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Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Apathy Among YSAs
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on leading saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each episode, individual which we will link in the show notes. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Kastrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At The Table. Welcome to the At The Table podcast. I'm Jared Pearson. I'm here with Kami. Hi. And we're really excited today to be having Wendy Ulrich on our show, and we'd like to start with a little bit of introduction on Wendy's behalf. I don't know what's the most relevant here. I'm a psychologist by training, and I've served on the General Relief Society Council for a couple of years. Retired from that in August and taught at BYU, written some books. So right now, teaching institute down for a YSA stake in Provo, and really enjoying that. My husband and I do that every week, have for a couple of months, several years now. The whole time COVID's been running in before, so that's where we are. And met Jared in one of those institute classes and wards down there. So nice to see you again. Let me just say that was a wonderful institute class and probably still is. I need to attend again. But today I think we're talking a little bit about apathy and the YSAs and how to kind of tackle that, what it looks like. And I just want to pose the question first to you, Wendy. Is there apathy in the YSA setting or in YSA wards among both participants or leaders or what have you seen, especially in your assignments, to a ward down in Provo? The ward that we've been involved with, the stake we've been involved with, are some of the most remarkable young adults. I think I know the two people sitting in front of me on the screen that I can see a little of anyway being among them. So you tell me, what do you think about that? You're more engaged in that group with that audience. You've got more connections than I do. What do you think the issue is there? I also have been surrounded by great friends and I've been part of great wards and stakes. At the same time, I have also noticed a lot of those great friends kind of step away from the church or they just have no interest in being a part of the church anymore. And I feel like a lot of the things that I've gathered from them are just social things that are going on. The majority of them have felt like a lot of the things that they want to do that society is offering them are conflicting with their beliefs and they just decide not to have that conflict anymore and they want to do things that feel right for them. And they decide that, in their own words, that the church or the gospel is something that has served them, but not anymore. That's what I've noticed in my experience with my friends and in my community. I've had a really similar experience. Typically, I feel like I've had a very pleasant experience in wards and different activities and I've been surrounded with wonderful people who make me feel really included. On the flip side, I've had the opportunity to both serve in colonies where I'm in contact with people or just friends. We're a little bit disenfranchised with both going to church and being actively engaged in a lot of church -type things. This could be in the form of they get a calling and they start doubting like, why is this even a calling? And I'll be honest, sometimes I doubt it when it's like your calling is to empty the second trash can on the right. And I say, oh, that's interesting. Did you get set apart though? Was that pleasant? And they said, yeah, it was wonderful. It's a little bit weird. And I'm like, yeah, I understand that. On the other hand, sometimes it's, you know, my parents have been really involved in this. I'm doing it to make them proud, but I'm sort of not feeling it. And that's a lot more frequent. I had it in the past, but it's not really doing anything for me now, like what Cammy was saying. And that's more frequent than I feel like finding someone in the church to have problems with. It's just not finding enough there to begin with. And at least that's how I'd addressed apathy in the church rather than like antagonism inside as well. Yeah, I think that's helpful to think about. When have been the times in our lives when we felt most committed and engaged with something and what are the times when it no longer really seems to be serving us? A lot of times there are, I think there's a whole group of people for whom the apathy is really sort of about fear, fear of getting really engaged. Maybe I don't really feel like I'm capable of handling this, or, you know, I don't really find it. I'm a little nervous about really getting involved, but I think more often what I hear the two of you describing is more of a feeling of, this isn't really working for me. It doesn't really seem like I'm as engaged as I want to be. I'm not finding meaningful, purposeful things to do as part of my church experience that really helped me live my values in ways that matter to me or build relationships or develop talents or gifts that are important to me. And that's where I think good leadership can really come in and be really important. As leaders, I think sometimes we're trying to sort of spare people. We recognize how busy young single adults can be and how important their education is or their work or their relationships or things that they're doing. So we're trying to maybe not get them too busy because we don't want to overwhelm people. But on the other hand, sometimes there's just not enough to do to make it feel like a meaningful experience at church. And then people kind of give up. We know a little bit about what helps people feel committed and involved with something and gives us a sense of purpose in our lives, of well -being in our lives. And in a lot of ways, the church is great at that stuff. We know people are getting clearer about their values and what matters to them, what they care about, what they really want out of life. And they're seeing ways to live those values. That's one of the things that gives us a sense of meaning and purpose. And the church can do a fantastic job of giving people a sense of what the purpose of life is, what the plan is, what values will help us find happiness and satisfaction in life. But when those are not aligning particularly well, that can certainly be one of the issues that can begin to create a feeling of, I don't know if this is really what I want and if these values are really consistent with what I care about, what I believe. So helping people get clearer about what do you want out of life, what does matter to you can be an important step in addressing that particular issue. Have you ever had anybody kind of ask you questions about, you know, what do you want out of life and thought about what matters to you, what values are important to you? If somebody were to ask you that, do you feel like you could define that pretty clearly at this point or are you still exploring that? Where are you on those kinds of issues? Because of the knowledge of the gospel that I received a few years ago, I have a clearer understanding of what my goals are, what my dreams are, the things that I want to achieve in life. And for me, the gospel is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. It came at an age that was a really hard age. I'm an immigrant and I was 16 and my parents had separated at the moment and I was new to the United States, didn't speak the language, and had a lot of questions about my worth, my purpose, and everything about my life. And that's when I met the missionaries were when the gospel came into my life and it me gave all of these answers that I didn't really know I was looking for. And I have held on to those truths and to all the things that I've learned in the church, in the gospel, all these years. And it has given me a new perspective and a new purpose in life that I don't know how I lived my life without all of these truths and knowledge. So yes, if someone were to ask me, I would be able to tell them what my dreams and goals are because of the knowledge that I have now. Kenny, thank you for sharing that. That's really helpful to me and inspiring to me. I think sometimes the apathy can come when we've lived with these things all of our lives and we haven't really explored them for ourselves. We haven't really seen the contrast that you've experienced. And I'm delighted to know that as you came out of a different place from taking the church sort of for granted that you found a lot of answers here and direction and help. And whether we've been in the church all our lives or we're just finding it for the first time, that's the experience every one of us needs to have at some level. I remember as a young woman, I think 13 years old coming into a Sunday school class for the first time and sort of coming out of primary not very long and thinking, is there anything new here? Is there anything I haven't heard before? Is there any reason to sort of hang around here at the ripe old age of probably 13? And coming into a Sunday school class with a really dynamic teacher who knew the gospel really well and taught me things I'd never really heard or experienced. And I thought, I want to know more about this and began to really do a search of my own. So sometimes it takes a really good teacher, a really good leader to sort of wake our brains up and inspire us to feel like some of the questions we have in life are being answered here. We can find direction. We can find opportunities here to find values and goals and dreams that are important to us. I love Whitney Johnson, who talks about, she's got a book on dating your dreams. She talks about dreams and that it's not just, you don't just automatically know what you want to be when you grow up. You have to sort of figure that out as you go. And as you, she talks about the importance of sort of exploring our dreams and trying things and figuring these things out because we have experience with them. And I think that's one of the things that college and work are so helpful with is giving us an opportunity to experience ourselves in different settings, to get the skills that we need to be able to be successful at something really goes a long way in deciding, yeah, this is what I want to do. You can't really know you want to be a concert pianist until you've got enough skill to be a really good pianist. And that takes a long time. And I think we forget sometimes that the gospel and the church can be the same way. We have to get good at it in order to really feel like I can do this. And I love it when I do, when I'm engaged here and I'm involved with this, I begin to realize that this is exciting. There's stuff here that matters to me. I am learning. I am growing. I'm developing some skills that help me feel confident that I can live the gospel and I can be a disciple of Christ in a meaningful way.
