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In this episode of The Kara Goldin Show, we're joined by the incredibly creative and inspiring Coco Quill, Founder & CEO of Whiskey & Woof Candle Atelier. Coco's journey is anything but ordinary, starting from her impressive marketing career with global brands like Yahoo Music, MTV Networks, Disney, and Sony Music. She eventually transitioned into the world of entrepreneurship, launching Whiskey & Woof in 2019—a brand that perfectly marries her love for dogs, whiskey, and unique scents.Whiskey & Woof has rapidly grown into a beloved brand known for its one-of-a-kind scents inspired by Coco's French Bulldog, Elle, and the joy of good company. Coco shares how her passion for storytelling through scent has led to collaborations with notable names like Kiehls and Sketcher's concept store, and how she's built a brand that's more than just candles. Tune in to hear Coco's fascinating story, learn about the inspiration behind Whiskey & Woof, and explore her journey in creating a brand that captures the essence of friendship, companionship, and creativity. This conversation is full of insights into brand building, the power of scent storytelling, and the challenges and joys of entrepreneurship. Now on The Kara Goldin Show. Are you interested in sponsoring and advertising on The Kara Goldin Show, which is now in the Top 1% of Entrepreneur podcasts in the world? Let me know by contacting me at karagoldin@gmail.com. You can also find me @‌KaraGoldin on all networks. To learn more about Coco Quill and Whiskey & Woof:https://www.instagram.com/whiskey_and_woof/https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleenquill/https://www.tiktok.com/@whiskeyandwoofhttps://www.whiskeyandwoof.com Sponsored By:Fabric - Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to protect their families. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/KaraGoldin.ShipStation - Get a 60-day free trial at ShipStation.com/KARA. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring The Kara Goldin Show!JLo Beauty - Head to JLOBeauty.com/KaraGoldin for a SPECIAL GIFT of FOUR FREE Masks and FREE Shipping.Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/kara Check out our website to view this episode's show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/607

What We Covered:The importance of having a purpose behind what you're doing.How something that doesn't cost anything can't be called a value or a principle.How Jacob and his team became a much fuller service by not just building the assets but also designing the strategy.How Jacob and his team used “technology mashups” to leverage his business.What it means to build a foundation around the things that you are passionate about.The importance of building a foundation before launching a bigger corporation/company.The impact of creating a safe place where people are allowed to have conversations about mental health, death and dying, and more.The concept of “edutainment” and how it does a better job at teaching compared to more traditional methods.Tweetable Quotes:You can tell if a brand or an organization is being purposeful and truthful about making that emotional connection with the audience when they have a purpose behind what you're doing.” – Jacob Tell“We do our best work at the intersection of storytelling and technology now. It's not just the technology piece, it's also the storytelling and creating the brands.” – Jacob Tell“We create a culture of positive disruption and that's been a throughline for all the ventures that I'm involved in.” - Jacob Tell“Entertainment meets education is the idea behind edutainment” – Jacob Tell“You have to be fully lit up and aligned in whatever you do and be able to draw that inspiration from within.” - Jacob TellWhen you have the right mindset, the right environment, and you know what you are after, You then create the conditions for the magic. – Jacob Tell“It's creating conditions for not just magic but for healing.” – Jacob TellLinks Mentioned:Kurt's TwitterKurt's InstagramKurt's LinkedInJacob TellBen HarperBruno MarsDuke StumpG.LoveGary GershIan RogersJack DangermondJack JohnsonJason KieselJengoJimmy IovineJohn LegendJoseph CampbellKelly SlaterKen BurnsKim JohnsonKurt CobainLenny KravitzPaul McCartneyRob MachadoSteve JobsThe BeatlesThe WailersDolby AtmosDreams TourEMI RecordsEsriFacebookLodo StudiosLVMHMySpace MusicNikeOniracomPepsiRevolverSony Music[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/?)TechCrunchTopspinUniversal MusicUniversity of California Santa BarbaraWarner Bros.Yahoo Music

In this episode of the podcast, Edgel sits down with Steven Le Vine. Steven is an award-winning PR strategist, and founder of grapevine pr + consulting, based in Los Angeles, Austin, and Nashville, since 2006. The firm's clients include major tech companies and consumer brands, as well as high-profile experts and celebrities, including  William Shatner, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, and actor/activist Danny Pintauro ('Who's The Boss?').He has secured clients wide-ranging press from sit-down interviews with Oprah, The View, The Talk, NBC Today, CBS News and CNN to placements in Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Crunchbase, Entrepreneur, Inc., Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Stereogum, SPIN, Yahoo Music, Fast Company, Forbes, Benzinga, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, HuffPost, Harvard Business Review, Associated Press, Men's Journal, Business Insider, People, Us Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and more. Le Vine is a frequent media personality and contributor for prominent consumer and trade business publications, including Forbes and Entrepreneur, as well as a founding member of the Rolling Stone Culture Council. His firm has taken home dozens of awards, including for ‘Agency of the Year' and ‘Campaign of the Year' in the PR World Awards and Ragan's Media Relations Awards, as well as other awards programs.

