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Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Cisco looks to AI to improve EX, cut agent churn by improving human involvement, Special Cisco Webex Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with us again, Larissa Horton, who's the Senior Vice President and General Manager and Chief Product Officer in collaboration at Cisco. Larissa, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Well, you know, AI is something we're reporting on like almost every day, every other articles about AI, but it's really amazing that we're going to be able to talk to Cisco about AI and the role that it plays in contact centers and why human involvement is still really critical. So, you know, I'm interested in finding out, you know, what obviously Cisco's point of view of this is, and let's start off with, you know, what efforts do you think companies should make to upskill or reskill existing agents to utilize the technology that's to its fullest potential to reduce employee churn? So with regards to employee churn, I mean, I think when I look across this industry, it's upwards of 40 % on average. And when we look at what is the experience of an agent from starting, getting trained up, handling their first set of calls, escalations, manager and, you know, subject matter expert support to eventually being disengaged and leaving. There are so many parts across that entire journey where AI can help, whether it is assisting in the first set of calls so that you kind of have that little extra support on how to respond to customers. Whether it's that wrap up and saving a little bit of time after every call to be a little faster and getting your, you know, service level and your handle times down. Or it's just understanding of all of my agents today who needs a break that maybe I didn't pay attention to because they just had a really rough set of conversations. And just as a human being, sometimes there are certain words and emotions that were impacted with that just require a little bit of breathing to get back and do your best work. So I think we're seeing AI definitely as a huge enhancement to all of those places, which really eventually lead to higher engagement at the agent level and lower turn. And so agent wellness is what we've been calling a lot of these categories and really focusing on minimizing that turn. So you have a more, I would say, experienced and aged population who are also more engaged by leveraging all of the signals and understanding how they're doing across that entire journey from beginning to being, you know, one of your very active, reliable agents in your pool. Well, you know, there's almost a little bit of a paradox in your answer because a lot of people outside of the technology sphere especially are very fearful about AI replacing human beings, almost being maybe hostile to people and so on. And yet, you know, what you've just told me is that if AI is deployed properly here in the contact center where, as you say, yes, we've had historically high turn and low employee satisfaction. You're saying actually AI can be a tool to make people happier, make people more comfortable that actually the use of AI can strategically, you know, actually improve things.
Revision Path
Fresh update on "larissa" discussed on Revision Path
"Absolutely. There's this quote that like history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, which I like a lot. And yeah, you're absolutely right. There was stuff like Geocities back in the day, which is like very similar to that. And like The Sims, like in the 90s, which is obviously the metaverse. A lot of like old games that even I used to play, like Age of Empires, which is a game that I used to play way back when on the computer where you basically build your own civilization from scratch. There's all of these things that we had and that are kind of reemerging in this new environment. And yeah, there's so much of it and it's happening so fast. That like, I certainly don't think like, you know, aging, like somewhat archaic, like government institutions can really navigate this territory. But I think that the people who have had experience in that space, the gamers and creative technologists and creative people, artists do. And I think it's, again, an opportunity to challenge the institutions that we sort of just accept. I think that like your sort of description of like the digital real estate is a great example because like, yeah, it's technically not real, but it is real. And it starts to like challenge your idea of like what's real or not, which has pros and cons. But, you know, when you think about a concept like manifest destiny, you know how the country was conquered and these false deeds that, you know, allow people to take land and property and kind of a fabricated legality behind it. It's pretty fascinating because to me in that context, it's like, OK, there's like a subtle, subtle difference between somebody holding a piece of paper that because of their authority makes them the owner of a thing that they can just then take from you. And like this other thing, which is digital, which is, you know, it's kind of two sides of the same coin and the physicality of it is sort of it's an inconvenient, sometimes just an inconvenient kind of truth about the way we experience the world. But yeah, I mean, that's what I get excited about information science about is when you get into like quantum physics and all of the really weird stuff about reality and tangibility. But it's all connected. And I think, yeah, it's fascinating. I think people should be kind of cautiously enthusiastic about this whole space, this whole like kind of new digital environment. And it's always healthy, I think, to just look at history for examples of how things can go right and how things can go wrong. Absolutely. I'm actually taking that approach now as it relates to social media. So like we're recording this now at a time when Twitter just became X, what, like, I don't know, a couple of days ago or something like that. And people had already been having kind of, you know, reservations about the platform ever since the new owner took ownership and how things have changed. And so, of course, since then, a number of different Twitter like clones have sort of popped up or they've made themselves known. I'll say I won't say they just popped up with like there's spoutable, there's spill, there's post, there's a Mastodon has been around for a long time. There's blue sky. Instagram came out of left field with threads and like people are trying to determine like, OK, well, where should I go next? Well, should I go over here to threads? Well, threads does this. OK, well, let me go over to blue sky. Well, blue sky is like this. And can I get an invite? And it's like it reminds me of 2006, 2007 all over again. One with the invites. That's the first thing. Yeah, right. But then two with also when Twitter was around, then there were a number of clones that had popped up that was trying to like take its its market space. Eventually, like there was Pounce, there was Plurk, there was Jiku, there was Yammer. There might have been a couple of others. And like within a year's time, most of those didn't exist anymore. They either got acquired by a company and shut down or they just couldn't hack it, essentially, or they've pivoted to another market. Like Plurk is huge in Taiwan. I don't think anybody in the US really still uses Plurk anymore. So like I've been cautiously looking at like, oh, well, do I even want to be on these other platforms? Because even with Twitter, I don't share a bunch of shit on Twitter now anyway. And I don't think me migrating my presence to another platform is going to necessarily change that. Like people will say, oh, I'm on threads and oh, this reminds me of how social media used to be. And I'm like, look, if Elon Musk is the problem, Mark Zuckerberg is not the answer. Like, let's step back here and put this into some context. But also just thinking of like, I remember the Internet when social media was not a thing and it was fun. It was great. So even now, especially as I get older, I'm like, I don't even want to really have a social media presence. Like as a publisher of Revision Path, I have to think, oh, well, where do I want the show to be so people can find out about it? So then like I have to have those conversations with myself and my team about like, well, what even makes sense? But like personally, like I could give all of this up tomorrow and be fine. Yeah, I feel that it's kind of like, yeah, like a gold rush, like speculators, you know, like running to whatever the hot town is at the time and trying to like stake your claim. So, yeah, it's definitely spot on. And that would be a good archive, actually, is actually all of the like platforms that have come and gone and like in relation to all this stuff. I think it would be like a humbling thing to see just like like how many of them have just come and gone. Yeah. And only only a small few rise to the top because that's just like the nature of the thing. Yep. So as we try to rush from one thing to the next, it's just like it might be better to just take a minute to think about what it is we're actually trying to do and get from these platforms. And like, is there a way to like kind of reclaim that sovereignty and autonomy for ourselves? That's something that I'm really interested in and trying to put into practice more regularly. It's like, what's the connection? Because one thing that people have been talking about and I promise we'll pull this back into talking about you, but like but like one thing with people trying to go to these other platforms is then trying to like recreate the social graph that they had on Twitter. So they're like, oh, well, if you're going to be here, then I need to be here. And where are my people that are also on this? And it's like, well, you can't take your network with you in that way. There's your offline real world network that always stays with you. And then there's this sort of ersatz cultivated network that's been done through the social media platform that now you have to try to recreate and reconstruct on some other platform that may not even exist within a year's time. Exactly. And also with the old platform, X, Twitter, whatever it is, if you've had people muted or blocked or things of that nature, now that you've moved to this new platform, those restrictions no longer really apply. So they can try to like harass you somewhere else. They can try to befriend you somewhere else. And you're like, no, I don't talk to you on Twitter. That means I don't talk to you anywhere. It's so weird. It's so like, oh, it's very complex. Which makes me want to just give it all up. I'm like, this is y'all can have it. It's not it's not this serious. Yeah, it gets overwhelming. And it's especially challenging, I think, for people who like who find a lot of value in kind of distributing their identity or like having new identities online that they can't have in, quote unquote, real life, because that is something that's very beneficial