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Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-It's Not About Millennials or Gen Z—It's About CommitmentIt's Not About Millennials or Gen Z—It's About Commitment Hi everyone. Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one -minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. No employee is bigger than the business, right? And think about this for a moment. You know, when you hear people talk about hiring and getting good talent, they say, well, millennials are so entitled and Gen Zers, they don't even come to work, right? They've never made a mistake. They've never showed up, right? But think about it...
2025-11-0701 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl Gould-#70secondCEO-Getting Past the Gatekeeper The Owner Always AnswersGetting Past the Gatekeeper: The Owner Always Answers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. So hard to get through the gatekeeper. Who's not there? The employees? Who is there? You are. I said you want to find the owner? Just call off-peak hours. Because the phone probably rings to them anyway. Because no one else will own it and they don't want to miss a sale. I said the owners are easy to find. It's the employees that are harder to find. So we need to get past that. Never was th...
2025-11-0601 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Real Difference Between Owners and EmployeesThe Real Difference Between Owners and Employees Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, a main question we'll ask an owner is, 'What keeps you up at night?' Oh my God, and the list is like this long! You know when we ask your team, 'What keeps you up at night?' You know what the number one answer is? 'I sleep fine.' Seriously, they're like, 'What keeps me up at night?' Nothing, I don't know, what are y...
2025-11-0501 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl Gould - #70secondCEO - Find the Weak Link in Your Business ChainFind the Weak Link in Your Business Chain Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO just over a one minute investment each day for a lifetime of results. Here we go, let's talk about your operations. To what degree are your operations running like a finely tuned machine? Give yourself a score, one being, 'it's a train wreck!' And 10 being, a 'finely tuned machine.' I want to hear about that. Now, you are only as good as the worst part of your process so you can only move as fast a...
2025-11-0400 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl Gould-#70SecondCEO- Muddy Fish or Clean Fish: Understanding Your Business StyleYour Business Style: The Muddy Fish vs. The Clean Fish Muddy Fish or Clean Fish: Understanding Your Business Style Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is - Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder. So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You're results-driven. You like things new, trendy, flashy. You tend to be on the busi...
2025-11-0301 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Leaders Create Confident TeamsHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Some confidence, they go to moderate to high confidence, and they go to high confidence.That's your job. Your job's on the top row. As their leader, their trainer, their coach, you need to make sure that they start out here and end up there. If they are not high confidence, then you can't trust them to make the right decisions or the right course correction as it goes along. And you'll a...
2025-10-3001 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Two Compliments for Every CorrectionHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We are specific is the degree you can let go and be a coach. If you haven't prepared them, they don't know the system, and you become high supportive, you are asking for a train wreck. You are asking for big problems because then they're just gonna be like, oh, oh, okay, we can do what we want now. And then they'll misinterpret what needs to be done. So in the third qu...
2025-10-2900 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Lead with Direction and SupportHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You do take in their feedback, but you're making the decision. You're the leader, and it's important that in the beginning, you take full responsibility. You say, here's our scope of work, or here's our project. I've taken in, we've all contributed, here's where we're going. And you know, speak now or forever hold your peace, great, now we get started, okay? We're still high directive, but we now wanna have high s...
2025-10-2801 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Power of Wants and Don't WantsHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you had to explain what you wanted to another person, what you don't want or what you want. But what we want to do going forward is we want to do both. So I would like when we start our meeting today for everyone to have lunch before we get going. But what I don't want is I don't want lunch to go past 1 o'clock. Now you at least have guardrails...
2025-10-2701 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Success Needs RecognitionFrom High Directive to High Supportive Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now we get started, right? We go up to where it says coaching. We're still high directed, but now we're high supported as well. So they get started, you're still directing their activities, but just capture this in the top right hand corner, you're looking to catch them doing things right. You're looking to catch them doing things right. That's opposite. What's that? That's oppos...
2025-10-2401 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Setting the Agenda with AuthorityLow Supportive Behavior Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the beginning, they're gonna say, all right, I'm in, I get it, just like today's meeting. All right, I get the idea, we wanna be a team, but we've never been a team like this before, so tell us what being a good team looks like. So we're gonna be very high directive in the beginning, and we're gonna have low supportive behavior. It doesn't mean we...
2025-10-2300 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Leaders Must Make the Call Why Leaders Must Make the Call Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now the leader decides, that doesn't mean you're not gonna take in some feedback and put from the team, you may wanna do that. If there's a project you're about to do with your team, you may say, here's the project, here's the scope of work, here are some of the things, the challenges we're looking at. Anybody have any ideas or you wanna sha...
2025-10-2200 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Support vs. Instruction in LeadershipSupport vs. Instruction in Leadership Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Direction going in there. Carl, say this, don't say that. These are all of your non-negotiables and these are all your stuff that are off-limits. I would lean more towards this, because you're going to say that. Convert it into these words. I needed direction. I didn't get that direction. I got support in the beginning. And that's where a lot of managers will tend to g...
2025-10-2101 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Finding the Value in What You DislikeFinding the Value in What You Dislike Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's no way, especially as you get bigger, and there's no way anyone on the team is gonna like everything that's going on, you just have to advocate for the process. So in everything in your professional life that you don't like, are you guys familiar with the law of opposite values? You guys familiar with what that is? So have you ever heard the expression t...
