Veteran national security journalist and best-selling author Bill Gertz makes the case against Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics and American Marxism and offers a faith-based counterproposal to destructive ideologies. With news, commentary and interviews. Hour-long podcasts will post every two weeks.
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American Slacker Podcast has your weekly rundown for the latest bizarre news, tv & movies, unique games and guests from all walks of life.
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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The Keeping it Real-Estate Podcast provides educational content for real estate investors, both new and experienced. Mike Roeder and Dan Brisse interview real estate professionals to gain valuable insights into multifamily investing.
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At Cloudera, we believe data can make the impossible possible. The world’s leading organizations choose Cloudera to transform their businesses, improve lives, and advance human achievement. All through the power of data.
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A bi-weekly podcast that goes behind the scenes of ecommerce businesses and their custom online stores. We talk to ecommerce merchants of all stripes—from companies who are just starting out with no idea what they’re doing to seasoned veterans making millions a year. Vendors, services, and other ecommerce experts—they’ll be here too. All the secrets of planning, building, and maintaining successful online businesses are revealed. And along the way, we get to know some of the brightest minds ...
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/john-michael-godier/subscribe Author and futurist John Michael Godier explores the universe in essays and as host of Event Horizon a science and space focused show featuring guests. Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/john-michael-godier/subscribe Get access to EARLY ad free episodes and to the full archive of John Michael Godier and Event Horizon. Bonus episodes, audio books, and sleep tracks. Special unannounced content. And an all new ex ...
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EP87 [Rerun] Tim Gertz - Real Estate Professional Status & Offsetting Your Active Income
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We're excited to bring you a rerun of one of our insightful episodes featuring Tim, a seasoned professional with over 22 years of experience in public accounting, working with diverse market groups. Tim earned both his undergraduate and Master's degrees in Accountancy from Arizona State University, where he specialized in accounting, tax, and busin…
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Victory Over Communism-S3-Episode 7
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To paraphrase Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto, a specter is haunting China. It is the specter of Historical Nihilism. This episode reveals how the Chinese Communist Party is conducting a major Marxist-Leninist 'rectification' campaign to ruthlessly stamp out what it regards as a major ideological threat called historical nihilism -- code for …
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EP142 Jonathan Greene - Real Estate Insights: From Attorney to Top Investor
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Jonathan Greene is a thought leader in real estate investing, hosting the fast-growing podcast, Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing. With over 30 years of experience, he is a lifelong investor, on-market team leader, luxury agent, and certified life and real estate coach. He organizes monthly investor meetups and runs Streamlined Properties, a…
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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump said, on Fox & Friends in 2020, that if voting access were expanded, meaning easing of barriers to voting for disabled people, poor people, rural people, working people … if voting were made easier, Trump said, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Why wouldn’t news media label that st…
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Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians
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This week on CounterSpin: In March, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.” But as Greg Shupak writes, even as evidence accumulates, denial is becoming socially and journalistically accept…
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EP141 Transforming Real Estate with AI: Insights from NYC Conference
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Welcome back to Keeping it Real Estate! In this episode with Mike Roeder, we explore how AI is revolutionizing the real estate industry, based on key insights from the AI in Real Estate conference in New York City. Discover the top five takeaways, including the importance of cybersecurity, leveraging third-party AI tools, and using AI to solve prob…
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Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering / Jane McAlevey on #MeToo and Labor
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This week on CounterSpin: At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on “record heat” — because the “records” will continue to be broken, and “heat” will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant. Media play a role in moving us from questions about where to buy a good air conditioner to what stands in the way of addressing a pu…
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EP140 Unlocking Multifamily Investment Potential in Dallas-Fort Worth
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Welcome back to another episode of Keeping it Real Estate with your host Dan Brisse! If you are considering investing in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area, this episode is a must-listen. We dive deep into the economic foundations, job growth, population trends, and the landlord-friendly laws that make DFW an ideal market for multifamily investments.…
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Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ “Invisible Cage”
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This week on CounterSpin: The power of the algorithm is ever clearer in our lives, even if we don’t understand it. Algorithms don’t just guess at what you might like to buy: sometimes they’re determining whether you get a job, or keep it. Some 40 million people in the U.S. use online platforms to find work. The algorithms these platforms use create…
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EP139 Real Estate AI Tools and Predictive Analytics with Doug Newell
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Doug Newell is a recognized leader in the application of predictive AI in real estate, boasting decades of experience in machine learning and AI integration within the real estate industry. He has spearheaded numerous initiatives in real estate technology that have yielded significant operational improvements, supported by a strong track record of …
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David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage / Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity
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This week on CounterSpin: Headlined “The Cash Monster Was Insatiable,” a 2022 New York Times piece reported insurance companies gaming Medicare Advantage, originally presented as a “low-cost” alternative to traditional Medicare. One company pressed doctors to add additional illnesses to the records of patients they hadn’t seen for weeks: Dig up eno…
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EP138 - Did the Real Estate Market Bottom Yet?
