Andy Kushner offers an inside look behind-the-scenes of the wedding and event world for both industry experts and bridal couples by featuring in-depth and transformative conversations with event industry icons. The Wedding Biz is also the only global platform of its kind to serve the business development needs of wedding and events professionals. As the host, Andy interviews the most prolific thought leaders and talent, taking you behind the curtain and revealing their personality, character ...
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Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: www.patreon.com/theantifada twitter: @the\_antifada @spaceprole @as\_a\_worker email: antifadamindset at gmail streaming: twitch.tv/theantifada
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In intimate conversions, Andy Kushner shows you the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the ordinary struggles that even the extraordinary experience. EOP gets to the heart of the matter with interesting people that we rarely get a chance to talk with.
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On Consuming Careers, we explore the careers of people from many walks of life, all of whom have taken rather unique paths, and we're digging into where they find purpose, what fuels their passion, and how they've persevered in the face of profound opposition. And to keep things real, each interview is recorded live over food or drink in a restaurant, pub, café, around a firepit, or even on a boat in the middle of a lake. Work and food: you just can’t have one without the other! Our hope is ...
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Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France. We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of…
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CC 30 | Andy Cook: Helping Bring Kids Home at Promise686
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Did you know that there are approximately 400,000 children in the foster care system in the U.S. alone, but many children age-out of foster care without a permanent or lasting sense of family? This week on Consuming Careers, we’re meeting with Andy Cook. Andy’s the President & CEO of Promise686, where, for the last 11+ years, he and his team have b…
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REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on September 1, 2024 that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently pr…
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Boundless and Bottomless Seas 7: Chapter 5 of "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin
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Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it." For the full episode subscribe on http://patreon.com/theantifada or view the episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_qKnAxV2I&list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi…
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We circle back with Laurie Gray who we interviewed in episode 21 with one question I Forgot2Ask. Click to text Bruce now! About Bruce Smith: Over the past 40 years, I’ve covered a lot of ground in my career: white collar, blue collar, college drop-out, college graduate, practicing CPA, multiple business owner, elected official, recruiter and career…
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CC 28 | Mar Kushner: Survive to Thrive One Step at a Time
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In this episode of Consuming Careers, we’re meeting with Mar Kushner. Now, you’ve probably never heard of Mar Kushner, but I’ve been working with Mar for the last 4 years, but it wasn’t until 2 years ago that I got a chance to hear her inspiring story of perseverance. Raised in Pakistan, a casualty of an arranged marriage that brought her to the US…
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E259: Lethal Strength Through Joy w/ Zhana Kurti
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Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all. Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in dep…
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ARMED LOVE 12 - The Revolution of Everyday Life w/ Bill Brown
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Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's prediction of the "End of Christianity" in relation to heresy and queerness. Greil Marcus…
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513 ANDREA EPPOLITO: AI for Wedding Professionals
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Andy is thrilled to once again be sitting down with Andrea Eppolito, a renowned luxury wedding planner and author of AI for Wedding Professionals. Andrea shares her initial hesitation toward AI and recounts how she dedicated daily time to understand and leverage this technology, highlighting its comparison to the invention of the internet in terms …
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Diving in the Wreckage - Independence, Decadence, and Renewal w/ C. Derick Varn
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Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do? This is an extended preview of the compl…
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Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of Hegel For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Matthew Donovan's review…
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E258 - Populaire Frontin' 2: Melon Pilled w/ Henry Wallis
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Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block? Support the show at http://patreon.com/the…
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512 REVISIT COLIN COWIE: The Gold Standard: Giving Your Customers What They Didn’t Know They Wanted
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Join Andy as he revisits his September 2021 interview with Colin Cowie this week! Having had celebrity clients such as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, Lil Wayne, Nicole Kidman, and Demi Moore, this episode’s returning guest has enjoyed quite the career so far. Colin Cowie has also had many corporate clients such as Dom…
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E257 - Joe vs. the Volcano w/ Phil Neel & Nick Chavez (Part 1)
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Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing. In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visi…
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The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it. For the full episode, all other bonus content, and Discord access, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Check out Sean's other appearance on MDC this week Support MDC on patreon…
