floods everywhere. It's going to be a slightly lively journey through the lanes of Buckinghamshire to the Hearing Dogs site. [00:02:49] So anyway, Fiona, I'm sorry I've, I set out at the beginning of the year that I was going to run at least once a week, the podcast would come out once a week, but finding the time for that has been nigh on impossible. On Tuesday. The Importance of Being Part of the Photography Industry [00:03:04] We spent the entire morning judging the images for the British Institute of Professional Photographers, the BIPP image competition, which is such a joyous, I mean, you know, some of the greatest pleasures of getting involved in the industry are that I'm involved in the industry. [00:03:21] I know that may be alien to some people. I get asked quite a bit, what do you get out of it? And I'm going to guess that everybody who sticks their head over the parapet and does judging, mentoring, gets involved with various associations. You get a fairly, a fairly repeated question of what on earth is in it, for me, for other, you know, people asking why they would join, for instance. [00:03:44] What do I get for my 15 quid a month or whatever it is, I don't even know how much it is. And the answer I'd always say is I get to be part of something. I get to be part of something bigger than just myself, Sarah, Michelle, and we're actually a pretty big business when it comes to the photography industry in terms of brand, but also in terms of turnover. [00:04:02] We have a You know, a reasonably big business, the three of us run but it's still, in terms of the industry itself, if it wasn't for the associations, we'd be running it on our own, and yeah, alright, I'm with clients all the time, which is amazing, but it's the, things like the society's convention. Being part of the BIPP. [00:04:19] com, being a judge for the FEP, that's just started this week, so I'm judging for the Federation of European Photographers as well, and it looks like I'm about to do some judging across the pond. with our American friends. The Challenges of Recording Podcasts and Listener Engagement [00:04:35] So, all in all, a lot's going on and, and , finding time to record the podcast just isn't that easy. [00:04:42] On top of that, the thing I've suddenly had to become increasingly cognizant of is I've started to get emails of people who are discovering the podcast for the first time and are now listening to back episodes, and this particular message, I suppose, was triggered, or this thought was triggered, by an email that came from another Paul, I mean, great name, of course, another Paul, who had started listening to the podcast, and when he emailed in the other day, he was on episode 31. [00:05:09] Now, I didn't look up the date of episode 31, but given we've been doing this for about Eight years now. Seven or eight years. Episode 31 is quite a long way back. Goodness only knows what's changed since then. And it may be another six years at that run rate before he gets to this episode of 145. So, who knows? [00:05:33] So now I've got to be very careful. I don't get too specific on dates because by the time some people listen to these episodes it could be well out of date. Equally, there are people who've probably started episodes What, 144, and are now working their way backwards, but still won't get to 100, this episode, 145, for quite a long time. [00:05:53] So forgive me if some of the stuff I talk about is very particular to the moment. Can't do a lot about that. The Timelessness of Radio Programs and the Future of the Podcast [00:06:00] One of my favourite radio programmes to listen to is Letter from America. Have I talked about this before? I've no idea. Letter from America, by a guy called Alastair Cook. He's, he's dead now. [00:06:12] This was on Radio 4, BBC Radio 4, and I think you can still Listen to it. Oh, I listened to it on the BBC Sounds app and many of the back episodes are there. And I really like the fact that it's of its time. I was listening to an episode the other day that was actually about the Middle East, and it's incredible. [00:06:31] I mean, These episodes must be, I think, 40 years old? You're looking at the mid 80s. And the politic of the region and things that were going on sounded like they could have been today, right here, right now. And I find stuff like that really interesting. So I suppose in a sense you can have a recording that is of its moment and yet still be pertinent later on. The Arrival at the Hearing Dogs Site and the Struggles of PodcastingThe Arrival at the Hearing Dogs Site and the Struggles of Podcasting [00:06:57] If I'm still doing this in 40 years, I don't know if I'm going to be driving around the country photographing hearing dogs, but that's what we're doing today. So thank you to Paul for emailing in. It's lovely to get these emails. We get them from people dotted all over the world. [00:07:12] Describing what they're up to. I try to get back to everybody within a certain time frame not always possible, but I do try to, to do it. And those that sort of make me smile, I, I talk about on the podcast itself. Uh, An awful lot going on just at the moment, which is also a reason why I haven't managed To do a sit down at my desk recording really, the only time I've got. [00:07:34] Sorry, I'm so sorry Fiona, I know, alright, I know. But I'll try and make the broadcast as clear as I can. [00:07:41] Even in this clattering vehicle. The Development of the Mastering Portrait Photography Website [00:07:45] Still building the masteringportraitphotography. com website, causing me no end of head scratch. The hardest bit is a combination of technology and trying to figure out where Articles should sit. It's not, it turns out, as straightforward as I would like. Mostly because the platform we're using, or trying to use, or switching to, is more basic than the one I have at the moment. [00:08:12] So the one I have at the moment, I can do anything I like. WordPress, with all of its plugins and all of its technology, of course you can do anything you like. But the problem is, with that kind of power comes an immense amount of work. Keeping on top of it, making sure it's patched correctly, making sure that all my licenses are up to date. [00:08:32] And on top of that, a huge amount of expenditure. Because of its sophistication, well, you pay for it. So, what we're trying to do is simplify everything, because I don't really need that power to do the things I need to do. It's overkill, really, although I enjoy having that sort of level of control. [00:08:54] But the kicker, of course, is now we're simplifying things down, is I'm discovering that certain core things that I relied on, for instance, the structure of how one article can be the child of another article, so you can have a parent which is a really simple idea. The Challenges of Creating a User-Friendly Website [00:09:12] But very powerful. I can't do that on the new platform, so I'm having to figure out ways of still making the content visible, make it logical make it easy to upload and easy to access. [00:09:24] And have a structure that really makes sense, but haven't necessarily been able to find the way of doing that. The Experience of Judging for the BIPP Image Competition [00:09:32] Of course, things like judging the other day they take up time too, but it warranted pleasure. It was just It's the new BIPP monthly competition. So this was month one. So if you're listening to this podcast five years later, you will know whether the BIPP. [00:09:47] com monthly competition has been a success because this was the very first round. A couple of hundred entries, which is really nice. Hopefully that will climb but the, the fun of it is sitting we've recorded the call, so I have it as an audit trial, but sitting on this video conference with two judges looking at images and enjoying the process of assessing images. [00:10:10] Now, the only thing is, it didn't really occur to me, I thought we'll film this, we'll do it properly, so we're using a bit of software called Squadcast which is brilliant, it's one of the, it's, there are various things, a bit, Riverside FM is another one. Where you do it as if it was Zoom, but the video and audio for each participant is recorded locally on their machine, which means it's really high quality. [00:10:29] I can run that then into our podcast software and do an automated transcription, transcribe it, because the new AI tools are Word Perfect. It's brilliant. However, what I hadn't allowed for in the four hour recording is, of course, we judge in silence. Why? Well, it's not because we're really dull. [00:10:53] Well, maybe it is. It's because, actually, we want each judge to determine the score for the image independently. And if there's chatter, if people are sighing, if people are going, Oh, if only they'd done this better, it influences the, the, the judges. They influence each other. And of course, we want there to be an independent scoring because that helps to take out any sort of personal or subjective, I mean the whole thing is subjective, but sort of variability and, and outside influence. So it's great, they judge in silence, they punch in their scores, I announce the score and record it. It doesn't make for a very interesting video. So I'm now not certain that we'll ever release these things because the idea was, and still is, to find ways of providing insight into why an image does well, why an image maybe hasn't done so well, what the judge's thoughts are, but we never really do that during judging. [00:11:50] So, having to have a think about how we might do it. We certainly can't critique a couple of hundred images in the time we have available. And we're going to do this every month. And the thing about the judges is that they are not retired. They are not Part time photographers. These are the best of the best. [00:12:10] They have to be. They have to be current. They have to have their eye in. They have to be working pros for the judging to have validity. If I just used people who are no longer in the industry, they're no longer up to date. They're no longer current. So it's not that I can use judges that have, or we can use judges that have a ton of time at their fingertips. [00:12:33] The most important thing about the judges is they are current and as such they need to be working and if they're working I cannot get a hole in their diary for more than a few hours at a time so we can't critique every image. It's not physically possible but somehow I've got to find a way of getting some of this information out to everyone who entered, entered the monthly competition. [00:13:00] Anyway, it's a lot of fun doing it and those results, the first set of results, will come out. Next week. So if you're a BIPP. com member, look out for those results if you're listening to the podcast. And of course, I would encourage all of you to enter. You get one free image every month. You don't need to pay any money. [00:13:18] But just make sure, just because it's free, doesn't mean that it can be any old image. It's a real competition. We're judging it to the international print competition standard. So it's tough. I make no apology for that. It's really tough, and as such, it's not your everyday work that is going to do really well. [00:13:41] And I'm gonna come back to that as a topic of conversation on the return leg of this journey. However, before I do that, as I'm getting fairly close to the hearing dogs now, the weather's improving. It's still pretty horrible, but at least it's not literally lashing it down as it was when I got into the car. [00:13:58] Quick tip! The Importance of Presets in Photography [00:13:59] This is a quick tip for nothing. It's not the subject of the podcast, but I thought about it while I was a moment ago prepping some files for a upload, and I was in Lightroom, and then in one of the Nik ColorFX, uh, plugins. Is, there are so many presets, lots, presets for plugins, presets for Lightroom. [00:14:23] Presets for Photoshop. There's so much stuff around actions that it gets really hard to track the ones that you created for yourself. And I have this very simple rule of thumb. is for any, any preset, any action, any workflow item, any LUT, any, sorry, a LUT, L U T, lookup table, any color LUT anything at all really, I put my initials at the front of it. [00:14:51] I always put P W because it identifies the things that I created for myself. As opposed to the things that I may have bought the things that I may have downloaded, the things that somebody else was helping me with, the things that I've done for myself, they have the initials PW at the front. And it's not an ego thing. [00:15:11] A couple of times people have cocked an eye because everything I've got has got PW, PW, PW, PW. It's got nothing to do with that. It's got everything to do with the fact that I get really easily confused with the different things that are in the business, the different presets, folders, you name it. So I stick PW at the front to make it clear I did that one and then in two years time Because some of the things I've written they are like five six years old There's some scripts I wrote for Photoshop that we're still using and I think I wrote them ten years ago I know they're mine because they have PW at the front as opposed to some of the scripts I found and downloaded Which are by third parties, and of course, you know, I can use them. [00:15:51] But I certainly couldn't distribute them. And I want to know that if I'm modifying them, I'm modifying somebody else's work. Which is only fair. So, stick your initials. At the beginning of any presets and things that you create for yourself. There you go, that's a top tip for nothing. The Arrival at the Hearing Dogs Site and the Weather Conditions [00:16:08] I'm just about to pull in to the hearing dogs. [00:16:11] Wow, it's a grey day. Look how blue the light is, it's horrible. Ha, ha, ha. Usually, usually at this side of the hill, we come over a slight hill. Um, so it's only, how long I've been driving? What, 10, 15 minutes? It's not that there's a huge difference in location between us and the hearing dogs. The geography does change slightly. [00:16:33] We come over a slight rise onto the other side of a hill, and then onto a plateau, a little bit of a plateau at the foot of the Chilterns. And the weather here is quite often different, very different. Sometimes, particularly, it's most pronounced when it's snowing. We will have snow and they won't, and vice versa, and it really is only 10 minutes separate. [00:16:51] Today, sadly, the weather is exactly the same, which is to say, shitty. There's no, I'm sorry if you're offended by the word, but it's the right word. It is shitty. Dead flat light, cloudy, wet. It's gone down by 0. 