2025-10-2001 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Defining Your Lane Covering the Team Defining Your Lane Covering the Team Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Anytime there's a handoff, so if you're in sales and someone's engineering, someone's on the service desk, right, those handoffs have to be managed tight and you always cover your teammate's back, right? So that's where, so we have to define how that box runs, okay, and that'll be one of our challenges because we speak American English, that's our challenge, our English is so bad.
2025-10-1701 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Operation ChallengeHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Same operation challenge in stage 4,5,6 and 7 that's a dysfunctional problem, that's a–you should have solved already, so if I were to say cash flow, good problem, bad problem, the answer is it depends, it depends on the stage you're in. One of the interesting things about the discovery process and a dynamic that's very very common in our personal life and in our business lives is–is that we most of us pretty much...
2025-10-1001 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Invisible Pricing - Need a Better OfferHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. A year, that means you're one in 600 people. That is 10 million or more, and we need to walk into a building that has 12,000 people in it to meet a peer. What we do is not easy, right? So you're doing all of this work only to price yourself to where you're invisible. That's got to change. It is unacceptable to me that you sit down with a client, you're as knowledgeable as you a...
2025-10-0901 min
Carl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Client Picked You Because You Are the Best OptionCarl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. They're not going to pay a whole bunch of money on the off chance you're good. They're going to think you're really good already. They're going to think, and by the way, if you fire them, guess what they lose? You, and they think you're the best option, right? That's why I was in a position one time in my landscaping company where I was in a position where I had to give back the guarantee...
2025-10-0801 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Urgency The Real Reason They Choose YouHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right down what is that--what are the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not, but about your industry, so how would you know that? Hi please everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right down wh...
2025-10-0701 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-1 out of 10 Pt. 21 out of 10 Pt. 2 Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. of being unsuccessful are less than 1%. if you do something 60 times. And if you're looking for a cadence, 10 times a month minimum, for 6 months. 10 campaigns, 10 posts, 10 whatever, you name the 10. 10 coaching sessions, 10 events, 10 whatever. 1 out of 10, your first 10, expect it to be a little rocky. As a matter of fact, that could be a really good follow up. Like, if you guys have a WhatsApp group or you're on ROII, mastermind.com, you're on that WhatsApp group or whatever. You know, there's th...
2025-10-0601 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-1 out of 101 out of 10 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. And one of the things that we did was we taught people And we've since trained 7,000 people on how to launch their consulting, coaching, speaking, training business in 80 countries, okay? And here's what we found out. Statistically, if we gave you something to do and you do it for the next 10 times, you know what your chances of being successful at it is? One out of 10. Your results will be low. So you're gonna come out of here, you're gonna be like, I love this, i...
2025-10-0301 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Pick The Categories By The People You LikePick The Categories By The People You Like Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Get around five people who have the marketing you like. Find five people who have the relationship that you like. Find five people who have the travel schedule or the lifestyle that you like or the money that you like. You know, just pick your categories. It's not gonna be the same group. There might be some overlap, but it's not gonna b...
2025-10-0201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-You Become a Reflection of Who You Hangout WithYou Become a Reflection of Who You Hangout With Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You have, just showing that you have the capacity. You try, you win. You quit, you fail. There's only one way to fail and that's to stop trying. As long as you're doing it, you'll get there. I saw a picture one time of the very first speech I ever gave. Boy, I wish I could take that one back.
2025-10-0101 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Audience Is Looking for Permission to Be Real with YouYour Audience Is Looking for Permission to Be Real with You Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What you do, you don't have to put the fake stack of extra 45s on there. There is this great, one of my favorite videos, you guys familiar with David Goggins? The you can't hurt me guy, right, that guy? He has this workout video that I love and it's him doing bench press, right? And there's a face up and cl...
2025-09-3001 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Be Who You Are No ApologizesBe Who You Are No Apologizes Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. as soon as you put the camera on yourself This is wrong. I'm like, oh my God, stop that. You're okay. Just go on and don't apologize for how you look. Give your audience the same permission to do the same. I'm sure you're not doing it on purpose. I'm sure it's just one of those things. Oh, let me just move that just to the side. This will be so much better. Right now, guys do i...
2025-09-2901 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Light Yourself on Fire Through Performance Pt. 2Light Yourself on Fire Through Performance Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Right, everyone thinks like, oh, social media, like, oh my God, everything looks so perfect. What'd you expect? It's the highlight reel. That's all social media is, right? Now, you can be more real with your audience. Here's what I did wrong. Here's the mistake I made, right? Someone said to Gary Vaynerchuk one time on one of his talks, they said, well, Gary, y...
2025-09-2601 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Light Yourself on Fire Through PerformanceLight Yourself on Fire Through Performance Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Luther started the Lutheran Church. It grew incredibly fast. And they said to him, how were you able to grow the Lutheran Church so quickly? And he said, well, I lit myself on fire and people came to watch me burn. So take your list of admiration. Who is your ideal client? Who are you to them? Who's the admirable version of you? And then...