The simple story of Yahoo! Is that they were an Internet search company that came out of Stanford during the early days of the web. They weren't the first nor the last. But they represent a defining moment in the rise of the web as we know it today, when there was enough content out there that there needed to be an easily searchable catalog of content. And that's what Stanford PhD students David Philo and Jerry Yang built. As with many of those early companies it began as a side project called “Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.” And grew into a company that at one time rivaled any in the world. At the time there were other search engines and they all started adding portal aspects to the site growing fast until the dot-com bubble burst. They slowly faded until being merged with another 90s giant, AOL, in 2017 to form Oath, which got renamed to Verizon Media in 2019 and then effectively sold to investment management firm Apollo Global Management in 2021. Those early years were wild. Yang moved to San Jose in the 70s from Taiwan, and earned a bachelors then a masters at Stanford - where he met David Filo in 1989. Filo is a Wisconsin kid who moved to Stanford and got his masters in 1990. The two went to Japan in 1992 on an exchange program and came home to work on their PhDs. That's when they started surfing the web. Within two years they started their Internet directory in 1994. As it grew they hosted the database on Yang's student computer called akebono and the search engine on konishiki, which was Filo's. They renamed it to Yahoo, short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle - after all they maybe considered themselves Yahoos at the time. And so Yahoo began life as akebono.stanford.edu/~yahoo. Word spread fast and they'd already had a million hits by the end of 1994. It was time to move out of Stanford. Mark Andreesen offered to let them move into Netscape. They bought a domain in 1995 and incorporated the company, getting funding from Sequoia Capital raising $3,000,000. They tinkered with selling ads on the site to fund buying more servers but there was a lot of businessing. They decided that they would bring in Tim Koogle (which ironically rhymes with Google) to be CEO who brought in Jeff Mallett from Novell's consumer division to be the COO. They were the suits and got revenues up to a million dollars. The idea of the college kids striking gold fueled the rise of other companies and Yang and Filo became poster children. Applications from all over the world for others looking to make their mark started streaming in to Stanford - a trend that continues today. Yet another generation was about to flow into Silicon Valley. First the chip makers, then the PC hobbyists turned businesses, and now the web revolution. But at the core of the business were Koogle and Mallett, bringing in advertisers and investors. And the next year needing more and more servers and employees to fuel further expansion, they went public, selling over two and a half million shares at $13 to raise nearly $34 million. That's just one year after a gangbuster IPO from Netscape. The Internet was here. Revenues shot up to $20 million. A concept we repeatedly look at is the technological determinism that industries go through. At this point it's easy to look in the rear view mirror and see change coming at us. First we document information - like Jerry and David building a directory. Then we move it to a database so we can connect that data. Thus a search engine. Given that Yahoo! was a search engine they were already on the Internet. But the next step in the deterministic application of modern technology is to replace human effort with increasingly sophisticated automation. You know, like applying basic natural language processing, classification, and polarity scoring algorithms to enrich the human experience. Yahoo! hired “surfers” to do these tasks. They curated the web. Yes, they added feeds for news, sports, finance, and created content. Their primary business model was to sell banner ads. And they pioneered the field. Banner ads mean people need to be on the site to see them. So adding weather, maps, shopping, classifieds, personal ads, and even celebrity chats were natural adjacencies given that mental model. Search itself was almost a competitor, sending people to other parts of the web that they weren't making money off eyeballs. And they were pushing traffic to over 65 million pages worth of data a day. They weren't the only ones. This was the portal era of search and companies like Lycos, Excite, and InfoSeek were following the same model. They created local directories and people and companies could customize the look and feel. Their first designer, David Shen, takes us through the user experience journey in his book Takeover! The Inside Story the Yahoo Ad Revolution. They didn't invent pay-per-clic advertising but did help to make it common practice and proved that money could be made on this whole new weird Internet thing everyone was talking about. The first ad they sold was for MCI and from there they were practically printing money. Every company wanted in on the action - and sales just kept going up. Bill Clinton gave them a spot in the Internet Village during his 1997 inauguration and they were for a time seemingly synonymous with the Internet. The Internet was growing fast. Cataloging the Internet and creating content for the Internet became a larger and larger manual task. As did selling ads, which was a manual transaction requiring a larger and larger sales force. As with other rising internet properties, people dressed how they wanted, they'd stay up late building code or content and crash at the desk. They ran funny cheeky ads with that yodel - becoming a brand that people knew and many equated to the Internet. We can thank San Francisco's Black Rocket ad agency for that. They grew fast. The founders made several strategic acquisitions and gobbled up nearly every category of the Internet that has each grown to billions of dollars. They bought Four 11 for $95 million in their first probably best acquisition, and used them to create Yahoo! Mail in 1997 and a calendar in 1998. They had over 12 million Yahoo! Email users by he end of the year, inching their way to the same number of AOL users out there. There were other tools like Yahoo Briefcase, to upload files to the web. Now common with cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and even Office 365. And contacts and Messenger - a service that would run until 2018. Think of all the messaging apps that have come with their own spin on the service since. 1998 also saw the acquisition of Viaweb, founded by the team that would later create Y Combinator. It was just shy of a $50M acquisition that brought the Yahoo! Store - which was similar to the Shopify of today. They got a $250 million investment from Softbank, bought Yoyodyne, and launched AT&T's WorldNet service to move towards AOL's dialup services. By the end of the year they were closing in on 100 million page views a day. That's a lot of banners shown to visitors. But Microsoft was out there, with their MSN portal at the height of the browser wars. Yahoo! bought Broadcast.com in 1999 saddling the world with Mark Cuban. They dropped $5.7 billion for 300 employees and little more than an ISDN line. Here, they paid over a 100x multiple of annual revenues and failed to transition sellers into their culture. Sales cures all. In his book We Were Yahoo! Jeremy Ring describes the lays much of the blame of the failure to capitalize on the acquisition as not understanding the different selling motion. I don't remember him outright saying it was hubris, but he certainly indicates that it should have worked out and that broadcast.com was could have been what YouTube would become. Another market lost in a failed attempt at Yahoo TV. And yet many of these were trends started by AOL. They also bought GeoCities in 99 for $3.7 billion. Others have tried to allow for fast and easy site development - the no code wysiwyg web. GeoCities lasted until 2009 - a year after Google launched Google Sites. And we have Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, and so many others offering similar services today. As they grew some of the other 130+ search engines at the time folded. The new products continued. The Yahoo Notebook came before Evernote. Imagine your notes accessible to any device you could log into. The more banners shown, the more clicks. Advertisers could experiment in ways they'd never been able to before. They also inked distribution deals, pushing traffic to other site that did things they didn't. The growth of the Internet had been fast, with nearly 100 million people armed with Internet access - and yet it was thought to triple in just the next three years. And even still many felt a bubble was forming. Some, like Google, had conserved cash - others like Yahoo! Had spent big on acquisitions they couldn't monetize into truly adjacent cash flow generating opportunities. And meanwhile they were alienating web properties by leaning into every space that kept eyeballs on the site. By 2000 their stock traded at $118.75 and they were the most valuable internet company at $125 billion. Then as customers folded when the dot-com bubble burst, the stock fell to $8.11 the next year. One concept we talk about in this podcast is a lost decade. Arguably they'd entered into theirs around the time the dot-com bubble burst. They decided to lean into being a media company even further. Again, showing banners to eyeballs was the central product they sold. They brought in Terry Semel in 2001 using over $100 million in stock options to entice him. And the culture problems came fast. Semel flew in a fancy jet, launched television shows on Yahoo! and alienated programmers, effectively creating an us vs them and de-valuing the work done on the portal and search. Work that could have made them competitive with Google Adwords that while only a year old was already starting to eat away at profits. But media. They bought a company called LaunchCast in 2001, charging a monthly fee to listen to music. Yahoo Music came before Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, and even though it was the same year the iPod was released, they let us listen to up to 1,000 songs for free or pony up a few bucks a month to get rid of ads and allow for skips. A model that has been copied by many over the years. By then they knew that paid search was becoming a money-maker over at Google. Overture had actually been first to that market and so Yahoo! Bought them for $1.6 billion in 2003. But again, they didn't integrate the team and in a classic “not built here” moment started Project Panama where they'd spend three years building their own search advertising platform. By the time that shipped the search war was over and executives and great programmers were flowing into other companies all over the world. And by then they were all over the world. 