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AP News Radio
AP sources: No more action from Trump grand jury this week
"There's likely no more action from a Trump grand jury this week, I'm Lisa dwyer. The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump's behalf is not expected to take up that inquiry again this week, meaning that any potential vote on an indictment probably won't happen until next week at the earliest that's according to two people who are familiar with the matter. The panel did meet Monday, David pecker a longtime Trump friend and the former chief executive of the parent company of the national inquirer was seen Monday leaving the building where the grand jury has been meeting. Trump himself is ratcheted up anticipation that an indictment could be near by posting on his social media platform that he expected to be arrested imminently his representatives later said that they had not received any such indication on timing from Manhattan prosecutors. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Police: Nashville shooter bought 7 guns before school attack
"President Biden says he's done what he can. Now it's up to Congress to help curb the gun violence. The president says he's exhausted his executive authority. I can't do anything except leave with the Congress to act reasonably. That was here at The White House before leaving fort North Carolina, where the president renewed a call for lawmakers to ban assault style weapons. Why in God's name do we allow these weapons of war on our streets? And at our schools. The president says he knows people wonder why he keeps unsuccessfully calling for a ban. Because I want you to know who isn't doing it. Who isn't helping? Not long before that, number two Senate Republican John thune was asked if Congress will take up gun legislation. This is premature to talk about it. And I think there are a lot of grieving hurting families in Nashville. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
AP News Radio
AP Sources: Judge rules Pence must testify before grand jury
"A federal judge reportedly has ruled former vice president Mike Pence must testify in a criminal investigation involving former president Trump. Two people familiar with the ruling say former vice president Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury. Pence was subpoenaed by a special counsel, investigating efforts by former president Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results. But sources say Pence will not have to testify about his actions on January 6th. That's the day when a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the capitol building as Pence was presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify the vote. Pence argued that because he was serving in his capacity as president of the Senate that day, he was protected from being forced to testify. His attorneys are deciding whether to appeal. My hemp in Washington
AP News Radio
Family of US couple kidnapped in Haiti pleads for release
"The family of an American couple kidnapped in Haiti, pleads for their release after they say they paid $6000 and now the kidnappers want more money. Jean Dickens toussaint and his wife Abbey were kidnapped by gangs while visiting Haiti from Florida on March 18th according to sister Nikes toussaint. The gangs are now demanding $200,000 each. The family says it paid someone they trusted $6000 to give to the gang, but the money vanished. It's not unusual for gangs in Haiti, which often kidnap people to refuse to release them after ransoms are paid. The U.S. State Department says it's in contact with Haitian authorities, according to the UN, at least a 101 kidnappings were reported in the first two weeks of March with another 208 people killed in gang clashes. I'm Julie Walker
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Left Attacks Christians After Shooting
"Gay club that was the LGBTQ club that was shot up in Colorado. We come to discover it's not an ideological purpose. And I don't want to ascribe ideology to anyone, often shootings are just crazy people like Gabby Giffords was shot by a schizophrenic break victim. You just can't tell, but I just can't imagine the American public rewarding anyone who politicized. I think the president politicized this out of the gate. I really do, pirate. Of course he did, but this is happened. The instant politicization has been happening for a while because if you look at comments from people on the left, either democratic politicians are activists, a long time ago, they began to start mocking Republicans. The thoughts and prayers, you know, the Republican senator or representative says on my thoughts and prayers with the people of blank after this terrible shooting. And so you began to see a lot of comments, the hell with your thoughts and prayers. We need action. So basically, they've just kind of skipped any formalities of expressing. Right, there's no touching of glove. Let's have a debate about guns. No, none of that. Just make Christians feel like they are subhuman and lack feelings because they want to use it as a sop, which is in fact the opposite of almost every person of faith that I know.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Nashville Police Release Video of Schooll Shooting
"And I think Tennessee has a red flag law and I don't think it worked. And so it didn't work again. It usually doesn't work, but it might stop some. We don't know. You can't prove a negative, right? It didn't happen. But Byron, I don't understand, but from the left and the right, I cut off a call this morning who wanted to argue we shouldn't be sending weapons to Ukraine while we're not protecting our schools. That's hobby horsing an issue. And I just, I don't think Americans buy this anymore. I think they just turn off people who impose agendas on stories. Yeah, and I think that you basically, your position as you would like to just see police at every school, right? Yeah, and my position is the Second Amendment isn't going anywhere. By all means introduce an amendment if you want to repeal it. But it's not going anywhere. We know what it meant. And it means there are a lot of guns in America and more than 300 million. We're not going to get I'm a realist about everything. And I don't have any time for constitutional amendments. Yeah, I think that the idea of police at every school is probably the best single idea you saw. The police in Nashville released video of the shooter actually shooting through Locke glass heavy glass doors. And of course the gun made quick work of all of the glass and she just walked in crawled in through the openings that were created. So locking locking something up is not doing the trick. And it appears, I know you were talking about the response to the police, national police tweeted out very quickly yesterday. That officers had immediately gone to the sound of the gunfire and then killed the shooter. And so if there's any response time issue, I guess we have to know how long between the moment the police arrived on the scene and actually killed the shooter, but it appears to be pretty quick. Yeah, I think it's 13 minutes from call.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why Banning Guns Is Not a Solution
"All right, how does someone not see that? How does someone not know what she is planning to do? Kind of see, I believe, has a red flag law. And that is the first line of defense for every school in America. The second line is having a school resource officer near the front door or near any side door. Side door should just simply not be available as a point of entry. And we may have the video of her shooting her way into covenant Presbyterian school. And she blew up in the front door if there's an SRO standing there armed, that's the end of it. I just, I have no patience for people who will not admit the obvious. We're not going to repeal the Second Amendment. People can try. People can introduce that. A ban on AR-15s will not stop this. What will stop this is intervention in troubled people's lives. And mandatory commitment. And observant Friends, family and parents. And I don't know how many people know this killer, but they're the ones burdened this morning with guilt. Nobody else, nobody else. The killer and those who knew and could have said something in Denton. And that might be a zero set.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
More Details on the Nashville School Shooting
"I have prayed for the children, and for their siblings, and for their parents, and for their grandparents. And for every member of the school I paid prayed for the staff and prayed for the killer and her family. The killer is obviously unbalanced, as they all are. Now, many people want to talk about gun control today. To which I always respond the same way after a mass shooting. And then we have a couple of these stories every year. A couple of these dreadful mornings every year. I always say the same thing. What would you do? What governor Glenn youngkin is doing is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into mental health treatment. And open resources for people who are suffering. And no, and if self diagnosed or their parents or family or friends know that they'd fallen into the darkness and they, the answer here is not a ban on AR-15. I mean, that shed pistols as well as AR-15. That's not it. The answer is, what do we do? To stop our young people from careening. And it's not a large percentage of people who are trapped in psychotic killing madness. It's significant enough, but I'll play for you the police captain yesterday. Please chief John Drake, identifying the shooter, he will use her name. I will not cut number 6. Thank you, mayor Cooper, again, thank you all for being here. Just an update from today's press conference. We've identified the shooter as Audrey Hale, 28 year old female that lived in the natural area. We have investigations ongoing now at the residence on brightwood avenue. And we have made contact with the father that lived at that residence and our putting together more information information.
