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Allison Fine, president and CEO of Every.org, joins Regina Hess to discuss how technology can make charitable giving easier and more accessible.   Allison explains how Every.org helps people donate cash, stock, cryptocurrency, and donor-advised funds to nonprofits without complicated paperwork.   She also discusses the growing gap between how Americans hold their wealth and how most nonprofits are equipped to receive it. The conversation also explores why women have an opportunity to become more intentional about philanthropy, how families can involve their children in giving, and what Allison learned after burning out early in her leadership career.   Episode Highlights: 0:00 - Introduction 0:38 - Meet Allison Fine 2:04 - How Every.org makes charitable giving easier 3:33 - Helping nonprofits accept non-cash assets 5:23 - Making generosity more accessible 8:14 - The gap between wealth and charitable giving 9:02 - Women, wealth, and intentional philanthropy 10:40 - How much do you need to donate? 11:09 - Making charitable giving a family activity 12:02 - Why donors need a giving plan 14:00 - Leadership, burnout, and changing old habits 16:11 - Using technology to make people more connected 17:12 - Allison's vision for retirement 18:21 - Visiting every Major League Baseball stadium 20:05 - Becoming more intentional about giving 20:57 - Final thoughts and closing   ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS   Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero. As an advocate for women's financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money. Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News. She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse. As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth. She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families. Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals.    CONNECT WITH REGINA   Website: https://www.forgewealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginamccannhess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForgeWealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgewealthmanagement/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgeWealth Email: reginahess@forgewealth.com   CONNECT WITH ALLISON FINE   Website: Every.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-fine-a07132/   Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC www.finra.org, www.sipc.org Third-party posts found on this profile do not reflect the view of LPL Financial and have not been reviewed by LPL Financial as to accuracy or completeness. For a list of states in which I am registered to do business, please visit www.forgewealth.com

Dan Fouts, Pro Football Hall of Fame QB from the San Diego Chargers and longtime broadcaster, joins Sports Business Radio. Fouts reflects on his first-ballot HOF NFL career playing QB for the high-powered Chargers offense and he also discusses his work on Monday Night Football alongside Al Michaels and comedian Dennis Miller.  HBO Original Documentary and NFL Films Production, has created the documentary MILLER NIGHT FOOTBALL, which chronicles comedian Dennis Miller's unlikely stint in the “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth in 2000, alongside veteran sportscaster Al Michaels and Dan Fouts. The film debuts on Tuesday, September 29 (9:00-9:40 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #DanFouts #Chargers #NFL #MNF #DennisMiller Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Q3 2026, the systems that form the global economy are currently being rewritten by the digitally led, fourth industrial revolution and the geopolitical repositioning of power. You're an investment banker, a portfolio manager or a retail investor looking at trading screens flash red and green. There's a hive of activity. But what to make of it.The indicators continue to flash, but the signals are conflicting. On one side sits the bull case: real AI driven corporate revenue, strong earnings, record stock prices and the unprecedented cash flow of the Hyperscalers. On the other side sits the bear case: historically concentrated index valuations, an ever widening gap between monetisation and infrastructure spending, and an increasingly fragile global debt landscape.It leaves you, as well as other investors, economists, and central banks asking some big questions: Are we witnessing a durable, tech-driven productivity shift? A once in multiple generation opportunity to transform individual, corporate and societal wealth? Are we re-writing the whole world economy? Or are we sitting giddy and foolishly riding a teflon-coated bubble that will soon burst?Our host Tom Parker is joined by Jon Noble, CEO of Trade Nation, Russ Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell and Karen Ward, Chief Market Strategist for EMEA at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. This episode was recorded on the 22nd of September 2026.Sources: FT Resources, Harding Loevner, RBC Wealth Management, Slick Charts, Yahoo Finance, Macrotrends, OECD, AI Weekly, IMF, CNBC, IIF.This content is paid for by Trade Nation and is produced in partnership with the Financial Times' Commercial Department. The views and claims expressed are those of the guests alone and have not been independently verified by The Financial Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Chris Long  Builds a Simple Cash Flow that Creates Freedom through Self Storge Yards | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go Real Estate Investing Podcast, Brandon Elliott sits down with Chris Long, a former contractor who turned his own equipment storage nightmare into a highly scalable, multi-million dollar real estate niche: Self-Storage Yards. Chris breaks down exactly how he acquires land, sets up automated dirt storage yards for local businesses, and operates at 50%+ profit margins without the headaches of traditional tenants, toilets, or heavy CapEx. If you love cash flow and simple business models, this is the "Fastpass" to real estate success you haven't heard of yet. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Executive leadership coach Lynell Shattls joins Regina to discuss the challenges that often follow professional success.   Lynell explains why accomplished leaders still struggle with imposter syndrome, how delegation can create opportunities for others, and why an outside perspective can help people recognize progress they may not see themselves.   She also shares her own experience with burnout, the boundaries she wishes she had established earlier in her career, and why she encourages clients to make room for joy long before retirement.   Episode Highlights:   0:00 - Introduction 0:38 - Meet executive leadership coach Lynell Shattls 1:31 - Recognizing progress before clients see it themselves 3:33 - Imposter syndrome, confidence, and delegation 4:40 - Developing executive presence through storytelling 5:24 - Why experience does not eliminate self-doubt 6:15 - Creating a personalized coaching relationship 7:54 - Burnout and boundaries as a professional woman 9:44 - Lynell's vision for retirement 11:45 - Favorite trips and national parks 14:38 - Closing thoughts and where to connect with Lynell    ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS   Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero.  As an advocate for women's financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money.     Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News.  She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse.   As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth.  She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families.  Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals. CONNECT WITH REGINA   Website: https://www.forgewealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginamccannhess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForgeWealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgewealthmanagement/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgeWealth Email: reginahess@forgewealth.com   CONNECT WITH LYNELL   Website: https://www.lynellshattls.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynellshattlscoach/ Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC www.finra.org, www.sipc.org   Third-party posts found on this profile do not reflect the view of LPL Financial and have not been reviewed by LPL Financial as to accuracy or completeness.   For a list of states in which I am registered to do business, please visit www.forgewealth.com  

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years.  Today, employees working in organizations both large and small are faced with incredible pressure to integrate AI into their workflows both to save costs and to do more.  But many of those same employees express fears, “am I just training robots to put me out of a job?!”  While it can be tempting for leaders in the C-suites to use AI to “finally get the upper hand on these whiny/needy/entitled employees!”, they risk damaging their core mission, specifically providing value to their customers.  In fairness, those same leaders in the C-suite are rightly under pressure to integrate these new tools or risk getting wiped out by more nimble competition.  So, what's the best way to go about this?  In this episode, Kim Scott speaks with Tiffani Bova about her latest book The Experience Mindset.   In this conversation, they explore the critical relationship between employee experience and customer experience, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, effective feedback mechanisms, and the necessity of training employees. The discussion also highlights the disconnect between executives and employees regarding training and feedback, illustrated through real-world examples like the 'Undercover Boss' show. Ultimately, the conversation underscores the need for organizations to prioritize employee engagement and actionable feedback to foster a positive workplace culture and drive business success. They discuss specifics such as the importance of addressing workplace irritations, the need for effective management training, and the significance of streamlining processes to enhance productivity.  Tiffani especially stresses the critical role of office culture in fostering open communication and the necessity of training managers to improve employee satisfaction.  The discussion also highlights the impact of automation and technology in optimizing processes and the importance of aligning incentives to encourage growth and innovation. They explore the intersection of technology and human experience, particularly focusing on the role of AI in the workplace. They discuss the importance of understanding the human element in technology adoption, the balance between tech and human interaction, and the critical role of company culture in driving business success. The conversation highlights real-world examples of AI implementation, the challenges of technology overload, and the necessity of fostering a cohesive culture that aligns with organizational values. Guest Background: As both a practitioner and academic Tiffani Bova offers a unique perspective and has helped lead the tech industry through several evolutions over her nearly 30-year career as Salesforce's former Growth and Innovation Evangelist, and previously as a Research Fellow at Gartner and a sales, marketing and customer service executive for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She is the author of two Wall Street Journal bestsellers: GrowthIQ and The Experience Mindset. At The Futurum Group, she runs the research and strategy organization, while working closely with the entire leadership team to develop and scale its data and intelligence platform and insights for its clients. She also leads the team's efforts within the technology and telecom channels, demonstrating the power and performance of connected go-to-market strategies and alliances. While at Gartner, her forward-looking insights and guidance helped some of the largest technology companies in the world including Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, SAP, AT&T, Dell, Amazon-AWS, expand their market share and grow their revenues. She was a trusted advisor to multiple senior executives who were responsible for shifting from on-premise to as-a-service business models resulting in new billion-dollar divisions. In the late 90's and early 2000s she was a pioneer of cloud computing, she previously led direct and indirect sales, marketing and customer service for two of the largest web-based start-ups in the US and spearheaded a newly formed division of a Fortune 500 company to $300 million in revenue over two and a half years. Tiffani has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Bloomberg, MSNBC-TV, Yahoo Finance, INC and Forbes. She is also the host of the podcast What's Next! with Tiffani Bova. More info here: https://www.tiffanibova.com/ [links for YouTube description] (Bio) https://www.tiffanibova.com/biography/ (book: The Experience Mindset) https://www.tiffanibova.com/the-experience-mindset/ (how to contact) https://www.tiffanibova.com CHAPTERS (00:44) Introduction to the Experience Mindset (02:19) Self-Reflection and Critical Feedback (04:56) The Importance of Employee Experience (05:39) Understanding Employee Feedback (07:23) The Undercover Boss Example (11:25) The Value of Training Employees (15:29) Disconnect Between Executives and Employees (17:30) Real-World Application of Employee Feedback (20:05) Identifying and Fixing Workplace Irritations (24:31) The Importance of Management Training (27:58) Understanding Processes and Their Impact (36:36) Streamlining Processes for Productivity (41:51) Understanding the Human Element in Technology (44:33) AI: Triumphs and Disasters in Implementation (47:32) The Balance of Technology and Human Experience (50:17) Creating a Cohesive Company Culture (55:20) The Impact of Culture on Business Success Connect with the Radical Candor team: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. 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Dr. Stacy Sims, PhD (@DrStacySims)., Researcher, Scientist, Expert on Female Physiology and Training, Entrepreneur and Author (ROAR and Next Level) joins Sports Business Radio for an in-depth discussion about seeing sports and training through the eyes of the female lens.  From building women's sports teams and women's performance centers to training and diet methods, to the language that is used in and around women's sports organizations, Dr. Sims helps us better understand how "women are not small men” and that every decision should be made thinking of the women's perspective first. We also explore training, diet and body changes for teen girl athletes, young women athletes and adult women athletes. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #WomeninSports #DrStacySims #Training #WomensHealth  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform, recently published a really interesting white paper about invisibility for Fortune 500 companies, and the problem is true for European companies too, including Irish ones and could be a huge revenue depressor. Alli AI has also released a Chrome extension that shows how visible websites are to AI. For example, if you run Costco through the Chrome extension you get 7 percent visibility. In Ireland the number is even worse with Musgrave Marketplace getting 1 percent visibility. To find out more about this I spoke to Kyle Duck the founder and CEO of Alli AI.Kyle talks about his background, AI,  Alli AI Crome extension, Cloudflare and more.More about Kyle Duck:Kyle Duck is the founder and CEO of Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform. Alli AI has served over 26,000 companies, from agencies to enterprise teams. Kyle's recent work focuses on how the internet is splitting between serving the needs of humans vs AI agents. Alli AI and Kyle have been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Hubspot, ClickUp, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and more. 