2025-09-2501 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-When Acting Like What You Hate Is Okay Pt 2When Acting Like What You Hate Is Okay Pt 2 Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. You run from those emotions and you can be controlled in those situations. You give up your decision-making authority, your creativity goes away, your potential goes down and you're less likely to do anything related to performance. If you're even around those people, if you're even around those situations, we have to become bigger. We can't eliminate that list. We have to learn how to navigate that list. There are times to be disrespectful. There are times when...
2025-09-2401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-When Acting Like What You Hate Is OkayWhen Acting Like What You Hate Is Okay Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Are there situations where it was good to be disrespectful? Absolutely. Situationally, I'm not saying walk around, right? They say, do a takeaway. Is that disrespectful? Kinda. But is there a time for it? Sure is. Is there a time when you know you're right and you gotta stand your ground on what you're right? And you gotta, listen, I might sound like I...
2025-09-2301 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Surround Yourself with Those You Admire1590. Surround Yourself with Those You Admire Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Because it gives you permission to talk about whom? So this is somebody that has the traits that you value, you have an alignment with, however you feel that they play that game at a slightly higher level. Equal or higher, right? But by talking about somebody else, you get a chance to talk about yourself. Imagine we came down here and I said, yeah, no, no, no, enough about you, let's talk more about me, right? That would run out really quickly...
2025-09-2201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The People You Admire and the Ones You Dont Pt 11588. The People You Admire… and the Ones You Don't Pt 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So let me introduce you to two people you may know very intimately well, okay? The list on the left, the admiration list, that is what you believe is the best part of you. The list to the right is what you believe is the least favorite part of you, okay? You cannot recognize a trait in another person unless you possess it...
2025-09-1800 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Do they like you1587. Do they like you? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #7osecondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How do you get people to like you? Now as soon as I said that, I could see some faces in the room like, oh, that's gonna be trouble for me. Oof, like, oh, I haven't been really good at that for a long time. It's not that kind of like you, right? It's do they feel that there's an alignment or a synchronicity? Do we have...
2025-09-1701 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Intensify Emotion to Inspire ActionIntensify Emotion to Inspire Action Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Where I'll share with you how you get someone to like you, Once we get to that point, once we get to the point of admiration, it is your job, just think of this as an overarching outcome or a bailout outcome. If you're worried about your campaign and you're like, Okay, what do we do next? What should be the next thing? Oh my God, I think I've used up all my good stuff. Your job is to magnify your prospect's emotion to...
2025-09-1601 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Audience Can Feel It If You Truly Like ThemYour Audience Can Feel It If You Truly Like Them Hi, everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your audience, that will come across and they will forgive you for any mistake you make. If you really and genuinely believe in them, you really and genuinely like them, you are interested in them, and you are doing everything in your power to serve them. That will come across. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn m...
2025-09-1500 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Pay You If Nothing ChangesWhy Pay You If Nothing Changes? Hi, everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do I need to pay you to be around you so my life stays the same? Yeah, thinking not. However, what can you bring to our relationship where I can say, ooh, I like it, we have similar values, but you're playing that part of the game higher than I am, I wanna learn from you, I wanna be around you. Okay, and we all have...
2025-09-1201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-You're a Interruption Until You Deliver ValueYou're a Interruption Until You Deliver Value Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You are an interruption to your client's day until you bring them value, okay? Like, if you're worried, like, oh, cold calling, I don't know, will they not like it if I cold call? They're not, they're gonna hate it until you give them value. Yeah, but those emails are kind of intrusive, do I really wanna send them? You're right, if they suck, you're...
2025-09-1101 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Failure Can Be Fuel for GrowthFailure Can Be Fuel for Growth Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. That's how you find out what you're all about. But that's okay, you don't have to succeed at everything. As a matter of fact, failing at times is part of the growth and will endear you to your audience even more because now you're relatable. You know, Oprah's audience rises when she had her show. It would increase and decrease with her weight. When she was heavier, she had a higher audience. When she would lose weight, it would...
2025-09-1001 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Bigger You Grow the Bigger the ChallengesThe Bigger You Grow, the Bigger the Challenges Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you get into performance, it's going to start to challenge and push on the edges of your belief systems. Your BS, if I may, right? And your BS, you're gonna have to deal with. And so what we need are some strategies in order to deal with that as it comes up. Because as Peter said, you know, as you grow, your problems...
2025-09-0901 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Potential to Performance Bigger Growth Bigger ChallengesPotential to Performance: Bigger Growth, Bigger Challenges Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. When we're learning something but we haven't tried anything yet, We're unlimited, right? What's our potential? Unlimited, we could do anything, right? And we could do no wrong, everything is right, every idea is brilliant, right? Don't most bad ideas start out as a good one? Right? Don't they? Like, wow, that was a really bad idea. Like, but before it was like, that was amazing, that was really good, right? And so in potential, you could do no wrong, you're a...
2025-09-0801 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Slowing Down Speeds Up GrowthHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let's talk about systems. A true system is when an activity—or group of activities—can run without your direct involvement. That's when you know you've built something sustainable. Remember back in the discovery process, we said every job and every industry has its own personality? Over time, each role in your business starts to take on its own rhythm and identity. That's a good thing—it's the sign of a maturing company. B...