2005 saw them invest $1 billion in a little company called Alibaba. An investment that would accelerate Alibaba to become the crown jewel in Yahoo's empire and as they dwindled away, a key aspect of what led to their final demise. They bought Flickr in 2005 for $25M. User generated content was a thing. And Flickr was almost what Instagram is today. Instead we'd have to wait until 2010 for Instagram because Flickr ended up yet another of the failed acquisitions. And here's something wild to thin about - Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson started another company after they sold Flickr. Slack sold to Salesforce for over $27 billion. Not only is that a great team who could have turned Flickr into something truly special, but if they'd been retained and allowed to flourish at Yahoo! they could have continued building cooler stuff. Yikes. Additionally, Flickr was planning a pivot into social networking, right before a time when Facebook would take over that market. If fact, they tried to buy Facebook for just over a billion dollars in 2006. But Zuckerberg walked away when the price went down after the stock fell. They almost bought YouTube and considered buying Apple, which is wild to think about today. Missed opportunities. And Semmel was the first of many CEOs who lacked vision and the capacity to listen to the technologists - in a technology company. These years saw Comcast bring us weather.com, the rise of espn online taking eyeballs away from Yahoo! Sports, Gmail and other mail services reducing reliance on Yahoo! Mail. Facebook, LinkedIn, and other web properties rose to take ad placements away. Even though Yahoo Finance is still a great portal even sites like Bloomberg took eyeballs away from them. And then there was the rise of user generated content - a blog for pretty much everything. Jerry Yang came back to run the show in 2007 then Carol Bartz from 2009 to 2011 then Scott Thompson in 2012. None managed to turn things around after so much lost inertia - and make no mistake, inertia is the one thing that can't be bought in this world. Wisconsin's Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo! In 2012. She was Google's 20th employee who'd risen through the ranks from writing code to leading teams to product manager to running web products and managing not only the layout of that famous homepage but also helped deliver Google AdWords and then maps. She had the pedigree and managerial experience - and had been involved in M&A. There was an immediate buzz that Yahoo! was back after years of steady decline due to incoherent strategies and mismanaged acquisitions. She pivoted the business more into mobile technology. She brought remote employees back into the office. She implemented a bell curve employee ranking system like Microsoft did during their lost decade. They bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1 billion. But key executives continued to leave - Tumbler's value dropped, and the stock continued to drop. Profits were up, revenues were down. Investing in the rapidly growing China market became all the rage. The Alibaba investment was now worth more than Yahoo! itself. Half the shares had been sold back to Alibaba in 2012 to fund Yahoo! pursuing the Mayer initiatives. And then there was Yahoo Japan, which continued to do well. After years of attempts, activist investors finally got Yahoo! to spin off their holdings. They moved most of the shares to a holding company which would end up getting sold back to Alibaba for tens of billions of dollars. More missed opportunities for Yahoo! And so in the end, they would get merged with AOL - the two combined companies worth nearly half a trillion dollars at one point to become Oath in 2017. Mayer stepped down and the two sold for less than $5 billion dollars. A roller coaster that went up really fast and down really slow. An empire that crumbled and fragmented. Arguably, the end began in 1998 when another couple of grad students at Stanford approached Yahoo to buy Google for $1M. Not only did Filo tell them to try it alone but he also introduced them to Michael Moritz of Sequoia - the same guy who'd initially funded Yahoo!. That wasn't where things really got screwed up though. It was early in a big change in how search would be monetized. But they got a second chance to buy Google in 2002. By then I'd switched to using Google and never looked back. But the CEO at the time, Terry Semel, was willing to put in $3B to buy Google - who decided to hold out for $5B. They are around a $1.8T company today. Again, the core product was selling advertising. And Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo! In 2008 for over 44 billion dollars to become Bing. Down from the $125 billion height of the market cap during the dot com bubble. And yet they eventually sold for less than four and a half billion in 2016 and went down in value from there. Growth stocks trade at high multiples but when revenues go down the crash is hard and fast. Yahoo! lost track of the core business - just as the model was changing. And yet never iterated it because it just made too much money. They were too big to pivot from banners when Google showed up with a smaller, more bite-sized advertising model that companies could grow into. Along the way, they tried to do too much. They invested over and over in acquisitions that didn't work because they ran off the innovative founders in an increasingly corporate company that was actually trying to pretend not to be. We have to own who we are and become. And we have to understand that we don't know anything about the customers of acquired companies and actually listen - and I mean really listen - when we're being told what those customers want. After all, that's why we paid for the company in the first place. We also have to avoid allowing the market to dictate a perceived growth mentality. Sure a growth stock needs to hit a certain number of revenue increase to stay considered a growth stock and thus enjoy the kind of multiples for market capitalization. But that can drive short term decisions that don't see us investing in areas that don't effectively manipulate stocks. Decisions like trying to keep eyeballs on pages with our own content rather than investing in the user generated content that drove the Web 2.0 revolution. The Internet can be a powerful medium to find information, allow humans to do more with less, and have more meaningful experiences in this life. But just as Yahoo! was engineering ways to keep eyeballs on their pages, the modern Web 2.0 era has engineered ways to keep eyeballs on our devices. And yet what people really want is those meaningful experiences, which happen more when we aren't staring at our screens than when we are. As I look around at all the alerts on my phone and watch, I can't help but wonder if another wave of technology is coming that disrupts that model. Some apps are engineered to help us lead healthier lifestyles and take a short digital detoxification break. Bush's Memex in “As We May Think” was arguably an Apple taken from the tree of knowledge. If we aren't careful, rather than the dream of computers helping humanity do more and free our minds to think more deeply we are simply left with less and less capacity to think and less and less meaning. The Memex came and Yahoo! helped connect us to any content we might want in the world. And yet, like so many others, they stalled in the phase they were at in that deterministic structure that technologies follow. Too slow to augment human labor with machine learning like Google did - but instead too quick to try and do everything for everyone with no real vision other than be everything to everyone. And so the cuts went on slowly for a long time, leaving employees constantly in fear of losing their jobs. As you listen to this if I were to leave a single parting thought - it would be that companies should always be willing to cannibalize their own businesses. And yet we have to have a vision that our teams rally behind for how that revenue gets replaced. We can't fracture a company and just sprawl to become everything for everyone but instead need to be targeted and more precise. And to continue to innovate each product beyond the basic machine learning and into deep learning and beyond. And when we see those who lack that focus, don't get annoyed but instead get stoked - that's called a disruptive opportunity. And if there's someone with 1,000 developers in a space, Nicholas Carlson in his book “Marissa Mayer and the Fight To Save Yahoo!” points out that one great developer is worth a thousand average ones. And even the best organizations can easily turn great developers into average ones for a variety of reason. Again, we can call these opportunities. Yahoo! helped legitimize the Internet. For that we owe them a huge thanks. And we can fast follow their adjacent expansions to find a slew of great and innovative ideas that increased the productivity of humankind. We owe them a huge thanks for that as well. Now what opportunities do we see out there to propel us further yet again?