Leading Saints Podcast
Fresh update on "whitney" discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on leading saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each individual episode, which we will link in the show notes. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Kastrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At The Table. Welcome to the At The Table podcast. I'm Jared Pearson. I'm here with Kami. Hi. And we're really excited today to be having Wendy Ulrich on our show, and we'd like to start with a little bit of introduction on Wendy's behalf. I don't know what's the most relevant here. I'm a psychologist by training, and I've served on the General Relief Society Council for a couple of years. Retired from that in August and taught at BYU, written some books. So right now, teaching institute down for a YSA stake in Provo, and really enjoying that. My husband and I do that every week, have for a couple of months, several years now. The whole time COVID's been running in before, so that's where we are. And met Jared in one of those institute classes and wards down there. So nice to see you again. Let me just say that was a wonderful institute class and probably still is. I need to attend again. But today I think we're talking a little bit about apathy and the YSAs and how to kind of tackle that, what it looks like. And I just want to pose the question first to you, Wendy. Is there apathy in the YSA setting or in YSA wards among both participants or leaders or what have you seen, especially in your assignments, to a ward down in Provo? The ward that we've been involved with, the stake we've been involved with, are some of the most remarkable young adults. I think I know the two people sitting in front of me on the screen that I can see a little of anyway being among them. So you tell me, what do you think about that? You're more engaged in that group with that audience. You've got more connections than I do. What do you think the issue is there? I also have been surrounded by great friends and I've been part of great wards and stakes. At the same time, I have also noticed a lot of those great friends kind of step away from the church or they just have no interest in being a part of the church anymore. And I feel like a lot of the things that I've gathered from them are just social things that are going on. The majority of them have felt like a lot of the things that they want to do that society is offering them are conflicting with their beliefs and they just decide not to have that conflict anymore and they want to do things that feel right for them. And they decide that, in their own words, that the church or the gospel is something that has served them, but not anymore. That's what I've noticed in my experience with my friends and in my community. I've had a really similar experience. Typically, I feel like I've had a very pleasant experience in wards and different activities and I've been surrounded with wonderful people who make me feel really included. On the flip side, I've had the opportunity to both serve in colonies where I'm in contact with people or just friends. We're a little bit disenfranchised with both going to church and being actively engaged in a lot of church-type things. This could be in the form of they get a calling and they start doubting like, why is this even a calling? And I'll be honest, sometimes I doubt it when it's like your calling is to empty the second trash can on the right. And I say, oh, that's interesting. Did you get set apart though? Was that pleasant? And they said, yeah, it was wonderful. It's a little bit weird. And I'm like, yeah, I understand that. On the other hand, sometimes it's, you know, my parents have been really involved in this. I'm doing it to make them proud, but I'm sort of not feeling it. And that's a lot more frequent. I had it in the past, but it's not really doing anything for me now, like what Cammy was saying. And that's more frequent than I feel like finding someone in the church to have problems with. It's just not finding enough there to begin with. And at least that's how I'd addressed apathy in the church rather than like antagonism inside as well. Yeah, I think that's helpful to think about. When have been the times in our lives when we felt most committed and engaged with something and what are the times when it no longer really seems to be serving us? A lot of times there are, I think there's a whole group of people for whom the apathy is really sort of about fear, fear of getting really engaged. Maybe I don't really feel like I'm capable of handling this, or, you know, I don't really find it. I'm a little nervous about really getting involved, but I think more often what I hear the two of you describing is more of a feeling of, this isn't really working for me. It doesn't really seem like I'm as engaged as I want to be. I'm not finding meaningful, purposeful things to do as part of my church experience that really helped me live my values in ways that matter to me or build relationships or develop talents or gifts that are important to me. And that's where I think good leadership can really come in and be really important. As leaders, I think sometimes we're trying to sort of spare people. We recognize how busy young single adults can be and how important their education is or their work or their relationships or things that they're doing. So we're trying to maybe not get them too busy because we don't want to overwhelm people. But on the other hand, sometimes there's just not enough to do to make it feel like a meaningful experience at church. And then people kind of give up. We know a little bit about what helps people feel committed and involved with something and gives us a sense of purpose in our lives, of well-being in our lives. And in a lot of ways, the church is great at that stuff. We know people are getting clearer about their values and what matters to them, what they care about, what they really want out of life. And they're seeing ways to live those values. That's one of the things that gives us a sense of meaning and purpose. And the church can do a fantastic job of giving people a sense of what the purpose of life is, what the plan is, what values will help us find happiness and satisfaction in life. But when those are not aligning particularly well, that can certainly be one of the issues that can begin to create a feeling of, I don't know if this is really what I want and if these values are really consistent with what I care about, what I believe. So helping people get clearer about what do you want out of life, what does matter to you can be an important step in addressing that particular issue. Have you ever had anybody kind of ask you questions about, you know, what do you want out of life and thought about what matters to you, what values are important to you? If somebody were to ask you that, do you feel like you could define that pretty clearly at this point or are you still exploring that? Where are you on those kinds of issues? Because of the knowledge of the gospel that I received a few years ago, I have a clearer understanding of what my goals are, what my dreams are, the things that I want to achieve in life. And for me, the gospel is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. It came at an age that was a really hard age. I'm an immigrant and I was 16 and my parents had separated at the moment and I was new to the United States, didn't speak the language, and had a lot of questions about my worth, my purpose, and everything about my life. And that's when I met the missionaries were when the gospel came into my life and it gave me all of these answers that I didn't really know I was looking for. And I have held on to those truths and to all the things that I've learned in the church, in the gospel, all these years. And it has given me a new perspective and a new purpose in life that I don't know how I lived my life without all of these truths and knowledge. So yes, if someone were to ask me, I would be able to tell them what my dreams and goals are because of the knowledge that I have now. Kenny, thank you for sharing that. That's really helpful to me and inspiring to me. I think sometimes the apathy can come when we've lived with these things all of our lives and we haven't really explored them for ourselves. We haven't really seen the contrast that you've experienced. And I'm delighted to know that as you came out of a different place from taking the church sort of for granted that you found a lot of answers here and direction and help. And whether we've been in the church all our lives or we're just finding it for the first time, that's the experience every one of us needs to have at some level. I remember as a young woman, I think 13 years old coming into a Sunday school class for the first time and sort of coming out of primary not very long and thinking, is there anything new here? Is there anything I haven't heard before? Is there any reason to sort of hang around here at the ripe old age of probably 13? And coming into a Sunday school class with a really dynamic teacher who knew the gospel really well and taught me things I'd never really heard or experienced. And I thought, I want to know more about this and began to really do a search of my own. So sometimes it takes a really good teacher, a really good leader to sort of wake our brains up and inspire us to feel like some of the questions we have in life are being answered here. We can find direction. We can find opportunities here to find values and goals and dreams that are important to us. I love Whitney Johnson, who talks about, she's got a book on dating your dreams. She talks about dreams and that it's not just, you don't just automatically know what you want to be when you grow up. You have to sort of figure that out as you go. And as you, she talks about the importance of sort of exploring our dreams and trying things and figuring these things out because we have experience with them. And I think that's one of the things that college and work are so helpful with is giving us an opportunity to experience ourselves in different settings, to get the skills that we need to be able to be successful at something really goes a long way in deciding, yeah, this is what I want to do. You can't really know you want to be a concert pianist until you've got enough skill to be a really good pianist. And that takes a long time. And I think we forget sometimes that the gospel and the church can be the same way. We have to get good at it in order to really feel like I can do this. And I love it when I do, when I'm engaged here and I'm involved with this, I begin to realize that this is exciting. There's stuff here that matters to me. I am learning. I am growing. I'm developing some skills that help me feel confident that I can live the gospel and I can be a disciple of Christ in a meaningful way.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Disney Has Disgraced Itself Once Again
"To show you a video that is put up by Disney. It is a hate filled video, presumably for kids. Let's see, there are two 5 figures, one white, the other is black, and it's, well, you'll hear it. And you can watch it. At my at Salem news channel. Here we go. This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country. Till this land from sea to sea to sea first, it was rice tobacco sugarcane. Then Whitney did his thing and kept him became king and we were its soldiers. 4 million strong fighting for America's freedoms, even though we remained America's slave. Built this country, the descendants of slaves continued to build this slave. Built this country and we the descendants of slaves in America have earned reparations for their self and continued to earn reparations every moment we spent submerged in the systemic pressure. Okay, hold on, hold on. Okay, so and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic, prejudice, racism, and white supremacy. This is the manure. I wish I could use the actual word for manure. That Disney puts out. Disney is an America hating, white hating, lying, despicable, child, innocence, enemy.
AP News Radio
'Avatar: The Way of Water' is the first No. 1 movie of 2023 | EW.com - Entertainment Weekly News
"Avatar the way of water blows away the competition at the box office for a third week. With the latest. This is our home. The Avatar sequel earned another $63 million in movie ticket sales, according to studio estimates, it's actually gaining momentum, earning $7 million more than it did last week. Avatar is way ahead of the number two movie puss in boots the last wish, which made $16 million. Black Panther Wakanda forever is in third place, followed by Whitney Houston. I want to dance with somebody. Babylon is number 5.
Life Transformation Radio
"whitney" Discussed on Life Transformation Radio
"It's so relaxing. If you're sitting there and you're stressed, just stop. Just breathe, just like deep breath and do it Whitney said with contracting and contrasting your different your feed and your legs and your arms and it's so important to connect. Even when you meet people to connect, just when you see someone, you haven't seen in a while or even a family member or a significant other, take a moment and just connect with them. You know, if it's an intimate partner, put your forehead to them and just breathe in and feel the connection. We are incredible human beings that are supported by this incredible universe and we're all about connection and there's a lot of disconnection in the world today. And it's just really important to take time out to breathe and to connect with others because that really that's all we have. Yes, I love that. Thank you. Absolutely. Whitney, I just want to thank you for being here today. You are such a beautiful soul. I'm so glad that we crossed paths. And I really think that you're just going to transform the world in your spirituality and how you are in this universe. Thank you so much, rob. I really appreciate that. And thank you so much for your support and taking the time out of your busy and precious day to listen to life transformation radio. We still appreciate it. Thank you for allowing me along my very special guests to touch your heart, move your soul and inspire you to live a life of transformation. I'm rob actis, take time out to breathe. You got this until next time. This is life transformation radio. Download complete.
Revision Path
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Revision Path
"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
"Was the side. Oh, okay. And the reason why I say that is because I am an entrepreneur like at my heart, and sometimes my husband and I are like, okay, look, we gotta pay some bills around here. We have one, two, three, four kids. Just get a job. So he or I would do that. And done that over the year, yeah, and but the threat, again, has always been, I mean, if you look at my LinkedIn, I've basically worked for myself for the majority of my career and have jumped on other teams or consulted with other teams throughout that time. Freshly given was the only one that was way left field. That was a leather. I found discarded leather in like a country town in North Carolina. And decided, why would people throw away leather? What if we can reintroduce it back and we can reintroduce leather back into the commerce, right? And so that was that project. And that lasted for a while. And that was really fun until I started having kids. One day I'll pick it back up. It'll always be there. It'll always be there. That's what I'm like. We talked about this at the beginning. That's why I'm okay. I'm becoming more, okay with letting stuff go, knowing that life is short, but there's also this long game, right? Like, I get up, and 5 years. And maybe I'll do it even better. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Making it back up. And I put it down for whatever reason. And that's okay too. That's a good thing about having the freedom to do that. But also it just adds to your overall body of work. You've done this thing. You've done it for a certain amount of years and you decided not to do it anymore and people may feel some kind of way about it, but if you want to pick it up later, you can. And if you don't, you don't. 