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Dreamful Bedtime Stories
Treasure Island
Drift into the world of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," an epic tale brimming with hidden treasures and looming threats. This is the first couple of chapters in which we meet Jim Hawkins as he crosses paths with a mysterious pirate captain staying at his family's inn. So, snuggle up in your blankets and have sweet dreams. The music in this episode is A World Beyond by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. Text a Story Suggestion (or just say hi!)Dreamful is sponsored by AirDoctorUse code DREAMFUL at checkout for up to $300 off!
2025-02-21
55 min
Kermode on Film
195: We're Back! With Juliet Stevenson, James Watkins on SPEAK NO EVIL, and LFF's Kristy Matheson
Kermode on Film is back for the first time since April 2022!This episode is the first half of an MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 16 September 2024. In it, London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson joins Mark to share her highlights of the LFF 2024. She recommends some favourites: the opening film, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, the closing film Piece By Piece, studio feature Conclave, indie film Harvest, and this year’s unexpected gem, The Extraordinary Miss Flower.Next, Mark welcomes iconic actress Juliet Stevenson to discuss her role in Reawakening. She a...
2024-10-08
48 min
The LRB Podcast
UK Election Special: Foreign Policy
‘The world is growing more dangerous’ warns the Conservative manifesto, which puts security at the heart of its pitch. The Labour manifesto, on the other hand, doesn’t mention the world beyond the UK at all in its five ‘missions’. Are the Tories simply being honest with voters, or trying to distract from their domestic record? In this episode, James Butler is joined by Tom Stevenson and Iona Craig to discuss the challenges facing the next foreign secretary, from Gaza to the pressures of a possible Trump presidency. Labour’s current approach seems to promise ‘Blair without the Iraq War’, but how fa...
2024-06-29
59 min
8TALKS
Transformation Evolved - John & Mark Cronin from John's Crazy Socks
In one of the most enjoyable episodes recorded so far, we are joined by John & Mark Cronin a father and son duo from New York who created Johns Crazy Socks, a sock store with the world's largest selection. Mark Cronin is a former CTO and dives into how tech has transformed Johns Crazy Socks into what it is today, how it has helped them scale, whilst keeping their mission at the forefront of everything they do.
2024-04-18
32 min
8TALKS
Draft
Draft
2024-03-08
24 min
8TALKS
Road to CPO - Matt Fenby-Taylor
“Not the worst Podcast out there” – the 5-star reviews write themselves! Matt Fenby-Taylor, vastly experienced CPO, most recently at Clearscore, was kind enough to speak with me about his journey, and share his advice to anyone climbing the Product ladder!Stepping into a CPO roleGetting the basics rightWould Matt change anything about the start of his CPO tenure? 👇 Only one way to find out
2024-03-05
37 min
8TALKS
Draft
Draft
2024-02-29
24 min
8TALKS
Road to CPO - Matt Fenby-Taylor
“Not the worst Podcast out there” – the 5-star reviews write themselves! Matt Fenby-Taylor, a vastly experienced CPO, most recently at Clearscore, was kind enough to speak with me about his journey, and share his advice to anyone climbing the Product ladder!Stepping into a CPO roleGetting the basics rightWould Matt change anything about the start of his CPO tenure? 👇 Only one way to find out
2024-02-27
37 min
8TALKS
Product Rising Stars - Jackson Anderson
Embark on a journey of product leadership in our latest podcast episode featuring Jackson Anderson, a strategic leader renowned for building successful, user-centric products. Gain insights into enterprise-level software design, go-to-market strategies, and scaling organisations. Join us for a compelling conversation on innovation and leadership with Jackson!
2024-01-22
24 min
8TALKS
Product Rising Stars - Jake Yaxley
Curious about the dynamic world of product ownership and career experiences? Tune into our latest podcast episode featuring Jake Yaxley, the seasoned Product Owner at RemoFirst. Jake's story and expertise provide a roadmap for navigating your own career journey and understanding the ins and outs of product ownership.
2024-01-16
24 min
8TALKS
Road to CPO - Ed Biden
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2024-01-10
33 min
8TALKS
Product Rising Stars - Ozy Sak
Explore product trading and management in this podcast with Ozy Sak, a skilled global product manager. Discover Ozy's journey, and expertise in business and computing science, and learn valuable lessons in communication and project success. Whether you're a professional or aspiring product manager, this episode with a Product Raising Star is a must-listen. Stream now for immediate insights!
2024-01-09
22 min
8TALKS
Road To CIO - Paul Ridgway
Join us for an insightful podcast episode featuring Paul, a seasoned Technology Professional with a proven track record in leading teams and driving business functions. From groundbreaking work in insurance telematics to a unique blend of skills acquired across various domains, Paul's journey offers a rich perspective on technology leadership. Tune in as we explore the intersection of technology, leadership, and continuous innovation.
2023-12-14
28 min
8TALKS
Road To CIO - Giles Lindsay
Join us in the latest 'Road to CIO' episode with Giles Lindsay, a seasoned Technology Executive and Agile Leader with 25+ years of experience. Tune in as he shares insights on navigating the dynamic world of technology leadership.
2023-12-04
23 min
8TALKS
Road To CPO - Tom Hopkins
Tune in for a captivating conversation on the dynamic world of product leadership! With a diverse background in transforming FTSE 100 organizations across various sectors, Tom shares insights on driving innovation, navigating regulatory challenges in financial services, and the key to delivering exceptional customer experiences.
2023-11-28
51 min
8TALKS
Road to CIO - Robin Jeffery
Dive into the world of strategic leadership with Robin, a seasoned expert in operations, business services, and IT transformation. In this episode, discover the secrets to designing and delivering successful business outcomes, effective communication, and keeping the workforce motivated.
2023-11-17
27 min
Off Angle
Kids vs The Wandering Earth
ALIENS & JUPITER??? Whether it's on Earth, or in Space, this episode is out of this world! We take a look at 2 movies: Kids Vs Aliens (2023) and The Wandering Earth (2019). We also discuss Tyler's weird eating habits, the definitive list of best Thanksgiving movies, and some of our favorite acting performances! Fruit Snacks of the Week: Bluey Next Weeks Movie: Five Night's at Freddy's Topics & Movies Discussed: Eric Andre iPhone vs Android AI Tools ( Thanksgiving Movies Breaking Bad Good Time The Blair...