We had the pleasure of interviewing Maggie Szabo over Zoom video! Maggie Szabo is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has been winning over audiences worldwide with her stunningly soulful vocals and empowering pop anthems. Hailing from a small town in Ontario, Szabo is now an accomplished musician living in Los Angeles and is using her music to conquer social injustice. After quickly becoming one of the most sought after songwriter/vocalists for DJs and notable film and TV placements, Szabo’s latest work has focused primarily on her solo project. Szabo uses her music to conquer social injustice by working with organizations such as the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. Her power ballad, ‘Don’t Give Up’, is a beautifully authentic and heartfelt song dedicated to transgender youth around the world who live in fear and suffer from rejection and exclusion. It was premiered by Billboard and praised by media outlets such as PopDust and Huffington Post. Proceeds from the song are donated to empowering homeless LGBTQ youth. Szabo’s successes to date include over 15 million views on YouTube, over 15 million streams on Spotify, and extensive media coverage from high profile outlets such as Perez Hilton, Yahoo Music!, PopCrush and Huffington Post, as well as being featured on numerous notable film and TV projects on networks such as Netflix, Disney, ABC, E!, TV Land and NBC. She was the featured vocalist on the album for German electronic DJ Schiller, who has so far sold 7 million albums worldwide. Szabo's song 'Love Is Free' was hand-picked by Jennifer Hudson to be the song for her artist, Kennedy Holmes, on the season finale of The Voice on NBC. Her song, 'Home', was released with DJ Madison Mars and was in the top 40 on the Billboard Charts. Her solo project has already landed her on some of Spotify's biggest pop playlists, including Canada's 'New Music Friday'. With a quickly growing fan-base and a social media following that tops some of the nation’s most established pop artists, Szabo has effectively used the internet to showcase and market her songs to the world and her dedicated fans. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #foryou #foryoupage #stayhome #togetherathome #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetwork Listen & Subscribe to BiB Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bringinbackpod/support

