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Checking In with Anthony & Glenn840: Why Cash Flow is King in Today’s Hospitality MarketToday we’ve got Russ Flicker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AWH Partners. He’s got the latest scoop on hotel investments, asset management, and market trends. From uncovering off-market deals to navigating high-interest rate environments, Russ offers real talk about what’s driving (and slowing) hospitality transactions today. 🔥 Highlights: • State of the Hospitality Market: Why some properties are thriving while others are struggling. • Investment Realities: Why high interest rates are forcing a shift from creative repositioning to focusing on cash-flowing assets. • Urban Market Insights: The challenges and opportunities in cities like New York, San Francisco...2025-03-2724 min
No Vacancy Live!940: Why Cash Flow is King in Today’s Hospitality MarketToday we’ve got Russ Flicker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AWH Partners. He’s got the latest scoop on hotel investments, asset management, and market trends. From uncovering off-market deals to navigating high-interest rate environments, Russ offers real talk about what’s driving (and slowing) hospitality transactions today. 🔥 Highlights: • State of the Hospitality Market: Why some properties are thriving while others are struggling. • Investment Realities: Why high interest rates are forcing a shift from creative repositioning to focusing on cash-flowing assets. • Urban Market Insights: The challenges and opportunities in cities like New York, San Francisco...2025-03-2724 min
4Twenteezs with Pablo ZuanicMSO CFOs Discuss State of the IndustrySpeakers: Dennis Logan, CFO, Planet 13 Holdings Mario Pinho, CFO, MariMed Inc Roman Nemchenko, CFO, Ascend Wellness Holdings About MariMed Inc MariMed Inc., a multi-state cannabis operator, is dedicated to improving lives every day through its high-quality products, its actions, and its values. The company develops, owns, and manages seed-to-sale of state-licensed cannabis facilities, which are models of excellence in horticultural principles, cannabis cultivation, cannabis-infused products, and dispensary operations. MariMed has an experienced management team that has produced consistent growth and success for the company and its managed...2025-02-1655 min
The DimeNavigating the Gray: The Legal Tightrope of Cannabis Risk & Compliance ft. Dan ShapiroEveryone can agree—cannabis operates in a legal gray area. For starters, anyone in the industry is technically breaking federal law, as cannabis remains federally illegal. But for an in-house attorney at an MSO, the job isn’t just about navigating federal risk. It’s about understanding where gray meets red, balancing state-by-state regulations, and ensuring compliance across an industry with ever-changing rules—especially for a publicly traded company.This week, we sit down with Dan Shapiro, EVP of Ascend Wellness, to break down:Understanding the legal gray areas in cannabisShi...2025-01-3046 min
The Digital Drift PodcastAtmospheric Water Harvesting: Quenching Thirst From Thin AirWelcome to our season two finale! From groundbreaking technology to pull drinking water from desert air to integrating water harvesting into smart cities, hosts Mason and Joanna explore the fascinating world of atmospheric water harvesting (AWH). Join them as they break down the evolution from simple fog-catching nets to revolutionary Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that can extract water from air with just 10% humidity.
Discover how this technology compares to traditional water sourcing methods, with surprising insights about energy efficiency and real-world applications. Learn about innovative urban integration concepts, from water-producing bus shelters to smart windows that harvest...2024-11-2909 min
It's all about the grey podcastLeadership Lessons from 30 Years in Business with John Ward, GM of National Operations at AWHJohn Ward is the General Manager of National Operations at AWH, one of Australia's leading logistical and warehousing specialists, providing storage, handling, transport and inventory management services. John on the podcast shared his experience over his 30-year journey with a focus on leadership. John discusses the importance of continuous learning, leadership styles, emotional intelligence, the value of giving back, choosing one's attitude, and creating a purpose-driven work environment. Plenty of valuable takeaways for any aspiring leaders.
AWH Website - www.awh.com.au
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The Deal Ranch#29 Russell Flicker | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, AWH PartnersRussell Flicker is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of AWH Partners.
AWH Partners is a national hotel real estate investment, management, and development platform that has built a portfolio in excess of $2B of hospitality investments since being founded in 2010.
AWH is also the owner of Spire Hospitality, a top-tier, national hospitality management company.