2023-11-17
1h 19
Off Angle
Skinamarinked
What terrified you as a child? What scares you now? We discuss some of our scariest memories from childhood, whether we believe in ghosts, and what videos haunted our past. We then dive deep into the unique and polzarizing film, Skinamarink. Was it the most boring film ever made? Or did it manage to create the most dreadful atmosphere ever put to film? Possibly both!! This episode also begins the official journey to discover the world's best fruit snack. Topics and Movies discussed: ...
2023-11-03
1h 12
8TALKS
Road To CIO - Allan Walters
As a seasoned IT leader with expertise across 34 industry sectors, Allan shares invaluable insights on strategic planning, security, operations, and more. Tune in for a deep dive into his wealth of experience and the dynamic intersection of technology and business!
2023-11-02
27 min
Rotoviz Radio
Unveiling the Truth Behind NFL Week 8 Fantasy Football Stars - RotoViz Overtime
NFL Week 8 produced a wonderful day of fantasy football scoring. Colm Kelly is joined by Blair Andrews to talk about the essential fantasy football information you need to know and how it affects the remainder of the season. Has CeeDee Lamb become an Elite wide receiver? Is Sam Howell him? What does the injury to Kirk Cousins mean for the pass catchers on the Vikings? For the rest of the season, is Travis Etienne the best running back to roster?Timestamps:2:00 Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Commanders - AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, D'Andre Swift, Sam...
2023-10-30
39 min
RotoViz Overtime
Unveiling the Truth Behind NFL Week 8 Fantasy Football Stars
NFL Week 8 produced a wonderful day of fantasy football scoring. Colm Kelly is joined by Blair Andrews to talk about the essential fantasy football information you need to know and how it affects the remainder of the season. Has CeeDee Lamb become an Elite wide receiver? Is Sam Howell him? What does the injury to Kirk Cousins mean for the pass catchers on the Vikings? For the rest of the season, is Travis Etienne the best running back to roster?Timestamps:2:00 Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Commanders - AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, D'Andre Swift, Sam...
2023-10-30
37 min
8TALKS
Road to CIO - Phil Bannister
We're diving deep into the tech realm with Phil Bannister, the brilliant CTO of Redbrain. With over 25 years of expertise, Phil takes us on a journey through his extensive experience in strategy, digital transformation, and the dynamic world of technology change. Tune in as we explore the key insights and lessons from Phil's remarkable career. Don't miss out on the wisdom shared by our expert guest!
2023-10-19
19 min
8TALKS
Road To CIO - David Loughenbury
Explore the dynamic career journey of David Loughenbury in our first "Road to CIO" podcast episode. From his roots as a Business Analyst to navigating 25 distinct job opportunities, David shares insights on his evolution to roles such as Board Advisor, CTO, Consultant, Non-Executive Director, Mentor, and Investor. Tune in this episode for a captivating journey filled with wisdom, useful tips, and a touch of career inspiration.
2023-10-18
27 min
Tha Boxing Voice
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#shakurstevenson #Frankmartin #conorbenn ️️️☎️Shakur Stevenson Vs Frank Martin Whispers Continue👀Conor Benn Vs Blair Cobbs In Florida Rumored❗️ 🚨 Going to make a BOXING Bet❗️Use our promo code BETTBV and get up to a $1000 dollars sign up bonus here is our link http://bit.ly/2lvNv3E 🚨 Going to make a BOXING Bet❗️Use our BOVADALV Affiliate Link and get up to $250 dollars Free Play here is our link https://bit.ly/3AQbGwT 🚨Join this channel to get access to the perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcKT39KR_e3ZliHe4cyC06A/join #Boxing Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tha-boxing-vo...
2023-08-25
2h 17
8TALKS
8 Talks - Is Sector Experience Important
In this episode, we are thrilled to welcome Chris Sproston, the current Head of Technology at Transport for Greater Manchester to help answer the ambiguous question, 'Is Industry Experience important when hiring?
2023-08-10
20 min
Everything From Nothing: The Waterloo Road Podcast
S8E15: Like the End of Blair Witch
There's some more baffling Barry storytelling this week, along with some pot brownies and possibly the worst line of dialogue in the history of Waterloo Road. The hits just keep on coming. Waterloo Road superfan Tom Beasley and Luke Stevenson are your hosts. Watch SERIES 8, EPISODE 15 of Waterloo Road here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qdw58/waterloo-road-series-8-episode-15/ Prepare for SERIES 8, EPISODE 16 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qkp9z/waterloo-road-series-8-episode-16/ *** If you want to subscribe to the PATREON page, visit http://www.patreon.com/waterlooroadpod...
2023-06-09
47 min
Soulsorts
The Soulsorts Sunday Soul Collection 2023 #12
The Soulsorts Sunday Soul Collection 2023 on Starpoint RadioShow #12 2nd AprilPlaylist:Will Downing – Love On You (remix) – 2023Maysa feat. Frank McComb – His Love – [Music For Your Soul] – 2023Sounds of Blackness – #URGONNAWIN – 2023John P. Kee & Gene Moore – Ain't No Need Of Crying – [Tribute To A Legend: Rance Allen, Chapter One] – 2023The Shindellas – Last Night Was Good for My Soul – 2023The Soul Motivators feat. Shahi Teruko – It Is What It Is – [Do It Together] – 2023Maysa – Music For Your Soul – [Music For Your Soul] – 2023Maysa feat. Chr...
2023-04-03
2h 02
Culture War Radio
178: Trump's Triple Threats
Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 9:00:00 pm News, libremusic and more with Kent and search_social.Current Events: November 14-20, 2022 | Wikipedia Related Links Pentagon says Poland blast likely caused by Ukrainian missile Musical Interludes “Suffer A Witch” by OWTRIPLEBANG from Shake Hands With Danger (2020) [CC BY-NC-SA] “Two Nickels” by Doctor Popular from SquirrelWarz (2022) [CC BY-NC-SA] “Did You Know” by David Blair from Stay In Touch (2013) [CC BY] “Syncline” by Digital Gnosis from Syncline (2021) [CC BY-NC-SA] “Build the Wall” by The Absurd from Build The Wall (2018) [CC BY-NC-SA] “Nervous Rex” by Laura Stevenson and the Cans from Laura Stevenso...
2022-11-21
3h 07
In Conversation
In Conversation: Zach Blair of Rise Against
Zach Blair of Rise Against discusses the band's latest new releases, his new podcast 'Anti-Heroes,' the insane talent of his mentor Bill Stevenson and so much more.
