40 Burst results for "Millions"
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Coinbase considered buying FTX Europe to expand derivatives" Sep 23, 2023
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News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "millions" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"House return lawmakers Tuesday faced with the looming government shutdown, funding set to run out a week from today. If there is a shutdown, some four million federal employees could be without a paycheck. Here's ABC's Alexis Staufferis. Government workers deemed essential such as military and law enforcement would have to work without pay, though they would get back pay once the shutdown was over. National parks could shut down unless their states pay to them keep open and some passport offices and federal buildings could also close. GOP leader Kevin McCarthy trying to convince a handful of holdout Republicans to pass a stopgap measure to extend the deadline. President Biden expected to show solidarity with United Auto Workers, joining them on the picket lines next week during his visit to Michigan. The UAW strike now in its second weekend expanding to locations nationwide. ABC's Faith Abube is at a plant just outside Detroit. Friday, the union expanding their targeted strike, asking workers at 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution facilities in 20 states from California to Florida to walk off the job after a stalemate with the two automakers. It's going to not only affect the company and all of us workers that are going to be on $500 a week, but it's also going to affect the consumer. The union's going to be waiting for car parts. In a statement, Stellantis saying it'll continue to
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 677:FTXs $157M Suit, MiCAs EU Impact, and Senates Crypto Gridlock
"Why do tacos get their own day of the week? Is it because Mondays are so rough we need a Tuesday filled with beefy tortillas shared with good friends? If so, why don't we have Wellington Wednesdays stroganoff Saturdays and, heck, beefball Mondays? Then Mondays would just be another reason to enjoy our favorite beef with our favorite people. Together we bring more. Beef. It's what's for dinner. Funded by beef farmers and ranchers. Good evening and welcome to the Crypto Overnighter. I'm Nick Ademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 pm pacific on Friday, September 22nd, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnighter, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we're diving into the labyrinth of legal battles, regulatory walls, and the global maneuvers that are reshaping the crypto landscape. From FTX's massive lawsuit, to Binance's European jitters, and from the Senate's stalemate on crypto legislation, to India's tightening grip, things are heating up. Buckle up, you don't want to miss this one. FTX is suing former employees of its Hong Kong affiliate, Salamata, for a staggering 157 .3 million dollars. The lawsuit makes allegations against Michael Burgess, Matthew Burgess, and their mother Leslie Burgess, Kevin Nguyen, and Darren Wong, along with two companies they controlled. The suit says the defendants fraudulently withdrew assets leading up to FTX's bankruptcy. This 90 -day period before the bankruptcy filing is known as the preference period. During this time, these individuals allegedly exploited their connections to FTX personnel to prioritize their withdrawals over other customers. But wait, there's more. The lawsuit also claims that Matthew Burgess enlisted other FTX employees to expedite certain pending withdrawal requests. These withdrawals were made just hours after FTX halted all withdrawals on November 8, 2022. More than 123 million dollars of the total 157 .3 million dollars were withdrawn on or after November 7th. Now let's talk about the man at the center of this all, Sam Beckman -Free. Now he's currently in jail awaiting trial. His appeals to get out of jail have been rejected, and so he remains in jail as his trial approaches. What happened is the U .S. Court of Appeals for the Second Court also ruled against SBF. They found no merit in his arguments for release. The court stated that his actions likely fall outside constitutional protection. The court ruled that he likely tampered with witnesses, a claim that he denies. His trial starts on October 3rd where he faces fraud and conspiracy charges. This lawsuit isn't the first time FTX has tried to reclaim payments. They've targeted Beckman -Free, his executives, they've even gone after his parents looking for company funds. But that's not all. His day got a lot worse when Judge Lewis Kaplan blocked all of SBF's proposed expert witnesses. The defense had a lineup of seven individuals from various fields. The Department of Justice objected and the judge sided with them. The defense can't try again, but they're in a tight spot. If convicted, SBF could face over 100 years in prison. Now if you think FTX's legal woes are a storm, brace yourself. We're venturing into the choppy waters of Binance and the EU's regulatory typhoon. Smash that like button and follow us for more analysis. Now let's dive in.
Masters in Business
Fresh update on "millions" discussed on Masters in Business
"Is someone who is able to chronicle the effects that these tours are having both culturally but also financially swifts aris tour and beyonce's renaissance tour are mowing down the competition bloomberg economics expects swifties and base fans to add 5 .4 billion to the u .s. gross domestic product in third the quarter the two tours that are happening at the same time have really created massive phenomenon worldwide with millions of people attending sold out shows kimberly adams bloomberg radio and i'm denise peliguini in the bloomberg newsroom the united autoworkers strikes against major automakers are spreading as we've been reporting especially against general motors and stellantis ford and the u .a .w. they do appear to be making progress this is day eight though and steve bratner chairman and ceo at will it advisers says we won't see headlines on a final resolution with all three automakers in the u .a .w. anytime soon but it it does certainly look tougher than i've ever seen in any of these contract negotiations first of all the u .a .w.'s demands are even by the standard of opening demands pretty extreme secondly they're conducting this negotiation largely in public which makes it harder for the union in particular to back off their positions if and when they need to but all that said there's never been a strike that i know of that hasn't gotten resolved one way or another and it's not hard to see resolution here but uh... i think the mood is that it's going to take a good while and ratner chairman and c .e .o. of will it advisors there our on blueburg wall street week podcast with david weston which you can hear wherever you get your podcasts a growing number of americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes just as those mortgage rates also hurt people blueberg samie morris reports on the insurance side of the story it is a problem expected to get because worse insurers and lawmakers have underestimated the impact of climate change a report from the nonprofit first street foundation says states like california florida and louisiana prone to wildfires and damaging storms and flooding are likely to see the most dramatic increases in premiums in washington i'm amy morris bloomberg radio thank you amy and just in time for the weekend tinder has rolled out an ultra premium subscription tier to its dating app users that will set you back by six thousand bucks a year that out works to four hundred ninety nine dollars a month to access features like exclusive search and matching tinder says the new plan called tinder select has only been offered to less than one percent of tinder users who are among the apps most active tender says it will be opening up applications for tender select on a rolling basis in new york charlie pellet bloomberg radio alright thank you charlie and global news twenty four hours a day powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalists and analysts in over a hundred twenty countries in the newsroom i'm i'm tennise pellegrini and this is bloomberg the bloomberg talks podcast today's top interviews from around bloomberg news we are here with loretta mister the president of the cleveland federal reserve bank ralph shawstein joining us right now chairman emeritus of evercore wide -ranging conversations with fortune five hundred c -e -o -s investors and business leaders around the world charlie nance the c .e .o. of the lawyers banking group bloomberg talks subscribe today on apple spotify and anywhere you podcast bloomberg context changes everything walking into the building today with tools like nanome's virtual reality lab students can use the metaverse to study complex subjects they they can manipulate molecular structures in 3d paving the way for a deeper understanding learn more at meta com slash metaverse impact when you get your news from bloomberg you don't just get the story you get the story behind the story how your eevee's battery may not be as green as it seems why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration you get context context changes how you see things how you change things because
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from ANTI BITCOIN BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED! SEC GARY GENSLER DOESN'T LIKE THE LAW (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got very interesting news, which I'm sure many of you may have heard in the mainstream media, and that is Senator Bob Menendez has been charged with bribery and a whole bunch of other crimes. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you talking about this? Right. Well, folks, Senator Bob Menendez, who is a Democrat, he introduced a bill back in 2022, which would help to stop Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. And he was citing that the adoption would open the door for money laundering and corruption. Wow. Talk about hypocrisy, folks, right? This guy all along for a very long time, his track record, he's been accused of doing a lot of shady stuff and now he's being charged here. The folks at Bitcoin Archive said the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted for corruption by federal prosecutors who seized one hundred thousand dollars in gold bars and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in hidden cash from his home. So politicians those who are often very loud and screaming against crypto are the ones who have a lot to lose and a lot to hide, who are probably doing shady stuff. For example, Elizabeth Warren, Brad Sherman, Gary Gensler, right? I'm sure they've got some really nasty stuff in their closet. And some folks have shown that Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of seventy three million dollars. And of course, her salary is just like two hundred and eighty thousand a year. That's a great amount of wealth she's accumulated from just a senator's salary, right, folks? But we know the game, right? This is why we got to keep fighting and we got to expose these corrupt bureaucrats and politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman. We know they are puppets on the string doing a lot of the bidding of the tradfi incumbents and people who would love to kill crypto and not just even kill crypto, but just stop or kill the startups and allow their banking buddies and Wall Street buddies to come in and take over. So I'm glad these folks are getting exposed. And President Nayib Bukele, who, of course, he's the president of El Salvador, he tweeted about this news. He said, this is the guy that called for an investigation against us. He ended up being charged, period. So I'm glad he's doing a victory lap there. Now we got some interesting news about a library in the SEC. So we had reported just about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago that library was going to file an appeal. And this is based on the Ripple lawsuit outcome. Right. It makes sense. We have new case law with XRP, so it makes sense for them to appeal. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has directed library to file its brief by November 1st, 2023. Now of course, this is no guarantee they're going to win. But the point is, we want to put the pressure on the SEC and Gary Gensler. We want to expose them for their lies, hypocrisy and much more. So I'm glad library is doing this. Attorney Jeremy Hogan highlighted a video here with Gary Gensler being interviewed. And it just shows his hypocrisy that he doesn't care about the law. He just cares about his own power and his next job. And it's no wonder Judge Sarah Netburn said the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. So he says the crypto space is full of hucksters and noncompliance. Well, the reporter asked them, would anything a court says change your mind? Great question. Gensler said, well, no, not really. And of course, he looked very shaky. He's losing confidence. And Attorney Jeremy Hogan said, you can't make this stuff up. So clearly, this man has no respect for the law. He's just making things up as he goes. It's about his show, his power, his ego. And we can't have that, folks. This guy's supported by our tax dollar. He should be kicked to the streets. And I'm telling you, I hope that Coinbase mops the floor with his buffoon and the SEC so that he has so much pressure on him. He's forced to resign. I'm hoping that happens. Now, Stuart Aldarati highlighted that same video. And here's what he had to say. What's most concerning to me and should be to you in the full video clip, this is the shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the courts. So I'm thankful for the judicial branch and the balances we have in the government that a corrupt scumbag regulator like Gary Gensler, as much as he can go around saying all kinds of nonsense and nasty stuff, he has to respect the courts in a sense of what they put out there. Right. The SEC has to abide by that. Now, he may not personally agree, and he can, you know, like in this interview, say, oh, no, I don't agree with anything. But at the end of the day, if he takes a loss, he takes a loss. Right. So we got to keep fighting. I'm hoping the industry keeps fighting back as well. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using since twenty eighteen. I've interviewed their CEO and many representatives so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and thirty seven fiat currencies so you can switch between these different currencies and crypto and precious metals at a click of a button. So it's a unique platform and they've been around for a long time. Once again, I can vouch for this platform. So if you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. All right. Let's move ahead. Caitlin Long was at Mainnet and she was tweeting out some of the statements coming out of Mainnet. I was at Mainnet yesterday and I met her. I tweeted out a photo of us together. I was supposed to go on Wednesday as well, but I wasn't feeling too hot. So stayed home that day. But, you know, there was a lot of folks there. And Brian Armstrong, CEO, was there. He said the Biden administration has been terrible for crypto. Well, that's to say the least, right? That's an understatement. They've been horrendous, in my opinion. Caitlin also highlighted that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters actually this is she's highlighting what Chris Lee Hain had to say, that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters in 2020 voted for Biden. Democrats are at risk of losing them in 2024 due to anti -crypto policy. Absolutely right. And these Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. Patrick Hanson of Circle highlighted the following, that the euro stablecoin, obviously Circle issues USDC, but they also have the euro stablecoin and it's now EURC instead of EUROC. So just an update there. So the euro coin is now EURC. So just heads up on that, folks. And I want to highlight something I tweeted out today, and I think it's important. And, you know, all emotions aside, all feelings aside, I was highlighting that I'm very bullish on Ethereum for the 2024 -2025 bull market. Now this is, once again, all emotions and feelings about Bill Hinman and Joe Lubin aside, I still want those guys to be held accountable. But as for the token and the code, it's getting adoption. And I highlight that PayPal is building their stablecoin in Ethereum, right, PYUSD, Citibank's token is built on Ethereum. JP Morgan is working on a deposit token, which is built on Onyx, which is a permissioned version of the Ethereum blockchain. Coinbase is obviously launching base, which is their layer two for Ethereum, or they have launched it, I should say. And there's a rise in institutional ETH staking. So I'm very bullish on ETH and this type of news, these facts now, not my feelings, not my opinions, but these facts of adoption from very big companies and brands has me very bullish on Ethereum. I obviously hold ETH in my portfolio. I stake it and I continue to buy the dip, not financial advice. You should do your own research. And obviously I'm not just bullish on ETH alone, but just there's been a lot of adoption. And I want to highlight that because it's about facts, not feelings now. And I'm bullish on Bitcoin, XRP, Chainlink and many other tokens. Let's talk about Core Scientific, which is a Bitcoin mining company. So Core Scientific sealed $77 million Bitmain deal for 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs. The deal was first finalized in August with Anchorage as another party agreeing to an equity stake in the bankrupt crypto miner. So one of the key things is that BlackRock also gave them a bit of money. Guys, this was back in 2022. So it's kind of like to the Victor goes to spoils where Bitmain was in trouble and then a whole bunch of folks started coming in to grab up as much as they can. So the deal between the two mining companies will see Bitmain supply 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs for $23 million in cash, along with $53 .9 million worth of common stock of the bankrupt firm. Apart from the mining hardware purchase deal, Bitmain and Core Scientific have signed a new hosting agreement to assist Bitmain's mining operations. The deal was finalized in August when a court filing highlighted Bitmain's plan to sell mining hardware in exchange for cash and equity. As part of Core Scientific's restructuring plan, apart from Bitmain, the restructuring plan also included Anchorage. And you guys may have seen my interview recently with the president of Anchorage and the co -founder of Anchorage, Diego Monica. If you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. It says here, restructuring plan also included Anchorage, BlockFi and mass mutual asset finance. Apart from Anchorage, all other three firms chose a mix of cash and equity options to settle their claims. The expansion investment plan by Bitmain will come into force by the fourth quarter of 2023, pending approval from a judge. Once approved, the hardware will potentially add 4 .1 exahashes to Core Scientific's hash rate. The two crypto mining companies all have also agreed to work together to upgrade Bitmain's last generation miners hosted at Core Scientific's data centers to further increase the firm's productivity. So, folks, Core Scientific, I will be potentially interviewing the new CEO and I'll let you guys know when that's coming up. But I want to definitely get into the details here and what BlackRock is doing with them in addition to Bitmain. So I'll definitely be asking those questions once I get the interview locked in. But, you know, a lot of companies are preparing for the Bitcoin mining next year. And many of you may have seen my interview uploaded earlier today with Fred Thiel, who's the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, and Marathon is working with a sovereign wealth fund. So, folks, there's going to be a lot of capital coming to the market. You're going to see a rise in demand for Bitcoin as the spot ETFs get approved, especially around, you know, BlackRock spot ETF and Fidelity and so forth. So I'm very bullish, you know, like I've been saying, we are in quantitative tightening, fighting inflation, rates are high, but this will end right as it has historically boom and bust cycles. The Fed will eventually start its QE again. They're going to start printing money, global liquidity will go back up and we'll be back in a bull market. We just have to be patient, dollar cost average where possible. And, you know, don't look at the price every day because you'll drive yourself crazy. And, you know, it's very volatile. Sometimes it's moving sideways. It's very boring. And I know that's tough. But just, you know, take your positions, obviously do your research, take your positions and just be patient and then, you know, watch what these players are doing. Right. Not so much the price, but watch what the players like this are doing, who's investing, who's building, who's raising capital and much more. So that's what I'm looking at. And that's why I build this podcast to share the news, because, you know, this is not going to make mainstream news. This is not going to be on CNBC, Fox or CNN or whatever it is. Right. And a lot of people are not paying attention. But I'm glad I'm here early. If you are here early, pat yourself on the back because there's going to be billions of people coming in buying Bitcoin and other crypto at a premium and they're going to go to BlackRock and whoever else. Right. But you and I are on the side of smart money. We are on the side of BlackRock. We are on the side of Fidelity. Right. Accumulating the lows. And then when the bull markets come back, then, you know, the herds, the herd who watch Jim Cramer and listen to Jim Cramer will go by. And that's when I'll be taking profits. And I'm sure many of you as well. So once you understand the market cycles, both for stocks, even real estate and obviously crypto, you know, you can make money, folks. And that's what I had to learn. I had to unlearn the mainstream media finance and listening to Jim Cramer and all these things. Right. And study the charts and understand the market cycles and know when to buy and when to sell, because all those things, you have to be a contrarian. Right. You've got to go against your emotions. You've got to go against the herd mentality. And that's hard if, you know, all your life you've been trained to go with the herd. Right. From television and media and all these things, you have to unlearn that. And once you get it, boy, it's pretty sweet. Right. To be able to make a nice return, make nice money. And obviously you've got to diversify. I diversify into different tokens, into stocks. I've often tweeted and sometimes shared, you know, my positions. Recently, I told you guys I bought PayPal because Jim Cramer said to sell PayPal. So I bought PayPal. Right. I know it's not going to be some quick flip. It may I see I may see some nice returns by next year and that's OK. I a am patient investor looking to build wealth for me and my family. So anyway, guys, that's my approach. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear what you guys think about this news. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description. Thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. And I'll talk to you all later. Thank you.
Masters in Business
Fresh update on "millions" discussed on Masters in Business
"Yeah, he had a very strong team around him. On the equity side, you know, they were based in Connecticut and doing, you know, I would say investing that was separate from and apart the distressed side, we were really focused on the distressed side in small and medium -sized businesses, buying their debt, looking to restructure them, taking over control, making some, you know, swift decisions around acquisitions or divestitures and then selling those businesses. were So we kind of kept in a little bit of a bubble on the distressed side and I think we were always kind of the negative group within within organization an that was quite equity focused and always looking for the upside opportunity. kind So of an interesting dichotomy to be a distressed investor in the context of an equity manager that that was always looking for, you know, looking for the glass half full rather than the glass half empty. Well, you well, know, dead investors, they just want their money back. It's a very different philosophy. So now let's talk a little bit about Oak Tree. Your timing was fortuitous. You joined in 2007. Tell us a little bit about that era. What was it like between the time when housing had already rolled over, but before stocks peaked in and crashed? Yeah, I remember when I bought my first house in 2006, to six? They all I was asked was if I intended to repay the debt. And I didn't have to show any materials about my income or my credit capacity. It was purely if I intended to repay, which, you know, if I knew how to short it back then, I would have immediately because I'm pretty sure I was not a good credit at that point in time. But fast forward to June of 2007. Oak tree in the distressed debt landscape is really second to none. And when Howard Marks and Bruce Karsh saw these cracks that that, you know, I think they were they were early to see it in the corporate credit markets, they decided to go raise a big fund and add a lot of conviction to do that and stepped up with the clients to raise it. And I was fortunate to find a seat in that group and invested very steadily in 2007, not not terribly busy in 2007, to be honest, but in 2008 2009 10. It was by far the busiest time in my career in investing. I'm sure Howard mentioned this to you. But you know, after the collapse of Lehman, for many months, you know, we were buying hundreds of millions of dollars of publicly traded debt globally. And frankly, it took a lot of conviction to do so because everything we bought was down five points a week later. And so there were there were more than a couple nights where I slept under my desk wondering if I had a job in the morning. And when you say you were buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of publicly traded debt, that's every day. Yeah. Every day, every week. This isn't like a hundred million dollar purchase. Daily, you're going out because I recall Howard telling the story that they wanted to launch this fund in the beginning of 07 and the target to raise assets was they wanted three billion. They ended up with 14 billion. Sometimes size gets in the way of performance. Not in this case. It sounds like the timing was perfect. The sector was perfect. What was it like having to deal with all that capital when you're watching the world fall apart? You know, it was interesting because with the way we structured that particular fund, it was a smaller A fund and then we had very a very large B fund. That wasn't necessarily the case that it would be drawn. It will be drawn if the opportunity presents itself. So the A fund, if I recall correctly, was about three and a half billion. The B fund was over ten billion. And so when I started we were investing the A fund. You know, the cracks were there but they weren't wide. And then very soon after, you know, Bear Stearns fails. Lehman Brothers fails. The cracks were massive and there was so much for selling from the trading desks at the banks. There was so much for selling from something called SIVs, the special investment vehicles the A fund. You know, we had a very large A fund. We often felt like we were one of very few or maybe the only one buying in the market which took a lot out of Fortitude.
Mark Levin
Read the 5-Star Reviews on 'The Democrat Party Hates America'
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Fresh update on "millions" discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"Why would the gamer community reject the free money there, Jackie? I think they're just not used to seeing gains or things for free. I think they just kind of like losing money. Yeah, that and they hate crypto. My theory on why gamers hate crypto is because we bought up all the graphics cards two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, and they're still salty about it. That's my story. All right, let's look at the top gainers here. Looks like, all right, all right. We have Radix up 11% today. We have Terra Luna Classic. It is up 6.9%. Is anything up 4.2? It's not. Curve DAO is up 5.5. And the Synthetix network up 3.3%. Neo is up. Arbitrum is up. Algorand is up. Sandbox is up. And wow, Apecoin is up. Okay, well, it's up 3% for the week, but up 1.8% today. It looks like maybe people are liking those proposals. I am a fan of the proposal. Talking about the ape proposal that's going to buy Yuga assets and put them into museums for long-term hold. Guys, the budget for that is like $11 million worth. They're going to buy, I think, maybe $10, $11 million worth of assets there. Do you have any of these coins in the top gainers? I do not. I don't think so. All right, well, let's look at the top losers. I like to have fun with this.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
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A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
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A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Mark Levin
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted on Bribery Charges
"And some of the actions happened in New York. But the Southern District of New York, the U .S. Attorney's Office, there is and they can overwhelm any individual or would -be defendant with really unlimited resources. I just want to bring that up again as a point that people may not go ahead. ...the senior U .S. senator from New Jersey and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his wife Nadine Menendez engaged in a corrupt relationship with Hana Uribe and Davies. The indictment alleges that through that relationship the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for Senator Menendez using his power and influence to protect and to enrich those businessmen and to benefit the government of Egypt. The indictment alleges that Hana Uribe and Davies provided bribes in the form of cash, gold, home mortgage payments, show a no or no show job for Nadine Menendez. Next thing you know they'll be telling us that they set up some shell corporations. I wonder if they got any money from Egypt. I mean the Biden's got it from Communist China and that's just one of the enemy states and front corporations that were associated with China that they got money from. I'm just pointing this out because I listen to this and this is pretty overwhelming. And then the Democrats say where's the evidence on Biden? Well Biden never took a nickel but his family made millions, tens of millions. It's not like they didn't, they did. And they got gifts and they had access to daddy as vice president. So I'm just sitting here saying to myself okay they're not exactly the
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Donald Trump's Shocking Immigration Announcement
"Illegal immigration is the nightmare for the Democrat Party. The Democrats cannot get out from under themselves on this. They can't get out of the way of themselves. And now with Biden making this big production out of giving nearly a half a million Venezuelans amnesty, the American people understand that this is why so many thousands and thousands of illegals are pouring across our border because we're inviting them in. We're giving them incentives to break the law and come here. We're going to give you protection. We're going to get. So along comes Donald Trump and what Trump said yesterday is a game changer. And this needs to be heard far and wide. Upon my inauguration, I will immediately terminate every open borders policy of the Biden administration. We'll get it. And follow the Dwight D. Eisenhower model. So Eisenhower was very tough on the border. People don't see him as that, but he was will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. And I'll also invoke immediately the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members. And we're going to we have tremendous numbers of gang members, MS -13, the worst gangs in the world, they say. Give me your reaction to that announcement that Trump says he will. And I believe him. I don't think anybody's doubting. He'll be a man of his word. Typical. Process for him is promises made. Promises kept.