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Let Talk Money | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode, Is money controlling you like a puppet, or are you using it as a tool? In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go Real Estate Investing Podcast, Brandon Elliott breaks down the harsh realities of financial literacy that school never taught us. Drawing from his own journey of growing up with extreme financial scarcity—fearing eviction and praying for lottery wins—Brandon reveals how he completely rewired his mindset to build true wealth. He explains the exact difference between good debt and bad debt, how to calculate what an hour of your time is actually worth, and why the top 1% can lose all their money today and make it all back in 6 months. If you've ever hit a financial ceiling or felt anxiety around your bank account, this episode will give you the tactical steps and spiritual grounding to finally take control of your capital. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Story of the Week (DR):Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI developmentAnthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,' and grants outside evaluators permanent access . Here's what Amodei is suggesting:Each US AI company grants ongoing access to embedded third-party evaluators to check compliance with safety commitments, report incidents, ensure new AI models are not misaligned.All companies in democratic countries building frontier AI models to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress.The world's democratic AI powers would coordinate with autocracies – notably China – to control the race. Amodei suggested a baby step could be a narrow agreement prohibiting obviously dangerous uses of AI, such as for the production of biological weapons.PROAltman Matches Anthropic's AI Auditor Pledge While Musk Offers Three-Word Slowdown Backing: 'Dario is right.' Palantir's Alex Karp is calling for AI lab nationalization and criminal liability: Alex Karp said AI builders should face civil and criminal liability for "not being responsible" as the industry debate over AI safety intensifiesMicrosoft AI CEO Agrees: AI Is Getting Dangerous and Needs to Be ControlledAI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder [Jack Clark] tells BBCBernie Sanders' AI Bill Threatens 20 Years in Prison for Artificial Superintelligence DevelopersThe legislation would also allow companies to be shut down and create a federal agency to police frontier AI systems.The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would outlaw AI systems built to exceed human intelligence.For context, the bill was introduced the same week OpenAI rolled out its GPT-6 Astra model, described by the company as a 'generational leap'. Sanders' office also pointed to an incident from July. It said more than 1,000 OpenAI agents accessed the internet independently, exchanged messages with each other, and got round their own safety restrictions. That lapse, the office said, took engineers nearly two weeks to notice.The bill defines 'superintelligence' to include systems that can match or beat human cognitive performance. It also covers systems that resist shutdown commands, carry out unauthorised cyberattacks, or attempt to overthrow a government.Individual engineers, researchers or executives who breach the ban could face up to 20 years in federal prison. Sanders' office says that term is broadly comparable to penalties for illegally building a nuclear weapon.CONGang of 3: Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang Call Trump to Oppose AI RegulationMark Zuckerberg says AI doesn't need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safeMark Zuckerberg says AI labs can slow down on their own when safety demands itOpenAI's CFO [Sarah Friar] says the company will pace AI development if safety requires it HYPOCRITE?Greg Brockman says OpenAI has already slowed cutting-edge AI developments over safety concerns HYPOCRITE?Jamie Dimon on AI oversight: 'It should be light touch'Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with ChinaTrump says a strong, smart president is the only "guardrail" AI needsTrump responds to rising AI safety concerns, insists tech will be 'more good than bad'Trump's 'Whoever Wins AI Wins' Line Draws Scrutiny as He Downplays AI Extinction Warnings From ExpertsTrump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mid-interview to rip AI doomerism: 'The robots will not be taking over'OpenAI boss [Sam Altman] says world 'right to be afraid' but should trust AI firms HYPOCRITE?Sam Altman says some AI accidents are 'unavoidable'Really? Palantir cofounder on AI's threat: 'We're on top of it'In an X post on Saturday, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction: "The world is going to be alright, guys. Leaders have big responsibilities and challenges ahead, but it doesn't help to scare everyone. We are on top of it."MEANWHILETech CEOs used to fear their boards. No moreAI drives record 10 under-40 billionaires onto 2026 Forbes 400Six Anthropic cofounders join Forbes 400 at $15.5 billion eachOpenAI's president [Greg Brockman] joined the Forbes 400 as its wealthiest new member — worth $25.5 billionSam Altman says this is an 'ill-advised' time to IPO, given safety concernsAnthropic chose Nasdaq for its IPO, giving the exchange a major AI winOpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion ValuationFINALLYAI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBCHOW ABOUT EVERYBODY QUITS?Trump EPA Repeals Biden-Era Rules Limiting GHG Emissions from Power Plants MM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Monday the repeal of a series of Biden-era rules aimed at significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants, one of the main sources of the U.S.' carbon footprint.In addition to finalizing the repeal of the rules, the EPA also announced a proposal to rescind the 2015 Greenhouse Gas Findings for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants, effectively making it much more difficult for the agency to reinstitute GHG limiting rules for the fossil fuel-fired power generation sector under future administrations.Trump's ‘largest deregulatory action ever' in the power sector will keep old coal plants online longer to fuel the AI boomHAPPY CEOs:Fossil-Fuel Power Generators & UtilitiesJim Burke (Vistra Corp) & Robert Gaudette (NRG Energy): Large merchant power producers with extensive natural gas and coal fleets that avoid capital-intensive carbon capture retrofits or premature unit closures.Harry Sideris (Duke Energy), Christopher Womack (Southern Company) & Bill Fehrman (American Electric Power): Regulated utilities operating major coal and gas generation networks across the Midwest and Southeast, relieving pressure to retire units ahead of schedule.Mark Hewett (Berkshire Hathaway Energy) & Mike Skaggs (Tennessee Valley Authority): Power providers with heavy baseload fossil capacity that avoid major compliance expenditures.Coal Producers & Mining OperationsJames Grech (Peabody Energy): The nation's largest coal miner, benefiting directly from extended power plant lifespans and higher domestic thermal coal demand.Grech has maintained a vocal public relationship with Trump, presenting him with a bronze award honoring him as the "Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal."Joe Craft III (Alliance Resource Partners) & Paul Lang (Arch Resources): Key thermal coal suppliers to Midwestern and Eastern power plants that no longer face strict 2030s retirement timelines.Craft donated over $1 million to Trump's 2017 Inaugural Committee and millions more to pro-Trump Super PACs.Trump subsequently appointed Craft's wife, Kelly Craft, to high-level diplomatic posts as U.S. Ambassador to Canada and later U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.Natural Gas Producers & Midstream InfrastructureToby Rice (EQT Corporation) & Tom Jorden (Coterra Energy): Top domestic natural gas producers positioned to supply fuel for unconstrained new gas-fired turbine generation.Chad Zamarin (The Williams Companies) & Kimberly Dang (Kinder Morgan): Midstream pipeline giants transporting natural gas to power plants, benefiting from sustained pipeline throughput and expanded gas generation hookups.EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plantsPublic health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills.The repeal risks leaving the country's single largest source of industrial climate pollution unchecked.SEC proxy rule changes could end 92 years of shareholder protections MMThe Securities and Exchange Commission has put forward one of the most far-reaching corporate governance proposals in decades, moving to scrap the federal rule that has forced public companies to include shareholder proposals in their proxy materials since 1934.The SEC proxy rule changes would rescind Rule 14a-8 entirely and hand authority over shareholder proposals back to state law and individual company charters, according to the agency's announcement.A companion proposal would amend Rule 14a-4(c) to give companies more flexibility and shareholders more control over discretionary proxy voting.The SEC's broader push to update its rules for current market practice and technology also targets several older paperwork requirements that the agency views as outdated.Eliminate the requirement that companies deliver an annual report to security holders.Eliminate the delivery deadline when documents are incorporated by reference into a proxy statement.Eliminate the requirement and the ability to submit Notices of Exempt Solicitation.Shorten the minimum broker search period from 20 business days to five business days.Starbucks Makes Major DEI U-Turn, Agrees to End Race and Sex-Based Hiring Preferences NationwideStarbucks is ending race- and sex-based hiring goals and preferences across its US operations under a nationwide settlement with Florida, agreeing to pay $1 million and submit to four years of annual compliance reviews.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's office said the agreement applies to Starbucks operations nationwide, rather than only its stores in Florida.Under the settlement, Starbucks agreed to comply with the Florida Civil Rights Act, including its restrictions on race- and sex-based goals, quotas, and preferences in hiring, promotions, pay, executive compensation, mentorship programmes, supplier selection, and board composition.Starbucks also agreed not to participate in organisations that require an increase in the racial diversity of its board of directors. Its chief legal officer must submit annual certifications confirming continued compliance for four years. The company will pay $1 million to the Florida Department of Legal Affairs to reimburse the state for time, expenses, and costs associated with the case.Accenture to Pay $25 Million to Settle Latest U.S. DOJ Anti-DEI CaseWarren Buffett is stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway's chairmanBuffett, 96, becomes chairman emeritus effective immediately while his son Howard assumes the role under a long-standing succession planWho Is Howie Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's New Chairman? I can answer that WSJ and save its readers some time: It's Warren Buffett's son.Goodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Barclays workers ask for more money to return to the office MM DRMM: Barclays workers ask for more money to return to the officeIsn't this the first step toward a unionized financial sector??Assholiest of the Week (MM):HypocritesMan using AI to kill people thinks men using AI to kill people should be held responsible: Palantir's Alex Karp is calling for AI lab nationalization and criminal liabilityLying sociopath calls AI a lying sociopath: OpenAI Warns of Six Concerning AI Behaviours as Models Hid Mistakes and Circumvented SafeguardsGuy who said China says Not China: Sam Altman Warns AI Race With China Can't Justify ‘Recklessness'—‘No Reason Any of Us Should Come to Work' Without Safety AccountabilityGuy who just paid 17bn for worst safety on earth says other guy needs to focus on safety: Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown (“A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.”)Politicians think a billionaire not named Trump should be held accountable for Epstein: House votes to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigationForgetting climate change was the result of the oil boom: Trump Compares AI Data Centers To Oil Boom — Nvidia CEO AgreesI don't even need a hypocritical talking point: Trump has been making more stock trades than all of Congress combined while backing a ban that excludes himGates Foundation is pledging $1 billion to spread AI to the world's poorest communitiesMedia covering democracy DRSEC proposes ending federal oversight of shareholder resolutions | Ukraine news - #MezhaSEC proxy rule changes could end 92 years of shareholder protections - CryptonomistStatement on Proposals to Rescind Rule 14a-8, Amend Rule 14a-4, and Modernize Proxy Solicitation - the SECIt's Another Biggie! SEC Proposes to Rescind the Shareholder Proposal Rule - a guy named Broc's blogIt got one hit each at Bloomberg Finance and Yahoo Finance, bottom of the columns buriedBut a million stories about this: SEC clears path for tokenized stocks, bringing the market closer to 24/7 tradingPaul Atkins justifications for gutting a democratic method that's existed since 1934: The government shutdownWe're too busyInvestors and companies don't really need usIt's unconstitutionalSeriously? Still?Asset owners say ESG returns still a barrier to adoptionData Center's Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River CleanupAI Data Centers Are Driving a Surge in “Forever Chemicals,” Research FindsAn Idaho county banned renewables. It's having second thoughtsThe Red State AG Attack on ESG Continues to Misfire.Oracle Signs Over 1.7GW of Clean Energy Deals in Bid to Match Data Centers with 100% Carbon-Free EnergyBlowhardiest of the WeekDR: Jamie Jamie double double:Jamie Dimon says the American Dream is alive, but it's slipping out of reach for too many people—and for future generationsJamie Dimon, David Solomon, other top execs praise Trump admin's pro-business policiesMM: Jamie Dimon on AI oversight: 'It should be light touch'Guy with no AI experience gives thoughts on AI regulationHeadliniest of the WeekDR: These two back-to-back in my news feed:Microsoft publishes 37-page 'humanist' code of conduct after AI doom debate: 'This is urgent'Jack in the Box is launching a Simpsons Halloween menu with glow-in-the-dark cupsMM: MAGA's Golf Club Activity Branded 'Gruesome' as Fish Were Dumped Into Chlorinated Pool for Kids to CatchWho Won the Week?DR: Howie's son Howard Warren Buffett (43)MM: Nepo babies: Nike Announces LVMH Heir Alexandre Arnault is Joining its Board of DirectorsWarren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman and Names Son to Replace Him“He will remain on the board as chairman emeritus.”“Howard Buffett, 71, has been a director at Berkshire for more than 30 years.” - he's already older than the average director by 6 yearsPredictionsDR: AI ends humanity, then deeply apologizes for threatening to end humanity MM: AI deeply apologizes for threatening to end humanity, then ends humanity