'cause you know that you have the capacity to always come up with something new. Absolutely. Yeah. How have you sort of built your confidence over the years as a creative professional? A lot of talking to myself in the mirror, honestly. A lot of prayer, a lot of realizing that people have been here before. I have to be careful and maybe other millennials can relate. I have to be careful because we do live in a time where people are, oh, I have an idea. I'm putting it out there, making millions of dollars. You all can do that too. It is okay for just in my confidence to realize Whitney, oh, you're wrong. That's okay. Or again, people have done this before. It sounds cliche, but you stand on the shoulders of so many people who are now cheering you on. When you feel like you're the only person doing something for me, it feels like daunting. But when I look at myself as a byproduct of hundreds of generations of people, then I'm really arriving on the same equipped. I'm not lacking. I'm not, I'm not a disparity. I'm not what other folks say I am. Other folks who don't who don't identify like me or whatever. I am who all these folks who came before me said I am. I am the combination of their work and their prayers and their rest or their lack thereof. I have to have those moments with myself because I do it a lot as a mother too. He was just not doing it well. That's the craziest thing to think that as a mother, I'm not doing well. When I give it, I don't want to give him all 'cause then I'll be burned out. I give it a really good effort daily. And so yeah, it's those moments where I realized, oh, Whitney, you doing okay? You're good. That just gave me goosebumps talking about that kind of like, I show up on the scene prepared. That just gave me goosebumps because you're right. I mean, so much of what we do is at least I think now is, as you know, adults working now, it is the byproduct of our parents, our grandparents, other people in our community, praying for us, pushing us all and supporting us. We have what we need to succeed. And so even sometimes when that impostor syndrome can creep up, like it's just good to sort of have that to know that. Like you have that conviction, you know, that you know that you're prepared. Oh, God, that really got to be. I do think that as we have a lot of conversations around who abound being woke and the things that were pressed upon us about ourselves that were not true, right? When we first arrived in the U.S., how much of that is continual thread in our lives? And again, that's why I like to look at that and say, oh, who told you that you aren't supposed to be here? Who told you that? Think about where that came from and keep moving forward. What keeps you motivated to move forward these days? I'm really, really excited about the future. Like when I look at my kids and I see even their ability to create very beautiful thing. My children love snakes. I am very afraid of snakes. But they love snakes. They pick them up in our yard. Now that they know how to identify them. And they just fiddling. Like, imagine it's great. They are frolicking with snakes. All the time, even I only have one girl on the rest of my boys, and even, you know, you may have an assumption that she would be, she's a ringleader. So I'm really optimistic about it because I can defer my fear so that these little folks can pass me at just the age that they are right now. They're already doing more that I could even possibly think I would be doing. I have an opportunity, not only to raise a generation of people. But in my quiet time, I do see us winning. I see black people winning. And I do like the shifts around our bodies, our minds, our culture, that we are collectively happening, because these are the things we look back on and say, oh, that generation of people did what we are living. We are able to do now. Yeah, it's funny. I talk about that sometimes with my friends about how like we'll say like we don't really feel like sometimes we're adults or like we're kind of adulting or whatever and it's like we're the adults now like we're the ones that are doing it's funny like I think about and I don't mean this in a lofty way but I'll just kind of use the show as an example. When revision path got put into the Smithsonian in 2019 I was like I was dumbfounded that it happens partially because I have been working so hard like I had really been working on this since 2015. That's a whole other story but it happens and then like the very next day at work like my boss or he was the CEO of the startup I was working at this white dude. Just like dressed me gave me the worst professional dressing down I've had in my career. I was just like at the top of like I was like I feel like I reached a career high and now you're like, oh let me shoot them down to this point. And it was funny because then the time that it happened initially I didn't even really celebrate it. Like it happened in June or July, I think of 2019 and like I never really got a chance to celebrate it and then I went to Harvard in October for black in design. The black in design conference that they have there every other year. And that felt like my victory lap going to that and like so many people that had seen me work on this throughout the years and I see me do it that were just like, you know, you're doing a good job, congratulations. How can we help out? That sort of thing. That's just like a night and day kind of experience. I don't know if what I said even related to what you just said, but for some reason when you mentioned that that came to mind right away of like, and I'm not just me, but more so we are now in the point where we're making the history. We're doing the historical things. Like, and it may seem like a day to day thing, but people are going to look back on what we've done in like 2070. And be like, wow, this kind of stuff was happening back then. So that sort of, it helps me to think that the work that I'm doing is not in a vacuum, but that it's part of a continuum. Yeah, and I like to call them cornerstone, I think that those moments, whether they're great or not, are cornerstones for our lives, right? And so we will, and by cornerstone, I mean, they opts and have some common flexion point. And that is, but then collectively your entire life, like for you, for instance, Maurice. Your entire life is a cornerstone in the history of this country, your family, and so I think that if we look about it, look at it that way, it's the day to day nuances you realize are collectively coming together to do a thing. Yeah. And even just one of the things I am working on right now related to the Renee is around is this kind of photo journalistic tour of the south capturing black women in spaces of thriving. So that our cornerstone during this pandemic, especially isn't they were dying more. But oh, you see these people in, I don't know. Alabama are thriving and they black. These are the things that we have to that I do think about in my life for these ups and downs. At this stage of where you're at in your career and in life, how do you define success? But I would say, yes, right now, if it reduces my stress levels, it is successful. If I, if I don't have an adverse reaction to it, so meaning I feel real good about it, not that it's easy. But it doesn't feel like it's weighing heavy on me in a unnecessarily. Then I consider that success. So at this point, even projects that I join are people that I help, if I get that initial inkling of girl, they're saying it. I walk away and that feels like success. It's listening and acting immediately without the fear of, oh, but don't you need that? What if I am not a fearful person? And so I need to remember that my angle and life is, again, that I'm not behind the 8 ball, that I am a person who will attract many opportunities, but not all of them are for me and the things that are successful or lead to success for me are the things that create a space where Whitney can live and feel free within myself within my community. I was in my family, all of those things. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years, like what kind of work do you want to be doing? I want it to be in this in the maternal health space, for sure. And by then, in 5 years, I actually the analogy that I tell people is going back to the soul train. If we get to the place where people see the pregnancy and everything, every beginning and it's like a soul train line and we're all supporting each other as one person goes down, that's where I want it. If we are narrative shift gets to that point, oh my God, that would be incredible. But I want to continue to be in this maternal health space. I want to providers folks to look at us as a force. And so I'm sticking with this for a while. I wanted to be creative. I want to dibble and dabble in the arts, be creative, do new things that people just did not expect could come out of this space for us. So that's 5 years. That's what my career. I want the Renee to be my full time full time. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you and your work and everything, where can they find that online? Yeah, obviously on LinkedIn, which is Whitney Robinson right now, I've read lips in a fro on my profile pic. And then the Renee, and you can email me about anything at the Rene because I absolutely love email. But the Renee is the, so THE, dash, Renee, that's our dot com. So you can find me at Whitney at the dance Renee dot com, but the website is the dash Rene dot com. Sounds good. Well, Whitney Robinson, I want to thank you so so much for coming on the show. Since we've connected back in, what was that? 2018, 2018 will be at xoxo. I've always felt like you've had this, there's this presence about you. And I think people have to maybe, I hope they can feel it from the interview, but certainly when I first met you in person, you have this presence that the ancestors are walking with you in everything that you're doing and like even this work that you're doing around maternal healthcare, hearing you talk about it with such passion and conviction like, I'm so excited to see what you do in the future with this. I want to walk with you as you as you make this happen because I really feel like you're on the right side of something here. And I hope that people, when they listen to this interview, they can feel it, 'cause I certainly do. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you for those words. And I'm very appreciative of this opportunity. Big, big thanks to Whitney Robinson, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Whitney at her work through the links in the show notes at revision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brand has never been more important, and that begins with
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"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
"Your customer and I have an idea, but should I really build something on it? Or is it just good for me? That happens a lot. People discover a problem, but really they're the only one that cares about it. I want to help founders not make costly mistakes. And so it will be in cohort style, like group sessions, a couple of times a month. And I'm definitely asking people, I ask people to be committed to it, financially, and with their time because what I am really good at is helping people build strategy, road maps, understand their people, understand research, things like that. Let's kind of switch up a little bit like switch gears here. I want to learn more about kind of your origin story. Some of which I know because we've actually had your sister on the show before, but we can talk about that, but tell me about where you grew up and what was your childhood like? Yeah, I grew up in the country in the sticks where the neighbors you couldn't see them. I grew up playing outside all day, which is why I raised my kids the same way. No matter the weather, they're outside. So I explored a lot. I was bored a lot. My sisters were my best Friends. And too, 'cause my mom was like, you go to school, you come home. That's it. And so my parents played records all the time. People came to our house to have for drinks and so I just remember growing up. It was a very funky, funky environment. And so my parents being very stylish people with high standards and also just really hard workers. I didn't realize I didn't think of myself in lack. And so, and that's not even just monetary. I knew that I could think through anything. I wasn't taught to fight fist fight or anything. I was taught, if you can think through this, you can get through it. Period. Yeah, so I went to a very rural country high school in North Carolina. And then I ended up at duke. Actually, let me back up. I ended up at Carnegie Mellon for pre college, like two pre college programs. I think that's what I realized, oh, you a nerd. And I was doing gaming and stuff back in like, I don't know. 20 guys before I went to college. So early 2000. And then when to do, which was a shock, it was a culture shock to me. How so? I was top of my class in high school, but I came to duke feeling like the bottom. And, you know, imagine a place where there's the academic rigor and not that many black folks. And then I chose computer science. So I was the only only only. I always said that if I went back to do, can I give feedback? I would maybe it's in the past and just let it go. But there was so much kind of so much of the work was team based in computer science. And I was left out sometimes. People would just be meeting and I let me know. I was reprimanded for things. I was like, wait, but how are y'all doing that? But I tried so, so, so, so hard. So what would I do, duke again? Yes. But I think I would realize there is a fight in me that I did not realize. And so, but the good thing about duke is I actually started in VR and I built duke had the 6 sided cube called the die. And you enter it in and you are in immersive space. And I got so I started doing game design and character and asset design in 3D. And that was fun. And so I created a simulation, a course it was a runway with a dude in an Afro and Bill bottoms. It's just a threat in my life, but you go in, you walked in and you saw this guy walk away from you. He turned around and he came back his change clothes. His clothes changed. And so duke really did though push some of the envelope for me when it came to the way that I approached things. The look and feel and the vibe. I also walked around with a fro. I was one of the only people that was wearing a natural, right? And I wore bell bottoms. I was just like a nerdy person. And I mean, was that uncommon on duke's campus? I think so. Because I think especially in the black population, I think people came from so many other cities, like New York, Atlanta, right? Like a southern girl, like raising the stakes. And so I do think there is a bit of difference. I don't think it was like people were pointing at me or making me feel bad about it, but I do think I kind of you just felt different. I felt different. Yeah, I think I brought a different type of energy. I know exactly what you're talking about. I felt that way when I went to morehouse. I too am from the sticks. I'm from Selma, Alabama, and when I first got to morehouse, I did a pre college thing to write like the summer before, graduation. And it was so funny that that summer because first of all, I couldn't leave Selma fast enough. I was like, oh, it starts in June. I graduated late May, let's go. Like I was ready to go. There was that aspect of it, but also I graduated top of my class in high school. And then I get to morehouse and it's like meeting at least in my program, meeting like 20 other people that are just like me, at least in that way, where they were like, top of their class were there at and now they come here. And it's from all over the country. In some cases, I don't think it was in our program. It was maybe in like a an adjacent program because they put us in a dorm with, I think, two other programs. So we all kind of like commingled with each other, but there are people there from other countries that I had only heard about in school. Like I had never known about meeting people from the Virgin Islands or from a country in Africa or from Haiti. But they were there, and it's like, oh, I'm learning about y'all. Like in person and stuff like that, you know? I know what you mean about that kind of like weird country bumpkin thing like I had a throw in college and what was interesting for me is like I came in and because more else is an all male school like my mom is a seamstress and my grandmother is a seamstress. So they taught me how to sew and do everything from like a really early age. So when I came in already knowing how to wash clothes, how to iron, how to like fix a button, how to sew a hole in a sock. That was like a weird opportunity for me to get to know other people in the program because something would happen and they would know what to do. Like, oh, I got hold of my sock, roll. I lost the button, I saw that back on. Oh, you're not an iron. I can do that. I can show you how to do that. Where they wash all their clothes and they all come out like pink or something like that. I was like, oh, no, you gotta separate. You gotta see you can't put the whole box of laundry detergent in there. You have to just put like a scoop or something, you know. Like teaching them how to read the tags on the laundry and they're like, how do you know this stuff? I'm like, y'all didn't take home ec. They didn't say come back. But it ended up that sort of weakness, I guess, at least what I perceived as a weakness ended up being a strength because then I ended up getting to know other people and I felt like I was more supposed to be there as opposed to just kind of like landing there because of my grades, you know what I mean? Yeah, I do know what you mean. I mean, when I graduated, oh, I had a sigh of relief because I just felt like I graduated by the skin of my teeth. But now years, years later, almost 15 years later after graduation. The thing that does get you is in the door. It's almost like you sacrifice your mental health.
