Podcasts about Wushu

Wushu athlete Bijay Sinjali has secured numerous international medals for Nepal. Before winning a bronze at Japan's 2024 Taolu World Cup, Sinjali secured multiple golds, including one at the 13th South Asian Games in 2019. Nepal correspondent Prayas Dulal spoke with Sinjali about his achievements, future plans and the current state of sports in Nepal. - नेपाली उसु खेलाडी विजय सिन्जालीले विभिन्न अन्तराष्ट्रिय प्रतियोगिताहरूमा पदक जितेका छन्। सिन्जालीले गत अक्टोबरमा जापानमा सम्पन्न भएको तेस्रो थाउलो विश्व कपमा कांस्य पदक हात पारेका थिए। त्यस्तै, रियादमा भएको विश्व कम्ब्याट र १३औँ दक्षिण एसियाली खेलकुद (साग) का स्वर्ण उनका केही उपलब्धिहरू हुन्। यिनै प्रतियोगिताहरू र भावी योजनाबारे सिन्जालीसँग नेपाल संवाददाता प्रयास दुलालले गर्नुभएको कुराकानी सुन्नुहोस्।

In this episode, Zsuza, Head of People and Culture at Wushu Studios, joins us to chat about what makes the people at Wushu tick, and what spirit and values they aim for consistently

Law & Order: Smallville Victims UnitDetective John Jones makes his return only to get shot, while on duty, in the first five minutes. After Clark finds out it was an inside job he decides to go undercover as a cop named Joe Fordman (Top 10) in order to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Lana is still here, back as the lead terrorist, and now fighting with Tess about Lex and the famous art of Wushu.Phil Morris returns for another special guest appearance as DC Comics original character John Jones ("J'onn J'onzz"), a.k.a Martian Manhunter.

Entrevista competidores del representativo de Wu Shu que participará en el campeonato mundial 2025.Te comparto en este enlace el acceso a todas nuestras redes sociales https://linkr.bio/docenciadeportivaSi quieres Conocer toda nuestra oferta académica, entra al siguiente enlace: https://docenciadeportiva.rds.land/docencia-deportiva.

In this episode of Asia Unfiltered, our host Arina Aizal chats to Yik Kun Heng about his experiences living… well, everywhere! Yik Kun has lived in Beijing, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Switzerland, and now Chile. What's it like navigating identity as someone with a multicultural, international background, or to represent New Zealand in Wushu: the Chinese martial art, and how does political science blend into guidance counselling...??Asia Unfiltered is an exploration of the stories and experiences of young Kiwis abroad in Asia. Each episode features conversations between members of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono's Leadership Network, and one of our two fellow Leadership Network hosts: Kii Small and Arina Aizal.  The Leadership Network is a global professional network equipping the next generation of New Zealand leaders with the know-how to strengthen the New Zealand-Asia relationship. Tweet us at @AsiaMediaCentreWebsite asiamediacentre.org.nz Email us at media@asianz.org.nzWhakawhetai mo te whakarongo .. thanks for listening !

No nono episódio da série Práticas religiosas do Extremo Oriente do programa Historicizando, as alunas Ana Vitória Lazari, Diana Isabel Merlo e Eduarda Folador Barcki explicam a origem e a trajetória do Wu Shu e trazem exemplos de estilo interno e externo, como o Tai Chi Chuan e o Kung fu Shaolin, bem como destacam sua relação com os aspectos religiosos e filosóficos da tradição chinesa.

Lee Charles' story is a testament to the power of passion and dedication. Growing up, Lee was introduced to martial arts through the legendary Bruce Lee. His parents showed him Bruce Lee's films, and young Lee was instantly captivated. He immersed himself in martial arts, starting with Shotokan Karate and later transitioning to Wushu, thanks to a family friend. In this inspiring episode, Lee Charles talks to Andrew Staton at the Doncaster UK Martial Arts Show. Lee's journey took a significant turn in 2005 when he visited Benny "The Jet" Urquidez's gym in Los Angeles. What began as a simple visit turned into a life-changing opportunity. Benny and his team saw potential in Lee, leading to intensive training in stunts and acting. This training paved the way for Lee's first major film project, "1408," where he helped train John Cusack. Lee's transition from martial arts to the film industry wasn't an overnight success. It involved countless hours of dedication, training, and perseverance. His big break came with the film "Green Street 3," where he worked alongside Scott Adkins. This role opened doors to more significant opportunities, including a memorable fight scene with Dave Bautista in "Final Score." One of Lee's most notable projects is the TV series "Gangs of London." Working with renowned fight choreographer Jude Poyer, Lee delivered a performance that earned critical acclaim and a nomination for an Emmy. The series showcased Lee's exceptional skills and solidified his place in the industry. Lee's journey is filled with inspiring moments and hard-earned achievements. From his humble beginnings in martial arts to working with Hollywood's biggest stars, Lee's story is a reminder that with passion and dedication, dreams can become a reality. For anyone interested in martial arts, film, or simply an inspiring story of perseverance, this episode is a must-listen. Hear Lee Charles' incredible journey and the lessons he's learned along the way. Filmed by Dean Meadows of Pentagram Pictures at the Martial Arts Show Doncaster event 2024 Thanks for reading & watching, we hope you enjoyed it, please LIKE, SHARE and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to W​orld of Martial Arts Television for more great content!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a Recarga Activa, el podcast diario de AnaitGames en el que filtramos lo más relevante de la actualidad del videojuego en pildorazos de 15 minutos:1️⃣ Valve aumenta la compatibilidad de SteamOS con otros «PCs consolizados»2️⃣ Replaced se va a 20253️⃣ Keywords compra Wushu, el estudio formado por veteranos de EvolutionSuscríbete para recibir el siguiente episodio en tu gestor de podcasts favorito. Puedes apoyar nuestro proyecto (y acceder a un montón de contenido exclusivo) en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anaitreload♫ Sintonía del programa: Senseless, de Johny Grimes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk about Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark. This is our first Boll film on the pod, and now that we know what to expect, it probably won't be our last. Here we go: Creature critters created by crooked archeologist crawl and crush craniums! SyFy CGI! Shattering sheet glass at the showroom by 713! Sledgehammered senior! White Walker from Wuhan knows Wushu! Anubis Glyph Reader 3.5? CROSSFIREEEEEE!!! That fucking nun! Sleeping security trope! Seven second strangulation! Tara Reid! The Xenomorph connection, and much, much more on this week's episode of The Worst Movie Ever Made! www.theworstmovieevermade.com

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.com/podcast/could-hema-ever-be-big-in-china-with-zeng-yang/ To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Today's episode is with Zeng Yang, who is a doctoral student at the Shanghai Sport University, where he is pursuing a PhD in the history of European swordsmanship from the 14th to the 17th centuries. He is a lifelong martial artist having begun training in Wushu at the age of eight. His master's degree is a comparison of Duan Bing and HEMA. In our conversation, we talk about the spread of Chinese martial arts to the Western world, through things like kung fu movies and immigration, but the question is, why the same hasn't happened in the other direction? How could HEMA become more popular in China? We hear about a new term, Bing Ji, which combines all steel weapons in an exciting new form of cross-cultural communication. Here's a bit of detail on some of the terms that come up in this episode: Wushu: The official name of Chinese martial arts Guoshu: The name of Wushu in the early 20th century that literally means "the art of the nation", thus elevating the status of martial arts to the level of the country. But currently people no longer use this term. Tau lu (routine or form): It is a pre-designed practice method and an important form of expression in Chinese martial arts. It had already emerged in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) and has been widely used since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD). It is very similar to Assalto in Marozzo. It usually has a fixed start and end action. Each routine roughly contains dozens of actions. Bing Ji: The literal meaning is "fighting with cold weapons", which broadly refers to all fighting sports related to steel weapons, and narrowly refers to the fighting sports of historical martial arts. It is a term that emerged around 2016 to replace the concept of HEMA. Because China's HEMA not only involves European weapons, but also includes Chinese weapons, many people believe that continuing to use HEMA is inappropriate. Therefore, this new term has been created to describe historical martial arts sports. At present, Bing Ji has been widely used in China, and it is used in almost all historical martial arts competitions.

When Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁 began his university studies in 1969, gifted student though he was, few could have imagined he would become Taiwan's first non-KMT president. The young Chen had no political plans – he wanted to study business and make money for his impoverished family in rural Tainan. One day during his first semester, he heard a speech by an independent candidate who publicly criticized the autocratic rule of the KMT. Chen was fascinated. Listen to this week's story to learn how Chen changed majors, and despite being called “boring” by a few young women he liked, eventually wed Wu Shu-chen 吳淑珍, the daughter of a wealthy Tainan doctor. Plus, Chen's involvement in the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979, a turning point for the democracy movement and for Chen. And we end with Chen's first stint in prison; not the more recent sentences for corruption, but in the mid-1980s for libel. Pics, links and more at formosafiles.com PLEASE RATE/REVIEW THE SHOW!!

Martial arts and action movie legend Keith Cooke talks to Andrew Staton about; Bandanas and the famous Double Split Kick China O'Brien 1 and 2 Being bullied Discovering Bruce Lee Impact of Bruce Lee Seattle Kung Fu Club refused entry Hung Gar Roger Tung Jimmy Hendrix Quincy Jones Forms Grand Championships How did he break into movies? What is Picasso Trigger? How did he train Michael Bean from Terminator? How did he get his break with Ernie Reyes Snr on a Gatorade commercial? What was it like filming in Hawaii with Playboy Bunnies? When did Fred Weintraub get in touch? What was the Atlantic World Display Team? What was it like working on China O'Brien 1 and 2 simultaneously? How did he find filming in Park City, Utah? What is the story behind the false hand? What is the Alpine Slide? What's it like filming at 7/8,00 feet altitude? How do you do the Double Kick? Training with Wushu teams in China What does it mean getting the kick in early? What was it like working with Robert Clouse and Fred Weintraub? Did they talk about the death of Bruce Lee? What was it like working with the Hong Kong Stunt team? How did he react when he met Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton? How did he get involved with The King Of the Kickboxers? What was the audition like? What was it like working with Corey Yuen? How did he pull off the Triple Kick? What was it like working on the movie Heat Seeker and with Gary Daniels? How did they film 11 fights in 14 days? Why is Coverage key to a good fight scene? How did he become Reptile and Sub Zero in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation? How did he find the movie star Christopher Lambert? What is it like being in the Star Wars universe in The Book of Boba Fett as a Tusken Raider? What is his connection to Avatar and Zoe Saldana? How is he connected to Alita Battle Angel? When did he become involved in Black Creek with Cynthia Rothrock? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Moin Leute✌️ in der heutigen Folge geht es um den Konflikt zwischen dem Modernen und Traditionellen Wushu. Was die Regierung damit zu tun hat? Das erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge. Ihr habt Fragen oder Themenwünsche? dann schreibt gerne eine Rezension oder bei Instagram @olli_goku