AP News Radio
Handmade blankets welcome refugees, immigrants to US
"Around the country, handmade blankets are being made to welcome people to the United States. The hand crochet blankets come with a note. Welcome to Brookline. Our family came from Eastern Europe to avoid prejudice and to live freely. Patti margolis and her granddaughter made a blanket in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was jaina's women's idea to make welcome blankets. Which are 40 inches by 40 inches, easy to care for, and they hurt to give away because the makers love them so much. And Faber has an image of the person who will use her blanket. Somebody basically covering themselves and feeling warm and that they're getting somebody holding them. And giving them a hug. Thousands of blankets and notes have been created. The project is geared toward refugees. People forced to leave their homes or country to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Feel the Force: Hamill carries 'Star Wars' voice to Ukraine
"Feel the force. Actor Mark Hamill carries his Star Wars voice to Ukraine. Attention, air raid alert, proceed to the nearest shelter, don't be careless. Your overconfidence is your weakness. It's a surreal moment in an already surreal war. The grave but calming baritone of actor Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker of Star Wars, urging people to take cover or never Russia unleashes another aerial bombardment on Ukraine. The intrusion of Hollywood science fiction fantasy into the grim daily realities of war in Ukraine is a consequence of Hamill's decision to lend his famous voice to heir alert, a downloadable app linked to Ukraine's air defense system when air raid sirens start howling the app also warns Ukrainians that Russian missiles bombs and deadly exploding drones may be incoming. Attention, the air alert is over. May the force be with you. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Trish Regan Show
Larry Elder Shares His Takeaways From the Recent Education Numbers
"When you look at the numbers that we recently got on the education front, and we learned that American students fell so significantly behind during those lockdowns and shutdowns and schools, there weren't in action. What we also learned was that so many students in very poor areas, minority areas, areas that were run by Democrats, they fared much worse than the rest of the country. Is there a takeaway there that people should remember? Absolutely. And again, you look at a place like Baltimore, a Baltimore is where Freddie gray died in police custody a few years ago. The number one and number two people running the police department were black. The people who are in charge of both the county and the city public schools were black. The mayor black, 6 of the officers, three of the 6 officers who were charged were black. The state attorney who blocked the charges against the officers was black. A judge before whom two of the officers tried their cases with black, by the way, he found them not guilty. City council all democratic majority black. The U.S. attorney at the time, Loretta lynch was black. The president at the time with black Barack Obama. And we're talking about systemic racism. I'm reminded of the joke that Wanda Sykes once said, how are you going to complain about the man when you are the man? And you're finding this over and over again and in Baltimore, 13, I'm not making this up, Trish, 13 public high schools involved in the inner city, 0% of the kids are math proficient. And another half a dozen were only 1% of the kids are Mac proficient. That's almost half of all the public high schools in Baltimore were either 0% of the kids or math proficient or only 1% bar. This is absolutely horrific.
The Trish Regan Show
Trish Welcomes Larry Elder, "The Black Face of White Supremacy"
"Larry. Good to have you here. Chris say hello to the blackface of white supremacy. As I was called by the LA times when I ran for governor by a columnist who was like email. It was initials are Erica D Smith, oops. Yeah, you know, look, I know that what you're doing comes from a very good place. And I know that in part just because I know you, but also you've really over the years, pointed out the policy flaws that I think have left so many black Americans disenfranchised. This new movie, and by the way, I say new, this is actually a sequel to the uncle, the original Uncle Tom that you wrote. But this is the second one. And you get into some of these things. I mean, people ought to know, there was a lot of success. Was there not within the African American community long before the war on poverty in the 1960s in my estimation really destroyed so much of it. Absolutely. And by the way, it's a collaborative effort, both these films. The director is Justin Malone. He's absolutely brilliant. It was scored by an amazing composer, a named David criswell, and co written by the star chattel Jackson guy named rival writer Ansel and myself. So it's a collaborative effort. But you're absolutely right about the success of black America. The first one talks about post slavery. When you're talking about an environment with the Klan, lynchings, Jim Crow, still, black people kept moving forward. Why? Basically four reasons. Reliance on family. Even during slavery, a black child was more likely to be born under a roof as biological mother and biological father than to the day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Did AOC Just Call Her Fiancé a Groomer?
"Has some strong thoughts for cisgender and often straight men who are the ones that are after your kids. So AOC is saying that straight men and cisgender people are the groomers. Now, I lose track of what cisgender is. I think cisgender is normal, right? Cisgender is what we are. I can't keep track of all this stuff. Okay, play cut 8. Many of these disgusting and insinuating attacks on trans and LGBT people are actually projections of what predatory cisgender and often straight men do when left alone the presence of women or sometimes horribly children. So instead of getting you to challenge the patriarchy, they're trying to get you to challenge the very gender expressiveness that challenges patriarchy. Don't get it twisted, 'cause a lot of people attacking drag are projecting. I think the real victim here is her fiance. I mean, come on, you're gonna have to live with that for the rest of your life. I could say more, but I won't. She basically just called her fiance a groomer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Former Collegiate Swimmer Riley Gaines Discusses the Trans Issue
"I want to just, I'm wondering, just kind of the response you're receiving. And what do your critics say? I'm very curious. Because this should be very simple and very elemental. I mean, you should have been a national champion in swimming. And a man comes in and steals it from you. He exposes himself to you in a locker room. He should have been arrested for that, right? For public indecent exposure, that we used to have a country that used to exist. Last time we had a dialog, I said people would take care of it. That's exactly what I meant is that you would be arrested for exposing yourself. If you just kind of walk into a woman's locker room and expose yourself, that used to be called a crime. Now it's called progress. But I'm curious what is the response that you receive from people? What are your critics say? Amount of support. I'm talking about support from all over the political spectrum, which is what makes this topic this issue so interesting. Obviously, we know there are very few things in politics that people can agree on. But this is something, you know, denying man and woman. We can't even define what a woman is. These liberals who, of course, will die on this hill of being able to define a woman. They see what's at stake here. They see how they're trying to eradicate women at the systemic level. And so I have had an overwhelming amount of support from female athletes from parents from medical professionals from coaches, people within the NCAA, they're so much support, which shows me that we are the overwhelming majority in this in this topic. Which begs the question, okay, then why are we catering to the minority? Why are we sacrificing 51% of the population at the expense of half a percent of the population? I don't know the exact statistic, but I can't imagine the trans community makes up more than half a percent of the population. So why are we catering to this? And it's because that we thought this would be a one off instance. But people are realizing it's not. And they see the propaganda being pushed and they're becoming more bold, they're becoming louder and they're starting to use their voices more and I really truthfully believe that the tides are about to turn.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Turning the Transgender Tide With Riley Gaines
"Now is Riley gaines. A former professional and professional former college athlete and swimmer who had a compete against Thomas, the man who is a cheater and she should have probably won the national championship if it wasn't for the man. Riley, welcome to the program last time you were here. We made a lot of headlines. And so welcome back. Well, thank you so much for having me on again, Charlie. Of course. All right, I'm gonna play this piece of tape for our audience. This is an ESPN little biopic, if you will. Celebrating women's history month by showing a man. Thomas, play cut 18. In 2022, swimmer Leah Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I championship by winning the 500 freestyle. The Texas native competed for three seasons on the men's swim team at the University of Pennsylvania. She began her transition after her sophomore season. She said she holds her persistence, serves a larger purpose. People will say, oh, she just transitioned, so she would have an advantage. They could win. I transitioned to be happy. Why are the women at ESPN putting up with this? I don't know, Riley, your thoughts. I have no idea why the women are putting up with this. I don't understand. It's like they don't see the irony of celebrating a man during women's history month. How are these women okay within? It begs the question, where are the feminists? Where are the women? Where is the group who wore the pink hats? Who wanted to empower women real women? I can't even answer that. I will say though that I just admire states shield who's an ESPN reporter. She does SportsCenter, I believe. And she stood up to this and she said this is wild. This is wrong. She recognizes the differences between men and women, men and women, and why it's unfair and harmful for women to have men and women sports and in our locker rooms.