2 of a degree since I've been driving. Over this side of the hill, it's 3. 8 degrees. Usually the temperature rises. [00:17:17] Today, it's slightly colder. And I normally would say that I am looking forward to photographing the Hearing Dogs, particularly the puppies. Today, I'm looking forward to the photography. I am not looking forward to lying in a wet field. God, that car park needs a little bit of TLC you can hear the car rattling around on all of the divots and holes and puddles. [00:17:42] And then my, my car cam pinging as it thinks I've hit something. I do think at the moment we live in a country where the roads are in such bad condition. My dash cam. Constantly thinks I've had an accident and records that little bit of footage automatically because it thinks I've hit something, and I haven't hit anything, I'm just driving along the A40. [00:18:05] Right, I'm here. I shall return with the actual subject of this podcast. Maybe that's what Fiona doesn't like, is the randomness of it. Sarah says I repeat myself a lot when I'm recording from the car, so apologies if I am about to do that. However I will see you at the end of this particular shoot. [00:18:23] Right, I'm back. So at the end of that, I've just spent, what is it now quarter past two, uh, four and a bit hours photographing puppies which is beautiful, photographing dogs which are equally beautiful, running dogs, jumping dogs, wet dogs, god the weather's been horrible, and some Christmas images. Of course it's this time of year when we shoot Christmas stuff, but actually created some really, well I mean I think they're beautiful, my client seems to think they're beautiful at this stage, I've only seen them on the back of the camera, but a lot of fun. [00:18:59] We're using more and more and more LED lighting. Which is great when you're balancing up against Christmas lights and fairy lights and daylight. It's so much easier using LED than strobes for that. For the studio stuff, we are still using strobes because we can freeze movement really well, which is really, really important. [00:19:20] So for the white background stuff, those standard shots we create for the charity, very much still strobe, and I don't see that changing. In the near future, uh, because that ability to have, you know, F 16 and that instantaneous pulse of light that freezes motion is a very particular look and just the moment, I don't see that becoming that being replaced. [00:19:44] However, the LED side of it we had four different LED lights two with modifiers, two focusable spots with modifiers and two LED bars. Which just added beautiful touches of light where I wanted them. Made life really easy. I'll share a few of those hopefully on Insta over the next couple of days. [00:20:04] Actually, I won't show them on Insta because they're our Christmas pictures. So no, no, I won't be showing them on Instagram. They're the Christmas pictures, but maybe I'll get to show them. In December next year, or this year. The Concept of Yvonne's Law in Wedding Photography [00:20:14] Over the weekend, and this is, I guess, we're heading towards the point of this particular podcast. [00:20:19] I was photographing a wedding, beautiful wedding, only 13 people, pretty hectic, lots going on, Friday night, Saturday all day, Sunday morning and some of the afternoon. A really beautiful venue, and on the Friday night I got sitting chatting to the mothers of the groom, or the mother, sorry, mother and father of the groom, mother and father of the bride. [00:20:38] And one of them said to me, she said Yvonne told me this. Now at that stage I didn't even know who Yvonne was, so Yvonne, Yvonne, said that she was complaining that all of the shots of her son were the back of his head. And it turns out Yvonne, at a different wedding, was the mother of the groom. And every shot of the groom, it was just the back of his head. [00:21:00] And I said, I don't understand. She said, well, there's lots of shots of them as a couple. You can see the bride's face, very moody, just the back of the groom's head. And do you know what? Instantly, instantly, I knew the kind of shot she was talking about. It's the kind of shot that we see quite a lot when we're judging competitions, or maybe doing Quals. [00:21:21] There's some, it's very moody, but essentially it's a bridal portrait using the groom as context. It's fine, there's definitely a place for it. But if you're shooting a wedding, you might just find yourself getting the reaction that, clearly, Yvonne gave. So, Yvonne is not happy that the photographer has not done what she would regard as the photograph that she would like. [00:21:43] Which, I'm gonna guess, is a photograph of the bride, the groom, three quarter length, front on, snuggled up. Smiling at camera. That's the, that's the, still one of the best selling shots you can create. Certainly if you're pitching to sell to the parents of the couple. Yvonne's Law, I'm going to call it from now on, and I think we're going to talk about this, and I'm going to add it to my list of things that people should think about. [00:22:09] Yvonne's Law is this. When you're photographing a wedding, make sure you cover everything that the people who are attending and the people who might be buying the pictures would wish for. Going for awards is fine. We all do it. We all need to do it. We need to push ourselves and be creative. That is For most of us, why we came into these industries in the first place, we want to do something exciting and different. [00:22:32] We want to do something engaging and moody, and on the whole, those are not the shots that you can sell to the couple. Not always, it's not an entire, there is a Venn diagram with an overlap. You can, of course, sell really dark, moody pictures of the bride to the couple, and that may well happen. But there's a law of averages here and you're being paid by the client to satisfy numerous different angles. [00:22:57] Now, the other thing I don't know about the wedding that was being described is whether the bride and groom had asked specifically for a certain type of image. I have shot a wedding, this is going back a little bit in my career. Where the bride and groom wanted me to, and I kid you not, ignore the mother of the bride. [00:23:16] That was my brief. Do not pay any attention to her. She's gonna ask you to do all of these different shots with different people, but she is not paying. The bride and groom were really very clear about that. The problem is, from a diplomatic point of view, I've got a nightmare because, of course, the mother of the bride is asking me to do things. [00:23:36] And I've been briefed not to, because it'll draw time and they're not shots that the bride and groom, who are my client, are going to buy. So yes, you can end up in that situation. But here's the rub for that particular wedding, is I ended up going back and doing a portrait shoot with the whole family, because the mother of the bride felt she hadn't got the pictures of them as a family that she would wish for. [00:23:56] We ended up dancing through, or jumping through a few hoops, jumping through a few, I can't even say the word, hoop, jumping through a few hoops, hoops to get to the end goal. So Yvonne's Law simply states, remember that you're shooting for a client, you're not just shooting for you. Eventually I'll word it slightly differently as I probably think of 25 iterations of it. [00:24:17] Let's just let these people out here. There you go. You go through there. That's good. Perfectly good. And so it was a really beautiful wedding and throughout the day though I laughed with the two mums about Yvonne's law and made it perfectly clear that I was getting everything they had asked for. The Differences Between Shooting for Awards and Clients [00:24:35] Now there's a slight addendum to this thought process which is well how come what you shoot for a client doesn't necessarily do so well in awards or so well in qualifications. [00:24:49] And the truth of that is that we have to, to a degree, separate out context from the picture. So when we're judging we don't have the context which makes it sometimes a little bit tricky. As wedding photographers we know that shooting on a commissioned wedding is that little bit more complicated which is why in the categories for wedding photography most of them state really clearly Must be linked to the wedding day, must be commissioned. [00:25:16] You can't use models, it can't be you just shooting for fun, because once you eliminate that sense of pressure, the time pressure mostly, but the performance pressure and having to work for a client, everything's much easier. Which is why fashion magazines have these beautiful pictures of models in bridal gowns and actually on a real wedding day. [00:25:37] It's a lot trickier, it's not impossible but it's a lot trickier to get those images. So there's this thing, and I, we all know it the best I've ever heard it was shoot for show, shoot for dough. The difference between shooting for your portfolio, shooting for awards, shooting for qualifications, and shooting for the money, shooting for your client. [00:25:58] They are slightly different things, and one photographer, a really nice photographer called Hoss Madavi, photographer, Put it like this. He said, think about designing for a catwalk. Think about what you would design out there for a catwalk and then think about what you actually end up selling through a high street chain like John Lewis or Marks and Spencer or whatever in the UK or maybe Macy's or someone like that in the States. [00:26:27] Think about the difference between those two. Your haute couture arranges that you're going to produce on the catwalk. By the time they end up being sold to the mass public, not quite the same thing. Nor should they be. They're for different purposes. One is to show the world what you're capable of. One is to show, or it's actually sell to the world. [00:26:46] Not quite the same thing because most people are not going to buy a really funky haute couture dress or outfit off the catwalk in the same way that a lot of our clients won't wish. to buy a moody dark shot that's of the back of the groom's head. There you go. Yvonne's Law is now what we're calling it. [00:27:05] I might have to change it. I feel, I don't, I've never met Yvonne. I'm going to credit her with it because that was the story that was told to me. On that happy note, I am just pulling into a garage because I am absolutely starving. Conclusion and Farewell [00:27:17] I need to get some food and I need to get some food quick before I start getting grumpy. [00:27:22] So I'm going to park up and I'm going to wish you all well for the week. So for this week's podcast, thank you for listening. Of course you can email me. At paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk. You can head over to masteringportraitphotography.com. Please do subscribe to the podcast wherever it is that you consume your podcast. [00:27:43] And if you feel like it, please leave us a review. If you feel sorry, if you feel like leaving us a nice review, please leave us a review. If you feel like leaving us some nastiness, then please email me so I know what we could improve on. But on that happy note, I hope you're having a good week. I hope the weather is better where you are than where we are. [00:27:58] And of course, in the spirit of this morning, a very happy Christmas to you all on this February day. And whatever else, be festive, but be kind to yourself. Take care.