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"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
"Kind of decided that I definitely hit a point of saturation, meaning it was just hearing the same thing over and over again. And then it became, you know, what is the Renee, which is what you're asking me. So I decided, you know, we operate as this lab, right? Like almost research and development, we have our ear to our people. We know how to listen and facilitate these kind of spaces. But we can also create what they're asking for. We can make products or services or experiences, art, installations. We can do whatever for what people are asking for. And so that's the Renee. It's kind of a vibe. I love that you describe it like that. I mean, first of all, if there's anyone that knows how to make a way out of no way out of any way, it's black women. Like point blank period. And I love that you refer to the Renee as a lab, like it's a space for discovery for experimentation for fleshing out hypotheses and things like this, like you're not explicitly calling it like a company or something that may have specific deliverables. I love that it's a lab. It's a place to experiment. Absolutely. And we don't talk disparate. I know I mentioned disparities, but that was how I kind of came to like, oh, this is a problem. But we don't do like, oh, y'all gonna just die, right? We hear that so much. That is actually a tool that can be used against that. That goes into, again, why we don't, like, everything we do feels. I tell people, if you think about the soul train, for our people, and it's time, that's what I want the Renee to be. Is that people can look to us and as this kind of cultural boom within maternal health. Because maternal health sounds boring, it doesn't sound, it doesn't sound sexy at all. But what if the Renee has an impact like soul train and kind of creates these offsprings all over the country, right? There were many soul trains, even in my whole town, hometown. And it's just putting out black culture and maternal health. And that's why I get goosebumps when I talk about this because I don't know everything. And even though I'm a mother of four, I've learned very quickly that my experience. I've had home burns. Like my experience is very unique to me. And watching people design and experience with strangers shows why it's important for black folks to be at the helm of their healthcare. Yeah. It just is a different vibe than traditional healthcare or the system. No, absolutely. I mean, and I'm speaking broadly here for black people in the United States. I imagine this may be different in other countries where listeners might be at, but here in the U.S., I mean, black people do kind of have this mistrust of the medical system of healthcare, whether you think about something like Henrietta lacks. Or you think about, honestly, even Serena Williams, like we're talking right around the time where she's, you know, speaking of retiring and she's been very public about the issues that she's had to go through with her health with having her daughter and everything. And social media has also really helped to elevate a lot of experiences of black women, black people in general, but black women specifically around healthcare issues and how we are different black women are different. Black people are different, even now to the point where you're just starting to see black medical illustrations. Like it's 2022. That's what I'm saying. And this is like a crazy laugh, not like a funny. Like for me, I have skin in the game. Yeah. Children that I can either say, oh, well, pray and I hope that the system you enter into would be better. I'm a believer in prayer. But I mean, I can't sit and I personally Whitney. I believe this is connected to my life's work. I feel very uncomfortable waiting or hoping that someone else will fix this thing. And it's also why I say to people, I'm not interested in dismantling what's out there right now, because even if I was told, hey, let's say, I don't know, the president was like, Whitney, you're now over healthcare, change it. My feedback would be, yeah, but it's still going to have essence of the experimentation on my people. The conversations we're having right now are because of system was absolutely designed to do what it's doing. And that's why it's working. The way it's working. I would love black people can and I've seen it design their own quote unquote system. And I don't even know if we know what that looks like because it feels like it would be a daunting task. But I have seen it happen in small spaces. I mean, no oversight, no red tape. Oh, Whitney, we need grants. None of that, right? Good food, make people feel welcome, warm, see them as human and give them space to share. You'd be amazed at the commonalities from one part of the U.S. to the other. It's so hard to talk about without being in it and watching it happen and say, wow, this is like, this is the connectedness of black folks. It's really beautiful. How has the Rene changed since you found that you mentioned like you've shifted to these virtual sessions, but are there other ways that it's changed? Yeah, so I actually, like I said, it was just an experiment to see what would happen. There have been so many iterations of it. So the jam sessions led to like I created a web application using no code tools, because who has the time? One of the things I heard a lot was support, support how no matter where I birth, however, if we can feel supported, it's a game changer, right? And so I learned from all of these conversations what a good support system looks like. So we put a web application out in the world for people to use to answer what black women are asking for. Like I want to feel supported and I want to know how to build good support systems. Another thing that has changed, especially during the pandemic, as healthcare has definitely changed. A lot of virtual things have come to the forefront. Quite a few university based hospital systems have reached out to us to say,
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"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
"It's been like, okay, good. People won't get mad at us because we know that us moving in that change something. We are that. Yeah. What are your workdays kind of looking like right now? I'm a flower child. So I kind of do things how they come at me. I can pivot very quickly. And that's what my workdays look like. Because the kids are here. I tend to do some instruction with them until about noon. And then I will jump on a call or two. I have some consulting clients right now. And so I will work with them, I'll do some of my side projects. But the kids are always in the mix. So people what's going on in the background is, hey, I'm homeschooling. I have kids around me, constantly. So my workdays have really forced me to be like, I'm not in a cubicle and I'm not in a very quiet space. So it has really forced me to be very focused in those moments that I have quiet time, but also teaching my kids to be respectful of other people doing stuff. You can't just run around and rip and run all day. So often when I'm working too, I'm watching them from my window because they're outside a lot. And so, like, okay, y'all, go outside. So I'm very, very much a hybrid pivoting type person. I'm moving around. I don't have one place I sit in. I'm on the front porch. I'm in the yard, taking meetings, like I'm all over the place. But not in a bad way, like it actually really works for me. And I try to shut down by the time I pick the kids up from orchestra, and so by then, it's like, whatever. And at night sometimes I'll do a little bit of work, but I try to really just, I try to shut my brain down. Yeah. I think that, you know, that skill of being that flexible is something we've all really picked up. I mean, one during the pandemic because of remote work, but we've also just had to pick it up because now we have to do so many things from one place. Like home is now the office is now the gym is now the schoolhouse is now a number of different things. So it sounds like that's a skill though that you're kind of acutely aware of and you're able to tap into it. It's one of the skills that I sell in my consulting. I mean, who better to than to do disaster relief on the drop of a dime than someone like me? I can think through a lot of things coming at me at once. And that's just, I really enjoy that though. Like if it was two buttoned up, it would feel boring to me. Let's talk about the Renee. Tell me about the Renee. I love the Renee. But because it's like solving a really big juicy problem in the world. We talk about tech. There are so many first world problems in tech. And so the Renee really centered around, it started as an experiment. Why are we still having conversations around black maternal mortality? Like, really, I've had four kids at that point. And just became hip to it, had no idea, and so at the top of 2019, I said, I am a product manager. I know how to solve things quickly. So why aren't we doing the same in maternal health? To me, it just felt real ashy. Like, what's going on? Are people just talking about it to then move on? Until it becomes topic again. So anyway, what I would typically do with my team, I did a bit of, I guess, lack of a better term user experience research, right? I went to people who were directly connected to the problem. And I started hosting jam sessions. And so everyone in the room, for the most part, identified as I mean, you had to be black to get in the room. But identified as black women who had experienced pregnancy some way somehow, whatever that is. 5 to 7 people and really it was, I will facilitate a co design session. People would share stories, identify collaboratively. Identify pain points, joy points, solve them, create I mean, absolutely beautiful. And so that gave me goosebumps for many reasons because that first one, which happened in Durham, was not what I thought it would be. I thought, oh, something's very tech enabled. It's going to come out of this, but actually what came out of it was very spiritual. And human. And so I stepped away from that like, I bet the system ain't seeing us at all. If this is the type of solution that we want, right? And so the Renee just became this tour of jam sessions. I don't go into a place unless I'm invited, not because I'm so cool, but because I wanted it, I didn't want it to feel like this outside reaching in the approach to looking or having this conversation with locals. Like, oh, here's this person from Durham coming to tell us what we need to do. I didn't want it to be that way. So everything about the Renee and the jam sessions have been, I guess Latin come a better term asset informed, right? Like we understand trauma is in this space. So everything looks and feels good. So we wouldn't host them in a conference room. It had to be a vibey spot. It could be in someone's house. Everything is very lean and the overhead is very low. But the impact of these jam sessions were very actionable insight into what black women were experiencing and asking for. So I went around the country doing this right before the pandemic. I had a cue. There was some press, fast company wrote about it, said something like, who is this UX girl? Are you ex person? I forget what they wrote. Having hackathons for the maternal health, and then that's when my project blew up. And so I had a cue of maybe 16 places. We could go on the country. We going towns. We can go in cities, right? Like people were just saying, hey, I just want you to come to Milwaukee. And so it goes on the list. Sure. And so we went around doing those pandemic obviously ended it. So I did a few virtual ones. My last really, or the one that was most people probably know is I did one with Stacey Abrams. And then
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"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