2025-09-0501 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Tangibles Intangibles and Targeted GrowthHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let's talk about benchmarking. The tangible side of your business—your numbers—make up about 28% of its value. When you benchmark, you're comparing your financials to the industry averages. Why? Because it gives you clarity. It gives you a target. Whether or not your goal is to be number one in your industry, you need to know what the top looks like—and how far you are from it. Benchmarking helps you understand your com...
2025-09-0401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why We Choose Starbucks The Power of Systems Over PriceHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Consider this: the average Starbucks customer, during a 20-day work month, visits Starbucks 18 times. That same customer often drives past multiple other vendors offering similar coffee for a fraction of the price—sometimes less than a dollar. So why do they still choose Starbucks? It's not just the coffee—it's the system. Starbucks isn't dependent on a charismatic owner or a one-time promotion. Their success is built on consistency, predictability, and an experience that c...
2025-09-0301 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 4 When Your Business Starts to Breathe Without YouHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You'll know you've entered Stage 4 when every role in your business begins to take on a life of its own. Things start happening without your direct involvement. The pace of the business slows down—but in a good way. You might walk into the office and find it calm, almost quiet. That's not a bad sign—it's a sign of growing efficiency. This is a big shift from the hustle of Stages 1 and 2. It's n...
2025-09-0201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 2 Where Most Businesses Live And How to Thrive ThereHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As your business develops, you need to focus on improving the quality of your product or service and building your credentials. While sales remain important—especially early on to keep the cash flowing—your major focus should be developing your core competency. Now, every stage of business has three phases: early, mid, and late. I bring this up because Stage 2 is where most businesses spend the bulk of their time—even the Rolling Stones a...
2025-09-0101 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-70secondCEO-Business Doesnt Have to Be LonelyJust Plan the StepsHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. It's often said that being a business owner is the toughest and loneliest job out there—and there's truth to that. But it doesn't have to be. What makes it feel tough and lonely? Flying blind, making decisions in the dark, with no gauges and no clear plan. What makes it easier, more enjoyable, and more successful? Taking the time to plan—stage by stage. Don't skip steps. Move forward one stage...
2025-08-2901 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Sexy Side of Systems How to Scale to 7 Figures in 3 YearsHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How do you grow your business from startup to seven figures in just three years? It might sound like a huge leap, but it's absolutely possible—and it comes down to one thing: alignment. You need to synchronize your daily, effective actions with your long-term, big-picture goals. Your efficiency is a direct result of how aligned you are with your strategic plan. Keep it simple. Keep it structured. Keep it systematic. Earl...
2025-08-2801 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-How Consistency and Focus Drive Business GrowthHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you pair a consistent, high-quality system with a strong customer experience, you create something powerful—a deeper connection with your clients. That connection allows you to serve at a higher level and positions your business as a leader in your field. And when that happens, results follow—fast. In the success cycle, your energy should be channeled toward achievement. Spend just 10% of your time identifying the challenge or opportunity, and 90% focusing on solvin...
2025-08-2701 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO- The 3 Keys to Building an Aligned OrganizationHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the Business Discovery Process, there are three core areas you need to uncover: First, your behaviors—what we refer to as DISC—reveal how you do what you do. Second, your values—these are the why behind your actions, your motivators and priorities. And third, your attributes—they show what you are willing and able to do. The goal is to identify both your strengths and blind spots in each of...
2025-08-2600 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Early Assessments Set Your Business Up for SuccessHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As we dive into Stage One and explore what's required, you'll see the power tools for where your focus should be at each phase. One of the earliest and most important tools is assessment. You need to understand your identity—where you stand at any given moment—and what you bring to the table. But it's not just about you. You'll also assess everyone in your company, looking at their behavior styles, value hierar...
2025-08-2501 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Emotion Drives Every Business DecisionHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Even if you process things logically or are a numbers person, your decisions start with emotion. You've probably heard it said: we buy on emotion and then rationalize with logic. And it's true. Humans have six basic categories of motivators. When making a decision—whether to buy, act, or not—you go through a mental checklist based on these motivators, ranked in a hierarchy. If a choice doesn't satisfy your highest values...
2025-08-2201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Some Assembly Required Business EditionHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. To those of you who are reading this–that had ever–ever got a gift that says "some assembly required" and what have you done? This is how you've tried to put it together in the past: you've got this model airplane or bicycle, and here's what you did. You did the I part, you got it and you said "wow! This is really great" thank you so much for getting me this, it's exac...
2025-08-1801 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-70secondCEO-Build Structure Around the People Who ThriveHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How do you know you have the right person in the right place? Their true nature, their experience, their attributes, their skills align with the job description that they are involved in. So, in building a structure you put the right people doing the right task, how do you know? At the end of the day does performing that task give you energy or rub your energy. If doing that task or performing that...
2025-08-1501 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Bigger You the Smaller the ProblemThe Bigger You, the Smaller the Problem Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Then the world you're around, you'll be more skilled so I've got really good at my voice to text. So, I can have phone calls and send emails and everything from my phone without ever touching you cause I understand the commence now, you just work on those things, right? So, you wanna become better than the problem you are facing and be able to...