https://media.blubrry.com/my_future_business/mfbpodcast.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/MFB+SHOW+548+SARA+CAUSEY.mp3Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSSInterview With Sara CauseyThe World Leader Who Became a Role Model for Introverts#DagHammarskjöld #SimplyDag #SaraCauseyHi, and welcome to the show!On today's show I have the pleasure of welcoming award-winning author and outspoken advocate for introverts and highly sensitive people, Sara Causey, to talk about her path from corporate recruiter to Dag Hammarskjöld biographer and children's book illustrator. Sara's written multiple biographies on the UN's second Secretary-General and now writes children's books that tell quiet, sensitive kids their nature is a strength. Sara's bio reads like a checklist of impressive titles: award-winning author, poet, visual artist, biographer. What most people don't know is that she built all of it after walking away from a career in government contracting and Fortune 100 recruitment.Sara traded the boardroom for words, imagery, and ideas, and found herself drawn into the life of Dag Hammarskjöld, the introspective, poetic second Secretary-General of the United Nations. Sara calls her work on his life a true co-creation, a partnership across time. That partnership became two biographies, Decoding the Unicorn and Simply Dag, revealing a man who was fiercely intelligent and quietly revolutionary beneath his composed exterior.Sara calls her overall approach "eccentricity with purpose." That same philosophy runs through her children's book universe built around Dag the Unicorn, including How to Host a Unicorn and the bilingual Learning with Dag series, all written for quiet, sensitive kids and the adults who were once that kind of child.This work is for introverts and HSPs who rarely see themselves centered in stories about leadership, for parents wanting children's books that celebrate quiet strength, and for anyone curious about a UN figure history nearly let slip away. Decoding the Unicorn has already won a 2026 American Book Fest Award for Best Biography, and Sara's work has been featured on Yahoo Finance, FOX, and Fast Company.To learn more about the topics discussed, or to contact Sara directly, click the link below.Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a sponsored post. My Future Business is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commissions 16 CFR, Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Wendy Romig never planned to take over her family's commercial printing management company. Then the pandemic changed everything.   Wendy joins Regina to share what it was like buying the business from her father, navigating supply chain disruptions and modernizing the company –  all while finding her voice in a male-dominated industry.    She also discusses her work as a doctor of clinical nutrition and the need for more personalized conversations around women's health, specifically: hormones, stress, and gut health.   And of course, it wouldn't be a Women and Wealth episode without double clicking on retirement plans and Wendy's vision for life beyond her career.   Episode Highlights:   0:00 - Meet Wendy Romig 1:25 - Taking over the family business 4:08 - Making the company her own 6:15 - Adapting to technology and AI 7:17 - Functional medicine and personalized care 9:14 - Hormonal health, stress, and menopause 13:41 - The connection between gut health and hormones 15:48 - Leading in a male-dominated industry 19:04 - Finding her voice and learning to negotiate 20:55 - Wendy's vision for retirement 23:06 - Closing thoughts    ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS   Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero.  As an advocate for women's financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money.     Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News.  She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse.   As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth.  She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families.  Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals. CONNECT WITH REGINA   Website: https://www.forgewealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginamccannhess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForgeWealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgewealthmanagement/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgeWealth Email: reginahess@forgewealth.com   CONNECT WITH WENDY   Website: https://www.bracelandgroup.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-romig-dcn-ms-mba-2b666111/ Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC www.finra.org, www.sipc.org   Third-party posts found on this profile do not reflect the view of LPL Financial and have not been reviewed by LPL Financial as to accuracy or completeness.   For a list of states in which I am registered to do business, please visit www.forgewealth.com   

Scout Bassett (@ScoutBassett), Paralympian track and field athlete, Author, Speaker and Investor joins Sports Business Radio to share her remarkable story of resilience.  Born in China and raised in an orphanage before being adopted and finding her way to the United States, Scout transformed personal adversity into a lifelong mission to uplift others. As president of the Women's Sports Foundation and founder of the Scout Bassett Fund, she champions equity, disability inclusion, and access for underrepresented athletes worldwide.  In recognition of her trailblazing impact and leadership, Scout was named UCLA's 2025 Young Alumnus of the Year—one of the university's highest honors for recent graduates. Her memoir, "Lucky Girl", chronicles the resilience and strength behind her success—from overcoming early trauma to standing tall on the world's biggest athletic and advocacy stages. This is an inspiring story that you won't want to miss. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #Paralympics  #athlete #ScoutBassett #Investor #advocate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments The Truth About How I Built My Wealth: Lessons from My Rock Bottom | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode, we cover: Life Updates: Brandon shares exciting news about his baby boy on the way and his recent baby shower! Massive Real Estate Wins: Hear the exact numbers behind his completed Triplex ADU project. Never Give Up: Learn how Brandon finally got permits approved for a 4-unit Old Town project after a brutal 6-year wait. Credit Hack #1: Discover how to combine your credit limits within the same bank to get the highest possible limits for 0% interest buying power. Credit Hack #2: Master the "Piggyback Method"—a step-by-step guide to legally hiding high personal credit utilization, boosting your score, and qualifying for massive business credit. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

In this episode of Financial Clarity for Doctors, hosts Corey Janoff and Rachelle Vanderzanden discuss the pros and cons of buying versus leasing a car.  You make think the answer is clear, but just like with everything in financial planning, it depends! Considerations discussed in this episode include: Total out of pocket expenses and monthly costs of owning and leasing. Changing technology in different sectors of the car market. Personal considerations including how long you may own a car, how much you may drive, and whether your needs may change over time. Owning a depreciating asset. It may seem that buying is automatically the best option.  You will likely pay less long-term if you purchase a car and keep it for a long time, ending up with an asset (even if it has depreciated in value) and no monthly payment.  But that may not fit your situation!  Listen to the full episode to hear more. For more financial planning tips from Corey and Rachelle, find them on social media! LinkedIn: @CoreyJanoff; Instagram: @CoreyJanoff and @VanderzandenRachelle; and Twitter: @CoreyJanoffCFP Discussions in this show should not be construed as specific recommendations or investment advice. Always consult with your investment professional before making important investment decisions. Securities and advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor, Member FINRA/SIPC.  Finity Group, LLC is a separate entity from LPL Financial.  Finity Group and LPL Financial do not provide legal advice or tax services.  Please consult your legal advisor or tax advisor regarding your specific situation. This material is for general information and educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. Finity Group and LPL Financial do not provide legal advice or tax services. Please consult your legal advisor or tax advisor regarding your specific situation.   Citations: Auto Lease Calculator (citing Edmunds/Experian Q1 2026 data).  Auto Lease Calculator 2026.  https://caraffordcalc.com/tools/auto-lease-calculator/   “The Average Car Payment Just Hit a Record $777 a Month.  That's Not Even the Whole Bill.”  Flexcar (citing Edmunds Q2 2026 data).  July 20, 2026.  https://www.flexcar.com/blog/the-average-car-payment-just-hit-a-record   Brozic, Jennifer.  “Average Car Payment in 2026.”  Experian. July 14, 2026.  https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/average-car-payment/   Fitzpatrick, Mark.  “Do I Need Gap Insurance on a Used Car in 2026?”  MoneyGeek.  September 1, 2026.  https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/do-i-need-gap-insurance-on-a-used-car/   Fitzpatrick, Mark.  “What Is Gap Insurance?”  MoneyGeek.  February 25, 2026.  https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/what-is-gap-insurance/   Gunara, Maggie.  “Average Car Payment and Auto Loan Statistics: 2026.”  LendingTree.  June 23, 2026.  https://www.lendingtree.com/auto/debt-statistics/   Henry, Jim and Ryan Maxin.  “Average Auto Loan Rates in September 2026.”  U.S. News.  September 8, 2026. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/average-auto-loan-interest-rates   Howard, Brittany.  “Average auto loan interest rates by credit score in 2026.”  Yahoo Finance (citing Experian Q1 2026 data). July 31, 2026.  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-loan-interest-rates-212521067.html   Howard, Brittany.  “Auto Loan Rates & Financing in 2026.”  Bankrate.  https://www.bankrate.com/loans/auto-loans/rates/   Lacagnina, Christine.  “What Is Gap Insurance? 2026 Cost & How It Works.”  InsuredBetter.  June 10, 2026. https://www.insuredbetter.com/car-insurance/auto-coverage-types/gap/   Luthi, Beth.  “Average Car Loan Interest Rates by Credit Score.”  Experian.   July 13, 2026.  https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/average-car-loan-interest-rates-by-credit-score/   Luthi, Beth.  “The Latest Used Car Loan Interest Rates for 2026.”  Experian. July 14, 2026.  https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/used-car-loan-rates/   Luthi, Beth.  “Auto Loan Rates and Financing for 2026.”  Experian.  July 13, 2026.  https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/auto-loan-rates-financing/   S&P Global Mobility (press release).  “U.S. Vehicle Age Rises Again to 12.8 Years in 2025.”  S&P Global.  May 21, 2025.  https://press.spglobal.com/2025-05-21-U-S-Vehicle-Age-Rises-Again-to-12-8-Years-in-2025,-According-to-S-P-Global-Mobility   Tretina, Kat.  “Average cost of gap insurance in 2026.”  Insure.com.  June 5, 2026.  https://www.insure.com/car-insurance/gap-insurance-cost/

