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Running Great StoresStore Traffic is a GiftToday we’re diving into one of the most overlooked opportunities in brick-and-mortar retail — your foot traffic. Based on insights from Mark Ryski’s powerful book Store Traffic is a Gift, we’re going to unpack why every person who walks through your door ismore than just a potential sale — they’re a brand touchpoint, a loyalty moment, and a chance to grow.If you’ve ever said “we’re not getting enough traffic,” this episode is for you — because what you do with the traffic you do get might be the real problem.Let’s talk about what it means to t...2025-07-2155 min
Your Community StrategistThe Pinterest Advantage: Actionable Strategies Most Businesses Are Missing with Meagan WilliamsonLet’s be real—Pinterest might still have a reputation for wedding inspo and midlife kitchen renos, but if that’s all you think it’s good for, you’re missing out on a seriously powerful marketing machine. To help us dust off the glitter glue and turn Pinterest into a traffic-driving, lead-generating engine, I’m joined by Megan Williamson, founder of Pin Potential Inc. and Pinterest’s unofficial (but very official) queen bee. With over a decade of hands-on experience and a seal of approval from Pinterest itself, Megan has helped thousands of business owners go from...2025-05-2239 min
Smart Talk SeriesMeet the Authors of "Latinas in PR": Rachel Benavidez and Lilly Cortés WyattIn today's episode, Melissa introduces two authors from the new anthology, "Latinas in PR", Rachel Benavidez and Lilly Cortés Wyatt. About Rachel: Rachel Benavidez is a former journalist turned public relations and marketing professional who brings more than 25 years of experience to her role as Vice President of Communications and Strategy for VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. The local PRSA Chapter named her PR Professional of the Year in 2023 and in 2024 elected her President, to lead in 2025. She's a Rio Grande Valley native who has lived in San Antonio since 2008, with roles as editor i...2025-04-1554 min
Smart Talk SeriesMeet the Authors of "Latinas in PR": Rachel Benavidez and Lilly Cortés WyattIn today's episode, Melissa introduces two authors from the new anthology, "Latinas in PR", Rachel Benavidez and Lilly Cortés Wyatt. About Rachel:Rachel Benavidez is a former journalist turned public relations and marketing professional who brings more than 25 years of experience to her role as Vice President of Communications and Strategy for VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. The local PRSA Chapter named her PR Professional of the Year in 2023 and in 2024 elected her President, to lead in 2025. She's a Rio Grande Valley native who has lived in San Antonio since 2008, with roles a...2025-04-1554 min
Moms of FlavortownNEWS BREAK! Brooke Williamson and Bobby Flay DATING?????Send us a textDebbie (@waynesbasement) and Rachel (@rachelscbloor) could NOT wait until their next ep to talk about the breaking news that came out in People this week about TOC I winner Brooke Williamson dating FOOD NETWORK MEGABOSS Bobby Flay!Is Triple Threat just a polycule? Does Michael Voltaggio hang? Are things getting weird? Did Bobby watch The Hills???? We discuss it all.People Article:Bobby Flay and Food Network Costar Brooke Williamson are Dating: 'Love Bloomed' (Source)Bobby Asked Out Kristin Cavallari????Bobby Flay’s new ro...2025-03-2707 min
Build Momentum for Education - K-12 Superintendent SeriesS05E10 - The Superintendent Lab | Dr. Rachel White, University of Texas at AustinIn this episode of Build Momentum, we are joined by Dr. Rachel White, Founder and Lead Researcher at The Superintendent Lab, a hub for data, research, insights, and innovation on the public school district superintendency. She is currently the Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. White has also taught at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Old Dominion University and has served as a school board member and volunteer coach at Van Wert City Schools in Ohio. She is a member of the University Council for Education Administration, the...2025-03-1336 min
Reflector ReflectionsEP85: 5/1 Reflector Journeys: Embracing Energy and Transformation with Rachel WilliamsonIn today’s episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Rachel Williamson, a fellow 5/1 Reflector with a Left Angle Cross of Upheaval. We explored our Human Design journeys, life experiences, and the unique challenges and opportunities of living as Reflectors.
Rachel shared her path from a career in Social Work to transitioning into Counselling and Kinesiology and how she has and is learning to embrace her Reflector energy. We discussed the importance of grounding, self-awareness, and adapting to life’s flow. She also opened up about her experiences as a parent, managing energy dynamics, and learning to t...2024-12-1639 min
The Roll ReportClassin' Up The Joint with Steampunkette / Rachel WilliamsonThe delightful RACHEL WILLIAMSON aka STEAMPUNKETTE joins Colin to talk about A5e/Level Up, why psionic powers are the coolest, and the growth of the D&D community since the early 1990’s. Plus amazing 3rd party D&D content!
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The Roll Report is: Colin (DM), Ben (Yorick), and Kaya (Rivulet Starfish). Our Audio Producer is Uriah Findle...2024-10-241h 32
It’s F*cking Spiritual: Manifestation, Men, & Money150: Marianne Williamson Part 2Today, we welcome back Marianne Williamson to the podcast to continue the conversation, as a follow-up from our first episode!