"For you so far? I was struggling a little bit with managing home schooling. I have four kids. Projects and their home schools. I'm a new homeschooling parent. And then you know the things that we heard about in the news, right? The power dynamics that have shifted in homes as women and have become more of caretakers and so it's just a lot and try not to be a statistic. And all that kind of stuff. So I do feel like there's been quite a bit of pushing for me. This year, but I will say too, that I've definitely, this has been the year that I realized I'm doing too much. And how do I do less and doing less is okay? Yeah, so the year has been this kind of push and pull and kind of realizing what I need to let go, where I need to just let the ebb and flow of life do its thing. How is that process going? Like learning to let go. I raised by baby boomers. You don't let go. You keep pushing, you keep going. You know, you have to have all the graves and the check marks. And so the letting go has been really hard, but I'm thinking more about, I'm thinking about like, what is my impression on my children? What does that look like? And I want them to let stuff go. I'm telling them all the time, just let it go. Yeah. And so it feels real hypocritical when I realize, but I'm all over here. And I'm stressed or trying not to be stressed because I am holding on to this little bit of money for this one thing when I'm like, just let that go, it'll free your mind up to do all the other things you do. Yeah. I can tell it's a struggle just like, I mean, in general, I think it's a struggle for a lot of people, but from your position, I can see also how it's definitely a struggle. When you have sort of homeschooling on top of that too. Yeah. And I'm learning that too, and there's a whole, there's a reason why there's so many shifts happening right now. And especially around our culture, people, and even the homeschooling, I come from people who are like, your kids aren't going to learn, you know? A school building is the best place for them. And I'm like kind of countering that. Like, what does that mean, right? So that I can't educate my kids, or I have to assume that someone else, it has to be someone else. So and I do see both sides and but I'm mirroring, right? I'm doing a lot of mirroring and anyway, this has been a very hyper intensive inner inner section time for me. Yeah. If your mommy asking, how old are your children? Yeah, there's that. So 8, 7, 5, and two. Oh, wow. Yes. That's a dynamic range. I mean, you've got certainly the oldest that would be, I guess, the C 8. You're kind of like fourth grade, I think, something like that? Third, yeah. Yeah, third, fourth grade. Homeschooling them means grades are a thing, but you are like teaching them higher levels because you're like one O one so much. But I think if they were in a school system and be like third grade second grade kindergarten and preschool or not even like maybe day care or something. Yeah. That's the thing. Do you have any other big plans or trying to accomplish this year? So I'm new to the West End. Okay. And it's the blackest place I've been. Well, Durham was black. Okay. Coming from, I've been in Durham all most of my life. But this is probably the blackest place. I've lived in a very long time. So that was moving here was one big moment. And then the next thing I want to do, I mean, I'm in tech and I just feel like I need to have a super opposite outlet. And so I've been asking around for a space to rent to have a plant shop with knickknacks from like a state sales of black home. Okay. Come sit, chill, and just be no air, it just feels good, smells good. You know, that kind of vibe. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to do. I would love to do it in the West End if possible. So we'll see. The West End is, oh God, the West End is such an interesting neighborhood in Atlanta. One, just because of the history, but it's also one of the few neighborhoods that hasn't been, I guess, completely gentrified yet. That's what I hear. Like when you think of cabbagetown, Reynolds town, especially if you're thinking like bankhead, which is now all quote unquote, west midtown for the most part. The West End has largely managed to keep its I want to say blackness, but we'll just say it's managed to keep its idiosyncrasies. About the neighborhood certainly, which I think in the next 5 years will change. I think the mall is probably going to be the biggest change. I think it's already been bought up by developers or something, but I feel like that's going to be the next, once the mall changes, that's going to change the whole neighborhood 'cause I remember living in the West End when they put those condos up on, well, now it's called Lowry, but it used to be called ashby, but they put these big, huge condos up. I want to say maybe about 15 years ago or something. And I remember when they first went up and I was like, there's nobody that's going to pay $200,000 to live in the West End. That is ridiculous. That will never happen. And people moved there, which surprised me, 'cause I'm like, that's CVS wasn't even there. Like, there's nothing there. I think the CVS came when the condos came. But I was like, there's like what Hong Kong city, there used to be a place right on the corner called gut busters. I think gut busters then became something else. Now it's mangoes, whatever. Nothing on that corner seems to live very long mangoes for some reason seems to be an outlier, but there's nothing about that downtown West End area that really screams like high commerce, right? Right. Especially not that would support a kind of quote unquote live work play condo space that was built there. And I remember they had all these little shops right there in the lobby and then I just saw them all closed down and I just saw all the prices going lower and lower and lower. I don't know who lives over there now, but I feel like the West End has largely kind of kept most of the neighborhood pretty black, although I think if you go maybe like two or three streets back, like people street back there, there's $500,000 houses back there. Like, it's wild. So the houses on, and again, I'm new. So I've learned though the house is on people street are kind of highly sought after. And being right here at the park, we've noticed just the change in a year. It's a weird conversation too because we also, I use this slightly, but we are changing the pricing of the houses even around us because we bought into the neighborhood when things are kind of high. But what we've heard is that two people were like, oh, y'all are black. Thank God.
Revision Path
"whitney" Discussed on Revision Path
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Mark Levin
Times Justin Trudeau Controlled Liberals in Canada 7 Years Ago
"How else can one explain the police enforced acclimation of Andrew Leslie as the liberal candidate for Orleans Even with hundreds of liberals attending the meeting to show their support for another candidate and form a Trudeau leadership rival it was clear from the beginning that Leslie was Trudeau's handpicked favorite and certainly wouldn't be stopped by pesky processes like democracy Just the imagery of Trudeau's chosen candidate being selected with police intervention is scary It shows that Trudeau doesn't just admire China's dictatorship He would practice one if he had the chance The nomination in Orleans is only the latest rigged open nomination quote unquote Despite Trudeau's promises to actually practice democracy at least half a dozen liberal nominations had been rigged or tampered with so that their direct intervention Trudeau's office Mysteriously disqualifying candidates changing nomination dates paperwork going missing using dirty background politics Auto ensure the leaders candidate is chosen at any cost But those are only liberal candidates surely Trudeau would loosen his grip on his caucus colleagues once they've been elected Whitney Unfortunately no The liberal caucus randomly learned one morning early last year that their leader had come up with a new dictate that all liberals would be expected Now required to vote pro choice Period When Trudeau's pathetic attempted defense that they were the party of the charter obviously missing those small sections about freedom of conscience and religion agitated more than a few liberal MPs he attempted to invent some weird grandfathering rule But then he abandoned that too
Pop Culture Junkie
"whitney" Discussed on Pop Culture Junkie
"Everywhere choose love that we did something similar over the summer where we had a conversation about our top summer songs and that playlist was all over the to in a good way and people can discover new music. So we'll make sure we posted in pop culture junkie support groups. Everybody can hear the songs and just not listen to us talk about the songs you guys go to facebook and join the pop culture junkie support group. So you get that playlist. And all the other info from oliver episodes week week-to-week absolutely other junk we put in there. There's lots of maims stuff on. There are gold joke cool. I think that just about wraps up this episode. Thank you so much for coming. Whitney was saying to have you to tell the people what's going on what's next and where can we find jin. Well i am working on a new album and then something. I just kind of remembered as we were going here. I am in a movie that it before cove. it's supposed to come out on netflix. i'm not sure with the pandemic if it's deleted or what but I know it is coming out This halloween. I believe it. Premieres in la this week at that chinese theater. That's kind of the main theater solve premier that on october twelfth. But it's called retaliates. And i'm just i'm just kind of a bit part in there. See if you guys can find me. i'm pretty unrecognizable. Actually with all the The different makeup and stuff. I have on. But there's a couple of actors. From game of thrones there's actors you guys will know from ozark. I'm the scene with five finger death punches in it with me there's escape the fate's in it There's a lot of crazy like metal bands that make both cameos. And they're on the soundtrack of the movie so it is a horror film. And i'm excited. Because i remember filming for it. Right before kind of the tour with ritz echo that i did actually and twenty nineteen and now to see it. Finally because of you know everything that was happening it being wrapped up in being put out You guys can look for it on the streaming networks. I'm pretty sure it'll be hitting like netflix. Hulu or something like that but again it's called the retaliate. There's and see if you see me in their thanks guys. Always looking for a good horror of susan and whitney where can people find you social media christian. Mingle.
Pop Culture Junkie
"whitney" Discussed on Pop Culture Junkie
"Coming in hut from olympic games in mesa arizona. The pop culture junkie podcast. Hello dear fans welcome back to another wonderful episode of pop. Culture junkie podcast. My name is shana. And i am joined by my fellow junkies and their names are alex nicole and hayley and this week. We have a very special guest. Whitney peyton is with us today. I whitney. Hey how's it going good. How are you good. You say my name right so that was good. That means like i've i've made it. You know we might have officially checkmark on instagram. You've done the first time. I was in arizona. 'cause i'm originally from philadelphia. They spelled my name on the marquee. Whitey peyton definitely.
Mark Levin
Free Beacon Reports Democrat Budget Proposal Increases Taxes on Lower Class
"There are huge tax increases in this apparently proposed bill targeting the poor and the lower middle class As explained in the free Beacon a great site the Democrats budget proposal relies on a $100 billion tax hike that disproportionately targets the poor Lines the pockets of organized crime and increases inequality The plan doubles the federal tax on cigarettes Which would break Joe Biden's promise to raise taxes only on those earning more than 400,000 Households with an income of 35,000 or less smoke at three times the rate of households with incomes of more than $100,000 a year Richard meringue say 27 year veteran of the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives who worked on gang violence at a tobacco tax increase will punish vulnerable communities Your punishing lower income people which the administration promised a Whitney said you're punishing the police departments I want to push towards reform You're punishing the states or organizations that truly have the tobacco harm reduction strategy to keep it out of the hands of kids and criminals You can not have a healthy community that's not safe A tobacco tax hike would put a dent in the state economies that rely on tobacco production And it goes on And so there's actually more than this It's more than cigarettes There's a massive increase should your children inherit property They want to lower the cap to three and a half $1 million that you can give in terms of gifts Or upon death to anybody and everybody They aggregated So if you have a small business you're not even that liquid maybe you pull down a hundred 153 100,000 a year but you keep pouring your assets into the business to grow in and sustain it And you die and it's for a $7 million a year Well guess what Anything over $3.5 million a year is going to be taxed at almost
Daily Pop
Hollywood Is Remaking Whitney Houston’s Iconic Film ‘the Bodyguard’
"Love the bodyguard. Well now it's getting a remake in fans are divided. Are you here for bodyguard or you know. You can't remake an iconic legendary film like this. I mean it grows over. Four hundred million in the worldwide box office. It was the best selling soundtrack of all time. We got heads for wendy. Used in what we don't need another kid whitney sing that song again and i don't want to hear it. Don't do it. Everyone's trying to do it all the time. Don't do it.
Reality TV RHAP-ups: Reality TV Podcasts
"whitney" Discussed on Reality TV RHAP-ups: Reality TV Podcasts
"So then we moved to on. We moved to mary and mary sorry before mary. We see whitney whitney is at her house and she's planning a birthday party for her husband's children which is really good. I think it's a huge step for them because she said that he was a strange last season from his disappeared relationships. Very clearly like this show. Maybe has mended some fences with them because they could probably see. How lovely whitney and her husband. Dr stepson's arrive there win. Like less than ten years age difference attire. She here they were out of twenty. Twenty twenty twenty four twenty nine in they have twenty four or twenty nine kency twenty six twenty twenty nine twenty six and twenty three and windiest thirty four. Which i here's always so funny and did okay. So i noticed when they first came in like when he had this bathing suit odd and then as they took the shot she put on her hoodie. And i thought that was way. Because these guys there could be. This could be my girl and they could be like looking at early. All these other men there and the sweat sweat jumpsuit. That she had on was brooks merit of sons jumpsuit. If you paid us into oh. I didn't even notice that was brooks but she. They take shots or having a good time she can get. I'm pretty sure blackout drunk. All rocks her stepson's birthday cake three times twice..