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A highlight from 1409: BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Will Drive $1,500,000 BTC Price
"In today's show, Bitcoin fails to recoup post -fed losses as $20 ,000 Bitcoin price returns on the radar. In breaking news, the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was indicted for corruption by the federal prosecutors who seized $100 ,000 in gold bars and $480 ,000 in hidden cash from his home. Max Keiser responded to this story. Gold is the poor man's Bitcoin. It encourages thievery, war, violence, excess stupidity like Peter Schiff and Nassim Taleb, both who turned down my offer of free Bitcoin at $1 in 2011. Also in today's show, Bitcoin blast pass is 2021 all -time high in Argentina, but hyperinflation outpaces once again. We'll also be discussing Binance and CEO CZ asked the court to dismiss their SEC suit. I'll be breaking down this latest saga as well as Bybit will suspend services in the UK following the financial regulators final warning. We'll also be discussing Nick Carter doubling down on the theory the Bitcoin was invented by the NSA. We'll also be discussing major fund managers as the BlackRock ETF will drive the price to $1 .5 million per Bitcoin as it literally unlocks $30 trillion worth of capital. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. And a quick reminder, if you gain value out of today's episode, the greatest compliment you can give, simply smash in that like button as it helps out tremendously with a YouTube algorithm. And if you're not already subscribed to the channel, you know what to do to receive daily premium crypto news alerts every single day, just like this.
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A highlight from UNCHAINED: Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk podcast network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. These are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is, like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by Thales, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LORA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Thomas Brazile, founder of 117 Partners. Welcome, Thomas. Hey, Laura. Good to see you again. This week, FTX sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried. Alleging that Bankman was intimately involved in a number of the allegedly fraudulent schemes, such as silencing someone who threatened to expose the alleged FTX fraud, the purchase of property in the Bahamas, Barbara Fried encouraged the use of strong donors as campaign finance laws, or allegedly, and both were accused generally of either knowing or ignoring the red flags that FTX was insolvent. Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details, but I think people knew that they were pretty involved. I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, why is he hanging out with his parents? Weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People, I think, long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas, but to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess just the involvement in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which his dad, I guess, was and is, that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? To be fair to these guys, like in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything. Everything gets scrutinized. To be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and there's, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, the win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you can only squeeze whatever rocked so hard. So the question will be, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So, these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So, it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys, but it's a little harder from a criminal side. But all of it, just facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, facts matter Thomas. So, if more discovery happens than they take discovery, we'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah, I think one of the ones that stuck out at me, simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine if something similar was happening with my mother, she would be like, wait, is this okay that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was okay, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was... Yeah, it wasn't 100 % owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been, or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is okay, but I don't. Like someone would have said something, maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean, but if FTX was so wildly profitable and Alameda was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also noticed is that the document hedges its language saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like, they either knew or blatantly ignored. So, yes. Right. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right. But the standard for like breach of fiduciary duty or, you know, kind of unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know. Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So, that's why they keep saying that. So, you're saying – So, basically, they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor and what people usually say – is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So, like a board of directors, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there or that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So, it's this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and there are a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So, basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also – so, as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day -to -day, you know, he was often listed with FTX management. He could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So, Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations and I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. campaign finance fraud. Yeah, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on – again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that – I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married, they're domestic partners. Just to clarify, yeah. All right. So, in a moment, we're going to talk about what the consequences could be after, you know, from this document. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? 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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Swan Private Macro Friday with Steven Lubka, Sam Callahan, John Haar, and Terrence Yang - September 22nd, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Beyond the dashboard: HumanFirst uses AI to offer a highly customized view, enabling better decisions, Podcast
"This is Doug Green and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller and I'm very pleased to have with us for the first time, Greg Whiteside, who's the co -founder and CEO of Human First. Greg, thank you for joining us today. Thanks, Doug. It's a pleasure to be on your show. Well, as I was just mentioning in our run up to recording this podcast, it's very rare for me to be able to do a podcast where the word human is anywhere in the title of even the podcast or the title of the company or anywhere. So that's a kind of refreshing new things. You're a relatively new company. You're in the AI field, but I think you're doing something very interesting and exciting in the AI world. So we're going to be jumping in on that and looking at that in just a second. But first, what is Human First? Human First is a data productivity suite for text and conversational data. So we help teams make sense of large amounts of unstructured data and turn it into very actionable insights that help drive their product and strategy, and also build AI projects faster by leveraging the data that they have. Now, you said something I haven't heard before in our discussion before we started our podcast, the search for use case zero. What's that all about? So I was talking about use case zero in the context of large language models and specifically how enterprise can leverage large models today in repeatable use cases. So since the since chat GPT came out, Human First, like all companies, looked at the impact that it would have on us and where things were moving. We had a lot of great insights already in terms of the conversational AI, and in general, text AI, and started really trying to understand what is the most repeatable high value use case that we believe any enterprise customer can apply large language models to today. We've heard from our customers and from a lot of other companies that this is a very high priority for them, their boards, you know, to show that they're embracing and that they're leveraging this technology. But a lot of the use cases that we saw were very experimental and hard to, you know, hard to do in a repeatable way. So we've been really focused on making sure that we understand what is the most repeatable high value use case. And this use case zero, we think, is really around using large language models today to make sense of large amounts of unstructured data in ways that weren't possible before with technologies like natural language understanding or, you know, even even more basic than that keyword search or semantic search. So you were telling me that your your major customers consist actually of enterprises, is that right? Yep, that's right. So we work with customers across all verticals from financial sector to medical sectors to telcos. And we work also with a lot of consulting management companies and agencies. So Greg, why did they turn to you? So our customers all share the same problem. They're interested in building and improving their customer experience with automations with AI. Some of them have deployed and productized some products, and they reach a certain point where they realize that the AI models are not the limiting factor anymore. It's the quality of the data that they're preparing and that they're using to train the AI that becomes a bottleneck. So our tool helps those teams really work efficiently on that unstructured data and make it very useful for training AI. Now with large language models, what we're understanding as well is that it's not just about training AI and building automation. If you can help organizations make better prioritization calls around what should be automated, what are the problems that can be solved with AI, and what is the best way to tackle those problems, you can see even bigger efficiency gains. So we're helping teams not only improve the quality and the speed with which they develop AI, but also make better decisions in terms of what should be automated by starting from the ground truth, which is in their voice of the customer and other conversational channels. So Greg, could you give me an example of maybe where you started working with an enterprise customer and sort of before and after kind of thing? Yeah, absolutely. So one of our customers is one of the largest last mile delivery companies, not only Canada, they're also working in the United States. So they're very strong partners with Amazon, do thousands of deliveries every day, and their contact center staffed by humans and with very little automation. So they came to us because they know that in certain periods of the year, there's a lot of influx of calls, and ultimately, they want to improve the customer experience and the automation levels. But they weren't sure, like a lot of call centers out there, exactly what the problems are, but mostly be able to prove out almost the business case for those and the ROI before even starting the project. So what we saw is they really wanted to have a data driven kind of approach to identifying what are the top opportunities for automation or product improvements, because it's not all about AI, it's also about identifying, you know, opportunities within the operations or product itself. So with Human First, we're able to ingest all of their contacts and all their call data, and very, very quickly build a very custom taxonomy of the call drivers, but also more deeply than that, the resolutions, actions taken by agents within the calls, you know, with the use of large language models, which allow us to do this analysis at a higher level than, you know, the raw unstructured data itself. And this allowed us to bring, you know, to surface some really, really key insights around some major blockers or friction points that affected, you know, over 30 % of the calls that they had, that with simple automation that we can show the functionality of, because we have all the flows and the edge cases in the conversations to show how you would solve it, you know, leads to a very big reduction in terms of time spent by the agents. So this is the type of project where, you know, with the right data -driven tools like Human First, you can start from the data and look for opportunities or problems to solve. And we did this really successfully with this last mile delivery company, and they're currently automating those flows that we brought to them and expect, you know, millions in ROI from that work. Now, was there an impact, let's go a little bit deeper on this, was there an impact on employee experience? Let's start there on EX. Yeah, so to be transparent, so the part of the project and what we bring is really this data -driven decision engine saying, here are the opportunities, here's the detailed, you know, analysis showing what are the different ways that you're going to need to be able to automate this particular, you know, within the contact center platform, which happens to be Amazon. So I'll be able to report on the, you know, end user experience from that particular project probably within a few weeks. Right. And that'll be the CX part, the customer experience part. Exactly. Yeah. You know, stepping back from that specific example, though, it sounds like this is the human part, that the human being that called in, the human being that's actually taking the call, the idea basically is everybody's having a better experience due to the automation. Is that the idea? Everyone is having a better experience if the friction points that can be, you know, within that conversation avoided, you know, lead to higher quality interactions afterwards. So to give an example, for this customer, I was talking about a really big part of the conversations was about figuring out the customer's ID and validating the user. And there's really, you know, much easier ways to do that than via human conversation. But it doesn't mean that the rest of the conversation can't be human to human. In certain cases, it's necessary. So, you know, Greg, how does this offer value to the enterprise at the end of the day? We're seeing enterprise really need to look at their data under a very custom lens. What we're solving in a sense is that a lot of the a lot of the products out there that help companies make sense of their data are very top down in black box, in a sense, they're really favoring speed and simplicity, kind of like a one click, put in your data one click, and will give you visualizations and dashboards. What we know is that that's not very actionable. And the reason is that those dashboards and insights are very hard to tailor automatically to your specific business and needs. So with a tool like ours, the real value prop is that we help build an extremely custom view into what's