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Y2K Bug, also known as Y2K Problem or simply Y2K. This refers to a historical incident…that never really happened. At least not to the degree that it was proposed it would. As a recent survey reports, some 46% of people believed that - when the year changed from 1999 to 2000 - all hell would break loose. This was because it was believed that particular computer programs that only allowed for two year digits (for example, simply 99 as opposed to 1999) would instantly stop working when the date descended to 00 at the turn of the year (i.e., computers would not be able to distinguish the year 2000 from the year 1900). And these computer programs went beyond just not being able to operate your Word Perfect document (Haha…another millennial joke). No, these computer programs extended to airline reservations, banking software, utilities, medical equipment, infrastructure, power plants, government programs, nuclear weapon controls, and more. Should all hell break loose, we were looking at a global disaster that would cost somewhere between $300 and $600 billion to remedy! As we all know now in hindsight, nothing particularly noteworthy occurred as the world rang in the year 2000. Sure, some small businesses experienced some computer programming issues…but did airlines and banks come crashing down? No. Whether this is due to the efforts that had been put into place leading up to the event to resolve potential issues (such as President Bill Clinton's Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act) OR if the whole Y2K Bug was just a big hoax, is still debated to this day. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support
Today's guest, Emily Lippincott, is a Legal Futurist at Filevine, a premier legal work platform serving law firms and businesses throughout the United States and Canada. With over 16 years of legal experience in Silicon Valley, encompassing roles in in-house and law firm settings, Emily brings a wealth of expertise to her role. Moreover, her background includes counseling corporate clients through various stages, from inception to public offering or acquisition. Throughout the conversation, Emily illuminates for lawyers pathways to efficiency, accessibility, and excellence. Join us as she navigates the intricate web of tomorrow's legal tech landscape, shaping the future of the practice of law with insight and expertise. Let's unlock the secrets to efficiency, innovation, and success in the digital age! Join Emily and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! What are the top three factors a lawyer should consider when vetting new hardware for their practice so that they are not only cutting edge but future-proof? What are the top three things lawyers are still getting wrong with their hardware and software technology in their law practice? What are the top three ways lawyers can use AI in their practice? In our conversation, we cover the following: [01:07] Emily's Tech Setup [06:25] Essential Considerations for Lawyers Embracing Innovation [14:20] Common Pitfalls and Potential Solutions [27:43] Maximizing AI in Legal Practice: Three Key Applications Resources: Connect with Emily: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/emilylippincott/ Hardware mentioned in the conversation: Audio-Technica AT2020PK Microphone: audio-technica.com/en-us/at2020pk Dell Curved Monitor: dell.com/en-us/lp/curved-monitors Logitech Litra Glow: logitech.com/en-us/products/lighting/litra-glow Logitech Stream Cam: logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/streamcam Macbook Pro with M1 Chip: support.apple.com/en-us Rubber Tips for Apple Pencil: apple.com/shop/product Scarlett Solo: us.focusrite.com/products/scarlett-solo Software, Apps, & Cloud Services mentioned in the conversation: 1Password For Chrome Extension: 1password.com/resources/guides/1password-for-google-chrome/ 1Password: 1password.com/ Apple Pages: apple.com/pages/ Backblaze: backblaze.com/ Camelcamelcamel: camelcamelcamel.com/ Capital One app: capitalone.com Filevine Immigration AI: filevine.com/platform/immigrationai/ Filevine: filevine.com/ GoodNotes goodnotes.com/ Google One: one.google.com/overview/ Mac Updater: corecode.io/macupdater/ MacOS Sonoma: apple.com/macos/sonoma/ Microsoft Outlook plugin: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-add-ins-in-outlook WordPerfect: wordperfect.com/en/ Zscaler: help.zscaler.com/
Karen McDonald is a seasoned office automation expert, assisting busy law firms, attorneys, and lawyers in streamlining the administrative aspects of their business operations. With over a decade of experience, Karen has been dedicated to supporting attorneys in implementing efficient systems to automate their legal practices. She is the founder & creator of Owlwise Legal Practice Management Software, which is tailored for legal professionals to streamline essential tasks such as legal trust accounting, time tracking, billing, and centralized management of matters and contacts. Moreover, designed to meet the needs of today's lawyers, this versatile cloud-based solution ensures your law firm remains agile and prepared for the future across multiple platforms. Join Karen and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! What are the top three tech tools that attorneys underutilize besides CRMs in their law practice? What are the top three things attorneys should look for in an online CRM? What are the top three tech shortcuts lawyers still need to know at any level of experience? In our conversation, we cover the following: [01:32] Tech Talk: Karen's Current Tech Setup [08:46] The Top Three Tech Tools Lawyers Should Utilize More [17:16] Backup Strategies: Ensuring Data Security in Business [22:40] Key Considerations for Choosing an Online CRM: Flexibility, Dependability, and Support [30:05] Tech Shortcuts Every Lawyer Should Master [39:13] Uncommon Keystroke Hacks in Microsoft Word [40:37] Connect with Karen Resources: Connect with Karen: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wisekarenmcdonald/ Website: wiseowllegal.com.au/ Hardware mentioned in the conversation: Bose Speakers: bose.com/c/speakers Fitbit: fitbit.com Jabra Headset: jabra.com/ Curved 27-inch ViewSonic Monitor: viewsonic.com/global/products/lcd/VX2718-PC-mhd Software & Cloud Services mentioned in the conversation: Bitwarden: bitwarden.com/ Wise Owl Legal: wiseowllegal.com Backblaze: backblaze.com WordPerfect: wordperfect.com TextExpander: textexpander.com
Dana Robb and Carolina Allen discuss the Model of Powerful Impact with Karen Ashton. “I really have a perspective that maybe a lot of people don't have, and the longer I live, the more I understand how rich our life is when we take care of that which is most important, which is our relationships within our very own families.” - Karen Ashton “It is so difficult for us to make the changes that [coming into motherhood] requires that sometimes we can be a little bit resentful over that kind of sacrifice. I think it's an honest thing to openly say that. Because suddenly your life is not your own. Your body is not your own, and that's a significant thing, and someone else is depending on you totally and absolutely for their nourishment and for every blessing that they can have. So you really need the perspective that comes from somebody really old, the old woman in the tribe, the one that's sitting in her tent far away all by herself. She might have something really wonderful to tell you, mostly what I think she would tell you is, ‘Give some time, take some time to look at what you are really doing, and value it, because it is so glorious and so beautiful to welcome the soul, a soul from God into your home, and to watch the unfolding of a human soul is really a remarkable experience.'” - Karen Ashton “I try to tell young women that this change from being a single woman to a kind of shared intimacy in marriage and then this shared intimacy with a child is a sacred and a holy thing. It might feel oppressive to you, but it's such a blessing in the end.” - Karen Ashton “I decided every morning when I got up, and you do have to decide, that I was going to love someone that day. And I think when we express our love openly to our children, it gives them wings.” - Karen Ashton “Don't ever give out participation awards for your children, because they know what participation awards are. What they want is for you to have noticed something beautiful and unique about them.” - Karen Ashton “As mothers, we need to know how influential we are, and that maybe there's somebody at home who needs to know that we are cheering for them. It's such a powerful position to be in life, and you will give them the wings that they will carry with them, and use all of their life.” - Karen Ashton “There have been many moments where I have healed myself by being generous to my children.” - Carolina Allen “What is it that you would have wished someone had done for you as a child? Make sure it doesn't go undone for your children.” - Karen Ashton “When we talk about creating a home, it really has nothing to do with the sofas or the furniture we put in our house. A home is this feeling of safety some place, or encouragement, or praise.” - Karen Ashton “Love is an amazing thing. The more you express it, the more you give it away, the more it grows inside the walls of your own home.” - Karen Ashton “You're a wise woman if you know what replenishes you yourself, what gives you back, but you've got to be so careful, because if you spend so much time with your friends away from home, you're going to start feeling worse, not better.” - Karen Ashton “We need to trust that giving up something doesn't mean letting go, but it's actually opening the door for something different that might even be better than what we're currently experiencing.” - Dana Robb “It is your intentional development of an atmosphere, that's what a home is.” - Karen Ashton “The little child who can call out, “Mom!” and she answers, is the richest kid on the block.” - Karen Ashton https://www.youtube.com/@MakingHomeWithGrammie Instagram: makinghomewithgrammie Books by Karen Ashton: The Christmas That Changed Everything Growin' Christmas Eat Flies! Karen Ashton was born and raised in Salt Lake City. She met her future husband, Alan, on a blind date and they were married on March 15, 1968, in the Salt Lake City Temple. Karen is the mother of 11 children and the proud grandmother of 60 grandchildren. In 1997, Karen was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Utah Valley State College. In 1998, she was recognized with Alan by the BYU Marriott School of Management as Utahns of the Year and, in 2012, they were recognized by the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce as the Pillars of the Valley. Karen has also received the Senator Arthur B. Watkins Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Arts. Karen has spent many hours serving her community and church. In 1990, Karen accepted the challenge from the Orem City Council to raise funds to build a children's library. To help accomplish this goal, she established the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. This fundraiser made it possible for the Friends of the Orem Public Library to achieve their goal, and the children's library was successfully completed in 1995. The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival continues to be a successful annual fund raiser. It provides additional books, a storytelling theater, and many other educational resources for children throughout the Utah County area. In 1995, Karen and Alan founded Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah as an expression of gratitude for all that they had received through the years with WordPerfect, the company that Alan co-founded. Despite her busy agenda, Karen makes sure that her husband and their children come first. According to Karen, family is her most important asset. Karen also enjoys quilting, knitting, photography, and working on her family history. Whenever presented with the opportunity for adventure, Dana Robb is all in. Currently, this includes riding the local mountain biking trails with her husband, canyoneering, and climbing the hills of southern Utah. She loves to learn and explore with her six kids. She is drawn to the opportunities being involved with Big Ocean Women provides. Dana loves connecting to a global sisterhood where women's issues are being addressed through reframing and an abundance mindset. Carolina Allen is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Join Joshua and I live from the CLIO Con 2023 in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. Joshua serves as the Lawyer in Residence at CLIO. Joshua has dedicated considerable efforts to enlightening legal professionals about the potential of technology to improve their practices, simultaneously educating tech companies about the distinctive requirements of the legal field. Join Joshua and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! What are the three most common questions attorneys have about cloud computing? And how does CLIO address them? What are the three most common ethical missteps attorneys make with cybersecurity, and how does CLIO help prevent them? As we look into the future, what should attorneys be wary of regarding all things Internet in their law practice? In our conversation, we cover the following: [01:09] From PCs to Macs: Embracing a Secure and User-Focused Technological Evolution [03:25] Decoding Cloud Worries: How CLIO Tackles Attorneys' Top 3 Questions on Cloud Computing [13:12] Ethical Cybersecurity: Navigating Attorney Pitfalls and CLIO's Defensive Strategies [16:48] Futuristic Legal Tech: Internet's Evolution in Law Practice [22:18] Data Migration Dilemmas Resources: Connect with Joshua: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joshualenon Email: joshua@clio.com Mastodon: mastodon.social/@JoshuaLenon Twitter: twitter.com/JoshuaLenon Software & Cloud Services mentioned in this episode: Clio:clio.com/ WordPerfect:wordperfect.com/en/ Amazon S3: aws.amazon.com/s3/
In this podcast episode, renowned tech expert Dave Hamilton dives into the world of Mac-centric productivity, uncovering the unique advantages Macs offer over Windows machines. Dave is a seasoned podcaster, publisher, and self-professed nerd with a rich background in educating numerous computer users over thirty years. We cover the longevity, cost-effectiveness, and quality of life benefits of Macs, their top productivity features like seamless device integration, Dave's travel tech tips including a 4K OLED screen and charging essentials, Mac-specific productivity tools focusing on scripting and audio editing, and much more! Join Dave and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! After over 900 episodes on MGG, what are the three most common questions about tech you still get today? Apple computers still have somewhat of an aura of being made for creative people and not professionals; what are your top three reasons any professionals, including us lawyers, would want to switch from PC to Mac? What are your top three favorite productivity functions you can do only on a Mac? In our conversation, we cover the following: [01:15] Dave's Personal Tech Setup and Upgrade Considerations [15:56] Navigating Mac Upgrades, Backup Strategies, and Choosing the Right Wi-Fi System [38:59] PC to Mac Transition: Insights on Integration, Compatibility, and Battery Life for Professionals [54:48] Investing in a Mac: Exploring Longevity, Total Cost of Ownership, and Support Benefits Over Windows [59:14] Mac Productivity Unleashed: Leveraging Automation, Scripting, and Audio Routing for Peak Performance [01:21:58] Behind the Podcast Curtain: Tools and Tricks for Pro-Level Recording and Editing Resources: Connect with Dave: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/davehamilton.com Facebook: facebook.com/hamilton.dave Instagram: instagram.com/davehamilton/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davehamilton/ Mastodon: podcastindex.social/@DaveHamilton Twitter:twitter.com/DaveHamilton Website: macgeekgab.com/ Hardware mentioned in the conversation: 4K Portable Monitor - KYY 15.6: viewsonic.com/us/vx1655-4k-15-6-3840-x-2160p-uhd-portable-monitor Anker Nano Charging Station: anker.com/products/a9129-charging-station-67w Earthworks Ethos microphone: earthworksaudio.com/products/ethos/ Monoprice monitors: monoprice.com/category/computers-&-gaming/monitors-&-displays/desktop-monitors PreSonus Quantum 2626 Audio Interface: presonus.com/en-US/interfaces/thunderbolt-audio-interfaces/quantum-series Shure MV7 Microphone: shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7 Synology Disk Station Manager: synology.com/en-global/dsm ViewSonic monitors: viewsonic.com/us/products/shop/monitors.html VX1655-4K-OLED 15.6 Inch 4K: viewsonic.com/us/vx1655-4k-oled-15-6-uhd-oled-portable-monitor Software, Apps & Cloud Services mentioned in the conversation: Audio Hijack: rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ Backblaze: backblaze.com/ BetterTouchTool: folivora.ai/ Carbon Copy Cloner: bombich.com/ Eero: eero.com/ Fission: An audio editor mentioned for quick edits, specifically for ad breaks. Hindenburg: hindenburg.com/ Keyboard Maestro: keyboardmaestro.com/ Logic Pro: apple.com/logic-pro/ Logic Pro: apple.com/logic-pro/ Loopback: rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ Mail Butler : mailbutler.io/ MailSuite: smallcubed.com/ TextExpander: textexpander.com/download Thunderbird: thunderbird.net/ TP-Link DECO: tp-link.com/us/deco-mesh-wifi/ WordPerfect: wordperfect.com/en/
TechByter Worldwide (formerly Technology Corner) with Bill Blinn
Whether you're a graphic designer or not, Adobe Express has something for you. Professionals can use it to give themselves more time for custom creativity and non-designers can leverage Express to perform tasks they couldn't do by themselves. In Short Circuits: Although Python has been available as a paid add-in for Excel, it will soon be included in the application. Currently it's available only in the Beta channel for Microsoft 365 Insiders. • Installing and using more than one web browser can improve your experience because most browsers offer features not available in the others. How many browsers do you use? Twenty Years Ago (only on the website): In 2003, Corel was pinning its hopes for the future on an office suite that was based on WordPerfect.
