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Tribe Tel Aviv Hosts The Sunset Series: Israel & The World After the Gaza War: A Geopolitical Analysis w/ Ido Aharoni Ido Aharoni Aronoff, a distinguished Israeli diplomat and public figure, boasts a 25-year career in Israel's Foreign Service. Born in Tel Aviv to a historic Israeli family, he is renowned for his expertise in public diplomacy, place positioning, and branding. Aharoni is the founder of the Brand Israel Program and has served as Israel's longest-serving Consul-General in New York (2010-2016). He is a trusted advisor to global companies, a public speaker, university lecturer, writer, investor, and the host of TAU Unbound, the official English language podcast of Tel Aviv University.
8-6-2023 Sunday Sermon Message Meditations of the Week: Psalm 91:1-16 Text: Daniel 2:31-45 Word title: Cataclysmic Events in the World After the Rapture preceding the Millennium God showed a frightening dream to King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the entire worl...
Subscribe to our channel: youtube.com/thecomicspals?sub_confirm... Watch us LIVE on Twitch every: Thursday at 6 PM EST for Pals Pulls Saturday at 10:15 AM EST for The Comics Pals Grab some merch here: https://streamlabs.com/thecomicspals/merch Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/thecomicspals 00:00 Intro 02:18 Ram V Introduction 05:15 Why Ram V Signed on With DSTLRY 09:51 What Makes a Book Right for Publishing Through DSTLRY vs Other Publishers 13:05 What is DSTLRY'S Position in Comics? 26:28 Ram on Venom & Carnage 29:53 Why Ram Enjoyed Carnage 35:08 Ram's Goals on Detective Comics 42:59 The Core of Batman According to Ram 47:00 Ram's Take on Batman's Cast 51:30 Is Batman Reinforcing the Police State / Would Bruce's Money be Better Spent on Gotham? 55:34 Ram's Thoughts on the World After the Height of COVID 1:00:38 Ram V vs Marco AI Debate 1:07:23 What Makes Art? 1:12:38 Are Comics Creators Pushing Comics in the Right Direction? 1:21:15 Ram Fought for Scenes in The Swamp Thing 1:24:57 What has Ram Learned From Writing IP Characters? 1:28:53 What Musicians or Creators Outside Comics Inspire Ram? 1:35:00 What Ram has Learned About Comics 1:46:11 Which Characters did Ram Dislike Before he Wrote Them? 1:48:43 What Comics Have Ram Enjoyed Recently? The Comics Pals is a weekly comic book podcast where a group of comic book journalists and friends get together to talk comics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PodBean: https://thecomicspals.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecomicspals Instagram: https://instagram.com/thecomicspals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/6RAX3sT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pals: Sean: https://twitter.com/SeansSoapbox Tyler: https://twitter.com/TheTylerOlson Cale: https://twitter.com/Totointow Marco: https://twitter.com/mrmarcoanimoto
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Paul, Nate, and Tim break down The World After the Fall, Spy X Family, the spring season, and more!RareDrop: @raredropcoStudio Blank: @studioblankpodPaul: @i_love_mundaysNate: @comfimusTim: @syndaxatrix...Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studioblankpod/Witness us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@studioblank?Find us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/studioblankLove Coffee? Check out Kings Coast Coffee Co. http://www.kingscoastcoffee.comBe the coolest kid on the block with some Rare Drop Co merch:https://shop.raredrop.co/ Visit us at: https://raredrop.co/ Watch the streams:https://twitch.tv/comfimushttps://twitch.tv/ilovemundayshttps://twitch.tv/syndaxatrixhttps://cutt.ly/qjsUuzQhttps://twitch.tv/raredrop
Thoughts that carve paths, may take time to arrive, when we listen daily. I asked Spirit for a sign, that this work is right goal. Spirit brought Big Yes, in response. We take a deep dive into one Grammy voice, brought to me by Spirit in daily meditation, who surprised - in the best way. ________ NOTES: 3/5/22 Rough notes: Helen Reddy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reddy Helen Reddy, autobiography, "The Woman I Am" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RIO2US/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Marie Osmond - Helen Reddy - Interview and sings "You and Me Against the World" After 10+ year hiatus from performing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dky2uI6WUE Robyn Walker - Helen Reddy - "Conversations with Robyn" 2012. Australia. "Multitalent/Hypnotherapist" PART 1 OF 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhuI_V9dwq4 PART 2 OF 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SPZ_0A62a4 part 3 of 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYx_8IFwSEA #helenreddy #psychic #lawofattraction #artofallowing #neardeathexperience #NDE #Buddhism #meditation #reincarnation #abrahamhicks #hypnotherapy ______________ POD DESCRIPTION: This is The House on Valencia Street. This is a place where ghosts & psychics, with PTSD, exist, & I'm talking about it. Share time with a rare survivor, walking back to haunted rooms and space being claimed from long ago. This is from the survivor's perspective, communicated as I see fit, in a way that feels right, for me. I do not offer advice here, I share what worked for me. I am not a professional therapist, this is just one case study, one perspective. Please seek professional help, if mental health issues need attention. This podcast is intended for entertainment purposes, and I am a commentator. Language is explicit, Content Warning: ghosts, psychic ability, rape, incest, foster care, murder, emancipation, BDSM, therapy, lightning strikes, personal responsibility, Buddhism, recovery, codependency, comedy, domestic violence - and inappropriate humor, most likely. Picture inset: This is me, so many years ago, standing in front of my mother's Impala, an --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mohmah/support