for a lot of people. I would include myself in a part of that. And especially, I think, like younger generations and clear folks is like, not generally, but a lot of people find a lot of value in being able to assume a different identity and being able to sort of go to a new town, so to speak, where nobody knows your name and being able to recreate yourself. And there's a lot of challenges behind that with all these new platforms, with legacy platforms that that fade away. One of the things that I'm really concerned about with Twitter and just like these social platforms in general is something called link rot, link rot. This idea that, like, I think we forget that the Internet is very ephemeral and that, like, if a server goes down, if people aren't there to maintain it, that like all of your tweets can just go away or all of your the things you've saved in Google Drive or, you know, whatever other cloud service or all the things you posted on Facebook can just go away. One day, there's just this wealth of knowledge on a platform like Twitter that could be lost not only with the name change, but with the infrastructural changes that are there. And it's the equivalent of like burning down the library of Alexandria with all of these connections and conversations and this sort of archive of this moment in time that we will never see again. It's a little like concerning, not a little concerning. It's pretty like it worries me a bit. You know, I did a talk, oh, my God, this is maybe two or three years ago, I did a talk called Content is Subject to Change about this very same thing, about how the Internet is not an archive. I know there is the Internet archive, but that is a small nonprofit that one can't archive the full web because there are certain restrictions around the type of content, about the location of said content. It's not even available in some countries. So like you can't archive the full web, but but also just sort of talking about with the advent of user generated content through social media, Web 2.0, et cetera. We are putting so much stuff on the Internet without thinking about how it is being stored, if it's being stored like news articles, like try to find a news article from 10 years ago and see if all the images still work or see if all the links, you know, link right. Like you mentioned, still works. And like it makes it hard for history purposes, for archiving, et cetera. Yeah, like the Internet is very ephemeral in that aspect. Yeah, and that's like one of the sort of ambitions of you, the platform that I'm working on with Ami is like to at least kind of our own in our own way, create these tools and allow people to create their own tools where they can create a living archive of at least themselves, of at least their digital self and try to connect it to their physical self in a way that is ownable. That's, you know, has sovereignty for them and reclaiming all that data, reclaiming all of the information that we've dumped online and making sure that you're able to house it somewhere that you can access and not lose it, because all of that stuff is hugely, hugely important. People's digital stuff is I don't think we think about this consciously all the time. We kind of take it for granted, but it's not until you lose it, you know, not until like the house burns down with all your stuff in it that you're like, oh, man. Right. I probably should have like saved that somewhere, made a copy of it. Put it on a physical hard drive or something. Yeah, right. Absolutely. Yeah. Even, you know, as you mentioned that, that kind of reminded me about sort of one of the restrictions of threads, like when people were sort of looking at different platforms to jump to and sort of the notion you mentioned about people being able to assume different identities on different platforms, like there's who you are maybe in the real world. But then on the Internet, you can be a different person or a different identity or something like that. And I know there were people like adult industry professionals, you know, sex workers, porn stars, et cetera, who said that they had joined threads and like threads because it's Instagram and Instagram is owned by Facebook, like now links them, their stage name to their like real person identity. And that if you try to delete threads, then now you delete Instagram. So now it's like tying together these things you didn't ask to be tied together. But because you've opted into the platform and, you know, no one reads the long ass and usual or the or the terms of service. But now that you've opted into it, it's like this is what you signed on for. Yeah. And you can't go back. Yeah. And it's like it's super like manipulative, I think, in nefarious and not by accident. And yeah, that's in and of itself a huge conversation about sex work online and sort of platform in surveillance capitalism. And I have friends who are sex workers. I kind of consider myself to be in that territory, at least online anyway. I have an OnlyFans. It's a huge issue, not only the deplatforming, the silencing, all of that stuff, which I think is like hugely messed up because in a lot of ways, these platforms make a lot of money. From, you know, the revenue that's generated by these users, these citizens of their platforms, while at the same time silencing them, even sometimes encouraging violence and disrespect towards them. There aren't a lot of like really safe, equitable spaces for sex workers and marginalized folks online. And I'm excited about seeing more of that. I think like the metaverse, not Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, but the metaverse more broadly and gaming and kind of world building environments is at least one space that I feel excited about the opportunity for those things to open up more and just people like making their own platforms. I think like back to the era of blogging, you know, like hosting your own platform yourself. I think that's exciting. And I think we'll probably see people do more of that for sure. Because I think people are getting like really fatigued with all of this stuff. Yeah, no, absolutely. I feel like we could have a whole other podcast episode just about what we talked about with like the advent of technology through porn and sex work, like a lot of technological innovation, especially like when we talk about synthetic media and things like that. Unfortunately, it's come because of that, that innovation has spurred technological innovation. But we've spent a lot of time talking about this. I want to make sure that this interview is also about you. So let's let's switch gears here, learn more about you. Now, you're originally from Cleveland, is that right? That's right. Yeah, I was born and raised there. I lived there until I was about 13. And then I moved around in the south quite a bit. I went to high school in Douglasville, Georgia, for about a year. I went to high school in Montgomery, Alabama. That's actually where I graduated high school. And I yeah, I ended up going to SCAD and Savannah for two years. I'm a college dropout. I love my time at SCAD, especially the people and just like that city I think is beautiful. Yeah, I was a 3D animation major and an illustration minor. I thought I wanted to work at Pixar at that time. That was my first like, kind of venture into the 3D space, at least using computers. And I think it kind of stuck with me, even though I hadn't, like, revisited it until more recently. A lot of the ideas, understanding the potential of it definitely stuck with me. I've always been interested in science and technology. I would have just as soon went into, you know, robotics or something like when I was a kid, I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. I wanted to be a paleontologist. I had all these kind of aspirations. I think that's true for a lot of creative people. I think something that I realized about kind of the world we live in is the unfortunate sort of reality of this kind of reductionist approach to so many things where you have to like choose one thing to be when that's not really how the world works. And that was definitely like a big part of like starting the studio was that like using it as a vehicle to do whatever I wanted to do. And I think people feel inspired to like rally around that. So, yeah, that's been the journey with that. Now, after SCAD, I saw that you kind of worked for a while as a designer. You worked for Radio One for a while, but then you also started collaborating with other creatives. You started this collective called The Big Up. Tell me about that, because it sounds like that's kind of been the basis for what you do now through the Young Never Sleep. Yeah, 100 percent. At SCAD, I met a group of really like dynamic people. Brittany Bosco being one of them, Alex Goose, Danny Swain, Lloyd Harold, a number of other amazing people. We all kind of went our separate ways, but stayed in touch. And then after going back to Montgomery for a little bit, I went back to Atlanta. And at that time, I was just doing just like freelance graphic design, doing like club flyers and making people's like album artwork. Faria Kader was one of the people. Oh, yeah, I know Faria. Yes, she's awesome. She's one of the people who like kind of helped jumpstart my design career. And yeah, I started working with Brittany and Alex Goose and Danny really closely. I've done album artwork for Danny. I did some vocals on one of his albums. I've done album artwork for Brittany and like her shows kind of posters and things like that. So, yeah, we started the collective, The Big Up, and it was essentially like part label, part creative agency where we just wanted to do everything in the house. We made the music, we made the art for the music, we did the set design, we did everything. And that was definitely like one of the things that I think transitioned me from being an artist to being like more of a design thinker and certainly like a systems design thinker. And then I, yeah, I worked for Hot 107.9 for a little while. I actually lived there for a short period of time. I had an experience with like houselessness for like a brief period of time. And I actually like lived at Hot 107.9 making designs for like Birthday Bash and I would just like stay in the studio and everybody left and just like sleep there. I'd always been interested in computers. Like I had a computer at home, it was really old and now I play games on it and do stuff I wasn't supposed to be doing. But yeah, at Hot 107.9, you know, just being there for that time, I was like obsessively going through blogs. You know, this is the time of LimeWire and all of that stuff and just torrents and downloading just 20 albums at a time and just listening to like, you know, Japanese prob rock and just cosmic jazz and like all this crazy stuff from everywhere. It was incredible. And I remember I saved like all this music on a hard drive and I end up like losing that hard drive. So I think maybe that might be like some trauma that made me want to archive. There might be some trauma there. I'm like, I never want to lose anything ever again. Listen, I have a hard drive here now at the house. It's got a ton of music on it that I can't access for some reason. And I'm like, one day I'm going to crack it and get all my music back. That's on there. So I feel you there. The world needs that. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, the big up. Yeah, that was definitely like one of the things that was kind of like seeded the young nervous sleep and what was possible through that. You know, it's been a journey. I still am connected to Bosco. The last time we worked together was a project with Spectacles is one of my favorite projects. I've worked on there actually. And one of the things that kind of set the trajectory from where I'm headed now with my work, we did a her single July 4th or 4th of July. We created this video, which was essentially a concept for a music video game and mixed reality. Yeah. It was a really, really cool project where we like used the AR lenses from a lot of like lens studio creators. And I made toys based on the characters in the video and made like several AR experiences are really great, like 360 projects. Um, it's really cool. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brittany was actually on our 2019 honoree list for 28 days of the web. Yeah. We have a, we have like a sister site where for black history month for February, we profile 14 men, 14 women that are doing like really interesting, great digital stuff online, whether that's design tech, et cetera. That's something I've done for the past 10 years. I've been debating on stopping it. This is my first time saying this publicly, by the way, but cause I've done it for 10 years. I'm like, you know, 10 is a good round number. I don't know if I want to do it again for next year, mainly because, and I didn't think this would be the case at it, but I don't know, maybe it's kind of tied into our conversation. Some people just don't want that presence online anymore. So they're contacting us and being like, yeah, can you take down the profile that you did? Like they thanked me when it was up, but then now that it's up to like, yeah, can you get rid of that? Because I'm like, yeah, so I don't know. I'm still, I'm on the fence about doing it again for 2024, but we've done it since 2014. So it's been 10 years. So I don't know, maybe we will, maybe we won't. I don't know. Yeah, I feel that it's like that things change. Now, when you look back at you know, some of the big places you've worked, like you mentioned Snap, you were there for four years in LA. You've also been a Cartoon Network for four years here in Atlanta. When you look back, like collectively at those experiences, what do you still carry with you from there? My experience working at those places for me was like my school. I apply myself in these careers as me, like learning by doing. At Cartoon Network, I got a deep appreciation for how to apply artistic thinking to design. There's a fine line between art and design and sometimes it's non-existent. And I think at Cartoon Network, I got an appreciation for how art and design can be the same thing. I got an appreciation for systems thinking again. I tell people we essentially did everything except make the cartoons. So we were doing, you know, interstitials, making commercials, print ads, web ads. We did immersive experiences for Comic-Con. You know, we build a booth. I helped make a gigantic inflatable obstacle course in the Bahamas. There's like so much work that got done making premiums, you know, clothes and all kinds of things, working for cartoon and Adult Swim. You get a real sense of like all of the touch points that have to happen in order to make a project successful or a product like launch successful. So I got a real sense of that there. And I have to thank people like Jacob Escobedo who got me the job. And for him believing in me, not having a degree, just seeing my work, he literally just asked me to bring in a sketchbook. He looked through my sketchbook and hired me based on that, which I, you know, I really appreciate him for that. And then Candace House, I have to say, is someone who like sharpened my eye for detail and quality. She as an art director is, you know, exceptional and is someone who I think just is exemplary of the Cartoon Network brand. So I got that there. And then I left after four years. I graduated, so to speak. And then I freelance for a while with that knowledge, working on, you know, projects for Dolby and HBO and several other kind of higher profile brands, which it's great for me, I think, to go back and forth to have like this kind of independent, you know, self-starting thing, but also to be, you know, within the institution, because I think you just learn different things from those experiences. And then after a while, I got the job at Snap through by working with Larissa Haggio, who's a fashion designer in L.A., Andrew McPhee, her partner got me introduced to Snap and the Spectacles team. And at Spectacles, I was there for four years, another kind of graduate situation. I think the big takeaway there was how hard it is to make tech. I got a much deeper appreciation for the things that I think a lot of us take for granted when our laptop is on the fritz or the GPS doesn't work perfectly. It's easy for us to complain, but I got a real reverence for like the complexity and challenge of trying to make a piece of hardware and a piece of software and also trying to like get it out into the market in a way that people will embrace it. It's a very, very hard, complex thing to do. And I was there through four launches, four product launches, doing a little bit of everything with the brand and even like influencing the product as well. I got a lot of experience with working with product teams and trying to set the vision and design a product. So I think those two like kind of big pillars, Cartoon Network and Snap Spectacles together, I think, you know, alongside my independent work, really set the stage for where I'm headed in the future. I love that you kind of referred to both of those experiences as like graduation for sure, because I mean, you know, jobs do you know, we're working at these places, they do teach us things. It's not just, you know, kind of a particular tenure of employment, like some of the work that you did, just looking back, like with Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, when I said before that I've seen your work before I've seen your work where I knew it was you, the Adult Swim singles covers and stuff. I mean, I mean, some of the best designs I've seen and I'm like, this is coming out of Atlanta. And I mean, during a time when honestly, you know, and I would probably still maybe say this even now, people don't look at Atlanta as a design city. Yeah, 100%. You know, like, I mean, I think certainly they look at us for entertainment. They look at just the creativity that comes here out of like the music scene. But, you know, I can tell you from doing a show for 10 years, people do not look at Atlanta for design at all. Yeah, you're right. Tech, they've started to because of the startup scene, but like design, please do not get me started about some of the design arguments and conversations I've had locally trying to help put Atlanta on the map. About stuff. It's just like, man, I don't know. Yeah, it's such a shame. It's such does such a disservice to the culture to not acknowledge that a lot of us been doing it for a long time. And like, I appreciate that you continue to advocate. I think it's true. I'm passionate and committed to Atlanta. I'm not like an Atlanta loyalist. Like I really having lived other places like other places are really amazing as well. But I think it definitely does a disservice to the city to not acknowledge the design and art and tech and entertainment and all of those things that are very much present here. But what I really see is just like an opportunity actually to continue to foster the kinds of platforms that need to be unique to this city. I think that's one thing that we're tasked with or anyone who's creative here is like, if you're a person who's committed to this city and committed to seeing it continue to improve the reference points don't need to be anywhere else. But this place and people who live here and that's it, it has its own thing. And like, that's all it kind of needs to be. Absolutely. Yeah. What do you think it means to be a creative person today? I think it's like a common thread for me to see creativity as a way of self affirmation on a really, really deep level. I think it's a way to self reflect and to obviously connect with other people. I think from that place, when I think about something like a term that's maybe on the verge of being overused. Now, this term world building, even before coming across the word, I think that our task of world building as creative people, whether that is world building through writing a novel or doing photo shoots or making video games or creating a space where people can come and enjoy themselves or receive healing. I think world building as a practice is kind of our premier task. The way that I sort of contextualizes for people is like me as a young black queer kid growing up, the world builders that I knew were my grandmother and my mother and my aunt, who, when I stepped into their homes, I was confronted by all of this beauty, black intellect. My grandmother had libraries about black people, about Africa and black dolls, and the walls were painted colorfully and bright. And, you know, my aunt's home is just, you step into this world that's like self affirming and it really just like nourishes you and it builds you back up to step out into the world, into a world that is not always so affirming. And to me, I think that's the premier, I think, task is to continue to build that world and to do it together and bring it all together because we have the power to shape the trajectory of, you know, the world we live in and change the outcomes just by making it, you know, by making it real. And I'm excited about that. And I think the depth of that pursuit means challenging institutions continuously, challenging how education is disseminated, challenging how social systems are disseminated, challenging authority kind of at all levels. Yeah. And just like affirming ourselves and even making something a little bit better is, I think, a win, a victory. In recent years, what would you say is like one of the biggest lessons that you've learned about yourself? I think it's been humbling and like exciting to put my own creative pursuit within the context of like this sort of like deep time being conscious of that. It's opened a huge window for me as a part of like my research. Like I recognize that, oh, wait, like the sort of visual and sonic, you know, and conceptual themes that I'm tapping into through my work all exist on a continuum and in a network of like all these other, you know, minds and ideas and sort of questions. And once I step back and sort of like look at that in that context, you start to get like a different picture, like a different picture emerges of like, okay, we're all having like