***When a power outage stumps the user in the middle of her work... Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsMrZL3rIFUszR0EVopZ8Pw/join Tales From Tech Support - Word Perfect stopped responding! ** The Malicious Compliance video I spoke about https://youtu.be/8Bm0zVOMyaM Today's stories are from the subreddit r/talesfromtechsupport #talesfromtechsuport #unclereddit #funnyredditstories Tales From Tech Support Stories Welcome to r slash tales from tech support! Where we get to have a little chuckle at the technically (technologically) disadvantaged! (like me!) Today, I went digging into some really good r/talesfromtechsupport stories. Enjoy! We narrate Funny (or at least ironic) Reddit Stories about Tales From Tech Support as well as other funny Reddit topics! Be sure to scroll down to check out some of our other playlists! **
The Macintosh's year in review for 1988: some reached milestones, some threw stones, and some wished they'd stayed at home. Original text by the late Charles Seiter, Macworld, January 1989. Macworld: In Memoriam. Charles was just 58 when he passed. If you ever spotted a heavy math, science, or programming and development tool-related article in Macworld, you could be certain to find Charles' name nearby. I believe this particular article was, unfortunately, his only excursion into humorous editorials. I had a little contact with Charles back in 2004 after I thanked Macworld's team of contributing editors for teaching me that, contrary to what I had been taught in school, writing could be fun. Clip of Jean-Louis Gassee's story about having dinner with John Sculley from the 2011 “Steve Jobs' Legacy” event at the Churchill Club. Even the Newton marketing team acknowledged people sort of looked down upon John Sculley's technical background. Gassee's new book “Grateful Geek” is out now. His old book is too. nVIR clip from Don Swaim interview with Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg. The WayBack Machine does not have the source file but I do. The Computer Chronicles' whirlwind tour of Boston Macworld Expo 1988. Bill Gates' observation about borrowing ideas from Xerox. On the DRAM crisis of 1988. Mainframe and VAX connectivity makes up a fairly large percentage of the marketing material coming out of Apple in the late ‘80s, as you can see from The ReDiscovered Future and the Apple User Group VHS Archive. As told by Bob Supnik and many others, DEC was already thoroughly doomed by the late 1980s. Pre-QuickTime Video production on the Mac II was, by today's standards, weird and expensive. WordPerfect 1.0 and 2.0 weren't heralded as very Mac-like, unlike v3.5, which shipped around the time Microsoft Word 6 ate everyone else's lunch. Not all early CD-ROM titles were as compelling as Myst: About Cows v3.09, $40USD. How AutoCAD was ported to the Macintosh II–with a dirty hack. Apple and Stephen Wolfram pushing Mathematica 1.0. The first few years of fax software on the Macintosh were a bit of a disaster. Apple'e entry was particularly embarrassing. Macworld even called the AppleFax software/hardware package “beleaguered”. 1989 was the year John Norstad's Disinfectant began to spread like wildfire. We usually received a new version every 3-6 months via my father's employer. It's remarkable software distribution at that scale happened at all when you think about how few people people had modems back then.
Lee Philips - Legalees Tax Secrets: "Your little business is the most important tax shelter that you have." You probably started your business because you are very good at the skills needed for that industry. But knowing everything you need to know to take care of the business side of your business can be a challenge. It's knowing what you need to know and knowing what you don't know and knowing when it is time to hire someone that knows what you need to know. Legalees is a company started to help small business owners navigate the LLC and S Corporation side of business. Listen as Lee Philips, Counselor of the United States Supreme Court, with a long resume in real estate, investing, insurance, research and law shares his time with us to share his expertise in helping businesses play the game of business and play the accounting side well. Enjoy! Visit Lee at: Legalees.com/james Podcast Overview: 00:01:06 SBIR grants, governor endorsement, BYU stock profit. 00:03:27 Word Perfect founder's interesting story and Utah's tech success. 00:08:30 Avoid probate with Living Revocable Trust. 00:13:03 Trust simplifies bank account setup, avoids tax ID. 00:17:54 Estate planning is simple for smaller assets. 00:21:33 Degrees in geology, physics, nuclear chemistry. Chemistry company, law school. Patent work, health scare, hospital visit. 00:23:08 Friend discovers advanced cancer, two-three week lifespan. 00:29:07 Lost everything due to IRS tax issues. 00:32:48 Easy transition, no asset protection, lower taxes. 00:37:07 LLC offers tax advantage and asset protection. 00:38:20 Corporate shield protects owners in slip and fall. Partnership has asset protection against creditors. English law protects innocent partners from debt. 00:42:54 Utah removes corporate formalities, but it's BS. 00:44:33 No formalities in LLC; charging order protection. 00:50:30 Understand taxes for increased income and protection. 00:52:07 Lawyer walks in cow pasture, steps in manure. 00:56:06 Business and real estate: secret to wealth. 00:58:55 Authentic Business Adventures: Business owners' struggles, successes. Locally underwritten. Thumbs up, subscribe, comment. Call answering services. Bold business books. Thank you, Lee Phillips. Website? Podcast Transcription: James [00:00:02]: You have found Authentic Business Adventures, the business program that brings you the struggle, stories and triumphant successes of business owners across the land. Downloadable audio episodes can be found in the podcast link found at drawincustomerscom. Today we're welcoming, preparing to learn from Lee Phillips, the founder of Legalese. So Lee is going to take us right into it. We got going into conversation, so let's hear all about the accounting and legal stuff that you have to deal with with your small business. Lee Phillips [00:00:32]: Some background that you don't know is after I got sick, I went to BYU and I'd created an instrument for chemistry as a student there. And then in my two weeks as a patent attorney, I started the patent on it while I was sick, for three years, the patent issued. So I went to BYU and I said, I'd like to make this instrument. And I started a company called Lee Scientific, and it was the first Utah high tech company. James [00:01:05]: Wow. Lee Phillips [00:01:06]: We got the first SBIR grants, the first all of this crap. And the governor actually spent 20 minutes of his 40 minutes State of the Union address saying, lee Scientific is the future of this state. And I gave BYU, and I'm not going to go through this story for you, but it'll give you some background. I gave BYU a little bit of stock in Lee Scientific. I wrote the license agreement for them and they made about a million dollars off of the little bit of stock I gave them when we sold the company three years later. James [00:01:44]: All right. Lee Phillips [00:01:45]: And they said,
Today, I welcome Lee Phillips, a seasoned entrepreneur who revolutionized Utah's high-tech industry as the founder of Lee Scientific. Lee's visionary initiatives paved the way for renowned companies like WordPerfect, Novell, and DSearch, laying the foundation for Google's search engine. Despite facing a challenging health crisis, Lee's determination remained unwavering. He founded LegaLees in 1985, focusing on assisting small business owners and real estate investors with asset protection. As a Federal Tax Court attorney, Lee's expertise in addressing tax liabilities and advocating for the utilization of LLCs has made him a respected authority in the field. Today he will share: Why does an LLC have twice the asset protection of a corporation? it has both the corporate shield and the charging order protection.What are the best tax shelters ? real estate and small business.Why is an LLC better tax wise than a corporation? get to choose the tax structureHow do you know what tax structure you want to save taxes? It depends upon how you make your moneyWhat do you have to do to maintain an LLC?Can you set up your own LLC? Website
TechByter Worldwide (formerly Technology Corner) with Bill Blinn
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence applications are responsible for a lot of questions about the future. Will AI help us humans, create insurmountable problems, or be no big deal? In Short Circuits: Music lovers who have trouble finding a local station they like will be happy with StreamWriter, a free application that not only plays music from thousands of radio stations but also makes it easy to record streams for later listening. • It's easier than ever to run Android apps on a Windows 11 computer, so let's look at how it's done. Twenty Years Ago (only on the website): Before Microsoft captured desktop computers with Word, a small company in Utah built Wordperfect into a world class application. By 2003, the battle was essentially over.
Good morning, class! Today we'll be using our red markers, because we have some corrections to make. That's right, we're discussing the editing of Roald Dahl, and how a changing society perceives media differently over time. Plus, we've got a Vet Dentist update, and some killer Recs to cap things off. Terrific. This episode's mistakes include: A bit of an audio whine in places. Again. Over-description of dental procedures. Briefly mistaking John Lennon for George Harrison. Egregious factual inaccuracies. Close any open browser tabs, then like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram and Spotify, rate us on Apple Podcasts, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.
This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Jeff Looman, a software developer who is the Vice President of Engineering at FileShadow, Inc. FileShadow is a software platform that categorizes your files based on metadata and content. It's a secure vault for all of your files. The two discuss how saving our images and documents, collaboration with family and friends, and preserving our digital footprint are critical components to preservation. Related Episodes:Episode 134: Unlocking the Shoebox : Digitize, Identify and Organize Family PhotosEpisode 95: How to Save Your Family Archive with Permanent.orgLinks:FileShadowSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:Jeff Looman has been working in software development for over 38 years, both as an engineer, in engineering management, product management, and product placement strategies. He is currently the Vice President of Engineering at FileShadow, Inc. and has worked for a variety of large companies such as WordPerfect, Novell, Apple Computer, and Corel and small companies such as AccessData, eDepoze, and FileShadow. He has been involved in the production of numerous software packages predominantly focused on business productivity in a collaborative environment, focusing on the needs of individual entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and everything in between.About Maureen Taylor:Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective helps clients with photo related genealogical problems. Her pioneering work in historic photo research has earned her the title “the nation's foremost historical photo detective” by The Wall Street Journal and appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple PodcastsI wanted to remind you all that I run one-on-one Photo Consultations, that help identify photo clues that you may have missed, in order to help you better understand your family history. Not many people realize that the saying is true - and that a photo can tell a million stories. All sessions are recorded, and there's a discount for bulk image sessions. Find out more on my website at https://maureentaylor.com. Support the show
Vin Scully matches Kourfax's perfect performance from the broadcast booth.
Jeff explains the importance of always being word perfect.