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In this episode, we dive into the pressing question: "Did Real Estate Hit Rock Bottom?" Join us as Dan Brisse, managing partner at Granite Towers Equity Group, shares his expert analysis on the current state of the real estate market. Dan will explore the economic factors influencing the market, assess whether we've reached the bottom, and provide …
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Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape / Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion
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This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote dozens of pages justifying his decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, stating the Constitution does not confer the right to determine whether or when to give birth. None of those pages mention his intention to make the United States “a place of godliness,” or his belief that there can be no …
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This episode explores the history of American Marxism heavily influenced by radical Saul Alinsky (1909-1972). His book Rules for Radicals remains a critical revolutionary tract outlining how to gain political power under the rubric of community organizing. A generation of leftist U.S. political leaders, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, a…
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EP137 Navigating Nashville: Current Real Estate Market Trends
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Mike Roeder, managing partner at Granite Towers Equity Group, dives into the intricacies of the Nashville Multifamily Market, providing a comprehensive overview of its current economic landscape, the dynamics of supply and demand, and strategic insights into deal underwriting. This discussion equips real estate investors with invaluable principles …
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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. Unfortunately, Trump can count on a general haziness in the public mind on the impact of “tipped wages,” more helpfully labeled subminimu…
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EP136 - 6 Key Principles for Successful Real Estate Investing
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Mike Roeder, managing partner at Granite Towers Equity Group, discusses the 6 Most Important Principles That You Can Use to Guide Your Decision-Making to Ensure Success in Your Real Estate Investing Career. Tune in to today's episode with Mike! Mike transitioned from single-family investments to multifamily in 2015. Today, he is a general partner i…
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Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict / Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
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This week on CounterSpin: Surprising no one, Donald Trump and his sycophants responded to his 34-count conviction on charges of lying in business records by claiming that the trial was “rigged,” the judge and jury corrupt, and that it was somehow Joe Biden’s doing. We’ll talk with Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, about press response to …
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Victory Over Communism-S3-Episode 5
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Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping, a neo-Maoist orthodox communist, is reviving the false ideological precept that Marxism-Leninism is scientific. Boasting a doctorate in "scientific socialism," Xi is forcing this dogma on the 98 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who are then spreading it worldwide as part of plans for overthrowi…
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EP135 Brady McDonald - The Power of Persistence
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Brady McDonald is the CEO of Barefoot Land Co., an award-winning real estate investment and development firm known for generating wealth through strategic, cash-flowing, and recession-resistant self-storage facilities. Beyond self-storage, Brady has led his team through hundreds of successful real estate deals, including flips, multi-family convers…
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Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
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This week on CounterSpin: In 2023, the California legislature passed legislation that said that big corporations doing business in the state have to tell the public how much pollution they’re emitting throughout their supply chain. But this past January, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups challenged those laws, claiming that mak…
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EP134 Craig Siegel - The Reinvention Formula
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Craig Siegel, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best-Selling Author of 'The Reinvention Formula,' is a global keynote speaker, coach and Advisor, TEDx speaker, and host of The CLS Experience podcast. Endorsed by luminaries like Jim Kwik and Ed Mylett, Craig, a 7-time marathoner, left his Wall Street job during the pandemic to pursue his true purpos…
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Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
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This week on CounterSpin: As an historic catastrophe, the deep and myriad impacts of Israel’s assault on Palestinians will not be fully understood until years from now, if then. That only adds urgency to present-day resistance to the collateral assault — on the ability to witness, to record, and to remember. When we spoke with historian Ellen Schre…
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Victory Over Communism-S3-Episode 4
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U.S. intelligence obtained new details of subversion and political warfare operations in the United States by China's Ministry of Public Security, the political police and intelligence service of the Chinese Communist Party. An MPS defector for the first time provided direct evidence of MPS operations aimed at sowing social divisions in America thr…
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EP133 Tim Murphy - Embracing the Journey: Navigating Real Estate and Personal Growth