AP News Radio
Israel tensions ease as Netanyahu pauses judicial overhaul
"Israel's political factions opposed to embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had begun setting up negotiating teams after he paused a controversial overhaul plan on a pensions legislation. Netanyahu has acknowledged the division's roiling the nation, and has announced a month long delay for the legislation. He says he wants to avoid Civil War and would seek a compromise. He spoke after tens of thousands of people demonstrated outside the parliament building in Jerusalem, but compromise appears elusive as the standoff remains over the fundamental issue of what kind of country Israel should be and positions only appear to have hardened. Three months of demonstrations have intensified this week and Israel's main trade union declared a general strike, leading to chaos that shut down much of the country. I'm Charles De Ledesma
Pray the Word with David Platt
Living for a Different Kingdom
"John chapter 18 verse 36 Jesus answered my kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews, but my kingdom is not from the world. There's a lot we could discuss here as Jesus is facing pilot about to head to the cross and this interaction with him. Even what he says later, he says, for this purpose I was born for this purpose, I've come into the world to bear witness to the truth and everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. Oh, there's so much we could talk about there, but the reason why I want us to pray specifically for universe 36 is because of the simple reminder it gives you and me today that were not living for kingdoms in this world. We're not living for countries in this world. We're living for a kingdom that's not from the world. And a country that is to come and that changes the way we live and whatever country we are in. And it changes the purpose for which we live here. Our eyes are fixed on another kingdom, a kingdom to come. This is how Jesus taught us to pray our father in heaven all would be your name. Your kingdom come. This is what we're wanting. That's like the first thing we pray. After the hollowing of God's name and all the earth for his kingdom to come, and it's why we pray and most every one of these podcast episodes for unreached people groups in the world because of Jesus words in Matthew 24 about his kingdom, how the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed as a testimony to all the nations and then the end will come. We want to see his kingdom come, which means we want to see people from every nation and drive and tongue bowing down to Jesus as king and experiencing the love and beauty and glory of Jesus as king. This is what we live for. Not anything else in this world. We live for a kingdom that's not of this world
Made For This with Jennie Allen
In Suffering We Need God
"Humans, we are, I don't mean to act like you're extra arrogant, you probably struggle with all kinds of insecurities. I just mean, we typically, if we're doing okay, even if the world's falling down around us, we aren't very sensitive. It is kind of the way we're built. We just are independent. We don't need anybody. We don't need anything. We're doing great. Until something comes crashing down. And in those moments, something about us becomes more tender. I think this is just human nature. It's the way we all are. Something about us becomes more tender, something about us recognizes our need for God and other people, take the suffering away, take the dark parts away, and we are cruising through life. I remember as a young college student, I walked through a lot of difficulty, and then I didn't. And I remember noticing that that I didn't crave God the way I had when I was so lonely when I was walking through things that were so difficult. I didn't notice other people's pain as much when I wasn't in pain. Now, that's not to say that in the good times of life, we can't do that. That should be disciplines that we all seek to exist living unselfish lives that mourn with those who mourn and notice the people that are hurting and move towards them. But in general, we need God and we need others when we're needy. And we hate being needy. However, that storyline of being needy is actually not so bad. It actually is the way that we were designed to best function in our weakness. We are strong. We talked about that a few weeks ago that this is a gift that we need God.
People Helping People
"people" Discussed on People Helping People
"Of change around them and take action. It kind of came through at combination quite a few experiences like that. I always love hearing people's journeys to learn about social entrepreneurship or get involved. But one thing that you grow and sample is you're delivering this message in helping reach new audiences to teach them about social entrepreneurship. So what are some of the things that you find are helpful in in the way that you spread that message for companies. That's a good question. It was really just what wasn't existing skill set that we had laying around as to why that was our approach and method. I had a lot of experience online content. Seo annie's done quite a bit of writing and editing herself and so those things together sky. What's the first way that we immerse ourselves into this community. In that was far. I approach but at a number of things that that i guess. We find to be most effective in spreading. That message is one from. The gecko is just consistency. I think just because especially when you get into these bubbles of any sort of realm of social entrepreneurship like social impact environmental action. You start talking all these people in easing well. Everyone thinks this way. And everyone is very considerate and mindful of the purchases that they're making or what they do with their their waste. They're whatever it might be. But then you know maybe talkin family members or whatever it might be. Nobody shares this same experience or that. It's very small slice of the pie. That were with nap. And so i think that repetition first and foremost is very important to us from the very beginning we've been doing vorontsov will now for two and a half years. Everything is calm counting on the other starting with the podcast blog and in our getting into video production with youtube channel but our plans with every single one of them is defined. What is our consistent cadence that we can adequately published on each platform given our resources in capacity and plan on doing that for a decade or is thoughts versus. Yeah yeah. I think so. We talk about this all the time especially when companies are products of guests. They're selling a product So what they're doing is looking for. Who's interested in the product in hockley. Get in front of them and inherently in our focus isn't so much people who've already drank the koolade as it is a waterman or water person. Who doesn't know about say sunscreen or an animal rights advocate that doesn't know about regenerative agriculture or a social advocate. That doesn't know about labor rights companies the b. corp requirements for labor protections. And so for us. It's a very centered group of people that are committed like i said but then there's so many people that really care about stuff and just don't even know that they don't have to make these daily compromises and so all of our content is geared toward.
Software People Stories
"people" Discussed on Software People Stories
"Believe in having a core group of people who will be my who will give the first honest feedback. I think that's important. Because when biz products be it within a team and the first people be presented to they give their feedback candid feedback. Beat harsh be it. You know. your project isn't good lord. This feature doesn't work properly. As we had expected. I think having those relationships these critical developers will give on a street. Back is also really really important. I see what you're saying. This feedback such a gift and so important. When you're building new products are trying to get people to adopt a particular offering from an looking at things from their perspective to ensure that you have innocent understood what they really want. So i noticed that a lot of your work has sort of focused on building and developing these communities. Whether it's to evangelize technology our innocence perhaps get people to understand the capability of something and perhaps improve their lives. What do you see until of community building. That one should do. And how was it that more such communities can get built out. Let's say for to promote technology. In the right way suchitra at the end of the debut. All people like. I said it's envy live in a community and we learn from each other. You know not just learned in terms of technology bill to grow as people within a community so for me who is a totally totally people. Person communities are are the truth. Laid community is what really helps us grow. Beat technology beat as opposed. And you're right in pointing out. I have worked with communities all through my life. You know all the way from college to building communities around tech are building communities for a particular main building communities vidana company to promote a particular technology or even support groups to help support each other or building communities with people rolled together learn together. I've built oil such kind of communities. Now i'm building a community for a cause which is autism couple of things. First of all it is easy to build a community but very difficult to sustain it eight i can do four or five And you who would know better than that chitra you are building a community through your podcast right a group of followers. Who listened to the podcast that you do get a community that you're building doing first. Few podcasts is always easy but to keep the momentum void to bring in speakers regularly in continue to do. The podcast is the hot thing. So that is one important thing building a community. is easy nurturing it bringing in relevant contents that people will appreciate learn. Something from is a is a challenge. The second thing is a inet community. There has to be trust for example if i have built a community around cloud and there are hundreds of developers. Let's say we do a meet up and ninety people show up for the meet up..