2025-08-1401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Multiply Your Time Multiply Your ImpactMultiply Your Time, Multiply Your Impact Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And I get it, the brain works better when you're doing one thing but you're not getting anywhere beyond you're not achieving the level you want unless you're multitasking, right? So yeah I have my coaching business, I have my speaking business, I invest in companies you know I have real estate and I've got that, that's not all gonna happen on the same day you...
2025-08-1301 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Coach vs. Consultant Know the Difference Pt. 2Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The advisor is somebody who is probably the most important person in a room, they're great at networking and they can marshall and channel all the resources necessary to get something done, they're a generalist, they're a jack of all trades and they're good at all of them, they're not like a master of none they're actually very good at all of them. It's the hardest one to become actually, advisor and then there's...
2025-08-1201 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Coach vs. Consultant Know the Difference Pt. 1Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the beginning it was enough to say you were a coach, hey I'm a coach, wow that's awesome, then it was I'm a life or business coach.Then I'm a life coach and I've got all this segmentation and so now, you know it's a very mature industry and each industry has niches, that's how you know, when there are niches, you've got a mature industry, coaching is there. But coaching you know...
2025-08-1101 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-3 Communication Zones in Your Body3 Communication Zones in Your Body Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Communication zones in your body. They're higher, middle, lower. That's it, right? Think collarbone, think waist, right? So higher, middle, lower. And that's how people will communicate. So I'll demonstrate and then we're gonna do it together. So higher is from your shoulders upward, right? So somebody is what we would call a visual person. They are higher, faster, louder communicator. The reason why they...
2025-08-0401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-We Create a World Around us that Matches How we Define OurselvesWe create a world around us that matches how we define ourselves Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. People are the people we surround ourselves with the most. And here's what I mean, okay? I don't wanna scare you with that photo. We, as people, the way we're wired, we're kind of like that projector right there. Whatever we put on the inside of that projector shows up on the screen. We define ourselves a certain way, ok...
2025-07-3001 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Someone Else Believed in meSomeone else believed in me Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We've coached about 150,000 people now. And we ask everybody, how did you ever get started in your business, if they're a business owner? Or how did you choose this career path if you work for an organization? The number one answer that we get as the reason why somebody chose a career path is someone else believed in me. Someone else said, hey, you know, you're really good...
2025-07-2901 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-People Follow CertaintyPeople Follow Certainty Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your language means this is where knowledge, credentials comes into play. You need to be the smartest person in whatever room you walk in. Or if you're on a project and you're doing a build-out or you're doing a budget, you want to be among, if not the smartest person in that room because you can then direct the room because people follow certainty. They follow leaders, okay? So you wa...
2025-07-2800 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Communicate Trust Respect through body languageCommunicate Trust & Respect through body language Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Communicate trust and respect through your body language. And this is a universal communication strategy, and we will practice that. So there are three elements that influence another person to your point of view. One of them is words. One of them is your voice qualities, and the other is your physiology, meaning how you stand and how you move. So words of the three, all three m...
2025-07-2501 min
The Gould StandardGlenn Gould's First Piano - The Well-travelled ClavierJoin Brian Levine, Executive Director of The Glenn Gould Foundation, as we look back on the 86th anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth and the first official Glenn Gould Day in Toronto. Featuring sisters Heather Tucker and Susanne Rayner. Discover the origins of Glenn Gould's musical journey through his very first piano—a humble Dominion piano—and learn about the rich history and personal connections between the Gould family and the Morton family. Hear anecdotes about Glenn's early life, his unique bond with the Dominion upright, and the cherished memories shared by those who knew him best.
2025-07-2433 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Trust RespectTrust & Respect Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When it comes to trust and respect, trust is a back-to-back exercise. In other words, we have common goals and interests, we establish that, okay? Then, when I turn my back and go into another room, do I trust you'll keep your commitments? Do I trust you're going to do what you said when we're standing face-to-face, you made a commitment? Now I turn my back and I go, you turn yo...
2025-07-2401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Do you hold the credentials for the job you performDo you hold the credentials for the job you perform? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Questions that we ask is, we ask this of our clients and we'll say, does everybody in the company hold the credential for the job that they perform? You know what the majority of the answer is for most people in most companies? No. So if you are the bookkeeper, you use QuickBooks Online or some other NetSuite or some other...
2025-07-2301 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Can you handle the task at handCan you handle the task at hand? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Not as important, but it is very important, especially in a commercial setting, respect. Can you handle the task at hand, right? So whatever your title is, can you handle the job that you say you can do? Here's why that's important. Because if I don't respect you, I won't bother telling you the truth. I won't bother bringing things to you because you can't handle...
2025-07-2200 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Remove the Barriers Remove the Barriers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you can't find something in common, it's painful. You meet somebody. Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you. Oh, yeah, I'm Carl. How are you doing? Oh, good to meet you. Oh, yeah, it's your first time at this? Yeah, great, cool. So you into sports? Nah, not much of a sports person. Oh, oh, OK. So what are some of your hobbies? You know, I do...
2025-07-2100 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Unlocking Opportunities with Yes Pt. 2Unlocking Opportunities with Yes Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. If somebody asks you, do you golf? Do they actually care if you golf? No. What is it they want to talk about? Golf! And what do you think they were about to tell you after you say yes? Some story that you don't want to hear about their golf weekend. Right?: Okay. I get it. You don't want to listen to it. But if you say no, th...