2022-08-05
39 min
Your Library on the Go With Free Audiobook
Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel Audiobook by Natalie Jenner
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 539956 Title: Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel Author: Natalie Jenner Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Length: 12:29:59 Language: English Release date: 05-17-22 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, Audible, the CBC, the Globe and Mail, BookBub, POPSUGAR, SheReads, Women.com and more! Juliet Stevensons luminous narration is a delight for the ears and makes for an entertaining and moving listening experience. Library Journal (Starred review) 'Juliet Stevenson's performance of this novel about a post-WWII bookshop...
2022-05-17
12h 29
Talk Talent To Me
PepsiCo SVP of Global Talent Acquisition Blair Bennett
Talk Talent To Me LIVE RSVP: New York City - The Canary Club - June 1st San Francisco - Shelton Theatre - June 8th London - The Steel Yard - June 16th We are so excited to welcome the Senior Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at PepsiCo, Blair Bennett. Blair shares her background in politics & executive recruiting, and how her career prepared her to lead the talent function at PepsiCo. You’ll also hear about diversity goals within leadership at PepsiCo, and the strategies the team has implemented in...
2022-05-10
43 min
Raised on the Radio
CEP Episode #215 - Dr. Scott Stevenson
For this episode, Colt and James were joined by returning guest and good friend, Dr. Scott Stevenson. Dr. Stevenson is a Bodybuilding Physiologist, author of Fortitude Training and Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach, speaker/presenter, and contains so much knowledge in his brain that it will make your head explode. During this episode you will hear us discuss some topics in neuroscience including the intricacies of learning, trauma and loss and how intense emotion affects the memory and the brain, how to find exercise and life enjoyable, and much more. Be sure to visit Dr. Scott on Instagram at instagram.com...
2022-03-04
2h 01
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How We Transformed Customer Care at Spark with Digital Adoption - with Dan Cooper
Dan Cooper is the Head of Digital at Spark NZ. He’s been working in the contact centre industry since the late 90s. Over the past few years, Dan’s lead the transformation of Spark’s customer care with digital adoption. Today, he shares the details of Spark’s digital adoption journey, the mistakes they made along the way, and their exciting next steps. All so you can shortcut your organisation’s digital adoption journey. Over the past few years, the approach Dan discusses has lead to significant improvements in Spark’s customer interaction NPS score and th...
2021-12-20
30 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Secrets to Customer Support Success - with John Kelly and Jessica Voss
John Kelly is the Chief Revenue Officer at SupportLogic, while Jessica Voss is responsible for Enterprise Sales. They have over 50 years’ experience between them in the tech side of contact centres and support services, and keep abreast of the latest trends. They know exactly what technology is needed to reduce escalations, customer churn, operational expenses, and lift customer satisfaction. Today, they share their secrets to customer support success. You'll Learn: How to predict escalations and prevent them ahead of time (02:43). The goldmine of information you have sitting in your co...
2021-12-13
21 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Discover a Supportive Performance Management Approach, Which Helps Your People Reach Their Potential - with Justin Baty
Justin Baty is the Auckland Cars Regional Manager at Turners Auto Retail. With 9 years’ experience in the business, he’s seen firsthand how the company’s supportive performance management process is highly effective at getting people back on-track and reaching their full potential. Today, he shares what it is. You'll Learn: The details of the Performance Improvement Plan which Turners puts people on to support them to reach their potential, which you can swipe and deploy (02:31). How managers structure their catch-ups, to ensure their team stay on track (02:55). How...
2021-12-01
09 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How the Next Generation of Conversational AI Can Revolutionise your Contact Centre - with David Stone
David Stone is a Senior Vice President at the conversational AI startup, Curious AI. With 30 years’ experience in the call centre industry, he’s spent his career working both in contact centre, for outsourcers, and for industry vendors. Over the past 10 years, he’s seen the evolution of AI in contact centres. Today, he shares how the next generation of conversational AI can revolutionise your centres. You'll Learn: How David gets asked all the time by senior and CX leaders how their centres can take less calls from customers, and his unexpe...
2021-11-22
21 min
Fantasy Football Report
It's Rhamondre StevenSZN: The Fantasy Football Report
Co-host: Blair Andrews (@AmItheRealBlair), managing editor for RotoVizCo-host: Hasan Rahim (@hrr5010), lead writer for RotoVizNEWS ITEMSOn the show, Blair and Hasan cover some of the week’s notable NFL news, including Rhamondre Stevenson's big day, the return of Christian McCaffrey, and whether we should be worried about Courtland Sutton.SPONSORRotoViz – RotoViz Radio listeners can save 10% off of a 1-year RotoViz subscription at RotoViz.com/podcast or by applying the discount code ‘rvradio2021’ at checkout.SHOW NOTESEmail: RotoVizRadio@gmail.comTwitter: @Roto...
2021-11-15
1h 05
Secrets To Contact Center Success
A Smarter Way to Improve Your Organisation’s Customer Service and Experience - with Alex Mead
Alex Mead is the Chief Customer Service Experience Director at a start-up digital bank in Bahrain. With 20 years experience in this role at organisations across multiple industries, Alex has discovered many organisations have got fundamental parts missing from their customer experience equation, leading to poor outcomes for customers. He’s developed a framework in response, which when implemented, is the secret to customer service success. Today, he shares what it is. You'll Learn: The industry change that happened more than a decade ago which has compromised customer service experience ev...
2021-11-14
15 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Increase Customer Loyalty by Reducing Customer Effort
Gabriel Mendez is an auditor and senior consultant in customer experience processes and technology applications. Based in Mexico City, Gabriel has decades of experience in contact centre data and voice technology, and has been a judge for industry awards in Mexico and Colombia. Today, he shares how to increase customer loyalty by reducing customer effort. You'll Learn: The 3 key metrics you need in place to measure and track customer experience (04:00). How customer effort is the biggest determinant of customer loyalty, repurchasing and spending you can measure (04:59). The...
2021-11-08
18 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Tips on How to Modernise Your Reporting, To Empower Managers to Make Better Decisions - with Immanuel Joseph
Immanuel Joseph is the Reporting Manager at Allianz Australia. With a master’s degree in IT, Immanuel has worked in the Allianz contact centre for the past 4 years to modernise their reporting. Today, he shares tips from the journey Allianz has been on to modernise their reporting, so you can do the same, and empower Centre Managers and Team Leaders to make better decisions. You'll Learn: 3 critical problems with using Excel for reporting (01:34). The 2 key steps Immanuel took to migrate reporting to being live and online, which reduced costs an...