"Music Video Theatre" is a new Podcast from the MDMALifestyle Wave. Hosts Frankie Grimes, Josey Wales, LJ and Pinpoint will sit down each week and give live on the spot commentary on some of your favorite and least favorite music videos. This week we have : Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop Kool and The Gang - Fresh Anita Baker - Sweet Love Lisa Stansfield - All Around the World After 7 - Cant Stop Barry White - Practice What You Preach Bananarama - Cruel Summer Dr Dre and Eminem - Forgot About Dre Warren G and Nate Dogg - Regulate IG : @mdmalifestylewave EMAIL : mdmalifestyle@gmail.com WEBSITE : www.mdmalifestyle.com SOUNDCLOUD : @mdmalifestyle YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UClMjR4YfE5R2PAKoSWhDGnA
Le 33e congrès de futurologie sera consacré à l'art ancestral du jeu vidéo avec une création détonante de lyonnais débridés. *Fruit des circonstances de la pandémie qu'il met en scène en aspergeant le tout d'une bonne dose de science-fiction, The World After tient de l'OVNI vidéoludique. En 2021, signer un point'n click intégralement en Full Motion Video renvoie forcément à des modèles et références d'un autre temps, que les jeunes fondateurs du studio lyonnais Burning Sunset connaissent sur le bout des doigts. Rencontre avec trois fondus de cinéma et de jeu vidéo qui nous dévoilent les coulisses d'un projet un peu fou réunissant leurs deux passions.* Intro honteusement volée à Gamekult. L'article complet à découvrir par ici. A propos de The World After : Situé durant un confinement en France, The World After est un jeu d'aventure en point & click FMV qui raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui cherche à découvrir la vérité derrière ses horribles cauchemars et derrière le mystère du village dans lequel il vit. Découvrir le jeu sur Steam.
Cette semaine, on revit le confinement façon Point & Click de science-fiction en vidéo dans The World After, une petite pépite française à la réalisation des plus attachantes. On continue avec le blockbuster incontournable de la nouvelle génération de console, Ratchet & Clank : Rift Apart. C'est fluide, fun et magnifique, mais est-ce que ça suffit ? On termine avec l'exploration fantastique de l'univers de The Wild at Heart et son interprétation originale de systèmes associés à Nintendo et avec Opération Tango et son espionnage en duo.Jérémie Kletzkine, dans sa chronique jeux de société, nous parle de Schotten Totten 2.Silence on joue ! c'est l'émission hebdo de jeux vidéo de Libération. Avec Erwan Cario et ses chroniqueurs Patrick Hellio, Julie Le Baron et Marius Chapuis.CRÉDITSSilence on joue ! est un podcast de Libération animé par Erwan Cario. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 10 juin 2021 sur Discord. Réalisation : Erwan Cario. Générique : Marc Quatrociocchi. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.
The chaos and confusion which dominates strategic and economic policy is deliberate, resulting from a paradigm which serves the narrow interests of the financial oligarchy and its allies in the "Military Industrial Complex". The cartelization of trade and production has created an unsustainable debt bubble, which has produced a global health crisis and food insecurity crisis which threaten hundreds of million lives. A change in the underlying axioms in thinking is required, and the method of thinking which can break us free from the false choices offered by the imperial system will be the subject of the Schiller Institute conference this weekend, Dec. 12 and 13, "The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason." https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20201121 Make a contribution to support Harley's daily updates, https://harley.larouchepac.com/harley_donate?recruiter_id=48051 Send questions to Harley to harleysch@gmail.com Every weekday morning Harley will brief you on what you need to know to start your day. If you haven't already, sign up for Harley's weekly articles, harley.larouchepac.com/join
Those who rigged the election on Nov. 3 are the same as those who ran the fake Russiagate narrative. They have been manipulating Americans through Fake News, through Fake Environmentalism behind "Manmade Global Warming," and by promoting the belief that humans are animals, fighting other animals in a war to determine the survival of the fittest. This is how they get away with sending our children off to wars which benefit corporate interests, but offer us no security; how they can hand over trillions of dollars to the wealthiest swindlers, while shutting down American industries, farms and small businesses. It's the "British imperial System", the historic enemy of humanity, something known to great thinkers from William Shakespeare to Lyndon LaRouche. To find out more, join me online for the Schiller Institute Conference on Dec. 12-13, titled "The World After the U.S. Election: Free Sovereign Republics, or Digital Dictatorships" https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20201121 Make a contribution to support Harley's daily updates, https://harley.larouchepac.com/harley_donate?recruiter_id=48051 Send questions to Harley to harleysch@gmail.com Every weekday morning Harley will brief you on what you need to know to start your day. If you haven't already, sign up for Harley's weekly articles, harley.larouchepac.com/join
On November 5, 2020, Theresa Gattung (along with Helen Clark) spoke at a fundraiser for CCT - "NZ and the World After the Pandemic". All proceeds from this event will go to the Cambodia Charitable Trust to support their humanitarian response by providing emergency food for struggling families and learning materials for school children. cctnz.org.nz/ Thanks to event sponsors: Craigs Investment Partners & Zespri International
We talk RBG memes, review new netflix doco 'The Social Dilemma', discuss the shoddy international response to Covid Coronavirus, Qs of the week, etc. We Went Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop Intro: Tom Grant - Angels Crossing Outro: Shuggie Otis - Pling!