Verca Partikova, a Kung Fu world champion, coach, and MMA fighter, brings her passion for combat sports to life in the vibrant world of Fight Waves, her insightful podcast aimed at personal growth both in and out of the ring.Hailing from the Czech Republic, Verca's journey into martial arts began with a childhood fascination sparked by iconic Chinese movies. Despite facing the challenges of being a female athlete in her homeland, she pursued her passion, even exploring other avenues such as ballet. Eventually, armed with a PhD in Social Psychology, Verca embarked on a transformative journey that led her to China.Immersing herself in the heartland of Kung Fu, Verca honed her skills in Wushu and rose to become a world champion, an achievement that forever altered the course of her life.In our latest episode of the Fruiting Body Podcast, we delve into Verca's Czech roots, exploring the experiences that shaped her upbringing and uncovering the intriguing fusion of martial arts and sports psychology. From the mystique of Shaolin in China to the diverse Kung-Fu styles, we embark on a captivating journey through her story.Transitioning from Hong Kong to Thailand, we uncover the daily routines of a Kung-Fu master and the roadmap to professional MMA fighting. Gain insights into the nuances between GI and No GI combat sports, the delicate balance of passion and personal relationships, and even explore the potential health benefits of Turkey Tail.Join us as we embrace the spirit of martial arts and culture with Verca Partikova on the Fruiting Body Podcast.#VercaPartikova #KungFuChampion #MMAFighter #CombatSports #FightWavesPodcast #CzechRepublic #MartialArtsJourney #SportsPsychology #ShaolinLegend #KungFuStyles #ProfessionalAthlete #FemaleFighters #MMATraining #HealthandWellness #TurkeyTailBenefits #fruitingbodypodcast 

Love is in the air for these wushu athletes. Synopsis: The Straits Times looks at the talking points in sport every second Wednesday of the month. In this episode of Sports Talk, Deepanraj Ganesan gets into the Valentine's Day mood and spoke to a sporting couple in wushu exponents Jowen Lim and Vera Tan.  The pair started dating in 2015 and have since gotten engaged. Lim and Tan who had a good year on the sporting front with medals at the World Championship also have plans to get married pretty soon. In this episode, they speak about how it all started, whether their relationship has affected their personal ambitions and what's next for them in and out of wushu. Highlights (click/tap above): 1:00 How Jowen Lim and Vera Tan fell in love with Wushu  2:15 On meeting each other for the first time  6:20 Do Lim and Tan avoid speaking about Wushu away from competition and training? 9:00 What is the best thing about having a partner who is also an athlete? 11:15 What is next for both Tan and Lim in 2024 both in and out of Wushu? Read: https://str.sg/iqt7 Produced by: Deepanraj Ganesan (gdeepan@sph.com.sg), Amirul Karim & Eden Soh Edited by: Eden Soh Follow ST Sports Talk every month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWRE Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWRa Spotify: https://str.sg/JW6N SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Deepanraj Ganesan on X: https://str.sg/wtra Read his articles: https://str.sg/ip4G --- Discover more ST podcast channels: COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #sportstalkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Love is in the air for these wushu athletes. Synopsis: The Straits Times looks at the talking points in sport every second Wednesday of the month. In this episode of Sports Talk, Deepanraj Ganesan gets into the Valentine's Day mood and spoke to a sporting couple in wushu exponents Jowen Lim and Vera Tan.  The pair started dating in 2015 and have since gotten engaged. Lim and Tan who had a good year on the sporting front with medals at the World Championship also have plans to get married pretty soon. In this episode, they speak about how it all started, whether their relationship has affected their personal ambitions and what's next for them in and out of wushu. Highlights (click/tap above): 1:00 How Jowen Lim and Vera Tan fell in love with Wushu  2:15 On meeting each other for the first time  6:20 Do Lim and Tan avoid speaking about Wushu away from competition and training? 9:00 What is the best thing about having a partner who is also an athlete? 11:15 What is next for both Tan and Lim in 2024 both in and out of Wushu? Read: https://str.sg/iqt7 Produced by: Deepanraj Ganesan (gdeepan@sph.com.sg), Amirul Karim & Eden Soh Edited by: Eden Soh Follow ST Sports Talk every month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWRE Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWRa Spotify: https://str.sg/JW6N SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Deepanraj Ganesan on X: https://str.sg/wtra Read his articles: https://str.sg/ip4G --- Discover more ST podcast channels: COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #sportstalkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wir vergleichen uns bei Insta, in der Schule, beim Sport oder im Büro. Wir machen das quasi automatisch: Wo stehe ich? Bin ich besser? Bin ich schlechter? Das ist zunächst Mal gar kein Problem – wenn wir nicht darunter leiden.**********Quellen aus der Folge:Mehrsafar, A. H., Strahler, J., Gazerani, P., Khabiri, M., Sánchez, J. C. J., Moosakhani, A., & Zadeh, A. M. (2019). The effects of mindfulness training on competition-induced anxiety and salivary stress markers in elite Wushu athletes: A pilot study. Physiology & behavior, 210, 112655. Van de Ven, N., Zeelenberg, M., & Pieters, R. (2009). Leveling up and down: the experiences of benign and malicious envy. Emotion, 9(3), 419. Van de Ven, N., Zeelenberg, M., & Pieters, R. (2011). Why envy outperforms admiration. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 37(6), 784-795. **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Sozialpsychologie: Warum uns Neid manchmal helfen kannBis aufs Blut: Wenn Geschwister konkurrierenNeid: Wie wir achtsam mit diesem unbeliebten Gefühl umgehen**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.**********Ihr habt Anregungen, Ideen, Themenwünsche? Dann schreibt uns gern unter achtsam@deutschlandfunknova.de

Join us this week on PKCC as we sit down with Adam Grogin. A lifelong Martial Artist, Master Grogin's journey began in 1987 after a Karate Birthday Party sparked his passion following The Karate Kid movie. He started Tae Kwon Do in 1992, primarily focusing on a World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) based style, incorporating Olympic Style Sparring and International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Tul (forms). Guided by various ITF Masters, he explored the traditional ITF Forms and, in 1996, connected with Master Il Kyu Shin, a Korean National Demonstration Team member. Master Grogin currently holds a 6th Dan, acknowledged by Grand Master Frank Noguera and Kukkiwon in Korea. His Tae Kwon Do rank was internationally recognized by the Kokuryu Kai International Black Dragon Association in 2018. Additionally, he delved into Wu Shu in 1995, Combat Hapkido in 1999, and Capoeira Regional in 2006. He also incorporated gymnastics into his training, emphasizing acrobatics and flipping skills. Master Grogin's diverse martial arts background extends to competitive breaking, mentored by Grandmaster Ralph Bergamo, Master Drew Serrano, and Grandmaster Elton Trower through the USBA/WBA, resurrecting his competitive career in 2009. #PKCC #martialarts #karate

We go deep on the forbidden lore as your heroes discuss the first half of "Borderlands"! An episode so rich with content we had to split our discussion up into two parts, we get the Rick Sanchez arc of the Soong family, Big Show giving airplane rides, and how to make sense of old TOS continuity from the 60's. 

“The Jail that I was in was easy.  The Jail that most people are in today without being incarcerated in a Jail Cell, is the Jail cell of the mind and the heart.  It wasn't till I learned to love me in Jail, it wasn't until I learned to express me in jail, that I was able to look at myself in the mirror, and say, Let's Go Bam.”My guest this episode is Willie “The Bam” Johnson, who is a seven-time sport karate and kung fu world champion, a two-time All-American champion, and a true hero in the world of martial arts. As the creator of Wushudo Universal Martial Arts, Johnson is known for his dynamic, universal approach to developing physical, mental and spiritual fitness.  Johnson is the founder and national spokesperson for the Stronger Than Drugs Foundation and was inducted into the Martial Arts and Black Belt Magazine Halls of Fame.This episode is all about the inner journey of rebirth and personal transformation.  Willie shares how he used martial arts to transform from a criminal in prison into a seven-time world champion and a community leader.  My key take away is that quest for honest self-expression can free you from the prison of who you think you are.  We need to love and except ourselves wholly and totally, and once we can let go of external approval, we can start to go inside and discover our unique gifts and talents which we can then give to the world.  Tune in to one of the most inspirational and life changing conversations I have ever had. 

Trước thông tin Washington và Hà Nội đang đàm phán một thương vụ chuyển giao vũ khí lớn, trong đó có máy bay chiến đấu F-16, Trung Quốc nói họ muốn ‘các nước liên quan' không gây ra ‘Chiến tranh Lạnh' và ‘chạy đua vũ trang' khi hợp tác quốc phòng. Xem thêm: https://bit.ly/3wSHe49 Tin tức đáng chú ý khác: Mỹ-Việt tăng cường hợp tác tuần duyên sau chuyến thăm của Tổng thống Biden. Việt Nam phản đối Trung Quốc đặt trạm nhận dạng tàu thuyền ở Hoàng Sa. Việt Nam hỗ trợ lao động Việt bị thương trong vụ cháy nổ nhà máy ở Đài Loan. Hàn Quốc phô diễn sức mạnh quân sự để cảnh cáo Triều Tiên. Tư lệnh Lục quân Mỹ muốn duy trì ‘Ấn Độ Dương-Thái Bình Dương tự do, rộng mở'. Ngư dân Philippines phẫn nộ vì Trung Quốc giăng hàng rào phao gần bãi cạn tranh chấp. Tuyển Wushu Ấn Độ thất vọng vì vấn đề visa cản chân họ tới Á vận hội Hàng Châu. Nga oanh tạc cơ sở hạ tầng và kho ngũ cốc của Ukraine.

Samantha Win is a Canadian actress and martial artist with rich Chinese heritage, best known for her portrayal of Kitana in 2013's Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series. Samantha started training in martial arts at the age of 4, beginning with Jiu Jitsu and eventually moving on to Wushu. Her love of martial arts would see her compete and win multiple medals at national, pan-American and international levels, including a stint representing Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After spending some time as a stunt actress, Samantha's aptitude saw her eventual casting in a number of television shows such as Lethal Weapon and Arrow. She has also starred in a number of blockbuster films, including Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, Justice League and Army of the Dead. Her newest project, The Dresden Sun, is currently in post-production.

Johnny Yong Bosch is an actor, stuntman, filmmaker, musician, motion capture performer and voiceover actor known for The Power Rangers, Akira, Devil May Cry, and my personal favorite Extreme Heist aka Wicked Game. We talk his work with Alpha Stunts, indie filmmaking, and what makes performances great. You can see his IMDB here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097765/ Edited by JP Franco Action Talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKvT1cdaRn78tV4vF78InER7GhxCKaxU5 Action Talks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7D289YtkiQIkSVhNLDX8O2 Action Talks on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/action-talks-with-eric-jacobus/id1686666319 Telegram: t.me/ericjacobus My studio SuperAlloy: www.superalloyinteractive.com Blog: www.ericjacobus.com Timestamps: 0:01:39 Early influences 0:04:30 Kung Fu cinema and what Johnny was watching as a kid 0:08:45 Starting in martial arts 0:22:05 Nature of his martial arts training 0:28:14 What is Wushu? 0:31:55 Power Rangers 0:43:40 How he accidentally learned only the strong kick 0:49:33 Koichi's method of controlling the edit 0:53:01 Extreme Heist aka Wicked Game 0:58:11 Problem solving in making action and his first voice over gig 1:03:06 The insanity of making Broken Path 1:09:02 Choreographing for Wicked Game & Broken Path 1:13:34 Motion Capture 1:26:04 Death Grip 1:29:07 Injuries, indie projects and Japanese culture

First, Indian Express' Amitabh Sinha tells us about the main features of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill and why it is raising concerns.Next, Indian Express' Sukrita Baruah talks about the delegates from the Opposition alliance INDIA visiting the state of Manipur (13:25).And, in the end, Indian Express' Mihir Vasavda explains why India withdrew its Wushu (martial arts) contingent from a tournament taking place in China (21:45).Hosted by Shashank BhargavaProduced by Shashank Bhargava and Utsa SarminEdited and mixed by Abhishek Kumar

Join us as we explore the artistry, discipline, and physical skill that make Wushu an exceptional martial art for young practitioners. To understand the journey, we interview Sarah Chang, a talented and dedicated actress, martial artist, director and producer. Sarah shares her passion for Wushu, describing how it has empowered her physically and mentally. We learn how Wushu training not only enhances physical abilities but also sharpens focus and creates Qi. We discuss its historical significance in Chinese tradition and how it relates to the term kung fu, and what it means to achieve kung fu in our every day lives!