Software People Stories
"people" Discussed on Software People Stories
"In fact one question that coming to my mind and you talked a lot about engaging and interacting with the developer community and you also mentioned convincing people to do the right thing in a build it in the right way so how would some of those conversations like almost appears like it would have probably been like negotiation and some degree of convincing to get people to do the right thing. How did that come about such inter. I believe that we are all people at the end of the day and we all bring our own. We all have our objectives online via doing something. For example. When i'm working with stocked up and i'm talking to the startup founder. What does not found as check. Do they are strapped on money. Distracted time they're building product. What do dave want safe. I put myself in their shoes at undistracted title understand. What do they want. I think the conversation goes on very smoothly. Because if i can provide them the technical know-how on how do bizet product taken. I can if i don't waste time. Just unity come to the point and tell them the exact thing that they're looking for. Or if i don't know i just tell them i don't know but i'll find out. I think everybody appreciates that. That's my office. Might or or miami. Be off breaking the ice with anybody understanding. What is it that the other person meets be too up. Founder beat a developer safe. I'm looking developers and Talking about let's say microsoft cloud to them. Learning about microsoft cloud will not be interesting to them until analysts. I'm helping them solve a problem that they are struggling. With as you know all the companies are going to this digital transformation journey right. Everybody's moving onto cloud. Now if i can help a developer understand cloud better or find a help develop a sort of a problem that they're dealing with day in and day out embiid job or if i can provide them with some extra skills that will help them get the next job. The next dream job. I think. Listen to me. So in that case. If i'm talking to a developer after think like a developer put myself in their position and then talk to them for this developer. I'm not going to go in start talking about age. Too right van Help solve their problem and a introduced asia to them. That's a nice way of building empathy and actually walking in the shoes of the person that you're talking to and that's something that i think. A lot of technology companies can really benefit from yes Considering impetus first customer expedients. I become so critical and crucial so. What are some of the tip or guidance that you can give people around developing or building empathy. A lot of people love cold love to actually just dive in and get cracking with building something or solving a challenge. That's put in front of them instead of spending some time to try to really find out what the problem is and then solid such. I live by few principles and.
Software People Stories
"people" Discussed on Software People Stories
"So bad was another job that i did for two years and left microsoft in november and have now opened up my ngo called viva do drops autism foundation which focuses on individuals with autism in providing support to their families to the individual and busying community around autism. So that's stats the whole professional adjoining if i may say it truly sounds like a fascinating magnificent journal. It seems like a like amazing. Boatload of story specialty. Thank you so much for sharing this. You know. Just looking at your life Through so many isan facets that of a developer some sorta awful collaborate in your listen evangelist meeting so many people and then also perhaps being a pioneer of sorts having worked in mobile technologies and being able to rally people around who high-mobility was important. You've done so many things so when you to on these different rules what those transitions like for you. I think the transition happened very naturally to me. And somehow i believe that my previous role prepared me for the next role. So let's take the example of my role active. So i joined as a software engineer to build a mobile app android app but what i found myself doing is building. The app was easy. It convincing people. That mobile was different. You have to think differently to do mobile in the right way took more effort and i think people saw this natural tendency. Me that yeah. She's able to claim difficult topics in in in english ready easily and she into next to its people and and that's how people's think. Hey we're looking for this evangelist role. And i think you'll make a great reggie so it just happened naturally. Honestly i wasn't ready then Both roles for some time before. I finally took on the evangelist. So that was the first transition within pellet certified you there was another transition then if you remember the times around two thousand fourteen fifteen maybe had real crunch four mobile developers so what people quad was via such breed engineering talent within deep can be training. Groom them to become great mobile developers. Can we do that. And that's how. I came in because of my experience as a dividend mobile developer myself and then my role as an evangelist working with thousands of people. Can i create that excitement with the baby pal around mobile and create great mobile developers within. So i took up the challenge and created that mobile program for bat. So i think all of these transitions happened naturally. The skills that quiet in one grohl really helped me in my second road. So you know it's just building scale on top of the other that led me to these different rules very nice pregnancy..
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"people" Discussed on Software People Stories
"This project blast. It was something. Like what stipe does but skype at that time was trying to do it on laptops or what i should say. Desktop said that diamond. We're trying to do the same pink on le'ts so i believe the technology wasn't ready yet so we decided difference style became a huge hit after that i was smitten by this mobile buck and i really wanted to do something in mobile fi in so i stopped. I joined motorola. And i joined as a software engineer in work there for for six years and i worked on mobile operating systems specifically the feet of security on how to hardened mobile operating systems. So i did that. Trimble by law parading systems because those the times where. There weren't any androids dialysis and every company was trying to build a platform like sach. So i don't believe that forms the spectrum was scrapped because of performance issues the second platform because lennox jara and it was later on open source to limo foundation saw limited success in latin america in china platform. My work was was enjoyed early on. I had my code in the android platform and that used to be that. I absolutely enjoyed those six wonderful years at motorola after that i moved to pay. Nra's among the first androids engineers that they hired to build their android app for people found myself. Doing a lot of evangelism there in the initial one year rivaled goal from one team to the other end explained to the team. How mobile was very different to working on the desktops and in doing this for one year up people started pointing out that tragedy of make for a great list. And that's how i moved into. The evangelism rolled there. I became the first mobile angeles for paypal. For north america and i toured north america extensively would with developers. They're in and out helping them. Integrate people in their apps working startups. Who are trying to start their own business and the meeting plenty of people across the world a during those times. I also started writing my book and completed my book on android application security. So that was my stints with. After that i moved to detroit travek the role. There was to work extensively with the stock tops. Setup the innovation centre for the asia-pacific region. I did that for three years and then moved. Onto microsoft's there was the first hire to stocks the air developer marketing program for india..