2025-07-1801 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Unlocking Opportunities with YesUnlocking Opportunities with Yes Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You have to use this word first. And here's the word. The word is yes. So what's the word? OK, everyone this time, what's the word? OK, so we're going to try it out. Hey, do you golf? Some of you are like, well, I don't I don't know if it's called golf. Like, I went to the miniature. All right, we're going to try it again...
2025-07-1701 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Whose goals or interests matterWhose goals or interests matter Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need two things going at the same time at a high level, and they are trust and respect. So trust we define as having common goals or interests. So there you are, you're talking to another person, whose goals or interests matter? Yours or theirs? Who thinks it's yours? Like, it's really important that everyone knows what I like to do so they can talk about it...
2025-07-1601 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Different Minds Different WiresDifferent Minds, Different Wires Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now that we have rapport, we can now influence somebody to our point of view, right? Remember, there's three styles, right? So think about it. When you walk around every day in your work and you say, you know, that department, I don't know how they hired those people. They don't deserve to have jobs. How do they make it through the day? Ever have one of t...
2025-07-1501 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Safety Net of Strong RapportThe Safety Net of Strong Rapport Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You meet somebody for the first time, what is it you look for? Things in common, right? Because once we have something in common, we can then like each other. Now, not like each other in the way you're thinking, meaning we are like each other on some level. That is the basis on which we will allow somebody else to be in a r...
2025-07-1401 minCarl Gould #70secondCEOCarl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Power of Rapport Why It Matters in Business The Power of Rapport: Why It Matters in Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three styles out there. You're one of th...
2025-07-1101 min
The Gould StandardGlenn Gould - The Private TapesHave you ever wondered what it would be like to have received one of the legendary nocturnal phone calls from pianist Glenn Gould? For the first time, Gould Standard listeners will have the chance to eavesdrop on such a conversation, albeit one that took place in the daytime.
Pulitzer prize winning music critic, Tim Page, is widely recognized as one of America’s leading writers on music and the arts. From an early age, he was fascinated by the music and ideas of the Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould. In October 1980, Gould agreed to a print interview with him to appear in...
2024-06-201h 43
The Gould StandardGlenn Gould - The Private TapesHave you ever wondered what it would be like to have received one of the legendary nocturnal phone calls from pianist Glenn Gould? For the first time, Gould Standard listeners will have the chance to eavesdrop on such a conversation, albeit one that took place in the daytime.
Pulitzer prize winning music critic, Tim Page, is widely recognized as one of America’s leading writers on music and the arts. From an early age, he was fascinated by the music and ideas of the Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould. In October 1980, Gould agreed to a print interview with him to appear in...
2024-06-201h 43
Jonny Gould's Jewish StateIran's War on Israel: Hostage stories and reaction plus the latest with Jonny GouldSubscribe and follow Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast now and scroll down for previous episodes.Jonny is back with the latest on Iran's war on Israel including the moment the IDF came to rescue the "diamonds", the code word for the hostages incarcerated in Gazan hell since October 7th.All of the soundbites you’ll hear in this bulletin are compiled from interviews right here - in episodes Jonny Gould’s Jewish State podcast. The IDF continue its operations against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah launches drone attacks against Hurfeish and Nazareth in northern Israe...
2024-06-1329 min
The Gould StandardCornelia Foss - Painting, Music and the Love of Glenn Gould, Pt. 2This episode of The Gould Standard delves into the personal and artistic relationships between Glenn Gould, Cornelia Foss, and her family. We begin with Cornelia relating her first captivating encounter with Gould at a concert during her marriage with famed composer-conductor Lukas Foss, leading to Cornelia and Glenn’s eventual love affair. We explore the complex dynamics between Cornelia, Glenn, and Lukas, highlighting Gould's multifaceted personality - from his perceived reclusiveness to his warm, playful and affectionate side as experienced by the Foss children. Cornelia Foss reflects on the challenges and transformations of their relationships, particularly focusing on Gould's th...
2024-05-0958 min
The Gould StandardCornelia Foss - Painting, Music and the Love of Glenn Gould, Pt. 2This episode of The Gould Standard delves into the personal and artistic relationships between Glenn Gould, Cornelia Foss, and her family. We begin with Cornelia relating her first captivating encounter with Gould at a concert during her marriage with famed composer-conductor Lukas Foss, leading to Cornelia and Glenn’s eventual love affair. We explore the complex dynamics between Cornelia, Glenn, and Lukas, highlighting Gould's multifaceted personality - from his perceived reclusiveness to his warm, playful and affectionate side as experienced by the Foss children. Cornelia Foss reflects on the challenges and transformations of their relationships, particularly focusing on Gould's the al...
2024-05-0958 min
The Gould StandardCornelia Foss - Painting, Music and the Love of Glenn Gould, Pt. 1In a compelling episode of the Gould Standard podcast, listeners are treated to an intimate conversation with American painter Cornelia Foss alongside her children, Christopher and Eliza. Delving into the rich tapestry of their family history from Europe to Hollywood to New York, and the life and career of Cornelia’s husband, the great American composer and conductor, Lukas Foss, the trio shares poignant insights into their lives intertwined with art and music. This two-part conversation also includes reminiscences of Cornelia’s almost 5-year love affair with Glenn Gould, which saw her and the children moving to Toronto to be wi...