Episode Topics & Stories:
Russ highlights his early career from his interview with Donald Trump at The Trump Organization to his transition out of Blackstone to start AWH
Path to their first deal
Acquisition of the management company which...2024-06-071h 06
WNXP PodcastsRecord of the Week: Bats 'Good Game Baby'Nashville native Jess Awh hated country music. Until she moved away and started missing home. Now she’s back and she’s written an album that is country in its core but also dabbles in long extensions of layers of found sound that she has been collecting since she was 15, big droning guitar. For Nashvillians there are detailed references to what it’s like to drive on Dickerson Pike after a DRKMTR show after 11 o’clock at night and the relatable song title, “Downtown Sucks You Can’t Park Anymore.” Jess Awh’s band is Bats and their new album, Good Game...2024-03-0425 min
Beyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHExperiential Product LearningPaul Reeder, Executive Director of Innovation Strategies, The Ohio State University, discusses their OnRamp program that helps students to learn how to do perform customer discovery, evaluate problem statements, and assess potential concepts with an organizational sponsor.
awh.net2023-05-1259 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHLeading Engineering TeamsAlan Gilbert discusses leading engineering teams, the difference between engineering management and leadership, and other aspects of engineering as part of building successful products.
awh.net2023-03-061h 11
Being BuiltEpisode 10 featuring Ryan Frederick (Partner at AWH) and Sheri Chaney Jones (Founder & President of SureImpact)Ryan Frederick is a strategist, technologist, speaker, and author. Ryan is a partner at the technology consulting firm AWH and a strategy guide with the strategy consulting firm Simply Strategic. Ryan has written two books about starting and managing companies. He also speaks frequently about new technology, the future of work, and strategy.
Sheri Chaney Jones is the founder and president of SureImpact, a technology firm devoted to empowering mission-driven organizations to manage, measure, and communicate their unique social impact. For more than 20 years, Sheri Chaney Jones has applied performance management, evaluation, and organization behavior best practices t...2023-03-0346 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHProduct Management & SalesJason Knight discusses the challenges and ways for product managers to better collaborate with sales.
awh.net2023-02-0335 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHProduct Pricing ConsiderationsDan Blacauski of Product Tranquility peels back the layers of product pricing and provides valuable insights on how to approach software product pricing.
awh.net2023-01-2752 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHImmutable | The 5 Truths of Great Product ManagementAuthor, Consultant, and Professor JJ Rorie discusses her book, teaching product management, and more.
JJ's book
JJ's podcast
awh.net2022-12-2147 min
The Dealmakers’ Edge with A.Y. StraussHarnessing Hospitality with Russ Flicker, Managing Partner & Co-founder of AWH PartnersRussell “Russ” Flicker started his career working for some of the biggest names in commercial real estate (and the world). The co-founder and managing partner of AWH Partners is an alum of The Blackstone Group and The Trump Organization as well as the former CIO for Ian Schrager Company. An entrepreneur at heart, Russ took his years of institutional experience and struck out on his own when he and two colleagues started their own firm on the heels of the Great Recession. AWH Partners is a privately held real estate investment firm f...2022-11-1423 min
On PrincipleA Career on the Line: Russ FlickerFake it till you make it. Talk the talk before you can walk the walk. We hear it all the time, and that’s where Russ Flicker was in 2009. Russ left the Blackstone Group to join Ian Schrager Company as its chief investment officer but “irreconcilable differences” compelled him to leave only months after joining to strike out on his own—in the midst of the worst global economic crisis in decades—with two children under 5 years old and his wife.In fact, he wasn’t really even trying to start a business. In his words, he was “unemplo...2022-11-0831 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHAvoiding the Services TrapMike Popadak, Co-Founder at iVueIt discusses the intention and execution it takes to become a product company and not get lured into being a services company.
awh.net2022-07-2035 min
Canadiens TimeEpisode 6 Draft's EveTranscript
The Habby Hour
Locked on Canadiens
The Build
Habs Unfiltered
Blain Potvin THW Canadiens’ Offseason Dominos Can Fall Following Price’s Health Update
Trege Wilson THW 3 Moves the Canadiens Won’t Make at the 2022 Draft
Jimmy Murphy MHN Canadiens Likely Drafting First Overall But Hughes Won’t Promise
Press Conference
Blain Potvin THW Canadiens Salary Cap Issues Will Force a Trade
Marco D'Amico MHN explained why McDonagh trade different than Petry trade.