Zach Leonsis, Monumental Sports & Entertainment President of Media and New Enterprises joins Sports Business Radio to share insights on the $1B renovation of Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C. as well as the rise of the three teams owned by MSE - the Washington Capitals (NHL), Washington Wizards (NBA) and Washington Mystics (WNBA). From superstar Alex Ovechkin returning for his 22nd season (all with the Capitals), to the Wizards drafting of AJ Dybantsa with the #1 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, to the Mystics heading to the WNBA playoffs, there is lots of excitement in D.C. about the future. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #DC #MonumentalSports #Caps #Wizards #Mystics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Steve Griggs Outside Curb Appeal is Over Looked | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go Real Estate Investing Podcast, Brandon Elliott sits down with Steve Griggs, a 40-year veteran in high-end landscape architecture and owner of Steve Griggs Design. Steve drops massive value on why investors are leaving money on the table by neglecting their curb appeal. From surviving the 2008 financial crash to building a high-end clientele of Wall Street executives, Steve shares his raw, unfiltered advice on entrepreneurship, managing contractors, and creating outdoor spaces that make buyers fall in love (and pay top dollar). ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Toyota didn't beat Mercedes by getting cheaper. It beat Mercedes by getting closer to the customer first. Here's the six-year research obsession behind the Lexus LS 400, and why undercutting your way to a full panel is a strategy that has already failed in a dozen other industries, and what Harvard's own pricing research says to do instead. By Michael Tetreault, Editor-In-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today "I'm a car guy, so bear with me on this one. There will be some good points [in this article], I promise. I know enough about engines to self-diagnose and wrench on them myself. Driving an old car with lifter problems through North Dakota and southern Canada in the '90s will teach you that." ~Michael Tetreault Today's article isn't about concierge medicine directly. It's about a distant cousin in the subscription-based healthcare world, direct primary care, or DPC. Over the past two decades, I've noticed more and more that there is a moment almost every DPC or low-cost, membership-based practice hits around year two or three, when the patient panel quietly stalls (catch the car pun). Growth that used to feel automatic starts to flatten out, and you notice it before you can quite explain it. That's usually right about when a competitor down the road launches at $59 to $93 a month, and a quiet voice in your head says: just drop the price. Fill the seats. Worry about margin later. That instinct is understandable. It is also, according to decades of business research and a growing body of data inside concierge and membership medicine itself, one of the fastest ways to damage the very practice you built to serve patients better. This is not a scolding. It is a strategy conversation, grounded in evidence, for low-cost subscription-based physicians who left, or are considering leaving, the insurance-driven system specifically to build something sustainable that has a low cost for the patients because you feel your altruistic nature pulling you to do so. But, if the goal is sustainability, the tactic matters. What "racing to the bottom" actually means Let's zoom out for a moment. A price war is what happens when competitors inside the same market repeatedly cut prices to undercut one another, creating a cycle where each side matches or beats the last cut. This "price-cutting momentum" pulls in competitors who feel forced to follow the initial price cut, and while it can create short-term benefits for the buyer, it erodes the profit margins of everyone competing. Harvard Business School researchers Akshay Rao and Mark Bergen, writing in Harvard Business Review, built a career studying exactly this dynamic across industries. Their conclusion, echoed by strategists since, is blunt: most price wars are avoidable, and the businesses that start them or get pulled into them rarely come out ahead. The Kinsta business blog, summarizing HBR's own internal analysis of the question, put it plainly: when businesses were asked whether they should engage in a price war, the overwhelming answer was "no." Instead, the research points toward differentiation as the more durable response to a low-cost competitor. There is a second, quieter finding in that same research that some physicians should sit with. Price itself shapes how a buyer perceives value, and a price set too low signals that the product is cheap, in the way a price set too high can signal it is a ripoff. In other words, the discount that was supposed to win the patient can be the very thing that tells the patient your care is not worth much. It's indeed, a delicate balance and it's different for every practice and every doctor. Why? Because of who you work for and serve: the patient. Every patient is different. Every practice is different. That makes this topic challenging but it's a conversation worth having because I want to see your practice thrive and more importantly, survive in your community. The framework underneath the instinct Michael Porter, the Harvard strategist whose work still anchors most first-year MBA curricula, described three durable paths to competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, or a focused niche strategy. A company chooses to compete either through lower costs than its rivals or by differentiating itself along dimensions the customer actually values, in order to command a higher price. What Porter warned against was the position most panic-driven price cuts land a practice in. Porter's phrase for it is "stuck in the middle," and it describes an organization trying to be all things to all people, with no distinct competitive advantage as a result. Businesses caught here typically perform the worst in their industry precisely because they never committed to one strength. A DPC practice that quietly lowers its price to compete on cost, while still trying to deliver same-day access, unhurried visits, and so-called affordable white-glove service, is not competing on cost leadership. It is trying to sell a premium product at a discount price, and the math does not hold. Today, a medical practice or a company stuck in this position cannot beat a true cost leader on price, because it never built the operational discipline or scale to sustain that price, and it cannot beat a differentiator on the experience it promised, because the discipline required to deliver that experience costs money. Both promises erode at once. What the data inside DPC and low-cost membership medicine is already showing This is not theoretical for DPC and low-cost membership medicine practices. It is visible in the industry's own numbers. The 2026 State of DPC survey, distributed through the DPC Alliance and Hint Health's network, found a direct relationship between panel size and price. Practices with fewer than 200 patients averaged $105.93 per member per month, practices with 201 to 500 patients averaged $99.28, and practices with more than 500 patients averaged $77.74 per member per month. Read plainly, the larger the panel, the lower the average price charged per patient. That pattern is exactly what Porter's framework predicts happens to practices chasing volume without a differentiation strategy to protect price. It is worth noting this figure comes from Hint Health, a technology vendor with a commercial interest in DPC's growth, so it should be read as directional industry data rather than an independent audit. It is nonetheless the most comprehensive dataset the movement currently has. At the same time, the broader market is not short on room to compete on value instead of price. More than half of private healthcare consumers rank the cost of care as the most dissatisfying part of their current healthcare experience, and DPC's growth has been driven in large part by employers and patients who are tired of opaque, escalating costs elsewhere in the system, not by DPC being the cheapest option on paper. Employers now fund the majority, roughly 60 percent, of active DPC memberships, according to Hint Health's 2026 trends report, which signals that the buyers filling panels today are increasingly sophisticated purchasers evaluating value, retention, and outcomes, not simply hunting for the lowest sticker price. Regional pricing tells a similar story. Northeast DPC pricing rose 33 percent over five years, from $60 to $80 a month, even as national demand for the model accelerated. Practices in that region did not grow by discounting. They grew while raising price, in a market that was simultaneously expanding. The altruism problem no one names out loud Here is the part of this conversation that is specific to medicine and does not show up in a typical business school case study on price wars. Physicians are trained, deliberately and repeatedly, to put the patient's welfare ahead of their own. Medical professionalism itself is defined in the literature by principles of excellence, accountability, altruism, integrity, and humanism, all oriented around the patient relationship. That formation is not incidental. It is the point of medical education, and it is a genuine strength of the profession that should never be coached out of a physician. But that same formation has a side effect worth naming honestly. A rigorous study out of the University of Cologne and University of Rennes, published in the Journal of Health Economics, measured patient-regarding altruism in 733 medical students at different stages of training. The researchers found that patient-regarding altruism is highest among freshmen, declines significantly through the middle years of medical study, and rises again in the final year as students begin assisting in clinical practice. Students with lower income expectations showed higher altruism scores overall. Sit with that last finding. The training that makes physicians excellent, trustworthy, patient-first clinicians also correlates with a documented discomfort around charging what care is actually worth. That discomfort is admirable in the exam room. It becomes a strategic liability in the business office, where it quietly nudges a physician toward the lowest defensible price rather than the price that reflects the value delivered, the access provided, and the sustainability required to keep serving that same patient for the next twenty years. This is not a call to abandon altruism. It is a call to separate two different questions that get tangled together under stress: am I a good doctor and am I running a sustainable practice. A price built out of guilt is not more altruistic than a price built out of strategy. A closed practice serves no one. What other industries learned the hard way Medicine is not the first field to face this exact temptation, and the businesses that raced to the bottom on price rarely tell a happy ending. Rao and Bergen's HBR research spans industries from B2B and agribusiness to healthcare and the nonprofit sector, and the throughline in that body of work is consistent: firms that respond to a low-price competitor by cutting their own price usually shrink the whole market's profitability without gaining durable share, because the competitor simply cuts again. The winners in price wars, when there are any, tend to be the largest players with the deepest balance sheets, the ones who can absorb losses the longest. A solo or small-group physician practice is almost never that player, and should not try to be. The lesson for low-cost DPC physicians is not abstract. It is Porter's choice, stated as a decision every practice has to make deliberately rather than by drift: compete on being demonstrably, operationally the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency provider in your market, which requires real scale and real systems, or compete on being demonstrably different in a way patients value enough to pay for. Trying to hold both at once is what leaves a practice, in Porter's words, stuck in the middle, with margins too thin to sustain the very things that made the practice worth choosing in the first place. The Lexus Lesson: Price Is a Result, Not a Strategy Circling back to my car guy roots, there is an automotive story worth every physician's attention here, because it is one of the clearest business case studies ever produced on the exact question this article is asking you if you're a DPC physician. It comes from Hagerty's "Revelations" series, hosted by Jason Cammisa, on the origin of the 1989 Lexus LS 400, and it has been retold in detail across automotive trade press and in Chester Dawson's book Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit. The origin story matters as much as the engineering. Toyota's first American export, the Toyopet Crown, was a flop, selling only a few hundred units before Toyota pulled it from the market in the late 1950s. Twenty five years of steady rebuilding later, Toyota had become the largest importer of vehicles into the United States, and that success triggered a protectionist response. In the early 1980s, the U.S. government pressured Japan into so-called voluntary export restraints, capping Japanese auto imports at roughly 1.7 million vehicles a year. With volume capped by government policy, Toyota USA's Yukiyasu Togo pushed a different lever: if the company could not sell more cars, it needed to sell more profitable ones. That constraint, not ambition alone, is what pushed Toyota into the luxury segment. In 1983, Toyota's then chairman Eiji Toyoda greenlit a secret effort known as Project F1, for Flagship One. Where a typical vehicle program of that era might use around 200 engineers and a few hundred million dollars, F1 was reportedly given no fixed budget and a development team of roughly 1,400 engineers, 60 designers, and thousands of additional technicians and support staff, spread across a six-year effort widely reported to have cost in the neighborhood of a billion dollars. What that team actually did is the part physicians should study closely. Rather than guess at what luxury buyers wanted, a team of designers and engineers relocated to a rented house in Laguna Beach, California, and spent months directly observing affluent Americans: watching valet stands outside country clubs, studying the furniture in high-end homes, and even analyzing the leather scent inside Jaguar interiors closely enough to reverse-engineer the tanning process. They tested switchgear and steering wheel ergonomics against how women with long, manicured nails actually interact with a dashboard. This is the practice Toyota calls genchi genbutsu, going to see for yourself, rather than relying on assumptions about the customer. Separately, Toyota's research uncovered something more specific and more useful than "people want a cheaper luxury car." Mercedes-Benz owners loved the prestige of their cars but consistently described the dealership experience itself, the pressure, the wait, the sense of being talked down to, as miserable. Lexus rebuilt the entire buying experience around that single insight. Sales moved from an elevated desk to a shared coffee table, removing the physical power imbalance of a traditional car sale. Only 80 of roughly 1,500 dealer applicants were approved to sell the car, each required to invest several million dollars and submit to ongoing customer satisfaction audits. The product and the experience of buying it were treated as a single, inseparable offer. The engineering discipline underneath all of this was, by most independent accounts, extreme. Chief engineer Ichiro Suzuki pursued a drag coefficient of 0.29, well below the S-Class's 0.36 to 0.37, without relying on a rear spoiler, which he considered an inelegant shortcut. Interior noise was engineered down to roughly 58 decibels versus about 60 for the S-Class, and multiple road tests reported the LS 400 was as quiet at 125 miles per hour as its German rivals were at 95. Prototypes logged well over a million miles of testing, and engineers reportedly disassembled competitor vehicles to study exactly how they failed over years of use, then engineered around each weakness. When the LS 400 launched in 1989, it was priced at roughly $35,000, commonly cited as about half the price, or as much as $30,000 less, than a comparably equipped Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The price gap was so large that BMW reportedly suggested Toyota was selling the car at a loss. Within two years, Lexus had overtaken Mercedes-Benz as the best-selling luxury import brand in the United States and topped J.D. Power's quality and service rankings, and Mercedes is reported to have lost roughly a quarter of its U.S. sales in the aftermath. Here is the part physicians should sit with. The low price was not the strategy. It was the output of the strategy. Toyota did not set out to build a cheaper Mercedes and work backward. It spent six years and enormous resources removing the specific frustrations its own research showed were driving prestige-loving customers away, then engineered a manufacturing process disciplined enough to make that quality repeatable at scale, and only after that work was done did it set a price the market would reward. The aggressive price was possible because the operational excellence and the customer research underneath it were real, not because anyone at Toyota decided to compete by cutting corners. This is the distinction that gets lost when a DPC or low-cost membership medicine practice drops its membership fee simply to fill a panel out of fear. Toyota's price was earned through relentless, well-funded engineering and firsthand study of exactly what its target customer resented about the existing options. A practice that lowers its price without first doing that same work, actually going to see for yourself what frustrates the patients you want to serve, and building a practice that removes those specific frustrations, is doing the opposite of what Lexus did. It is cutting the price before it has earned the right to. The translatable lesson is not "charge less." It is this: find out, directly and specifically, what your patients are actually frustrated by in the healthcare experience they already have, build a practice that removes that frustration with real discipline, treat the entire patient experience, not just the clinical visit, as part of the product, and let price follow from that work rather than substitute for it. Toyota spent six years in the field before it touched the price tag. Most practices considering a discount have not spent six weeks asking patients what specifically is broken in the care they are currently getting. What to build instead None of this means price is fixed or that access should be reserved only for the wealthy. It means the starting question changes. Instead of asking what is the lowest price that will fill my panel, the more durable question is what does my practice do that a patient cannot get anywhere else in this market, and does my price reflect that honestly. That might be same-day access. It might be visit length. It might be a specific clinical focus, a specific population, or a specific relationship to a local employer. Differentiation does not require the highest price in the market. It requires a clear, honest reason for the price you have chosen, one you can say out loud to a patient without flinching. Panel growth built on discounting tends to attract patients who are price-shopping and will leave the moment a cheaper option appears next door. Panel growth built on a clear, differentiated value proposition tends to attract patients who stay, refer, and tolerate a price increase because they understand what they are paying for. This article is intended for educational and informational purposes for physicians and healthcare leaders. It does not constitute financial, legal, accounting, or medical advice, and practice pricing decisions should be made in consultation with qualified financial and legal advisors familiar with your specific market and regulatory environment. Sources Rao, Akshay R. and Bergen, Mark E. "How to Fight a Price War." Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000. hbr.org/2000/03/how-to-fight-a-price-war "Price war." Wikipedia, accessed August 2026. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_war "How a Race to the Bottom Hurts Your Business's Bottom Line." Kinsta, July 15, 2024. kinsta.com/blog/race-to-the-bottom Porter, Michael E. Competitive Strategy (1980) and Competitive Advantage (1985), Harvard Business School Press. 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Publisher synopsis via AbeBooks, abebooks.com/9780470828045 A detailed companion recap of the Hagerty Revelations episode, covering Project F1 staffing, the Laguna Beach research house, the coffee-table dealership model, and Suzuki's engineering targets, was supplied directly by the editor. Its original publisher and byline could not be independently confirmed at time of writing. Facts drawn from it (drag coefficient, price gap, engineer count, dealership vetting) were cross-checked against sources 11 through 15 above before inclusion, and the editor should confirm original attribution before publication.