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Houston native Robyn Troup has accomplished things that every singer would dream of.  She's collaborated with legends Carlos Santana, Nas, T.I. and Justin Timberlake.  She won the "My Grammy Moment" contest sponsored by Yahoo Music and even appeared on American Idol.  To date, Robyn has over 500,000 streams on Spotify.   We talked to Robyn about how she turned down a full-ride to Harvard, dealing with arrogant people in the music industry and the difference between being signed vs. being an independent artist.    Follow Robyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robynthebank   Follow Dorian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doriangroup82 Wanna know How To Get 1 Million Streams on Spotify? Download Our Free eBook "How To Get 1 Million Streams on Spotify": https://www.group82music.com/ebook Wanna grow your Instagram with a real strategy that you can use today? Download our Free eBook "3 Social Media Strategies That Actually Work": https://www.group82media.com/ebook --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/82pointsofview/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/82pointsofview/support

Topics: A Black Renaissance?, Mariah Carey, House Party, In Living Color / The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound)     1990 General Snapshots   1.    George Bush Sr. President   2.    January - United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrenders to American forces.   3.    January - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.   4.    January - Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.   5.    February - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.   6.    February - A smoking ban takes effect on all domestic U.S. flights of less than six hours.   7.    March - Greyhound bus drivers’ strike for higher pay.   8.    April - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.   9.    June - Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian cities and 8 U.S. cities.   10.    July - George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.   11.    August - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.   12.    September - Chris Rock makes Saturday Night Live debut.   13.    October - Evander Holyfield defeats James "Buster" Douglas to become the heavyweight boxing champion.   14.    November - Sharon Pratt Kelly is elected Mayor of the District of Columbia, becoming the first black woman to head a major U.S. city. She takes office January 2, 1991.   15.    Top 3 Pop Songs   16.    #1    "Hold On"    Wilson Phillips   17.    #2    "It Must Have Been Love"    Roxette   18.    #3    "Nothing Compares 2 U"    Sinéad O'Connor   19.    Record of the Year - "Another Day in Paradise" – Phil Collins   20.    Album of the Year - Quincy Jones (producer & artist) for Back on the Block   21.    Song of the Year - "From a Distance" performed by Bette Midler   22.    Best New Artist - Mariah Carey   23.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female - Anita Baker for Compositions   24.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male - Luther Vandross for "Here and Now"   25.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group - Ray Charles & Chaka Khan for "I'll Be Good to You"   26.    Best Rhythm & Blues Song - "U Can't Touch This" performed by M.C. Hammer   27.    Best Rap Solo Performance - M.C. Hammer for "U Can't Touch This" 28.    Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - Big Daddy Kane, Ice T, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Quincy D. III & Quincy Jones for "Back on the Block"   29.    Top 3 Movies   30.    #1 Ghost   31.    #2 Home Alone   32.    # 3 Pretty Woman   33.    Other Notables:   34.    Top 3 TV Shows   35.    Cheers   36.    60 Minutes   37.    Roseanne   38.    Debuts: In Living Color, True Colors, Brewster Place, The Fresh Prince   39.    Economic Snapshots   40.    New Home: 123k (previously 120K)   41.    Avg Rent: 465 (425)   42.    Avg. Income: 29k (27K)   43.    New Car: 16k (15K)   44.    Harvard: 13.5k (12.7k)   45.    Movie Ticket: 4 3.50 - same   46.    Gas: 1.34 (.97)   47.    Stamp: .25 (.25)   48.    Social Scene: Pop Culture Dominance and Influence   49.    Politics: Colin Powell, Douglas Wilder, Congressional Black Caucus @ 25 (John Lewis 2nd term)   50.    Business: Ebony/Jet, Russel Simmons, Reginald F. Lewis   51.    Sports: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr.   52.    Music: Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney, Janet Jackson, MC Hammer, Anita Baker   53.    Movies: Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Robert Townsend   54.    Television: Oprah (Daytime), Cosby (Prime time), Aresnio (Nighttime)   55.    Open Comments:   56.    Question: Assimilation? OK, but who is changing who? Are we changing America or is America Changing us?   57.    Music Scene   58.    Black Songs from the Top 40   59.    #4    "Poison"    Bell Biv DeVoe   60.    #6    "Vision of Love"    Mariah Carey   61.    #8    "Hold On"    En Vogue   62.    #11    "Do Me!"    Bell Biv DeVoe   63.    #13    "Pump Up the Jam"    Technotronic   64.    #14    "Opposites Attract"    Paula Abdul and The Wild Pair   65.    #15    "Escapade"    Janet Jackson   66.    #17    "Close to You"    Maxi Priest   67.    #21    "All Around the World"    Lisa Stansfield   68.    #22    "I Wanna Be Rich"    Calloway   69.    #23    "Rub You the Right Way"    Johnny Gill   70.    #24    "She Ain't Worth It"    Glenn Medeiros and Bobby Brown   71.    #26    "The Power"    Snap!   72.    #30    "Two to Make It Right"    Seduction   73.    #33    "Step by Step"    New Kids on the Block   74.    #36    "I Don't Have the Heart"    James Ingram   75.    #38    "Rhythm Nation"    Janet Jackson   76.    #41    "Everything"    Jody Watley   77.    #42    "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"    Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler   78.    #43    "Here and Now"    Luther Vandross   79.    Top RnB Albums   80.    January Tender Lover Babyface   81.    January Back on the Block Quincy Jones   82.    April Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em MC Hammer   83.    June Poison Bell Biv DeVoe   84.    June Johnny Gill Johnny Gill   85.    August I'll Give All My Love to You Keith Sweat   86.    December I'm Your Baby Tonight Whitney Houston   87.    Featured Artist: Mariah Angela Carey, (Songbird) singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and philanthropist   88.    Childhood - Born to Patricia (Hickey), an Irish American mezzo-soprano opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer. They got divorced when Carey was only three. Her first public performance was at the age of six. By the age of sixteen, she was skipping classes to write songs and her brother, Morgan, paid for her first recording session. She finally graduated from Harborfields High School, in 1987.   89.    Career - Before Carey got her big break, she worked as a temp and juggled with a few odd jobs such as a beautician, hair sweeper in a salon, waitress and as a coat check girl. After several years of struggling, Carey began singing background vocals for the pop and salsa singer-songwriter Brenda Starr in the late 1980s. Additionally, Carey wrote four songs with Ben Margulies, which solely constituted her demo tape. Margulies was a drummer, guitarist, piano player and singer. (One of Margulies's bandmates went to high school with Mariah’s older brother) Starr ultimately helped Carey land a record contract by giving her demo tape to Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola. In 1988, Mottola signed her***.   90.    In June of 1990, her self-titled album, ‘Mariah Carey’, which contained four No.1 hits were released. It was the best-selling album of 1991 and has been certified nine times Platinum.   91.    Aside from her voice, she has become known for her songwriting. Yahoo Music editor Jason Ankeny wrote, "She earned frequent comparison to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion but did them both one better by composing all of her own material." Also, according to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States. Additionally, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists Carey as the third best-selling female artist of all-time behind Madonna, Rhianna, maybe Taylor Swift.   92.    Open Comments:   93.    Point #1 – Divas status is earned. (She stuck to her guns re: song writing / Dunked on everyone / Checked Eminem)   94.    Pont #2 – Studio performer, but not studio tricks.   95.    Point #3 – The Christmas Song   96.    Question: Is Mariah a "Soul" singer?   97.    Movie Scene: House Party,” …an infectious, engaging comedy starring the rap duo Kid 'N Play.”   98.    Plot: Although Kid has been grounded by his father, he sneaks out for a party at his friend Play's house. But Kid has no clue about the trouble that awaits him in the form of three thugs from school.   99.    Release date: March 9, 1990 / Rotten Tomatoes: 93% 4.5 Stars   100.    Budget - $2.5m, / Box office - $26.4m   101.    Open Comments:   102.    Point #1: Cast is great (Tisha & Martin broke out)   103.    Point #2: First truly successful "Hood" comedy franchise. (4! sequels)   104.    Point #3: Not possible without the success of Robert and Spike. Director said the project only got the green light because of the recent box office success of "black" movies.   105.    Question: What are some of your house party war stories?   106.    Television Scene   107.    #1 - In Living Color (1990–1994): [IMDB Rating: 8.1/10] Keenen Ivory Wayans (@ wasn't looking to do a TV show. In 1988, he was riding high on the success of his cult hit I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and contemplating his next movie. But he took a meeting with a fledgling network called Fox, which made an offer he couldn't refuse. "They told me I could do whatever I wanted," Wayans, 61, recalls. What he wanted was to do a show like Saturday Night Live only much, much edgier. Homey Da Clown, Homeboy Shopping Network, Men on Films, Fire Marshall Bill, Oswald Bates, Wanda, The Fly Girls — the skits Wayans and his mostly African American cast performed each week pushed the envelope not just of TV's color barrier but of TV comedy, won an Emmy and incubated the careers of stars Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Lopez, and several members of the Wayans family.   108.    Open Comments:   109.    Question: Chapelle or In Living Color?   110.    #2 - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996) [MDB Rating: 7.9/10]: A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.   111.    Open Comments   112.    Point #1 - Will and Jazzy were supposed to do the movie House Party   113.    Point #2 - Quincy is doing the most! - Fresh Prince, a collaboration of Quincy Jones and the then-married team of Andy and Susan Borowitz, was based loosely on the life of Will Smith’s then-manager Benny Medina (and on the lifestyle of Jones’ own family) and ran on NBC from 1990-96. NBC was wary of a project starring a rapper, and the show was derided at first by some for a lack of grit. Ultimately, critiques proved ignorant, as the sitcom became part of the cultural DNA of the 1990s. “The Cosbys were affluent,” said Quincy Jones in 2015, “but the Banks’ were wealthy. I don’t think you’d ever seen a wealthy African-American family on television until Fresh Prince, and you definitely hadn’t seen a kid from the hip-hop generation until Fresh Prince.”   114.    Open Comments:   115.    Question: Why wasn't this just "Different Strokes" - Pt. 2?   116.    Vote: Best/most important/favorite pop culture item from 1990?