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&&&RMED LOVE - Jack Scott, Bill Walton, the SLA, and the Athletic Revolution
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&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army. For all our bonus content and access to our Discord community support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Jack Scott: https://www.abebo…
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511 LIENE STEVENS: Current State of the Wedding Industry and Investing in Yourself
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In this truly enriching episode, join Andy as he connects with Liene Stevens, the acclaimed author, behavioral psychologist, and CEO of Think Splendid! Liene brings a wealth of knowledge from her extensive experience in the global wedding market, having collaborated with clients across 97 countries and revolutionized operations for numerous luxury …
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Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left. Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this …
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CC 27 | Chris Carneal: Grit and the Art of Creating Culture
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It’s been said that ‘culture is what we make of the world around us’. It’s episode 27 of Consuming Careers podcast, and we’re meeting with Chris Carneal, founder and CEO of Booster. And if you’re not familiar with Booster, you’re gonna hear all about it in a few minutes. But more than just a successful company, there’s a bigger story here. It's how…
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E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler
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Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler For the full episode, Discord access, and all our bonus content, support the show at http:///patreon.com/theantifada The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bo…
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510 REVISIT JOSE VILLA & LAURIE ARONS – Discuss Working Together As Photographer & Planner/Designer and More!
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Listen in to this revisit as Andy chats with two guests, both of whom have been featured on the podcast multiple times in the past. Laurie Arons is a planner and designer of Laurie Arons Special Events and has been featured in numerous magazine publications and has been listed in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings as one of the top…
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E254 - Climate Adorno w/ Jacob Blumenfeld
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We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair? https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-867…
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CC 26 | Cathy Cox: Shattering the Glass Ceiling with a Life of Servant Leadership
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On this week’s episode of Consuming Careers, we’re meeting with Cathy Cox, the President of Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. And if you don’t know Cathy, then you’re in for a real treat! Born and raised in Bainbridge, Georgia, Cathy's journey is a remarkable blend of journalism, law, politics and education. She is a w…
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E253 - Populaire Frontin' w/ Henry Wallis
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Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections. Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front Macron and Lula support billionaire tax:…
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509 SUSAN LACZ/Ridgewells Catering: Quality and Culture in Business
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Join Andy this week as he sits down with Susan Lacz, the CEO of Ridgewells Catering. With a career spanning over three decades, Susan has been a pivotal force in the catering and events industry, steering Ridgewells Catering through significant transformations and challenges. Listen in as Susan shares her inspiring journey, starting with her early …
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Boundless and Bottomless Seas: "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin (Episode 5)
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Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it." In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All…
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NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show. Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZ Labor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.h…
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Andy welcomes Kerry Bracken and Jennifer Rocher of Lavender & Rose this week! Lavender & Rose is an exclusive event planning company based in the enchanting French Riviera. Join Andy as he explores their captivating journey and how they have crafted bespoke weddings in the stunning locales of Southern France and Paris! Listen as Jennifer and Kerry …
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Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and antisemitism in light of the new movement. For the full episode, all bonus content, and access to ongoing discussion and debate in our Discord community, support the show at http://p…
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CC 25 | Caleb Bonsi: Third Culture Kid - From Ghana to LinkedIn
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On this weeks’ episode of Consuming Careers, we’re sitting down with Caleb Bonsi, a young professional who shares his journey to discover purpose and meaning in his work, as he endeavors to integrate his Ghanaian roots into his career at LinkedIn and beyond. He also shares his experience of working at LinkedIn, as well as the contrast between the G…
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507 TORI WILLIAMS: From Glam Services to Global Recognition as an Event Curator and Designer
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Andy is so honored to bring Tori Williams of Tori Williams Events onto the show today! Tori is a world renowned luxury event curator who has showcased her work on major television networks such as Lifetime, Bravo, and The Food Network, and she is even the star of the VH1 original series My Celebrity Dream Wedding! She joins Andy today to discuss ev…
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For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarch…
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