this collective conversation. I think like touching on this idea of artificial intelligence, again, is like this sort of collective consciousness that's present through history, through this deep time of like nature and all these things. Tracing that thread, it's sort of simultaneously reduced who I am and like also expanded it in ways that are just like reinvigorating. And it's pretty profound to me. It's felt profound. Now, this might be a big question, like kind of given, I think the general kind of trajectory of where your work is, but like what kind of work do you want to be doing within the next five years? Like what's the next chapter look like for you? It's a little tricky because there's kind of a duality. Like I want to like be more accepting of like where I am, whatever the circumstances and in many ways just like live small, like live in a more small way on like a personal level. But at the same time, I want to show people what's like really tangibly possible through the practice of world building and self kind of recreation. We're living in this sci-fi world and, you know, we watch really entertaining shows, you know, Black Mirror and Marvel movies or whatever, all these things that are really cool, like narratives. But I think I want to like kind of take storytelling a little further. I really want to make tangible extensions of myself or of other people or worlds that people can really step into, make that collectively with other creatives. I think the practice of world building, I take it really seriously because I know that a world has been built for me to live in. I always use like Frank Ocean's line, living in an idea from another man's mind. I think that perfectly encapsulates like our current circumstance, that somebody had an idea that one person of a color was less than another person. And now we live inside that idea. And a lot of the things that we now have to contend with, the social institutions were just somebody's idea that they wrote in a book, you know, just, you know, proselytize to their group of friends. And then it became a global institution that has industries and infrastructure and military might to support it. And that to me is like fascinating that that that can happen from just the seed of an idea. So the creative pursuit, I think, is not to be underestimated that you as a person who has a concept or has an idea, you couldn't begin to comprehend what that could look like in 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years. And I kind of want to show people that, that like, you know, when we say another world is possible, that like, no, actually, yeah, you know, like the world like for real and that it is, you know, and it's not only possible, but it's probable and practical as well. That's what I want to do. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, and I know we've we've covered a lot, but just to wrap things up, where can our audience find out more information about you, about your work? Where can they follow you online? So you can go to at the young never sleep on Instagram or the young never sleep dot org online. My Instagram has a link tree with a bunch of other links as well that people can jump into. Those are the best places to find me. All right. Sounds good. Brandon Collins. Wow. Wow. This conversation was so good. I think one, it was just, I mean, first of all, thank you again. For for coming on the show, but like the stuff that you're covering are the things that I think as designers, as creatives, as technologists, we need to be thinking about because we're probably best equipped to actually help to shape that future of what things can look like through technology, through visuals, et cetera. And I just thank you for helping to put these ideas out there. Thank you for the work that you're doing. You know, hopefully one day we'll have rum together at El Marlo for sure. But yeah, again, thank you so much for coming on the show, man. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Have a good one.Big, big thanks to Brandon Collins. And of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Brandon and his work through the links in the show notes at revision path dot com. Revision path is supported by brevity and wit. Brevity and wit is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They are always looking to expand their roster of freelance design consultants in the US, particularly brand strategists, copywriters, graphic designers and web developers. If you know how to deliver excellent creative work reliably and enjoy the autonomy of a virtual based freelance life with no non-competes, check them out at Brevity and wit dot com Brevity and wit. Creative excellence without the grind. 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Deadly Greek train crash prompts strike; relatives give DNA
"Family members await the results of DNA testing to identify victims of a train crash near the town of larissa, who killed nearly 60 people in Greece. The government has blamed human error while a railway official has been charged with manslaughter, emergency crews continue to inch through the mangled remains of passenger carriages, in their search for the dead, from Tuesday nights head on collision. Meanwhile, Lewis residents line up to give blood, officials say DNA matching is going fast, with at least four families in the presence of psychologists, receiving confirmation that their relatives were among the dead. I'm Charles De Ledesma
WTOP
"larissa" Discussed on WTOP
"Evidence for a significant period of time, the evidence of guilt is overwhelming, and I deny the motion. Sentencing for Alec Murdoch has set for tomorrow, he faces anywhere from 30 years to life in prison without parole. Again, Alec Murdoch found guilty of murder, CBS News special report. I'm Steve futterman. Stay close to WTO tonight for frequent updates and analysis and read more at WTO P dot com. 8 53, the death toll has risen to 57 after that train crash in Greece. The head on collision between two trains happened as a result of human error, according to police, the station master in the city of larissa, who watches over the area of tracks where the crash happened Tuesday night has been charged with manslaughter, no word on what the station master is being charged with close to 50 people were hurt in the crash. The job market continues to soar, the latest numbers from the Labor Department show a decline in jobless claims for the third straight week. Mark Hamrick senior economic analyst at bankrate dot com tells WTO P it's a sign of that resilient job market. So jobless claims are the numbers that we've been watching since early in the pandemic when they were in the millions when people were essentially rushing to get unemployment assistance. And the sort of break-even mark on this number is around 400,000. Typically, if it's above 400,000, that's seen as a sign of stress on the job market below 400,000 doing pretty well. Well, we've been below 200,000 new claims unemployment assistance for the past 7 weeks. And all this, it's basically now been a year since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates. Hamrick also says the Federal Reserve is sticking with his plan to raise that key interest rate some more. Something your college bound kids should remember. College students who have their eyes on dollar signs would do well to check out chemical engineering jobs, a new report from the Federal Reserve bank of New York tags it as the major with the potential to earn grads the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"larissa" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"At least 36 people are dead another 85 injured after a passenger train ran into a cargo train and burst into flames, Bloomberg satire sneakers reports that death toll is likely to rise. Around 350 passengers on the train. So we're talking about a massive rescue sneakers reporting from Athens. Most of those passengers were students heading home from carnival in Athens. The station master in the city of larissa is under arrest to other people are being held for questioning. The CEO of Norfolk Southern has agreed to appear on Capitol Hill a month after the toxic derailment in east palestin, Ohio, CNN's reporting Alan Shaw will go before the Senate environment committee next week. Attorney general Merrick Garland is going to face his first oversight hearing under the new Congress, Bloomberg government's Emily Wilkins reports the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to have a lot to ground to cover with the Justice Department. It has appointed a special counsel to look into former president Donald Trump to look into Joe Biden's handling of the documents. And so you're going to see attorney general Merrick Garland really have to defend the work of his prosecutors investigators and other employees. You are government semily Wilkins says a closed door briefing on the classified documents yesterday left a lot to be desired for the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee. Lori Lightfoot has conceded the first loss for a sitting Chicago mayor in 40 years. Now as we all know in life, in the end, you don't always win every battle. But you never regret taking on the powerful and bringing in the light. Lori Lightfoot was the first black woman to lead the windy city, but she could not overcome voter disappointment over rising crime. She placed third in yesterday's election to former Chicago school's chief Paul valles and Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson, they're going to square off next month in an April 4th runoff. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over a 120 countries. Nathan Hager, this is Bloomberg, Tom and Paul. We just wanted you to honor me. We don't care that you do the news. Bar could have done the news. But Nathan, it was a trade deadline. NHL, Patrick Kane, black hawks, iconic. I can't imagine. Can you imagine Patrick Kane in a New York ranger? Sure. I'm trying to I'm trying to imagine anybody joining the caps, they're getting rid of just about everybody. But what's going on down there? They got the only one left is Ovechkin, right? Yeah, just about. It's Alex
90 Day Fiance Trash Talk
"larissa" Discussed on 90 Day Fiance Trash Talk
"Why are we going to these, where are we going to rain more in flan again? I agree with you on this, but that's also because she doesn't know because she's not from here. And he's a man. Right, but this is where colt took, I know. This is Laura's larissa. This is where every man takes every woman. They take her to a more expensive version of rainbow and flanagan that has two printed paintings. I think if I asked my father in law to take me decoration shopping, he would take me to a family too. This is just what guys, they don't know better. This is not good. You need to go to a home goods friend. Go to home goods. Go to home goods. Get a rug. Why do you have to get a $500 cow skin? Get around. But that's what I mean. Like get a rug matrix. Right. He said that he changed his mind. He just changed his mind. He said he's also not used to taking not used to taking care of someone. And he lets her know that he's the one making the money. Yeah, he's making me mad. So she asked him how much money he makes. And he goes, I make enough. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I would tell her the exact amount. I know that you're married. She's expecting. He thinks she's going to expect more stuff. Okay. Then you know what you do. You have to budget with her. Now he can't. Okay, well. He wants to be in control. He distracts us with a baby puppy fluffy. I just love this dog. That's very cute. Okay, I like baby puppy, fluffy, coffee. Buffy. It's Buffy. So she said that he doesn't share anything. And then she says something like, if not, you will get married alone. But also, he's complaining about money. He has whole food seltzer. You know what I mean?.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