In this episode, Ed sits down with Joel English, a strength and conditioning coach with a particular interest in flexibility and mobility training. After leaving Hong Kong at the age of 16, Joel found himself going down the wrong path, and it wasn't until he was introduced to Taiji that he began to find his feet again. Joel shares how Taiji, Qigong and Wushu impacted his life, which would eventually result in him both teaching and competing. It's from these practices that he began exploring flexibility and mobility training, much of which are the foundations of his coaching practice today.  Instagram: @247warriors on Instagram Website: www.theeverydaywarriors.com MMA flexibility Instagram: @flexiblity.maestro MMA flexibility website: www.flexibilitymaestro.com 

Mr. Yuri Lowenthal is a Martial Arts Practitioner and Enthusiast. He appeared as the voice actor for Spiderman, Goku, and Superman to say the least. I went to New York from Japan and while I was there, I've found a Kung Fu and Wushu school. I knew after checking out the school, I finally found what I really love about Martial Arts. It had that fluid quality that I wanted. They were not focusing on sparring all the time. The Chinese instructor just wanted people to study Kung Fu. Mr. Yuri Lowenthal - Episode 814 Mr. Yuri Lowenthal, a self-proclaimed nerdy kid, grew up in the 80s as Kung Fu movies and Anime started to gain popularity. Mr. Lowenthal's interest in martial arts began when his dad was working for USAID in West Africa, where they found a Korean teacher who taught Tae Kwon Do to the Nigerian police. Lowenthal's love for Japanese culture led him to Japan, where he studied the language and joined a Shaolin Kempo Club. He even fronted an American music band at the invitation of one of the Japanese students he met. At present, when Mr. Yuri Lowenthal has free time, he does voice acting for our most beloved characters in animated films and games such as Spiderman, Goku, Superman, Final Fantasy and so much more. In this episode, Mr. Yuri Lowenthal talks about his Martial Arts Journey, his passion for its history, and his fascination for Eastern cultures. Listen to learn more! Show notes You may check out more about Yuri Lowenthal and his work on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523180/ Follow Yuri on @yurilowenthal on both IG and Twitter!

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It's a Thursday night and four people are sparring under the careful watch of Haven Seto.For years, Haven has worked with athletes of all ages to help them develop their boxing, kickboxing and wushu skills. Wushu is also known as kung-fu, and it's played an important role in Haven's life.I am so excited to introduce you to Haven Seto.He is the epitome of a community leader. He loves helping others, he is passionate about making his community a better place, and he understands the importance of hard work and kindness.For the past 15 years, Haven has worked at the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association here in Saskatoon. This organization provides programs and services to help newcomers and Indigenous find success in their communities and has been doing this work since 1964.Haven oversees all of the employment programs and as you will hear in our conversation, he takes so much pride in helping newcomers and Indigenous people find meaningful employment in Saskatoon.He also owns and operates the Chinese Martial Arts Academy where he is one of several coaches working with athletes of all ages. Mentorship and helping others are key aspects in Haven's life and he's able to do both in his role not only at the gym but at the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association.It was a true pleasure spending time with Haven to not only learn about the many roles he plays in our community but about why all of his work means so much to him. Haven's personal story is compelling and I think one that you will connect with. Listen to YXE Underground wherever you find your favourite podcasts including Apple Podcast, Spotify, Goodpods or wherever you find your favourite podcasts. You can also listen to episodes on the YXE Underground website.Find YXE Underground on social media. Search YXE Underground on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for episode updates and photos from each episode. Don't forget to leave a 5-star review if you like what you hear!Thank you for continuing to support a local, independent podcast.Cheers...Eric 

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For episode 139, we welcomed Richard Divizio to the show! Richard is one of the original actors from the video game, Mortal Kombat, whose portrayal of "Kano" is legendary! Richard also portrayed "Baraka", "Kabal", and "Quan Chi"! He is also the only actor to appear in all digitized Mortal Kombat games. He has a degree in computer graphic design and a background in Wushu, Chinese Kung Fu, and 7 Star Praying Mantis. In our discussion, we covered his background in martial arts, the start of the Mortal Kombat franchise, creating the move set of "Kano", his working relationship with the creators and fellow actors, the story behind the iconic "Get over here!" line, how he became a Foot Soldier in the film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret of the Ooze", the legacy of Mortal Kombat, the power of the MK fandom, and so much more! #mortalkombat #richarddivizio #martialarts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alright peeps, on this 103rd episode of the Kung Fu Genius Podcast, the KFG (aka Alex Richter) will be answering all sorts of hot nonsense from YouTube.  Lots of gems, lots of this Kung Fu Grandmaster can beat up that scrub, and lots of “your Kung Fu is very traditional, but does it have 720 whirlwind kicks?”  Let's get to it!” The 2023 Ultimate Hong Kong Kung Fu Tour with the Kung Fu Genius (Aug 22-27, 2023) - LIMITED SPOTS! Full tour - HK sights, Bruce Lee spots, Wing Chun locations of interest, movie locations, Wing Tsun training and much more!  (excludes airfare, accommodations, and meals). https://www.citywt.com/ultimate-hong-kong-kung-fu-tour  NEW KFG T-Shirt - Limited Run - $29.95 (reg $34.95) New Wooden Dummy Book: https://www.citywt.com/shop  Immersion Training with the KFG: https://www.citywt.com/immersion-course-w-sifu-alex  Support the KFG on Patreon!  Get episodes early as well as exclusive content including English Translations of the Yip Man interviews with New Martial Hero Magazine.  You can support the Genius for as little as $5/month!: https://www.patreon.com/thekungfugenius    Baller Supporter of the Kung Fu Genius: John Turnbull Andrew Vasilatos This episode was brought to you by: Jihad Battle Mike Best Jack Chiu Topher Mowry Francisco Ortiz Mark Perna Bill Seng Garret Tansel v0odoo For books and other merch, please visit: https://www.citywt.com   To Train Wing Tsun in New York City: https://www.citywt.com   Follow the KFG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekungfugenius    Follow the KFG on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekungfugenius      Crew -  Producer: Mikey Deane Co-Host: Dre Ison Editor: Andrew Lin “Unstoppable Announcer”: Hector Martinez Archival Opening Footage: Dez Ryan Song “Kung Fu Genius”: Kess the MC

Hadra Ahmed is an Ethiopian freelance journalist and field producer who works with local and international media sources. She had a remarkable life, beginning in rural regions and progressing to become a news correspondent for several news organizations throughout the world. We had a great episode with subjects spanning from Wushu to F1 racing to African tales and more. Enjoy! ሀድራ አህመድ ከሀገር ውስጥ እና ከአለም አቀፍ የመገናኛ ብዙሃን ምንጮች ጋር የምትሰራ ኢትዮጵያዊት ጋዜጠኛ እና የመስክ አዘጋጅ ነች። ከክፍለ ሃገር ጀምራ በዓለም ዙሪያ ለሚገኙ የበርካታ የዜና ድርጅቶች የዜና ዘጋቢ ለመሆን ችላለች። ከውሹ እስከ ኤፍ 1 እሽቅድምድም እስከ አፍሪካዊ ታሪኮች እና ሌሎችም ጉዳዮችን የያዘ ቆይታ አሳልፈናል። ይደሰቱ! ሀድራን እዚህ ይከተሉ: Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1ethiopia?t=3BussIZRf6hKaUdwDubdPA&s=09 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hadraahmed/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gugut/message

Anthony Marquez is a life long and accomplished martial artist. You may know him as the original Kung Lao actor in the smash hit video games Mortal Kombat 2 and 3. We deep dive into his martial arts training, training concepts, behind the scene stories on making the iconic Mortal Kombat games, stories on his Wushu competition days and much more. 

Horror, né! Medo-uóóóóó´! Desespero! Pânico! Ponte do Rio Kawai! Lança Perfume! No episódio desta semana nos reunimos para falar sobre o 14 Amazons (As 14 Amazonas) produção Shaw Brothers lançada em 1972!E além da nossa resenha habitual você ouvirá sobre as regras de um filme Wushu e algumas verdades sobre a ação japonesa na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Então aumentem seus iPods porque mais um Podtrash está no ar! Duração: 97minMédia TD1P: 4,5 ELENCO Almighty, o Estagiário de Chinelos!Bruno "Gunfree" GunterDemétrius "Anjo Negro" Santos Douglas Fricke, o ExumadorEdson OliveiraShin Koheo, o Maratonista nu! ARTE DO BANNER Shin Koheo EXTRAS DESTE PODTRASH IMDB de 14 AmazonsTrailer de As 14 Amazonas Escute esta playlist no Spotify! FEEDS E LINKS DO PODTRASH Podtrash na iTunes StorePodtrash no SpotifyFeed completo do PodtrashFeed sem os Lado BFeed do Lado BCanal do Podtrash no YoutunerParticipe do Grupo “Esse Merece um Podtrash” lá no Facebook!Participe do grupo do Telegram dos Ouvintes do PodtrashConheça a Loja de Camisetas As Baratas! CONTATOS DO PODTRASH podtrash@td1p.com@podtrashFacebook do PodtrashNova Cx Postal: 79137 - CEP 03479-970 CAPA DESTE PODTRASH

The crowd was gathering and forming lines. This politically charged environment had met, as if agreed in prior negotiations, to meet on the field of battle prior to this date and each had brought their posters, signs, banners and flags. As if on cue the event started with the gathering of each side simultaneously marching toward one another. As they met a line formed with arms linked together as if to stop one side form reaching the other side where a stage and PA system blared out loud music drowning out all conversational talk. No one would dare breach this human wall as ranks closed and even a wheel chair bound protestor was challenged with angry faces, and blocked from further progress as she pushed, or rather was pushed through the line. As I CIRCLED around the confrontation I found a small break in the line. Without confrontation, my only objective was to take pictures, video and interview people on both sides. CIRCLING to the side of a couple of “line holders” I asked calmly, while standing next to them if he could get through, and walked without confrontation to the stage, interviewing band members, and generally unchallenged. Having studied Hapkido self-defense, I had learned that a direct confrontation didn't end well. Instead I chose to CIRCLE, take a defensive position instead of direct confrontation. In life, and Life Defense, CIRCLING to another's perspective creates a new view point, a non-confrontational position, and is defensible. By CIRCLING around the human blockade, by not standing in opposition, rather in harmony with the people, and generally being interested in them provided new opportunities of interaction with little resistance. Consider the CIRCLE, one of the shapes of motion in arts like Jiujitsu, Judo, Wushu, Aikido, and Hapkido, to be powerful and able to redirect opposition and accomplish mush more that clashing, in toe to toe confrontation. When confronted CIRCLE. #lifedefense #circle #allenhughes --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allen-hughes/message