Berättelsen om hur Miley Cyrus mördar sitt alter ego Hannah Montana. MTV Video Music Awards 2013. En gigantisk brun teddybjörn med blinkande ögon står framställd på scenen. Framför björnen står ett band redo. En lucka öppnas i teddyns mage och ut kommer Miley Cyrus, i en fluffig body med en nalle över bröstet. Hennes hår är uppsatt i två små bollar på huvudet. Hon räcker tungan mot MTV:s kameror och sen drar hon igång ett av USA:s mest omdiskuterade TV-framträdanden någonsin. Miley Cyrus är barnstjärnan som föddes in i showbiz tack vare sin pappa, countrystjärnan Billy Ray Cyrus. Under sina tonår gör hon rollen som Hannah Montana och tröttnar. Det här är berättelsen om en offentlig revolt som enligt många påminde om en skenande tågolycka med droger, fest och skandalomsusade scenframträdanden. Men det är också en berättelse om att göra sig fri och en musikalisk talang som rör sig obehindrat mellan country, hiphop och rock. Miley Cyrus är produkten från Disneyfabriken som vågade öppna sitt hjärta och skrev in sig själv i historien om pop. En dokumentär av Axel Winqvist  Producent: Vendela Lundberg Exekutiv Producent: Ulla Svensson Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson Programmet är en produktion från Tredje Statsmakten Media Ljudklippen i dokumentären är hämtade från:MTV Vide Music Awards, The Zach Sang Show, ABC News, Popsugar TV, NBC News, Music City Tonight från The Nashville Network, CNN, CBS, Headline News, The Orange County Register, Teen Choice Awards från Fox, Lifetime TV, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Disney Channel, The Wendy Williams Show, IHeart Radio, Yahoo Music, Splash TV, NBC Today, Netflix, BBC Radio 1. I dokumentären återges även referat från tidningarna Rolling Stone Magazine och Vanity Fair.