"larissa" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"And then you can upgrade to Julie after you get more cash flowing and frankly after you get your business a little bit more stable. So Julie's looking for people that are really, I'd say, well, tell me what your profile is. What are you looking for? It doesn't have to be an experienced agent. You know, I've got a couple that are could be categorized as newbies, I guess. You have to be focused. You have to know what you want. You have to be willing to work and be coachable and do we do have coaching homework every week. Some of it is very specific production. Larissa, for example, committed to putting in contract a $1 million worth of business between now and our next call. Now, she has an average sale price of about 300,000. So that's just not just going to be one deal. Sometimes it's homework like that. Other times it is doing the call before her, she had to do her whiteboards and send me a picture. So you have to be willing to be accountable. You have to show up on time. You have to have goals. You have to be, you know, and I'll help you with that. You can't be somebody I'm going to chase down who's halfway in and halfway out. So you're looking for people that are swimming towards your boat are already in the boat, right? Yes. Not people who are swimming away are not people you have to keep on shouting to to turn around, swim towards you, right? Correct. And if you are already in our premiere program because some of them did upgrade from premiere. And you need the extra accountability and direction of a one on one call, then this may be for you as well. But she's not going to waste time, frankly, trying to convince you to do the things that you know you're supposed to be doing or you will do a little bit of doctor filling, but not really that much at the end of the day. Not every column I'm not doing that. Right. A little Dr. Phil, a little pretty kitty as Julie fond of saying what is pretty kitty made tell them. Well, it's really an ego boost confidence. You're okay. You look great today. You're doing a good job. The world's not going to end. You do have it together. It's going to be okay. She calls it pretty kitty, and I'll tell you guys why you'll laugh at us because when we first got married, and we married for 31 years this year, we went to we wanted to adopt two cats. That's all we wanted. It's two cats. And we went to the humane society and they were having a two for one sale. Right. And we didn't know when we got there. So we ended up with how many cats? Forecasts. We ended up with four cats. And one of the cats we adopted was this cat called her name was Ellie Liu. And she was this big, fat, long haired cat. Just, you know, to look at her, you'd wear a peder..
Awards Chatter
"larissa" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Doing shows and felt like that was my education. And I think that that is totally fair to any young person listening who may not think that just because they might think that just because they don't have money, they can't get classic training. You don't need it really you don't. And that was where I learned my knack for acting and for connecting with an audience is by being on stage. And I really wanted to develop my voice properly because I knew that that was my gift. That was my God given gift. I didn't really inherit it from anyone. My dad has musical ability. My mom has never touched an instrument. So I was like, you know, nobody was a singer, but my sister and I both had these voices. And I really wanted to explore mine. Then you know, money wasn't necessarily tight. We were living comfortably, but we didn't have just we didn't have the ability to just spend on $150 lessons. For an hour, and you know, even though voice coaches are absolutely worth every cent. If you don't, you know, if you don't like it, if you don't actually learn something, what are you going to do? So I split time with another student. And I was spending my $75 and sometimes that was my birthday gift, truly, it was like it was one of those things. And my first voice coach larissa is such a we're still friends for this to be keep in touch, still friends and she really just helped me cultivate a love of storytelling beyond that because I think she realized in the very beginning stages of teaching me technique that I also just really wanted to tell stories. Yeah. And that's what it became. And so I never really got classically trained in voice until I booked west side story and jumped head first into that work and started trading with the best vocal coach on Broadway Joan later who taught me truly everything I know..
B2B Marketing Now
"larissa" Discussed on B2B Marketing Now
"You know, you just kind of it just crystallized what it really means that everybody has to be on the same page doing the same thing and really on board with the person. There's only one person who leads about, that's the stroke person and the front who's setting the pace for everybody. And you have to get on board with that. There is no people say there's no INT, but literally you if everybody else was rowing your own stroke, we wouldn't be rowing. The boat would just tip over our stop. Right? So that's just been a huge it was just a revelation of what leadership and teamwork really mean for pulling together. And the other is just for my own this is really of course I applied to marketing, but really anything. Just like the discipline that's required. Being an athlete and training and the hard work, it's just been a teacher to me. And what it really takes to achieve goals and do them together as a team. I can definitely relate to that. I'm not very good at rowing. But I totally understand all of the disciplines and getting everybody to work at the same pace and that precision to make a team successful. So I understand that piece, I'm just not very good in a boat. I didn't even know how to rope. I just showed up. I learned at UT. And just showed up when they were recruiting new rowers, and I was like, I want to try this. And, you know, it's stuck been doing it doing ever since. Definitely admire you about so given that we have so much going on, you know, both you and I, a lot of our peers, you know, work is very, very busy. The tech world, the business world is moving at a tremendous pace and that's been like that for years and it clearly will continue to increase in speed. How do you stay up to date on the latest marketing trends? Great question. I don't have one go to place that not one newsletter I read or one website I go to. I'd say my biggest source of information is talking to peers. Am I talking into colleagues, former colleagues, managers, former managers, and my team, you know, they're the folks. They know their area of expertise. My team often brings ideas to me, but this is one of the people doing. We should try this before I ever asked, right? And so I'd say those are the two, the two biggest ones, and of course, you know, I'll go research things here and there as well. But the top one is more people. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I think you and I have had many a debate in a discussion, you know, about specific marketing activities and strategies whether that's account based or content or optimization and experiments. So, you know, I think for me it's a similar thing, you know, obviously talking to your peers. I went with some great marketers, especially such as yourself, Laura. And you're the go to people that I talk to. Outside of that, you know, personally, I love podcasts. I think they're great, especially if you're walking. And obviously, yeah, absolutely. And I think it's good to kind of hear what other people are going through, which is why I think this radical transparent podcast is helpful for listeners. Okay, so I have a final question for you. You know, it's obviously a very important question. With social media being such a big part of our world in B2B marketing. What is not on your LinkedIn profile, perhaps not on Google. That you can tell us about yourself. Well, I guess you could dig it up on Twitter, but even then it's not totally as public there. So during COVID and lockdown, you know, we used to go to dinners cocktail every now. We just used to socialize and do all that all the time. And I just missed, well, I missed good food. Some of the and just sort of meeting up with friends and cocktailing. So one, I definitely started cooking more, which I didn't historically do. I definitely ate out more than I cooked in cooked in. And then I started making cocktails. So I took a couple of cocktail classes. I took an online bartender class and I started to call myself an amateur mixologist, I would say. Started an Instagram for my cocktails, even. So, yeah. Okay, you need to plug that Instagram account because I need to check that out. Well, I haven't been posting too much. I've been kind of lightening up on the cocktails. But it's called cocktail calling. Cocktail underscore calling. And it's a mix of ones I've made. It's a mix of ones. I have enjoyed, so anyway, feel free to check out. That's great. I'm going to check that out. And obviously, when we get to travel again, and I can come and visit you or you can come and stay with me. I'm sure we can get the cocktail making kits out. And you can show me your amazing new skills. I can't wait. I can't wait till we can visit visit live again. Indeed, indeed, well, listen, thank you so much for assert it's been fantastic to have you on the show. I appreciate all of your answers and patience with my questions. And I look forward to seeing you soon. All right, thank you, thank you. And thanks again for having me. It's been great. Thanks for tuning in to the radically transparent podcast brought to you by octopus, the only social media management and employee advocacy platform, architected for B2B. I'm Jennifer Goodman, your host and director of social strategy here at octopus. And if you love today's show, we'd love if you subscribe rate and give a raving review wherever you get your podcasts. For more discussion on B2B social media marketing, be sure to follow octopus on LinkedIn and of course, to gain access to all our free social media marketing and employee advocacy resources, head on over to our website, WWW octopus dot com. Until next.