2021-11-01
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How We Maintain a Positive Work Culture Through Values, and Changes We Made as a Result of Lockdown - with Stephanie Riordan-Edmonds
Stephanie Riordan-Edmonds is the Head of Customer Service at Southern Cross Health Society. She’s been in the contact centre industry since the mid 90’s, and loves making a difference to customers and her people. Today, she shares they maintain a positive work culture through values at Southern Cross, and changes they’ve made as a result of lockdown. You'll Learn: The 4 things Stephanie did when she first started as Head of Customer Service (02:05). The 5 functions of a team, which formed the basis of a workshop Stephanie ran to foster...
2021-10-26
11 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Create Amazing Team Leaders - with Marc Carriere
Marc Carriere is the creator of the 7 Pillars for Creating Amazing Team Leaders course. With 35 years’ international experience in the contact centre industry, Marc has managed contact centes, owned one, won industry awards, and consulted with businesses, coaching and mentoring their Contact Centre Managers and Team Leaders. Today, he shares how to create amazing team leaders. The approach Marc takes when training Team Leaders: Ensure they know their role and responsibilities, with respect to being a Team Leader, and the interactions they have with their Centre Manager. Otherwise, it can be un...
2021-10-20
19 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Two Critical Steps to Successful Strategy Implementation - with Michael Clark
Michael Clark is the Principal Consultant at CXTT Consulting. He has more than 20 years experience in the contact centre industry across both the private and government sectors. This year, he started his consultancy, focused on helping organisations with their transformations in the customer experience and technology space. Today, he shares the essential steps to take when implementing your strategy. Michael’s Top Tips For Successful Strategy Implementation: Build interdisciplinary teams, so there’s common ground and collaboration between the departments involved (01:49). Strategy implementation falls apart when it’s top-down only...
2021-10-11
20 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Digital Customer Service Conversations That Sell – What You’re Probably Missing - with Paolo Fabrizio
Paolo Fabrizio is a Digital Customer Service consultant. He’s been in the contact centre industry since the mid 90’s, and as been focused on helping companies improve their digital channel customer service for the past 7 years. Today, he shares what’s stopping your agents from providing the best digital customer service. Paolo’s Top Tips When Adding Digital Channels: Introduce one digital channel at a time, ensuring you have the staff with the necessary skills for each (32:15). Once you get results with a new digital channel, market the results...
2021-10-04
36 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Why Your Agents’ Headsets May Be Hurting Customer Experience and What To Do About It - with Chris Clark
Chris Clark is the National Partner Manager at Jabra in New Zealand. Chris has been in the unified communications - or call centric - industry for 15 years. As a result, he’s got great insight into best-practice when it comes to contact centre headsets. Today, he shares why your agents’ headsets may be hurting customer experience, and what to do about it. You'll Learn: The 2 key elements of audio which determine customer satisfaction (06:00). Why your current headsets may allow hackers to listen in to customer conversations, and the technology you...
2021-09-29
27 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Exciting New Technologies That Can Transform Your Contact Centre - with Cloud Tech Gurus
Darren is the Co-Founder of Cloud Tech Gurus, and Rob Enslow is Senior Executive Partner. Cloud Tech Gurus are technology matchmakers. They help call centres to more effectively and efficiently source and procure technology solutions. They invest 40+ hours to each client project, at no cost to you, as they are compensated by suppliers. Today, they share the little-known next generation of contact centre technology solutions, which can make a big difference in your centre. You'll Learn: The technology solutions which are in the highest demand right now (06:35). The solution...
2021-09-20
21 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Increase Sales through Excellent Customer Service - with Phil Skingsley
Phil Skingsley is the MD at Sales Performance Improvement Strategies. He was in the top 3% of salespeople for Xerox in the UK, transformed performance at American Express in New Zealand, and helped a major New Zealand bank achieve sales of between 200% and 300% of target. Today, he shares how to increase sales through excellent customer service. You'll Learn: The 2 key ways to ensure your sales consultants create good customer outcomes (03:31). The SPEND framework that Phil recommends consultants use to uncover customer needs (04:51). An example of how a high-performing...
2021-09-13
27 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How We Freed Up Team Leader Time to Do More Coaching - with Sarah Mannion
Sarah Mannion is the Global Support Centre Manager at Fisher & Paykel Appliances. Her earliest contact centre role was back in 2000. She has deep experience in the finance sector, and at the intersection of HR and operations. Today, she shares how she was able to turn around the coaching in her centre, by significantly freeing up Team Leaders’ time. Sarah’s Top 3 Tips (08:12) Identify the role you expect of your Team Leaders, and ask yourself, if you were to start again, how would you structure your contact centre to make that a real...
2021-09-06
11 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Discover the 4 Key Pillars of a Successful Customer Experience Strategy - with Gerry Brown
Gerry Brown is The Customer Lifeguard, saving the world from bad customer service. He has over 40 years’ experience in the contact centre industry, and helps businesses save customers at risk and breathe life into their customer service operations and customer experience strategy. Today, he shares the 4 key pillars of a successful customer experience strategy. The 4 pillars which make world-leading companies great (04:51) Culture Communication Commitment Community You'll Learn: The relationship between employee experience and customer experience (08:19). Solutions to the...
2021-08-30
34 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How To Recruit High Potential CSRs - with Rachna Singh
Rachna Singh is a Managing Consultant at Madison Recruitment. She manages the team who recruits CSRs for Auckland contact centres. Today, she shares what to look for when recruiting high potential CSRs, who have the talent to step up to a Team Leader role. The 7 attributes Rachna looks for in high potential CSR candidates (02:21) Willingness to learn. Clear and effective communication. Sees the bigger picture, of how their work relates to the vision and goals of the organisation. The ability to positively influence others. Firm...
2021-08-24
13 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Your Omnichannel Strategy: Common Problems and How to Solve Them - with Julien Rio
Julien Rio is the AVP of International Marketing at RingCentral, a leading provider of employee and customer communications systems. Although Julien comes from a marketing background, his passion has always been around customer experience. He is a CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional), and co-host of the CX Therapy podcast. Today, he shares the common problems he sees in omnichannel strategies, and how to solve them. Julien’s Top 2 Tips Open one new channel at a time, by finding out which one customers use on daily basis, and then launching it with on...
2021-08-16
19 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Overcome the Sales Leadership Challenges in Financial Services - with Mark Kenning
Mark Kenning is the Head of Sales at Cigna Life Insurance. He has 26 years experience in the contact centre industry, and has had various roles involved with sales throughout that period. Today, he shares how to overcome the sales leadership challenges in financial services, triggered by the Royal Commission in Australia, and the FMA’s review in New Zealand. Mark’s Top 3 Tips The customer has to be at the top of the pyramid, not the drive for remuneration (16:55). Do the basics well. It’s easy to inadvertently drift away f...