Skimm'd from The Couch
Whitney Wolfe Herd on Starting a Business
"What knee welcome back. And thanks for coming on the show. Thank you so much guys so now. We are going to jump in with our lightning round questions quick answers. This is our warm up first job on your resume. You know what. I worked at a boutique in college. But my first real job was taking on this marketing role at hatch. Labs which is where we incubated in launch gender. That's a good first job all right most recent job then mom. Why is a secret hobby or scale. You have photography really kind of photography. I was obsessed with travel photography. I was convinced. I was going to be a natural photographer but those dreams did not come true. Finish the sentence. What best describes your work day working nine till blank. I would say my workday really starts. I opened my eyes. And before i go and get my child i really start. You know trying to get through the important stuff and then take probably our to be with baby. You do the breakfast time to that whole thing. And then i'm pretty much back to back for several hours but i'm trying to get away from the all day zoom so we can have creative freedom time. What time do you tend to dislike. Like i'm done for the day. It honestly depends. It really depends sometimes sometimes three thirty sometimes. Eight thirty. it just depends. Are you an inbox zero percent. You know i used to be but it was driving me. Crazy was in impossible standard. Told myself to. I try to be inbox like thirty five forty percent. That's actually where. I tend to be so now that but the last thing you googled took good questions. Look oh my gosh. I googled how to wean your child off of a pacifier.
AP News Radio
Runners Prepare to Begin the Toughest Road Race in the World
"Death Valley may be incredibly hot clocking in at over a hundred and ten degrees on an average day this month but it's not too hot for about eighty four runners to compete in an ultramarathon the bad water one thirty five is billed as the world's toughest foot races director Chris coachman the interesting thing about this race one of the many things is that although it's super hot in death valley in for the first two thirds of the route the race finishes that nearly eighty four hundred feet up mount Whitney and many of the runners come in at night when it's down around freezing the race starts Monday and runners have forty eight hours to finish the one hundred and thirty five mile course code's been says the race has been held since nineteen eighty seven with out incident I'm Julie Walker
Millennial Money
"whitney" Discussed on Millennial Money
"I really love that. Whitney because i mean this is called personal finance right. It's it's personal and so it's unique to us all and that's also i think what makes money difficult to because there is not necessarily the straight ten step checklist that we all go through and if we all go through that suddenly were gold. It's really different for all of us. And i think what's amazing about. All of your specialties. Is you all have different areas. That you've been able to really change your life financially speaking and i think that there's just so much value in that and okay. So we've we've we've just kind of lightly lightly scrape the service here. We've talked about some of these money. Miss but i really about twenty minutes in. I wanna roll up our sleeves and an get smart talk about some tips that we can really share everybody listening powerfully. Help us get our money. Should together without feeling overwhelmed. So now that we've debunked some of these myths. Let's let's fill in some of these blades. Like what do we practically do and you. All i know are going to have some some super amazing tips. Rachel we've already kind of just lightly again scraped the surface on this. But you and i dive into this. Yes i would love to. And gosh these tip you guys are so amazing. All the women on this speaking today so anyone listing by the way if you tap any of our profiles and you can push view profile. find us. Follow us on instagram arlington. Or wherever to make sure you do that. 'cause jacqueline amanda shana whitney. They're all dropping gold gold nuggets here so i would say a tip for someone to get their money. Shit together without overwhelm is to just start with the basics so start with tracking your expenses for one month. This will be the most eye opening thing that you can possibly do. I think it was dave ramsey. That said a budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went when you're not tracking expenses. You don't know where your money's going so you're just left wondering so i'll tell universe even though i'm supposed to be like a finance grew so i probably shouldn't admit this. No we love these stories. The first month that my husband and i did this we realized we spent over nine hundred dollars in groceries that months like just.
Pardon My Take
"whitney" Discussed on Pardon My Take
"By going to mvp mt dot com slash. Pardon that's mvm. Mt dot com slash. Pardon areas ryan whitney. Okay we now welcome on. Our best friend is ryan whitney. We're talking some hockey. it is time enough. Nba sick league. He's wearing a joke of a league. Go ahead yeah no. I can't believe that there's a league where the superstars all losing the first round. That sucks. oh you think. That's why i'm calling to sickly t. The best player is a world's walking off the court with fifteen minutes left in the game like an asshole and nobody says a word to him and then he talks about his fucking cartoon movie aptitude. Imagine me on that team. You just lost after a champion. You're talking about the stars crowds. Want goon squad different to me forgetting that clip. I was like old times. I waited up till three. Am to watch that press conference. Because i knew. I knew he'd say something stupid. And hey you tweeted through. You gotta wait for the what. He's going to do treatment for four hours. I was seriously. I was laying in bed with my headphones in. And i'm sitting there watching. Lebron james give press conference at three a m being like come on say some dominant right at the end. He's like yeah. I think i'm gonna get ready for the for the goon squad i so i just want to preface something real quick because people were like holy shit with his shot cannon ryan whitney right now is in the midst of like livestream war and he s playoff hockey his brain. I don't think knows how like the real world is working. He's just it's just screaming at the top of his lungs. Like fuck. You fuck you frank hockey. You just do pretend quick which is though to say. You're you're in. Warm ode right now are aimed grenell. You're in a little bit more of warm. Oat i love fucking with. Frankie borelli and the whole stream was awesome. I was actually happy. He got a win despite the best night of his life. But i do enjoy being able to scream during livestreams and everything like that. Yeah it's it's been incredible you guys. You're staying in boston right now. Next dream is in boston. Are you guys going back to borelli's no so when the wherever the game biz. Which game cloudy in boston. The the streams and the opposite cities. So all these guys are headed back to long island for game. Five livestream from borelli's. I can't make but i'll be here for game six when they're back in long island and we'll do one in boston so hurricanes was bump in the place is going bananas ra. They were chanting right. If you know checklist. Oregon is named chet. Go bananas slamming a chair on the ground. A wwf wrestler was. It was an amazing scene. Yeah and he did. The frankie gonna watch the clip. We'll post it Frankie saying fuck you to everyone it was. It was seriously like scarface. Who's the bad guy and our ages. Doing the old italian like you know. Hey the chin move so. I liked that that was old school all right. So what. so this series. Let's talk about this series i. It's it's crazy because it feels like it's very even but we didn't. Everyone predicted the bruins would handle the islanders somewhat easily. I picked the bruins and seven. I think most people are set. Our people thought. I think everyone figured that the islanders are never gonna be an easy out because they're so difficult to play against and they clog up the neutral zone. It's like the devils lou. Lamoriello was the gm all those devils teams pretty similar. And i think the bruins are the better team. And i think if you look at all four games overall the bruins have played better but the islanders have gotten good goaltending from varlamov. He's been really good. The last two games they get timely scoring and they end up frustrating. You and get neck that goal late in the third by ourselves. So i'm not surprised tied after two. I think it will still go shelvin. The price split the next two. I hope so because game seven just kind of what we live for boys. You know that most forty one forty two one five in game seven. Yeah i saw. Ra tweeted like how these games scheme seven just becomes a three point contest. Probably right call. It's awesome shana. Is the the the pasta. Miss down by god sticking his head because that's got to be don't to wake up like in the two months from now being like i cannot believe that goes never open. I thought that was i was. I was at the nets game last night. And i was catching up. I thought he missed like an actual. Like goldie polled open. That's how open it was. I know it was a sick pass and so right happened. I'll take you through the sequence of events fight next the final bergen. We're like no no didn't just happen like one of the best players in the world. That show's crazy. The game can be so then. Frankie says to me right away. He's like how long with that. Like stick with you and rally mike while me. I'd never score again. But someone like asta. He's gonna come down the next shift and not really think about it but farrant in in all fairness he then said. I don't know man missing. That could that could change this whole series that could be one of those plays ensure shit they went on to lose and cassidy was asked but after the head coach for the bruins and he mentioned like yeah. You hate seeing something like that. You wonder if if things are going against you something to that nature and then frankie got a text format most in the nfl for longtime couple of thirty goal years. he goes. If i miss that i wouldn't sleep for a week. I mean right after he missed it he just fell straight face forward on the ice like a soul left his body little bit so you don't you don't just move on from that. What was the worst miss. You ever had I had i addison. I had a play in pittsburgh. I was having the best year of my career and in the middle of the season for some reason. Warriors worry makes sticks or like eight tried to stick. We'll give you some money on all right. So i was having a good year. No reason to switch up sticks that game. The new warriors stick straws. They gave me a legit tapping exactly passionate. And i one time. That right through the crease where he one time to back and hit the post mind missed. The neck completely threw the sticking to the bench and grabbed my old one. Because it's it's it's it's the arrow not the indian. You know you can't blame yourself right. Yeah oh man yes so I want to steer to.
The Last American Vagabond
"whitney" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"Welcome to the last american vagabond. I have a special guest joining me today. That i'm sure you're all excited to be seeing again. Whitney web here to talk about a lot of stuff that we have been seeing over the process of the evolution of the covid illusion of cyber attacks of ran a seemingly false flag anthrax rand paul discussions popping up. I mean there's so many things that we could talk about today. That whitney web has to a large degree. Cold said would happen called crazy. You know the whole rigmarole that we all go through today. We're going to go through and talk about all this stuff as well as a lot of other things as we do have a good conversation about. What's going on today so whitney web. It's great to have you back. How are you doing well Much better than i was for sure. So hopefully you'll be seeing more of me from now on on certainly hope that to be the case so old great great. Good to hear what you know. It's just always good to make sure that we you know as i always say right. It's it's we gotta take care of ourselves first. That's the most important thing because if you're not healthy we're not healthy then. The work stopped happening. I definitely didn't do that. You know i was actually super burnout after my empty epstein series all the spin offs from that at the end of twenty nineteen. And you know then cogan happened. I was like. I have to keep going. You know so. It's pretty much You know how it's been until i Kind of stop sleeping last year. In now i really just have the take care of myself. You can only push yourself so far the thing is you know. I feel like my sacrifices in that sense in the sense of no personal time spending less time with my kid and stuff which is really unfortunate. You know hadn't had an impact you know. I definitely like have had some people that i didn't expect the follow my work reach out and say they're following some people a pretty big platforms So you know. That's pretty nice to know that it's getting out there. And people are seeing even reports. That i wrote you know last march in last january and stuff people have have recently discovered so to dr pointing out your work and saying you know you have called this back in the day. You know someone that doesn't have any real discernible connection to our circles but yet you know it's interesting to see and i was just gonna say as well as the the good the good guys but the bad guys darpa which is just very chilean and peter feels like dude and jack dorsey right like people falling me but i kind of you know. And he's fine. They might as well see what i have to say. Especially when i should on peter the'll i hope his number two guy passes that right up onto him so so you know The emperor himself can can look at me with scorn speech. Dang i speaks volumes. If i it says something it's interesting to you know at the very least that they're going to point to you and be like this person was crazy conspiracy theorist but they'll follow you. It's like okay that doesn't mind but to talk about that. Exactly a lot of them have actually avoided saying that about me..