“When life is at its worst,” journalist Dan Gardner argues, “we are at our best.” For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Gardner joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to discuss the resilience of human societies and how our penchant for prosocial behavior will help us overcome the coronavirus pandemic. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines and what you’ve read on WPR, you can sign up for our free newsletter to get our uncompromising analysis delivered straight to your inbox. The newsletter offers a free preview article every day of the week, plus three more complimentary articles in our weekly roundup every Friday. Sign up here. Then subscribe. Relevant Articles on WPR: Building Trust, Confidence and Collective Action in the Age of COVID-19 A Rough Guide to Getting a COVID-19 Lockdown Right Planning for the World After the Coronavirus Pandemic Will the Model of an Interconnected World Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic? Trend Lines is produced and edited by Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist and analyst focusing on security and resource politics in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdoerrie. To send feedback or questions, email us at podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com.
Lindsey Fairleigh and Lindsey Pogue discuss World After their next installment in the world of The Ending Series and the prequel to a brand new series, The Ending Legacy.WARNING: This episode contains spoilers about The Ending Series.Link to World After on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BYW6JYK/Untamed Release Party (World Before cover reveal - 7/30): https://www.facebook.com/authorlindseypogue/posts/4083478825027422Link to The Ending Series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00U2GSVD0Lindsey Pogue on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lindsey-Pogue/e/B00BJSEDQ4/Lindsey Fairleigh on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lindsey-Fairleigh/e/B00BJQTQK4/Join the No Shelf Control Podcast Facebook Group:www.facebook.com/groups/noshelfcontrolpodcastSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/noshelfcontrolLindsey Pogue's website:https://www.lindseypogue.com/Lindsey Fairleigh's website:www.lindseyfairleigh.com/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/noshelfcontrol)
When we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we receive the Holy Spirit to teach, convict, and comfort us. He is the lover of our souls. It is His job to mold us to look more like Christ as we study His Word. How are you allowing the Holy Spirit to cultivate your soul? “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17. If you are in Christ, you WILL become a new creature. It is a fact. So as you are evaluating your own walk with God, ask yourself “Am I looking more like Christ or the World?” After listening to this podcast, study 2 Corinthians 5:17 and John 14:15.
I can’t say that I am completely surprised. Since Roger Ailes was unceremoniously dismissed from NewsCorp leadership – and since the Murdock boys have taken over the reins – FOX news has transformed from “we report, you decide” to “we’ll provide the sensationalist headlines, our sponsors will enjoy the clicks.”Please subscribe to our podcast at iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and on podcast platforms like Castbox, Podcast Addict, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Spreaker, and anywhere podcasts are heard.TRANSCRIPT:I can’t say that I am completely surprised. Since Roger Ailes was unceremoniously dismissed from NewsCorp leadership – and since the Murdock boys have taken over the reins – FOX news has transformed from “we report, you decide” to “we’ll provide the sensationalist headlines, our sponsors will enjoy the clicks.”The headline that stands in stark example today is this:“US Overtakes Italy to Have Highest Coronavirus Death Toll in the World After 2,000 Deaths in a Day”Why is this disgraceful? Because articles in their online publication – as well as a deluge of source-based comments – have outed the CDC for changing the reporting criteria related to COVID-19 deaths:“In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”The latitude given for reporting a death as a COVID-19 death is stunning by any standard, let alone a medical standard. Given that this latitude exists, it is more than reasonable – and, in fact, intelligent – to conclude that the deaths attributed to COVID-19 to achieve the “highest coronavirus death toll in the world” are inflated and inaccurate.Further proof of inducement to inflate the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 comes in another article published by FOX News. In the article, Minnesota Doctor Blasts 'Ridiculous' CDC Coronavirus Death Count Guidelines, State Senator and physician, Scott Jensen, spotlighted the obvious:“...anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward...Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [have] impact on what we do.”In a previous article, I asked everyone to follow the money regarding the COVID-19 issue. I am doubling down on that advice today.In addition to the government paying out more for COVID-19 patients and their various levels of treatment through Medicare – and in the shadow of the federal government’s want to pay for all COVID-19 treatments, we have two smoky backroom figures that keep surfacing: Bill Gate and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Strategic risk consultant and best-selling author, F. William Engdahl, writes:“In 2017 during the Davos World Economic Forum, Gates initiated something called CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations...to ‘accelerate the development of vaccines we’ll need to contain outbreaks’ of future epidemics...“In October 2019 the Gates Foundation teamed up with the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to enact what they called a ‘fictional’ scenario simulation...Event 201 simulated an ‘outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus’...The scenario then ends after 18 months when the fictional coronavirus has caused 65 million deaths.”Prophetic or curiously and suspiciously accurate, Gates’ scenario of a SARS-based pandemic came to fruition in 2020.Engdahl continues:“Gates Foundation money is backing vaccine development on every front. Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Pennsylvania received $9 million from the Gates-backed CEPI...to develop a vaccine...gave the company an added $5 million to develop a proprietary smart device for intradermal delivery of the new vaccine.“Gates Foundation monies via CEPI are financing development of a radical new vaccine method known as messengerRNA or mRNA...co-funding the Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech company, Moderna Inc., to develop a vaccine against the Wuhan novel coronavirus...Moderna’s other partner is the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [the] head of NIAID is Dr. Anthony Fauci.“...the Gates Foundation and related entities such as CEPI constitute the largest funders of the public-private entity known as WHO, and that its current director, Tedros Adhanom, the first WHO director in history not a medical doctor, worked for years on HIV with the Gates Foundation...”Aside from the fact that Gate’s company Microsoft can’t guarantee your computer won’t catch a virus, let’s ask ourselves some questions:▪How much money do Bill Gates and the companies funded by his foundation stand to make by drawing this pandemic out to employ their vaccine(s) as the end-all-be-all cure?▪How much money do Bill Gates and the companies funded by his foundation stand to make by selling the specialized delivery systems for the application of the vaccine(s)?▪How much money from the Gates Foundation is Dr. Fauci dependent on for his professional livelihood?So, while FOX News is disingenuously (and I suspect unwittingly as they are increasingly bubblegum in their investigative reporting) acting the useful idiot for Bill Gates and the Davos crew, they are irresponsibly abdicating their duty dig into the details of what is happening, who the players are, and who stands to profit not only from this event but from all future events.Political observers are keen to wax angrily about the “Deep State” and “The Swamp” in Washington, DC, but that smoky dark room – that “Swamp” reaches far beyond the US Capitol. It reaches and nests in Davos, Switzerland each year.As to FOX News’ “Highest Coronavirus Death Toll in the World” claim: It’s easy to claim the number-one spot on the pandemic death charts if in that body count you include those who cough before having a heart attack or sneezing before getting into a fatal car accident.We see you FOX News. Change your ways or die a media death like MSNBC and CNN only to be buried in the propagandist’s graveyard of obscurity and impotence, all because you sensationalized the news for profit.