2021-08-09
20 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How We Created World-Class Customer Experience at the Best Bank in the World - with Geeta Sreeraman
Geeta Sreeraman is the Head of Customer Centre at DBS Bank in Singapore. She has 22 years’ experience in banking across 3 countries, and 15 years’ experience in the contact centre industry. Today, she shares how she helped create world-class customer experience in the bank’s contact centre, and how it’s lead to: DBS becoming the World’s Best Bank, 3 years in a row. An increase in complements from 300 to 10,000 a month. A consistent drop in customer contacts year-on-year, of between 8 and 10%. Consistent Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) ratings of around 4.6 out of 5.
2021-08-02
20 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Reinvent your Contact Centres to Deliver Outrageously Great Customer Experience - with Nigel Piper
Nigel Piper is the Executive General Manager of Customer at Xero. He’s been responsible for architecting and building Xero’s support model during the company’s hypergrowth over the past 9 years, going from 100,000 customers to more than 2.7 million. Today, he shares how he reinvented his contact centres to create outrageously great customer experience, and how you can do the same. You'll Learn: How Nigel is allergic to inbound voice, but loves outbound voice, and the advantage to customers (03:51). How Xero’s hypergrowth has forced Nigel to think differently about cu...
2021-07-26
20 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How Workforce Management Can Help Your Contact Centre Make Better Decisions - with Josh Walton
Josh Walton is the Workforce Planning Manager at Allianz Australia. He was the Auscontact Association, National Workforce Management Champion for 2020. And he was part of the Workforce Optimisation team that won the National Operations Award in 2019. Today, he shares how your workforce management team can help your contact centre make better decisions. Josh’s Top 3 Tips For Creating A High-Performing Workforce Management Team: Continue to invest in training and technology for your team. Which also means grabbing as much budget as you can for your team (14:59). Develop a diversity of...
2021-07-19
17 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Customers Are Abusing Your Agents. Here’s What To Do About It - with Deepak Selvaratnam
Deepak Selvaratnam is the founder and COO of Snapshotz and Remotability, which has more than 10 years of validated data on how to improve mental health of contact centre team members. Today, he shares what to do about the abuse your agents face from customers. Deepak’s Top 3 Tips For Addressing Agent Abuse: Define the levels of abuse that customer agents face, so they can be trained and supported accordingly (07:57). There’s technology available to understand customer nuances and why they’re upset. Take advantage of it, so you can better support your a...
2021-07-12
11 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Romance, Erotica
My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come by J.C. Cummings
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come Author: J.C. Cummings Narrator: Scott Ashey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 7, 2021 Genres: Erotica Publisher's Summary: My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come. A Spanking & Humiliation Erotica. Dave Wilson could quite possibly be the world's most frustrated husband. Ever since his wife Annie was promoted to Chief Operations Officer at SM...
2021-07-07
02 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Romance, Erotica
My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come by J.C. Cummings
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532128to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come Author: J.C. Cummings Narrator: Scott Ashey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 7, 2021 Genres: Erotica Publisher's Summary: My Annie--Over the Boss' Knee: A Domineering Businesswoman, Her Frustrated Husband, and a Company VP as Sleazy as They Come. A Spanking & Humiliation Erotica. Dave Wilson could quite possibly be the world's most frustrated husband. Ever since his wife Annie was promoted to Chief Operations Officer at SM Global...
2021-07-07
44 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Top Tips For Improving The Performance Of Your Outbound Sales Teams - with Clare Baker
Clare Baker is the Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand at eGENTIC. She has 25 years’ experience in sales, both as a BDM (Business Development Manager) and in sales management. Most of that time, she’s worked in the outsourced contact centre industry, with many clients across a wide range of industries. Today, she shares how to lift the performance of your outbound sales teams. Clare’s Top 3 Tips: It all comes down to the environment. So make sure you create one that’s set-up for success (13:37). Make sure that you...
2021-07-05
15 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How We Transformed DBS into the Best Bank in the World - with Andrew Sidwell
Andrew Sidwell is the founder of BareZero, strengthening transformation teams. He was previously Executive Director of the Customer Experience Transformation Program at DBS Bank in Singapore, where he helped the bank transform into the World’s Best Bank, 3 years in a row. Today, he shares how the bank made the transformation. Andrew’s Top 3 Tips For Managing Change: Get a very clear picture of what your role is in the transformation, to support your people. It will be different from your business-as-usual role (21:43). Change yourself first. It's okay to be vulnerable, and be w...
2021-06-28
26 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How To Create An Award-Winning Contact Centre With Servant Leadership - with Emma Riordan
Emma Riordan is the Customer Care Manager at Econowaste. Prior to her current role, she was with Skinny, as the Head of Skinny Care. In her time there, the contact centre won numerous awards. Today, she shares how to create an award-winning contact centre with servant leadership, based on her 23 years in the industry. Emma’s Top 3 Tips: Do real life. It’s essential to enable your people to manage their work-life balance. You’ll end up with agents who are more motivated, and have better conversations with customers (07:36).
2021-06-21
19 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
13 Tips For Dealing With Stress In Your Contact Centre - with Lance Burdett
Lance Burdett is the founder of WARN International. He spent 22 years with the NZ Police, becoming their lead crisis negotiator. In that time, he was also responsible for recruitment and training at the Police Emergency 111 call centres, where he delivered programmes on handling emotional conversations and personal resilience. As a result, he has extensive experience in operating in stressful environments, and has practical tips to deal with stress in your contact centres. Today, he shares them. Lance’s Top 3 Tips: Connect with others. The best way is to have fac...
2021-06-14
19 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
The 6 Domains of Customer Experience You’re Not Paying Attention To - with Daniel Ord
Daniel Ord is the founder and director of OmniTouch International. He’s spent the last 20 years helping and inspiring people to deliver great customer experience, employee experience and contact centre performance. As one of only 15 recognized training providers in the world for CXPA (the Customer Experience Professionals Association), he has deep insight into how to create world-class customer experience in your contact centres. There are 6 domains of Customer Experience, which you’re probably not paying attention to. Daniel shares what they are. Dan’s Top 3 Tips For Lifting CX: Ask you...