Marco D'Amico MHN Christian Dvorak in T...2022-07-0715 min
Canadiens TimeEpisode 5 DefunseTranscript
The Habby Hour
Locked On Canadiens
The Build
Habs Unfiltered
Patrik Bexell HEOTP Jonathan Lekkerimaki profile
5 Players The Canadiens Would Be Wise To Target After Round 1 Of NHL Draft -Sebastian High AWH
Lortie AWH Canadiens Need To Look In Own Backyard In Later Rounds Of Draft
Where Canadiens Are Strongest and Weakest for 2022 Offseason - Ryan Szporer THW
Ken MacMillan AWH Montreal Canadiens Delicate Dance on Defence For 2022-23 Season
Prospects That Took the Biggest Strides This Season Marco...2022-07-0229 min
Playing InjuredEP 87: You Never Know What Someone is Going Through w/ Michael Berggreen & MasonSend us a textWelcome to episode 87, where Mason sits down with Michael Berggreen who runs Aim Way High Coaching. In this episode, they go through the journey Michael went through as a kid growing up in an abusive home and changing his life around to becoming a successful entreprenuer. Here is the contact information For Michael: Email: michael@aimwayhigh.comWebsite: aimwayhigh.comAim Way High Coaching is about finding alignment with the happy version of yourself. AWH will enlighten your guidance system to reactivate and allow you to stand t...2022-06-2426 min
Highly ObjectiveAscend Wellness Holdings (AWH), CEO, Abner KurtinAbner Kurtin is the Founder and CEO of Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH) and the Portfolio Manager for JM10 Partners Fund. Established in 2018, JM10 Partners operates two private equity funds that invest growth capital into the cannabis industry. Kurtin has been managing opportunity capital for over 20 years. Prior to AWH, he was the founder of K Capital Partners, a multibillion dollar hedge fund and Ca2 Group a high end real estate development firm in Massachusetts. He started his career at The Baupost Group and served as a member of the Presidents Council of Massachusetts General Hospital and Chairman of the...2022-06-1332 min
High Rise: Cannabis MSOs, Products & Market AnalysisE65 - Ascend Wellness teams up to sue the federal government over 280E and interstate commerceOn this episode of the High Rise, Cy and Emily talk about Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH) banding together with other prominent cannabis businesses to sue the federal government over what they believe to be unconstitutional policies that are impending their operations. AWH has tapped the famous law firm Boies, Schiller Flexner to help them bring this case all the way up SCOTUS if they can garner enough support, and it definitely sounds like they do. Make sure to stream this at 1x speed, as there are many details Cy and Emily cover that go beyond the headlines o...2022-06-0915 min
Beyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHWhat The Heck is a Product ConsultantDominic Michalic from Pathfinder discusses what it's like to be a product consultant.2022-06-0652 min
The Nashville ArtistJess AwhIn this episode, I hang out with Jess Awh. Jess is a singer, songwriter, and guitar player in her band Bats. When she's not making music she likes to draw. Jess has a background in musical anthropology and ethnomusicology. Specifically Native American heritage. Learn about her barefoot childhood, singing as her guiding light to the world, and exploring Magic Treehouse books. She describes her writing process, self-reflection, wild times on Megabus, and how part of her record Blue Cabinet was recorded in the back of her car. Tennessee has her heart, the sounds of train whistles means home to...2022-05-0632 min
Built in Ohio70. Ryan Frederick on the hype and realities of new technologiesRyan Frederick is a Principal at AWH, a technology consulting firm that helps companies grow by leveraging technology. In this podcast, we talk with Ryan about how the Columbus tech community got built, what makes a strong tech ecosystem, and the hype and realities of new technologies.Ryan is a Founder and product person at heart. He's had the privilege of being part of starting and growing several software and service companies. Ryan has helped companies grow from inception, to viability, through to sustainability. During the evolution of these companies, Ryan has served on company boards and...2022-03-1644 min
From Pot to PopularT. Andrew Brown: How can states weave social equity into cannabis legislation?Like any emerging industry, legal cannabis will not be able to reach its full potential without the support of lawyers in all sectors. In this episode, T. Andrew Brown, president of AWH New York and president of the New York State Bar Association, offers his unique perspective as an attorney on the future of cannabis in the state of New York and beyond. As New York begins to establish the framework of its legal market, he emphasizes the importance of embedding social equity components into legislation to address the impact of cannabis prohibition head-on. He explains the ways in which...2022-03-0227 min
carlpoolingFidel TrudeauLook. Canada has always been a silly place. Here in America we love watching them play with their colorful money and make believe they are a real country. Usually their antics are more 'Awh, that's pathetic.' and not 'Awh, they're destroying western civilization and running 1984 like a college football playbook.' We break down the massive authoritarian shift in response to the trucker protest.2022-02-231h 11Beyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHIntegrations as a ProductRyan Lunka with Blended Edge discusses why integrations are often undervalued and underappreciated.
awh.net2022-02-0154 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHData as a ProductMike Alverez with Cardinal Health talks about making it easier to consume and act on data by empowering the users of data through a data as a product approach.
awh.net2022-01-2554 min
Dead AmericaChris SleeChristopher Slee
Founder, Principal, and CPO
Christopher Slee is the Founder, Principal, and Chief Product Officer at AWH, a Dublin, Ohio software engineering firm currently celebrating its 26th year of creating innovative digital products for business clients.
With over 30 years of experience, Chris has built over 4500 applications. Every birth certificate and death certificate in the State of Ohio runs through a system that he designed.
Chris’s latest venture, IncludeHealth, leverages machine learning, proprietary algorithms, and web camera technology to support a seamless blend of onsite and remote musculoskeletal services – anywhere, anytime.