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"Should be really good. I'm a super super aside. That's great especially as you expand in. You're able to work with more people. I think that's fantastic my next question. What drew you to this work. Initially so i studied is relevant politics unique and then what's in a few different organizations in london. Gop is asian adored determine based flag and then ended up wacky co at different sanction Came up actually really enjoyed putting people with employment and sculptor season. Just met people from the kind of walker moffat crowns grace. What about you. yeah. I think me very similar stories. Jody in the. I didn't expect the i would be by now. I didn't expect. I love working with people as much as i do. I think i has struggled my own mental health and been on a real journey with that. And i think only when i was in working supporting people did i really understand more about me through the people that was working with who kind and so understanding and had so much an insight into themselves and into other people i really learned so much and i think from then i couldn't really imagine doing anything else. We are providing opportunities to people we are offering support for these people are the most incredible people who have the most incredible skills and amazing insight into things on the just about providing those opportunities. So yeah always am curious about that. I feel like. I've spent twenty years trying to figure out what i wanna do with my life and one thing that you mentioned at the beginning was you're helping the people that you implied to figure out what they want to do with their life thinking really hard to do. It's always disobedience to see how people land up where they do any work that they enjoy by really loved the selection things that should pull quick for ourselves. Bosses in this process is a huge driver. we wanted with an orange skills in that on business rate exciting div any stories of those employees that have gone through your program that you could share one of the best trainees we have. We actually on as an employee in september. She came to us that she even love animals that washes with us really sized to think about. Actually i really like during is in other people and supporting kind of pretty wanting programs so on off actually to help us develop the training program which is amazing to have flood Off very prego when it started the now managing that program. She's incredible she's absolutely just thrived in this role on is during my drove to phrase to challenges with our ideas and days and we hopeful she had taught she fulltime. Actually thirteen assisi Full with is where to get on polite. You're saying they won't sue and trying to think things out if using bites it to see if it's something you wanna do day. I foresee a proud she. She's Yeah we'll have them one of our recent trainees who's just been with us a few weeks. They really talk just the other day because she came to us and she said that she feels like she's achieved more in the last couple of weeks coming to pose chaz The last five years and that she actually feels really happy and then she takes photos of the dogs and she looks at them throughout the week to cheer off before she comes back again on. It just really touched us. Because i think it was racial as well that we actually delivering what we hope to deliver on. Yes this makes Late night snow. No holidays what he credited beyond with it when you get that kind of bra and it sounds like you have a lot of experience from everybody. Who's there having gone through issues in your own life that you can share and understand what people are experiencing at a much deeper level while he's growing and figuring out our own life but when we can share that with others i think there's a powerful effect of everybody growing from that and learning from that. So that's super cool learning and the growing like works both ways and he realized that. Then how can you not like 'cause average eyesight annual. You'll learning so what's your vision for pas and pause while donation. We definitely wanna expand across london and fluid to like big. We'd love to franchise or guy we really believe in what we're doing and we think it combines lazy grace stuff so yeah at the moment wearing bake i think world domination would be perfect because dogs were running this planet. I think would be just so much better off. It'd be much happier more at peace. We all know how to sit down and just be quiet. That's super exciting. That you've got a second location. That's coming up in two thousand and twenty one. And i just love all the things that you're doing. What's the best way for people to find out about you. Instagram polls in pools cools in doak polls polls in stoke on instagram leads a key content and the color social stuff. We're doing it's well i should have sputtered out earlier. Because it's paws and be a usc spent confused. Who's listening to and not reading it by steph fantastic organization. Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today. It's fun to hear your story. I lived in london for nine years. And so i just always love things that are happening. Usually not especially where they both dogs. Thank you save much. Wiggle ranks we've been talking about. They got what is fantastic. Thank you so much for..
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"Confidence is so important. Yeah i think having the confidence to have on fiction and have a competency think today the experts that or something agree to one and so people felt like. They can't do that all the way to get better that today people have achieved something out of complete to something and still To move forward with it and got the tools to be more azaleas. Actually it might. It might be hard to get that up. She he looked like or you're going to be steadfast. Now i will see may apply for the next day and i'm going to be a k. And shell got now. Imports incipient didn't develop to have the confidence today than stinks. Select people wet Thing for somebody who's coming out of addiction. How long does it typically take to really get their feet back on the ground. I'm not sure that that is the right amount of time for anybody. I think everybody is on their own individual journey. And that's gonna look clearly different for each person if somebody has maybe even in for five ten fifteen twenty is is gonna take a long time to rebuild spell lives and find out who they are without the substance which is really had. A part of what was really important to us is actually. You are so much more than this thing that you'll feel having trouble with at the moment you're all these other wonderful climates. And that's a real once you coming off that substance trump takes role and which you might not have the opportunity. The full today is how pieces string. It's it's completely different to each press. In a more each person needs sometimes getting into employment quite swiftly can be really key for someone's recovery this becomes popular entity it's something that proud of and it keeps on that momentum but this is going to be much much longer than that and i think it's really important the each individual to be on their own journey and support and empower to understand what they need rather than programs switch. Are y'all that substance into a job and you often see kind of merry go round effect where people not ready and not supported enough and they come back around into treatment again having lapsed but having probably being put into obsession with They just were not ready. What are some of the things that can help. Prepare people for going back into the workforce where we start when we want someone is. How'd you know where to start when you don't to stop what you do if you've got to this point and it can feel overwhelming. You've got all these chain. We will go no opportunities like reggie saw just breaking it down looking at what he good at what you enjoy. What kind of excites you not have been at school if someone has not really ruled that since then or it could be just let trying new things now. Finding is it. The ally wheels do like hotter skills like cd's and interviews and applying for jobs. Not so great but really what it's about finding out wants to do. What makes them tech. What's going to work for them in their life and what's going to be sustainable completed mentioned managing women's health in the workplace. So how when you get back into work. How are you going to keep yourself safe how to know what you're right saw at. What what can you ask for. Can you send empowered to have these sanctions as well. It's interesting when you say about knowing about your rights at work. Can you tell me a bit more about that. Hailey few have a recognized disability. You have the right to have things put in place so that he can do that job and that includes mental health as well as people's physical house things lot. We call the reasonable adjustments. His if people will need things put into place at justice times all a different way that they're managing my communicate with them not make a wound sustained many different things. Actually employers can do to make people feel supported here at what places guessing they all recognize saying that they need to support people in in these ways but it still got a long way to guy manages off. Lately in san jose's and things getting up to speed with these things. Because ultimately making the planes safer wackos in that entrust get a huge number of people in who leaves jobs because of that mental. How when if it was a physical health problem would have been given the right support too much in that. Drop a given time off wires. We just don't see that people just stick around mental health substance cheese that people were quite alleviate drove rather than seek support within wet websites that they need and the more conversations. We will have around. The stigma can likely make sense that a four employees and employers will. That makes a lot of sense. I've always noticed that mental health is one of those things that's difficult to talk about because it's outward for people or people really don't understand it so it's easier to avoid things that you don't understand to actually have those conversations when at the end of the day at sometimes like just that curiosity and able to talk about it can change how somebody recovers just at the. They're in a place that feels welcoming or they can be themselves and it's okay. Yeah absolutely it. We spend majority Life in a workplace and more than from anywhere else just fails to be the place that is safe and supportive and that you can actually thrive in and where we have in place that can enable about how the customers of pause and pause reacted towards your mission in your social enterprise they love. There's not really any other dog daycare or doke. Businesses have a social mission as well. So i think they liked the fact that they're going off to a place that's also doing good and by default they are also doing good by pointing polls oppose. It means you don't get like loads of extra. Cuddles liz extra attention so i think auto parents left as well and i think they just like the idea of investing in that community is welcome giving back in some way. We've really positive feedbacks. Initially we didn't know what was going to happen. So when we first thought was oppose a toned down the marketing of the social element because we still for some of our initial research. That people would be a bit wary of hesitant. The words addiction and mental illness is still have a huge of stigma. But actually since we saw it we found that that hasn't been the case. Customers have chosen us because of what we day. And so we've been able to sharon more about that on the forefront of the way that we talk about possibles which is really great and it was kind of breaks down stigma to vote because people can see that audrey knees adjust slight unify the himselves with just had a different journey recent among they really important office breaking down the stigmas while of thinking what if there's no visible difference to people and people have so much to gave him so many skills and so much talent is just an opportunity he really coefficients been christ. Was this the first business that you started. We have not run before. So it's been.
