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Leaders Of Transformation515: How Royal Restrooms Redefined Portable Luxury with David Sauers How do you scale your business while maintaining a personal touch? In this week’s episode, host Nicole Jansen sits down with David Sauers, the co-founder and CEO of Royal Restrooms, to explore the story behind transforming a messy industry into a luxurious business opportunity. David shares how a challenging experience at a local event sparked the idea for creating elegant, high-end portable restrooms, and how this concept grew into a successful national franchise. From being a banker and avid golfer to becoming a pioneer in the portable restroom industry, David’s journey is filled with unexpected turn...2024-10-1538 minLeaders Of Transformation515: How Royal Restrooms Redefined Portable Luxury with David Sauers How do you scale your business while maintaining a personal touch? In this week’s episode, host Nicole Jansen sits down with David Sauers, the co-founder and CEO of Royal Restrooms, to explore the story behind transforming a messy industry into a luxurious business opportunity. David shares how a challenging experience at a local event sparked the idea for creating elegant, high-end portable restrooms, and how this concept grew into a successful national franchise. From being a banker and avid golfer to becoming a pioneer in the portable restroom industry, David’s journey is filled with unexpected turn...2024-10-1538 min
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkThe Maltese FalconMy top noirs are Double Indemnity and Out Of The Past, in that order, but Falcon is special. Right out of the hard-boiled school of writing, the character of the unstoppable but human private detective as a noir mainstay, one of the more fatale of the femmes in the genre, the moody lighting and framing, the inevitability of the conclusion of a twisted scheme. Hey, all it lacks is a voice-over and flashbacks! Oh well. Falcon launched from one-time Pinkerton agent Dash Hammett’s typewriter in 1930. Run as a serial in the classic Black Mask pulp magazine, it was la...2024-04-0239 min
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkFargoWe’ve gone through quite a few pods on film, especially film noir and police procedurals, but this might be the first that has a female protagonist as the main character! More’s the pity! But what a protagonist! Perhaps to make up for the previous imbalance, we’re going to encounter one of the fiercest, most insightful, and action-oriented characters yet, regardless of gender. She has high EQ, high IQ, empathy, but she’s also tough as nails, and wise. Nicely enough, she was the character that introduced me deeply, as she did for so many people, to the wond...2024-03-191h 02
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkWerner HerzogWhen film fans speak about directors, they often go on about idiosyncratic styles or bellwether looks and techniques. You can rapidly identify a Hitchcock film. Same for something from Orson Welles. Scorsese has tendrils that can be traced through most of his films. But few directors inject themselves into the films they create to the extent that the trials and agonies of the production become legendary. Or become immortalized in a documentary. These are directors who encourage their crew to partake of the rough and tumble as well. Does this result in a film that transcends the ordinary...2024-03-0529 min
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkGrand IllusionFilm is such a wonderful art form --- in some instances, almost the entirety of the world may be encompassed. Or the artist makes the attempt to capture the world. And thereby capture timeless subjects that are repeated down the years. Imagine developing a film that looks at the humanity of man. Classism. Racism. Antisemitism. War. The rise of fascism. Nationalism. Accomplished nearly one hundred years ago now --- and the ugly elements portrayed in the film are still around to plague us. Still relevant today.The masterstroke was to expose all of this in a story...2024-02-2034 min
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkThe Godfather Part IIMany of us strive to accomplish great things in our lives. A smaller group reach the heights in terms of those dream accomplishments. Then what do you do? How do you follow that when you’ve climbed a steep hill and, perhaps exhausted, look back? Where do you go now? Some, accomplished though they are, will turn away and pursue other, but less vaunted goals. Others will try to replicate the initial success, riffing on it until it’s a pale imitation of what was once beautiful. And the smallest, most exclusive group of all will try to go beyo...2024-02-0653 min
Those Wonderful People Out There In The DarkThe Enchanted CottageBut there was the antithesis of noir as well. A small movement to capture some feelings of life, of positivity. People went to the movies weekly, and often they simply wanted one thing --- hope. That things would be better, that life would go back to normal, whatever that was. That things would work out, for society and individuals. There was a small ripple of films, also of the 40s and 50s, that took this viewpoint. And while noir went straight at the ugliness of the world, the small area of fantasy film set out to negate the ugliness...2024-01-2334 min