Host: RA George Blockchain DXB Guest: Ermin Vali, Metafluence Date: 19th Aug Zoom Session Social Media Channels for Metafluence Event: 26th August “ Building Audience in the Metaverse” 16:00 UTC Meet the first-ever influencer hangout with 3D avatars in Metafluence City. Wushu champion & actress Janice Hung, and entrepreneur & photographer Radu Chirila To participate, follow the link to join the private group & download Metafluence v1.0.1a: https://bit.ly/3cn0787 Website: https://metafluence.com/ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3All6Aa Blog: https://bit.ly/3wteFdk Twitter: @metafluence Metafluence LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3CvwcoH Medium: https://medium.com/@metafluence Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Metafluence/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3pKu3y8 Instagram: AMA highlight : https://bit.ly/3dOPV8F Emin Vali Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3wu7bXm Highlights from the podcast session • Strong extensive international experience with multinational companies such as Colgate, and Palmolive in leading positions • Core expertise in Marketing & his Entrepreneurship journey in a marketing agency serving catering to local & international clients • Startup experience in Influencer marketing platforms & how they cracked the industry problem of bridging the gap between business & influencers • Digital creativity & focus on digital platforms for influencers • History of getting into Metaverse • Importance for influencers to understand the uniqueness of their ability to connect with the audience with relevant content • Personality & importance of expressing oneself are very critical for influencers • Brands as influencers for customers • Metafluence private residence • Ability to have private parties • Guest can connect with all participants • Influencers can make private parties & switch from social media to Metaverse • Problems with getting traffic into Metaverse platforms • How Metaflunce is solving the problem with individualized & Personalized Mini Metaverse • Information about the Metafluence team • Network of Macro Influencers of more than 500 thousand people • Automation of brand influencer relations & allowing brands to work with different influencers • Extensive relationship with existing influencers with Metafluence • Information about Alpha Version Beta Test • First, mover in the Middle East in getting influencers transitioning to Metaverse • Raj Kapoor District/ Indian Silicon Valley District/ • How it can assist & help businesses to showcase their products • Showcase business • Region Innovation hub for different countries at early stages • Different models of socialization & monetization • How Metafluence is solving problems for businesses by getting more engagement in Metaverse • Importance of engagement with audience & influencers • Ability to place advertisements & NFT with multiple influencers • Marketing campaigns based on performance • Plans to attract global brands • Helping businesses by creating content & attract new customers & Gen Z • Ability to rent Metahut & then acquire it at a later date if suits their needs • Brand NFT & digital assets to be traded soon • Market place in Metafluence shortly • A strong community in Telegram, Discord, Instagram • Suggestion for a start-up is to get a team who can test products & give feedback & on how they become ambassadors • First movers' group & first 100 people who would have special badge & converting them to ambassadors & become influencers • Suggestion to new users to try the general • Education is most impacted by Metaverse • How Metaverse helps overcome social issues such as nationality, race etc. • E-commerce will be impacted by Metaverse • Social network & how Metafluence helps to be a world leader in the field. • A new era of Social Content in the Metaverse • Government & public service will play a crucial role in the Metaverse • Metaverse is a set of trends & technology working in a synchronized way • And Physical world connected to Metaverse will be more successful • Im

David Chang is a Wushu instructor that has built a successful business out of a garage. Learn how he took giving lessons to small groups into a successful business with multiple locations. If you would like to be a guest on our show, or you want to learn more about Daniel Nguyen, click the link: https://linktr.ee/localdominationpodcast

Mir Sarwar is known for the Films like Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) , Dishoom (2016) , Jolly LLB 2 (2017) and has acted in several Bollywood films and his work has been appreciated by critics & masses. He is a Kashmir-born Actor who has been part of several Theatre Plays in Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri, and English. He started his career 1999 in New Delhi as a Model. He switched to Theatre afterward to nourish his acting skills and was part of several National School of Drama Workshops. Mir is trained in Martial Arts and is a National Medallist in Kick Boxing, Wu-Shu & Muay Thai which helps him to do his own stunts and fight sequences. Moreover, he is an Award-winning Photographer and won an Award for the Play he Directed. Listen to his inspirational story exclusively on #MashqTalksPodcast. We encourage you to share your views and feedback with us. You can write to themashq@gmail.com or reach out to @RjUmarNisar on the Meta universe and Twitter. || Donate to Mashq Talks at https://rzp.io/l/mashqtalkspodcast ||

For episode 114, we welcomed world champion martial artist, Philip Sahagun to the show. Philip has a background in American Kenpo, kickboxing, Wushu, and Shaolin Temple Kung Fu. He spent three years as an artist during the Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity show, which eventually led to him becoming a coach and choreographer. Philip also toured with Tina Turner on her 50th anniversary world tour. In our discussion we covered growing up in a household that was all about the martial arts, becoming balanced in all disciplines, bringing martial arts into the world of Cirque Du Soleil, touring with Tina Turner, competing on America's Got Talent, and so much more! #cirquedusoleil #tinaturner #martialarts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The season 5 finale is live from Vail, CO, at Vail Comedy Festival. In this live pod recording in front of a real audience, panelists EJ Masicampo, Catherine McCafferty, and V Lince confess stories about running away and we react to audience confessions. Mr. Wushu even joins us for a bit of a story up top. Follow the podcast at @tellmeanythingpod. Recorded at 10th Mt Whisky in Vail, CO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I was rewarded a paid internship at a martial arts academy out in cali. I always wanted to be a full time martial arts instructor & now the opportunity has came. Best thing ever dawg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dacandyshop/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dacandyshop/support

An actor and filmmaker who has starred in various feature length and short films around the world, Kent Leung joins our show to discuss life growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, inspirations for pursuing an acting career, life in in Beijing, China learning and training in Wushu choreography and tricking. All the while sprinkling some life lessons, philosophy and humor along the way. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bxbreakdown/support

Hi everyone! In this episode, Johnny Yang shares his experiences as a Hollywood stunt performer and coordinator. Johnny is another […] The post 274. Johnny Yang on stunts, wushu and karaoke first appeared on Sifu Mimi Chan.

Navy Veteran Andrew Bliss always wanted to work in the video production industry, but his journey wasn't straightforward. Before serving in the military, Bliss was an accomplished professional martial artist with over 10 years of experience coaching and mentoring students. Working as a martial artist eventually led him to the military.In the interview, Bliss talks about serving six years as a Navy broadcast journalist in Combat Camera at the Pentagon and his time directing and producing a feature film while on active duty in Italy before leaving the service.After creating a comfortable life for himself as a civilian, Bliss made the uncomfortable decision to sell all of his belongings, buy a motorcycle and make the long journey across America to the west coast. Bliss talks about why he chose not to take a differnet path to pursue his dream of working in the entertainment industry.Bliss discusses how he leapt from doing freelance and independent work to fulfilling his dream of working for a major entertainment company like Bad Robot Productions. He also talks about content creation, his current position, and how the framework he learned in the military helps him stay focused and grounded while working in Hollywood.Finally, he explains how important it is for Veterans to get involved with Veteran networking organizations, such as Veterans in Media & Entertainment, if they are interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry.In this episode, Bliss also talks about: What he learned from his experiences in the military. Earning a degree in Interactive Design at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The principles that have guided him during his military career and throughout civilian life. The fundamentals to being a part of any industry. Why it's important for Veterans to have insatiable curiosity and the courage to pursue their dreams. His view of NFTs and the future of cryptocurrency. Borne the Battle Veteran of the WeekArmy Air Corps Veteran Gail "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen Additional Links: Borne the Battle #217: Jennifer Marshall – Navy Veteran, Host of CW's Mysteries Decoded. VA will propose adding rare cancers to the presumed service-connected list as related to military environmental exposure VA supports women Veteran entrepreneurs in how to obtain government contracts  VA publishes Interim Final Rule for Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program Veteran communities receive latest resources for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis 

In Episode 4, the Martial Arts Junkies talk with Sifu Kenny Perez - 8th Duan Black Sash in Wushu Sifu Kenny Perez is a world renowned martial artist and tai chi expert with nearly 50 years of experience. He trained in Beijing, China under top coaches, and is a pioneer who helped bring the Chinese martial art of Wushu to Arizona. Sifu Perez is also a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Under the guidance of Coach Wu Bin, Perez trained alongside talented classmates Jet Li and Donnie Yen. Sifu Perez is the only U.S. wushu athlete to be awarded the ranking of 8th Duan under Master-Coach Wu Bin— his most notable achievement to date. ​ Along with teaching classes at DMA Tai Chi Fitness & Wellness center, he is an adjunct faculty member at Glendale Community College. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Spanish. You can check out his website at: AZTaiChiFitness.com ================== Support the Martial Arts Junkies on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/martialartsjunkies Follow the Martial Arts Junkies on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/MartialArtsJunkies Follow the Martial Arts Junkies on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/martialartsjunkies/ Follow the Martial Arts Junkies on Twitter! https://twitter.com/martialartsjnkz ================== Check out Jerry Laurita's newest book Muay Thai Mastery on Amazon! Click here to order! If you want to learn Haidong Gumdo (Korean Swordsmanship) check out! HaidongGumdoVideos.com To learn Muay Thai or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Arizona with Jerry Laurita: TheDesertDojo.com ================== Martial Arts Junkies Crew - Jerry Laurita - James Marler --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/martial-arts-junkies/message

My guest today is Jane Wu. Jane is an autism mom to her daughter, Haylie, a storyboard artist, director and producer. Jane had an upbringing bound by Chinese traditions with big expectations for education and success from her family. With her interest in action movies Jane studied Wushu as a young adult. This along with her extensive knowledge and interest in comic books led to her entry in the Film/TV industry. She has storyboarded action sequences for a total of 8 Marvel films to date as well as the current Disney remake of “Mulan.” Jane is currently Producing, directing on a Netflix animated series for adults called Blue Eye Samurai which will air Fall of 2022.Disclaimer: The podcast is intended for educational purposes only and isn't medical advice. Please talk to your doctor if you have questions. The views and opinions expressed by me are my own personal opinions.Join us on the Autism Mom MD Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/autismmommd/) Visit our website at www.AutismMomMD.com

I often talk about how feet are the most important thing, but I also talk about how glutes are the most important thing. And, maybe to train your glutes, you need to train your feet. To train your feet, you need to train your glutes, what's the connection? We're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast with my special guest Chong Xie. Chong Xie practiced Wushu as a child in Beijing Sport University, is an avid researcher and student of Tai Chi, he has a bachelor degree of science from Binghamton University. With his ebook "Secret of Athleticism" Chong Xie makes an honest endeavor to help all of us understand and discover a path to superior athletic performance without the expense of injury. Connect with Chong Xie: Website: https://www.secret-of-athleticism.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvadUJcVjdSKA0cUJpStQKA Chong Xie Bio: Chong Xie is the author of “Secret of Athleticism”, inventor of the Hyperarch Fascia Training System and founder of the page “secret-of-athleticism.com” a website and discussion group founded to understand more about the foot, and its relationship to athleticism, as well as best training practices. Chong has a computer science degree and has been working as a technical analyst in the software industry for the last 10 years. His interest in the foot was piqued by seeing the large discrepancy in athletic performance, and Chong has spent many years on a quest to unlock the “secret” of athletic performance that is hiding beneath our shoes. If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at move@jointhemovementmovement.com, or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