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Tim Murphy is a highly successful real estate investor, developer, and the visionary behind Value Driven Investor, a community dedicated to helping others achieve financial freedom and live life on their terms. With a strong background in real estate, Tim has achieved significant milestones, such as becoming an infill developer, tearing down houses…
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Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency / Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors
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This week on CounterSpin: Steven Rosenfeld reports on election transparency, among other electoral issues, for Voting Booth. We hear from him about kinds of election interference we ignore at our peril. Some elite media-designated “smart people” have determined, “Citizens United, what? It’s folks who give ten bucks to a candidate that are really me…
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EP132 Rob Beardsley - The Lone Star Investor
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Rob Beardsley is the founder of Lone Star Capital which has acquired over $500M of multifamily real estate. He has sold over 20,000 copies of his two best-selling books on commercial real estate, speaks at real estate conferences nationwide, and hosts the capital spotlight podcast. To get in touch with Rob, reach out to him on this website: https:/…
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This week on CounterSpin: CNN’s Jake Tapper is mad about college students protesting their institutions’ and their government’s support for Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza — because they’re preventing him, by his account, from covering Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. Tapper and CNN, we’re to understand, are powe…
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Victory Over Communism-S3-Episode 3
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This episode examines what I will call the non-kinetic threat posed by Chinese communism. That is, the diabolical nature of the anti-human theory and practice of Chinese Marxism-Leninism and how the current leadership in communist China is seeking to reimpose high-technology Maoist tyranny worldwide. The counterproposal section continues with a gen…
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Unleashing the Project Management Superhero Within: Lessons from Rachel Gertz
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Rachel Gertz, the visionary co-founder and director of growth and delivery at Louder Than Ten, graces today’s episode with revelations that will forever alter your perception of project management. We examine the psychological depths and cultural implications of project management, discussing how this discipline is not just about timelines and budg…
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EP131 Neal Bawa - Biggest Opportunities in Real Estate 2024
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Neal Bawa is CEO / Founder at UGro and Grocapitus, two commercial real estate investment companies. Neal’s companies use cutting-edge real estate analytics technology to source and acquire OR build large commercial properties across the U.S. Current portfolio is over 4,800 units, with an AUM value (upon completion) of over $1 Billion. To get in tou…
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Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice
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We’re now seeing the impacts of the reality that corporate media, as well as corporate-funded universities, will always side with official power — as they present students sitting quietly in tents in protest of genocide as violent terrorists. But in fact, we’ve been seeing it for decades, as corporate media spin narratives about people of color as …
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EP130 Nick Fluellen - Elevating Returns in Multifamily Transactions
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Nick Fluellen, the Executive Managing Director of Marcus & Millichap, has been a multifamily agent since 2004, closing over 592 transactions totaling more than $5.1 Billion. He leverages the firm’s platform and industry connections to optimize returns for clients, holding a CCIM designation and a master's in Land Economics and Real Estate from Texa…
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Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine / Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
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This week on CounterSpin: Many college students appear to believe that learning about the world means not just gaining knowledge but acting on it. Campuses across the country — Rutgers, MIT, Ohio State, Boston University, Emerson, Tufts, and on and on — are erupting in protest over their institutions’ material support for Israel’s war on Palestinia…
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Victory Over Communism-S3-Episode 2
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The third season of Victory Over Communism is underway and this episode examines Critical Race Theory as the new face of Marxism in the United States. This destructive ideology was modified from its past variants by adding distinctly American features. First, CRT embraces the Marxist philosophy of resentment and hatred of religion but now filtering…
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EP129 Craig McGrouther - Building Wealth Through Multifamily Mastery
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Craig is the Director of Business Development at Lone Star Capital, which has acquired over $500M of multifamily real estate. He has a passion for sharing his enthusiasm for multifamily investing and serving Lone Star's investors. Prior to joining Lone Star Capital, Craig spent 7 years in the real estate sales industry and sold over 100 homes. He g…
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Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit / Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
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This week on CounterSpin: The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuses of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia, with Al-Shimari v. CACI. Since the case was first filed in 2008, military contractor CACI has pushed some 20 times to have it dismissed. We got a reading on the case last year f…
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EP128 Whitney Elkins-Hutten: Behind the Billion-Dollar Real Estate Portfolio