happening within the organization. And that in turn helps drive really data driven decisions and identify opportunities that you might not even have known you had. And we're really going from a lens where AI is a tool, but not every problem should be solved by AI. In certain cases, improving the product itself or parts of the operation will have a much bigger impact than automating the customer's requests later on. So what ultimately we want to help companies do is almost replace the customer support by fixing identifying and fixing problems upstream. And that's really done when you're able to have such a very custom understanding of what's going on and the data to back up the solutions to solve them. So that was very interesting that the ROI eventually is really maybe in the finding out of something you weren't even looking for. Exactly. And I think that's where our tool is very agnostic to the use case you apply it to. You can apply it to explore data, to improve AI training data, and to apply exploration to different types of data. And it's true that I think the biggest ROI you can bring to an enterprise is to help them tap into something like that data that they were never leveraging before. And that has a multiplicative effect, I would say, within the organization. And organizations that we're working with are building this data practice of centralizing their data and of disseminating kind of the value across different projects. And I think it's hard sometimes to measure the direct ROI of that. But clearly, we believe that it's this data that holds a lot of value for enterprise companies moving forward. Well, Greg, I really want to thank you for joining us and giving us a first look at Human First, and an interesting look at doing AI a little bit differently and approaching this challenge in a very different way. Where can we learn more about Human First? Yeah, I invite you to come to our website, www .humanfirst .ai, reach out to our team, there's a contact us button. And yeah, we'll be very, very happy to run you through the platform and to talk about your needs. Well, I hope to hear more good things from Human First in the future. I hope we do get to do this again and get an update on what you guys are doing. But for now, I want to thank you for joining us today. Thanks, Doug. It was a real pleasure. Thank you for having me.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from 10 Fun Facts About Realtors (#7 Will SHOCK You!)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We are back. We've got a fun show for you today. We are talking about the National Association of Realtors member profile. Julie and I picked out what we feel are the 10 most interesting points from the member profile and I think point number seven, maybe even point number eight will really surprise you. So Julie, we have a lot to go through. Let's just jump right in. Yes, this is about all of you listening and the agents that you deal with day to day. I think I had a few little mini surprises, but let's go through these relatively quickly. First of all, the typical realtor had 11 years of experience. That's actually up from eight from last year. I think that that's probably surprising to some of you because you know, there are a lot of new licensees and some of you deal with each other all the time, but 11 years of experience is the average. Now we're going to just remember as we go through these points, Julie and I are going to do our best to sort of decipher, I think in a lot of ways, some of this information because when it gets to, for example, they're going to, we're going to talk about average income for the average agent and all the rest of it, but they don't think it's confusing to be honest with you. I can't really understand and maybe somebody who is more knowledgeable about this stuff can put in comments, Nara will often say things like the family income or the household income of the average agent, but I'm not so sure. I mean, does that mean like for example, there's a guy and his wife is a brain surgeon and she makes like $14 million a year and he makes like $4 a year selling real estate, you know, and so obviously that's going to affect the average agent's income. Again, I'm not sure I'm reading the question correctly, but let's just get right to it. Yes, that's right. We'll translate as best we can with the information we've got. So next is interesting because with the market shift, a lot of people like to say, oh, everybody's going to get out of the business and yet 76 % of realtors were very certain that they will remain active as a real estate professional for at least the next two years. Now, Julie and I predicted that when the COVID hit and all the rest of it, that there would be no major drop off in the number of members of a national association of realtors. And those of you who've been attached to us for a long period of time, you will remember us telling you why, and I'll for the rest of you tell you why now, because in previous, you know, fortunately there wasn't a slowdown following COVID, but in previous slowdowns or recessions or all kinds of other things like that in the economy, there hasn't been a decrease in the number of agents, but an increase. And so Julie and I went back as far as we could find from national association of realtors looking at the number of members, and it was very clear that what we theorized was correct just simply by looking at the numbers of agents joining during economic slowdowns. So why do people get real estate licenses during slowdowns? Side hustle. That's true. They need to make more money. Or maybe, you know, if you go back to the sixties and seventies, there were a lot of ladies that were looking to get into real estate that maybe hadn't had out of the home employment before and things of that nature, retired people, but really the real reason why Julie and I knew there wasn't going to be a precipitous drop in the number of, you know, members of the national association of realtors was demographics and demographics ultimately is going to run the show for the real estate industry for the rest of our lives and beyond. The number of humans in the United States that want and need to buy or sell real estate is only increasing. And it didn't make sense to us that, uh, just because there would have been hypothetically because of COVID some kind of slowdown, which as all of you know, there was not quite the opposite actually. Exactly. And just a flash forward to today, we now see that again, Julie and I's theory was correct and you notice all the other naysayers that were, uh, predicting doom and gloom about the number of agents dropping dead, like, you know, 2014 levels or whatever. They're all wrong. And the total number of agents did decrease, but I think it was, it was by basically nothing. And now here's another prediction. Wait for it. We are expecting the number of people getting real estate licenses will start to increase over the next 12 months. I'm following, I think what was a lot of people deciding to, you know, should I get a license? Shouldn't I get a license? And here's how I know that's true. The number of emails and the number of texts I get from people who are getting real estate licenses who want to join Julie and I at eXp royalty is through the roof. Absolutely. And I would also concur from my own private elite coaching clients. Many of them have gotten their adult children licensed, their transaction coordinator licensed, their assistant licensed. You know, there's a lot of things that happen, um, with a change and doing more volume that just, you know, people want to have their family work in the business. There's lots of that going on about 6%. By the way, I did read that about 6 % of current licensees, uh, got licensed as a result of doing something during COVID, you know, supplementing their other job, for example. That's a good point. I mean, there also was a baby boom, you know, so between studying for the real estate test and the, you know, the other thing, I guess there you go, Oh, and I'm sure a lot of those babies eventually get licenses too. I mean, Zoe's already wanting to get a license. So as far as those of you who are looking to upgrade your brokerage experience, a reminder Julie and I are proudly associated with eXp royalty. So if you're looking to join eXp royalty and you're looking for a sponsor, they'll be very proactive in your success at eXp. There are two paths forward for you. Number one is you could just text me directly, and this is if you're ready to land the plane and join eXp and you're ready to choose your sponsor, text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206, text don't call. The other thing you can do also is if you're filling out the application, just put Julie Harris, Georgetown, Texas as your sponsor. If you want to learn more about why so many agents are joining with Julie and I in our group at eXp Realty, by the way, our eXp Realty group, listen to this guys, our eXp Realty group so far this year has done 3 billion, 300 million in real estate transactions on over 11 ,000 transactions if I remember correctly, most of which are on the seller side. So if you want to talk about an incredible success during what should be a slower year for virtually everyone, our eXp Realty group is actually increasing by significant margins and units and in total dollar volume. So yes, we'd love to have you as part of our overall group and if you're ready to join eXp Realty here are your two paths. One, you can just frankly scroll down and click the link and go over that's in the show description below and read more about our eXp Realty group or you can just text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206. In the market that is going to start happening, we're going to guess the next 6 to 12 months it's going to feel very much more like a real estate, frankly, recovery if not a surge. You definitely want to be with a broker that's going to have your back and definitely want to be with a team that you know is experienced to make it so you can help the most people and maximize your potential in real estate and please do consider Julie and I for the job of being your eXp Realty sponsors. All right, next surprising point. Well, next, in last year based on the NAR report, the typical agent had 12 transactions which was the same as the previous year. Now what was the sales volume? Well, the median sales volume for brokerage specialists increased to 3 .4 million from 2 .6 million, so things are looking up there as well. Now they always do a survey about how agents perceive what's going on with their prospects, right? Let's go back to that point, okay? So again, this always goes back to the interesting things when you dig into the numbers. So if the average agent and we are talking about 12 transactions, right? I'm looking at your notes. So 12 transactions and the average home in the United States is $400 ,000. So if you did, for example, I mean, if it's you guys, whatever your market commission is, but let's just call it $10 ,000, $10 ,000 times 12 transactions is $120 ,000 a year and you wonder why real estate is such an amazing business to be in. I mean, come on, it's incredible because during inflationary times, yes, everything is getting more expensive, but so is real estate, which means your average commission is also increasing. Look how smart you were to be in real estate where most everyone else is suffering from inflation and the cost of living and all the rest of it. You actually have a built -in pay increase year after year as things start to inflate even more so in real estate. So there you go, go you. Exactly. And related to that, 17 % of agents sold 10 million or more in volume, 4%, 15 million or more, and 5%, 20 million or more. Some of that you can chalk up to higher average sale prices, but again, go you because it's baked in that you're going to make more money doing more deals at a higher price, right? Okay, so let's look at the next one. All right, so at 32%, lack of inventory remains the most important factor limiting potential clients from making a purchase followed by housing affordability and difficulty finding the right property. I think difficulty finding the right property is the same as lack of inventory.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Fred Thiel Interview - Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing in Bitcoin & Bitcoin Mining - Marathon Digital Holdings
"At five, six hundred billion dollars of total market cap for Bitcoin, if you include all the Bitcoin that have been produced today, a sovereign who wants to go park fifty billion dollars because they happen to have a five trillion dollar set of assets in their overall portfolio, that would have a huge impact on the price of Bitcoin. INTRO This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO. Within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and fintech companies. Some of the crypto companies you may recognize include Circle, Ripple, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Fred Thiel, who is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings. Fred, it's great to have you back on the show. Great to be here. Fred, we last spoke about two years ago. I'm excited to hear the latest updates around Marathon Digital. I'm excited about the boom in Bitcoin mining in the United States. And Marathon is certainly one of the leading miners. Tell us what's new with Marathon. Well, compared to two years ago, we've grown a lot. We're now with over 23 exit hash of installed capacity, about 19 exit hash operating, just waiting to turn on our Garden City site, which should be any day here. And we've also expanded internationally. So we now have a 250 megawatt installation in Abu Dhabi, 50 megawatts of which is up and operational. That's all immersion. It's the first site that we've designed, inspect, built and operate ourselves fully. So that's very unique conditions. It's the middle of the desert and next to the Persian Gulf. So it's very hot, very humid conditions. But we have this great relationship with the local grid operators that allows them to balance the grid using our Bitcoin mining, which they love at the moment, which is great. And that site should be fully operational by the end of this year. And then we've recently announced some additional machine orders. So we'll be growing our capacity to around 30 exit hash in the near to mid future. So we're very happy with that. Another thing, we announced a week ago that we were going to essentially redeem about $417 million worth of our debt for equity, which will put our balance sheet in a really strong place. We'll end up with a little over $300 million of debt with over $400 million of liquidity between cash and Bitcoin. And coming into the having, we think it's really important to have a strong balance sheet with no short term debt and a position to take advantage of whatever opportunities arise. Yeah, that's exciting. And I'm curious about the Abu Dhabi location. Was it more of a, let's say, friendliness to Bitcoin mining in addition to, let's say, low energy costs? But also, it seems in the Middle East, there's more opening up to crypto in general. What was the strategy behind positioning yourselves there? core So the desire was a couple of things. One, balance the grid, because in the summertime, they use four gigawatts of power. In the winter, it's only one gigawatt. So it's a huge asymmetry in the power need. And they had just put online a new five gigawatt nuclear power plant. And so they have this excess power. So what do you do when you have excess power? Well, you find a customer for it. And Bitcoin mining obviously being an easy customer to use because we have the ability to be an interruptible load, which for their needs is perfect because in the summer, they don't need four gigawatts all day long. They only need it in certain times of the afternoon and evening. And so where initially they were going to consider longer curtailment periods, they're actually doing it in very short increments now. It's working so well that they're looking to automate that whole process, which will be great because we're ready for that automation.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep380: Now I Realize That It's An Even Bigger Problem Than I Thought