BGBS 044: Mark O'Brien | Newfangled | I'll Do Anything Mark O'Brien may currently be the CEO of Newfangled, but you'll soon learn that he is a man of many passions. Growing up, Mark had his sights set on pursuing a career in the Catholic Church. As a young adult, he landed his dream job at a restaurant he idolized while working toward a degree in poetry. Finally, he worked his way up from an HTML intern position at Newfangled to find his true calling as the owner. Fascinated? Us too.  And of course, we can't forget the patented Mark O'Brien phrase that guaranteed him his dreams along the way: ”I'll do anything.” As the CEO today, Mark believes in making his business something he loves so much that it'd be crazy to step away from. That means facilitating Newfangled to reach new heights at what it does best, “helping marketers market.” Ultimately, Mark inspires us with the idea that we can absolutely be the best in the world at anything we put our minds to. With our minds open to the possibilities, we encourage you to look inward and ask, what do you want to be the best in the world at? In this episode, you'll learn... Mark originally went to liberal arts school for a specialized poetry education to serve his musical interests Catholicism was a huge influence on Mark, prompting him to pursue becoming a deacon until a change in events led him to turn away from religion altogether at a young age Mark found solace in the Bentleys, a healthy, semi-parental relationship he made at an otherwise dark time in his life Richard Bentley taught Mark a Chinese martial art called Wushu to protect himself at a time when he literally feared for his life at school Food is 100% Mark's primary love language! Mark's goal in life was to work at his dream job, Al Forno, for 10 years until a realization became the catalyst for his first midlife crisis While working 3 jobs at 90 hours a week, Mark offered to work for free at Newfangled Web Graphics and got a response that turned his world around Moving to North Carolina kick-started a remote role for Mark (which was rare at the time) where he was able to flourish while selling for Newfangled Mark was a jack of all trades with many hats within Newfangled. His dedication to the business led to a life-changing offer that he couldn't refuse Newfangled is serious about working with companies that desire a stark culture change and better control of their future "Never sell, never retire" - a life-changing value that inspires Mark to be the best he can be at his business Resources Newfangled Mark O'Brien LinkedIn Quotes [15:11] I was terrified. So my dad had moved away, my religion fell apart. I was truly afraid for my life each day I went to school. These are tough times. But the Bentleys were this rock. [24:01] I got my dream job. And within six months through all sorts of contortions of the universe, I was running the place. I achieved my 10-year goal in six months [44:20] If you're properly specialized, you absolutely can be the best in the world at something. [49:32] I'm so grateful for what I get to do every day. This is an incredible business. It's an incredible business full of wonderful people. And we do work for wonderful people. Podcast Transcript Mark O'Brien 0:02 I wanted to be a priest but I didn't—I would have liked to have been a priest but I didn't want to because I knew I want to have a family. And so as I go, I won't become a deacon I grew up I was an altar boy, I was the head of the see why oh, I was in. I was in and loved it until the priesthood mentoring for six years. Once my parents divorced, he tried to have relationship with me. And that was the end of Catholicism for me and the end of Christianity for me. I'm starting to come back around a lot now. But what happened was it that door just closed my mind as soon as he made that advance. And thank God, I was big enough to get the hell out of this room. But as soon as you made that advance, a door instantly closed my mind. I don't even know it closed. I didn't know close till years later and look back, but I just never I wanted nothing to do with any organized religion at all. From that second onward. Marc Gutman 0:56 Podcasting from Boulder, Colorado, this is the Baby Got Backstory Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like big back stories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman, Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby Got Backstory. We are hearing the story of Mark O'Brien, CEO and owner of the marketing agency newfangled. Alright, alright. Now if you like and enjoy the show, please take a minute or two to rate and review us over at Apple podcasts, or Spotify. Whichever one you listen to most, Apple and Spotify use these ratings as part of the algorithms that determine the ratings on their charts. And ratings help us to build an audience, which that helps us to continue to preach the show. well enough of that. Let's get into today's episode is you're about to hear Mark O'Brien has quite a story. As a young child, he thought he was going to have a career in the Catholic Church, only to become disillusioned and disconnected from that organization for reasons you'll hear early in the episode. After landing his dream job working at the fine dining restaurant he idolized, Mark found his true calling, leading a creative agency today, Newfangled, what a great name is the marketing agency for well, marketing agencies. If that sounds odd, it makes perfect sense when Mark talks about it. But this episode really isn't about marketing agencies. It's about the fascinating and twisty journey of Mark O'Brien. And this this is story. All right, I am here with Mark O'Brien, the CEO of newfangled. What a great name, I love that name. And I want to get into where that came from. And he says he's the CEO, but not the founder, and which is pretty cool. And we're going to talk about that. And, Mark. Welcome. And I want to say when when you sent your bio to us, which we have every guest Do you know you had your like kind of normal bio, but actually leading that bio was the brief version that went cook, intern, coder, President owner. And I just think that is a so awesome. I believe less is more, you know, I love the old quote, I would have written a shorter letter if I had more time in the economy of words. And I think that says it all. So we could probably wrap this interview right now. What do you think? Mark O'Brien 3:35 Enjoyed it! Thanks, Marc. Bye. Marc Gutman 3:39 Well, thank you very, very much for coming on the show. And when you were growing up, like young Mark would did, were you always destined to be a marketer? Mark O'Brien 3:51 No, no, I actually had a fair bit of stress growing up, because I had no idea what I what I could possibly do for a living. And I had no idea what I how it could get by I remember thinking, wow, like look at in my parents house, like look, look at that, washing machine and dryer, how could I ever afford to buy a washing machine and dryer? Yeah. The whole thing seemed quite daunting. And I had no idea at all what I'm doing, which makes sense now because what I do didn't exist then. Marc Gutman 4:24 And like so what did your parents do? Like what gave you that sort of impression that a washer and a dryer was just unattainable? Like what were their careers? Mark O'Brien 4:36 I don't think they did anything to damage me in that way. It was just all inside my own head. My dad is a scientist, primarily a biochemist, but he's in all sorts of other things as well. And my mom when I was growing up was just the consummate Mom, you know, she she was there. She did start working once I got a little bit older, but she was awesome. homemaker of the highest order and took took a deep, deep deep pride in that rightfully so. Marc Gutman 5:08 It's funny like like I have the reverse problem now I look around I'm like how do I afford that washer and dryer doesn't even work this isn't this is insane and I don't want to think about it you make you're giving You're giving me anxiety go back to go go back to childhood or go back to so. So where were you growing up? Like what was? Where did you grow up? What was the town like what you know, what was life like for young Mark? Mark O'Brien 5:35 Young Mark. So I'm born in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was so it's a city a small city, but a city and then moved to Danbury, Connecticut out in the country when I was six. So I did most of my growing up in Danbury, it's about 10 minutes for the New York border, spent a lot of time in the woods in the reservoir, just camping out and playing with friends. So it was it was a real idyllic upbringing, walking to school, through the trails, things like that. playing outside and swimming and canoeing in the summer and ice skating and sledding in the winter. It was wonderful. I really fell in love with the country in those 12 years I was in Danbury from six to 18 and actually end up going back to Providence for college and stayed there for Gosh, about eight years or so total not not college, just Providence and and I missed the country deeply when I was in the city so when I moved down to North Carolina in oh three I made sure that I found a place deep in the country which I did. I'm at Chapel Hill still today but you know the chapel is a pretty rural area I'll hold hold on. Marc Gutman 6:44 I love that and that's interesting like I haven't like had a lot of experience with Rhode Island but not you and the guests right before you Foley Fish and only if you're familiar with them but Rhode Island isn't the the biggest place they're in that area and that they're efficient fish processing and market so pretty interesting. It's like Mark O'Brien 7:01 Foley Fish? Marc Gutman 7:02 Foley Fish Yes, yes, Mark O'Brien 7:04 I know Foley Fish really well actually mentioned them, so what's your connection to Foley fish? Marc Gutman 7:10 They're the guest that's preceding you on Baby got backstory so they're gonna you know people who've listened about Foley Fish will now be getting into Mark O'Brien and hearing all about Rhode Island and and outside of like Dumb and Dumber and fairly brother movies. You know, like I you know, I don't have a lot of Rhode Island experience Mark O'Brien 7:30 Rhode Island's a wonderful place, particularly the summertime, it's wonderful, but Foley Fish. So my very brief bio there, part of it was cook and I ran the kitchenette, a quite prestigious place. There's a story behind that. But I found myself doing that, to my surprise. And their supplier was Foley Fish. And we went in toward the entire fully facility. And it was amazing. They're they're an extraordinary organization, that they're one of those organizations that you know, the people who run it, it doesn't matter what what business they ended up in, it was going to be an excellent business. You know what I mean? Like they they're not in the fish business. They're they're in the I don't know what business they're in. But Gosh, they they are operating a level head and shoulders above everybody else in that marketplace. And the good, amazing innovation in terms of you know how to keep fish fresh, everything else. Incredible, incredible customer service and just impeccable, impeccable product. They're there. They're really an extraordinary, extraordinary organization. And one, I wouldn't mind modeling some aspects of Newfangled after even though we're in marketing and they're fishmongers. Marc Gutman 8:41 Yeah, I mean, we're not here to talk about them, but they've been in business for 114 years. And to me, you know, I've worked with some iconic brands, where basically the the model is don't mess it up, you know, but, uh, you know, but like, very few businesses have been around that long. So super, super cool. And if you've listened to that episode, and you're, you're coming in now, you're gonna have a little bit of context, and if not go back and listen to that one. But I want to get back to you know, you mentioned you were back in Rhode Island, you went to college, where we were interested in and what were you studying at that time? Mark O'Brien 9:15 Okay, so my interest then, so was cooking. Okay, so I, I started working pretty young. My first job was as a caddy at a golf course. I think I was 12 or 13. That was a terrible job. Did not enjoy that. And then I was a busboy at a Chinese restaurant. And then my friend Rosie, she worked at this Italian place, and is small, like 30 seater, run by husband and wife and they needed a busboy and so I left the Chinese place to go to the Italian place and it changed my life. I start in the front of the house with Manuela then with a Bentley, the wife of the husband, wife and got to know Richard Bentley. And the the Cook, or whatever. And I fell in love with and with cuisine, and my mom was always a fantastic cook. Again, under the heading of homemaker such as existed in the 80s. It was, you know, the classic stuff lasagna, shepherd's pie, chicken pot pie, apple pie, a lot of pies. But she was the best cook on both sides of the family. She was amazing cook. So I always grew up around really, really good food and well prepared food. But actually learning how to do this in a modern way in a restaurant was very different for me. And I wanted to go to culinary school I was I was dead set on going to culinary school, but my mom was the boss. And she basically forbade me and made me go get a liberal arts education. I'm very glad she did. So I went to Providence College. And I decided to and so I went to Providence College. And I was very happy to do that. Because Al Forno my dream restaurant was there. And that's, that's why I made the full connection. And and I went knowing that I was going to work full time in restaurants the whole time through college, as I did through high school. And I did, and I'm also a very big music fan always have been. And so I decided, well, I'm going to take a specialization in poetry, after falling in with a poetry professor who was just fantastic, and actually just won a Pulitzer recently, which is great, and he very well deserved. And I took a specialized major with him basically for poetry, in order to become a better a better lyric writer to serve my musical interests. So I was like, Okay, I'm going to college, I'm not doing this for money, I'm not going to get a job in, you know, in the liberal arts or any related field. I'm gonna cook for the rest of my life. Because of course, I'm 18 I know everything. And I really did. I was a real jerky, 18 year old, I really, I really know everything. And so I went to Providence and I studied poetry with Forrest Gander. And it was incredible, and a wonderful educational experience, and work full time restaurant. So I applied to Al Forno like five times, and they kept on rejecting me, didn't even reply to me. But then, of course, I met somebody who knew somebody, and then I got the interview