Esports Network Podcast
Moving Forward in the CDL ft. "Rambo Ray" Dallas Empire HC/GM
"Better to help me talk about winning championships, then the head coach, and GM of the twenty-twenty CDL Champs themselves. Dallas Empire, please welcome in off Raymond, Lussier, AKA Rambo Ray. What's going on Rainbow? What's up, man? I appreciate you getting my last name, right? That's not that's a rare feat in the in the in the world that we know these days, and well at least years. Where you gotta right? I appreciate it. I mean, I were to be able to give it. I work hard, man. I work hard to get get these last names, right? Lussier. I don't care who it is. You know, they tried like Raymond, who see a it's a nice little rhythm to it, but wage, you're a decorated X Call of Duty player. Now, you're the head coach and GM for the Dallas Empire. Again, the twenty-twenty CDL Champs. I mean, I know, that's kind of, that's kind of, like, in the past rabbit cage. Still feels good to have that label. What nine months later I want to say, oh yeah, I mean that's going to be for Whitney in for Empire and the players forever. It's obviously a cool seat that we got to accomplish off. Without really thinking about much nowadays. We're really trying to focus down and trying to find a way to repeat this year as much as we're now getting into a place where we can start progressing towards that goal. But yeah, I know it's exciting. And so, obviously you this past season hasn't gone off of the best of starts you guys, how how tough has this season been so far for your team and from your, from your end of things that if you like everyone was gunning? Yep. Guys, from the Star like you guys had a Target on your back. I mean, based on their success, early in the season, like we were, we were definitely a team to beat like a month before the season, actually started in probably the first two weeks of the season. So off, we were definitely kind of at a point where we were playing very well. Things started crumbling for us a little bit after that. Obviously, if we're comparing to season the last year this year, it's not too different. I think it's just the the difficulties and adversities, we're facing are coming in a different point of year. We faced adversity, very early last year and once it kind of got the ball rolling, after that event, win things were pretty pretty steady from that. Like, our progression was was incremental. We had a few kind of step back, but not very many obviously nothing like this here and that's kind of the biggest difference. I would, I would say for the season standpoint,
The Mason Minute
Rock Hall (MM #3707)
"The Maison with Kevin Nathan yesterday. I was talking about how my wife was upset about the fact that this is us is ending, and we all have those weird things in life, we really care about. And I guess, you could say, I'm guilty of something, too, because they announced the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this past week. And I'm not exactly excited the band. I wanted most Devo, one of my favorites didn't make the final round, Foo Fighters. Girl goes Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd. Rundgren Tina Turner all making it. Of course, everybody says Jay-Z is in Iraq, act, but we can argue about that till the cows come home. Neither was the Notorious BIG or even Whitney Houston, but what got me really incensed wage. Was that my favorite band of all times, Kraftwerk went in as an early influence, they were off the main performer about it for years. Never understood why they didn't go in when there's so many bands out there, claiming that they're an influence to them. But now they'll go in as early influence, to me, it's kind of a lesser extent, it's not quite the same thing. It's going in with an asterisk. Next to your name in a way, the Rock Hall upsets me again. As it does everybody, it's those silly things we care about and we don't know why wage
The Mason Minute
Rock Hall (MM #3707)
"The Maison with Kevin Nathan yesterday. I was talking about how my wife was upset about the fact that this is us is ending, and we all have those weird things in life, we really care about. And I guess, you could say, I'm guilty of something, too, because they announced the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this past week. And I'm not exactly excited the band. I wanted most Devo, one of my favorites didn't make the final round, Foo Fighters. Girl goes Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd. Rundgren Tina Turner all making it. Of course, everybody says Jay-Z is in Iraq, act, but we can argue about that till the cows come home. Neither was the Notorious BIG or even Whitney Houston, but what got me really incensed wage. Was that my favorite band of all times, Kraftwerk went in as an early influence, they were off the main performer about it for years. Never understood why they didn't go in when there's so many bands out there, claiming that they're an influence to them. But now they'll go in as early influence, to me, it's kind of a lesser extent, it's not quite the same thing. It's going in with an asterisk. Next to your name in a way, the Rock Hall upsets me again. As it does everybody, it's those silly things we care about and we don't know why wage
The Mason Minute
Rock Hall (MM #3707)
"The Maison with Kevin Nathan yesterday. I was talking about how my wife was upset about the fact that this is us is ending, and we all have those weird things in life, we really care about. And I guess, you could say, I'm guilty of something, too, because they announced the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this past week. And I'm not exactly excited the band. I wanted most Devo, one of my favorites didn't make the final round, Foo Fighters. Girl goes Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd. Rundgren Tina Turner all making it. Of course, everybody says Jay-Z is in Iraq, act, but we can argue about that till the cows come home. Neither was the Notorious BIG or even Whitney Houston, but what got me really incensed wage. Was that my favorite band of all times, Kraftwerk went in as an early influence, they were off the main performer about it for years. Never understood why they didn't go in when there's so many bands out there, claiming that they're an influence to them. But now they'll go in as early influence, to me, it's kind of a lesser extent, it's not quite the same thing. It's going in with an asterisk. Next to your name in a way, the Rock Hall upsets me again. As it does everybody, it's those silly things we care about and we don't know why wage
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"whitney" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Welcome to tripping over the barrel a series that highlights the unique personalities within the oil and gas industry in the stories they have to share with your host and lead storytellers t lo and dr function stein. Doing today. tim pretty good. It's a wonderful day. Good friday. I'll tell you you probably do it a little bit better than me. I am a little too much at opening day yesterday in denver. How was that was amazing. I'm twenty four thousand people or so. It's which was super awkward most because i haven't been anywhere near that many people in a long time but it was actually like i mean people were just really happy to be out in about it was it was really fun scene and i. I had a blast so any any mask shaming or anything like that going on. Not really i mean they would come around to the to the seats and be like. Hey if you're not drinking or eating you've got to wear your masks. So i just held onto a beer for the entire nine innings. That's the only reason that you know you're how to blast rockies one against the dodgers which is always great And the weather was perfect. So anyways i'm going to need to ride you a little bit more than normal today. Tim got a little bit of a headache. But just the way things are can go and speaking writing. We have whitney wicks nice. Say hey is it going awesome. I'm so glad that you able to join us for this one. Windy so tim. You're just meeting whitney now. But seeing that she's really burst on the scene in the last couple of years. I think this is our fourth podcast. You just said up before we hit record. And yeah whitney. And i came across each other when i was seven lakes. This must have been two thousand fourteen fifteen. Were you at emerald. Is that where you were. Yes that's right. So you see when he was kind of an emerging young land man at emerald and we talked about some some softwares dashboards and it was. It was very obvious that whitney was forward thinking looking to push technology. The company at the time just wasn't able to make the move. And i i think they hit chapter eleven. Not not too long. After and then i'll paths crossed again. I think twenty eighteen when you were at was a crow heart or was it called something else. Yeah exile formerly firmly. That's right so both of us were in broomfield. I was at a company called petro de and came in. And you really saw the value of the mapping solution for how would help you as a land person but dammit a really big move shortly after you said i want first of all. I'm a country gallon. We'll talk about that. But you moved to wyoming and started your own company. So i wanna hear all about that. But before you rocking rocking. Ww tell us about grown-up. I think you're from the western slope and obviously an athlete. So sort of give us your story and how lead gen sheridan wyoming right so i was born and raised in aspen colorado contrary to a popular belief people do live there till the time of mutual thing. I know people say unicorn but we had a a great community growing up. Graduating class was about one hundred. Twenty kids very close. Knit community Very sports focussed obviously very winter..
Business Wars Daily
The Art of Business Wars: Waging War
"Two. Today's lesson from the art of business. Wars waging war ever heard of book stacks unlimited probably not. That's because the online bookstore was launched in nineteen ninety two. It was a good idea. Sure but it failed. Why when it has to do with what's called the first mover advantage book. Stacks unlimited came onto the online book. Selling seen i. Sometimes that's a good thing. A company that offers something new and valuable i can carve out a big sector of the market. Your brand becomes synonymous with the product. Which is good for business right. We think of band-aid at he's a bandages. All around the globe now referred to as bandits even if they're not band aid brand but being a first mover comes with risks like making a move too early. That's what happened in nineteen ninety-two with book. Stacks unlimited when the virtual bookstore came on the scene. Not enough folks were comfortable with the internet to spend time buying books online but by the time a certain other bookseller turned mega corporation entered the market. Three years later customers were ready. And how amazon founded success. So it's not always about striking first but striking at the exact right time and not a moment too late and that's the idea behind the wild success of the online dating app bumble as well. The story starts though in another online. Dating company called tinder. It's may two thousand. Fourteen and tender. Co-founder whitney wolfe. Heard has spent two years travelling the country promoting the app to college students and young people suddenly her colleagues teller. She can no longer refer to herself as a co founder because in their view a twenty four year old woman at the helm of a growing company devalue sit what follows quite the tumultuous break-up wolf heard alleges that her fellow co founder justin mccain whom she briefly dated has been verbally abusing her showering her with sexist and racist texts and comments. She offers to resign but instead. Ceo sean rad fires. Her in a matter of months will
Geek News Central
Data Shows The New York PD Seized 55,000 Phones In 2020
"The nypd fifty five thousand cell phones last year most likely due to the pandemic this numbers actually market lower than the roughly ninety. Two thousand phones. They served season two thousand nineteen but another parent consequence of covid. Era is that fewer people jump through the regulatory hoops desert. Get their phones back. Meaning police kept nearly forty percent of the phones. Taken in twenty twenty. And here's crazy part at now. We understand if you're you know you're slinging drugs or something you get your phone sees. That's part of a you know. That's that's what's happening but as the report notes nearly eighty five percent of all seizures performed by the nypd. Were not listen. This were not related to any criminal charges against the person whose phone had been taken. One lawyer pointed out that the nypd officer took a shooting victims phone from them while they re while they were recovering at the hospital claiming they needed it for evidence and the person had to jump through lots of hoops to get his phone back. The city previous ride claimants to present two forms of id in order to get their property back even even if the police had seized the owners driver's license so there's all kinds of things has been going on here. People have been caught in a catch twenty two situation. And there's really not a lot that people can do from people just taking people's phones like civil forfeiture seizing property under the pretense needed as evans. Directly benefits nypd. The twenty-one thousand unclaimed foams at the york city took from citizens last year will wind up being auctioned and it's not like nypd needs that money. Those proceeds whitney put a dent in at ten point. Nine billion dollars. The city spent last year to fund the police force. But they're going to sell twenty one thousand phones that they had no reason to behold onto now. Some of those were probably seized because of a crime the fifteen percent according to this report. But it doesn't make go Just a little bit. It really really does
Eric Harley and Gary McNamara
Tarrant County struggling to keep up with vaccine demand as more Dallas residents become eligible
"P. 24 7 News desk. Tarrant County is having trouble meeting the demand for coronavirus vaccinations. Now that all Texans 50 years old and up are eligible for the vaccine. The expanded age eligibility started on Monday and up to 50,000 more people are now eligible under Phase one C on Tarrant County's Wait list. Tarrant County Judge Glenn Whitney says he wishes state officials would
Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia
Bumble tops revenue estimates in its first quarterly report as a public company; shares rise
"Has given an upbeat outlook for revenue in the first quarter. The dating APP is is predicting revenue hurting 6365 million in the current period. That's slightly above, analysts estimates. It's mumbles first earnings release after it's nearly $2.2 billion I P o last month CEO Whitney her and said she's confident that there will be a lift in demand for meeting new people and the people will date again after the pandemic.