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"Pause on our podcast as a guest today not only because i love dogs but my own volunteering with the samaritans in london gave me insight into how much are meant to help. Impact our ability to thrive. Jody and grace started pause and paused. Twenty nineteen as a social enterprise doggy daycare center providing opportunities for the unemployed recovering from mental health and addiction. So let's dive in an what this means grace. Jody welcome on the podcast having us. Can we start off. Can you tell us a little bit. About what pauses pose a a dog daycare so we look off people stokes during the day a bit like a nursery like children but folks and then long side that we provide employment training programs for people in recovery from mental health and ups addiction. So that's why the pools and pools come intertwines. The dokes are motivator for people to attend and the dokes. Extra cuddles from the extra people that around love that now. How did the two of you get started. We met He is the guy walking to get the full mondays. Which is i So we on a project to get the wacky with people recovering from stuff. She make decisions and think about them except in that life so during that time when we started to bring dokes into what could that's true for the dogs game so the impacts that had we people and the people that wanted to sue volunteer what without a host and there was any opportunities say off the trading out think about who different ideas we am came up with polls started it and you start at twenty nineteen. Yeah so ages we going back and forth with different ideas we knew we wanted to combine dogs and animals with mental illness in recovery. But we weren't quite sure what we're gonna do. We spent about a year and a half like going back fluids thinking of different days and how we do it going with really big ideas and then bringing down smaller anna concept and then we finally decided on a dog daycare we really wanted a business that would fund itself so then we found all venue in eight pro men than we saw it from this so you had about six months of running before covid hit. Yeah exactly we closed for like about three months. And then when the restrictions to left in england way reopened and then everybody goes doke in lockdown. I think the latest figures From one of the british newspapers was the uk has like two point nine extra million dollars so we weren quite lucky industry. Wow and we announced that quite quickly. that's super cool. I'd love to go back a little bit to the volunteering. You're doing at saint. Mongo's i'd just love to hear like what you heard from working with people who are homeless or experiencing mental health and some of the struggles that they were facing. Yes the the people. We were Directly supporting why fat to us screen. chiefs takes say the majority of people experience missing some form in the blue ink out street homelessness. Initially actually it encompasses a huge of a free for people affected people into separate housing. The safest -nificant the abe's local churches and it's the people in that situation of doing anything steady. What appointment is possible that the people that we generally what the on that projects. Why lots leaving about. What kind of Jim median to most stable coordination. And so now thinking about snacks. Actually he locked people. That was so daunting because they have to hades. Just no. I did today. So we were employed to radi. Fight this on the employment. Elephants will actually what required custodians around the kind of social skills house unity in touch mccray house to figure out what enjoy. We really had a fake. Some pekingese flon and do silvio isn't thinking out on this other extinctions said we go out and day trips and to call in thought pau theme parks with actually. That was a huge thing people to have some kind of normality and start living at the and then we could get sued scale filled up confidence and then think about the steps. I'm assuming i we've really tried to bring in opposing paul. How do you bring that into positive. Pause yeah i guess we really try and bring in as much fun as possible. Causes super important to us. The adults have a really fun day. A may playing all day a national that kind of trump says to chinese row who is really important for us. They have a fun day when they're when they're in office and to playing with dogs interacting with dogs. Which kind just gives us on a slight sense of normality a slight escapism from maybe the kind of overwhelming challenges that they might be facing at that time and just actually just have a bright for minute. Harlot dog play with the dog. Less de wine to know bet before we start lifting. What does the training program look like. We recruit trainee stephen number of different channels in the community. Who have in initial will sing. Santa fe like being around the environment and than stay with us one day a week for six months so thank info is will go after to them. Having gained season fenosa people developed like little projects on the rain. Say someone might be interested in working with animals and then they develop an enrichment project. Full them all involved in some of the mole kind of positive as health checks or someone that more about barium something that requires like atmosphere recession media pretty get involved in business side with acid still who knows areas. The idea was that during the six months. Chinese really fail. Employable fail light. They've got confidence in this. Go make decisions about the next steps. What i know say or thing to try. What will is around how. We're gonna manage the mental health for makita back into the workplace. So is the state rather than seventy point protests match people with the job. And that's not common guy. Actually i to make people fail like they got the to set position style. Staring forward make decisions that can increase their wellbeing. Am's longtime decisions. Ma that sounds like a very important point that whatever mental health experiences you have. They don't disappear overnight and so you need some long term strategy. For here's i'm gonna be successful in the long term and it's not just. Here's a job that you can go to but you mentioned the confidence multiple times. You're building confidence in your own skills. So that you'll be successful in the future. Can you talk a little bit about why that.
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"And so going back to clark county where we started with them when they were stuck during covid two and a half three years later they brought together sixty representatives from different organizations. Who two and a half years ago never would have worked together. Many of whom didn't know each other. Many if they had been brought together would have been protecting their turf and fighting over resources now during cova they came together to make sure that their mental health services that kids involved cracks during distance. Remote learning that people that i know you deal with homelessness that they could begin to address the systemic issues around homeless in make sure people weren't going to get victims from their homes or from their rental apartments and so now they've created this collective response to covid the two and a half years ago never would have happened. That all happened after we left. And that's nudie of this work. I love that now when this works starts like how many people really need to come together to kick this off the ground. Yeah that's a really great question. I used to think know as much younger than we were doing this work. I used to think it was hundreds of people. And in fact in some cuny's we did bring hundreds of people together to take them through our lab and everything and i thought it was one hundred and twenty five people and then i thought it was and in some communities depending on the size. It's like one hundred people in jackson mississippi. We just brought together. As i mentioned about fifty people in these three educational equity communities that were launching. That mentioned in usually. I think it's going to be twenty five people what we've learned essentially the lesson here. Is that small groups of people if they come together and can adopt a different mindset and can start to use different practices in how they're going to engage people in these conversations you mentioned and also sparked change beyond the conversations that small groups of people can catalyze that a catalyzed that can begin to spread these ideas and practices to others and ultimately over time. You have hundreds of people in the community doing this but it doesn't have to start with hundreds of people that's the beauty of it and and that's actually the power of it and i think last thing i'll say about this is i discovered this in our work overtime but if you read about how ideas have spread throughout socialization if you read about how religion has spread if you read about have american revolution started if you read about how the civil rights movement started it always started with small groups of people that ultimately spread out over time and enlisted more and more allies as they were going and our work is different and it seems like they need to have something very clear that they can share in order to bring more people into that and keep that affect growing and multiplying. I think what they have to have is an ability to. I understand what really matters to people in an ability to understand that everyone regardless of their station life is trying to create a better life for themselves and for others and so the work is not rooted in simply articulating. The problems in society. Although we need to recognize what those are the reality that we live in it's articulating a possibility for the future. That's actionable.
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"That i referred to didn't quite fit liking professional coaching. As an example one of the important stances of professional coach is neutrality in terms of outcome and content as an eggshell coach. I bring a deliberate bias towards agility. That's a that is a definite deliberate conscious bias that i bring in my coaching interactions. So i can't necessarily hold that neutral stunts. i will bring the hey. What would an agile approach be with this initiative with this challenge so we did feel that there was a space. There was an opportunity to open this up and define a code of ethical conduct for agile coaching. And that's what this this volunteer group. And i'm just one of thirty two people so it i've done. I've been fortunate to be able to do a facilitation but it. It wasn't me it was it was the the group of people who did it together. And we've had wonderful disc actions and extensive debates and there is now a publish draft code of conduct for joe coaching that you can download and view view and download from the edge alliance. Yeah i think that's spoken like a true facilitator Neighbor and it also distilled to just about. Eighteen points does not pages and pages that i need to read asked me to be closed off the episode. I have one question for you. Somewhat related to the code of ethics if somebody was to consider a role as a coach educator in giant. What would your guidance beat before. Even i have to sign the go to bed. Do i have it in me to a coach. Well do you came more about the outcomes for other people than for yourself Can you take the stunts of a servant leader and is it okay to not be the center of attention but to allow other people is when you do your job really well. Nobody notices you disappear in the background. And that's good but you have to be comfortable to allow that to happen. Simple words but profound. I think that's something that on should consider. Guess before jumping in 'cause nowadays you find everybody wanting to be everything. The latest fat and i have that label on the shoulder and so have a look at the at the code of ethical conduct. And say these things that i can align with that i can hold up and say i will behave like this on that note chain. I think you can wrap up this conversation but does together. Few more things and definitely. Hopefully soon we should be able to share. I look forward to it. Thank you so much for having me..