2024-04-2552 min
The Gould StandardCornelia Foss - Painting, Music and the Love of Glenn Gould, Pt. 1In a compelling episode of the Gould Standard podcast, listeners are treated to an intimate conversation with American painter Cornelia Foss alongside her children, Christopher and Eliza. Delving into the rich tapestry of their family history from Europe to Hollywood to New York, and the life and career of Cornelia’s husband, the great American composer and conductor, Lukas Foss, the trio shares poignant insights into their lives intertwined with art and music. This two-part conversation also includes reminiscences of Cornelia’s almost 5-year love affair with Glenn Gould, which saw her and the children moving to Toronto to be with...
2024-04-2552 min
Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesFox Hunt by Linda A Gould"Fox Hunt" first appeared in Commuter Lit on September 27, 2022In Japan, foxes are messengers for the god of agriculture. In today’s story, a farmer hates foxes and spends his life hunting them with his dog trained for the hunt. So, how is it that he remains wealthy and unpunished for killing his god's favorite animal?Linda Gould is an American who has lived in six countries. The mythology and folktales from each have inspired her writing-- fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been published in media outlets around the world. Gould is the editor of Wh...
2024-03-0615 min
Investing Secrets: Invest like the Top 0.1%Danny Gould: Why I'm Investing in Hotels (Mini-Episode)Dive into the latest "The Gould Mine" episode, where we explore the thriving hotel investment landscape. Discover why the next 12 to 24 months are prime for entering this market, offering unique growth and profit opportunities. I'll take you through my journey from aspiring hotel owner to reality, a path marked by my long-term vision and strategic planning.Learn about the crucial role of real estate syndications and private equity in navigating the hotel ownership terrain. Hotels stand out in the commercial real estate sector, offering exceptional annual returns that surpass other asset classes.This episode delves...
2023-11-2309 min
Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesSlow Down Sunday #13: The Lonely Road by Linda GouldSlow Down Sunday features stories from the archive. "The Lonely Road first appeared on the Kaidankai on November 17, 2021.A traveler starts his journey full of hope. The forest leads him down a different path.Linda Gould is an American and long-time resident of Japan. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in media outlets around the world. Gould is the editor of White Enso, an online journal of creative work inspired by Japan, and host of “Kaidankai,” a podcast of supernatural stories. Click here to learn about the 2023 Kaidankai contest for writers.Webs...
2023-06-2544 min
Jonny Gould's Jewish State🗣️Trailer: Radio! A new era for Jonny Gould’s Jewish StateA new era has started for your favourite Jewish podcast: http://www.jewishstate.radio
Jonny Gould's Jewish State is now also a 24-hour radio station.
Featuring the best interviews from the series and the very latest news from the Middle East and beyond, Jonny Gould's Jewish State Radio aims to engage an even bigger audience who want to hear different perspectives on Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
Tell your friends about Jonny Gould's Jewish State and its brand new radio station.
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2023-01-2002 min
The Gould StandardGould's Glorious Goldbergs with Tim Page & Richard EinhornGlenn Gould was propelled to stardom by his 1955 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. After a lifetime of study and contemplation, and in anticipation of his 50th birthday, Gould decided to return for another trip to the summit of this musical Everest. His radical rethinking of the Goldbergs became a new masterpiece, admired by music-lovers around the world.
It was also a valedictory statement: released on his 50th birthday, the album preceded the stroke that would end Gould’s life by a few days, a tragic bookend to a storied musical life. As Sony Classical releases a brand new 11-CD set...
2022-09-291h 30
The Gould StandardGould's Glorious Goldbergs with Tim Page & Richard EinhornGlenn Gould was propelled to stardom by his 1955 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. After a lifetime of study and contemplation, and in anticipation of his 50th birthday, Gould decided to return for another trip to the summit of this musical Everest. His radical rethinking of the Goldbergs became a new masterpiece, admired by music-lovers around the world.
It was also a valedictory statement: released on his 50th birthday, the album preceded the stroke that would end Gould’s life by a few days, a tragic bookend to a storied musical life. As Sony Classical releases a bran...
2022-09-291h 30Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesEp. 155: Unpleasantville-- Prome Theus--Linda GouldProme TheusBorn: UnknownDied: Unknownby Linda A. GouldLinda Gould is the Managing Editor of White Enso, an online journal of creative work inspired by Japan and the host of the Kaidankai podcast. She is a lifelong book-lover who spent many summers as a child high up in the branches of a tree reading. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been published in outlets around the world. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Delaware and has extensive writing, editing and design experience. She is the founder of the Women's En...
2022-08-2609 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesUnpleasantville-- Tessa Lokovitch--Linda GouldEstana LokovichBorn: 2001Died: 2015by Linda A. GouldLinda Gould is the Managing Editor of White Enso, an online journal of creative work inspired by Japan and the host of the Kaidankai podcast. She is a lifelong book-lover who spent many summers as a child high up in the branches of a tree reading. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been published in outlets around the world. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Delaware and has extensive writing, editing and design experience. She is the founder of the Women's English Writing Gr...