that we can get in. So if you want it's a pretty good story, it does relate to the overall newfangled story as well. But I'll let you guide that. Marc Gutman 12:12 Yeah, I'd love to hear about that in one second. So the before that I want to hear like why cooking like what do you love about it? Like, why was this the thing that that captivated you at such a young age? had made you so sure, because I also was a bit of a jerky, a 18 year old, but I had no idea. You know, I didn't know anything about anything. You know, I didn't know about the world. I didn't know what existed, you know, so I was very unsure with what I wanted to do. So I find it very fascinating that that you were very sure. And it sounds like you still like hold cooking really dear in your heart Even though you're not doing it right now professionally. So like, what is it? Like? Why is—what's so great about cooking? Was it mean to you? Mark O'Brien 12:54 Yeah, so um, yeah, there's an answer to that question. So I started Bentley's, about age 15. And at that time, two other things happened. My parents got divorced. My dad moved away. And that was, that was a big deal. And also, I had been very Catholic growing up. I'm gonna be really honest with you. I don't know how big your audiences here, but I'm going to be pretty open about some things here. I loved Catholicism. I was raised in a Catholic family. I had a bunch of priests, as uncles on both sides, you know, dyed in the wool, southern New England, Italian, Irish American Catholic, right. I wanted to be a priest, but I didn't. I would have liked to have been a priest. But I didn't want to because I want I knew I wanted a family. And so I was like, Oh, I wanna become a deacon. I grew up, I was an altar boy, I was the head of the CYO, and I was in. I was in and loved it. Until the priest who had been mentoring me for six years. Once my parents divorce, he tried to have a relationship with me. And that was the end of Catholicism for me and the end of Christianity for me. I'm starting to come back around a lot now. But what happened was it that door just closed in my mind as soon as he made that advance. And thank God, I was big enough to get the hell out of his room. But as soon as he made that advance a door instantly closed my mind. I don't even know it closed. I didn't know close. Well, years later, I look back but I just never I wanted nothing to do with any organized religion at all. From that second onward, holy involuntary mental response. And I kind of packed it away and didn't even process it at all. So those two things happened. Right when I started working at Bentley's and Richard Bentley. Mark, what is it about you? How'd you how'd you get me into this situation so quickly? Richard, was in a credibly strong presence. Very intense, very quiet. very intimidating. Honestly. I was terrified of him. I was absolutely terrified of him. The other thing that was going on at the same time is I moved into a place Public School and there were gangs. And I watched as one of my closest friends who I walked into the cafeteria with, got dragged away by about 15 guys and put in the hospital. So I was terrified. So my dad had moved away, my religion fell apart. I was truly afraid for my life each day I went to school. These are, these are tough times. But the Bentley's were this rock. And if Richard had been a car mechanic, I would have become a car mechanic, you know, it, I was gonna do whatever he did, because he, he was someone I could rely on. And he was an incredibly powerful, strong male figure. And he happened to cook. Right. And he may well have had a wonderful relationship, and that religion was very important to me, because a very stable, you know, semi parental relationship was going at the same time is that they had decided for various reasons that they weren't gonna have kids. And I showed up at a time in their life that where they were, they had a bit of a gap. And we just, you know, sometimes you have chemistry people that is special. And so what also happened with Richard, it was, he had heard about me talking Manuela about what's going on at school and how afraid I was. And this is it's, this is funny. So I would go to their house to do yard work for them outside of the work hour, so I'd go and like, clean the leaves because they were the restaurant 24 seven, so their yard was like in disarray, but they, they were actually exceptional gardeners, but there's lots of chores to get done. So I'd go do manual labor for them, basically, when I was at the restaurant, and one time after I did my chores, but my mom had to come pick me up yet. He said, Oh, come on back, I'm gonna show you something. And he started showing me some self defense movements. And I knew I knew he was like a martial art kind of guy, but I was I didn't really know much about it. And, and he starts showing me things like, okay, you know, for next week work on these three movements, as Wow, because it was, it was the real deal. It was clearly the real deal. I tried taking some Taekwondo classes for self defense, because I was scared. And it was all about like, points in belts in like getting awards. I'm like, No, no, I'm not here. This is not a sport for me, I need to protect myself. I don't need a point because I like I tap someone on the shoulder like, this is not what I need. But it was very clear from the very beginning, what Richard was doing was the real deal. There was a thing called Wu Shu. And, and so I did, though I practice those things. Then I started going with him to his teacher jayadev, about 45 minutes away. And so twice a week we're drive to take these martial arts classes with Richard and his teacher and a few other guys. And it was incredible. It gave me so much confidence, and it filled such a massive gap for me. And on the way back and forth would listen to tapes, like books on tape, literally, about the restaurant business, like kind of like collect self help books. This is like educational books about restaurants. And Alfredo was always the rest of their department was always offered as a software does that and in Alberta was clearly the gold standard. And Al Forno, it was a Providence and I grew up in Providence had some connections there. And so so the answer question is I got into cooking, because that's what Richard Manuela did. And that became my rock. And it clearly also resonated with me, and I'm pretty artistic. That's naturally wired that way. And cooking. Cooking does really speak to that. And I also love food. I love wine I love I love sensations. Right, I love like physical experience. And food has so much to do with that both know it, it touches all the senses in a really impactful way. And so it's like an endlessly interesting area of pursuit. And I got just an incredible foundation from Rich & Manuela. Marc Gutman 18:48 And for you, It sounds that food is comfort. It's love it's family. And you know, in that time that you shared and thank you for sharing that. It's exactly what you needed. And I can imagine now that that's probably a way that you express love and how you care about people with that, would that be accurate? Mark O'Brien 19:07 100% 100% I cook for people all the time. Now fewer people because you know, when I was many people in our pod because of COVID But yeah, that's 100% were my primary love languages. And that's how I grew up to that's my mom's love language. That's how she tells you She loves you. And like I grew up in that I didn't learn that from the Bentley's I learned for my mom, the Bentley's just allowed me to make it my own and to make it something could actually make a career out of so but yeah, 100% a love language. Marc Gutman 19:33 And so tell me about it and then have the name or is it al furneaux or foreknow foreknows the restaurant Mark O'Brien 19:38 Al Forno. Al space f o r n o. Marc Gutman 19:42 Al Forno. And so, you know, sitting sitting in the car listening to these tapes and hearing the name of this restaurant and setting you know your intention and your dream and you know I tell the story about how I was a skateboard kid and I used to look at Thrasher magazine and I used to just dream about Like how great and cool those kids were in Thrasher. And as soon as I had a chance to get out to California moved to Venice, and I realized it was all like, not cool. You know, like, those kids, those kids all had like, horrible upbringings. And they and at the time when I moved to Venice, it was awful. It's super cool now, but it was like scary. And I was like, wow, like I, the dream that I had in my head did not match the reality for you. In getting in to that restaurant. What was that, like? Did that that live up to the billing? Mark O'Brien 20:32 It was every single thing I'd ever imagined to be in so much more. It was incredible. Absolutely incredible and life changing. And it also made me decide that there was absolutely no way I was gonna make my living and food. Why is that? Well, so so I finally got enough or no, I, I met a guy who was very good friends with the guy who was like that the second command there. And so I got an interview with George drumond George Osborne was owned by George drumond. And Joanne clean husband, wife, team, and I can invert George and I did what I have patented patented as the monopoly patented but you know, air quotes patented as the Marco Brian, it's a move that cannot be resisted. Okay, and here's the move. So, I'm, I'm a senior in college. So I'm only 21. I've been hearing about all for now. And like idolizing photos that was 15, six years a big chunk of my life, right? More than a third of my life. Or so No, no, no, but ever. And finally, I'm sitting down with the owner, the founder of alpha widow, George, and he says, What do you want to do? And I said, I'll do anything, I will do absolutely anything. I just need to be in these doors. I'll do anything. I'll clean the floors of my hand. And that's what the job you need done. Honestly, I will do anything. And they said, All right, you start salads on Monday. So I started the salad, the garbage station, the salad station. And I was over the moon I mean, probably one of the top five happiest most my life honestly, when I found out that I was going to be working out for now I just felt so successful. It was so incredible. And I was gonna earn $7 an hour. And that was that was really bad pay even then, really, really, really, really basically minimum wage. But that didn't care about one bit because I was going to be enough for now. And my first week or second week on there, and I learned so much that that salad session it like so many of the recipes I hold today and my favorite last night I made a pseudo salad and it's that recipe. I learned so much about cooking. It just opened my entire world. I learned so much my mom I learned so much from the Bentley's when I went to all four No, it was that next exponential level up from that in terms, my learnings. And there was a weekend. And there's Guatemalan guy, Tony, who ran the kitchen downstairs and he was fierce, fierce, fierce, unfair, vicious, but amazing cook. And if he said a kind word to you, it like brighten your whole day, you know. And so in the middle of a service Saturday night, everyone's slammed, everyone's literally running around everywhere. And my back is to everybody else, because the soundstage is up front, but it's on Oh, it's an open floor plan. You can see the dining room, everything in the kitchen. And George comes in. And he nods to me he's like how's this how's the new guy doing? And Tony said he's the best we ever had. And I heard that it wasn't meant to hear that. But I heard it. And my confidence was went way. And that's because my training guy trained at Bentley's, like I learned the right way to do things from the beginning. And so I was able to, I was able to take on that next level for now. And within six months, my goal is to stay at a for over 10 years. That was my goal when I got there because I'm gonna stay here 10 years, I'm still in college, I'm gonna finish college, who cares about college, I've got my dream job. But let me get back to the college a mo, who cares? It wasn't really very fair. But I got my dream job. And within six months through all sorts of contortions of the universe, I was running the place. I achieved my 10 year goal in six months at all for now. And just about 18 months after that I was gone from not only a photo but from cooking, because I realized that but again, much like the priests thing, it could be a prison one family well can't get I can't cook someone a family because I saw if I'm if I'm going to do if I'm going to ever make any money at this, I have to own my own place. And if I own my own place, I'm gonna have to like live in that place for good and my kids wanted to live in that place. And that's just not what I want to do. I love cooking, but I don't love it enough to sacrifice everything else. And so I decided to leave. And so at that point, I've dealt with cooking, I already graduated college, I've got my specialized poetry degree and I have no idea what to do with my life and I was 23 and That was my first midlife crisis. I it was it was. I've unfortunately had a second sense. But But prior to having the second one, I said that I had my midlife crisis at 23 that was just part one. And that was a very, very, very scary time. I still worked in restaurants I worked as a bellhop, I was working all kinds of jobs. I could I could employ myself, but I, I didn't know what I wanted to do for a living. It's very scary. Marc Gutman 25:24 Was there like a specific moment or day where you had that realization that this isn't for me? Mark O'Brien 25:32 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there was actually. No one's ever asked me that question. There was this a waiter. His name was Tony to the Tony I think was Tony. And he was he was tough. He had a lot of attitude. He wasn't very nice. He he he liked start fights. And there was no not another Saturday night super busy tons of stuff going on. And he screwed up but didn't want to admit it script in order at a point a script or some big deal because everything's made from scratch. It's like everything's time to be in perfect use of everything else. It's like it's pretty high cuisine. And he came in and I just lost it. I completely let started screaming at them. And I lost it and it turned my screaming like turned into like, almost like a breakdown started crying. And in the scream is like his cry scream. And then I just laughed, I just left and went to the bathroom is like what the hell just happened? Thank thankfully, it's never happened before or since. But like it was a breaking point for me. And in the stress was insane. I would yell at people all the time. Everyone yelled that everybody was it was just a vicious atmosphere. And it doesn't have to be that way. There are plenty of reasons where it's not that way. And but you know, I worked by that point. I did work in a lot of restaurants. I knew the deal. I know what was going on. And I just realized, no, this is not my this is my thing. And it was hard because, you know, I learned how to make scrambled eggs from Julia Child. She candell for no and we open special for her on a Saturday morning for her 92nd birthday, which is one of her last birthdays. And she stood by the stove with me and taught me to mix reveled eggs and you know, George Harrison would come in and Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Steven Spielberg, I mean, this place was the place, it was really hard to leave that job and decide that but I had, I had seen enough where I realized this not my future. But it was great because I got to make that decision from a fully informed perspective. And I did what I came to do, I had a 10 year goal like it comes in six months, and I kicked but I worked so darn hard for them I, I really gave it my all, then realize and move on. Marc Gutman 27:38 This episode brought to you by Wildstory. Wait, isn't that your company? It is. And without the generous support of Wildstory, this show would not be possible. 