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Atsushi Sakahara survived terrorism at the hands of doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, now he's facing Indie doc distribution. aganai.substack.com
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The Put Me On podcast is designed for listeners interested in getting into, and learning about the current sound of rap and R&B. Topics will include weekly artist spotlights as well as discussions of new and relevant album releases by host Jaylan Harrington. Presented by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2.
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Thousands of people are starting their workweeks with smiles of invigoration as they log on to their computers to find their Monday Morning Memo just waiting to be devoured. Straight from the middle-of-the-night keystrokes of Roy H. Williams, the MMMemo is an insightful and provocative series of well-crafted thoughts about the life of business and the business of life.
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For female-identifying business owners ready to scale their nontraditional service-based or brick-and-mortar businesses to six figures and beyond. Specifically, Leslie supports business owners who are struggling to find their place on social media, or even in networking events due to the nature of their business. Ideal for owners and leaders of tattoo shops, permanent makeup studios, cannabis businesses, movement studios, sex toy shops, and other industries too often left out of the leadersh ...
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At some point, hating yourself, living in dysfunction and feeling like your mind, trauma responses, addiction and codependency controls you and not the other way around. The Ask an Advanced Bitch podcast provides your weekly dose of no-nonsense and irreverent insights, truths and techniques for addressing trauma and your particular trauma responses, grief and loss, and all things recovery to become our most true, self-confident and authentic selves - or as I would put it - an Advanced Bitch. ...
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This is your coffee podcast and your newest addiction. I'm Holly Shannon, what are you pouring today coffee lovers? Join me for a cup of connection. We will sip, share, and come completely unfiltered, this Coffee podcast is Brewed for Connection. Let me give you the dark roast first, coffee is figurative, are we really meeting up for the shot of caffeine, or are we craving connection? Are you dating? Swipe right for that coffee date! Maybe coffee is your new black! What about coffee culture? ...
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I don’t claim to speak for anyone but myself, and maybe it’s a generational thing, but America, to my way of thinking, is less of a place and more of a belief system; a way of looking at the world and the people in it. Americans believe in opportunity and equality. Americans believe, “Treat others as you would like others to treat you.” Americans b…
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EP: 105 Deathbed Confessions: What the End of Life Teaches us about Leadership in Our Business
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True stories of Deathbed conversations that I've had as a Chaplain. Learn how articulating your values can not only help you lead your small business but help you and your loved ones guide your end of life decisions. www.lesliedlyons.com Book a 1 on 1 call today!
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How to Create Sustainable Sales Activation
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PART THREE of SEVEN SECRETS OF SALES ACTIVATION The objective of a Customer Bonding campaign is to make your name the one that people think of first and feel the best about. When you have not successfully bonded with your customer, any attempt at sales activation is simply an experiment in direct marketing. This can certainly work for awhile if you…
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Two thousand years ago, Confucius was as old to the people of China as Christopher Columbus is to us today. Five hundred and thirty-two years before the wise men followed their star to Bethlehem, Confucius wrote, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by contemplation, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by ex…
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Leadership = Energy + Direction Direction = Vision + Courage Therefore, leaders are people of Energy, Vision, and Courage. If you are a person of energy, vision, and courage: (1.) I have noticed that people like you often become surrounded by wanderers who are looking for a leader. It is hard to make money when you are stumbling over puppies who ga…
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Riding this rocket toward my 67th birthday, memories of my life flicker in the twilight of my mind like shooting stars in the night. My gaze lingers on a long-ago day when I began writing ads for a jeweler. I saw the cover of a book that said, “Follow Your Passion. The Money Will Follow,” and remember thinking, “I would hate to become famous for wr…
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You are inside your business, looking out. The customer is outside your business, looking in. Your inside-out perspective makes you blind in one eye. Confirmation bias makes you blind in the other eye. You cannot see yourself the way your customer sees you. You imagine how they see you based on your mission statement, your policies and procedures, …
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Every company has an inside, an outside, and an engine. This is why successful companies have a Mother, a Trumpet, and a CEO. The CEO chooses a destination and builds a machine to take us there. The Mother looks inward to the people in the company. The Trumpet makes beautiful noises for the public to hear. The Mother in your company is the person e…
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The best screenwriters in Hollywood use the principles of David Freeman, as do Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning novelists and all the most effective ad writers, even if they have never heard of the man. I know David well, as he has taught a number of classes at Wizard Academy. His always-and-forever question is this: “What causes this character to …
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Every person on earth belongs to several cults. Calm down. I’m not talking about what you think I’m talking about. I’ll start at the beginning. Cult: any group of people who share a devotion to an idea, activity, or identity. Cults become toxic and dangerous only when the devotion of the group is (1.) to a specific individual, (2.) focused on the d…
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In this heartfelt episode of "Beyond the Pole: Tales from the CEO," Leslie Lyons, your go-to coach for embodied leadership and sales, dives deep into the complexities of running a small business during an economic downturn. Leslie shares insights and advice that are particularly valuable for owners and leaders of tattoo shops, cannabis businesses, …
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Brad Pitt, Ron Howard, and Me I never write click-bait headlines, but I wrote this one just to prove I can. Brad shines from Shawnee, Ron comes from Duncan, and I bailed from Broken Arrow. We’re all Okla-Homeboys. Now that my click-bait headline has done its job and convinced you to keep reading all the way down to this third paragraph, I will tran…
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These are stories of a bright day, a dark night, and a monster. The story of the bright day happened last year just before Christmas. You may recall that I told you about finding an undiscovered 400-year-old copy of the 1605 edition of Don Quixote at a used furniture auction in a village in New England. This is the rest of that story. After I bough…
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Twenty-nine years ago, Carl Sagan wrote a book called The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995). One of the observations Carl shared in that book is particularly troubling: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer inte…
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Lots of people have been asking me the same 3 questions. QUESTION ONE: “Who were your mentors?” Mentor is a word I never use. It smells of apprenticeship, that wafting, submissive aroma that arises from a servant who adores his master. By this definition, I have never had a mentor, but I do have many heroes I study from a distance, and I have a lot…
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Aim their laughter like a cannon that booms out over the water. Aim their sorrow like a rainbow that follows a storm. Aim their anger like a lightning bolt that kills a man standing under a tree. Be careful not to stand under trees. People would rather be angry that bored. This is why we pay attention to politics. People would rather be frightened …
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Any person who relays messages to you from the boss, is now your new boss. An excellent messenger might relay exactly what the big boss asked them to tell you, but only after they have reframed it, recharacterized it, and added their own slant. Every messenger does this. Whether they do it consciously or unconsciously is irrelevant. Whether they do…
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57. The Deep End: #ReleaseTheFootage
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And now we’ve got private investigators calling it a cult and Teal's shocked—like, really shocked. Welcome back to another episode of Serving Cult! This week we conclude our deep dive into The Deep End! Picture this: Teal blames Blake and her manager for the investigator's cult accusations. Classic deflection. Meanwhile, Juliana gets gaslit by Teal…
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Ep: 103 Wake me up from this 2008 nightmare.
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In this heartfelt and no-nonsense episode of Beyond the Pole: Tales from the CEO, Leslie Lyons, your embodied leadership and sales coach, delves into the gritty reality of running a business in tough economic times. Leslie draws parallels to the 2008 recession and shares her personal journey of navigating financial hardships, offering a candid look…
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There is a time to get started, and there is a time to wait. When you have thought carefully about it, take action. But when you haven’t thought about it, wait. The important is rarely urgent, and the urgent is rarely important. Do not become a slave to the merely urgent. Perception is to see things that not everyone sees. Intuition is to recognize…
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