"But I do want to let you know that realistically, podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, what's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And in this episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about urgency. Urgency is the thing that lights a fire underneath your ass. If you've got a fire underneath your ass, you're going to F and move. You're going to start moving. You're going to get up and you're going to do something. So there's this guy, super successful, multi, multi, multi -millionaire, several businesses. And I work with a couple of his friends who are the same. I work with a lot of people that are very highly successful. Something that I notice about these highly successful people, not all the time, sometimes they figure out what they want. They make the decision. They go do it. Like it's so easy. It's so simple. And other times they want to be frugal with their money. Even if they're a multi -millionaire, they want to be frugal with their money. They don't want to spend it all in one place. They want to make sure that they're going to get the value for what they're doing. And this guy, I'm going to call him Chris. That's actually his first name, but I'm not going to say his last name. This guy, his name is Chris and all of his friends keep pointing him to me. And he's had two different conversations with me, like almost two years ago. The other one was probably close to a year, like the end of last year. So getting really approaching. And I just dropped it because he had those conversations. He had those discovery calls. And I'm not going to force anyone. I'm not going to high pressure sale anyone. And, you know, someone like Chris, he's going to make the decision when he makes the decision. And I reached out to him yesterday and during the text messages, it was a Facebook message. I just asked him, hey, your podcast is being really successful. And it is. I want to get your story on my podcast. And he said he came back with basically almost a direct quote. I'd be delighted to come on the podcast. And by the way, I've been thinking about your services to grow my podcast. And here's the direct quote. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So Chris reaches out after a year or two. We could have been giving him more listeners and giving him more social proof on his podcast, having more people that he could do business with. He's already a multimillionaire. But in two years, he lost out on a shit ton of listeners. That could have converted into actual dollars. And in his case, this might not be the case for everybody. He charges a good price when he works with people. And so in his case, he avoided, let's just call it six grand a month. We'll just agree to disagree. He avoided around six grand a month twice. And it cost him perhaps many, many hundreds of thousands, maybe even over a million dollars over the last couple of years. And he says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So I want to reach out and give that urgency to you. Yes, this is self -serving because I can support you and I'll make money too. My team will make money too. I get that. You got to understand where my heart is actually coming from. It's coming from a place of you needing to have a fire under your butt. Sometimes, some of us, we just won't make that decision to start our podcast. And because we don't get in front of those people for a year or two, we end up losing out on a lot of money. We end up having more competition than we would have if we just started now. There is about five million podcasts today. There's about five million. Of course, there's way more YouTube channels. The last I checked was 60 million. I'm sure we're pushing 100 million. I would like to pull up that number and verify it. But I am sure that it's way higher than the 60 million that I checked it out on three years ago. We just crossed five million podcasts that are out there. When Chris had a conversation with me two years ago, there was only around 1 .8 million, which means his competition is way more than doubled, way more than doubled in his competition. So you wait and you lose out. Urgency, light a fire up your butt and figure out what you got to do, whether it is doing the same thing as Chris is now going to do, hire somebody to help market his podcast so that he can stop missing out on those hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, or whether it's you finally launching your podcast, or whether it's something about your business or your health or your family relationships or your spirituality. It doesn't matter. Urgency, that's what we're really talking about. Chris says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought because he waited one year and then another year. And now he's freaking out because he knows that he's got to get this started, this marketing started or else it's going to make a negative impact on his business. We've got to get in front of those other people. It's not competition. It's not like that. I'm not trying to give you a scarcity mindset, but I do want to let you know that realistically podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. It's how my business is staying in business, being able to support people that made that decision. And if my team is helping them do their marketing as well, they're going to grow and they're going to have a lot of listeners. I'm hoping that you get that urgency. You make the decision that you need to make to get off your butt and do something. Do something that benefits you. Think of something that you've been postponing. Think of something that you could have started a year ago. You could have started six months ago. You could have started three years ago and you just have held off. It might become a problem if you don't do it right now. Urgency. I'll see you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you've got, the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about Bird Church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Google's BigQuery data analytics service expands blockchain support" Sep 22, 2023
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"millions" Discussed on KOMO
"Millions of good paying jobs and help solve the climate crisis, and they want big corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share. That's what Biden's build back. Better plan would do millions of jobs. Clean energy future and not a penny more in taxes. For 99% of Americans, the clean energy future we want can be ours if Congress acts now. This is the KOMO Morning News. It's time to update the traffic conditions for you and from the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center. Here's Kierra Jordan. Well, we've been working with this big slowdown on north, Um four or five this morning, traveling out of tequila and into downtown Bellevue due to a crash. It's still sitting on the shoulder just north of I 90 well now in this back up a little bit north of 167. We have a stall that's taking up the left lane. So Not seeing much improvement through there. The Valley Freeway is busy out of North Puyallup into Pacific and slow again from 180 at the 405 westbound 5 12 been getting backed up approaching I five in Olympia. We have a crash has been partially blocking the ramp from southbound on a one to North and I five with about a mile backup. Expect scattered, slowing north five through Tacoma delays out of the five curved state route 18. And pockets of slowing out of federal way into C Tech, and that Seattle drive is very heavy from the south and a Boeing field to Seneca. We have over a two mile backup right now on north, Um, 59 as you're approaching the First Avenue South Bridge south of my five It's scattered flowing out of ever it into North Lynnwood. That's where the drive becomes heavier. And then you continue to look at brake lights all the way through Mountlake terrorists. Also some hesitation as you're approaching Lake City Way. Mhm four or five is slow and go out of alder. What the state route 5 to 2, and then we have often on slowing again out of totem Lake or 5 20 our next to Cuomo Traffic up 8 54. I'll report this time is sponsored by Michael Shoot Casino Michael Shoot Casino is your destination for gaming, with more than 3000 gaming machines, action packed table games, delectable dining and the largest smoke free gaming area in the state. Michael Shoot Casino, the biggest invest in the northwest. Well, we've heard some from some listeners that in the four o'clock hour this morning if they lived in north Seattle, they were probably.
Before the Millions
"millions" Discussed on Before the Millions
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I think it's a no-brainer before the millions dot com forward slash credit before the millions dot com slash credit lifestyle designed acceleration. What is your favorite before the millions book before the millions book. I'd say a i. I actually read the book but the documentary this secret everywhere that Traction that whole concept I think that was a real helpful thing early on And then after that. You know. I've i've i've read like thinking grow rich. I thought that was really good. I don't know if you've heard of rhinoceros for success. i think that's what it's called by scott alexander. It's kind of like a funny book about kind of like getting out of your own way dealing with challenges and being a rhino when it comes to business and life versus being a cow that graze in the pasture. That's like the kind of the analogy that he uses throughout And it's all about being motivated staying focused. I mean he talks about holding a magnifying glass on something long enough to where you actually start a fire in. That's kind of how you're focused needs to be need to focus on one thing at a time so that you actually get a out of it or success out of That's a really good book. But i've What else the ambulatory. Four spiritual laws of prosperity. I like to what else I don't know. I'm drawing a blank at asking is given. That's another law. Attraction related book We just anyone but those are all fire. Those are all like over nostra win for sure. I think we'll put that as your before the millions book and there's also the surrender experiment. That's that's like my top three favorite books in the world so those are really good Just like letting go going with the flow. You know just like it's not always like for me. I haven't read too many really like business-focused books or real estate investing focus. They're more like mindset books. And that kind of thing that i've i've got a lot of value from that type of thing also another one Is a thou shall prosper. Rabbi daniel lapin. Yeah that's similar similar books that were into that school absolutely not. Yeah you giving me a whole bunch of choices to choose from. But i think the one i haven't heard of his announcers for sure definitely check that out. What's your favorite lifestyle designed at. This can be a business app or tool I styled sign app communications ap with your team. Okay well we use microsoft teams internally to communicate like scheduling calendars group calls That's something that we use internally I think that would probably be a good one to us. Mike what was it called microsoft microsoft teams and got crm serums custom-built but this is like the communication piece and the planning and the schedule the calendar And all that good stuff The that would probably be the app. That i would. I would mention. Absolutely what do you enjoy most about the way your lifestyle is currently designed audible What do you enjoy most about the way your lifestyle is currently designed. I think. I lay out what i liked the most about the way my life styles designed is that i have the freedom to pretty much. Do whatever i want i'm. I'm no i've learned. How like sales and marketing creates income. So i've i realized that i can do that with funding grow so i took that over to real estate So i think. That's something that i really appreciate. A i have that level of financial freedom. might not be the highest level of financial freedom As as some people but It's that's something that. I really appreciate just being able to kind of do what i want. You know and enjoy the things that i like to do A lot of people say you should. You should do what you love. That's how you that's how you should make your money. Do you love. But i think maybe like it's more like a myth and you should love what you do Do what makes you the most money at the same time. And that way you can then do whatever it is that you love doing in your free time and be of service to people and just do what makes you the most money and the most impact not necessarily what you love to do So i think. That's why i like my lifestyle because i could do what i want. Go fishing. I can have the freedom i want on my boat jet skiing travel a little bit here and there and still have the stability in the income That i would like to have absolutely. We're the sacrifices that you knew you had to make before the millions to get to where you are today..
Marketing To Millions
"millions" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
"Results. So there you have it my friend six growth hacks to boost your sales while each of these six gross strategies will take some time to set up initially. Give yourself some grace but know that once they are set up. You'll continue to benefit once you're hacks are in place if you've been around for a while you know. I'm not about that. Hustle harder for short term results. A lifestyle these aren't one off efforts that generate a limited stream of growth from content upgrades to pricing too smart retargeting strategies to finessing your checkout process each will bring a sustainable and lasting boost to your revenue generation and online sales. I love you. Thanks for hanging with me today next time. We are chatting all about a social media trends like reels and videos and how to use them for more cells. Join me next week for episode. Thirty six with tessler see you. Hey there what did you think of that episode if you enjoyed it. Here are a few freeways to help. Support the show. I you can hit the follow button. So you never miss a new episode or any bonus episodes that i create for timely advice. Secondly if you screen shot the episode. You're listening to you and tag me on instagram. At lisbor underscored com. You'll be entered to win a special prize and the prices are really good. And lastly reviews are one of the best ways to provide social proof to others that this show is worth a listen. Plus it gives me an idea of the confidence that is most helpful. Feel free to include your podcast or instagram name. I'll give you a shout out during a future episode for more exposure to you and your brand a huge. Thank you in advance..