B2B Marketing Now
"larissa" Discussed on B2B Marketing Now
"Another example of, I don't know if I'd say this is low budget as much as just sort of creative and thinking on our feet and we did this together. At centrify, right? We were asked to present about social media marketing or jerald America. At a skull, for center, and so we just really just were the attention getting of the audience, right? We had sales audience sitting in this room for hours and hours and so we asked our marketing ops colleague Frankie. Thank you, Frank. For wearing a gorilla costume during our presentation on gorilla marketing and social media, social selling, let's go. So that wasn't exactly maybe related to your question, but a little bit on the innovation side of the house. And getting people's attention with not much, I mean, it cost us a gorilla to be rental, I guess. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think that was so last minute. I think we had about four hours to do that planning before the actual presentation. And I seem to remember you having a guerrilla outfit suit in your hotel room for that particular event. It definitely worked. Yeah, Frank was amazing at being in the audience and having his iPad and pretending to be tweeting live tweeting. Of course, you know, we created an account for that as well for him, so centralized guerrilla, I think he was on Twitter. Yeah, that was really creative. So as marketing leaders often, our days are hectic and I'm going to ask you what we love to ask people, which is what keeps you up at night professionally. There's two things. I would say in their related the first would be just keeping up with the speed of business. It acts of meme is a high growth startup. It doubled in size, the first year. I have been at the company and the pace just hasn't stopped. If anything, it's accelerated this past year with work from home and always being on. You know, we have a big market opportunity ahead of us and we have the gas all the way down, right? So I'm a big list builder. Constantly, my list making has gone to next level. And I'm literally making less in my head at night, right? Am I I need to send that email, don't you need to check on that deadline? I need to remember you this, do that, et cetera. But it's also just sort of, am I communicating fast enough? Am I casting the information down to my team fast enough so that they have the information they need to do their job at my casting and up fast enough. So I'm making sure leadership is aware of what we're doing and we're switching gears or whatever. So that's probably the top of the list. Speaking of a list. And then related to that would be just making sure my team feels supported. It's been in a fast paced environment any time is can be taxing on a team. And then COVID of course, sort of throwing a wrench into just people not feeling as connected and feeling isolated and we're always on Zoom all the time. So not just that just making sure they're supportive professional but personally. So yeah, are they growing in the role do they feel like they're making an impact, but also, do they need a break because they've been on Zoom calls? Back to back for multiple days, right? So just checking in with people tuning into how they're doing. And making sure they have the resources they need. I can certainly relate to both of those points that give you at night professionally. I'm a big less writer as well. I feel that I have lists everywhere, whether they're in my phone on my, you know, notes on my laptop, whether in Trello or whether she got the physical piece of paper as well. So I totally understand that as well. And on the teen side, you know, I think one thing that's been great in the last 12 months has been this focus on well-being and wellness. And it seems to be aiding the topic around mental health and the need for that regardless of whether you have a particular illness or whether you just struggle with a sheer volume and the different situation with the whole pandemic and what that's done to people in terms of their work life balance. So I definitely feel you on that. With things going in and out of lockdown and working from home, what are some of the habits that you're using to stay sane? Well, I definitely have been walking a lot. You know, when we put my first in lockdown, my rowers, my standard form of exercise went out the window, because we didn't do that. So lots of walks in my neighborhood. I live at the top of the canyon, so I get to go downhill and then go up on. So that was, you know, just clear your head. Listen to me, I was like, listen to a podcast, just get away from your computer for a little while. And then, of course, slowly, we've got able to be able to socializing a friend and that kind of thing. So that's been, you know, just great, even connecting with our colleagues. Like my team got to start getting together and all of that. And then rowing recently started back. So I've been doing that for a few more months now. And you know, just getting just feeling fit again and getting back into an exercise routine just makes all the difference for me mentally. So that's really what I've been focusing on. Totally makes sense. I think it's great to be starting to reconnect with friends, family, and particular college, you know, that face to face connection makes all the difference. I think when you're trying to achieve certain goals and you can hang out together and get that coffee and reconnect on a one to one level without worrying about it being a zoom and your next meeting coming up. So that's great. Talking of rowing, I'd love to know how rowing has shaped the marketer that you are. Rowing has been a huge teacher in my life on across the board. So not just marketing. I would say it's informed so much about what leadership means to me in what teamwork means. So rowing for people that have done it, it requires that every single person be completely in sync. And a lot of people say, oh, you know, let's all get on the speak market, not even marketing speak to sort of teamwork general teamwork. Let's all get in the same boat and row together. Well, if you haven't done it, you kind of like you literally are all doing that have to do the same thing. To precision, right? If somebody moves something a centimeter, the boat is off, it doesn't move as quickly. Everybody has to literally put the place in at the right time. Literally push up at the same time. And.
B2B Marketing Now
"larissa" Discussed on B2B Marketing Now
"The inner workings of B2B leadership, including what keeps successful CEOs, CMOs, in VPs up at night professionally. The conversations are real, raw, and authentic, all while revealing the unfiltered, not so known truths of today's most interesting marketers. Introducing your host, Natalie bins. I'm excited to do a podcast takeover today to speak with an amazing strategic storyteller and global marketing leader. She's incredibly creative. Known for being collaborative, building world class teams. And also happens to be a former coworker of mine and now a great friend. Joining me today to get radically transparent in her role as vice president corporate marketing and exerting is larissa Gaston. Larissa, welcome to the show. Are you ready to get radically transparent with me? I am. Thanks for inviting me. And I wish we were in person. Absolutely. Me too. I'd love to kick us off today with a brief look into your professional journey and how you found yourself exhale. Sure, so I went to the University of Texas in Austin. I spent the first ten years or so of my career in Texas, I've primarily spent my career in tech more than half of it in cybersecurity. So after UT, I found my way to Dallas, and I got a job at a software reseller. And I was managing content there. Did some other things vendor management, marketing planning with software vendors? And then from there, I was recruited from the former head of marketing at the company who had moved on to start up an Internet bank. I moved on to do that. So I was sort of a generalist marketer at that startup, three person company, our three person spin off from a larger bank. And that was my first taste of a real startup. It was great. I mean, literally naming the companies, I think about the website, doing all the programs, PR, and I was partnered with a product marketing person there. So that was sort of a really good dip my toe into everything marketing. And from there, I did. I just took a few different roles and Internet marketing digital marketing, some consulting and eventually found my way to California. So I packed up my cowboy boots, came out to California and landed at a web conferencing company that competed with WebEx. And from there, I was doing some custom I was doing customer marketing there. And then from there, I moved on to a real-time communications security company called FaceTime. And it's actually Apple bought bought the name of that company and they ended up rebranding themselves. At the time, I worked there. It was FaceTime. And again, I was a generalist. I did demand gen. I managed the website. I did partner and field marketing. And then from there, I took a little departure and I went to VMware. And I went into partner operations. I managed their MDF program, work development funds program. Everything from the actual program, what you would spend the money on to allocating funds to partners, managing the support of the program, building a team out to do that. But I really realized I missed marketing. When I made that movie, so I moved back into marketing, joining center by, which is where you and I met. Of course, together. And I was focused on a partner and field marketing event role there. And you know, I love central biot, a great, obviously, you and I work together really well there. But when the time was just when I was ready for a new opportunity, I went to imperva another cybersecurity company and imperva my first role in purview I was working really on a marketing of product. So I got to dip my toe into a little bit of product marketing. And then moved into a content marketing role and ultimately a customer marketing role before I was in our store ready to get back into a high growth startup before and then I jumped to examine. And so I've been at exile for about three years now. And I'm doing corporate marketing. So PR, social media, corporate events, website, brand and customer advocacy. So wow, that is quite a journey. Just even from Texas to California, that's quite the journey. Yeah. Yeah, but I still have to cowboy boots. I try to get one. Excellent. So tell us a little bit about exiting. Like Sabine is a global cybersecurity leader in next gen sim and XDR. Sim is security information and event management XDR is extended detection and response. And we help security operations team use analytics and automation to solve detection investigation and response. So you know, breaches are in the news everywhere. Exome is all about helping companies identify and respond to threats faster. So they can make security success the norm. So we like to say. Right. Great. I mean, obviously, as a generalist, you've already sort of said you've done so many different things. And, you know, I know that most creative ideas come from stressful situations. I'd love to hear from you about how you've experienced innovation in adversity and your career. Yeah, I mean, you know, budget is going to cut and all of a sudden you have to change plans, midstream. It happens all the time. I can think of a couple of things. Probably the first would be this is when I was at FaceTime. I mentioned that the real-time communications startup company. We had bought a booth at RSA, 20 by 20, and all of a sudden we needed to make some budget adjustments. And we have this space and we're not sure what to do with it. And after a little brainstorming, my colleagues and I decided to stage a protest against URL filtering fees at RSA. We offered a web security gateway. We were offering URL filtering for free. So we just went with sort of piece love face time was our theme and we created some low budget videos to promote our presence of the show leading up to it. Super super fun. And we ended up making even getting some media coverage off of it. You know, when RSA does their roundup of interesting boost a visit and what people are doing, we made it, we made the list of interesting booth ideas. So that was pretty fun. That's fantastic. Yeah, definitely. When you say you had your budget cut, you know, and you had this space, what are we talking about? You still had furniture. You had backdrops. Literally were like, we didn't want to. We didn't have that much money to invest in building it out. There was no booth. Literally, wow. We got to monitor the sound system because my colleague and I were leading the protest. And we got just like, you know, low seating inside the booth. And then we other people that were working the booth were literally carrying the good signs. And that was it. Super completely outside of what people would expect to see on the show floor. So, you know, we really got a lot of people stopping by, listening to the presentation. It was great. That was really fantastic..