Well we did it...we solved all the problems and covered a lot of other super important topics. During this ground breaking broadcast event, we not only explain everything you would ever want to know about Fantasy Football in general but we also discuss trying Cosby Candies (for science), we determine that the Live opening of Al Capone's safe may have been staged, we share our concern* about Tom Brady being OK, we pend way too much time getting to the bottom (I think?) of the "Wad Blown/Blown Wad" conundrum with not one but TWO call in experts, we unveil a new sponsor, we all agree to the beauty of Word Perfect predictions, years long Man Crushes are exposed, we detail the Ayahuasca journey and the trans-dimensional miles on Aaron Rodgers, the desperation of the Great Gazoo, the majesty of James Earl Jones and the truth behind the lack of Gunts among many other extremely important topics. To anyone who plays Fantasy Football (and everyone else) you're welcome! #fantasyfootball, #greatgazoo, #cosby, #alcapone, #wadblown, #aaronrodgers, #jamesearljones, #surf, #surfreport, #NFL, #tombrady, #wordperfect, #interdimensional, #mancrush, #DMT,
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Meet Andie Monet who, at the age of 16, was totally abandoned by her mother and left homeless to fend for herself. None of that stopped Andie who went on to college, developed a strong personal feeling of self-worth and grew to be an expert in business development. Andie will share with you some of her processes she has used to improve large and small businesses alike. Unbidden she will even discuss persons with disabilities in the workplace. I believe this episode of Unstoppable Mindset is extremely poignant in today's business world. Andie offers thoughts and lessons we all can use in businesses and our personal lives as well. Please listen and then please let me know what you think by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com. I hope you enjoy today's episode and that you will give it a 5 rating. About the Guest: With humble beginnings of a homeless 16-year-old to eventually become a Business Optimization Expert, Andie Monet has advised Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses and foreign and domestic governments for over 3 decades in 13 countries and 22 industries. She teaches about strategic business growth principles without adding new costs. But more importantly, she advocates and teaches about what true leadership and howe we all can make a difference in the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andiemonet-ssd www.AndieMonet.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson 01:20 Welcome to unstoppable mindset. And we're back once again. And we are glad that you're here. Wherever you may be. We hope that you enjoy our podcast today we are going to have some fun talking about a variety of subjects. We have a guest I'm gonna let you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you. Andie Monet 01:40 Absolutely. I'm super excited to be here, Michael. And my name is Andy Monet and I am a business Optimation optimization expert you would think I'd actually be able to shave Michael Hingson 01:53 he talks well too, doesn't she? Andie Monet 01:57 It's easy to write on paper. Sometimes it's harder to say. Yes. And I just I love everything about you, Michael, your podcast, your your mindset. You're just you're amazing. And I'm super honored to be here today. Michael Hingson 02:13 Let's start with you. So obviously, where do you live? Where are you located? Andie Monet 02:20 I am outside Houston, Texas. I'm actually not from Houston or Texas. Well, my dad's from Texas, but I grew up in California and then moved where East Coast. I'm mostly Northern California, San Francisco Bay area. But I also lived in Southern California. Michael Hingson 02:39 We lived in Novato for 12 years. Andie Monet 02:42 Oh my gosh. That's where I'm from. Not in Nevada specifically but Morgan County. Yes, I love it. Michael Hingson 02:47 And now we're in Victorville. So we're in Southern California. Andie Monet 02:51 Oh, see you did the same thing. Victor reals. Beautiful though. Michael Hingson 02:54 I grew up. I grew up in Palmdale. And then I went to the east coast and live there for a while. Where were you on the east coast Andie Monet 03:01 of Virginia, primarily. DC area Michael Hingson 03:04 north. I lived in Boston for three years. And I learned to say things like packet con. Yeah, you gotta say my son was on a subway with a little six year old girl who was near us. And she had the cutest Massachusetts accent. Oh my gosh, I love it. And then we also lived in New Jersey for six years, which is where we got pretty visible because of all the stuff that happened with the World Trade Center being on the seventh floor and all that, but Oh, my. Then we moved back out to California. We're in Novato. Now. We're down here in Victorville. And it's supposed to actually get up to 83 degrees today. Andie Monet 03:42 Yeah, and it gets hotter than that in the summer for sure. Michael Hingson 03:46 does get hot down in Texas, too. Andie Monet 03:49 Yes. That's why everyone lives indoors. Michael Hingson 03:53 Yeah, absolutely true. Tell me a little bit about kind of your early years and all that stuff. Andie Monet 04:00 Yeah, well, I? Well, I'm not sure how early I should start. So I won't start too early. It'll be too long of a podcast. But what the the highlight, quote unquote, is when I was 16 years old, I found myself homeless because my single mom abandoned me. And all of a sudden, I had to figure out life very, very, very quickly. And I tell that because the two things that I learned at that literally within 24 hours of that event was one, I had to I was responsible for my own success, whatever that even meant, at that time or in the future, right? And to what action would I take today to get closer to that, to that success? And I say that because at that time, whether you're 16 or 30 or 90 or however whatever age you are, if you're homeless, the first thing you have to do is figure out what to do next. Right. And that obviously means finding a place to sleep. And so the action, like my success, and I'm being sarcastic, but truthful, at the same time is my success was finding a place to live. And where was I going to do that? And I had to do it today. Right? I couldn't do it next week, or next month or next year, right? Like I needed to figure out where I was going to live today. And, you know, at that time, unfortunately, it was, you know, in the bushes and underneath decks and things like that, and the laundromat a few times. But what I learned and what I was really grateful about that this really gave me the tools to create magic in my life that I knew if I wanted to anything could be created. Michael Hingson 05:49 And that's an interesting way to put it magic in your life. We oftentimes lose sight of the magic. Oh, yes, definitely. It is so hard to just imagine, though, being abandoned, all of a sudden, it's 16, or whatever, I guess, in one sense, it was good. At least you were already 16 and had some maturity behind you. But that's just a strange and hard concept to imagine, for most of us. Andie Monet 06:17 Yeah, it is, I had one person say, he ran away from home for one night, and he slept on a park bench. And he said that was the most miserable time in his in his entire life. And he couldn't imagine even without, you know, one example of doing it, and, and I laugh only because, you know, I think that we, if you I have the opinion that we don't always make the choices we have we want to make, but we make the choices we have to do when you know push comes to shove. Right? And so what I have ever left home at 16 know what, who knows when I would have left and my mom was? We don't know for sure, but that her sisters say she was bipolar? And maybe she was but either way, there was something wrong there. Right? And would I have continued to stay in that physically in an emotionally abusive household? At, you know, how long would I have stayed? And I don't know the answer to that. But in a in a really twisted kind of a way is the universe had a different plan for me. And maybe it would have been worse? I don't know. But I was even though the whole homeless thing happened with what I always think. And I keep jumping around. I apologize, because I kind of get excited about talking about this is that you know, that whole saying about is your glass half full or half empty? And my glass is always overfilling regardless of the situation. And so in the homeless thing? Yes. Would I ever do it again? Absolutely not. Do you know what I have changed things if I could have Yes, but the glass overflowing is I was in a really good County, there was hardly any crime. I was completely safe. I mean, in retrospect, at the time, I was terrified. I was safe. And I and I live in such a great County, that there was always going to be opportunity. And I grew up with people, not only not my friends, but my friends, families where I saw success. I saw business owners, I saw people, you know, my best friend's father was on the cover of Forbes magazine twice. You know, I grew up with a lot of Hollywood musicians and actors like this was I just assumed that I would that that was normal in the sense of I would somehow get there someday, too. So there was never any no one ever told me I couldn't and I always assumed I would be successful, whatever that was, and that's a really a big blessing, even though you know, the circumstances happen the way that they did. Michael Hingson 08:57 So were you in Southern California by this time? No, I was in Marin County, your silymarin. Yeah, well, that definitely was a good place to be. Andie Monet 09:06 Yes, exactly. Michael Hingson 09:09 Because it's for those who don't know, it's a county with a lot of incredible people. Well, Jerry Garcia was from Marin County and valley from Mill Valley. And a number of people of course, that's where Star Wars originally started. That's right. And so, I mean, you had all sorts of lightsabers around you to keep Oh, Andie Monet 09:29 absolutely. Absolutely. And so it's just it's an amazing place. And, you know, I was it was really quite a blessing to be homeless in that area of all areas. Right. So, Michael Hingson 09:42 so you were abandoned? What did you do? Andie Monet 09:45 Yeah, well, the besides looking for a place temporarily outdoors, but eventually indoors, which was a terrifying 16 foot trailer shared with several people who were not pleasant to be around. But, you know, the thing is at 16, my solution was graduated from high school as soon as possible, which actually, I graduated high school formally as 16 and started college at 16. And, more importantly, related to my life now as I started a business, and people, including myself thinking, why on earth would you start a business at 16? And it really wasn't because I, you know, I never considered myself an entrepreneur at that point, I never really intended to own or not own a business, it was just because I had to, you know, at 16 years old, their labor requirements at the time and you couldn't do certain jobs and who wanted to hire a 16 year old anyway, for obvious reasons. And so I had to make money and I was like, well, here we go door to door, I'm gonna find a job one way or the other, and the quote unquote job just ended up being us, you know, self employed and making money called, you know, under the table, as they say, what so what was your business? Oh, everything I could anything and everything. I could think, of course, legally, so but mostly office stuff, like copying, stapling, you know, answering the incoming telephone lines when the reception was out to lunch, throwing out garbage, you know, literally anything in the office that I could, because I already had some Office experience at that time. So and we, you know, there were computers, I was great at working on computers still, even though it was the very beginning. Back in the day, when WordPerfect you had to program your, your text, if anybody even remembers that Michael Hingson 11:38 good old word. Perfect. Yes. Andie Monet 11:40 Oh, dear. And so yeah, just a bunch of office stuff it but what I, what I ended up getting really good at was, surprisingly, not sales, by the way, it was creating solutions. Well, you know, obviously, for myself, but also in businesses where I would see something and I would say something. And so a process wasn't working well, or, you know, I was really good at designing stuff for marketing flyers back in the day before social media and you know, coasting, digital marketing, that's what I was looking for. And just really, finding ways to save time to save money to communicate better in marketing, or hiring or anything, it was like, anyway, I knew that I noticed where a difference could be made. I said something. And as that happened, more and more people believed in me, and I had more confidence. And of course, as you build confidence, more people believe you. So it's a cycle, right? And so there's just a lot of things that I just ended up doing in general, but all in the office, Michael Hingson 12:54 what did all of that do in terms of your, your overall psyche, you had to obviously developed some decisions or mindsets about what you were going to be or the kind of person you were going to be? I'm assuming that being abandoned, probably changed. pretty much immediately. A lot of the thoughts you had about directions and your own view of the world. Andie Monet 13:20 Yeah, you know, from as long as I could remember, I always knew that I would change the world. And I didn't know, you know, being naive, and not really having any life skills. I don't know if that was going to be, you know, solving world hunger or creating world peace. Like those were the levels I was thinking about. And with the homeless nurse situation, it really kind of, you know, you had to look at that and say, Well, if this is my situation now, what does that mean, for my future? And in a gullible, or, you know, I don't know, I just still had had assumed that that would happen, it would just I just didn't know how long it would take. And part of that was going to college. So the reason that college was really important for me personally, one was that I was good academically anyway. So that wasn't a challenge or a fear. But one, how am I going to create a difference in the world without having a college education, because that was still during the time where you had to go to college to be anything, right. And it's not quite the same way now. But back then it was a big deal. And so there was a way I was going to do that. And that would be that was my first step and my first answer towards finding out how I was going to make a difference and an impact in the world. But as far as like, you know, there I didn't, I was, you know, bullheaded or stubbornness or whatever you want to call it. I was very single minded in the sense of, this is what I want to do and I will get there one way Another So regardless of what happened with my mom, it was more okay, how do I do it now without her? Instead of instead of it being now I'm not going to do it, it was more? How am I going to do it now without all of the other things I assumed I would have? Michael Hingson 15:16 And what did you decide? Andie Monet 15:20 Well, besides the college degree and, and the owning the business, Michael Hingson 15:25 just about how you're going to live in general, since you now didn't have some of what was probably at least a significant part of your support infrastructure? Andie Monet 15:35 Oh, yeah. Well, you know, again, it was just sort of chipping away, I think, so find a place to live first, which, you know, I was in college. Well, I was, so when I was six. So my birthday is in September. And so at the beginning of that school year, was toward the end of that calendar year, I was homeless. And I was still going to high school during this whole homeless fiasco. And I was applied to college and went through that whole thing with applying to college and getting in and I officially started calling the summer of the following year, two months before I turned 17. And I say that because I was at the college, I was trying to get figure out, you know, all of the things that I need to do in the in the financial aid and the in the classes and the counseling, and, you know, telling me where I need to go. And so there's, so that led to bulletin boards of back in the day bulletin boards, I guess, where you people were looking for people to hire or looking for roommates, or all of those things. So I used to ended up finding a roommate situation. And it was only a couple of $100 a month, which was pretty much all the money I had yet until that point. And so you know, found a place to live. And it was really, really far, actually, it's in Novato of all places. And which is really far from you know, San Rafael. And so there was a lot of busing going on a lot of catching the bus a lot of hours sitting on the bus. And I say that because it was not convenient to be on a bus four hours a day. But it was still okay, check, got no place to live