“When life is at its worst,” journalist Dan Gardner argues, “we are at our best.” For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Gardner joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to discuss the resilience of human societies and how our penchant for prosocial behavior will help us overcome the coronavirus pandemic. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines and what you’ve read on WPR, you can sign up for our free newsletter to get our uncompromising analysis delivered straight to your inbox. The newsletter offers a free preview article every day of the week, plus three more complimentary articles in our weekly roundup every Friday. Sign up here. Then subscribe. Relevant Articles on WPR: Building Trust, Confidence and Collective Action in the Age of COVID-19 A Rough Guide to Getting a COVID-19 Lockdown Right Planning for the World After the Coronavirus Pandemic Will the Model of an Interconnected World Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic? Trend Lines is produced and edited by Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist and analyst focusing on security and resource politics in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdoerrie. To send feedback or questions, email us at podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com.
Since medieval times, outbreaks of disease have spurred the creation of narratives that cast blame on a foreign source. The coronavirus pandemic is no different. For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Graham Mooney joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to discuss lessons from history in the fight against COVID-19. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines and what you’ve read on WPR, you can sign up for our free newsletter to get our uncompromising analysis delivered straight to your inbox. The newsletter offers a free preview article every day of the week, plus three more complimentary articles in our weekly roundup every Friday. Sign up here. Then subscribe. Relevant Articles on WPR: How ‘Medical Nationalism’ Is Undermining the Fight Against the Coronavirus Pandemic A Rough Guide to Getting a COVID-19 Lockdown Right Planning for the World After the Coronavirus Pandemic The Many Ominous Signs About the Shambolic U.S. Response to Coronavirus Trend Lines is produced and edited by Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist and analyst focusing on security and resource politics in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdoerrie. To send feedback or questions, email us at podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com.
In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Freddy Deknatel talk about the transformation of daily life in countries facing lockdowns to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss the longer-term impacts the pandemic is likely to have in Western democracies. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines and what you’ve read on WPR, you can sign up for our free newsletter to get our uncompromising analysis delivered straight to your inbox. The newsletter offers a free preview article every day of the week, plus three more complimentary articles in our weekly roundup every Friday. Sign up here. Then subscribe. Relevant Articles on WPR: A Rough Guide to Getting a COVID-19 Lockdown Right How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Rewritten the Script for a Global Crisis Planning for the World After the Coronavirus Pandemic Albin Kurti Believes Kosovo Is ‘Ready to Turn a New Page’ How Arms Proliferation Is Driving Herder-Farmer Conflict in the Sahel Trend Lines is produced and edited by Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist and analyst focusing on security and resource politics in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdoerrie. To send feedback or questions, email us at podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com.