KOMO
"larissa" Discussed on KOMO
"First we're going to join for circle. Then there's a small period of reading time. And then after that, we're going to sit and have a sack. But that will be outside. You can walk through that schedule and even play it through the schedule with a young kid, especially those rising kindergartners, which there First time in school professor and psychologist Shannon Dorsey, she says, You can ease some of your child's nervousness by doing a little role, playing with them about what to expect. A local high school student is using a roll of duct tape to help pay for college. Larissa Leon made a dress out of the stuff and one of $10,000 scholarship. I wasn't shocked. I did not expect it at all. I remember waking up to the email because they're in a different time zone so super early, and I remember just screaming and screaming like I home. So after having the patience and creativity to build this award winning dress What are the odds of Larissa wanting to go into the fashion industry? Although I'm really creative person, I've always been really into medicine and really into like the skin, So I'm planning to go into dermatology. Larissa tells me she's going to start applying for colleges right away, she said. So far, her top choices are the University of Washington. And you see LA that's Camoes. Denise Whitaker. Common news time 12 40 time to get a check of sports we do to 10 and 40 past the hour Manners continue their series with the Astros this evening. First pitch is 5 10. Here's the rest of the day in sports with camels are accounts of the Beacon Plumbing sports desk. Game week has arrived for the Seahawks. They begin the season on the road against the Indianapolis Colts. Like the Seahawks. The Colts were one and done in the 2020 NFL playoffs. Head coach Pete Carroll says the Seahawks managed to avoid major injuries during the preseason, feeling good, too, because we come in pretty healthy and for the most part Ready to put forth really good effort on the game plan and going very, very difficult situation. It's a really good team and see if we can get get with wind. Starting left tackle Duane Brown was on the field as a participant after opting not to participate while seeking a new contract kick office. 10 A.m. Sunday on Fox, the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers begin the season Thursday night hosting the Dallas Cowboys. The New Orleans Saints will be spending most of the next two weeks in Texas because of Hurricane Ida. The Saints expect the Dallas area and Texas Christian University practice facilities to serve as their home base into at least week two of the season. On Sunday, they'll open the season in Jacksonville against Green Bay in a game that had originally been scheduled for the Superdome. Sports A 10 and 40. Minutes past the hour America it's KOMO news. Coming up. Next murders are on the rise across America, and we'll try to figure out why, after traffic and weather next Celebrate Virginia.
Podcast RadioViajera
"larissa" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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KQED Radio
"larissa" Discussed on KQED Radio
"For KQED and tell matters. Larissa Martinez reports. Romeos and Blankets is the student president of the Cal State Mingus Healthy Sports Association over the summer of Cove it like a lot of people started trying to get more involved in on campus, even though they weren't on campus. So I was basically just like basically opening the doors and so competitive these for it's for a lot of students. Blood gasses. Academic advisor Reuben Kaputa says that the pandemic amplified a community he saw growing at the campus. He says he wants students to see that there is professional potential attached to their gaming skills. When you see e sports in your part of the organization that actually treats this with High level of respect, and we we then are able to help bring transfer students that air coming from different colleges to now be in a space that understands. Oh, wow, This is This is beyond a club. I'm actually having internship opportunities from this. I'm actually having to put this down in my resume. Students at Dominguez Hills can even earn a school certificate and e sports. San Francisco State also has its own offering in the form of an advanced media performance course. Andy Sports Club. The class teaches students how to manage the production of Esports tournaments, which includes marketing campaigns, audience outreach and technical streaming software knowledge. It was an awesome experience. I've learned so much and that kind of threw me into the water and Dani prepared for pretty much everything that I've done since Those opportunities and that experience is 100%. Why I'm here today. SST alum Fernando Gomez is now the digital content coordinator for the Portland Trail Blazers. Dr Dina Ibrahim teaches that course. What I wanted to do was just provide a venue for students who are doing it anyway to get credit, and Ibrahim says if campuses are going to start taking e sports seriously, they need to make sure students have the support. They need to pursue the sports academically. What we've seen during the pandemic is the stark Fast digital divide. My students are living in their cars, their living in RVs. There's a lot of access issues that campuses should be providing. Ibrahim is looking to create a center on the SF State campus where her students can have access to PC's WiFi and the ability to host the sports tournaments. I kept thinking. How are we evolving right Higher. Ed needs to evolve or die. We need to be teaching students relevant skills That's gonna get them jobs in a rapidly changing landscape. This, Ibrahim says, is the future of digital media. The California report. Amadeus Martinez in Rancho Cucamonga. Well, did you feel it of 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit near Lake Tahoe around 9 30. Last night, the USGS shake alert notification system sent out an alert. And it was received as far away as here in the Bay Area. It was actually one of the syriza of quakes to rattle the region around Truckee, but there were no reports of damage or injuries..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"larissa" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"To do. Like Kyrie. Chris Bosh, highly intelligent, figured it out, said This is what it's gonna take. I'm willing to do it. Let's see if Carrie is willing to do it because I think that is what it's ultimately going to come to. Any time I gave you a little time to think about it again. The fascinating stat brought to you by draftkings and this is a great one. James Harden and Kevin Durant of combined for 138 points in their first two games together in Brooklyn. Only one pair of teammates ever scored more points in their first two games together. For a franchise, you know? Did you know this one? You heard it on, Get up this morning. We did it on. Get up this morning. I almost asked him not to put it in the TV show this morning because I wanted to use it here. I'm hoping it didn't see it. The answer. Is Wilt Chamberlain. And a player named York Lory. See 1961 They came together and combined for 151 points and their first two games as teammates. 151 points. Bubba of those 151. How many do you think Chamberlain scored? Again. Harden and Durant have basically split this pretty much right down the middle. Wilt Chamberlain in York. Lory see, combined for 151 points as teammates in their first two games. How many of them do you think will scored? Hmm? I'm gonna go 97 139, okay. Chamberlain scored 139. And Larissa scored 12. But they are the highest scoring pair of teammates ever to come together in their first two games and a franchise. I told you it's a phenomenal statistic. It just goes to show you and Jalen has said this to me a million times. There's the record book. And then there's Wilt Chamberlain. He basically has his own record book so well. Chamberlain himself. Scored more points in those two games. 139 Then Harden and Durant have combined to score in their first two games together. 138 use that one. Today I'll have a little fun. Thanks for spending some time with me. I'll see you back and better than ever tomorrow morning for get up and then back here on ESPN Radio. My greenie. We have more cubs drama will get to that. But why don't brought up an interesting question inside the pre show fistfight. Ah, year from right now, where will the bears being They be in a better position to win like the Packers are every year, or will they be making changes? More Willoughby status quo Yet again, and to Shawn Watson, it appears He will probably be traded. But do the bears have enough to get him? We'll start there on ESPN 1000. I struggled with.