Reinvention Radio
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"He created this bulb. I as the desire for human evolution. You know like societal evolution. He had some kind of idea in his mind that this is where we were going and he needed a like the world so when he did this created a desire and everybody else to want this which then caused us to do things than most people wouldn't be interested in from the very beginning anyway. Which would be you know. Creating generators that would create electricity niagara falls and and all the funding that it took to be able to wire people's homes but it didn't exist before he had the image in his mind. And if you think nothing that humans have created was ever here until it was an image in. Somebody's mind so if it's an image in somebody's mind whereas the information for that where does it exist because human beings are not the first thing in this universe right not by a long shot it exists in the universe. The information is one hundred percent equally present in all places at the same time if we tap into that image in our mind from our desire and we build a very clear picture of what we want. There's no question that what human beings have. The amazing ability to do is to create from the no thing we can create from the universal intelligence and bring that intelligence down into physical reality that we're actually living with and the more we create the more we understand that we can create and we keep pulling that information from the universe and that allows us to expand socially and globally well powerful. Yeah michelle great. Yeah wow really good sean. anything else. Flashed mikenowak just applause. But i wanna make sure you have an opportunity. Yeah please sean. Yeah i would love thank you. So much Steve and david and all the great questions. Just insanely amazing. I am buzzing with all kinds of insights. Follow up. Because i studied bob proctor for a long time as well and i have Worked with him in. And you you really have broader whole 'nother level to that To that breath of knowledge. And i wanted to just ask because you brought up the core wound as the thing that basically were attached to that needs to be like. Oh that story. As kind of the breakthrough sort of the source of the breakthrough sounds like at least from this conversation. And then. there's this other thing that bob has brought into my awareness very much so lately which is the self image and the idea that will never go beyond our self image. We'll never create success beyond what we see ourselves as our self image. And so i have been working on. You know what. I want what i need to do to really step. You really need to want it right. And i really wanted okay. Like news another catheters. No two ways about. I wanna know if the best use of my energy it doesn't have to be either or maybe it's both but is to focus on the transformation of this core wound a or b work on you know really living into this self image like at a level that i've never really taken the time to develop like a life script and go deep into it or if it's both or what or wherever you a guy need to just be like its breakthrough time sean..
Reinvention Radio
"millions" Discussed on Reinvention Radio
"I just didn't see it. All i saw was how miserable i was. How stuck in my problem. I was and how do i get out of the specifics of my problem. I couldn't see beyond it. But when i changed my attitude it totally changed my perception of what i could see and all of a sudden i saw another opportunity. That was in front of me that i could previously not see allowed me to go from one place to another instantaneously. That's what i've been doing to people for twenty eight years the other side the opportunity the the results the resources the money the people. They're all here. But you have to give up holding onto your story about why. They're not well help. Because her that i mean just so profound there thank you for that. If you're just joining us. We're hanging out with david nagel here. He is a well a highly successful podcast. Here among other things with the show called this successful mind with with almost two million downloads. Bestselling author millions within lots more questions here Wanna make sure we get to to everyone nick. No you've been so patiently waiting. Thank you for that. And then we'll kick it over to nick really good having you here man questioned for david nagel lately steve. Thanks for bringing me up. And i've been listening intently david Taking notes as well. And actually my question. I think follows on from steve's to some extent i just wanna go back to what you said at the beginning where you know when your mental with saying the word easy to you you know. It's easy david. it's easy and then obviously use the example of how you impacted that your income but my question is a practical one to some extent around.
Reinvention Radio
"millions" Discussed on Reinvention Radio
"Don't just leave it at that absolutely so i can completely answer this question when i started off in my business. The way that i got introduced to this industry was through proctor. And he what i did was i bought the the licensing agreement to be able to teach his seminar so i went to got got trained how to teach us seminars however that was all they taught you. Do you had to fill the seminars yourself. You had to put the people in the seats and we charged at that. Time was like four hundred ninety five dollars per person but they did. They gave you know help like you had to go out there and like hump the street yourself to figure that out. There was no social media. Internet was in its infancy. You like it was door to door type type thing and i had. I had done that. And what i really found out really quick was once. I got out of the people that i knew that. We're kind of like okay. I'll come to your seminar. Because i'm your friend type thing. I didn't have anybody to talk to. So i had to figure out. How do i sell. How do i. How do i do those things. However i was stuck at the price range of about four hundred ninety five dollars. A person and i realized that it that number with the amount of people that i had on my so-called list at the time if you would even call list there was no way i was ever going to get to fifty thousand dollars a month so i started thinking. Okay well what would be the easiest way like if it was the easiest easiest easiest one person with me fifty grand to be able to work with me and i thought well that's not going happen like i was not there in my mind yet as that i was worth or what i was teaching was worth fifty thousand but i did get to the place where i could raise it to fifteen thousand because i did see the results to people. Were getting that. I was actually working with justified in my mind that it was fifteen thousand. And that's all. I got two weeks every price. But that's where the personal growth part comes in. Yeah i guess at the at the end of the day here especially in this world of where you're where you're almost selling an intangible like how do you put a price tag on giving someone their life back right like you. I mean it's such a hard thing to to price especially in the world of coaching and anywhere where it's not just like a physical product right so please..
Before the Millions
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"Again. I would have to go back to this again. I already mentioned it. Just the memory standpoint book you know that right there is is the fundamental the same expression bread another boat. I announced that still one of my favorites are reading every couple years. Listen to it on on audio book but I'm going through on traction right now. If you bought. That's that's a little bit more higher bags that goes over to office and things like that so just trying to learn how to build a better culture when unwilling net done. I'll shave just right now. I love it will put them in the sun no chance. What is your favorite lifestyle designed app. This can be a business app or tool patch. come google sheets just. I've got several apps. But i mean ultimately i i think right now. We're on the microsoft platform. So i just really enjoy my. We teams teams as a collaborative effort. That's how we communicate because we're using that platform we don't be slack or anything because this basically takes the same place that but teens kishi involved on the lap between everybody loves me to respond quicker to disney list of all the task for everybody what they're doing status dates of dashboards. I can access all of that with the not the akzo so that would probably be a good one key. T let me know where they're at. What do you enjoy most about the way your lifestyle is currently designed. I love the fact that i wanted to. I can reduce the amount of hours that i work every day. Even more than where. I am right now and just by putting more. I work more on in my business because i want to make sure that my team is working and they're not getting overloaded. Doesn't care about my team. And i think that comes through in their responses back to me and they understand that carrying and they want to put more effort because they know they're they're needed and what they're doing is important so i just think i love the fact that i could go away literally my entire Businesses designed virtually. I don't have any burke and mortar stores. I don't have anything one hundred percent technology. I can be anywhere in the world on my business. The way i'd do. I mean. I love the oxymoron. I own a real estate businesses entirely virtual. I'm the same way so i can appreciate that. I mean literally. I i read it on a ship ship for two weeks. Your internet access phone calls audio calls. Just as i need to. It works perfectly fine. Have done it. I love i love it. The ultimate lifestyle design. And that's what the show is all about. What were the sacrifices that you had to make before the millions to get to where you are today more time. I'm sorry. What were the sacrifices that you knew you had to make before the millions to get to where you are today if putting your time in your crafts Right now you don't learn anything by just doing it once or twice. It requires dedication but unfortunately most people don't have the privilege of working exclusively on that so most of the time like myself. I had to work in. It job yet ninety five sometimes.
Marketing To Millions
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"Have you ever thought about having your cells page reviewed if this piqued your interest and you have a sales page that isn't converting at the level. You want or you are working on creating your very first sales page. I've got something you might love in the month of june. I'm offering one lucky winner. A free sales page audit to enter. All you have to do is a leave. A review of the show and include a linked the landing page. You want audited. At the end of the month the winner will be announced inside of the marketing to millions facebook group. So be sure you join the group to your prize win you win. If you weren't sure if your sales page or your opt in landing page has all of the essential elements you need to have in order to convert more people. This audit is seriously perfect for you. I'm talking the essential elements that have kicked my clients landing pages into high gear with fifty to sixty percent conversion rates when most people are only getting ten to fifteen percent. So you want to see more conversions on your sales page enter to win a free audit leaving an honest review with your link. I will be announcing. June's audit winner on the thirtieth of the month. Wouldn't it be great if you could generate money while you in bali bali. I am reminded about the vacation was supposed to be on. Pre cova d- tier. I was never very skeptical about the idea of making money while arrested or went on vacation simply. Because i have seen it work in my own business and i've always been an avid believer in the power of automation by automation. I mean creating a system that allows people to buy without me personally having to check them out kind of like the self checkout line at target. Join me today as a walk. You through how to join the passive income club and make money while you rest within evergreen offer. I'm going to share what tools you need to get started when to go evergreen and how to guarantee success. Well hey there. It's liz welcome to part two of a two part behind the scenes. Look at my clients. Latest digital course launched strategy in part one episode twenty four. I shared all about her live launch. What worked while we are working on for next time and how we know it was successful if you haven't heard her results and how we got there you can check that out in episode twenty four lisbor dot com forward slash episode twenty four as i mentioned in part one now that this client has live launched twice and is happy with her conversion rates. She is ready to transition her program to green. And although we will still have to alive launches every year throughout the rest of this episode. I'm going to share with you. How i am transitioning this clients course to evergreen so that you can see what it looks like to take a course in. Turn into an evergreen off. If you like when you are ready you can use the same steps. I am going to share with you next to move one of your courses to evergreen ready to learn how you can generate money while you rest within evergreen offer. Let's take a look. but i. i want to take a moment to say. Thank you to motherhood simplified. Who wrote a recent review of the podcast that said lynes makes marketing strategies. Simple and easy to implement. Thank you so much motherhood simplified. That is my goal. I am so thankful for your review as you know reviews help get this show in the ears of more people that are interested in creating more personal and professional freedom using an online course. Here's some good news. You don't have to wait years to turn your course into an evergreen offer but i will caution you about one thing as you look to move to evergreen. If you truly want your evergreen offer to help you make money on autopilot consistently it is important to have your funnels directly in before moving to evergreen otherwise you risk your conversion rate dipping lower than when you were live lawn chain which is why episode twenty four part one of this two part series. I shared with you how to know when you're ready for evergreen. You know you are ready to go evergreen because your metrics tell you so and you're like you've got both hands raised up in the air. You're so excited. I am going to help you get there here. You will learn how to transition some tools to consider an what to look out for as you make the transition. But before i do so for those of you who have skipped past part one. Let me remind you quickly. About what an evergreen offer is an evergreen offer is when you convert an offer that you have live launched a few times to an automated process that means your offer is available every day through an automated funnel. M people can always purchase that offer. Coupling and evergreen offer with a live launch is one of my favorite business. Structures for online course creators. There are so many benefits to having an offer that is always available. Oh yeah all the things. You are already thinking consistent revenue stability freedom but there are so many benefits to live launching to inject cash experiment with new launch strategies for higher conversion rates test new bonuses higher perceived value which means higher price points build a deep connection with your audience for those some so good to me which is why i love that my client took me up on the recommendation to add an evergreen offer to her business. Model alongside the core. She live launches twice per year. A lot of times alive launch is reserved for a signature offer while in evergreen offer as perfect for a starter or foundational program that will lead to your signature offer using my clients example. The first step to moving her course to evergreen is selecting and implementing her tools. As you start to consider evergreen offer. You will need tools to help you. Automate your process. Most of the tools i am going to recommend are ones that i love. I know that they have great customer support and seemed to be really easy for people that are doing this on their own and aren't necessarily tech savvy to implement keep in mind. There are a ton of options. These are just the ones that i love. I have used. I use them for my own. Evergreen funnels and to set up evergreen offers for my clients so you like to have a starting point and just want ones that you can pick and select and move on quickly. These would be the perfect option for you. The first tool. I am setting up for my client is her email service provider. I recommend convert kit. If you want to try it out you can grab the link in the show notes. Lisbor dot com forward slash episode. Twenty five this client was already using Kit so it made creating.