Business leaders build a better world on three levels. The first level is simply building a good business that provides value to people. Second, they go beyond basic business expectations to do things in and through their business that provide extra benefit for people and communities. On the third level, business leaders intentionally use their businesses as a platform to make a transformational impact on society, to literally rebuild the world. If you are in business, you are already on Level 1. You are already building a better world just by doing good business! Level 1: Building Your Business At the most basic level, when you build a business you play a vital role in meeting people’s needs and thereby building a better world. If you do nothing but build a business that meets needs well and makes a profit doing so, you not only provide a product or service that society needs, you create the resources that put food on tables, roofs over heads, and kids in school. Even better, if you create a healthy culture in and around your business based on enduring values, you can create a little slice of a healthier society. What I have learned is that ministry happens in the margins. Going the extra mile only works if you’ve got gas in your tank at the end of the last mile. If you don't have a business that allows you some margin in your finances, time, and emotional capital, it's hard to use your business to do effective ministry that goes beyond the goodness of simply doing business well. So what’s the pathway to create more margin to be able to do more ministry for the world through business? I have found that the pathway is through implementing the right processes. The secret is in the systems that cause success. Implementing the right systems in your business is one of the most valuable means to be more effective at Level 1 and ultimately to allow you to enjoy more time and energy to function at Levels 2 and 3. To do more on Level 2, you must learn to build a business that accomplishes the mission of your business through implementing effective business operating systems in nine critical areas. If you’re interested in learning more about these nine categories of business operating systems you can check out the additional information in the Appendix at the end of this book. As you continue to implement processes that produce better outcomes and create greater margins of time and money, it will help launch your business into more Level 2 activity and impact. Level 2: Building Beyond Business Once you have a business that is generating some consistent value for others and creating some consistent profit, you have the greater ability to move to the next level where you are building beyond business. At this level you are going the extra mile to intentionally create value for others beyond the fundamental value of doing good business. Even if your business isn’t focused on changing the world, when your business goes the extra mile to create out of the ordinary value for employees, customers or their community, you are applying best practices that some of the greatest companies in this world follow. Such Level 2 initiatives are a good warm up for playing in the “big league” of Level 3 where you intentionally use your business as a platform to shape society and rebuild our world. Level 3: Rebuilding the World After you have basic success in building your business and some wins at building beyond business, at some point you begin to embrace the paradigm that your business is actually a powerful platform (some might even say an elaborate front) to transform society. You begin to see that the real power of business is more than creating valuable products, services, and environments. It's even more than going the extra mile to benefit humanity. It is actually a powerful tool to transform the world. For those who are followers of Jesus, their business can become a powerful platform to perpetuate the values of Jesus on this earth. For those who are church-going Christians, their business could even become an extension of the ministry of their church to intentionally infuse God's good purposes into the world. Regardless of your religious affiliation or lack thereof, your business can be a powerful platform to make what's wrong in the world, right! Your business is your pathway to transform your part of the world! EPISODE RESOURCES: In this episode I refer to the nine categories of business operating systems that every successful business needs to have in place. Following is some overview information and a few key questions about those nine business operating systems: Overview of the Nine Categories of Systems for Success in Business Building a business that gives you the margin needed to build beyond business and do more to rebuild the world requires the disciplined planning and implementation of nine foundational categories of business systems. Each of these business operating systems are powerful tools that will help you organize key areas of your business for maximum effectiveness. Together they work to make your entire business run like a perfectly constructed machine giving you the consistent results and margin you need to change the world through your business! I’ll give a brief overview of these nine systems, and also give a little insight into why each one is important to the success of your business. Like the designer of anything great, you cannot build a successful business that gives you the results you want and the margin you need to rebuild the world without first creating a blueprint; a vision of what you want your business to be. That’s why the first and most important system you use is the strategic planning system. Strategic Planning Systems Do you have a clear vision for your company and a step-by-step plan to achieve it? Success doesn’t just happen; you have to plan for it. In fact, the biggest mistake business owners make is failing to come up with a blueprint for their success. When you get caught in a cycle of firefighting, it is difficult to do anything but react to the crisis of the moment. Strategic planning is the way to get proactive about your business. It starts with a clear understanding or your personal mission, vision, and values so that you can intentionally build a business that is an outgrowth of who you are called to be. Then you will develop a crystal clear mission, vision, and the core values that set the direction and DNA for everything you do in your business. Based on this, you will develop specific strategies, objectives, goals, and action plans where you decide in advance exactly what needs to be done, and how you’ll do it. Your direction, strategies and goals will be in writing so it can be clearly communicated and consistently executed. You and your employees will know the specific tasks needed to accomplish each goal. With each positive change you make, your business will become what you designed it to be. But your designing work doesn’t end with the creation of an overall strategy for your future success; you also need to design each of the individual systems that have to work together to achieve your strategic plan. Here’s one powerful tool you can use to identify which systems you need to implement or improve in your business. It’s called the Performance Gap Analysis. In strategic planning, the performance gap is the difference between where your business is today, and where you want it to be in the future. Once you define what lies between you and your goals, you’ll be able to come up with a strategy to bridge the gap between the two. When you analyze where your business is today in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, you’ll be able to create a specific plan to leverage your strengths, and overcome your weaknesses and take your business where you want it to be. Marketing Strategy Systems Every business needs customers, but where do you find them and how do you get their attention? The purpose of your marketing strategy system is to create and communicate your unique competitive advantage that will attract the most probable and profitable customers to your business. Do you have a written marketing plan