check, you know, graduated from college, you know, check started college, you know, had to go through that whole fiasco of applying which all of this is new, like I, I don't know how, what the process is for applying to college. I just didn't I get there. But all those, you know, day to day action steps and, and lots of time in the library. Right, lots of asking questions of the librarian, you know, just for me, it was just chipping away. Okay. I don't know, what do I do first? What do I do next? What do I do? Like one question leads to an answer, which leads to a question, which leads to a question, which leads to an answer. And so it was just really digging through all of that. And I knew I needed a place to live. And I knew I needed money. And I knew I wanted to go to college. Michael Hingson 18:01 Where did you go to college? Andie Monet 18:04 I originally started at College of Moran, okay. But eventually to Stanford, and I actually now have five degrees. But you know, I don't usually share that because, you know, cuz they really had nothing to do with owning a business. Even though, even though the school is telling you and I probably shouldn't say it, but I will never recommend anybody going to business school for business usually. Michael Hingson 18:35 Well, I got my bachelor's and master's in physics. And I can't say that I don't use them, even though my job changed. And I had some choice in that, in that I was doing some scientific kinds of things, but worked for companies that decided that they hired too many non revenue producing people and I was one of the people that had to go unless I would go into sales. And I made the choice to go into sales. I love to say I lowered my standards and went into sales. But but the reality is that I would never have been nearly as successful if I hadn't gone through seven years of physics and learned a lot of discipline, learn to pay attention to details, and learned a lot of technical stuff that directly and indirectly has helped me through the years in in sales. So yeah, my degree is different than what I do but it it still helps. Andie Monet 19:42 Well, actually my original degrees and then in engineering and physics, and I I love math, because in part because I love being able to well let me back up a second. I was good at math. I love math. And that's why I did that. But what I learned beyond the math was how to identify, you know, certain aspects of things happening or systems or patterns or, you know, and then you can use math in related and not to get on geeky on us, but where you can have optimization, which is why that's why I call myself a business optimization expert, because optimization is really solving multiple formulas and equations at the same time, while you can also do maximum and minimum calculations. And so with, with business, you want to maximize your revenue, you want to minimize your costs. And if you can streamline operations also, then that's what I really consider optimization. But I can't, I couldn't do what I do now, without having done engineering and physics and calculus and statistics that, and it's just been an amazing way that I didn't even realize would apply to business. But that but does the way I think, Michael Hingson 21:04 and there you go. It's, it's all about your perspective on it. And also, it's the choices you make, and how you choose to use everything you learned up to that point. And your story is clearly all about making choices. And you can you can talk about what good choices you may have made and bad choices that you may have made. But if you learn from the so called bad choices, then so much the better. But the bottom line is they all teach things to us. Andie Monet 21:40 Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's really a perspective that, that I really wish a lot of people recognize more, because it's so I mean, I couldn't imagine living as a victim, you know, and, and I guess I shouldn't say that, but I just think that there's so many and my life has not been perfect, they can be tied to the 16 year old. I mean, I, I've been divorced multiple times my you know, you know, my first husband, before we got married, you know, we talked about getting to know each other, and that we would argue and marriage takes effort and, and you know, there's going to be times that we don't like each other and all this stuff, and that we are committed to making it work. And three months later, he wanted a divorce. And, you know, my next marriage was I didn't know it, then. But he ended up being a drug addict and embezzling money out of my company, because I made him an officer, because why would I? Why would it not? Right? He's my husband. And, and I've been homeless more than one time, unfortunately. So you know, just stuff happens. And if I had let those situations define my capabilities, and my capacity and my success, or my lack of success, my life would be really hard place. And it doesn't have to be because no matter what happens, you can always create amazing things in your life, with or without people's help. I mean, obviously, the more help, the better. But there's still things you can do. Michael Hingson 23:16 And again, you learned from your choices. So have you have you ever gotten married, it now sticks? Andie Monet 23:25 You know, I honestly, I truly hope that I will be married again someday, but I'm not married at the moment. And, you know, I someday, you know, I leave it to God in the universe to decide to let me know when when it's time I suppose. Michael Hingson 23:42 We got married my wife and I when I was 32. And she was 33. I love to say I taught her everything she knows. She reverses that. So it's okay. But we have now been married 39 plus years. Oh my gosh, for us wonderful. What we what we say? And I think rightly so is that we knew what we wanted in someone. And you're right, God lets you know when it's the right time and for us, we just knew. And so we met in January of 1982. I proposed in July and we got married in November of 1982. So I love it. Yeah. And we have, we go through all the usual things that marriages go through, but we are absolutely committed to each other and that's as good as it gets. Andie Monet 24:38 Absolutely. And I do think that, you know, again, probably not the topic of conversation, but you know, one of the reasons that I had such a challenging time with the marriage thing, in part was because I had with the relationship with my mom, I didn't really know how those you know, I needed somebody to Love Me. So there was all that I mean, not that we all don't want somebody to love us, of course, but mine was just very toxic in a sense of I need, because I hadn't gone through what I needed to go through with dealing with my mom. I mean, I love her and, and I haven't seen her in 20 years. And and that's a whole nother discussion. But the point being, I just never had that role model. We never, neither didn't have no one. I never saw it, I never talked about it. All I know is that I was empty inside and I wanted to fill that up, and it was filled with the wrong people, you know, and and I know that now, so it's different, within a good way, you know, Michael Hingson 25:43 you have developed a mentality, or let's put it as, as we should a mindset in your life, I would certainly describe it as an unstoppable mindset. But you clearly have developed a mindset by which you live. Andie Monet 25:59 Yeah, I actually realized it was a mindset until not recently, but you know, several decades, several years later, I just, I had always just assumed everybody believes the same thing I did that you can do anything you want, if you wanted to, if you wanted to. Right, and, and then I found out that that just wasn't true for most people. And it's, I'm laughing because I'm, you know, in my earlier age, because I'm in my 50s. Now my earlier age, I would, I don't want to say make fun of them. But I just I just didn't get it right. And even though I know not everybody thinks the same. I just figured it was I just figured it was a common theme. And I recognize now that I was really blessed to have it whether by choice or accident or who knows what, right. But I even talked to my, my, my son's father about it. And, and he says, which was really insightful for me. And I didn't think that, that he could teach me anything I didn't already know. giggle giggle. But he said, Well, you've just been in a habit of doing it all your life. So of course, the more times you do it, the more confidence you get the less of a question it becomes. And I had never really thought of it that way. As you know, I it's you know, and the reason I say that is because this really started when I was five years old. And my mom when I was five, she said, Okay, you're five, you're going to school, and now you have to take care of yourself. And I thought well, what does that mean? And she said, you know getting dressed, getting yourself up in the morning getting yourself dressed for school, taking yourself to school, making sure you eat breakfast, packing your lunch, doing all the things, making sure you do your all the things that you would normally do that you would get support from parents from gets a parent, that's not a complete sentence. But anyway, I said, Wow, good. I do I talk good ish. And so, you know, it's it was that practice of, of just doing it day to day to day, and there were some days that were just really scary. Like, I took the bus and went to the wrong bus stop and got on the freeway and ended up somewhere else. And I called my mom and I said, Hey, apparently I took the wrong bus, can you come and get me and I remembered because I was only eight years old. And she said basically tough go figure it out. And I was in tears walking to where I thought my school was. And it took several hours and but things like that happened to me all the time. And my mom was just like, suck it up, because I'm not going to come and get you. And so the practice of being able to problem solve and find solutions and make things happen even when you didn't want to was something that she forced me to have to do. And she didn't do it out of the kindness of her heart even though I would like to think that I mean, she just didn't want to have to deal with a child but but the benefit of that was it's something that I'm good at. And so, you know, beyond that, I also kind of feel like that you are you can you take that to more than just your day to day stuff, right? You can take that into beyond, you know, feeding yourself and, and maybe eating well and maybe exercising but how do you impact the world? How do you I mean, so many people, I think, feel like they're meant for something bigger, and they just don't know what that is or they don't know what to do about it. I mean, I think everybody really is an amazing person that can do so much once they look past themselves. And sometimes that's not easy, because you only look at your situation or how much money you don't have or what your, you know, potentially bad relationship is like, or you hate your job or your car isn't working at all these things that are stinky, poopoo, right? Yeah, but what about the stuff that is that has worked? And how do you move from, hey, I have a crappy car to, hey, I have a car that can take me to places where I don't have to catch the bus or where instead of, you know, driving 20 minutes, maybe you get a job that pays twice as much. That's 20 more minutes away. Like there's little things right? And how do you I know that's kind of a silly example. But but there are like you can, how you look at what you have changed can change your life literally. Michael Hingson 30:56 Put. Let me turn let me turn the bus thing around just for fun. Yes, my my wife is isn't a wheelchair she's used to chair her entire life until we moved to Novato actually, in 2003. So it was after we were there a year, she switched to a power chair. And as her physical medicine doctor said, The problem is that God in the universe don't give shoulders a lifetime warranty. So her rotator cuffs were fraying and some arthritis. So she had to switch to a power chair. But in the early 1990s, we went to New York, I went for some sales meetings. And I invited her to come along, because I don't think that she had spent any real time in New York as I recall. So she came. And I went on sales calls. And she entertained herself during the day. And I came home from one set of calls back to the hotel. And she was all absolutely proud of herself. Because she had gone to the concierge and she said I want to go to her the UN. And he did some research. And it turns out that the busses in New York were wheelchair accessible for at least the most part, if not totally, they had ramps or lifts, actually, that would get her on the bus. So she went out she caught a bus to the UN, oh my goodness, just like anyone else paid her fare and the whole bid got to the UN. But actually the bus stopped across the street, she wheeled across the street, went across the parking lot and all that got into the UN took the tour, came back out, got a bus back to the hotel, and was absolutely proud of herself because she was able to do all that. And I understand that it was pretty daunting, because most of the time, a lot of that stuff isn't accessible. But on the other hand driving is a whole lot more fun than in a sense than having to take the bus I understand. Andie Monet 32:59 Yeah, I think even then, you know, it, I couldn't imagine how scary it would be I mean, even and I'll say this, and it's going to sound really strange. Like for me to catch a bus now, I would be terrified only because it just takes you know, you have to organize it, which bus number is it going to go to the right place. So you need to couple buses. And God forbid, you know, if for people who don't have 100% of all their, you know, whether it's site or movement, what happens if something happens, right? I mean, I imagine you'd have to think about that. Like, what happens if, if my wheelchair doesn't work, or I fall out or I have a medical issue and I'm in public, nobody knows where I am. You know, that's, that creates a whole nother nother level of what do you do? And you know, life can be scary sometimes, no matter how good you are. Michael Hingson 33:57 I think that's true for a lot of people, though, I mean, in the sense that whether it's a physical issue or whatever, especially today, there are just so many uncertainties that we all face. I admire people who are out and about all the time, on buses and so on, because that's their only way to get around. Or maybe it isn't, but that's the way they've chosen and they learn to live with it. I know. For years, I traveled from Westfield, New Jersey into the World Trade Center by two trains. Actually, a paratransit vehicle from one end of Westfield to the other and then two trains to get in. And I I know, absolutely for certain I could still do that today. But that's a set sort of thing that you can count on unless the train breaks. Right, right. But having to use that as your main process for getting around trains and buses and so on that that has to be difficult for a lot of people. And it would be nice if other people could could have the opportunity to drive but their life conditions at this point may not make that possible. Although I think that it would be so much better if we had really good public transportation. Oh, my gosh, yes. All over the place. Andie Monet 35:20 For sure. I mean, that. Really? I mean, I think that should have been done years ago. But we don't we don't live in that kind of a society right now. You know, but we don't, I think that it would be a wonderful thing. Not for so many people, though, you know, not just, you know, there's some family that only have one car, or maybe, you know, there's some certain, you know, they're getting older, like my grandfather who's still alive, he can't he's legally blind and legally deaf. And so he still has to get around. Right. I mean, but there's only so many resources available to him. And I don't say that just because it's a family member of I mean, it just in general, we are, you know, the United States doesn't have a great system for, for transportation system in general. Michael Hingson 36:10 We're not where we should be, what are their lives, Andie Monet 36:14 He lives in San Leandro, California, okay? Well, in his own apartment, because he doesn't want to live with anybody because he's bent and stubborn, just like his granddaughter. Michael Hingson 36:28 And the other side of that is that there are techniques and there are things he could learn. And we could, if it would be helpful, I can introduce you to some some folks that might be able to assist him to improve in in his processes, because there's no reason that from a physical standpoint, he can't be independent. But on the other hand, I understand there are more aspects to it than that. But we there are, there are so many people who lose their eyesight. And some of them make the choice to just give up. And some of them make the choice, similar to the choices that you've made, not to give up. And I think that's, that's part of the the mystery I