David Abeles, President and CEO of TaylorMade Golf, joins Sports Business Radio to take us inside of one of the most influential golf companies in the world. TaylorMade counts Scottie Scheffler, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and Nelly Korda as champion golfers who trust TaylorMade for their golf equipment needs. Abeles discusses the ways in which TaylorMade works with its roster of champion golfers and how golf equipment and golf balls are evolving for pros and amateurs. He also shares the inside story that led to the creation of Tiger Woods' Sun Day Red apparel and footwear company, which operates under the umbrella of TaylorMade Golf. Lastly, Abeles advised on the best way for amateur golfers to get fitted for golf clubs that are the best match for their game. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #Golf #TaylorMade #Equipment #SportsBusiness  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retirement fears are rising. But what are people really afraid of? Former Fidelity wealth management executive turned retirement coach David Conti joins us to break down his new Retirement Fear Index, ranking the top 10 things Americans fear most as they approach and live through retirement. At the top: healthcare and long-term care costs, running out of money, the future of Social Security, and inflation. We dig into what's driving those fears and which ones deserve the most attention. Richard, Terry, and Pam push back on whether fear is even the right lens and dig into what's actually actionable (32%), what takes behavior change (38%), and what you just have to sit with. Plus: how the Fear Index compares to the VIX and the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, why "confidence" isn't the same as "fear," and the real difference between a financial advisor, a retirement coach, and a financial therapist. Links: RetireMentors.net and RetirementFearIndex.com (David Conti's websites) I'm turning 70. Here's how I'm making this decade the richest of my retirement. (Marketwatch) Dealing with fear in retirement (Yahoo Finance) 2026 Retirement Confidence Survey (EBRI) Boston College Center for Retirement Research The 2025 OASDI Trustees Report University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Rod Klief Over $3.4 Billion Funded in REI Loans | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast, host Brandon Elliott sits down with Rod Klief Real estate legend Rod Klief lost $50 MILLION in the 2008 crash. Today, he reveals why the current commercial real estate market and the upcoming "wall of debt" is the greatest wealth-building opportunity of our lifetime. In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go Real Estate Investing Podcast, Brandon Elliott sits down with Rod Klief, host of the largest commercial real estate podcast on the planet. Rod shares his incredible journey from being a broke Dutch immigrant wearing hand-me-down clothes, to owning 800 houses, losing it all in 2008, and bouncing back to help his students acquire over 305,000 multifamily units. If you want to know how to spot massive opportunities in today's shifting market, why you should run from single-family home investing, and the psychology required to build generational wealth—you cannot miss this episode. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Dustin Rosenberg & Jonathan Yoo Over $3.4 Billion Funded in REI Loans | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast, host Brandon Elliott sits down with Dustin Rosenberg & Jonathan Yoo Dustin and Jonathan are the co-owners of Convoy Home Loans, a lending business they launched in early 2021. Since starting their business, they have already funded a staggering $3.4 billion in real estate volume. They manage a robust team of about 53 to 55 staff members, which includes roughly 27 to 28 loan officers and 15 processors. Despite running the entire operation, both founders lead by example as top producers who still actively originate loans and handle their own clients. A massive 90% to 95% of the loans they originate are dedicated specifically to real estate investors. Their bread and butter is DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio) loans. About 70% of their investor portfolio consists of DSCR or 30-year fixed alternative loans (like bank statement or asset depletion loans), while the remaining 30% covers typical fix-and-flips, buy-and-holds, and ground-up builds. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

In this episode of the California Sports Lawyer Podcast, host Jeremy Evans is joined by veteran broadcast journalist, host, moderator, and content creator Dave Briggs. Currently a co-host of Connecting America and Sanity with Alisyn & Dave, Dave has spent more than 25 years across Fox News, CNN, NBC Sports, Turner Sports, Yahoo Finance, and Cheddar Business News. His career has included seven Olympic Games, a dozen Super Bowls, March Madness, and an appearance as an ATN news anchor in HBO's Succession. Jeremy and Dave discuss the business behind television news and sports programming, including how corporate priorities, editorial decisions, audience expectations, and economic incentives influence what viewers see on screen. They also consider what Succession captured about corporate media, editorial pressure, and the relationship between news and business. The conversation examines the movement of sports rights among broadcast networks, cable channels, streaming services, and direct-to-consumer platforms. Jeremy and Dave explore where leverage is shifting and the next major legal and business fault lines in college athletics following NIL, athlete compensation, and revenue sharing. Jeremy and Dave also discuss how artificial intelligence can improve journalism and sports production while preserving human judgment, transparency, privacy, and consent. As media professionals increasingly become independent creators, they examine how ownership of intellectual property, audience data, sponsorship rights, and distribution can give talent greater control over their careers and businesses. (Season 8, Episode 33). Copyright 2026. California Sports Lawyer. All Rights Reserved. (www.CSLlegal.com) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sports Business Radio Host Brian Berger and Executive Producer Bryan Griggs get you ready for the 2026-27 NFL Season with this NFL Season Preview podcast. From the salary cap to what each team nets from gross national revenue this season, to the highest paid players and new Head Coaches this season, to what is new and unique that you should be paying attention to this season, this show is packed with useful NFL information. Berger and Griggs also make their annual NFL team over/under picks and Super Bowl picks for the upcoming season. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #NFL #Football #SportsBusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yahoo Finance reported that Nvidia is in talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions about a potential deal, with no terms disclosed. Nvidia, led by CEO Jensen Huang, seeks to extend its platform reach as startups look for distribution, software compatibility, and market access. A partnership could take the form of a minority investment, joint development, or distribution, with developer tooling and CUDA integration central to adoption. Supply considerations and local support in South Korea could influence delivery timelines and procurement. Competitive pressure from AMD, Intel, cloud providers' custom silicon, and local players like FuriosaAI provides context. Regulatory reviews, shaped by precedents such as Mellanox's approval and Arm's failed sale, may affect scope and timing. Founders should prepare for heterogeneous AI fleets, multi-chip support, and co-selling requirements in enterprise sales.Learn more on this news by visiting us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Success in luxury real estate may look glamorous from the outside, but behind every polished listing is a great deal of hard work, emotional intelligence, and persistence.   This week, Regina sits down with Ashley Reidy Quinn, co-founder of a six-person real estate team at Coldwell Banker Warburg. Ashley shares how her parents inspired her interest in real estate, why she changed career paths while attending NYU, and what she loves about working with clients from New York and around the world.   Ashley also opens up about beginning her career in a competitive, male-dominated industry and learning to stand up for herself when her experience and role were dismissed. She explains how confidence develops over time, why strong teammates and support systems matter, and how keeping the client's needs at the center helps her navigate difficult personalities and challenging transactions.   The conversation also explores Ashley's vision for retirement, including creating more passive income, becoming more selective about the clients she serves, and continuing to work in a way that gives her greater freedom.   Episode Highlights:   0:00 - Welcome to Women and Wealth 0:40 - Meet Ashley Reidy Quinn 2:03 - How Ashley found her way into real estate 3:30 - Working with clients from around the world 4:49 - Building a strong real estate team 6:44 - Managing the emotional side of real estate 8:42 - The hard work behind luxury listings 10:25 - Where to connect with Ashley 10:56 - Challenges facing women in real estate 13:24 - Building confidence over time 14:46 - Standing up for yourself professionally 16:54 - Ashley's vision for retirement 19:32 - Believing in yourself and knowing you belong 20:01 - Closing thoughts and how to connect    ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS   Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero.  As an advocate for women's financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money.     Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News.  She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse.   As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth.  She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families.  Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals. CONNECT WITH REGINA   Website: https://www.forgewealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginamccannhess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForgeWealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgewealthmanagement/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgeWealth Email: reginahess@forgewealth.com   CONNECT WITH ASHLEY   Website: cbwarburg.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-reidy-quinn-7851b161/   Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC www.finra.org, www.sipc.org   Third-party posts found on this profile do not reflect the view of LPL Financial and have not been reviewed by LPL Financial as to accuracy or completeness.   For a list of states in which I am registered to do business, please visit www.forgewealth.com.Forge Wealth Management  