2021-06-07
27 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
7 Traits of High Potential Team Leaders - with Blair Stevenson
I’m Blair Stevenson, founder of BravaTrak. Since 1997, I’ve specialised in helping contact centres lift agent performance by more than 11% in 7 months. My science-based system achieves this by measuring and improving the coaching effectiveness of managers. Working with over 7000 first-line managers, I’ve identified there are 7 traits high-performing team leaders have in common. These are the ones to look for when you’re recruiting team leaders, to ensure they’ve got high potential. The 7 Traits of High-Potential Team Leaders: Honesty (05:09). Action oriented (11:02). Low need for approval (14:32). H...
2021-05-31
35 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
3 Tips to Win the CRM Awards - with Laurie Smith
Laurie Smith is the director of CRM Consulting. She’s the force behind the annual CRM Contact Centre Awards, the industry’s largest awards in New Zealand. Laurie shares her top tips on how to win. Laurie’s Top Tips: Get a preaudit done by the CRM Consulting team - you’ll get their recommendations on where to improve, which will also lift everyday customer service (10:34). Talk to past winners, which you can do at the showcasing events. You can also check out the past winners here https://www.crmconsul...
2021-05-26
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Key Considerations for Your Post-Pandemic Contact Centre Operating Model - with Garry Gormley
Garry Gormley is the founder of FAB Solutions - the contact centre specialists. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in the contact centre industry. In that time, he’s working across a wide range of industries, and has been responsible for a number of projects. Garry also runs The Contact Centre Network. The Network holds free monthly events, with industry thought leaders sharing practical advice and support to help improve the running of your contact centre. He shares the key considerations when it comes to deciding on your post-pandemic operating model. Garry’s Top 3...
2021-05-24
31 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
3 Key Trends in Workforce Management that will Transform Your Contact Centre - with Dave Hoekstra
Dave Hoekstra is a Workforce Management (WFM) Evangelist at Calabrio. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the contact centre industry, much of that spent in Workforce Management. Dave spends much of his time talking with Contact Centre Leaders and staying abreast of the latest developments in WFM. As a result, Dave has deep insight into the trends in WFM which will transform your contact centre. Dave’s Top 3 Trends: There’s a shift to empowering agents to have more of a say in their schedule, to lift their engagement (03:59). The...
2021-05-19
32 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Increase Sales by Improving your Sales Process - with Mark Burton-Brown
Mark Burton-Brown is the Managing Director of Engagement Partners. He’s a sales growth expert, with more than 20 years’ experience in sales management. In recent times, Mark has been working closely with inside sales teams to achieve their sales growth objectives much faster than they were previously able to. He shares the importance of having a formal sales process in place, and how you can go about developing one. Mark’s Top Tips: Create your sales process based on a best-practice and proven template. Mark has one he’s happy to...
2021-05-17
16 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
At Last! Be Recognised for your Performance with the CCNNZ Awards - with Katy Langridge
Katy Langridge is a Team Leader for ACC New Zealand. She’s responsible for the annual CCNNZ (Customer Contact Network of New Zealand) Awards being held in September. In 2018, she won the CCNNZ National Contact Centre Team Leader of the Year. She shares details about the Awards - including how you can enter - and the secret to her success as a Team Leader. Katy’s Top Tips: Don’t be afraid to enter. If you believe you’re doing a great job, put yourself forward. Even if you don’t win, you’l...
2021-05-12
17 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Better Support your Agents in the COVID New Normal - with Kelly Brickley
Kelly Brickley is a Business Development Manager at Pyrios, an AGC Black Box company. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the contact center industry internationally, including 7 years with ICMI as their Director of Educational Services based in Southern California. She shares her thoughts on how to better support your Agents post-COVID. Top 3 Tips: Provide online resources customers can use to resolve their issues themselves (15:19). With self-service options taking some of the pressure off Agents, they now have an opportunity to be proactive with customers; reaching out, educating them, and doing mo...
2021-05-10
18 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
The 3 Pitfalls of Your Quality Assurance Program, and How to Solve Them - with Shoby Abraham
Shoby Abraham is the Customer Care Manager of Samsung Electronics New Zealand. He’s COPC certified and has 20 years’ experience in the contact centre industry. From his extensive experience in Quality Assurance, he’s identified there are 3 common pitfalls of most QA programs. He shares what they are and how to solve them. The approach he shares helped Samsung shift Customer Satisfaction from 75% to 90%+. The 3 Common Pitfalls of Most QA Programs: Calls are often given an overall score. Instead, give a call an overall ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ (03:34). There is often bias in...
2021-05-05
13 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Discover the Mindset of an Award-Winning Team Leader - with Hector Farmer
Hector Farmer is the Digital Team Manager for TSB Bank’s Customer Engagement Centre. He’s been a Digital Team Manager for the past 7 years, at 2 different banks. In 2020, he won the Customer Contact Network of New Zealand, National Team Leader of the Year Award. He’s got a fantastic mindset which helps his people thrive. Exactly the sort of mindset to look for if you’re recruiting Team Leaders, or to replicate if you’re a Team Leader. Hector's Top 3 Tips: Share your “Why” with your team. And if you can, align you...
2021-05-03
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How Your Contact Centre Trainer Can Help You Win National Awards - with Vanessa Varela Escobar
Vanessa Varela Escobar is the Operations Trainer at Sykes Holiday Cottages. She has more than 12 years’ experience in the contact centre industry, and has worked as an agent, Team Leader and Contact Centre Trainer. As a Trainer, she was heavily involved in helping the New Zealand Automobile Association contact centres win the Member Support Services category, at the 2017 CCINZ (Contact Centre Institute of New Zealand - now CCNNZ) CRM Awards. And then in 2018 helped the Association win the Supreme Gold award for contact centers over 50 seats. She shares her tips on how the Automobile Association we...
2021-04-28
18 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Create a Learning Culture in Your Contact Centres - with Craig McFadyen
Craig McFadyen is Director of LearningPlanet. He has over 30 years’ experience in the contact centre industry, and has been at the forefront of providing training services to the industry for more than two decades. As a result, he’s got fantastic insight into how to create a learning culture in your contact centres, as well as how to take advantage of the latest trends in contact centre training. Top 3 Tips: A learning culture starts at the top. Where there’s executive level buy-in to the importance of training, it cascades right down the organi...
2021-04-26
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
11 Top Tips for Managing Millennials - with Josh Krissansen
Josh Krissansen is the Managing Director at Blogger Boy. He’s a Millennial born in 1993, and with five years' experience as a Sales Manager, he's also managed Millennials. Particularly as Head of Sales, responsible for an inside sales team doing outbound calling. As a result, he’s got a number of great tips on how to get the best from the Millennials you manage. Top 3 Tips: Many Millennials see working in a contact centre as a career steppingstone. Find out what their career goals are, so you can help them understand how what they...