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Whitney is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com, a national real estate investment firm based in the Carolinas. She stumbled into real estate in 2002, learning from both success and setbacks. Today, she hosts the Passive Investing Made Simple YouTube Show and Podcast, sharing her wealth creation strategies with over 2,000 inve…
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This week on CounterSpin: U.S. corporate media’s story about Haiti is familiar. Haiti, according to various recent reports, has “whipped from one calamity to another.” The country is a “cataclysm of hunger and terror,” “teetering on the brink of collapse,” “spiraling deeper into chaos” or else “descending into gang-fueled anarchistic chaos.” It’s “…
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EP127 Drew Breneman - Data-Driven Real Estate Success
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Drew Breneman, founder of Breneman Capital, is a seasoned investor specializing in multifamily properties with a data-driven strategy. Starting his entrepreneurial journey in high school, Drew saved earnings from an internet business to acquire his first rental property at just 19. With a diverse investment portfolio across various markets and asse…
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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation / Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
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This week on CounterSpin: In the final quarter of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion. As reported by Popular Information, corporate profit margins were at a level not seen since the 1950s, as increases in prices have outpaced increases in costs. Capitalism 101 says this shouldn’t happen, because competing co…
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The Chinese Communist Party is now publishing its Marxist-Leninist ideological journal online. The latest issue is the focus of this first episode of Season 3 of the Victory Over Communism podcast. The Central Party School journal known as Qiushi -- deceptively translated as "Seeking Truth" in Chinese -- published an article on Chinese diplomacy th…
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EP126 Marshal Nathe - Conquering Real Estate with Grit and Goals
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Marshal Nathe is a multifaceted professional hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, with a diverse background spanning football, education, law, and real estate entrepreneurship. His journey started with a successful football career at ASU, leveraging his skills to secure an MBA. However, realizing the limitations of traditional paths, Marshal ventured int…
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Maddie Banta of MW Company: Crafting a Human-Centered B2B Ecommerce Experience
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Today we speak with Maddie Banta, the website manager at MW Company. We’ll take a deep dive into her work for MW Company migrating several online retail websites to Craft Commerce. Maddie’s rich background spanning agency work, graphic design, development, and ecommerce, contributes to her expertise. Throughout the episode, Maddie underscores the i…
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Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution / Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
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This week on CounterSpin: A senior UN human rights official told the BBC that there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war, which is a war crime. Meanwhile, US citizens struggle to make sense of White House policy that seems to call for getting aid to Palestinians while pursuing a course of action that make…
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EP125 Devin Dinofa - Mastering Productivity and Business Strategies
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Devin DiNofa is a versatile professional based in New Jersey, excelling as a high-performance coach, real estate agent, and successful business owner. Through his company, Harvest Performance Coaching, founded in 2018, Devin offers impactful coaching programs and workshops focused on mindset, productivity, and business strategies, guiding clients t…
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Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage / Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
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This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is the prime mover of a cascade of interrelated crises. We’re told that, when it comes to problems people need solved, rule number 1 is “follow the money.” Yet even as elite media talk about the climate crisis, they still … can’t … quite …connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder me…
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EP124 Jason Wright - Marketing Maverick: Insights & Strategies for Success
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Jason Wright is a digital marketing automation expert with a proven track record in platforms like ActiveCampaign. As the author of "The Backward Route To Forward Progress," he offers transformative insights for overcoming obstacles. With over five years as an ActiveCampaign Certified Consultant, Jason has crafted 500+ sales funnels and been featur…
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Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair / Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
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This week on CounterSpin: About this time seven years ago, John Deere was arguing, with a straight face, that farmers shouldn’t really “own” their tractors, because if they had access to the software involved, they might pirate Taylor Swift music. Things have changed since then, though industry still gets up and goes to court to say that even thoug…
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The Science and Politics of Non-Human Intelligence with Garry Nolan and Peter Skafish
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Dr. Garry Nolan and Dr. Peter Skafish, founders of the SOL foundation, discuss the urgent need for developing the science, academic research, and policy of Non-Human Intelligence.‘Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts by Peter Skafish40% off discount code: MN91060 Link: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/bo…
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