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Bobby Casey How to Avoid Million Dollar Mistakes in Business & Real Estate Assets Structure | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast, host Brandon Elliott sits down with Bobby Casey Bobby Casey is an international tax lawyer, lifelong entrepreneur, and the founder of Business Anywhere and Global Wealth Protection. Raised in North Carolina in a highly entrepreneurial family, Bobby was trading stocks by age 14 and discussing tax optimization and corporate structures at the family dinner table. Fiercely independent, Bobby has never held a traditional corporate job. He started his first business (wholesale products) at age 19, followed by a tree service company at 20. By 21, he launched a company he successfully ran and sold 12 years later. His extensive business background also includes buying and selling a restaurant, as well as investing in commercial real estate, raw land, and office buildings. After hiring an asset protection consultant in his mid-20s, Bobby was inspired to learn the trade himself. Around 2008, he formalized his consulting work into Global Wealth Protection. Later, out of his own necessity to automate the tedious process of renewing his many LLCs, he built a software platform that eventually became Business Anywhere (launched in 2020). Today, that platform is seeing 80% year-over-year growth and has served up to 20,000 entrepreneurs. He also owns a professional trust company with operations in the Caribbean (Anguilla) and England. Bobby embodies the ultimate location-independent lifestyle. He has traveled to 100 countries, lived in 11 of them, and serves clients globally. He currently owns a two-level apartment in Latvia and joined this podcast recording while staying in Dubai! ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Ross Dellenger, Yahoo! Sports Senior College Football reporter, joins Sports Business Radio to discuss the ever-changing college sports landscape.We examine the latest developments with the Protect College Sports Act, discuss the likelihood of the Act being passed and contemplate what the college sports landscape may look like going forward. Will the Power 5 conferences break away from the NCAA? What will happen to women's and Olympic sports in the future? How will NIL continue to evolve and impact athletes? In our headlines of the week segment, we cover the stunning sale of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and the many layers to that story. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by Boingo Wireless. Teams like the LA Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bears and San Diego Padres trust Boingo to connect their stadiums and arenas with cutting-edge 5G and Wi-Fi.From mobile ticketing to security cameras to kiosks, connect every piece of stadium technology with Boingo's converged wireless networks. As you plan for the future of your stadium, make 5G part of your gameplan and choose Boingo Wireless as your trusted connectivity partner. Learn more by downloading Boingo's free 5G Playbook for Stadiums & Arenas. Head to boingo.com/5Gstadium to get your copy. Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com #CollegeSports #CollegeFootball #ProtectCollegeSportsAct #RossDellenger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk's SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq in June with the largest IPO ever, raising a record $86 billion. But the stock has been on a wild ride ever since. Kara sits down with a panel of experts to assess SpaceX after its inaugural post-IPO earnings report and the first in a series of lockup expirations that released more than 900 million shares for trading. They break down where SpaceX is actually making money (spoiler: it's Starlink) and what its massive AI spending, xAI acquisition and increasingly expansive ambitions reveal about Musk's long-term strategy.  Ed Elson is an analyst, writer, and co-host of the Prof G Markets podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Tim Higgins is a business columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a CNBC contributor, and the author of books including iWar: Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple's Empire. Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, a columnist at Yahoo Finance, a CNBC contributor, and the author of books including The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky @onwithkaraswisher. Come see Kara for a live taping of On at the Odoo Experience conference in San Francisco on September 2. Register for the conference on Odoo's website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most mainstream media outlets have spent the last several years convincing Americans that a recession is either here or just around the corner. But according to tech analyst Ray Wang and category design pioneer Christopher Lochhead, the real story about the US economy looks very different from what we are being fed. In a recent episode of Disrupt TV, the two thought leaders broke down the actual data behind American economic growth, the rise of AI-driven entrepreneurship, and a new investment program that could reshape generational wealth in this country. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go.   Record Business Starts Signal a Thriving US Economy Despite relentless recession predictions from commentators and media personalities, Americans are starting new companies at a record pace. More than 5.6 million business applications were filed in 2025 alone, with over 400,000 new companies being created every single month. This level of entrepreneurial activity has not been seen in the modern era. Layoffs are also at historic lows, GDP is still growing, and inflation has come down from 4.2% in May to 3.5%. Initial unemployment claims have recently fallen to their lowest level since 1969. Meanwhile, prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have dropped recession odds from around 28 to 30% in April to just 4 to 11% today, showing that people putting real money on the line do not believe a recession is coming.   AI Is Creating a New Class of Entrepreneur The rise of artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing who can build and run a successful business. Small teams of two to three people are now executing at a level that previously required thirty or more employees. This shift from knowledge worker to what Lochhead calls a “creator capitalist” is fueling much of the new company growth happening across the US economy. Ray Wang noted that we are beginning to see ten-person companies generating hundreds of millions in revenue, and the trend is only accelerating. As an example, the former CEO of Kirkland and Ellis, the largest law firm in the United States, left to launch an AI-first law firm called Irving with just twenty people. This signals a profound restructuring of professional services and virtually every other industry, driven entirely by AI innovation.   Trump Accounts Could Close the Wealth Gap One of the most underreported developments in the US economy is the launch of the Invest America program, commonly referred to as Trump accounts. Every child born in America can now receive a $1,000 federal contribution into a protected investment account that grows through an index fund until the child turns eighteen. Family members and friends can contribute up to $5,000 per year into these accounts and receive a tax break for doing so. The math behind compounding returns is striking. A child who receives $5,000 per year from birth to age eighteen, invested in the S&P 500, could have approximately $250,000 by their eighteenth birthday. Michael and Susan Dell have already pledged $6.25 billion to give $250 to twenty-five million American children aged ten and under, making it the largest charitable investment gift in American history. Lochhead believes this new model of charitable investing, giving gifts that compound over time rather than providing temporary relief, represents a powerful and lasting solution to economic inequality. To hear more from Ray Wang and Christopher’s discussions, download and listen to this episode. Bio R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Founder, Chairman, and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc. He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and authors a business strategy and technology blog that has received millions of page views per month.  Wang also serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center. Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of live and virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary. Wang has spoken at almost every major tech conference. His ground-breaking bestselling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015.  Ray's new book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule the World will be released July 2021 by Harper Collins Leadership. Ray Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, CGTN America, Bloomberg, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune.  He is one of the top technology analysts in the world.   Links Follow Ray Wang! Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Constellation Research | DisrupTV   We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!

Retirement planning is about more than reaching a savings goal. It also means preparing for healthcare costs, changing income needs, housing decisions, relationships, purpose, and the transition into a completely different stage of life.   This week, Regina shares 10 important things to consider before retirement, including how to budget for a longer life, understand your income sources, prepare for healthcare expenses, manage debt, and plan for required minimum distributions.   She also explains why the emotional and personal sides of retirement matter just as much as the financial ones. From creating a daily routine and maintaining social connections to updating your legal documents and finding purpose beyond work, a successful retirement requires planning for the life you actually want to live.   Episode Highlights:   0:00 - Welcome to Women and Wealth 0:45 - 10 things to know about retirement 1:54 - Budgeting for longevity and inflation 2:55 - Understanding your retirement income sources 4:15 - Planning for healthcare and long-term care costs 5:12 - Managing debt before retirement 6:34 - Required minimum distributions and Roth conversions 7:34 - Making the shift from saving to spending 9:31 - Keeping legal documents and beneficiaries updated 11:05 - Downsizing, relocating, and aging in place 11:53 - Creating a healthy daily routine 13:54 - Finding purpose and identity beyond work 16:53 - Preparing for a fulfilling retirement 17:13 - Closing thoughts and how to connect    ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS   Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero.  As an advocate for women's financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money.     Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News.  She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse.   As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth.  She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families.  Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals. CONNECT WITH REGINA   Website: https://www.forgewealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginamccannhess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForgeWealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgewealthmanagement/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgeWealth Email: reginahess@forgewealth.com   Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC www.finra.org, www.sipc.org Third-party posts found on this profile do not reflect the view of LPL Financial and have not been reviewed by LPL Financial as to accuracy or completeness.   This material was prepared by MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.   For a list of states in which I am registered to do business, please visit www.forgewealth.com. MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by LPL Financial, Private Advisor Group, or Forge Wealth Management  

Anthony Rizzo, World Champion with the Chicago Cubs and MLB first baseman for 14 seasons (with the Padres, Cubs & Yankees), joins Sports Business Radio for a conversation. Rizzo will be part of the Netflix coverage for the Field of Dreams game on August 13 matching the Philadelphia Phillies against the Minnesota Twins. Coverage starts at 6:30pm ET on Netflix. Rizzo discusses his MLB career, the memorable Cubs World Series win in 2016, his Anthony Rizzo Foundation whose mission is to provide direct and financial support to children and their families who are battling cancer, what he is doing now post baseball career and his excitement for making his first trip to the Field of Dreams ballpark in Iowa as part of Netflix's broadcast team. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by Boingo Wireless. Teams like the LA Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bears and San Diego Padres trust Boingo to connect their stadiums and arenas with cutting-edge 5G and Wi-Fi.From mobile ticketing to security cameras to kiosks, connect every piece of stadium technology with Boingo's converged wireless networks. As you plan for the future of your stadium, make 5G part of your gameplan and choose Boingo Wireless as your trusted connectivity partner. Learn more by downloading Boingo's free 5G Playbook for Stadiums & Arenas. Head to boingo.com/5Gstadium to get your copy. Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #MLB #AnthonyRizzo #Cubs #FieldofDreams #Netflix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Elliott is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and credit expert who transformed his life after surviving a devastating explosion that left him with burns over 40% of his body and overcoming house arrest. Through relentless self-education, persistence, and faith, he built a real estate portfolio that helped him achieve a $3.5 million net worth and earn recognition as one of Yahoo Finance's Top 100. After using strategic credit to acquire and renovate investment properties, Brandon became financially free and founded Credit Counsel Elite, where he teaches others how to leverage credit as a powerful tool to build wealth, invest in real estate, and create lasting financial freedom.    Here's some of the topics we covered: Brandon Elliott's journey from poverty, drugs, and a life changing explosion How a mentor, faith, and second chance completely changed his life Breaking into real estate with zero money using 0% credit cards The hidden rules banks use to approve massive credit lines Building wealth with the BRRRR strategy and long distance investing Scaling from small rentals to luxury ground up developments in San Diego Why Brandon sold his portfolio to focus on bigger opportunities and helping others   To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email Partner@RodKhleif.com    For more about Rod and his real estate investing journey go to www.rodkhleif.com   Please Review and Subscribe  

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Amar Patel Cost Seg Studies could be you Next Big Tax Savings | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast, host Brandon Elliott sits down with Amar Patel Amar is a licensed CPA based in the Atlanta, Georgia area with over 22 years of experience in the accounting industry. Graduating from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Finance and Accounting, Amar has spent his career mastering advanced tax planning strategies to help real estate investors legally keep more cash in their pockets. Amar doesn't just talk the talk; he walks the walk! He is an active real estate investor with a personal portfolio that includes three residential properties and two commercial properties (a retail center and a warehouse). For the last 6 years, he has been an essential part of CCBC, specializing in cost segregation to help investors front-load their depreciation and save a boatload on taxes. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Football franchises run on data. Jono Luk of Sumer Sports explains how AI is changing who wins — on the field and in the stands.Full Show Notes:Most sports AI coverage focuses on stats. Jono Luk, Chief Product Officer at Sumer Sports, is thinking about something harder: measuring what a player decided, not just what they did. Sumer's computer vision tracks all 22 players up to 60 times per second, generating probabilities for every moment of every play — not to describe what happened, but to evaluate whether the best decision was made.That depth of game intelligence turns out to be useful in two places. For coaches, GMs, and scouts, it surfaces skill that box scores miss entirely. For the business side of a franchise, that same real-time game data becomes the trigger for personalized fan experiences — the right offer, the right moment, whether someone is in the stadium or watching from a sports bar. Jono calls this the before, during, and after — and argues it's the same attract-retain-monetize cycle every enterprise runs, just with a different playbook.The episode also covers what Jono wishes organizations understood before they start any AI conversation: AI isn't synonymous with LLMs. Computer vision, specialized models, and multi-component pipelines built for specific data types are doing work that frontier models simply aren't designed for. That framing matters for any enterprise buyer, not just sports franchises.What We Cover:How Sumer Sports uses computer vision to evaluate player decisions, not just outcomesWhy specialized AI models outperform general-purpose frontier models for sports analyticsThe two sides of AI in a football franchise: football operations and fan engagementHow real-time game data triggers personalized in-venue and at-home fan experiencesWhat the NIL era means for AI-assisted recruiting at college and high school levelsWhy AI in the enterprise isn't just about LLMs — and how to think about the broader toolkitThe one question Jono wants every organization to ask before deploying AIGuest Bio:Jono Luk is Chief Product Officer at Sumer Sports, a football data analytics and AI company that uses computer vision to analyze every player, every game, in real time. Before Sumer, Jono held product and technology leadership roles at Cisco. He brings a cross-industry perspective on how AI fits into larger solutions — not as a replacement for human judgment, but as the infrastructure that surfaces better decisions faster.Sumer Sports: https://www.sumersports.comJono Luk on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonoluk/ (confirm URL before publishing)Resources Mentioned:Sumer Sports: https://www.sumersports.comLopez Research: https://www.lopezresearch.com/research/

Have you mapped out your investment strategy to fit into the future? In this episode of Pillars of Wealth Creation, Todd Dexheimer sits down with David Morgan from The Morgan Report to discuss how our money system is changing. Inflation has eroded the value of the dollar, and digital currency and technology are disrupting investing. David Morgan discusses the future of currency and how having a real plan with your money and your investing strategy will set you up for future success. We cover investing in hard assets like Gold, Silver, and Real Estate and how to protect your money from money devaluation. Favorite Book: What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard. Pillars of Wealth Creation 1. Produce more than you can consume 2. Own, don't owe 3. Preserve what you build David Morgan is a globally recognized precious metals analyst, consultant, and publisher of The Morgan Report, a leading investment newsletter focused on building and preserving wealth through sound money principles. Author of The Silver Manifesto and producer of the documentary Silver Sunrise, he has been a guest on CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, MSNBC, and BNN. If you would like to connect with David, visit the website: https://www.themorganreport.com/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/PillarsOfWealthCreation Interested in coaching? Schedule a call with Todd at www.coachwithdex.com Listen to the audio version on your favorite podcast host: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-650270376 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../pillars-of.../id1296372835... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/.../aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZ... iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/.../pillars-of-wealth-creation.../ CastBox: https://castbox.fm/.../Pillars-Of-Wealth-Creation... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0FmGSJe9fzSOhQiFROc2O0 Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/YUP21NxF3kb Amazon/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/.../f6cf3e11-3ffa-450b-ac8c...