that clearly identifies your product, pricing, distribution and promotional strategies, and how they will be implemented? When you understand the characteristics of your target market, the trends in your industry, the strategies of your competition, and your products’ unique benefits, you’re able to make sure you spend your marketing dollars where they will produce the best results. Your marketing strategy takes into consideration everything you do in your business that impacts your customer, like your products’ features and benefits, hours of operation, customer service policies, and credit terms. But it goes deeper than that. Did you know something as simple as changing the color of the clothes you wear can increase or decrease your sales? So can the image your correspondence or invoices present, and the expression on your face or the tone of your voice. You can lose a customer just as easily over a little thing as you can over a big one. Your strategic marketing system will give you the confidence to launch a successful marketing program based on research and planning rather than on a gut feeling. It’s a powerful tool you can use to take the guesswork out of all of your marketing systems. Workflow and Organization Systems More effective marketing systems will attract more customers, but more customers can lead to more chaos. That is, unless you have work flow and organization systems to keep the inner workings of your business running smoothly. Do you have systems in place that ensure time is spent on the most important priorities for your business, and nothing is falling through the cracks? Workflow and organization systems specifically address the issues of time and your efficiency. Where is your time going now? And how can you create more time to do what is most important? For example, when you use a delegation system, you create time for yourself by assigning responsibilities in a way that ensures the task will be done properly, and on time. A project control system helps you save time by giving you instant information about every activity and deadline in your business. That’s so you don’t have to chase people down to see what is getting done. If you have inventory, an Inventory Control System ensures you have the right amount of the right products in stock. It also makes certain your cash isn’t tied up in a lot of slow-moving products. With business operating systems in place, you don’t have to spend time rethinking or explaining each and every task over and over again, hoping it gets done correctly. Organization systems create procedures for everything your business does on a repetitive basis, like opening and closing your business each day, maintaining equipment, handling customer complaints, or any other area of your business where you want consistent, predictable results. There is no such thing as “good enough” when it comes to building a successful business. Your operating systems can’t remain static. Your business environment is constantly changing. What works today may not be sufficient tomorrow. So you need a way to continually improve all of your business operating systems; a system to improve your systems! Here’s how: First, you have to decide which system to improve. Next, identify the specific goals and purpose of that particular system. Third, evaluate your current situation, and do a Performance Gap Analysis to identify your desired outcome. Next, brainstorm new ideas to bridge the gap, to improve the existing system. Then evaluate your ideas and select the one that seems most likely to succeed. That last step is where many business owners go wrong. They may have plenty of new ideas to work with, but most business owners don’t have a system to help them choose and implement the right ideas. Your strategic plan and market strategy help you identify the right ideas. Then you can use a different system to test, measure, and implement each one. This is called your “TMI Formula”. The first portion of the TMI formula is to test your new Ideas. For example, you may want to test a new print add by placing it in a small local paper before committing it to something more elaborate. New ideas can be expensive, especially if they don’t accomplish what you hoped they would. The second portion of the TMI Formula is what really separates the designer from the specialist. The designer doesn’t just try something new; the designer measures the actual results of the change to determine its success. So a designer who creates an online ad campaign will also set up a tracking system to monitor the new business that ad brings in. To measure the new business, you need to know where all of the new business comes from. Did the customer read the new ad? Or did they walk into your business off the street? Or did a friend recommend they come in? One simple way to gather information is to ask, “How did you hear about us?” whenever a person walks into your business or calls. With a good system for measuring results, a designer can tell how many responses the ad generated, how many sales resulted, and how profitable the sales were. Then you can determine with absolute accuracy whether or not the idea was a success. That brings us to the third step of the TMI Formula: Implementation. This is more than saying “Let’s do it”. Implementations is taking what works and turning it into a system. It’s taking the results of testing and measuring your ideas, and using that information to create procedures that will produce the same positive results over and over again. For instance, if you discover greeting a customer with a question like “Have you ever been in our store before?” leads to a higher percentage of sales than greeting them with “May I help you?” you’ll want to implement that greeting into your sales process. The procedure that gets the best results is then documented in writing; every employee is trained to follow it properly, and each person is accountable for using the system you’ve developed for a particular situation. The final result of the TMI Formula isn’t simply the creation of positive changes; it’s the systematic use of the changes to achieve consistent, predictably good results in your business. Personnel Management Systems Your employees are crucial to the success of your business, whether you already have people working for you, or you’re thinking of bringing someone on. Personnel management systems will help you get the most productivity and profit from your employees and create a highly empowering work environment that fully engages the best of each person. This helps you manage the entire personnel process, and it goes far beyond hiring and firing. You know you need to hire someone when an employee quits. But your personnel management systems will also help you forecast your future work force needs and develop a step-by-step process to attract the right people for the right jobs. Your orientation systems will prepare your new employees to become a dedicated part of your business and share your vision of what your company is all about. With effective personnel management systems in place, even disciplinary problems can be dealt with in a way that will reduce stress and miscommunication. How would you feel if everyone in your company loved what they did and consistently went above and beyond the basics of their jobs? When you take the time to develop your personnel management systems, you will reap the benefits of having employees, while you minimize the headaches. The right people, with the right qualifications bring valuable experience, needed skills, and renewed enthusiasm to the business. You will be creating a positive work environment where productivity is higher, communication and cooperation is better, and potential problems like low morale are likely to be avoided. The effect will be felt by everyone; you, your employees, and even your customers. Promotions and Advertising Systems Good advertising is as much as result of good planning as creative talent; whether you are selling a product or a service. Your advertising and promotion systems will help you get the most out of your advertising dollars, no matter what your budget is. Do your