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And I hop right in and I think I'm so sure of what I want and then I kind of like oh, that dream doesn't really match reality and and I get a little heartbroken or a lot heartbroken and take it pretty hard. Like how did you take it? Like, how did you have it? I mean, it's one thing to know and have this blow up at work and be like, are I like, this is not for me. It's another to settle in with the reality of like, hey, the thing I've been chasing, I was wrong about Mark O'Brien 29:21 Yeah. No, it was hard. It was hard. And you asked, you know, did a foreigner match up for the dream and a photo did match up to the dream. It was everything I had imagined so much more it was it was the exact right thing for me to do. But yeah, the bigger picture dream of cooking for a living was not correct. And yeah, that was that was like I said very hard and very scary and incredibly and I was also like certain lose my hair at the time. And I was like oh my god, I'm ancient. I'm losing my hair. Yeah. And I was I was in a pretty bad relationship too. So it just was a pretty dark time but you know, that's how it goes. Right? So it gets I got 15 dark time but also many beautiful things came of it then 23 another another shade. Up in the rest of my life came from that. And so what happened was I was this probably a good point to get this transition. I had a buddy I grew up with a Danbury, Chris. And he was he was a geek out of the womb. He's just a natural born geek, you know, just loves computers got his first Macintosh in 1982 when he was seven years old when most adults didn't have a Macintosh very families dead he got he got a computer. And he was he was just all in from the very beginning. It's just who he is and always has been. And so we were living together downtown Providence and I was just working different restaurant jobs and I was a bellhop. That was the worst I've actually ever had being a bellhop was so demeaning. It was really, it was it can't be done well, but just the way people treat you is really, really rough. And there was no graduate college I had I was running out for no it which was there in a city ruled that city, I had the best job, you know, one of the best jobs in the city, in terms of a prestige perspective. And now I'm a bellhop outside this hotel is really difficult, or really, really difficult, but good, good character building and very motivating, like, Look, I'm not going to do this, I'm gonna figure my life out. And so I live with Chris, downtown, and he had an awesome job in Boston, you know, made a billion dollars from my perspective. And it was 1999. So the.com bubble was still still ever expanding. And he said to me one day is like, you know, you could make like, 40 grand a year tomorrow reading HTML, and doesn't know and I was like, That's ridiculous. I don't know anything. I literally knew nothing. Nothing about computer. I was the opposite of Chris. So whatever that is, I'm busy. No, you can't, and I can I can teach you. And so I said okay. That night, I fell asleep like this dream of $40,000 you're like, Oh, my God, wow, that would be on a match. I could buy the washer, dryer and dryer, you know, because I never been good enough for seven bucks an hour, never made money. And, and so we convinced the restaurant I was working for Empire to, to do the website, and there's a shorter and we did the website. But Chris did it. And I just kind of like literally sat over shoulder watched. And then we did it and went live. And it's a beautiful site. It was a great experience. I did learn a ton. And he's like, you know, that place that we walked by a Thomas tree, that New England place? Like you should just talk to them. And I was like, Yeah, they had a sign out. And there's a sign I'm looking at right now actually, on the street. And it turns out didn't say New England is that Newfangled, Newfangled web graphics. And so I went and I went to the website, and I spent like, an entire afternoon writing the longest contact form ever. And of course, I submitted it, and it didn't go through. So I had to do it again. And I wrote this just like this giant case for for, you know, speaking with the owner, and I said, it is a total the whole truth. I know nothing. I did this website. Here it is. And, and and I pulled the markup, Brian, I will do anything. And I had three jobs at the time, I was working 990 hours a week between the hotel and to restaurants. And I didn't want money. I just wanted to experience and I told them, this is more than I said to George, as I said, I'll work for free. You're not paying me. I just I just want to be there. And he had me in for an interview. And he hired me. He said, I'll give you 10 bucks an hour. And you can work as many hours as you want to right there hit the jackpot. So I went and I it was a joyous like victory lap it went to all through my jobs and quit. And I started that next Monday on June 15 at new fangled as, like an HTML guy to be to be. And that was that was the beginning of the beginning. Marc Gutman 33:39 Then do you know where the name came from originally? Mark O'Brien 33:43 Newfangled? Yes, yes. So Eric Holder, founded the company in 1995. with Steve Brock, I joined in 2000. And they both went to RISD at the Rhode Island School of Design a very prestigious art school, which, ironically, George drumond from Florida also went to, and he went to Disney and the company, the actual name of the company originally and 95 was newfangled and old fashioned graphics. You could hire new fangled and old fashioned graphics to either build your website or do woodblock printing grabbing for you. Those are the two services offered, actually, Marc Gutman 34:20 Still trying to figure out who they wanted to be at that time, apparently. Mark O'Brien 34:24 Like that's what Eric studied in college. So Eric, what turisti he was a he was a fine arts guy, right? And so he was actually extraordinary. I would engraving and presses from that there's a word for that, but I don't know the word is. But he got out here to get a job. And so he started working for an agency, and it was 9594. And the agencies like this web things happening, can you just do that web stuff for us? And so we got a book and learned it and figured out the basics and started building websites and realize, wow, this is like a big deal. I should make a company doing this. So he did. Marc Gutman 34:53 And so you're building websites, and I'm assuming that it's in the time when making a website was kind of hard, you know, like now, we have have all these templates and wicks and Squarespace and now web flows coming on and even WordPress is and it was so much easier than then than it was. And so what was that? Like? I mean, what was what was building websites when you started, like and how has it changed? Mark O'Brien 35:18 It was thrilling. It was, oh, gosh, it was so wonderful. It was just it was just fantastic. And it was very manual, right. And back then there was Dreamweaver. And so you could use Dreamweaver to kind of fake it like it was a wiziwig have etiquette editor, but newfangled, didn't touch that we pride ourselves on that, you know, we just it was all custom code, right? And we had a guy Mike boulais, who was more senior person and he created a CMS, new newfangled CMS, we call it webtop. At first and so it was super fancy. So I started learn how to program and I got into that and then I learned I do systems administration, and that was really exciting. But you know, the truth is, I didn't realize this, but I was never really good at any of them. What happened was, I decided to move North Carolina, and I actually met my, my ex wife, as a bellhop. When I went to the three months I was at about as a bellhop at the Biltmore in Providence, I met my wife, she stayed there for a weekend. And she was awesome. She kept asking, like, well, where should I go? Should I go here to go there and I kept like, is like pointing different directions, go go do that thing, go to this thing. And I'm just really impressed with how like courageous and and curious she was. And we traded emails, at the end of it, we kept in touch. And we ended up, you know, dating about three months later from afar, and decided to meet and we did that for a couple years, I decided to meet in the middle. She was in Mississippi at the time, and we decided to move North Carolina. And so I go to Eric, I said, Listen, we're North Carolina. But I'd love to stay with the company. There was any way we could do that. I figured you'd say no, because no one worked remotely. And not It was crazy at the time. And he said, All right, yeah, we can do that. But if you're gonna be in North Carolina, you've learned how to sell because, you know, because we got the time. It was a very local business. We were in Providence, were we there, Southern England company. And as and as like, he said, You should build a book of business out there. So sure, I'll try that I've never sold anything, but I'll try it. And so he started taking me in a sales calls with him, which are all in person, of course. And he and I both realized very quickly that Oh, that's what I'm good at. Forget about this coding stuff. Because no one had newfangled, like selling it all Eric hated it. Most people hate it. But I loved it. I loved every single thing about it. And so then I started selling for newfangled. And that's when everything really changed for me. And really, honestly, I'm not to take too much credit for this, but everything changed for newfangled as well. So I moved down here in the beginning of '03, and started building a book of business down here. And it was very successful in my first year selling was the best year we ever had in the history of the company. And my second year selling was, I think it was one and a half times that it was just two great years in a row that really changed the foundation of the company. And Eric may be president of the company at that point, which was amazing. At that point, I really started running it. And I realized that I like that even more than selling. And in 2008. Eric, Eric, Eric is a classic entrepreneur, entrepreneur, he kept coming to me like, Hey, we should do this, which is that he always had ideas. And I kept saying no, it's like, No, listen, we're not good at this thing. Yet, we've really got to dig deeper to this thing. We can't let ourselves get distracted. Let's stay the course on these few initiatives we got going on. And we can get to that idea, maybe in six or 12 months. And each time you know, he was a very balanced guy with very little ego and he would see the wisdom in it. And it's okay, you're right, that's fine. But he got sick of it. He got bored. And he didn't really have a place in newfangled anymore. And he didn't like that he understood what I was saying was right for newfangled, but it wasn't right for him. And so he decided to hire David Baker who introduced you and I, and he went for a consulting consulting. He went, he hired David to, to consult them on how to be a consultant. And David said, Okay, so you're gonna start this consulting business, but you've got a company, like, Who's gonna run the company, and music will go so well, Mark Mark does a lot of that is like, Well tell me what Mark does. And at the time, I was a salesperson, I was the only project manager we had, I was one of our three developers still, and I was our sysadmin all those things at the time. And he said, Okay, so here's the deal. After you get back from our visit here, you're going to go back to the office, you can do one of two things. You're either going to fire bark on the spot, or you're gonna sell the company, that those the only two options. He's got too much control. And so yeah, it was January of 2008. In was like the first or second business day of the year. And Eric in my office is like, Hey, can we go get a coffee? And I was like, sure. And he's like, so you want to buy it? And I was shocked. I was shocked. He said it's roughly 1.1 X of last year, which is the same as the year before. And I said, Yeah, what are percent I absolutely want to buy Gottschalk, my wife got to figure out how to hack it. possibly could. But intent wise, yes. So 100% lot that says it Yes, immediately. And it was 2008. And you might recall, 2008 was a rather interesting year in the economy, especially the fall. So we had a whole plan worked out, everything's good. And then the entire economy fell apart. And so we had like, it was it was amazing it, Eric and I both really trust each other and love each other implicitly, we both wanted was best for newfangled and each other individually. And it was almost impossible to figure out a purchase, it was almost impossible. And aboveboard purchase, I've checked out with the IRS and all the rest. But we did we figured it out. And I became CEO, January 1 2009, Eric lefs, do all kinds of other things. And I began the person buying the company. And that was that was that was that I did not answer your question, which is how was it? How was it being Baudrillard back then, but I, I got into a story, I think it's more interesting. Marc Gutman 40:51 I think so too. And, and, and I love that story. And, you know, like, and I could feel, you know, my heart dropped a bit when you, you know, you purchased in 2008. And the economy changes, and you have to be thinking like, Oh, my gosh, like what just happened, I kind of similar to what we're feeling now. And a lot of ways, a lot of businesses where there's just a lot of external pressure that's out of our control, but doesn't really change the plans we have for ourselves or for our companies. And so back then, and and you were