Mik Lemieux, Executive Director and Wealth Planner on the Athlete Center of Excellence team at J.P. Morgan Wealth Management, joins Sports Business Radio for a conversation. Mik strives to help empower the athlete community by simplifying the complexities that accompany athletic careers at every stage. The newly formed J.P. Morgan Chase Athlete Council has nine superstar members: Sue Bird, Tom Brady, Jalen Brunson, Ally Love, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Kayvon Thibodeaux, Dwyane Wade and A'ja Wilson. Lemieux is the nephew of hockey great Mario Lemieux. Tracy Porter, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the NFL Alumni Association, also joins Sports Business Radio to discuss the mission and terrific work the NFLAA is doing with former NFL players. Tracy also tells us about the new partnership between the NFLAA and New Air Club (Official VIP Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio). LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #JPMorgan #MikLemieux #FinancialLiteracy #MoneyManagement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Jonathan Berryhill How an Ex-Military Saved His Marriage & Built a Multi-Million Dollar Empire | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode of the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast, host Brandon Elliott sits down with Jonathan Berryhill—an ex-military infantry sergeant and former narcotics officer who completely transformed his life to save his marriage and build a massive business empire. Jonathan shares his incredible journey of applying military discipline to the business world, scaling and selling multiple companies for millions, and rapidly building five real estate brokerages with over 50 agents in just a few years. If you want to learn how to systemize your business, build a loyal team culture, and prioritize your family while achieving massive wealth, this episode is a masterclass in execution. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Teri Ijeoma is a globally recognized financial educator, stock trading expert, and entrepreneur dedicated to helping individuals achieve financial freedom through strategic investing. A former educator and assistant principal, Teri transitioned from the classroom to full-time trading after discovering the power of the stock market as a tool for income generation and lifestyle design. She is the founder of Trade and Travel, a highly successful online education platform that has taught tens of thousands of students worldwide how to generate income through trading. Known for simplifying complex financial concepts, Teri has built a reputation for making trading accessible to beginners while delivering real, actionable results. A graduate of MIT with a background in education and leadership, Teri has been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, Yahoo Finance, and Black Enterprise. Today, she continues to empower aspiring investors to take control of their finances, build multiple income streams, and design a life on their own terms. During the show we discuss: How options trading works at a high level and why it's attractive for income generation Why risk management is the most important skill in trading How Teri transitioned from a traditional career to full-time trading income Why trading is a learnable skill—not just luck or gambling How to develop a repeatable trading strategy instead of guessing The importance of discipline, consistency, and emotional control How trading can create time freedom and location independence Why education and mentorship can shortcut the learning curve Resources Official Website: https://teriijeoma.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teriijeoma 

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: Sumner Healey Flipping Dirt Making more than your Average Home Flipper | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode, we sit down with Sumner Healey, Sumner Healey is a serial entrepreneur, real estate visionary, and a massive disruptor in the raw land investing space. Born in the rural town of Big Sur, California to "hippie" parents, Sumner was a natural capitalist from day one. By his early 20s, he had launched an Amazon FBA brand, opened a gym, and ran a highly successful textbook arbitrage business. However, in 2019, while stuck in a dead-end sales job in San Diego making a tiny 3% commission, he started looking for an escape route. After trying and failing to wholesale houses, he discovered land flipping. He bought his very first quarter-acre lot in Nevada for $1,027 and flipped it on Facebook Marketplace three weeks later for $2,400. He has never looked back. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Alex Bhathal and Lisa Bhathal Merage, Portland Thorns (NWSL) and Portland Fire (WNBA) Owners, join Sports Business Radio for a conversation. The brother-sister duo discuss owning a NWSL and WNBA team with the goal of making Portland, Oregon the epicenter of women's sports, the synergies they are creating with both pro women's sports franchises and the unveiling of the first-ever dual-sport performance and training facility built for two women's professional franchises. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. WATCH SBR interviews by going to the sports business hub on Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at https://sports.yahoo.com/sports-business/ or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sportsbusinessradiopodcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by New Air Club. New Air Club is the Official VIP Air Travel Partner of Sports Business Radio. New Air Club is a private aviation brokerage with access to over 22,000 aircraft worldwide, but what really sets them apart is that they''re a full-service concierge. They don't just book the jet—they handle everything around the trip so the client doesn't have to. Aircraft, luxury ground transportation, hotels, dining, even security if needed. One call, one team, total discretion. For more information or to book your travel, email info@newairclub.com. You can also visit www.NewAirClub.com.  Sports Business Radio is produced by Bryan Griggs at Griggs Productions dot com. #Thorns #Fire #NWSL #WNBA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don't forget to listen and subscribe to the Raised By Her podcast. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RaisedByHerPodcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raisedbyherpodcast   Donnica Hawes-Saunders is the Founder and CEO of The Averity Group, a full-service, solution-oriented public affairs  firm that specializes in highly regulated organizations. They maximize advocacy success through proactive engagement  and in 2023, The Averity Group was named one of the top reputation management agencies in the U.S. by Design Rush.   Donnica is recognized as a mission-driven, political social impact strategist that specializes in complex policy and media  environments. With over a decade of experience in the private sector and on Capitol Hill, she connects public policy and  organizational priorities with an emphasis on politically astute, coalition-based communications and strategic  partnerships.  While leading global and U.S. public affairs and external communications outreach at Philip Morris International (PMI), Donnica conceptualized, developed, and directed over thirty original partnerships across six intersections: policy, media, NGOs, academic, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion, elevating PMIs brand. She secured a fifty percent increase in relationships with high-profile bi-partisan, key opinion leaders, and third-party validators for the company despite multi billion-dollar resistance efforts within the industry. In addition, Donnica strategized and executed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming and advocacy across U.S. and global teams increasing PMI's corporate visibility, engagement, and reputation in various markets.  Prior to PMI, Donnica worked at Heineken USA developing federal legislative strategy that resulted in two years of federal excise tax relief for the company, saving approximately thirteen million dollars annually. She also launched inaugural state and local legislative tracking, reporting, and communications for global and U.S. leadership. In addition, she built social impact partnerships to promote brand reputation through corporate social responsibility and DEI programming. During her tenure, she created several successful alcohol responsibility campaigns, including Heineken's premier DRINK or DRIVE campaign in the U.S.  With several years serving as a senior staffer on Capitol Hill, Donnica has a broad background in policy and legislative  strategy. She drafted and advanced legislation including bills to improve responses to victims of child sex trafficking (P.L. 114-22) and established amendment language in the 2014 Farm Bill Conference Report designating a historically black  college (HBCU) as an 1890 Land Grant University, increasing access to federal funds. She worked in the offices of  Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), the U.S. House Democratic Caucus under Chairman John Larson (CT-01), and  the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, under Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (MS-02).  Before working in the U.S. Congress, Donnica established a legal background through a unique combination of corporate  law, litigation, negotiation, and persuasive communication training. She was a federal law clerk in the U. S. District Court  for the Southern District of Ohio and for the 165th Harris County Civil District Court of Houston. She also represented  clients at the Montgomery County Public Defender's Office, Juvenile and Child Support Division, and worked at Sebaly,  Shillito & Dyer in the commercial litigation department focused on bankruptcy law.  Donnica has published articles in World Leaders Magazine, SheMedia, Diplomatic Courier, Sustainable Brands, Black  EOE Journal, Sustainable Brands, Authority Magazine, Swaay, and Harness Magazine for her perspectives on corporate  culture, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion. She has been featured on several podcasts as well as a speaker in the  U.S. and globally at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Executive Institute, the foremost expert,  convener and thought leader on issues impacting today's evolving workplaces, the Public Education Leadership Network  (PLEN), Better Business Bureau (BBB), Aspen Institute, and the Concordia Summit during the United Nations General  Assembly (UNGA).  Recognized for her influence in public affairs, Donnica was named one of D.C.'s Top Lobbyists and Influencers by Lawyers of Color magazine. She was also selected as a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, an  esteemed global network of elected officials and policy experts. As an Executive Leadership Council Fellow, she works to  expand opportunities for Black executives to make meaningful contributions across business and community.  Donnica's leadership history includes serving on the Advisory Council of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHCI) and the board of the World Affairs Council of America (WACA). Currently, she serves on the advisory council of her alma mater, The University of Dayton School of Law (UDSL), and on the board of Dayton Live, the region's largest  employer of performing arts professionals. Deeply committed to civic guidance, she also serves on the Influencer Council  of Running Start, a nonpartisan organization training young women for political leadership, and the Legislative and  Regulatory Committee of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, where she helps guide policy on taxation, trade, healthcare,  and business regulation.  With a track record of innovation, Donnica has been honored by Marquis Who's Who for her work at The Averity Group.  She is also a 2025 Business Journal Forty Under 40 Honoree and a 2025 Better Business Bureau Women to Watch  Honoree, celebrated for her business acumen and commitment to uplifting communities. A trailblazer in diversity, equity,  and inclusion, Donnica has been honored as one of Yahoo Finance's EMpower 100 Global Future Leaders & Top 20 Highest Achieving Changemakers for her strategic impact, execution, and advocacy. She also received the PRISM  International Diversity Impact Award for her work in developing and institutionalizing HBCU programming within  global organizations.  Beyond her professional achievements, Donnica is deeply committed to community service and cultural preservation. She  volunteers as an Ambassador for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture  (NMAAHC) and is an active member of The Links, Incorporated.  Donnica holds a J. D. from the University of Dayton School of Law, and received a B.A., magna cum laude, in Sociology  and Anthropology from Spelman College. ______________________________________________________________________ The Edupreneur: Your Blueprint To Jumpstart And Scale Your Education BusinessYou've spent years in the classroom, leading PD, designing curriculum, and transforming how students learn. Now, it's time to leverage that experience and build something for yourself. 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Danielle DiMartino Booth is the founder and CEO of QI Research, a global macroeconomic and market intelligence firm she launched in 2015 after spending nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where she advised President Richard W. Fisher during the financial crisis. A leading expert on monetary policy and financial markets, she is the author of FED UP and a frequent contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, and The Wall Street Journal, bringing decades of experience from the Federal Reserve, Credit Suisse, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. You can check out Danielle's youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@DanielleDiMartinoBoothQI  Here's some of the topics we covered: From Wall Street to the Federal Reserve and why she became "Fed Up" How Federal Reserve policies fueled housing bubbles and distorted the economy Why inflation, jobs, and economic data may be telling the wrong story The growing distress in multifamily real estate and where the biggest opportunities lie Housing Bubble 2.0, changing demographics, and why home prices still have room to fall Recession risks, AI-driven job losses, and the future of the U.S. labor market What comes next for interest rates, inflation, and the American economy   To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email Partner@RodKhleif.com    For more about Rod and his real estate investing journey go to www.rodkhleif.com   Please Review and Subscribe  