At AWH, Chris leads internal and external development team...2022-01-0541 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHProductTank: UX to Head of ProductAs Co-Founder and Head of Product at Rhove, Jonathan Nutt brings inspiration, motivation, and focus to an insanely talented team of passionate missionaries working to advance Rhove’s mission--expanding access and opportunity so that anyone can invest in their community.
With nearly two-decades of experience, Jonathan has designed everything from megacities in China to disruptive health-tech experiences. Prior to joining Rhove, Jonathan held multiple leadership roles. Most recently, Jonathan was Director of UX Strategy at IBM iX (formerly Resource Ammirati) where he led a national team and accounts such as FedEx, Sherwin Williams, Cardinal Health, Ohio State We...2021-11-1954 min
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Kabyle Bible: John
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1:2 Si tazwara, yella akk-d Ṛebbi,
1:3 kullec yețwaxleq seg-s ; deg wayen meṛṛa yețwaxelqen, ulac ayen ur d-nekki ara s ɣuṛ-es.
1:4 Deg-s i tella tudert ; tudert-agi tella ț-țafat i yemdanen.
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1:6 Yella yiwen wergaz yețwaceggeɛ ed s ɣuṛ Ṛebbi, argaz-agi is...2021-11-1638 minBeyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWHAligning Product & ProcessJim Canterucci is the founder of Westerville based businesses Transition Management Advisors and Constituent Hub. He works closely with executive teams to help them implement the strategies developed in the boardroom. In other words, Leading Change.
In addition to a long career as an executive advisor, professional speaker, and author – Amazon #1 Self-help Bestseller Personal Brilliance, he has created an enterprise software package for large companies called Constituent Hub.
Jim also facilitates the Columbus Product Club monthly Coffee & Connections meetings.2021-10-2254 min
The Good Advice Podcast: Do Business Better with Blake Binns#215 - Ryan Frederick, on Becoming a Successful EntrepreneurIf you were to start over today on your entrepreneurial journey, would you know what to do? Would you know how to sell? What advice would you listen to, and what would you avoid? Ryan Frederick joins the podcast as the founder of AWH and the author of "Sell Naked: And Other Advice for Growing and Managing Services Firms" as well as "The Founder's Manual: A Guidebook for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur".
We talk all things true about the entrepreneurial journey, including what you can expect, how to stay motivated, and most importantly, how to grow a b...2021-09-1431 min
Cannabis Investing Network#109 - Creating Value by Going Deep in Key States (ft. Abner Kurtin, CEO of Ascend Wellness)Joining us today is Abner Kurtin who is CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH). Abner’s background is as an investor – starting at the highly regarded Baupost and moving on to starting his own hedge fund. He raised $50M to invest in the cannabis space before switching gears and Co-Founding Ascend in 2018.
In only 3 years Ascend has become a top player in IL with an eye to repeating the model in NY, NJ and Mass (the company is also in MI and OH).
In this episode we discuss:
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Cannabis Investing Newsletter PodcastLowell Farms LOWLF Stock to move up to $30.00 as company expands and I show you whyLowell Farms LOWLF stock has significant upside potential to move much higher - up to $30.00 - as Lowell Farms LOWLF stock rolls out its products and expands into new territories with its deal with AWH. Currently, Lowell Farms LOWLF Stock is trading at $1.20 as unrealized potential exists for this marijuana stock. But, this is the store for many marijuana stocks as investors are leery of getting into cannabis investing. But, Lowell Farms LOWLF stock is expanding into five new states with a licensing deal with AWH that is starting in Massachusetts and will be rolled out into other areas. C...2021-08-2427 min
The Marketing Agency Leadership PodcastCapitalizing on Opportunity and Fixing What’s BrokenTen years ago, Ryan Frederick, became a partner at AWH, a now 26-year-old firm that builds net new software products, solves data problems, and integrates systems across platforms and products (phones, the web, Internet of Things [IoT] devices). The client mix is split in thirds: Funded startups building disruptive products to capitalize on unique opportunities Midmarket companies (manufacturers, distributors, or nonprofits/social enterprises) who don’t have much technological knowledge or “horsepower” and a one-time or only sporadic need to build a “digital fix.” Enterprise clients that need prototypes and proofs of concept for corporate innovation initiatives...2021-08-1932 min
Prosperity Podcast with Nicole BremnerThe future of machine learning - will they be kind to us? - with serial app builder and tech veteran Christopher Slee #108Send us a text“The types of projects we’re working on now, there would have been no technical way to solve those problems five years ago. I’m looking forward to what’s next…what’s the next solution, what’s the next technology?”I’m joined today by a guest in Dublin, Ohio. Christopher Slee is the founder, principal and CPO at AWH, a software engineering firm currently celebrating its 26th year. Whether it’s Internet of Things or blockchain, a phone app, or Artificial Intelligence, AWH offers the opportunity to creat...2021-08-1034 min