advertising and promotional efforts generate the response you would like? While the marketing strategy systems help you to position your product in your market, promotions is the job of presenting your product in a way that makes the consumer want to buy it. Advertising, personal selling, public relations, and online marketing are all considered promotional activities because their ultimate objective is to make sales. Advertising is one of the best ways to promote what you are selling. But unless you know what you are doing, it can be risky for a small business owner with a limited budget. The promotional and advertising systems you implement will help you understand the ad buying and pay per click process, so you can create advertising that gets noticed by the right people. Even if you have someone else create your advertising, it’s important you understand the elements of an effective ad, to give the direction needed to ensure success. Whether creating an ad for a print publication or for online presentation, your promotional systems will help you create an effective message that will reach the right people at the right time, and generate the sales you want. Business Communication Systems As a business owner, you probably spend most of your day writing, speaking or listening to someone. Business communication systems help you master the skills you need to document your other systems, and clearly communicate your ideas to form better relationships with everyone you come in contact with. If a breakdown in communication has ever caused problems with your employees, or your customers, you know resolving these problems will cost you valuable time; sometimes money. Business communication systems will help you get your message across in any situation: one on one, in a group or when you need to resolve conflicts or negotiate agreements. Most importantly, you will hone your listening ability and use it as a tool for better understanding. Without good communication skills, your strategic plan will never get off the ground. Your promotional strategies won’t reach their full potential, and you certainly won’t be able to lead and motivate your employees, or build strong relationships with your customers. Since so much is riding on how you communicate, it is important you develop the systems to help you do it well. Personal Selling Systems While your marketing and promotion systems will attract prospects to your business, you still need effective personal selling systems to turn those prospects into costumers and achieve consistent sales results. Do your sales people have a systematic way to discover what the customer needs and wants? Do your sales depend on the talent of a particular person? Or do you have a sales system that enables all your people to produce consistent results? You can reach a certain level of growth while your sales are still dependent on you or another sales person. But unless you have the right systems in place, you’ll eventually hit a ceiling, where your sales will eventually drop off. Maybe you suffer from the “Peak and Valley” system. You can go out and sell as much as you can; then your business comes to a grinding halt while you switch hats and deal with the orders you just got. You may be waiting for a superstar sales person to show up and solve your problems, but there is no guarantee they will be able to work their magic in your particular business, and if they leave, your sales expertise goes with them. When results depend on your own selling skills, or those of someone else, your bottom line will constantly change, and so will the messages sent to your customers. Personal selling systems will give you predictable control over increasing sells from your existing customers and developing the new business you want. Financial Management Systems Financial management isn’t just about keeping track of historical information or keeping the IRS happy. It’s about systems to plan and create the future of your business. Your financial management systems will give you a complete and accurate picture of what you did in the past, where you are now, and what adjustments you need to meet your future financial goals. Do you have a system in place to project your income and expenses so you can accurately predict your cash flow? Do you know how to use the information on your financial statements to help you anticipate and prevent problems in your business? How your business is doing financially at any given time should never be a mystery to you, or an assumption you make based on appearances. When you have the right financial systems in place, you will always know where you stand. But you will also have the ability to forecast future sales and expenses, so you can prepare for the future. Once you understand the key components of financial management, and the systems you need to run your business properly and predictably, you can begin to solve problems before they get out of hand, and you can take advantage of new opportunities that come your way. Leadership and Motivation Systems This final system for success you need to have in your business may be the most important of all. Your leadership and motivation systems have the power to make all of your other systems exceed your expectations. No matter how good they are, systems by themselves can’t create success; people do. When well led, highly motivated people turn on the systems you design, you will be able to expand your vision for your company to create whatever success you desire. Do you have systems in place to lead, motivate, and inspire your employees to pursue your vision for your business as passionately as you do? Do you have a system to assess the levels of ability and motivation of each employee? And a plan to lead each one to a new level, where they can operate independently and with confidence? You probably know you can’t motivate anyone yourself. You can’t control or reward your employees into consistently effective behavior. To go above and beyond the basic requirements of their job, employees need to be internally motivated. What you can do is put the right systems in place to create an environment that fosters self-motivation. The ultimate level of effectiveness you can reach with your leadership and motivational systems is to have systems in place that not only develop followers, but develop other leaders in your business. When your business grows with followers, you will be limited to growth by addition. You merely begin to develop and add new employees. But when you develop by leaders, you’re able to grow by multiplication. You have other leaders in your company who can add and develop new employees, expanding in leadership effectiveness. Your leadership and motivation systems are the secret to creating a self-running and self-perpetuating business that provides a platform for you to change the world! Imagine what it would be like for your business to take on a life of its own, apart from you, but according to your design. These nine systems are the crucial components of your ideal business. If each one is in place and working together, they become your systems for success. This all starts with the mindset and practice of approaching your business from a designer’s perspective, rather than the perspective of a specialist. The designer perspective helps you recognize and bridge the gap between where your business is today, and where you want it to be. From this basis you will then design and implement the specific systems that work together to get your business to the point where it is achieving consistent and predictable results, giving you the time and money margin you want to do even more to build beyond business and build a better world. You will have a business that works hard for you, rather than you working so hard for your business. The goal of this appendix has been to stimulate your thinking and give you some proven concepts that will help you get even better results from your business. But just knowing what to do isn’t enough, you also need to know how to go about it. If you want to solve problems that stay solved, if you want to create that special kind of business where customers love doing business with you; if you want a place where you and your staff can’t wait to come to work each day; if you want to a business that gives you the time and money you need to build a better world, don’t just read this. 