Before the Millions
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"Having great. Financial success and financial stability is two words. Financial literacy and financial. Lucie is not taught in school. That's why david today's guests is going. Say his favorite book. Time and time again is rich dad. Poor dad because it's the book that opened oliver is right so once. You learn financial literacy. You'll start to see some of the other building blocks such as the where it all to be able to forecast favored a plan properly. They have the right mindset so on today's episode. We're going to talk about some tactics. Because again we could talk about a bunch of high level overviews and a bunch of high level concepts all day. Long you can maybe feel like you. Viscerally get it. It's one thing to understand something from a high level point of view but it's a total other thing to put a good plan in action or to live by certain rules. Certain financial rules so for instance. We're going to talk about a what's called a pass through bank account and this is no different from any other bank account but it's going to have the title in your mind as a pass through bank account so this tactical procedure that. We're gonna show you how to do here on this. Episode helps you with the abstract concepts such as forecasting and effective money management for maybe a coming expenses. Hope i didn't confuse you but all in all. We're taking these abstract abstract money concepts ratting tactical physical. I can go and do this tomorrow. Type activities to make sure that those abstract concepts don't go unchecked with all of that being said we're much more better showers than tellers. Let's just go ahead and show you what we mean by jumping into the episode. But i as you know we have tip of the week in store for you and the tip of the week is all about credit and fraud. Yeah credit and fraud and one more thing if you enjoyed this episode. I like free to do two things for me. One you can subscribe to this podcast feet. Kaushik you do three things one you can subscribe to this podcast feed to you can leave us a five star rating review. And if you really like the concept so we talk about here in this episode. Iv linked to some other profit first episodes that we've done in the past some other guests and those episodes are simply amazing more particularly if you go back in this episode one forty six with rocky lavar. your mind will be blown. That's the preface if you go back on the episode even if you've listened to it before go back and listen to that episode. It's called profit first the twenty hour workweek and the four hour body episode one forty six. Go check it out. It's also in the show notes of this episode. All right. i'm doing off myself. Box onto the tip of the week and then our feature presentation to raise tip of the week in the united states one in every fifteen people.
Marketing To Millions
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"To. Yeah i'm sure other people will definitely be inspired by your story as well so i'm glad that you are able to share it with a us launcher. Inner entrepreneur. one. Oh can you tell us a little bit more about that book in in what we can take away from it by grabbing it in definitely so inter entrepreneur is about mindset shifts to help you take action achieve financial success in cree improve your creativity so it's about the mindset shift. She needs to make as a female entrepreneur to sort of do all the things we talked about to take action. Organiz your time become more resilient improve your confidence grow in branding and visibility and doing those things to become more confident with your finances bootstrapping budgeting and just again becoming more resilient and networking on social media. Talk a little bit about different platforms. So it's bringing everything together this psychology behind the the mindset of business. What you need to do to kind of stick with it for the long haul. Just being an entrepreneur is challenging and sometimes female entrepreneurs have some challenges that are different from men or they can experience him experiencing them more. Sometimes like men will suffer from imposter syndrome but women are tend to do that more often so a lot of guys read the book and said oh i can relate to this stuff so i always say it's okay for me to read the book to if you don't mind like a hey you go on every now and again and also has like a little plan. So you can start mapping out your goals and doing those things to improve your time management and to improve your resilience in to work on your visibility and personal brand. So it's really a book to help and support female entrepreneurs which i think is timely right now because we had two point two million women leave the workforce last year so it was such a challenging time for everyone but women were particularly hard hit. So i'm hoping many of them will turn to entrepreneurship. So they can take control over their careers and their lives while. Yeah i recently saw that status well On the news and i it was shocking to me that So the the large volume of people that left the workforce you know in female specifically that left the workforce in in twenty twenty And you haven't heard a lot. We haven't heard a lot about you know companies what they're doing to get those women back or what. What people the reasoning for for those. I know a lot of stories haven't been Haven't been shared about the reasoning behind. Why those why that large volume of women left the workforce in you know what they're doing instead now so that was You know something. That was really shocking to me. And hopefully more people are turning to entrepreneurship in and being able to really profit from their patching sale. I i've seen a lot of women turn towards entrepreneurship and it's better for them. Because they have more flexibility over their schedules lot left when they were also doing home schooling and taking care of their children during the pandemic and they just felt like to stress in stretched. And i think women were also more impacted by furloughs. Layoffs moving forward. I bet we'll see organizations. Do more to support women you now with child care with all those additional burdens that they have so that they can attract and retain them back because right now. It's a really scary thing that so many have laughed bad for corporations. I think in bad for women in general so the more we can do to support women. Keep them working. Keep them profiting the better. I'm glad that i had this book out there. During this time and hope to continue to support women moving forward yeah amazing so timely and relevant so so perfect that it came out at this time and hopefully people will be able to grab it and read it and get inspired by it. So where can we grab. That book is sold on amazon on your website It's sold on amazon. Barnes and noble books million walmart Everywhere books are sold. And you can find out more at launcher inter entrepreneur dot com but again. Just google on amazon launcher in entrepreneur. Charlene walters and i wouldn't hate it if you checked out a copy of it so be sure and you can also find more about me. I'm either see walters. Phd or shirley. Walters page d on most social media and my website is charlene walter stucco Awesome thank you so much charlene for hanging out with me today. It was such an honor Privilege to have you on the show and episode twenty three will be all the links an show notes for those wanting to grab that link and we are so honored to have you charlene. So thank you so much liz. I always happy to be here and thanks for everyone for listening. Have you ever dreamed of being able to easily set up and create your own facebook and instagram ads. 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Marketing To Millions
"millions" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
"Forward slash p. p. l. y. Yeah i'm a proponent of wanting to keep looking forward rather than looking backwards for sure so last practice that i'm trying to create in my own life to remember you know how far i've come in all that i've learned for sure the the mindset shifts and i know that you launched a brand new book launcher her entrepreneurs. Some of those you know might be in there. But i would love for you to walk us through some of those mindset shifts. I'm a avid developer of wanting to develop my mind. So i love free to kind of walk me through those so i can start adapting some of them. They might help someone else listening to you. Definitely so the book has ten mindset shifts. But i'll talk about three of them. That i think are really important particularly when you're first starting out so the first one is taking action lot of times. You know maybe jumping into entrepreneurship or whatever. It is a scary. We let our fears get the best of us so the big thing is just learning to take that leap you know. We don't want to necessarily give up our day job and for becoming an entrepreneur. Maybe we start as a side hustle as you mentioned before but the big thing about taking action is just starting somewhere and building your plan in really outlining what it needs to make things happen and then the second mindset shift that i'd say is really important as developing attitude. If you're an entrepreneur developing the entrepreneurial attitude that attitude of success so really pulling on that confidence because a lotta time we suffer from deficits we suffer from self sabotage. Sometimes we suffer from imposter syndrome or that feeling that we don't really belong. We don't deserve what we've done. We've only gotten lucky or we're not really meant to be doing what we're doing and it really is nonsense is just something we're telling ourselves. We deserve exactly everything we've gotten but sometimes it can be hard if we don't have that confidence so we have to do whatever we can to build up that confidence so maybe we make a list of all the things we've done. Well our skills or expertise all of our accomplishment. Hang it somewhere for when we're feeling bad and then just kind of organizing our time in setting those goals to get where we want to be so we would know what we wanna do but sometimes we get overwhelmed by having too many goals are just not knowing where to start so outlining exactly the steps that we want to take to make. It happen a lot of times. I'll mentors some new entrepreneurs and they'll have like fifty goals and they have a hard time just streamlining so it's not that they can have fifty goals. That's great that maybe they need to start with three or four and then outlined the my kristaps make it happen and then we have better about managing our time. So look at our schedule. Schedules critically scheduled things chunk. Maybe pick three or four things. We wanna do every single day and then try to get that accomplished those things anything that we noticed. That's really sucking up our time or distracting us like our phone. My phone is a big one for me. i have to place it somewhere else. So i'm not checking. You know notification of their social media whatever it is so the more productive we are the moral gets on time in then. Really just having the tenacity to stay with us. We've talked about being resilient in having that plan to just kinda pick ourselves up when we fall down or when we hit some kind of obstacle because we definitely will on the road to anything. We want so managing our time is one. I get asked asked all the time. And i'm sure that you do too so that's one that really sticks out to me. How do you manage your. I'm currently imbalanced work-life balance being such a successful entrepreneur maybe we can dive into that one. A bit definitely. I always recommend that people you know. Have these set our irs for what they want to dedicate to their business what they want to dedicate to their families to themselves in really putting self care at the top of your list is important although it's sometimes really hard particularly for women who sometimes have more demands that balancing if they're busy with their home life and their families so i say like maybe pick eight to five for your business and five to eight for your family than eight to ten for yourself whatever it is. It won't be perfect all the time and he won't stick to it but now particularly during the pandemic is important to put those sort of parameters in place because if we're type a go better we might just work ourselves to death and we'll get burnt out early and we'll be tired and we haven't taken care of ourselves so we'll actually be doing less than we won't be as productive so doing those basic things like getting enough rest eating well getting up during the day and taking breaks. Sometimes it's hard when you're really in the middle of project but if you've get up and sort of reset glass of water step outside for many actually come back more refreshed and then just learned to. It's okay to say no to things like a lot of times. We feel guilty and we feel like we can't say no to everything we feel bad but we really have to pick and choose because we're busy and we can't. Nobody can do everything so think about things i do. Is it meaningful to me personally. Does it further. My goals is something that i want to do. And if it doesn't hit any of those three areas then just declined politely as politely as you. Can you know because you have to really strategize in choose where you spend your time to further where you want to be personally in. It's also important that we put self-care again at the top of our list in. Make sure that we take time for things that we really wanna do within our imports. That are feeding our mind or soul. We have to also work out a big advocate for working out staying fit. It just does so much for you to improve your mood. And then you'll come back to your business better happier you'll be better with your clients. You'll be better with your family. You'll be better with everyone i love. I love all of those that you kinda shared a self care particularly. I'm a big Opponent of science say proponent a big proponent of self care know moving my body every day or at least you know trying to move my body in some way every day whether that be going to the gym or having regimented workout or just taking a walk outside a thirty minute break taking a walk outside especially for me because i work from home really helps to just clear my head. Get some fresh air fuel. The sunshine on a lot of times during that walk all just evaluate. how the day's going. What i have to tackle the rest of the day. It helps to kinda just level set the tasks that i have in front of me. And how i'm gonna tackle them with a clear head back to my desk. Feeling really motivated to go and tackle that particular task that i just outlined and times. It gets done away faster than i would have. If i didn't take that thirty minute break Because for me i would have. Instead spent thirty minutes scrolling through instagram or scrolling through my email and but not really being that productive. Because for me. My mind needed that break. But i needed to also step away from my computer. Step away from my space to kind of remove myself and income back to you The email that i'm writing or those landing pages on creating so i can have like.