2021-04-21
28 min
Holistic Wealth With Keisha Blair
How This Entrepreneur Increased Her Monthly Net Revenue to $65K During A Global Pandemic
In this exciting episode, Deana shares the strategies she used to earn $65 on monthly net revenue during a pandemic. At the end of 2020, Deana was on track to earn $500K for that year. Her successful strategies led to $350K earned between April and August of 2020 – during a global pandemic. Dr. Deana Stevenson is a trained educator, professional learning specialist, speaker, and leadership coach. Dr. Deana has 20+ years of experience in education. She is known for her upfront approach to addressing what "sounds like excuses" when it comes to doing the work necessary to ensure that ALL students succe...
2021-04-19
28 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How I Revived a Vital Sales Campaign, Increasing Performance by 281% - with Josh Ballantyne
Josh Ballantyne is the Insurance Manager at Kiwibank. He’s spent 13 years in the financial industry - working with some of New Zealand’s largest insurers and companies - and has created huge performance transformations in multiple sales campaigns he’s been responsible for. He’s got great tips on how you can achieve the same. Top 3 Tips: Put yourself in a positive mindset - you can lift performance (11:26). Identify what behaviours distinguish your high performers from your average performers. Train all agents to use them on every call (12:12). Praise a...
2021-04-19
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Discover the Traits of an Award-Winning Contact Centre Agent - with Jane Horne
Jane Horne is a Customer Service Representative at TSB Bank. She was awarded the CCNNZ (Customer Contact Network New Zealand) National Contact Centre Agent of the Year award in 2020. Her traits and mindset are exactly the ones to look for when you’re recruiting CSRs. Jane's Top 3 Tips: Having enthusiasm and passion for working with customers is vital (05:41). Being skilled at asking open questions like “what”, “how” and “tell me about” separates high-performing CSRs from average performers (07:06). Consider all customer service based backgrounds when it comes to recruiting CSRs, not just people...
2021-04-12
13 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Recruit Your Ideal CSRs In Today's Digital World - with Amanda Law
Amanda Law is a Recruiter and Principal Consultant at Cultivate Recruitment. She has more than 11 years in the recruitment industry, and has spent most of the that time recruiting for contact centres. Her expertise means she’s got some incredibly useful tips when it comes to recruiting your perfect contact centre agents in the current environment. Top 3 Tips: If you can, run a blind recruitment process - which basically means not reviewing CVs - and trust in your interview process. You’ll avoid discounting people who are fantastic for the role (10:33) When...
2021-04-05
18 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Improve Customer Service While Increasing Sales Revenue - with Angela Wynn
Angela Wynn is the Head of Strategy at ASB Bank. She’s spent the last 20 years in the finance industry, within sales, service, and strategy roles. Most including big change management projects. She’s the most incisive strategic thinker I know. Today, she shares her tips from one of her change management projects around how to increase customer service in your contact centres, while increasing sales revenue. Top 3 Tips: Take the time to understand what your customers want, and what looks like in what your agents do. It’s vital to put your assump...
2021-03-29
11 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How Your Quality Analysts Can Help Improve Your Call Centers' Performance - with Robin Carter-Stuart
Robin Carter-Stuart is the Nominated Representative Coach at TSB Bank. He’s worked in the contact center industry for the past decade, mostly as a Team Leader, a technical trainer and as a sales quality analyst. He’s got a super strong understanding of how your Quality Analysts can contribute to building a world-class coaching culture in your centers, so you lift performance. Full show notes: https://bravatrak.com/robin-carter-stuart-podcast Connect with Robin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robincarterstuart/ Get your free copy of Game On: https://bravatrak.com/game-on-book
2021-03-22
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Lead Your Remote Teams to Get the Best Out of Them - with Sheryl North
Sheryl North is the Consumer Programmes Lead at Spark New Zealand. She’s spent the last 25 years in the contact centre industry, and was responsible for setting up and running Spark’s highly successful Agents at Home programme from 2010 to 2020. She’s got a number of great hard-won tips for how to manage remote teams to get the best from them. Full show notes: https://www.bravatrak.com/sheryl-north-podcast Connect with Sheryl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheryl-north-25a76536/ Get your free copy of Game On: https://bravatrak.com/game-on-book
2021-03-15
12 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Get the Contact Center Manager Job of Your Dreams - with Georgia Irvine
Georgia Irvine is a Customer Service & Call Centre Recruiter at Tribe Recruitment. She has great insight into the industry trends about what employers are looking for. She’s got some great tips about how to get placed in the contact centre manager role you’re wanting. Top 3 Tips: Above anything else, employers of call center managers still look for strong people leaders. In other words, people who can build a strong culture, be an advocate for their contact centre or customer service team and develop and nurture relationships across the wider business (09:46). Look at t...
2021-03-08
14 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
How to Decrease Call Volume, Help Customers with Self-Service, and Improve Customer Experience - with Bridgette Dalzell
Bridgette Dalzell is the General Manager of Customer Connection Hubs at Bank of New Zealand. She's spent the last 25 years involved in customer experience, customer service, and customer sales. And she's led teams across New Zealand, Australia, India and the Philippines. Top 3 Tips: Have a really good data set of understanding why your customers are calling. Have a team of people dedicated to doing call listening. And then come up with a strategy around what is your low hanging fruit and how you'll measure it. You'll Learn: ...
2021-03-08
12 min
Secrets To Contact Center Success
Welcome to the Secrets to Contact Center Success Podcast
Welcome to the Secrets to Contact Center Success. The podcast which connects you with the latest and greatest tips from the best and brightest minds in the industry. But before I tell you a bit about myself, let's talk about you. More specifically; the value you can expect to get from regularly tuning in. My focus is on interviewing experts in the contact centre space, to share with you the best secrets for solving the challenges that you're facing. The reality is that whatever problems you're currently facing in your contact centers, someone...
2021-03-05
04 min
Holistic Wealth With Keisha Blair
How This Entrepreneur Increased Her Monthly Net Revenue to $65K During A Global Pandemic
In this exciting episode Deana shares the strategies she used to earn $65 on monthly net revenue during a pandemic. At the end of 2020, Deana was on track to earn $500K for that year. Her successful strategies led to $350K earned between April and August of 2020 – during a global pandemic. Dr. Deana Stevenson is a trained educator, professional learning specialist, speaker, and leadership coach. Dr. Deana has 20+ years of experience in education. She is known for her upfront approach to addressing what "sounds like excuses" when it comes to doing the work necessary to ensure that ALL students suc...