think for for all of us is why is it that more of us don't tend to believe that we can be unstoppable. And I use that in so many general ways, but to for the purposes of the question, why is it that we don't learn to choose to be able to accomplish what we need to do and overcome obstacles in our way. Andie Monet 37:42 You know, I happen to think, and, of course, there's no scientific background to this, but I happen to think a lot of it is in part due to the way that we grow up. And some families are just not supportive, you know, they don't, they don't hear the affirmations, or they don't hear, you know, their, whatever, whether it's words or actions or, like with my mom, she was not, she was either, which is kind of doesn't support what I'm about to say, but she, her actions were very, you're not, you're not valuable enough for me to me. But at the same time, she forced me to do things that that were eventually good for, for me. So she supported me in really kind of reverse kind of a way. But like my daughter, I have an adult daughter, and I have a young son at home. But my adult daughter is a complete opposite of me. And she's in she. And I don't have a solution for this, but she doesn't, she hasn't really she's very challenged with finding with doing what she wants to do for the benefit of herself. And I don't, and I don't know how to fix it. And I can't because she's an adult now. But going back to why people don't feel that way. Is you know, I think social media plays a big part of it, which again, not scientific just my opinion. You know, while in social media, you're always finding how everybody's like, it's wonderful and beautiful and perfect or great shoes or nice car, you know, handsome spouse or, or good looking friends or smart, like everything is there perfect, single second in their life, right? And when you're comparing yourself to that, especially with the children, and then the younger adults, is, well if they're doing it, and I'm not and I'm a failure, and it's constant. I mean, it's just whether you're watching a TV show or a movie or social media, it's all about how wonderful somebody else's life is. And we don't have enough input to really tell us that we're amazing inside. And we have all the tools we already need to be successful. And I don't care how smart you are, or how how you know how fast your car drives, or how many bad relationships you've built in, or how much your kids hate you, or like, there's always amazingness in you, and we don't get that input from everybody. And whether it's not from our spouse, not from our kids, not from our parents, not from our family members, not from our friends, it's not something we get on a constant or consistent basis, and you have to find it inside of you, which is not easy to do, like spending time with yourself. And being really honest about your life is not an easy place for some people, especially when they're lost or confused or anxious or frustrated. And I could talk about that on on a tangent forever. But I'd really I would love a society and an environment and a community where we really create positive messages. And we just don't have that here. Michael Hingson 40:55 I can imagine, though, that a lot of kids, in your situation, if they had been in the same kind of environment, might not have reacted the same way you did, and not learn to be self sufficient, or couldn't mentally overcome the challenges that your mom put in your way? And how do we? How do we deal with that? How do we teach kids to recognize that they can accomplish whatever they want. And I mean that in a positive way, not just to overcome people tramp on people or whatever, but recognize that within themselves, they have a lot more inner strength than they probably think they do. Andie Monet 41:44 I think sports has a lot to do can help that. I think that academics are really important because I there's a foundational, intellectual level, right? But music, and athletics, and all the creative and fine arts are critical for that. And again, not scientific, just my opinion, I think all of those make a huge impact into confidence and problem solving, and the ability to be able to find magic inside of you. And also not related to that. But this is the exact reason why, you know, I created a nonprofit organization. And certainly it's not going to solve all the problems. But it gives children a place to recognize that they are amazing. And I don't talk about being amazing. But I give them you know, tips and tools and resources in what I call six fundamental areas. And one of them is confidence and leadership and career and entrepreneurship. And just really, that everybody's different in their own amazing way. But by the way, while you're figuring out your amazingness here are some life skills that you're going to deal with that, though you might not be you might not be dealing with it now today. But these are things that you're going to need in your adult life. I mean, my eight year old, we talk about publicly traded companies and the difference between debit and credit card and why credit scores are important because we talked about bankruptcy because he said, Well, what happens if you don't pay your credit card? And I said, Well, your credit score goes down, you could go bankrupt. And if you go bankrupt, you get, you know, your interest rate goes down, I mean up and then as your interest rate goes up, you can't afford stuff like I oversimplified it, of course, but these are things that, you know, help. Again, I know, it's not confidence in the traditional sense of confidence, but confidence in the sense of when they're 18 and 20. And 30. Like this is not going to be a surprise for them. Like they'll be able to manage basics of life when we're talking about, you know, doing laundry and, and checking air in your tires, as well as as financial management and career. I mean, I really wish that again, sorry, I'm talking so fast that I get going, I get so excited about this is I wish they would bring career day back to schools because now kids just have no idea. You know, there's no leadership in the sense of the possibilities. And I think the the whole idea of possibilities and vision is so important. Not only as a child, but as an adult still, whether you're 20 or 30, or 40. Like if you don't know, if you don't have any, you know, plan or desire or goal or someplace you want to be that's different than where you are now then, of course nothing's going to change and so when children graduate high school or even sometimes graduate college, they still don't know what they're going to do. And that's okay. But having that next step is what's important, right? What do you do when you graduate high school? Okay, well, even if you're even if you don't want to go to college, you still are going to have to get a job which is you know, where are you going to start? Are you going to start it, McDonald's? Are you going to start wherever right There's still that next step, you're going to have to take today or tomorrow. And there's always going to be that next step, you're going to have to take today or tomorrow. And there's always going to be something you have to do, even if even if the end all be all is let me just get up and go to work and come home and II, you're still applying for that. Right? So exactly. Michael Hingson 45:19 Well, let me ask this, it's generally acknowledged that we learn a lot of our formative stuff, at pretty young ages by five and seven years old, and so on. And that leads to developing a mindset, whatever it is, can those mindsets change, though later in life? Andie Monet 45:43 My opinion is that there's always a core set of mindset that you're going to grow up with, right, and some of them are good, and some of them are bad. And I think all of them that both the good and the bad, can absolutely change. But the good ones you really want to take hold of and develop those and, and that's where I really think where the you're really inner superhero can come that comes out is when you can identify and strengthen those really positive mindsets that you have. Because once your eyes again, this is what I think is that once you're able to not devalue them, not minimize them, not ignore these innate mindsets, and strengths that we have, and really like, you know, just build them up. Like it can create an amazing, amazing impact in your life. But by the same token, as you can identify not helpful mindsets, that it's just like eating if you ate candy all the time. And you know, it's bad for you, why do it? Right? Michael Hingson 46:54 How do we change those? How do we change those bad mindsets? Andie Monet 46:58 Well, I mean, I just think education is really the big piece of that, you know, you have to, you have to want it, you have to search for it, you have to find books, or mentors, or even YouTube, like I love looking at motivational speeches on YouTube. They're so fun to me. You know, counseling is helpful. I mean, there's so many things, Michael Hingson 47:18 all about making choices, Andie Monet 47:20 how about making choices, and even, you know, churches and synagogues and, you know, meditation places, like, if you ask, and you're like, hey, I would like to get, you know, be better at it. Or, you know, I tend to have a negative mindset, how, you know, Can you can you have any recommendations, like, I used to put affirmations on my bathroom mirror, that would bring me to tears, literally, because I knew they were true. When, like, logically, but emotionally, it was hard. Like, you know, I'm valuable. I love myself, you know, I'm pretty, whatever they is right? say them out loud, to yourself in the mirror, you think is an easy thing to do. And it was not, even if no one else knows just you it's a hard thing to do. But it's so I think it's one of the most important things that you can do for yourself. Michael Hingson 48:15 We just don't learn enough. Nor are we talked enough about introspection. And yeah, and recognizing that when you do something that you really feel is wrong, recognizing me wrong, maybe it's not good choice. But when you when you do something that doesn't turn out the way you expected. And I'm operating under the premise that that's morally a good thing, as opposed to, you tried to rob a bank, and that doesn't count. But when you when you truly are trying to better yourself, and you do something where it doesn't go the way you planned, if we don't stop and look at it, and try to understand more of why it happened. No matter what we do, we're not going to progress. Andie Monet 49:06 Absolutely. Very, very true. And that I believe that that happens in anything, anything and everything, whether it's career or owning a business or being a better spouse, or a better, you know, driver or I mean, for example, you know, if you get in a car accident, what's the first thing you do you blame the other person, right? But nobody often thinks about what they did that they could have been done differently. You know, not, you know, hopefully not texting, of course, but you know, driving the speed limit or doing that three seconds or whatever their seconds is, you know, the safe distance or you know, just whatever it is and that, again, going back to I feel like you're saying is looking at what you did and how you contributed to the outcome of it. I think makes it really, really Big difference. And even for me even It's even good stuff, right? Well, what can I do that will make it even better? And so what am I, and I'm probably talking too long about this, but you know, I love, I love loving on people. And if and it's just, it comes from my heart, it's genuine, it means it means a lot to me to be able to do that with people. And even if they're strangers like, and so you know, looking them straight in the eye when I'm talking to them, or calling them by their name or saying thank you, or whatever, like, those are really important to me. But I don't do it 100% of the time. So how can I go from whatever the loads, just throw out a number, say 75% of the time? How do I move from 75% to 80%? Like, it takes a conscious effort to recognize when I'm not doing it, to know why I'm not doing it, because maybe I was just in a bad mood, and I or I missed a deadline, or I didn't eat lunch or whatever, like that's on me. But you have to recognize when I have to recognize when I do it so that I can get better at it, or at in this case that are not better at moving from 75 to 80 percents. Michael Hingson 51:06 Well, and and you really are expressing this very well, because the other thing I was going to talk about was the fact that even if you were involved in something and did it absolutely the right way, it's still a good idea to go back and look at it to be able to ask the question, could I have done it even better? Or it worked out? Okay, for me, I did what I was what I needed to do, and I made exactly the right choices. But these other things happened elsewhere. What kind of effect could I have had in maybe making it better for other people, it all gets back to self analysis and introspection that we just tend not to want to do with ourselves in our lives. And the reality is, we're our best, worst critic. Absolutely. And we should do more of that. So I have a question. What did you do after college, you went and started a career do we what? Andie Monet 52:06 I got my engineering degree, but never went into engineering. And it's been business my whole life. So my I ended up being originally being an accountant. And I, my biggest client, by 20 years old was actually Price Waterhouse, which is one of the big four international accounting firms. And I consulted with them. So I was already consulting. By the time I was 18, I had almost graduated college by the by Dean. And I just been really, the short version is honing my skills into better and better things. Mostly because I have a growth mindset also, like I believe there's always something to learn. And even, like what I do with business development is I still love listening to other people and other books and taking other courses from other people who also do business development, because maybe there's something that I can learn. Or maybe there's a trick I didn't consider. Or maybe there's a different way to explain something, which I have learned over the years. Like, even though I'm an expert, quote, unquote, I say that because, you know, you never know everything. But even though I'm an expert at what I do, there's always room for growth. And then I find over the last 35 years that other things complement what I do. And so it helps me to know what happens after I'm doing what I'm doing with them, I can give them direction as to what to do next. That is not necessarily what I do, right? So there's just always ways that you can really impact the world, which is what I really my end goal is how do I how do I make a difference in people's lives. And for me, you know, financially, it comes through my business, but I teach them about leadership and communication, which is not, I don't teach them that in as a consultant. That's what I bring to the table as a friend, and as a mentor, and as a colleague, and as somebody who cares about people who want to who hopefully also want to make a difference. Michael Hingson 54:09 So what is your business today? Andie Monet 54:13 I do business optimization. And so I basically I tell people this way, I help people create explosive growth without adding cost to their business. And everybody's like, what, what does that mean? And so how do we increase your revenue and decrease your cost? Where we're reducing the cost to operate your business, which really partially, you know, there's several ways to do that, but but over simplified ways, is streamlining your operations and streamlining your processes, which increases time of the day. But the decreasing and cost, in part has to do with productivity, increasing the productivity and I don't like that word because it makes it sound like whatever you're going to do in eight hours. Want you to do more, which is not really the intention, the intention is more. Okay, it takes you four hours to do this. Let's, let's take do it in two. But here's a really overseas a really good small example. Quick example is a guy came to me and he said, Hey, I want you to fix my Excel worksheet. I thought, why is this man calling me to fix his Excel worksheet? That's not what I do. And I said, well, but then in my, hey, let me help the world. I want to know. So I said, Okay, well tell me about your worksheet. So what do you do with it? He says, I will I bill clients. And I said, Well, how do you get into the worksheet? Tell me, tell me your process. And he says, Well, I help people in the field. They upload their hours to an app. We download the data from the app. It's in an Excel worksheet, and then we divvy up that information into 17 other worksheets, and then we both the clients and I said, Well, how long does that take? You said three weeks, about three weeks. And I said, Well, here's the thing, I'm not going to fix the Excel worksheet. But what I am going to do is fix your process. And then literally, one day, I moved him