2022-08-1909 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesUnpleasantville-- Estana Lokovitch--Linda GouldEstana LokovichBorn: 1980Died: 2015by Linda A. GouldLinda Gould is the Managing Editor of White Enso, an online journal of creative work inspired by Japan and the host of the Kaidankai podcast. She is a lifelong book-lover who spent many summers as a child high up in the branches of a tree reading. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been published in outlets around the world. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Delaware and has extensive writing, editing and design experience. She is the founder of the Women's English Writing Gr...
2022-08-1810 min
The Gould StandardScaling the Heights with Gould's WallNew from Tapestry Opera, Gould’s Wall is a contemporary opera from Canadian composer Brian Current. This audacious work invokes Glenn Gould’s dizzying pursuit of artistic perfection, defying expectations as well as gravity by literally shifting the plane of reality from horizontal to vertical. Featuring composer Brian Current, librettist Liza Balkan, director Philip Akin, and Tapestry Opera’s Artistic Director, Michael Hidetoshi Mori, this special conversation contemplates art in its highest forms.
2022-07-1444 min
The Gould StandardScaling the Heights with Gould’s WallNew from Tapestry Opera, Gould’s Wall is a contemporary opera from Canadian composer Brian Current. This audacious work invokes Glenn Gould’s dizzying pursuit of artistic perfection, defying expectations as well as gravity by literally shifting the plane of reality from horizontal to vertical. Performed in The Royal Conservatory’s atrium, Gould’s Wall runs from August 4th to August 12th, 2022 in Toronto.
We spoke with the team behind the opera about the historical wall, the creative process and its challenges, and Gould’s presence throughout the work. Featuring composer Brian Current, librettist Liza Balkan, director Philip Aki...
2022-07-1444 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesDay 83: Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn and The Snow Ghost by Linda GouldJapan's most famous ghost comes to life in Hearn's deft writing, and Linda Gould offers another version of the ghost's hunt for victims.Lafcadio Hearn chronicled Japan's myths, legends and folktales during his years living in Japan. Since many of these stories went unrecorded by the Japanese, his translations influenced the spread of Japanese literature to Western cultures.Linda A. Gould is the host of Kaidankai and editor of White Enso. She is an on-again, off-again writer of fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and ghost stories. Facebook: Japanese Ghost Stories, Twitter: @Ghost Japan and @WhiteEnsoYou ca...
2021-10-2213 min
The Gould StandardKat Von D: Tunes, Tattoos and a Taste of Glenn GouldKat von D, by any measure, is one-of-a-kind. One of the world’s most celebrated tattoo artists, Kat defies the idea that while life is short, art is forever, choosing a medium that is inherently perishable: the human body. She rose to fame for her starring appearances on two popular TV shows, Miami Ink and LA Ink, and parlayed that recognition into a wildly successful entrepreneurial career through her line of makeup, simultaneously becoming both an alternative fashion icon and a social media sensation.
Music has always been central to her creative inspiration, and while her image ev...
2021-10-2156 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesDay 42: Reflections on 9/11 by Linda GouldSo much of this podcast focuses on ghosts and death. So what do you do on a day like 9/11? Linda Gould reflects on a visit to the 9/11 memorial. Linda A. Gould is the host of Kaidankai and editor of White Enso. She is an on-again, off-again writer of fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and ghost stories. Facebook: Japanese Ghost Stories, Twitter: @Ghost Japan and @WhiteEnsoYou can read today's selection and all the stories featured on kaidankai at https://www.whiteenso.com/100-stories.html. If you'd like to participate in kaidankai, please send your story here: https...
2021-09-1112 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesDay 35: Setsubun by Linda GouldSetsubun, by Linda Gould is a re-imagining of the Japanese holiday, celebrated on February 3rd, where families throw beans at demon-masked fathers to get rid of bad luck and invite in good luck. It's a fun holiday, but this story has a darker theme. Linda A. Gould is the host of Kaidankai and editor of White Enso. She is an on-again, off-again writer of fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and ghost stories. Facebook: Japanese Ghost Stories, Twitter: @Ghost Japan and @WhiteEnsoYou can read today's selection and all the stories featured on kaidankai at https://www.whiteenso...
2021-09-0413 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesDay 30: Sepulchre of Shame by Maggie Brace & Inner Monster by L GouldIn Sepulcher of Shame, Maggie Brace provides a unique twist on everlasting love. Then, Linda Gould has a different take on shame and the monsters within us.Maggie D Brace, a life-long denizen of Maryland, teacher, gardener, basketball player and author attended St. Mary's College, where she met her soulmate, and Loyola University, Maryland. She has written 'Tis Himself: The Tale of Finn MacCool and Grammy's Glasses, and has multiple short works and poems in various anthologies. She remains a humble scrivener and avid reader.Linda Gould s the host of Kaidankai and editor of White Enso...
2021-08-3003 minKaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesDay 14: Under the Sea by Linda GouldIn Under the Sea by Linda Gould, what lurks under the water can be stunningly beautiful...and terrifying. Linda A. Gould is the host of Kaidankai and editor of White Enso. She is an on-again, off-again writer of fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and ghost stories. Facebook: Japanese Ghost Stories, Twitter: @Ghost Japan and @WhiteEnso
2021-08-1413 min