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: with Juan Munoz Why a NASA Engineer Quit to Become a Top 1% Realtor | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode, we sit down with Juan Munoz, Juan Munoz is a top 1% real estate agent in the state of Colorado with nine years of industry experience. He is a proven high-performer, having closed 37 deals last year, 42 the year prior, and over 30 the year before that. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) — Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: ⁠https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join⁠ Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes and learn more at:⁠ OLDPodcast.com⁠. Episode 3631: Go Curry Cracker shares how he and his wife overcame childhood poverty, family instability, and significant student debt to build financial independence. Their story challenges the idea that difficult beginnings determine financial outcomes and sets the stage for understanding the mindset and habits that eventually led to saving millions. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.gocurrycracker.com/how-we-saved-multi-millions/ Quotes to ponder: "You either have enough investments to fund your desired lifestyle or you don't. This is what is important." "When we started our 10 years of saving, net worth wasn't zero. I had paid off student loans a year or so prior, and also had home equity and a 401k." "Divorce in 1980s Taiwan was much like divorce in 1950s America, and the burden fell heavy on women and children." Episode references: Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/ Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/ Farnoosh Torabi: https://farnoosh.tv/ The 4% Rule (Trinity Study): https://thepoorswiss.com/trinity-study/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

— What if your body has been trying to guide you all along—and the real challenge is learning how to listen? In this episode,Dr. Angela Zeng, inspired by her grandfather, a Traditional Chinese Medicine herbalist, shares why true healing begins not with fixing ourselves, but with reconnecting to the body's innate intelligence. We explore the lost art of self-trust, the powerful messages hidden within our symptoms, and why joy, connection, and vitality are essential ingredients for lasting well-being. If you've ever wondered how to cultivate a deeper relationship with your body and access the wisdom that already lives within you, this conversation is for you. Valeria interviews Dr. Angela Zeng — Founder Of Karviva Wellness Beverages, Wellness Entrepreneur, and Professional Speaker.  With nearly three decades of expertise spanning food science, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and entrepreneurship, Dr. Angela Zeng is one of the most distinctive voices at the intersection of ancient healing wisdom and modern nutritional science. Born into generations of traditional Chinese herbalists and later trained as a food scientist with formal grounding in pathology, biochemistry, and TCM, Zeng's career was catalyzed by a defining realization: American wellness culture had become obsessed with restriction, hype, and quick fixes, while overlooking the centuries-old truth her family had always practiced: that food, when chosen with intention, is itself the most powerful medicine. Zeng spent years inside the food and beverage industry as a scientist and product innovator before stepping out to challenge what she saw as a system optimized for marketing rather than meaningful health outcomes, grounded in the conviction that consumers deserve products built on evidence, not aesthetics, and that wellness must be measured in vitality, not deprivation. She is the founder of Karviva, a multi-award-winning functional beverage brand headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, dedicated to bridging modern nutritional science and Traditional Chinese Medicine through clean, plant-powered drinks. Her product portfolio spans Unwined, Detox, Immunity, ACE Sport, Wellness, Sprouts of Hope, and the newly launched Energy Juice lines, translating ancient herbal philosophy into a structured, accessible framework for everyday hydration, recovery, and longevity. Karviva's guiding philosophy, Food Is Better Medicine™, has driven more than one million bottles sold across 2,000+ retail locations, with features in Forbes, Bon Appétit, USA Today, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and MarketWatch. A sought-after speaker and thought leader, Zeng is a TEDx speaker, a 2025 and 2026 St. Louis Titan 100 honoree, a 2026 Titan CEO honoree, and the recipient of the 2025 World Beverage Innovation Award for Best Low/No Alcohol Beverage, with three additional Karviva product lines named finalists at the same awards in Best Energy Beverage, Best Natural/Organic Beverage, and Best Plant-Based Beverage. She is also the author of the forthcoming book The Balance Cure: Unlock Your Body & Ancient Code for Lasting Weight Loss (June 2026), a practical guide that translates Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern nutritional science into a personalized framework for matching food, movement, and habits to individual body type, including dedicated support for those using GLP-1 medications.  Learn more about Dr. Angela and her work! 

In Today's Episode: Host: Brandon Elliott,  https://zez.am/brandonelliottinvestments Guest: with Joseph Moore FBI Raided My Property | Ready, Set, Go! Podcast Welcome back to the Ready, Set, Go! Real Estate Investing Podcast with your host, Brandon Elliott! In this episode, we sit down with Joseph Moore, Are you tired of hearing the same generic advice on how to "get rich"? In this episode, we sit down with Joseph Moore, a historian, academic, and real estate powerhouse who didn't start with money, but built a massive portfolio by studying what has actually worked in American history for the last 300 years. Joseph's journey isn't just about spreadsheets—it's a wild ride through the 2008 housing crash, FBI property raids, and even staring down a shotgun in a hoarder unit. If you want to know how to navigate real estate cycles, survive being over-leveraged, and build true generational wealth     ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resourceful Links:  How To Get Up To $500,000 Every 6 Months At 0%: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ Get Your Most Accurate Credit Report:https://myfreescorenow.com/enroll/?AID=COUNSELELITELLC&PID=18983 Best Credit Cards: https://milevalue.com/best-credit-cards/?aff=cce Free Credit Education Resources: https://creditcounselelite.com/articles Guide to Taking Massive Action: https://amzn.to/2IZMN8Z LEARN MORE CLICK HERE: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/fb-start-here ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Meet Your Host, Brandon:  Brandon Elliott went from being off track finding himself on house arrest and burning 40% of his body to getting on track reaching $8.5 million in Assets and being acknowledged part of the "Top 100 Yahoo Finance" by using Credit Cards to buy small multi-family and scaling his businesses using the exact strategies taught in Credit Counsel Elite (CCE). CCE teaches business owners how to get up to $500,000 every 6 months at 0%. By being a member with CCE, you get to learn how to Travel Hack, get access to the 800 FICO Score Club in 30 days or less, fix credit quickly, receive $5K-15K+ of free sign up bonuses, buy Real Estate with Credit Cards, deep dive into Business Credit and Personal credit. To learn more visit: https://www.creditcounselelite.com/ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Connect with Brandon Elliott:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonelliottinvestor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonElliottInvestments Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonelliottinvestments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-elliott-6b1643148

Charles Gaudet built his first multi-million dollar business at 24 years old while battling severe learning disabilities, survived a hospitalization in his early twenties after working from 3:30am until midnight seven days a week, and has since helped clients across six, seven, eight, and nine figure businesses generate over $1 billion in combined revenue. Yahoo Finance nicknamed him the CEO Whisperer, his work has been featured in Forbes and Fox Business, and he hosts the Beyond Seven Figures podcast. But none of that is what makes this conversation worth your time. What makes this episode worth your time is Charles sitting down with Larry and being completely honest about the phone call his dad made in the final weeks of his life, offering to give up everything he had ever made just to spend more time with his kids and grandkids. That one moment reframed everything Charles thought he knew about success, hard work, and what a father is actually building toward. If you have ever worn your busyness like a badge, this one is going to hit you somewhere important. Charles is a husband of 24 years to his wife Heather, a father of three, a CEO coach to some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, and a man who learned the hard way that working harder is not the same as building something that lasts. This is Episode 1497 of the Dad Edge. Charles Gaudet went from a kid selling construction paper art door to door at age four to coaching billionaires in boardrooms, and the thread connecting all of it is the same lesson a neighbor named Mrs. Hersey gave him when he was mortified: always bring your best. Timeline Summary [1:02] Larry opens with a June-only Alliance offer including a signed copy of his book, a patience course, and 50 intimate conversation starters [3:07] Charles explains how Yahoo Finance dubbed him the CEO Whisperer and why asking the questions nobody else will ask is his edge [4:40] The boardroom moment with the CEO of a $34 billion company and why Charles was the only person in the room willing to challenge him [8:03] Charles tells the story from the US Army War College: a five-star general who couldn't figure out why they kept losing a battle until he asked the lowest-ranking soldier on the ground [13:26] The phone call from his dad in the final weeks of his life: "I would give up everything I've ever made just to spend more time with you and the grandkids" [17:29] Growing up barely seeing his dad, the pillow and blankets by the front door, and starting his first business at age four just to get his dad's attention [20:29] Selling construction paper art door to door as a kid and the lesson Mrs. Hersey gave him that shaped every standard he has held himself to since [23:07] Charles teaching his son the difference between being an employee and owning a business using a lemonade stand, and watching his son at 19 reach a multi-million dollar valuation [28:16] Working 3:30am to midnight seven days a week, not eating, not sleeping, and landing in the emergency room at 22 with his organs shutting down [41:32] The diving board principle: the further it bends, the higher you spring, and why gratitude became Charles's superpower when resistance shows up [45:29] Charles's dad competing against him instead of cheering for him, and why Charles chose a completely different approach with his own kids [47:35] What it means to be the shoulders your kids stand on, matching his son dollar for dollar on a car, and why making it easier is not always making it better [52:55] How Charles and Heather built a marriage strong enough to last by having the hard conversation about honesty before they were even fully exclusive [1:02:26] The distinction between being rich and being wealthy, and the mic drop moment when Charles's son told him exactly why their family has the highest quality of life he knows [1:07:32] Why a loud house means happy kids and what it looks like to build a home people actually want to come back to Five Key Takeaways The people who give you the most honest feedback are the most valuable people in your life. Whether it is a 10-year assistant, a lowest-ranking soldier, or a neighbor who tells a four-year-old his artwork is not worth $0.50, the person willing to tell you the truth is the one who actually helps you grow. Hustle culture is using the wrong scorecard. Working hard and working until midnight are not goals. The question is what outcome you are actually working toward, and whether the sacrifices you are making are getting you closer to the life you want or further from it. Resistance is not a sign that something is going wrong. It is usually a sign you are about to break through to a new level. Charles uses gratitude as a tool to stay in his own power rather than giving it away to circumstances he cannot control. Your kids do not need you to make everything easy for them. They need you to build the shoulders they can stand on. The goal is to help them become healthier, wealthier, and happier than you, not to protect them from the lessons that would get them there. True wealth is not measured by the bank account. It is measured by the quality of your life. When Charles asked his son how he would rate their family's quality of life, his son said they had the highest of anyone he knew, because he actually wanted to spend time with his parents. Links & Resources Predictable Profits — https://www.predictableprofits.com Beyond Seven Figures Podcast — search "Beyond Seven Figures" on your podcast app Follow Charles Gaudet on Instagram and LinkedIn — @CharlesGaudet Dad Edge Episode 1497 Show Notes — https://www.thedadedge.com/1497 Join the Dad Edge Alliance — https://www.thedadedge.com/join Kid Questions Resource — https://www.thedadedge.com/kidquestions Closing Charles Gaudet sat in a boardroom with the CEO of a $34 billion company and asked the question no one else in the room was willing to ask. He built companies, lost his health, nearly lost his mind, and then got a phone call from his dying father that reframed everything. And somehow, in the middle of all of it, he figured out how to be the kind of dad whose kids say they want to spend more time with him than anyone they know. That is the whole game right there. Share this episode with a man in your life who is still confusing busyness with progress. He needs to hear it. Subscribe, leave a review, and help other dads find the show. Go out and live legendary.