from a three week process to a two day process. And in two months, he doubled his revenue. So little things like that we didn't add any cost. He created more hours in his day, he created more revenue and more profits with literally in 24 hours. Except I do that on a bigger scale, usually, like I helped monster energy, save $14 million, and within a month, like, and then I help small businesses too, of course, but it all there's always a way to optimize something. And maybe it's all three of them. Maybe it's maybe it's streamlining processes, and optimizing your IT systems and improving your your your costs, but not always, sometimes it's just one of them. How Michael Hingson 56:56 do leadership and communications play a part in the whole process of what you do to fix processes. Andie Monet 57:07 So the processes are the processes, but what the way the leadership and the communication work is really critical for my own personal passion, not as much for the business, although I'll tell you the good points and the bad points. So I don't like saying this every day, because I think people misinterpret it or jump to conclusions. But as you can, as you have happy employees or productivity is gonna go up. And as their productivity goes up, their profits are gonna go up. This is not why I talk about communication and leadership, it just happens to be the result of it. But more importantly, I think that the leadership, leadership responsibility is to, again, my opinion, is to empower people and to lift people up and to be a version of themselves that they want to be or that can be and showing them that they that they can be that and this goes back to that positive. Really culture that we don't really have is how do we support each other? And maybe in some cases, that person instead of friend, I'm just throwing this out there instead of a McCallum they want to be an artist, well, then I happen to think that you should help them do that. Not everybody believes that. And I know why. But that's just what I think. So as a leader of a company specifically, and you know, even in the home, in your home, of course, but in a company is your job is to empower them and to uplift them and to give them tools to be successful. Yes. Was it? Is it going to cost $50? More a month? Potentially, yeah, but what are you going to do $50 is a small price to pay for having somebody's effectiveness, increased productivity, increase happiness increase. And that's the leadership role, the communication piece comes into play, because besides the positive, of course, but also in the sense of how it's my job to be able to communicate with you in a way that you're able to hear me and understand me, and be supportive. And we all have a communication style. That doesn't speak to everybody, right? I mean, there's, there's in the basic four, and I won't go into detail, but the basic four the relationship, structure, technical and action. And so I'm mostly a relationship person, I want people to feel good, I want people to be loved. I want people to feel like they belong. And so that's how I communicate and that's how I operate. And that's how I, that's where I am. But if I'm, if I'm in sales, or even if it's an employee, and I'm going to be talking to a technical person who that language is about the numbers, about the data about the resources about the statistics and all those things, then telling them that I love them is not going to get them to be excited about their job right or a sales potential client to be excited about doing business with me. I have to be able to communicate, where I'm like, Hey, I love you. But also, and here's the information that's going to make you successful as an employee, or here's the information that are, these are the statistics, or these are the articles, or this is the information that's going to have a potential customer, be my customer or an employee, be an empowered employee, where they're like, Yes, that makes sense, I'm ready to go. And so that's where communication really plays a part in, in leadership and in profitability. And in really just making a difference in other people's lives too. Because as your customers and employees and again, at home to, as they feel like you're, you're able to communicate with them in a way where they are appreciated, or loved, or empowered, or all of those things, they're going to go, they're going to want to come back to work, of course, but then they're also going to go home, and they're going to be more patient people, they're going to be more understanding people, they're going to be more like all of these other intangible things that they bring, you give to them, and they bring out into their lives. And that's why I think that's such an important piece of learning how to communicate better and have been the leader that I think we all can be. Michael Hingson 1:01:17 So person comes up to you and says, I want to be an artist, not an accountant. And they let's assume, just for the sake of discussion, they're a good accountant. Do you, although you want to help them? Do you try to drill down a little bit and find out why they really feel that way? Andie Monet 1:01:36 Yeah, I do. I do. Because one of the hesitations, I actually have this happen, which is why I thought of it. But I said, Okay, well, you know, what is it about? art that you really like, Andy, you know, because His concern was, he wouldn't have an income, which has pretty reasonable, you know, concern. So I was like, Okay, we have, we have two ways to handle this one. And this is this is my inside voice talking, by the way. One is that we find out how to be creative in his accounting role. Or two, we transition him from an account to creating a place in his life where he can be an artist, and make money, you know, because again, you have to eat right, eat and not be homeless. And so with him, we ended up and I've had this happen actually multiple times, but with him, we actually he kept his job. And we found a way where really, he just wanted to be creative. It wasn't necessarily art, per se. So he stayed an accountant, but he was more into the processes and the workflows and the systems design, and how do we really create a system that's going to not only be more productive, but where he can create that system? Create, Michael Hingson 1:02:58 where there's where the creativity comes from? That makes perfect sense. Yeah, exactly. What are some of the biggest challenges that you've seen that Cust your clients have when it comes to dealing with processes and so on? Andie Monet 1:03:12 Well, besides not having them, there you go. I just had a call today, actually. And it was it was a it was a friend that I met through an event. And she said she called me she's like, I'm losing my mind. I'm literally going to the doctor for an EKG, because my life really my business is unmanageable. And I just wanted to talk to somebody. And long story short, you know, she just felt really lost in being focused about her responsibilities as a business owner. And she felt like she was pulled in multiple ways. And that was stressing and it was now affecting her physical health, which is not a good thing. So my first question to her to her was, do you have processes which i i asked a question, I try to ask the question where she's going to say yes. And she said, Yes, I do. Nice. Okay. Are they documented? And that's where the note came in. Do you have a workflow? On paper? No, I'm like, Okay, so the short answer is, let's get that and you're not allowed to do anything else. If there's a fire, you're not allowed to put it out, because that is somebody else's job. If this is really what you want to do, and she told me what she want to do in her company, then you need to focus on that, and this is how we're going to do it. So I say that because sometimes clarity is a feeling that can only be handled with a technical answer. So with her, we needed it on paper and she needed to her focus was on what we were going to write but other people as An example is they just feel like they can very afraid of numbers. And there's a lot of math anxiety. In fact, I had a, I had somebody recommend never say math on the podcast, because people automatically shut down and I can see that happening. But there's what, there's an education process of explaining, without using the word mouth, what it is that we can provide to them. Right? Would you like to sleep better at night? Would you like to what I say? Would you like to be transformed from a small business owner to a corporate executive in your own business and be able to make financial and operational decisions with ease within a matter of minutes? Or yeah, like, well, then we need to build your infrastructure. That's it. So I actually Michael Hingson 1:05:51 very well, may very well involve bath but you didn't use the word. Andie Monet 1:05:55 Exactly. And in fact, some of the courses I teach are not talking about that. But they're doing that. But because because I started, I started by saying what they're going to get out of the answers that they're going to be able to answer. So they're willing to do a little bit more than they would had I started with the end, as opposed to well, excuse me, instead of starting at the beginning, I started at the end. And it makes a big difference. And I probably didn't even answer your question, frankly. But I was so excited about the, Michael Hingson 1:06:27 you're done. Good. I appreciate that. Let me ask this question that comes to mind changing the subject. So a lot of us who deal in one way or another with disabilities, because we are part of that community and so on. often hear people say, well, it's just too expensive to hire you or you have to buy special things for you. We can't afford that our business doesn't make much money. How do you deal or would you deal with that? Andie Monet 1:07:05 Well, first of all, I think that that's poopoo, poopoo answer. Because you can always get around other days to know I, I just think that's an excuse. And that, again, I know is just my opinion, but if it was important to you, you would find a way. And let's say worst case scenario, worst case scenario is that it does cause a lot of money. But there's more to your business and, and your life than the money that it costs. I think what how are you? Again, it goes back to contributing to the community. And I think that if you can get, you know, whatever, 1000 10,000 50,000 more people that you couldn't get to before, wouldn't that be a good thing, right. And even if, let's say they're not even customers, let's just say it's free to offer something for free. That's still creating intangible and non financial benefits to the world. And although I, of course, I'm more on the philanthropy side of why you should do it. But the financial pieces, there's always a way to do it. And I can pretty much almost guarantee that that anything is possible. Financially, if you have the right things in place, like maybe streamlining something that's going to like something costs $10,000. So let's streamline your operations where you're basically re creating 10,000 in your own company without spending money. So effectively, you have a net zero, like from a financial standpoint, there's always a way, I think, I mean, I've never yet in 35 years ever found something that I haven't been able to solve. We might have had to change the scope a little but other than that, it's all there's always a way. And I just think I just think that t
This episode contains: Ben hangs up on Steven in this week's Patreon-only content. We have almost 36 minutes extra in this week's unedited ep. https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-398-65566625 Ben is allegedly a good kisser. Steven has some "smelly cat" going from his cold. Steven got a new iPad Air. Wanna know why? He's gonna rewatch The Batman! Ben has been looking for what is leaking in his kitchen for 8 YEARS, and gets sciencesplained by a plumber. Good music noises: Dun dun dunna dun dunna dun DUN. BWEAAAANNNRRR! Tumors partially destroyed with sound don't come back. You know what is so metal? Non-invasive sound technology to remove cancer. Steven can't pronounce the word histotripsy. Can you? Can we scare liver cancer away with sound? Not exactly scare, but yeah. "Violent Sound Bubble" will be the first album by Non-Canon Borg Queen. After killing 75% of a liver tumor, rats' immune systems can clear away the rest. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220418093955.htm "Could you save me / From the ranks of the freaks / Who suspect they could never love anyone?": Let's talk about digital preservation. If you go back to a file with links years later, you might find they're gone. How can you preserve links forever? Maybe ArchiveBox can help! How do we get a WordPerfect document from 1995 off a floppy drive? Our Twitter account has tweeted over 55,000 times! That's unpossible! https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/what-is-digipres https://archivebox.io/ Science Fiction: Ben's family is way into Space Boy. Ben's son is already caught up. Handling mysterious back story in fiction is risky: Maybe it won't pay off. Like Space Boy? Consider Kazu Kibuishi's work: Flight, Amulet, Copper. Steven's kids Spider-splained to him after watching Spidey and His Amazing Friends, so Steven pulled out Ultimate Spider Man, even though it has some hanky panky. Try talking about it with a 7 year old. Ben finally saw and loved The Batman. The movie The Batman was so much better than the animated series The Batman. "Michael Douglas is my Batman," says Ben's wife. But she's not wrong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Keaton ). The narration in The Batman does a LOT for the story. The journey of The Batman and The Riddler are mirrors of each other.
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Come join us at the 2022 Wichita Business Expo at Century II on Thursday, September 29! This is the premiere business-to-business trade show in Wichita. No matter what you are looking for, you will find it at the Expo! Learn more now!Sometimes your super-power just finds you. That's what happened to Dawn Monroe as she began her first job out of college helping others learn how to use Word Perfect and Lotus. From there, she shares with Don and Ebony how she built her own technical education business, Dawn Monroe Training, from the ground up. On this episode we discuss: What is an MOSM Starting with a desire to help others “Zoom”-ing through the pandemic Helping others to become more efficient with business tools How much Excel the average person actually uses Always having Charlie available in a pinch Where she has found a niche in the training industry How she engages with new potential markets Why personal learning drives her business forward Learn more about Dawn Monroe Training:https://dawnmonroetraining.com/Facebook ProfileYouTube ChannelLinkedIn ProfileDawn Monroe is a certified Microsoft Office Specialist Master (MOSM), Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE), Modern Classroom Certified Trainer (MCCT), Certified Virtual Educator (CVE) and a Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP) with a background of nearly 30 years in the technical training industry. Dawn teaches and consults on popular software applications like Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and many others, with corporate workshops, webinars and speaking engagements in her hometown of Wichita, KS, and around the United States. Dawn has a unique ability to translate technical concepts in a simplified, fun way, and empowers business professionals through ongoing skill development.How did she get started? A certification in Interaction Management prepared Dawn to teach essential business skills to employees and supervisors in manufacturing. As computing became the norm in the 90s, Dawn found herself teaching computer skills to business owners and their employees. She began teaching Windows, Word and Excel in their infancy. (Remember Lotus 123 and WordPerfect? She taught those too!)During her five years at Butler Community College as an Adjunct Instructor, Dawn taught Microsoft Office both in the classroom and online. Her duties there also included facilitating staff workshops and student orientation sessions. She continues that relationship as a contract trainer for BETA @ Butler.She had a long-term contracting relationship with a well-known training franchise since 1995. There, Dawn continued to help business professionals learn to use a wide range of computer applications. Her proficiency grew to include Mac and PC-based applications such as Access, Excel, Office 365, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Windows and Word.Join the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce! This podcast is brought to you by the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce and is powered by Evergy. To send feedback on this show and/or send suggestions for future guests or topics please e-mail communications@wichitachamber.org. This show is part of the ICT Podcast Network. For more information visit ictpod.net
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