servicing, from what I can tell local clients, kind of just like your run of the mill webshop. And please correct me if I've got that wrong, but at what point did you shift to become more focused on working directly with marketing, creative firms to help them do their marketing? Mark O'Brien 41:37 Well, we always had the agency angle, because again, Eric came from an agency from the very beginning. So we always positioned ourselves as partners for agencies. So basically, the deal was where the web guys, you're the creative people will do all your web work for your clients. For you. That was the deal, that that that was the promise from the very beginning from 95. On, and so on. So that element of the business never changed the working closely with, you know, small to mid size creative shops. But yeah, in 2000, it was local shops. And then no, three, when it came down here, well became local to locales. And, and at the same time, you know, Eric had started doing more on a national scene, David connected with them with Howe magazine. And that started some nice articles and things and, and we started really pushing hard on being more nationally recognized. Eric had started his own content strategy for newfangled, in 2000, running a newsletter. And we always took our own strategy very, very, very seriously. And that was really the heart of our growth in terms of our national reputation building. And, and then, around 2008, I started doing a lot of public speaking and got onto the conference scene and everything else. And then Chris Butler, newfangled balls got into it. So so we pretty rapidly became a a continental partner instead of just a local partner, which was great, that flip was essential, but it's because of our expertise. We were great at partner with agencies, that was our sales prop. And, and we had really good systems were great web developers, we had excellent systems. And so so yeah, it was always about the agency. What changed was, what we do today is that we we help the agencies market themselves, it's not at all about the client work, we almost never touch any client side things with the agency, it's all about the agency, which is kind of a funny thing we do we help marketers market. But it's, but it's wonderful. So in working with agencies, from 95, to 2015, we just learned so much about how they operate in their culture, and our culture sort of grew up to mimic theirs, like we became much more closely aligned with them as we work with more and more of them. And it was in 2015, that we realized we needed to completely change the business. And that realization was instigated by a combination of us adopting the attraction EOS methodology, and my involvement in the Strategic Coach program. Marc Gutman 43:57 I'm familiar with both of those. Very cool, very cool. And so how does an agency know that they need to be working with new fangled? Like, what are the telltale signs? Mark O'Brien 44:09 Well, yeah, let me let me explain a little bit about that transition. And then I can get to that question, because it'll be helpful background or So basically, what happened in 2015? Is those two systems, EOS and coach forced us to look at like, what can you actually be the best in the world that truly, and when you hear that question, you think it's a joke, and the best in the world at anything, but that's not true. If you're properly specialized, you absolutely can't be the best in the world at something. And this is coaching we give to our own clients as well as our agency partners. And we realize, you know, to your point, like well, this web stuff isn't the problem anymore. Like agencies are able to build their own website, that's not anissue. It's everything else that they struggle with. The content creation, the emails, the email, work, the CRM, the paid media, like all the all the other stuff, that's that's the problem. And so we decided to completely reinvent the company to go to where the pain points were. So we would coach them on the websites or the build the right business development website. But then we spent a lot of time working with them on the content. The two hardest things about marketing are one positioning, and two, documenting your expertise around that positioning, which is content creation and distribution. Those are the two hardest things about marketing. And so we decided to go really, really hard at the marca the content side specifically. And that built the modern modern-era of newfangled, where we focus on website coaching to make sure the websites the best business development tool possible, work with them on the content to make sure they're producing the right volume and specificity of content from the right audience all the time, constantly forevermore, making sure they're using email properly to nurture their prospects, the different stages in the buying cycle, in now paid media to generate, you know, near immediate and significant results, because we're driving the right kinds of people to these wonderful expertise, latent assets. So that's, that's, that's the thing, the four pillars of website content, email, paid media, now an agency to your question, an agency decides it's time to talk to us, when they're sick of the same, they're sick of the same that they've been living off referrals, and reputation of a few key people. Maybe they're used to going to trade shows, and just kind of, you know, rubbing elbows, things like that. And they're either sick of doing those things, or in Cobra times can't do those things. And they really want to take control their future, they want to change their future and, and be known for something different and, and be treated like an expert and command higher prices have more control on the buy sell relationship with their clients, that's when they come to us. But we're expensive, you know it, our price point is six to $7,000 a month, and we work in year long programs minimum, and so like it's a tall, tall, tall, tall ticket. And so unless you really want to change, you're not gonna hire us, you've got to really meet it, in order to work with us. And that works well for us because we end up with a roster full of amazing clients who have a deep, deep desire for real cultural change. And that's, that's what we do. Marc Gutman 47:02 That's, that's incredible. And what are you seeing now, especially during this time of the pandemic? Are you seeing your clients thrive? Or are you seeing them struggle? Or what's what's the outlook look like right now for for what you're seeing? Mark O'Brien 47:17 That's a great question. And I'm surprised at my response here. But we we do see, I think, a very specific and I'm not above, I can't find the right word we, the slice of the marketplace we have immediate access to is a fairly representative slice of a certain portion of the economy. Okay. And so we work with bitesize agencies throughout North America, and a little bit in other English speaking countries, Australia, UK, etc. And so, but in the US and Canada, in all brightens just specialists, they have to test specialists they get they're not specialist, they can't work with us, we can help them. And so they're working in very unique and Audrey's discreet industries themselves. And so it's a fair slice of the economy that we can see. And we're deep in the business, we really understand how things are going and their business. And most of our clients are doing pretty well, which is interesting. A few are having a hard time, but only a few and an equal amount, if not more are seeing exponential growth. They're thriving in this environment because it plays to their skills because people can't go out and do certain things anymore. And so I've been heartened, it's surprised to see that, but our average client is stable at least. And many of them for many of them, the targets they set in January for the year. They're still looking to hit this year, which is incredible. Marc Gutman 48:48 Wow, that is incredible. And that's a testament I think to what you're doing with your clients and super, super impressed with that. Mark O'Brien 48:56 So I actually stop you there. I can't take credit for that, Newfangled cannot take credit for that. That would be that'd be overstepping for sure. I mean these businesses are extraordinary businesses on their own. And they made a lot of brave decisions. And that's why the experts they are in the first place it's that we just shine a light on it that that's all we do. But it's it's if the truth weren't incredible and compelling. The light we shot on it would be useless. It's all about their work. Marc Gutman 49:19 That's very generous of you. And I get what you're saying. And so what does the future look like for newfangled? What do you think? What what's the future look like? You know, Mark O'Brien 49:29 I've got to say I'm so grateful for what I get to do every day. This is an incredible business. It's an incredible business full of wonderful people. And we do work for wonderful people. It shocks me that we get to work with a client base that is so smart, interesting, kind, and appreciative. As the ones we do, like I feel bad for our client cause they, they work with like lawyers and stuff. And you know, I've got a lot of good friends who are lawyers, but you know, the agency market as a as a focus and to get to work with the owners and leaders of these really smart, interesting, nimble, creative, and digital shops, you know, all over the world is just incredible. So I love what we do, we're having more impact on our clients than we've ever had significantly more impact on clients we've ever had. And so we've really found a nice rhythm in terms of our service offering, and the staff that we've got the expertise level in the staff, so it's part of us, you might be familiar, you said, 10 year, three year and one year goals. And so the three year goal is to really do what we're doing, we've hit a groove now that we've been trying to find for a long long, we're 25% we've been working on this for a while. And we've we've hit a groove that we've been trying to find for a long time. And and I intend to make sure we stay on it for for the foreseeable future. And, you know, measured growth even even probably throttled growth, I'm intentionally throttle growth just to make sure that we maintain a certain level of excellence inside the organization. So that's kind of a boring answer. But my first session at Strategic Coach, Blair Ends and I attended together, and the very first session of the 12 sessions we attended together in Vancouver was the headline was never sell, never retire. And Blair and I both absorb that and completely took it hook, line and sinker. And that's how we run both of our businesses never sell, never retire, make build your business to be something you love, and you love so much that you'd be crazy to step away from it. And and that's what's happened. That's really what's happened. So, so I'm not looking to get out, I'm not looking to, you know, hit some dollar mark, Mark, and exit. None of that I'm looking to continue to work with this amazing team, we've got an amazing class, we have to just deliver as much possible value as we can, while maintaining our core values. Marc Gutman 51:56 What's hard about running a firm like yours, What don't we know? What don't we see? Like, what is the average person missing? Mark O'Brien 52:03 I think I think the hardest thing about us about my role specifically, it sounds like I am, yeah. uncertainty and you gotta be okay with that. You have to be okay with that. And if you're not okay, with a certain level of risk and uncertainty kind of permeated throughout your entire life. because everything's on the line, it's not gonna work out very well for you. But if you are, then it's an option you owe it to yourself to very deeply consider. Marc Gutman 52:31 Well, Mark is we come to the end of our time here. I just have two more questions for you. And the first has been rattling around in my head ever since you you made mention of it. But what makes a great Caesar like, what's the secret? Okay, Mark O'Brien 52:44 Here we go. I'm ready to give this to you. Right now. There's a recipe. in a blender. any old Blender will do two egg yolks. Five close with peeled garlic as much black pepper as you can grind in there. About a half cup of parsley, flat leaf parsley leaves, tablespoon of Wilshere sauce, the juice of one full pretty big lemon. And that's it. Put that in a blender. Blend those things together. And then open up the top. There's no blenders have a little like thing you can open the top. Open that thing up with your hand over and it's going to splatter in very slowly pour olive oil into it until it thickens. It'll take you about a minute of slowly pouring it and you'll hear it'll sound like a liquid then all of a sudden they'll sound like a solid. And that's when it's done. That will be the best caesar dressing you've ever had in your life. Marc Gutman 53:34 No anchovies. Mark O'Brien 53:35 Oh my gosh. How did I forget the anchovies? Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, yes, of course. anchovies. Thank you Marc. That's what I get for rattling off top my head. Yeah, we want we want about five or six filets of Ortiz brand anchovies. Specifically, it has got to be Ortiz. Brandon, have you ever had an rpz anchovy? Marc Gutman 53:53 I don't think so. Mark O'Brien 53:56 And I'm about to find some go find some right now. They sell it at most wholefoods. You can buy them on Amazon. They're like 16 bucks for a one-ounce jar. They're expensive. But oh my gosh. And I'm not a like, straight anchovy guy at all never been. I can eat a jar of those in a sitting just by so they're amazing. They're they're incredible. They're like something other than Anchovy. Marc Gutman 54:16 The first recipe rattled off by memory on the Baby Got Backstory podcast. First of all, thank you for that. And second of all, it's a real takeaway. I'm gonna go make some Caesar. Mark O'Brien 54:26 Romaine lettuce, of course. Right. Marc Gutman 54:28 Yeah. And my last question for you. So if that 15-year-old Mark, who you were talking about, ran into you today? What do you think he'd say? Mark O'Brien 54:44 He'd be shocked across the board. It'd be really mad at me. And he'd be really happy for me. That's the best I got for you. Marc Gutman 54:58 And that is Mark O'Brien. From Newfangled I need to try the Marco Brian move that can't be resisted the all do anything. I've done that before in my career and I can attest, the great things happen. If you can just get into the middle of where they're happening. Once you're there, you at least have a chance to show what you got, and make your own way. And we'll link to all things Mark O'Brien in Newfangled in the show notes, so please go and check them out. Thank you again to Mark and the team at Newfangled. 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