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"Your knowledge your advice but you're offering it to people it's up to them to take it and do something with And it's really found it really important to recognize that quite early on that. You can't make somebody learn. That is a choice that they make now. Fortunately the vast majority of people who came to the courses would they because they wanted to live. They had a desire to private training organisation doing training inside companies or offering public causes. Generally the people who am on. The glass wants to be. You don't get many prisoners in las room but when you do come across those people you have to be able to accept that. That's their choice. Now why are you. Why are you here because the bus told me to come okay. Well let's see if we can find some value for you in this time but if we can't that's also okay. The choice is is in the in the participants hand and we talk about the most participants in a training. Then i'll stay up but it's they have people who are participating in their own learning and that's a choice. Yeah it's a nice way to put it. In fact from teaching they melda change to learning. It's an organization's don't say trainers that facilitate bologna good participants. How does this participation. at how has it changed postcode. Who what i see and certainly this is something we've seen in. Ics jal is the the massive shift from in person courses to remote learning. Had you asked me a year and a half ago can remote learning be as good as in person learning. I would have said absolutely not at. I edge joe. We did a year before covid. We had actually come up with criteria for what good remote learning..
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"A financial institution so my first commercial programming was in actually was in assembler on ibm mainframes for a financial institution we will look. We were working on the teller systems for the for the mainframe and ibm technology. The old green screen the big mechanical keyboards the keyboards. That really went click. Click click. then. I stayed with that organization for the contracted year and at the end. I was not entirely happy with the way things worse. I was looking around for something different. And i joined another financial institution. Who at that stage were doing. We were doing pretty interesting stuff in terms of the what we called. End user computing van. So this was again using mainframe but Looking at putting into the hands of the of the the uses the customers the ability to design reports and query data and so forth. So i was part of a small team of six people who were supporting the end user community so i got a if i look back at it. I was sitting down next to real world customers. We were building a piece showing it to them. Getting feedback changing it and it was iterative. It was incremental. It was customer focused was rapid. Learning at sounds remarkably like agile to me. And this we were doing nineteen ninety-three nice faint very happy. Five years with with that organization doing that and then moved into starting my own company. My wife and i founded a a business doing support and software development for initially for anyone I've i've been incredibly fortunate in that role again. This was the early nineteen eighties. they i think they quieted the second or third ibm personal computer. The original pc sif running running dos and they might manager at the time because we were in that induce a computing in this was seen to be a an injury technology. They gave it to me and say see what we can do with this. So i really got into the pc revolution right at around level. There might only programming and at at how we could apply those technologies and use these tools. I did feel that the time that one of the nicest peripherals you can have for. A personal computer is a thirty nine. Hundred model.
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"Maximum duka is joining us. Founder of the media platform our good brands as well as the social impact. Branding agency for pineapples. Our brands is just a fantastic up for social impact. Resources and collaborative community space to help worldwide consumers at brands make better decisions. So welcome on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me today. I'm very excited to be on your amazing podcast. You tell us a little bit about the story of our good brands years. Absolutely our could brands by entertainment. Hop for brands were white consumers to make better decisions. The way started some usa leaving australia for five years. And when i got there wanted to participate in events getting bored with the community and i found that about an event that was all about social. They couldn't crisis. I had never heard of them before. I was just a market. Dr who had worked for clients for more swords organizing big events and i found quite anti away so when i started to like volunteer for these event there were people from like organizations social enterprises that were talking in the panners about building a new and better economy and how we can create business in at the same time through something. Good for the word from that moment. I basically decided that. I never again wanted to work for normal brand anymore. And i found myself researching ron that were in that category and i just had so much passion but at the same time i also felt i had so much to learn so basically put on a combo all the things that were. I was good at which is prove me Riding a marketing and Interviewing i'm very curious what i did was start interviewing the founders of those amazing brands so that i could learn more and today i can say that. I'm an expert in the sector across our fashion technology. Traveling really any category. That then goes down to the social contract price on ethical business. Yes i started browns and the same gone for pineapples which is really to serve more than marketing needs and when it comes to our good brand is more than contemplate form got it and it's it's not just a magazine but it's more of a hub. Correct without good grants were door. There is a bunch of created multi media and different entertainment options so the related to sustainability ethical living bicycle consumption eco-friendly trends and waste to like create new habit. in our goal is related to raise awareness share stories of those amazing brands and the people behind them in. What's their mindset. We basically tried to make everything more Powering positive moving away from the struggle. Lack the Negative news and just explaining the problem because nowadays go and tried to research a little bit about this and you basically just fine all the problems but not so much the solutions so i was very focused on sharing the positive news and so what we do here is to really approach all the information that's available out there with different movements intent and trains and we make it a little bit more fun and really these east to approach the concept of sustainability to the broader. Because reality irani's busy. Everyone is working. Sometimes we don't have a budget. And i want to break a bit. Those taboos with sustainable living has more expensive and i approached the content from different formats words. When you can find podcasts. You can find created books and commentaries. Quick talks fellows who have no time at all blogs and magazines ako guides or which we can dive in more e books that they can download so let everyone finds their ride format to consume the right time so we go to the busy moms to their adventurous travelers who eventually care about saving wildlife or the technology obsess people those who are like really in love with fashion but have decided that they could do it in olympic beta so when it comes to y were hop is because it is really a collaborative platform as they said we've got in on board some of the best podcasters in the sustainable spacer on the word and we've created just the page where everyone can listen right from our good brands to all the new chapters that are coming in we get onboard bloggers and that's basically didn't have to be a writer or an also quite the opposite you can just be a citizen was mission who starting a project and wants to share with the word wants to talk about a specific topic they are very good at and want to share their expertise and then on the other hand we also like to work with sustainable ethical brands who need uninvited moron exposure and it's awesome because we get to really collaborate and have a space were we nurturing challah and we help each other out and i just want to highlight this point that if somebody is starting out and trying to get their head around what they can do in this space our good brand is just such a great place for seeing so many different ideas of what's going on and listening to what people are actually doing in the space that succeeding it's laid out and just a very easy way to get to information to help give you ideas and help connect with people that actually creating change a lot it's not now i'm curious you said you moved to australia five years ago when you grew up in spain i'm curious just wet some of the differences are that you noticed living in australia from spain when it comes to australia for example men burn is one of the leaving cities in sustainability some of the best brands that are there in australia are base in melbourne and it's also the most cultural bay city australia's very new country and he's got a lot of influence from all like people internationally who come there for a period of time or slightly longer i did however it's a very new country and melbourne is the most cultural place our there's people like there's a lot of our developed men and events and eat seems that you have had a big impact when it comes to creating this new economy that's around so shine a creditor price but in general when you go to places like the gold coast respond or any other city where live studies very important in big focus for the city sentencing there are Tend to move to more healthy type of lifestyle and sometimes that involves starting to choose brands. That had don't have any mika's oviously australia on the other hand. He surrounded by ocean and a beautiful environment. People are more towards to protect the planet. You can scale of zero waste stores. Cafes with smoothies and using bamboo straws or metallic stroz instead of plastic in the streets of more approach. Believe was the economy australia. Some i think that has a big impact in following the trends to move towards a future.