Billy Dees Podcast
"larissa" Discussed on Billy Dees Podcast
"And then as soon as they list their spot we then add them to our insurance policy right away for the angler. I guess is the term for the people who like to fish. Yes what would be the the advantages the incentives to take part in this. And how do they participate. Yes so you know. I do want to stay. We're not looking at a taking out public lakes as an option public lakes are always going to be there. They are important. Asto fish But i is. It's providing a different opportunity different venue for people to go fishing because some people get intimidated by trying to navigate around and trying to figure out where the best fishing spots are especially for. Those have young children. Don't necessarily want to spend a day trying to figure all of that out or a few hours ahead of time. They'd rather just have that information given to them. Which is what we do with our private ponds and lakes so where in addition to were another thing that you can look at when you're considering fishing so our anglers can go to our website. They can check out all of our listings and it's quite simple to use the the literally have to create a log in and then they find the spot that they want to fish reserved their time in their date and they receive a confirmation email as well as the pond owner so pond owners aren't surprised when people are coming on their property. They're given confirmation ahead of time whether that's through text or email. We asked her pond owners how they prefer to be contacted. And they're given all the information of the in going to be showing up awesome. That was kind of another question just kind of wanted to throw at you. Are there any for the for both for both sides of this for the pond owners and for the potential people who wanna go fishing. Are there any ground roles in terms of this is the way you have to kind of..
Billy Dees Podcast
"larissa" Discussed on Billy Dees Podcast
"Many that just loved to fish various lakes and ponds so We we have a diverse group of clients but it was really cool to see that We were able to provide some kind of entertainment. That safe social distancing get people outside and enjoy nature. i would my question about the kobe restrictions. I don't know if it would help or hurt. The concept i mean. Obviously in my opinion anytime you have something that could threaten. Someone's life that's contagious. It's not a good thing for any business. However you have some things here where you have the cabin fever aspect and the your outdoors with just your loved ones. You're not in a crowd. So i'm guessing there's some positive aspects to it too. Is that correct or yeah. Absolutely i you know. Unfortunately we took the circumstances of covid which were terrible for everyone involved able to actually help grow and our company help our company s with it. I would guess that's one of your marketing challenges to because here again. I'm just guessing from what. I know about marketing. You go to a lot of a lot of the biggest conventions out in vegas for example this. Ees which is electron ix but one of their biggest things is the outdoors. Hunting in the fishing in those types of opportunities are not there. Those have been totally taken away from you. So it's presented a challenge to you as well moving forward. We're all hoping that twenty twenty one is a better year all the way around. Because it's this has been twenty. Twenty was really weird was lead that go at that. What are some of the goals. What what what do you kind of predict for your growth. Yeah so twenty. Twenty doozy but twenty twenty one looking to just continue to grow. Our database of pawns throughout northeast. ohio but also In columbus and then also southwest to so looking at being across the whole state we will be increasing a lot of our marketing efforts That will include social media a lot of radio..
Billy Dees Podcast
"larissa" Discussed on Billy Dees Podcast
"Spotify iheart radio on down the line right across from me in studio is laura smith how are you doing larussa. I'm great. how are you awesome. Larussa actually why. i'm here. Today is for fish my spot and before i go into the details of what this is. Let me just tell you that you know it's interesting. In this day and age. We hear build a better mousetrap bright but this is not a mousetrap. This is something totally different. These fine folks have have gone on in created. Something that to my knowledge is very unique and in this day and age with the economy and everything else. Sometimes carving out your own path is Something that we need to consider a little bit more often and this is gonna be a great story about some people who are doing. Just that larussa. Let's talk a little bit about you happen to know that you are from the canton ohio area. Is that correct. Yes born and raised in canton ohio. Yeah i did live in cincinnati for ten years as so shout cincinnati. It's a really fun city. You never been to cincinnati into columbus a lot for some reason or another. I just haven't made the trek down to cincinnati. But i hear absolutely fantastic things about it a little bit about your background going to school and some of these other things. What were some of your aspirations. Yes so i started off as a music teacher and choral director love singing. I was a pianist as well and then had a calling to lead and so got into school administration so i was a principal for six and a half years on assistant principal and then principles well inside at fairfield city schools which is outside of cincinnati. And then my husband. And i got the option to move closer home which we wanted to especially after having young children Family's very important to so it was awesome that we got the opportunity to move back to canton and reestablish ourselves and star our company..
860AM The Answer
"larissa" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"The answer. With more journalists. I'm in his little finger than CNN has on its entire network. So Bastian Gorka, That's very kind. Very kind of you. Did you see that report The day after the assault, the Breach of Congress by the New York Post Is Larissa Low in a very short piece to known and tea for members posed as pro trump to infiltrate capital? At least two known and TIFA members was spotted among the throngs of pro trump protesters at the capital on Wednesday, a law enforcement source told the post. The anti fur members disguised themselves with pro trump clothing to join in the D C writing, said the sources who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the capital. The infiltrators were recognized true due to their participation in New York City demonstrations by anti fur And were believed to have joined in the rioting so that Trump would get blamed. The source said to other protesters were actually Philadelphia based and TIFA members. The Washington Times reported Wednesday night, citing a retired military officer with access to facial recognition software. Now that's pretty slim. Okay, that's that's like a very short report from the New York Post in the Washington Times, but our colleague Katie Pavlich Sterling work at town hall dot com. Eric, We gotta post this guys if you want to read this that's posted on our Twitter feeds our Facebook pages..
News 96.5 WDBO
"larissa" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
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AP News Radio
Judge sentences ex-MSU coach to jail in Nassar-related case
"The former head gymnastics coach at Michigan State University has been sentenced to jail for lying to police about what she do about abuse by university Dr Larry Nassar Cathy Clegg is said at trial that she did not remember being told about abuse by former Olympic and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar she was found guilty by a jury in February of lying to police and today she's been sentenced to ninety days in jail and eighteen months of probation Nassar was sentenced in twenty eighteen to forty two hundred and seventy five years in prison for decades of serial abuse to hundreds of athletes several of Nassar's victims testified the greatest knew about the abuse two of them spoke ahead of the sentencing Larissa Boyce sekaligus held up a piece of paper in front of her when she was sixteen and older if she filed a report there could be serious consequences for her voice that she was representing her sixteen year old self was silenced and humiliated and all of the hundreds of girls that were abused after her I'm Jennifer king
AP News Radio
Judge sentences ex-MSU coach to jail in Nassar-related case
"The former head gymnastics coach at Michigan State University has been sentenced to jail for lying to police about what she do about abuse by university Dr Larry Nassar Cathy Clegg is said at trial that she did not remember being told about abuse by former Olympic and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar she was found guilty by a jury in February of lying to police and today she's been sentenced to ninety days in jail and eighteen months of probation Nassar was sentenced in twenty eighteen to forty two hundred and seventy five years in prison for decades of serial abuse to hundreds of athletes several of Nassar's victims testified the greatest knew about the abuse two of them spoke ahead of the sentencing Larissa Boyce sekaligus held up a piece of paper in front of her when she was sixteen and older if she filed a report there could be serious consequences for her voice that she was representing her sixteen year old self was silenced and humiliated and all of the hundreds of girls that were abused after her I'm Jennifer king