In this episode I talked with Billy Johnson Jr about his new company Media and Repertoire. Billy has had a lot of experience in the secular world that he has been able to transfer into the Christian media realm. Here is a little more about Billy Johnson Jr: Billy Johnson, Jr., a former senior editor for Yahoo Music, is a media consultant, publicist and music journalist with more than 20 years experience. Billy founded Media & Repertoire in 2016. The digital public relations agency offers media placement, content creation, strategy, coaching and social media services for clients. Media & Repertoire's clients have included Flavor Flav, Long Beach Indie International Film, Media & Music Festival, Derek Minor, Jenesse Center, and others. In 2018, Media & Repertoire launches the annual #NoStigmasAllowed Everyone Deserves Mental Wellness mental health series funded by a mini grant from California Mental Health Services Authority and Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. As a journalist, Billy has conducted more than 1000 interviews with the likes of Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, and Eminem. He joined Yahoo Music (formerly LAUNCH) in 1998. Prior to joining LAUNCH, he was the Executive Editor of Rap Sheet newspaper that hosted the Rap Olympics in 1997 that spawned a then unsigned Eminem; and the Editor-In-Chief of the Riverside Black Voice News. His work has additionally been featured in Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, The Source, Upscale, Word Up! and more. He wrote Chris Brown's first cover story for Vibe and was a contributing reporter for Entertainment Weekly's coverage of the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. Additionally, he wrote an essay about The Neptunes production duo for the book, Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey. Billy has appeared as a music expert on various media outlets (The Insider, CBS This Morning, BBC, Fox) and was featured in Usher's Behind the Music, and Unsung episodes on West Coast hip-hop legends YoYo and DJ Quik. He got his start in entertainment writing the fan club newsletter for Ruthless Records artists J.J. Fad whose song Grammy-nominated song "Supersonic" was sampled for Fergie's "Fergalicious." Billy is based in Los Angeles area with his wife and their set of boy and girl twins. Thanks to the patrons of the show: Aaron Simpkins - truestrengthapparel.com Jay Sanon - jaysanon.com L.T - youtube.com/watch?v=SyvEFS…

Historien om en av vår tids mest banbrytande och kontroversiella artister. Det är 80-tal i Chicagos South Side. En liten kille med en ensamstående mamma drömmer om att en dag ta över världen. Han har många drömmar. Att bli modedesigner är en, att bli rappare är en annan. Självförtroendet är med honom, men inte alla de rätta förutsättningarna. Den lilla killen heter Kanye West och kommer bli en av världens mest kända och omtalade artister.  P3 Musikdokumentär om Kanye West är historien om hur en bilolycka och en rosa pikétröja kan förändra inte bara en artists liv - utan också en hel musikgenre. Det är också berättelsen om hur en familjs arv och historia av politisk aktivism formar en orädd och ung man, som ständigt hamnar i blåsväder på bästa sändningstid.  En dokumentär av Vendela Lundberg Producent: Axel Winqvist Exekutiv Producent: Ulla Svensson Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson Programmet är ett en produktion från Tredje Statsmakten Media. Ljudklippen i dokumentären är hämtade från MTV Video Music Awards 2015, Rolling Stone Magazine, MTV News, Bad Boy Radio, Yahoo Music, Billboard Awards 2004, Late Registration Electronic Press Kit, A Concert for Hurricane Relief (NBC), The Today Show (NBC), Alligator Boots (Myspace), Larry King Live (CNN), First Insight Productions, MTV Video Music Awards 2009, CNN, Power 105.1, Runaway (film), Watch the Throne Mini Documentary, BBC1, NPR News, 3scompanyradio, Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!), The Guardian, TMZ, CNN News och Kanye Wests Youtubekanal.

Make a list of the most respected international festivals and Sonar is bound to feature. Starting in 1994 as a 3,000 capacity event in Barcelona, Sonar has grown to host over 120,000 attendees in the city each year and now has a presence in locations as diverse as Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Hong Kong. On the guest list today is Ventura Barba, CEO of Sonar’s parent company Advanced Music. Having known the Sonar founders since that very first edition, he spent time at BMG and Yahoo Music before reconnecting with the founding team in 2009. In this conversation we talk about how Sonar take their concept into new cities around the globe, the importance of featuring new technologies, and how brands are deepening their partnerships with festivals. Episode overview: 02:30 Sonar from 1994 to 2018 07:30 Expanding around the world and thinking about creative networks first 16:00 Sonar’s technology focus 26:00 Going out of your comfort zone to enable longevity 28:00 Brands as co-creators --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tickets/support

We sat down with journalist-turned-publicist Billy Johnson, Jr. As the Senior Editor at Yahoo! Music for almost 18 years, Billy interviewed the likes of Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Quincy Jones, Kanye West, Eminem, and countless more. Few know the ins and outs of publicity as well as Billy does, so we were excited to pick his brain. Be sure to connect with Billy! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediarepertoire/ Twitter: http://Twitter.com/BillyJohnsonJr Connect with us! Website: Interlude Management Twitter: @MBLPodcast Questions, comments and thoughts: Podcast@InterludeManagement.com