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"We actually had one judge that had nominated actually make it through to be in the judge panel so we had a great first year. We had a good ratio and then covert happened so push pushback on a lot of the end. It was postponed. And i think this year a lot of companies were founded. So i've been working all year to pay in filter through a lot of the companies that applied and i can't say too much about this year's startups. There'll be announced very shortly by south by southwest. But i think we have some good odds for representations who got it now. Have you noticed anything with the steps that really shine through this process that they're doing. Are that some part yeah. I think the biggest trend that i'm seeing is that there is tangible. Measurable and actionable impact. That all of these companies share so a lot of times. We speak of impact in a social enterprise or social setting. And i think there is this new wave of profitable impact where you can still be helping thousands of people in different communities and still be making a lot of money and they're not mutually exclusive. I think that's the only way forward when you're still able to make money Have a reverse effect on the community that you're in the resources the environment you're really moving everything forward with you and i think that's one trend that i saw i saw a lot in fintech and giving access to unbagged populations across the world. I saw lodden logistics and getting people where they need to go and the movement of goods were importantly which is really important. I think that's something that we saw from covid. Even where a lot of businesses were not covid resistance because they still relied on more traditional ways of doing business. And i think from this year's applications. I've seen a lot more did I've seen a lot more automation of things than people really going online in a more fruitful and impactfully so those are really cool to see and it's interesting to see how much innovation was spurred from. Cova just impacting the way people interact into business. It's changed a lot of companies which are hanging onto old ways. I think your constant state of being should be just being like agile and adoptable. Because i think if you're to set in your ways not even a business setting just in a life study if you were to set in your ways and you're not really able to absorb the changes around ju- then you'll be really unhappy person and i think even just putting yourself in other people's shoes being more empathetic to the situations of those around you that's also just been a global trend and i think that trickles down to business i think businesses now really need to care about like their impact way more than their bottom line because their bottom line is a direct result of their impact. I think now that was also really big trend. I wanted to add in applications. I think just the social movements that have taken place across the world across the united states. And just you people wanting more equity and equality. That was also really big change. I think those conversations are being hot in every household in every government and every country. So i i'm not surprised that people are waking up and taking into their business so that's also been really cool to see.
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"Whatever platitude you watch just really trying to make this system a little bit better for fellow humans. How while tiger t started was born out of a podcast with and bishop. Who's the ceo of the star house. Which is the drop in center for youth experiencing homelessness where wild tiger t operates. But on that podcast he was talking a little bit about wanting to start a work programme for the youth to give them some direct experience and support. I left that podcast. And i think an inspiration hit me which i formulated into an idea but i didn't know how to develop it. So that's what brought to get back to see if i could flush that out and so one. We had that partner to start off with which was really helpful. We were addressing a need that they had identified in. Didn't quite have the resources to fully dive in and we were able to start from there but as we continued on and we started working in the star house where we learned how complex it is. It's not hey here's a job okay. Youth homelessness is solved and the story. Life is good. Everybody just is coming from such different backgrounds. We really had to work with people one on one and we realized we would never be the formal program that would give them the support that they needed so we started doing so partnerships with columbus works. Which is a fantastic group here in town. That has a training program but also access to jobs which are more supportive and a better fit for the youth in our situation. We learned over time that the youth get jobs all the time go and work in fast food and warehouses and they lasted those jobs for two to three weeks and they get fired because they have no support and no no how and it's just not a good fit for where they are. Start working on associated. You learn a lot about it and you realize hey i can partner with these other organizations to make a difference and i can solve this piece of the puzzle to help enable some change. Entrepreneurship is hard. That's the other thing is really fun. I think it's the most fun and exciting when you first get the idea and every win in every impact point is fun after that but a lot of it's challenging and what you were just saying about it would be great if we could just come up with an idea and boom youth homelessness solved but i hate to be the very bad news of the side gas but any issue where it's just going to be a boom solved. I think there's a lot of issues that we can completely eradicate in our lifetime. I'm very optimistic about art in so many different sectors. But i think like you have to go in with realistic expectations of when you're scoping out what your impact will be. Where can i be the most impactful and while you were talking i thought of another social enterprise is not a giveback alumni team but it's a attack nonprofit startup social enterprise all the buzzwords basically..
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"And again like assess and build another test basically. Hopefully you're making progress here. Hopefully you get some good feedback and maybe some constructive feedback that this out might be helpful. But these features aren't right or the service is great. But i don't know if it needs to be technology based to you can start to make tweaks and then you run another test and basically do that over and over again and if you're successful you're growing as you do that. I'd say that renter mentor. One of our previous seems as an incredible example of like iterative design for social impacts technology. Because they had the came with this idea. That was this very complicated tech product. If you're a developer d- it's not something you can make a weekend. That's an idea that has to a front end and back end it's for two different users in matches a lot of complicated input data portal which is something that's easily done like other people have done it but it does take a lot of time and money so they started simple they started with running focus groups so they started with focus groups in asking folks like hey you're looking for section eight housing you our landlord who house section eight housing. Let's we can match you together and fix some of this friction. Their next phase they learn a ton their next phase they started actually just matching folks at no one to one basis so people would send an email and they just one person jerry valentine his team maybe yeah so all of them but they would match people and they matched up to thirty five people with housing last year just by doing that now. They got into their third iteration. Were they have hotline that you can call. Because they learn what folks need and they're providing more direct access to it and their next phase will be launching technology. That will start to have some of the features that their original idea had which is a hard thing to do. Because us i think as people as humans and entrepreneurs fall in love with ideas and so we get really sucked in excited about executing this idea. We have in our head which i think. Sometimes it's great. And i don't want to be the debbie downer. That's don't go after your dreams because you should but if you're trying to make an impact you have to do it thoughtfully to make sure you're not harming anyone along the way and hopefully that we have more money in time and resources going towards impact if you want to climb mount everest and that your dream you don't start by running up the hill..
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"Allowing yourself the gift of slowing down and paying attention to what's I think learning more if you don't already know learning more about growth mindset and the possibility for learning and improvement change in evolution over time is probably a good one. 'cause growth mindset is for me what's going to be. I've been really sad the last few weeks about what's going on in my country and feeling like i don't understand have so many people on quite frankly. Both sides of the political spectrum can be so angry in so convinced. The people on the other side of the political spectrum are bad and thoughtless. And if you listen to the rhetoric on either side it's like they're spewing the same hate on both sides those other people are all about themselves are aren't fair. Are whining about this the other. It's not fair some anger in. It's really hard. I was born a happy optimist. Also acknowledged. I was born with white privilege and i want to do what i can to address that and to be a part of change and i don't understand that makes me sad to think about how angry people are so the only thing that keeps me going. These days is knowing that we can change knowing the just because this is the way it is doesn't mean this is the way that it has to be and that we're going to have some hard conversations and really look at ourselves and understand what are we doing inadvertently or consciously to the causes this strife and what committed to change it growth mindset. I think is going to help. So i want to be mindful. I want to be aware of what's going on. But i also want to know that people really do change and evolve. It can get better and we're not always going to be here this horrible thing that we're going through right now as a country in culture isn't the weather has to be forever and we.