2021-01-09
28 min
Club Solutions Magazine
Virtual Roundtable: Leading Through A Crisis
The audio version of the virtual roundtable "Leading through a Crisis" — part of the 2020 Virtual Club Solutions Leadership Summit. Sponsored by Matrix Fitness. Panelists included: Moderator: Blair McHaney, the CEO of MXM and owner of Worx health clubs Lisa Gorsline, the president and GM of Corpus Christi Athletic Club Kent Stevens , the executive vice president of commercial sales at Matrix Fitness Deslyn Norris, the chief people officer at Fitness Connection Chris Stevenson, the owner of Stevenson Consulting Maria Gonzalez, the CEO of ClubFitness Greensboro
2020-11-16
1h 08
That Yoga Woman's Podcast
Christine Blair
This week I’m talking to Christine Blair. So, brace yourselves, this is a long (and fiesty) one…would you expect anything less? If you know Christine you’ll know she has a strong voice so it’s not surprising we cover a lot of ground in this podcast. Christine, a yoga teacher based in Milton Keynes, talks candidly about finding her true passion and turning it into, not only a job, but a lifestyle, as well as trying to make yoga more accessible to her MK community. Prior to teaching yoga, Christine had a corporate career and was called a ‘risky...
2020-09-15
1h 37
Following Jesus Together - The Podcast
When Spiritual Practices Meet Racial Justice
In this standalone episode, we discuss how spiritual practices provide an anchor point to speak into the current injustices of our day.We love hearing from you too. Email us your questions and feedback at podcast@midtowncolumbia.comRecommended Resources:Precious in His Sight: Race, the Story of God, and the Story of America by Midtown FellowshipThings White People (and anyone else) Can Do for Social Justice by Midtown FellowshipBible Verses on OppressionProphetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah
2020-06-25
00 min
Here For More Podcast: Personal Development & Mindset Growth for Eco Entrepreneurs
Black Lives Matter - It's Time to Stand
“If you can’t see yourself for contributing to the problem, then you will never understand the power you have for contributing to the solutions” ~ Trent Shelton Highlighting the Black Lives Matter Movement, today I share my biggest learning points thus far as a White individual, as well as ways we can support our Black communities. It's time for a new "normal". RESOURCES TO DO MORE ~ TEXT “FLOYD” to 55156 for George Floyd TEXT “ENOUGH” to 55156 for Breonna Taylor ~ Organizations to follow on Instagram: @grassrootslaw @blklivesmatter @privtoprog...
2020-06-08
22 min
Late Night Ramble
Black Lives Matter
I hope this information is helpful and insightful, and I apologize if we forgot to cover some essential bases. There’s so much history about this important issue that people must be educated on during these trying times. Ways to help support the BLM movement: Ways you can help: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Barack Obama's post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5X31igzCL/ Chris Cuomo's post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAwUrNQJ_aO/ Georgetown Law link History: https://www.zinnedproject.org/ If you want to find specifi...
2020-06-03
12 min
Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History
Connections: Nova Scotian Heartbreak (NS)
Episode 122 - This is for or the deceased victims, the injured, the families, the friends and Bluenosers everywhere who are hurting after the shooting rampage that shook the little province of Nova Scotia to its core on April 18 and 19, 2020. This is not who Nova Scotians are. This will not define us. #NovaScotiaStrong The deceased are:Lisa McCullyGreg Blair & Jamie BlairPeter Bond & Joy BondJohn Zahl & Elizabeth Joanne ThomasDawn Madsen & Frank GulenchynJolene Oliver, Aaron Tuck & Emily TuckCorrie EllisonSean McLeod & Alanna Jenkins
2020-04-27
1h 30
Legends of S.H.I.E.L.D.: A Marvel Studios TV & Film Fan Podcast
"Chapter 24" S3E5 & "Chapter 25" S3E6 Legion Review (A Marvel Fancast) LoS320
The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director SP, Agent Haley and Agent Michelle discuss the FX series’ Legion season 3 episodes “Chapter 24” and “Chapter 25.” The Agents debrief you on how heartbreaking Lenny’s last episode was, finally being introduced to the character “Legion,” how limited the most powerful mutant’s power are, the graphic nature of Legion even on a cable channel, what exactly is the Division chain of command, poor Clark and Daniel’s misfortunes, how much of the Airship disaster is Farouk’s fault, where Syd’s mind went, one last time with Oliver and Melanie, how Syd and Ker...
2020-02-27
1h 05
Obstacle Course
Going to Battle and Becoming Deerheart
Introduction Notes Nearly 25 years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people including 19 children, when he parked a rental van full of explosives in front of the Oklahoma Building, exited the vehicle then triggered the bomb as he walked away. At the time, it was the worst act of homegrown terroism in U.S. history. This was the same building where John had received his dual citizenship years earlier. Chesapeake Shores is Vancouver Island's Hallmark Darling. The Death Race! Doing Death Better! Our excellent episode with Shauna Janz and Linda Hunter We...
2019-08-21
00 min
Making a Musical: The Future of British Musical Theatre
S1, Ep3 All That Scratch: 20 May 2019
The podcast home of new british musical theatre.All That Scratch is a curated scratch night recorded live at The Other Palace and released as a podcast. Produced The Other Palace in partnership with All That Productions, it gives new musicals and emerging artists a stage to present their work for development and feedback.Visit www.allthatproductions.co.uk for more information, submission details and future episode recording dates.Episode 2 Recorded: 25 March 20191. ‘Sparks‘ from The Limit (@thelimitmusical)Music & Lyrics | Freya Smith & Jack Williams (@ffre...
2019-05-26
1h 00
Rumi Forum Podcast
Latest Trends in Global Rise in Religious Restrictions
On September 13th, Dr. Katayoun Kishi, Research Associate at Pew Research Center, presented her findings from the ninth in a series of reports by Pew Research Center analyzing the extent to which governments and societies around the world impinge on religious beliefs and practices. To measure global restrictions on religion in 2016 – the most recent year for which data are available – the study, released in June 2018, ranks 198 countries and territories by their levels of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion. Speaker: Katayoun Mirfendereski Kishi is a research associate at Pew Research Cent...
2018-09-13
1h 03
250 Years of English Literature
Professor Susan Manning, Dr Bob Irvine, Professor Randall Stevenson discuss Hugh Blair's appointment to the first Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in 1762, and the literary ambience at the time, including in the work of Burns. Recorded Friday 3 February 2012. Audio version. Listen to podcast
2018-06-04
00 min