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"Is important. Yeah i love that. You mentioned Tenacity but also looking for those opportunities for growth that we can kind of look at it from the perspective of what can we learn from this situation. And how can we better ourselves or just simply prevent ourselves from kind of doing this again in the future solar. Not trying to repeat the same mistakes and we're only human so we probably will make the same mistake a few more times until we really learn how to move past it. But i in my own life for me if i can recognize a situation Or you know a pain point or something that much faster that can move past it so much quicker not kind of sit in dwell in that moment like you were talking about the tools that we can develop in ourselves to move past those pieces As you were mentioning have helped me personally and might help someone else to indefinitely anti now. We see a lot of times people that are really successful on top of their careers. And we don't it seems like that was easy for them. It happened overnight but really it took years and years for them to get there and even at the top of their careers. They're still hitting setbacks in experiencing those rejection stuff. The problem now is that we're not posting. Like hey i just got rejected five times today on. Instagram just doesn't happen so i think sometimes it's difficult were measuring ourselves against other people and we're not seeing everything that went on behind the scene so it's important to remember that in no that everybody goes through. It is just a price. We pay for being entrepreneurs for being professionals. You know life is like at its ups and downs yet. That's so true that most people don't see the behind we see a little bit glimpse of behind the scenes. You know what people want us to see. But we're not seeing them like crying in the corner or you know taking that extra long run because they need to shake something off so we're really not seeing the full story of behind the scenes and definitely especially when we i see someone below up but we think there were overnight. Success right air quotes overnight success and ten years. Yeah took ten years. It took a lot of grit Took a lottery zillions to nasty to get them to that point and then were all starting to prepare for that opportunity so that when we do hit that milestone that we are we can show up. Authentically are full self in in really be prepared for that moments. I really that we're all kind of just like working in keeping our heads down but working towards that that moment to prepare us for when we do. Get that opportunity to kind of really. It's paying your dues paying your days. I like to say because that's what it is like a lotta times even a lotta times. I'll think oh. 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"That they're looking to be recognized by definitely you know having that personal brands and building yourself as a thought leader is important for everyone whether you're in corporate america or you're on your own that's how people will think about you and there's opportunities in the maurice Sort of start putting yourself out there on social media or wherever. You'd be surprised at the number. I should know liz. I'm sure the number of people who will approach you and kind of invite you to do things and then it just sort of snowballs from there you. Nobody will know anything about you if you're sorta home or you're in the office all the time so it really is important. You just expand your network and start you know showing what you know and if you do you love and you have the expertise in. You're really passionate about. It eventually will translate into something that you want to do so say that in this might be a mindset shift in organ talk about a little bit about those but for you know. Just thinking about my own journey into entrepreneurship. When i was working for another company in this might be something that has evolved over time so now even those incorporate are establishing their own personal brands. But for me a mindset had previously was when i was working for someone else at a a larger corporate company. I didn't necessarily need a personal brand. Or i also thought you know if i start to build my personal brand this company. Think that i'm trying to go off and do something on my own or take away from my day job. What advice do you have someone that might have that mindset you know or me myself. Ten years ago. That kind of was thinking like that. Do you think now that you know personally. Everyone should start to grow personal brands that they're looked at and sought after by even larger companies. Even if they are in. I'm still having a nine to five. I do think so. I do understand your concern. About what the company you might think. And i think that's a common concern. I know that. I was doing a lot when i was in corporate world and not necessarily broadcasting it as widely because i didn't want any kind of backlash or you know some someone to think anything of it and then once i left i started just becoming more visible with it in. I think that's the thing to do is just maybe have a conversation with whoever. Is your supervisor. Just talk a little bit about say you know. I'm really working on my personal brand. It doesn't mean that. I'm intending to leave your organization. I just think it's important for everyone and just find out what the parameters are some organizations. I know that when i worked for they just never really wanted me dimension them unless it was you know free run by them or whatever so i kinda got out of the habit of mentioning bam really associated with myself and i think that's the important thing to do is just kind of that distinction. Just find out if there are any policies in place there that may prevent you from doing anything. Yeah let's get advice so that we can still feel like we can share our expertise and grow our personal brand without stepping on the toes of another organization. You know or it may be like clients. I know for my agency. We always have a in our contracts. We kinda talk about how the agency will use some of those client case studies and things like that so that means we'll be sharing their name on our social. We hope that you know they think it's beneficial but if it were ever to come to light that they didn't wanna sharing than it would be that conversation like you were talking about so that everyone can be on the same page and you know. Be aware and set expectations for going forward. I think companies to are getting more comfortable with their employees having a personal brand in many cases. I think it's becoming more attractive to them. I it depends on the company and just having that discussion is always a good idea. Front devoid any problems. Further on. yeah. I totally agree. I think you're right that a lot of companies are opening and being okay with people having personal brand you know and having those side projects or something else in my opinion only makes that personal individual that much more devoted committed to growing their crafts. You getting better at their expertise in that can only really benefit the company or the organization for me my my small but mighty team will have opportunities to go and learn other courses or by other courses that i will then offset the costs. Are you know it'll be a conversation if they want to continue to grow a craft that they're looking to either Get better at or You know adds something additional. In my meyer organization might company will only benefit from those people having additional skills and expertise definitely. I think it's a win win all the way around it just again. It's better to make sure that your company's on board and just sometimes they might just get a little bit selective about what you're saying or how you're using their name. But i think at the end of the day it's important not only for the company you're working for but also for yourself so that if something comes up you know something happens to you. People know about even you can find other opportunities awesome so resilient has been a topic of conversation especially now in two thousand twenty from you know. Covert hopping in twenty twenty and people having to pivot their business or add additional stream stream of has really been a topic that has come to light a law in my community with my clients as well Do you have any advice for how can learn to be more resilient so that we can quote unquote future proof a little bit better of our businesses resilience tough one but it's something that you have to just kind of have strategies for. It's not to say that you can't experience heartache rejection failure. You can't feel bad about it. You definitely will and it happens. It's just not getting stuck there and sometimes it's recognizing those feelings in yourself so say had a really bad day you've gotta rejection some kind of failure. Something happened if you need to take an hour off or whatever it is just to change your mind. Go to the gym. Spent some time with your family. Do whatever it takes to move you onto. That happens to me all the time. Mike all start feeling bad about something. I'll beating myself up or just whatever it is an. I just know that. I am no goods to anything with my business saul check and see if i have any meetings and then if i don't whatever i have to do that dale do and then i'll take a break and just come back to when i'm in a better mood in that's really just it is finding that out and then also looking at whatever happens in saying okay. That didn't work. it's okay let me come up with plan. B plans to heap landy. Whatever it takes just have that tenacity to keep going after it because there's really nothing in life that happens instantly right nothing worth having so you have to keep keep going moving forward and sometimes when were rejected or we get some bad feedback. There's something we can learn like instead of just looking at the negative of it. Okay we lost a client. Maybe but ask them questions. Find out why in then use it to improve our business or our strategy moving forward so always look for that silver lining. You found something. You didn't otherwise now and now there's maybe something else even better possible. Maybe lost client with now. You have time to pick up five new clients or whatever it is just looking for that. Silver lining.
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"Those are great tips that we can use send out one email per day recap at the end before we start selling so they feel really loved and super filled with filled with value. And then you can go and invite them into learning more with you into your programs From a perspective. Okay that's great. So i would love for you to share us. Share with us with that special offer that you have for us is going to be have some a really great resource that i know you created special for marketing millions listeners. So i would love for you to share that with us. now yeah absolutely uncertified. It can be in on your podcast. Really inspired me to get it done. Because i have all the ideas in my head you know. It's like the cobbler's kids never have shoes. Where have all these late launch products and base when offer people and ever build it. So what i built special for your listeners. Today is the season of creating an online summit with actually a workbook. It's gonna go through lots of dues of setting up your summit and it's going to give you some don's is there. I think we do like five or six jones. And about twenty. Do's and it's funny we were talking. There are a couple of things i'm like. Oh i need to add that to the workbook do after today the recording at that three things. I'm going to go in and adds really tailor made to this conversation awesome. I'm definitely going to be going to grab that. Once you have added those additional elements will we will link to that in the show notes so that you guys can go in grab it. But why don't you just share with us now on the link for that and then anywhere else that we can connect with you. If we're looking for support with an online summit. Chris would be an amazing resource Lettuce no where we can find you in. Get more information from you about how you might be able to help us. Thank you so much for allowing me to do that. So our website is see him. G ideas dot com which stands for creative marketing and graphics. I have.
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"Benefit. You getting people's attention span. Distraction free for sixty minutes to have them really engaged. during the presenters training or or coaching lesson to get them to be that much more ready to purchase your program at the end will end the other benefit to that is a fat presenter has a really large list and now they're part of your list. If you're on live with that presenter people are gonna come because they want to see that presenter but now they're building a relationship with you because they seen you interact with the presenter with their expert hero so there's lots of benefits to the live also the downside to live is you're never gonna pick at times in that works for everybody. He just kind of have to roll with it and let him watch the recording And be okay with that. And that's why we why recommending to have that recording available to everyone in not limit the timeframe that people get access to recording until five days later. Yes great so another thing that i would love to touch on is our post summit strategy so with a webinar we have a strategic post webinar strategy that marketings millions listeners have heard me talk about before but i would love for you to touch on how we continue to connect with our new leads. Even if they haven't know i'd love to hear how we encourage them to an invite them into our memberships programs but also what is our strategy for those people that don't purchase. Maybe because their brand new to you. And they're coming from in affiliates list or something. You are there ways that you recommend. I probably already know the answer to this. But i would love for you to of share with us. Know the ways that you would recommend to continue to connect and make sure not losing the momentum from that summit excellently and. I'm sure that my answer is not very far different from yours in keeping nurturing keeping contact with them three regular emails. And don't just have some experts that i follow that. I get like three four emails a week from and that's just too much because i've already tuned off. A unsubscribe. I quit listening. But touching base with them wins of week offerings. The more it always always comes down to valuable content. You work really carefully with people about content and one of the things. I think we get hung up on. I know i see with my clients. And i'm sure you see with your clients is that they build the content and it's so precious and so valuable to the her steer client but not looking at it from the subscriber so really making sure that you're not just using your content as a platform to share your opinion. But you're actually offering benefit they. You're actually offering ways to grow to the subscribers. I feel like. I should be using names getting might by your client drivers vendors but maids..
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"Spoiler alert. This email broke the four sentence paragraph rule four times in a row. This same went on to break the rule in every paragraph of the email with most paragraphs only having one to three sentences. I've written long form sales pages short-form opt in pages and email copy for multi six-figure seven figure entrepreneurs and multi million dollar businesses breaking this four sentence paragraph role many times. So i'd say if they are okay breaking the copy roles and it feels right to you then you can to. Riding conversion copy is more of a delicate dance of science and art focusing on your customer. And what they desire most will help you write more words that sell. It's like what may parents used to say to me growing up. You have to know the rules to break them. Once you understand the copy rules you'll understand how and when is most effective to break them even if you don't consider yourself a writer you're an entrepreneur. So you're already used to going outside the norm breaking rules. 'em paving your own way so i'm giving you permission to do the same with your copy. Go ahead break some rules inject zest and personality to your message the whereas you right. Make a greater impact on your customer and your pocketbook. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you if you love this episode. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review wherever you are listening and i love to know what grammar rules you love to break. Hey liz here again. I just wanted to say thank you again for spending your valuable time with me today. If you loved this episode. Can i ask you a huge favor. Can you let me know what you loved leaving a review. This would mean so so much to me and only take a few seconds of your time. Now don't forget you can connect with other thought leaders chess-like you inside the marketing millions facebook group. It's free and the conversation there is on fire. You wouldn't believe the expolosive grow people inside are.