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This week on Bombshell, we say nothing about Jim Comey! We recorded Monday and who could have guessed we'd be here today? Instead, we discuss recent casualties in Afghanistan and Somalia, check in on Venezuela and the French elections, and talk about the many ways one does and does not talk to friendly dictators. We also do our part to keep Costco margaritas in business. And then, in honor of Mother’s Day, we talk to our moms. You should too (your moms, not ours). Episode Reading: "Elite troops are being worked too hard and spread too thin, military commander warns," Vera Bergengruen, The Miami Herald "Navy SEAL Who Died in Somalia Was Alongside, Not Behind, Local Forces," Helene Cooper, The New York Times Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan "Facebook purges thousands of fake profiles ahead of UK election," Nick Summers, Endgadget "Trump’s praise for authoritarians vs. his platitudes for allies," Aaron Blake, The Washington Post "Venezuela’s leader wants to replace the National Assembly with one beholden to him," Francisco Toro, WaPo "Mérida Escalates," Francisco Toro, Caracas Chronicles "Tillerson calls for balancing US security interests, values," by Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee, AP "Tillerson Seeking 9% Cut to U.S. State Department Workforce, Sources Say," Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg "The End of Hypocrisy," Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, Foreign Affairs "This State Department Employee Survey Is Straight Out Of 'Office Space,'" John Hudson, Buzzfeed "Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Reimagines the World After the 2016 Election," Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Events: YPFP, Conquering the Foreign Policy Establishment (16 May) CSIS, Command Climate: The State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations (23 May) CNAS, Annual Conference (28 June)
This week on Bombshell, we say nothing about Jim Comey! We recorded Monday and who could have guessed we'd be here today? Instead, we discuss recent casualties in Afghanistan and Somalia, check in on Venezuela and the French elections, and talk about the many ways one does and does not talk to friendly dictators. We also do our part to keep Costco margaritas in business. And then, in honor of Mother’s Day, we talk to our moms. You should too (your moms, not ours). Episode Reading: "Elite troops are being worked too hard and spread too thin, military commander warns," Vera Bergengruen, The Miami Herald "Navy SEAL Who Died in Somalia Was Alongside, Not Behind, Local Forces," Helene Cooper, The New York Times Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan "Facebook purges thousands of fake profiles ahead of UK election," Nick Summers, Endgadget "Trump’s praise for authoritarians vs. his platitudes for allies," Aaron Blake, The Washington Post "Venezuela’s leader wants to replace the National Assembly with one beholden to him," Francisco Toro, WaPo "Mérida Escalates," Francisco Toro, Caracas Chronicles "Tillerson calls for balancing US security interests, values," by Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee, AP "Tillerson Seeking 9% Cut to U.S. State Department Workforce, Sources Say," Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg "The End of Hypocrisy," Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, Foreign Affairs "This State Department Employee Survey Is Straight Out Of 'Office Space,'" John Hudson, Buzzfeed "Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Reimagines the World After the 2016 Election," Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Events: YPFP, Conquering the Foreign Policy Establishment (16 May) CSIS, Command Climate: The State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations (23 May) CNAS, Annual Conference (28 June)
Visit us at www.paranormalunderground.net to read Paranormal Underground magazine! In this episode of Paranormal Underground Radio: In The Dark, we talk with Marie D. Jones, a best-selling paranormal author, screenwriter, researcher, radio personality, and public speaker. Marie is the author of 2013: End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012; PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena; Looking for God in All the Wrong Places; and Destiny vs. Choice: The Scientific and Spiritual Evidence Behind Fate and Free Will. She also coauthored Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History, written with her father, geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino, as well as 11:11 the Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences, and Synchronicities; The Resonance Key: Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness, and the Zero Point Grid; The Déjà vu Enigma: A Journey Through the Anomalies of Mind, Memory and Time; and The Trinity Secret: The Power of Three and the Code of Creation with Larry Flaxman, her coauthor and business partner. In 2013, they released This Book Is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel, and 2014 releases included The Grid: Exploring the Hidden Infrastructure of Reality and Viral Mythology: How the Truth of the Ancients Was Encoded and Passed Down Through Legend, Art, and Architecture. Marie and Larry’s latest book is Mind Wars: A History of Mind Control, Surveillance, and Social Engineering. Marie is also a screenwriter currently developing Project Aurora, a science fiction feature film with Bruce Lucas Productions. She is also the author and coauthor of over 100 inspirational books for PIL/New Seasons, as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and stories in magazines, online ezines, newspapers, and anthologies, including five Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Air Date: June 16, 2016 Topic: Paranormal Theory, Ghosts and Hauntings, UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena Guest: Marie D. Jones Host: Chuck Gotski Producer: Cheryl Knight
Join writer/ director/ podcast host Jake Mays for the inaugeral episode of the series. he is joined by partner/ writer/ producer/ actor (Herbert) Scott Noble. They discuss the origins of the company, making The World After, working on Dead Country, future projects, comic books, the movies they've inspired, and other pop culture topics that inspire laughter. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
Tonight Whispers welcomed Marie D. Jones to the show. She is an Author/Producer/Screenwriter/Speaker/ResearcherHer personal website is http://www.mariedjones.comMarie is also the Co-Founder of ParaExplorers http://www.paraexplorers.comJUST RELEASED! "Destiny Vs. Choice: The Scientific and Spiritual Evidence Behind Fate and Free Will"Author of "The Trinity Secret: The Power of Three and the Code of Creation""The Déjà vu Enigma: A Journey Through the Anomalies of Mind, Memory and Time""11:11 - The Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities""The Resonance Key: Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness and the Zero Point Grid""2013: End of Days or a New Beginning-Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012""PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomenon""Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History"19Hz. - The MovieComing soon...www.19Hzthemovie.com
G&D 07-27-08Marie D. Jones has been involved with science, metaphysics and the paranormal in one way or another for most of her life, which led to a fascination with quantum physics and the writing of her popular and highly regarded book, PSIence: How New Discoveries In Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena. Marie is also author of 2013: End of Days or a New Beginning Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012.
Guests: Dr. Marie Jones, Ph.D., 2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012, New Page Books, 2008 - Visit us at 21stcenturyradio.com