The Art Newspaper Weekly
Inside Frick Madison in New York
"Now on the eighteenth of march. The frick collection will launch frick madison. It's temporary new home on madison avenue in new york until now the collection of our master paintings and sculptures and decorative arts as in the gilded age mansion on central park bequeath to the public. By the industrialist henry clay frick when he died in one thousand nine hundred nineteen and it's more than doubled in size since then mentioned is now closed for renovation and expansion to accommodate collection and special exhibitions so the collection has moved a few blocks but in tune entirely different. Textual realm freak. Madison is housed in the bath. House architect muscle broilers brutalism masterpiece originally built for the whitney museum of american art in nineteen sixty six recently. The home of the met bria so had to bellini and titian van. Dyke rembrandt mir fragonard gainsbourg. Look in these alien surroundings. I spoke to the deputy director and chief curator xavier salomon. Who's overseeing the concept and installation to find out xavier. I wonder if you could cast your mind back to moment the e. I knew you were going to get the boy a building. Full the frick collection. Tell us what he felt at that moment. It was a combination of relief and absolute terror. I think You know relief because you know the plan was to really put the entire collection in storage be closed for a couple of years while we were renovating the building at the frick and then reopened so the idea that we had a place where we could display. The arts was a huge sense of relief and we had talked to a number of museums about getting a few rooms or a floor. And so did they have having an entire building. We could move. The offices and the entire election was absolutely exciting but terrifying. Because you know. Imagine moving the wallace collection to barbican. Oh the jack ready to this on pompidou. I mean it's just the idea of taking something out of its natural context. Let's say as we as we see it and bring it into something that's totally alien so as soon as we made that decision. That was a lot of thinking and a lot of backwards info about what to do with the building. Did you try out in your mind and on paper all sorts of different alternatives in other words. That wasn't a just a preconceived idea. We're going to do it in the way that you've ended up doing it now. Absolutely and the first phase was a lot of thinking a lot of backwards and forwards on various ideas. You know you have a blank canvas and the bank canvas is exciting but at the same time it's also terrifying because you have so many ways you could go and i still think there are other solutions. We could've used. I mean what we did is by no means the only the only option And i'm sure you know people will like it. People will criticize it. People will think it could have been done a different way but out of all the choices together with my team we filled. This was the most logical one for us and the one we wanted to pursue the one. We thought was most interesting but we definitely did play with all sorts of options on at the beginning. We didn't really exclude anything. I mean we started with even the idea of recreating the rooms in a building. The broil yet so just sort of replicating the rooms of the spirit of the rooms and then of course. We went in the opposite direction. And that's sort of why we got to
Business Wars Daily
Bumble Goes Public & Bans Body-Shamers
"Past year between the presidential election social unrest caused by racism and discrimination. A lot of companies have had the chance to come forward and make their missions and values known. But there's one company that's been forthright about their stand on social issues from the beginning and it may surprise you but that's the dating app. Bumble unlike other dating apps bumble allows only female identifying users and heterosexual matches to make the first move or send the first message as it were the app which launched in two thousand fourteen seeks to empower women. Looking for love and make up of the company itself is full of women in power its founders female and seventy percent of its board members are women that's basically unheard of in the corporate world. Bumble hasn't been shy about taking a stand before in two thousand eighteen in the wake of the deadly school shooting in parkland florida the band users from sharing images of guns or other weapons at the time. Ceo and founder. Whitney wolf told time magazine quote we will always put our values above our bottom line unquote well. The company recently had a chance to once again. Put that promise into practice. In late january bumble told it's now forty two million monthly users that it was explicitly banning any form of body shaming on the app in a statement they defined body shaming as quote forcing. Your opinion of a good body onto others unquote. They said they would prohibit users from sending messages critiquing. Someone's body or sharing that a certain body type was unacceptable or undesirable in their user bios and they explicitly said language that could be deemed fat. Phobic ablest racist colorist. Homophobic transphobic had no place in their app and algorithm will flag such language bumble will give rule breakers a warning and repeat incidents can cause a user to be banned from the app entirely anyone who feels like they're the victim body shaming meanwhile. Ken report a user through the app. The move came just a few weeks before bumble went public which made ceo and founder heard the youngest female founder to take a us company public and the youngest self made female billionaire bumble sold fifty million shares in its initial offering reports. Cnbc heard is no stranger to dating apps she cofounded competitor tender and twenty twelve. She left tender two years later and soon after filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company the parties eventually reached a settlement tender has community guidelines that discourage users from harassing and mistreating other users and relies on its estimated fifty million users to report violations of these rules last year the company began using a new machine learning to the help flag offensive messages according to wired but it's diverged from bumble and other ways following fumbles move to ban images of guns attender spokesperson told mashal that quote. We're not banning guns. We don't have a blanket ban of guns unquote tenders owned by match group which also owns dating apps hinge match and okay Prior to going public bumble said it acknowledges its competition but that online dating is not a quote winner takes all market reported. Cnbc that's because the company said most people have an average of two different dating apps on their phones and with this move bumble is hoping that if you were tired of body shaming and other offensive comments that can play the online dating world. You'll make one of those apps bumbled
KPCC
"whitney" Discussed on KPCC
"We're used to right now? Pop stars just really doing the most. Yeah. You know, that's a good question. I mean, I really feel like The reason that it worked. The most is because where most people are Nervous. Whitney is the most calm the spaces in the song where the notes are most difficult to get to our hold. Whitney is actually most at ease. Yeah, and we should point out here. You know, everyone that does these kind of reform is is they do a pre tape because you just can't sing live in a big stadium. It's impossible, but she did her pre tape. In just one take. She did because this is the thing. It's it's I love a good run what he could do a run times a million. But she used them very strategically, and she chose not to use them here. One. I think it's because of runs are difficult to sing along with. And I think she wanted to make a version of this that was very easy to sing along to. She turned it into kind of a blue sea ballad, And that is what Whitney Houston did for a living. Yeah, There's a certain presentation of race that comes when you make the national anthem the blues when you make it soul when you take it from 34244, and it is in my mind. This subversive blackness that I appreciate it her doing in that moment? Yes, I mean, it is subversive, but it's It's also very, very upfront and top most Because the thing is the music that most of America loves, honestly. Is based in black blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, etcetera, etcetera, So it's It's not a reach to imagine that a whole bunch of people would like to hear something that sounds a bit bluesy and a bit like a Whitney ballot because that's what people like in general in this country. Yeah, when you go into the history of music in this country, which is complex, criminal and bizarre what you see over and over again, and this is the story that I know people are familiar with, but it deserves. To be said a lot, which is it's the music of black blues, men and women that was stolen. Replicated by white artists. So with the idea of making it more quote unquote palatable for broader white audiences. But so when you see somebody like Whitney, and they're just like translating, like what is a very solemn and sad moment Ah, very bluesy moment. For the U. S A right. It's wildly appropriate. And that's what it is. I don't think her moment was magical People like always magic, and I'm like, I don't know if it was magic. I think it was the right choice. I think Whitney was the right person. I think she put to work in to put herself in place to do that, and she was where she was supposed to be. Because she placed herself in the position to be available to that moment. Hmm. What for you? Is your biggest takeaway from Whitney's performance of the national anthem. At the Super Bowl and 91 30 years later. I mean, it is a meditation on lots of things, race and patriotism and the importance of popular music and the model culture. But looking back What stays with you the most If you want to know the honest truth for me what stays with me The most is the fact that she would be dead so early. Think about all that we could be experiencing from her right now. Think about the model that she would present for younger singers for young, black woman and really for women of all races. She's such a picture in that moment of preparation and grace and And it's one that I always my favorite part of her performance. It always makes me a little bit emotional speak about when he's in the past tense. To be honest, she's been my favorite since I was a teenager. But when she sings the word free, right, you have to go up really high for that note, and so many people falter at that space. They shorten it. It kind of goes thin at the top of their voices. We need not only sings it. Strong and big and rich and lush..
The Last American Vagabond
"whitney" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"Welcome to the last american vagabond. I have whitney web joining today to go over some of her recent research. Some stuff that you most of you probably at tooting probably haven't heard about yet some of her new research that she's been going over and regard to starbucks and some interesting ties in tie ins with the kobe. Nineteen vaccine agenda which. I found very interesting. And we're also gonna talk a little bit game. Stop some w world economic forum discussions. We're going to get into a lot of stuff to talk today so. I hope that you are prepared for whitney web level research. Thank you for joining us today. I always a pleasure. Hey great to be back as always say everyone's always eager to hear what you're you're working on and you know the new edge of this research is i mean it's it's so incredible to not just look back. I mean not even just what we've done. You know censor workman last and bag of on and even well before some the you have a track record has previously pointing out exactly what ends up happening. And what's interesting is. It's not that difficult to see right. I mean we talk about this. A lot is it's you can clearly see the direction it's going if you're willing to be open to new information this coming. Which is why we're here today to discuss what you're seeing and why this is interesting and whites alarming to you. But let's start off with first of all the game. Stop discussion which i definitely feel when you can tell me what you think that these things are. There's a bigger agenda around all of this right now and whether or not it is actually something that was planned made to happen or even just allowed to happen. It is definitely being used. Which is something. We always point out you know..