Today's Guest: Mindi Abair, saxophonist Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, David Sanborn and the ghosts of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane … in the new new media capitol of the world – and birthplace of Mindi Abair! … St. Petersburg, Florida!   Part 1 of 4 Order 'Wild Heart' by saxophonist Mindi Abair, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the CD above! Not everyone took saxophone player Mindi Abair’s path to being a guest on Mr. Media. Most get booked through a publicist, quite honestly. I get a note or a phone call saying, “Have you ever heard of…” Something like that. I consider each one carefully and invite only the men and women who strike a chord with me. But in Mindi’s case, I received an email from someone whom I trust without question – her aunt, Becky James. Becky has been transcribing audio interviews for me for the last two decades. She probably knows things about me from those recordings that even my wife doesn’t, and bless her, she’ll take those stories to the grave. MINDY ABAIR audio excerpt: "Every one of the American Idol contestants looked at me backstage and said, 'NO!' They are not making you wear that underwear onstage, are they? But I did the dress rehearsal in men's underwear, trying to look like Tom Cruise... They gave me tighty-whiteys! I've known Randy Jackson for years; I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head! ... It was not until I came out in my regular clothes that Steven Tyler asked who I was."  American Idol Anyway, one day she sent a note saying, “You should have my niece, Mindi, on your show. She’s a saxophone player.” Umm… But then I did a little homework. Mindi Abair is an outstanding saxophone player, one of the most talented individuals of her generation on her instrument. And, if you don’t want to believe me – or Aunt Becky – you should have seen her recent appearances on “American Idol,” first blowing away the audience and judges alongside contestant Paul McDonald on Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll.” She returned a few weeks later to accompany another singer on the show, Casey Abrams. Oh, and she was just named Best International Instrumentalist at the Wave Awards in Toronto. And another thing: Mindi -- a graduate of St. Petersburg's Northside Christian High School and Berklee College of Music in Boston -- was featured on the front page of Yahoo Music as their lead story the day after her first "American Idol" feature. By the end of the day, “the mystery saxophist” story had received 3 million clickthroughs. What can I say? Aunt Becky knows her saxophone stuff! Mindi Abair Website • Fan Club • Twitter • Facebook • MySpace • iTunes • YouTube   Part 2 of 4     Part 3 of 4 (Part 4 of 4 was deleted due to alleged copyright infringement.)   The Millionaire's Convenient Arrangementby Jane Peden. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Two of my favorite artists.  Maggie Szabo and Allison Iraheta of  and Halo Circus both with homecomings this week. Halo Circus is an LA-based bilingual alternative rock band composed of vocalist Allison Iraheta, guitarist Brian Stead, bassist Matthew Hager and drummer Veronica Bellino. Halo Circus was formed in 2012 by Iraheta, a finalist on American Idol. She had released her debut album, Just Like You in 2009 and met producer/songwriter/musician Hager They wrote together and later formed Halo Circus whose crowd-sourced "Follow the Rabbit” US Summer Tour",  kicked off in SoCal in August and wraps up with a blowout concert Nov 11  in Los Angeles  at the Hotel Café.  But we get to interview them that morning.    Maggie Szabo is a Canadian-born, LA-based  soul-pop singer whose vocals and songwriting has earned 13 million YouTube, sold out performances and well-deserved songwriting awards.  Small but powerful, Szabo is famed for holding audiences hushed as she starts songs in whispers and then rises to room-filling belts, Winner of the International Songwriting Competition, Maggie is a featured vocalist and songwriter on the new album from German electronic DJ, Schiller, which has sold 7 million albums worldwide and debuted at #1 in Germany. Her single ‘Forgive and Forget’, was premiered by Yahoo Music and licensed in Criminal Minds and Keeping Up with the Kardashians among others . And, never one to stand still long, she has released a new single, “Smile” and has an album in the works.

Influenced by artists like David Bowie, St Vincent, Radiohead, M83 and Massive Attack, The Controversy's music has been described as a "seamless mash up of electronica with psychedelic rock; infectious pop songs which merge the melodies of 80's Depeche Mode and OMD with a touch of The Knife and Metronomy."Based in Los Angeles, CA, The Controversy is a collaborative artist project between Thomas Hjorth (Denmark), Laura Vall (Spain) and Amy White (US/Spain).The Controversy's latest album, "Don't Count On Me," has been named an "electronic art-pop masterpiece" by FourCulture Magazine, KCRW featured as Today's Top Tune, and U&I Magazine named "Queen of Chinatown" #1 Single of the Year. Yahoo Music, Bullett Media, Bandcamp The Deli Magazine (amongst many others) have also featured and premiered their work.

0:00 Yahoo Music Publish Unfinished Album Review 16:16 Adele and "Hello" Theory 19:35 Rolling Stone Top Albums of 2015 29:45 Rap Album Covers 31:46 Ja Rule Doesn't Wish to be Famous Anymore 39:05 Kanye Becoming a Parody of Himself and Dealing with Paparazzi 55:06 D. Respect's Science Behind Bad Music 1:00:08 Hamilton Soundtrack Album Review 1:28:03 "Old School" YouTube

CHRIS SMITHER is a profound songwriter that draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets, and philosophers. His song "Love Me Like A Man" became a signature song for Bonnie Raitt with the release of her second album in 1972. Chris is celebrating 50 years in music with a brand new, career-spanning retrospective 'Still on the Levee' recorded in New Orleans. He's also releasing a book of his lyrics 'Chris Smither Lyrics 1966 � 2013' and an all-star tribute record to Chris is in the works for a fall release with Josh Ritter, Bonnie Raitt, Loudon Wainwright III, and more. GRACE ASKEW has called the Delta her home her entire life, drawing much of her inspiration from the muddy, rural roots of her hometown of Memphis. Over the past 4 years the road has been a mainstay for Askew as she continuously pushes herself to travel, sharing her music with all walks of life via self-booked and self-promoted tours. Most recently, Grace was on team Blake Shelton of NBC's The Voice (season 4) which took her all the way to the final 32 and was later deemed a top 3 favorite contestant by Yahoo Music and RollingStone.com. Her new album 'Scaredy Cat' was recorded at Sun Studios and highlights her smoky vocals with spare arragements that are distinctive Americana.

Watch out for Loose Women. Specifically, Tori appeared on a recent UK show on the telly called Loose Women. Very similar to the US gab-fest, The View. Do a search on You Tube and check out Tori chatting with the ladies and performing Velvet Revolution and Programmable Soda. Tori appears in her "Tori" persona, not as Isabel - which I mistakenly say on today's podcast.Also check out the Big Wheel video available at Yahoo Music and You Tube as well as other places online.You can win Tori merchandise by entering the following contests:http://www.spin.com/insidespin/2007/04/070419_toriamos/http://www.epicrecords.com/contests/we_toriamos/http://www.starpulse.com/Contests/30gb_iPod_and_Tori_Amos_American_Doll_Posse_CD/883/Please listen to today's podcast.