If you caught our first interview, you already know Marianne is a legend in the spiritual world, with over 16 books to her name, including four #1 New York Times Bestsellers. This time, we dive even deeper into her latest book The Mystic Jesus, exploring how it brings a fresh perspective on spirituality in today’s world.
I'm honored to interview her twice for the show, and I'm excited to share wi...2024-10-0256 minIt’s F*cking Spiritual: Manifestation, Men, & Money148: Forgiveness, Miracles, and Returning to Love with Marianne WilliamsonIn this episode, I have the honor to sit down with Marianne Williamson, one of greatest spiritual leaders of our time, and one of the most influential teachers I’ve had on the path of my own evolution.
Throughout the last four decades, Marianne has authored over 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times Bestsellers. In this episode we discuss her latest book, The Mystic Jesus, and how we can create miracles in our lives through returning to loving consciousness.
We answer questions like:
...2024-09-181h 05
Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path to a Happy and Healthy LifeReconnecting with Love and Healing: Marianne Williamson on Soul Recovery and Spiritual TransformationSend one way text to Rev Rachel I’m excited to share this special episode with Marianne Williamson, a beloved teacher of A Course in Miracles, as we dive deep into the foundations of Soul Recovery. Together, we explore the profound transformation that comes from letting go of judgment, choosing love over fear, and embracing forgiveness as a path to true spiritual healing. Marianne offers beautiful insights into how our grievance and attack thoughts keep us stuck, and how healing begins with love and connection.She speaks to the challenge of living a spiritual life in...2024-09-0954 min
K-12 Food Rescue: A Food Waste Solution PodcastMaryland K-12 Food Rescue School Food Waste Solution Leader Rachel NiListen to the inspiring story of Rachel Ni, who recently graduated from Centennial HS in Maryland. Rachel noticed food was being wasted at an alarming rate, and she took action.
Listen to her and her team's testimony at the 5:06 mark of the link below at a board of education meeting.
https://hcpsstv.v3.swagit.com/videos/2706042024-09-0313 min
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityParenting without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World: Discipling Our Kids with Jesus' Truth and Love by Rachel GilsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/807361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parenting without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World: Discipling Our Kids with Jesus' Truth and Love Author: Rachel Gilson Narrator: Rachel Gilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 1, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Helps parents to teach young children what the Bible says about sexuality proactively and positively in a culture with contrasting ideas and values. As Christian parents, we long to equip our kids as they venture out into a culture where LGBT is affirmed and celebrated. We want them to know what God says, and t...2024-09-0105 min
The Rachel Jay PodcastCreating Unstoppable Success with Award Winning Entrepreneur Jess WilliamsonThis week’s chat is such a gem! I’m sitting down with the lovely Jess Williamson, award winning entrepreneur, business and mindset coach, podcaster and author of Unstoppable Success.
Having scaled several businesses, including her first business, a swimwear brand that showcased at New York Fashion Week just one week after launching online, Jess draws from her wealth of knowledge and experience creating businesses to help women do the same through coaching and mentoring.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make Jess’s Melbourne book launch but I’m so happy we got to sit down a...2024-05-2051 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 30: How to get people to switch from cash to digitalSometimes it takes out of the box thinking to get people to make the move from cash to digital money.
And if there is one person who has had to think deeply around this issue, it’s Jojo Malolos, currently the CEO of Philippines payment service PayMongo and before that founded digital bank GoTyme.
But so many people start the journey at the easy bit, in the middle: how to get people who already have money to use cards or digital wallets. Jojo starts at the much more difficult extreme, with people who are unbanked bec...2024-05-1527 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 30: How to get people to switch from cash to digitalSometimes it takes out of the box thinking to get people to make the move from cash to digital money.
And if there is one person who has had to think deeply around this issue, it’s Jojo Malolos, currently the CEO of Philippines payment service PayMongo and before that founded digital bank GoTyme.
But so many people start the journey at the easy bit, in the middle: how to get people who already have money to use cards or digital wallets. Jojo starts at the much more difficult extreme, with people who are unbanked bec...2024-05-1527 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 29: Hot takes from Money20/20 AsiaThe team from Breaking Banks Asia meet forward thinkers to sum up last week’s Money 20/20 Asia conference with a focus on the investment outlook for startups and fintechs, the key themes coming out of the conference and how banks and their competitors are teaming up to innovate.
Guests:
– Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Money20/20
– Dennis Pratistha, Chief Investment Officer, Mandiri Capital Indonesia
– Tim Poskitt, Fintech Managing Director – APAC, Startupbootcamp
Produced by Rachel Williamson and Charis Palmer, with sound engineering by Kevin Hirshorn.
2024-05-0221 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 29: Hot takes from Money20/20 AsiaThe team from Breaking Banks Asia meet forward thinkers to sum up last week’s Money 20/20 Asia conference with a focus on the investment outlook for startups and fintechs, the key themes coming out of the conference and how banks and their competitors are teaming up to innovate.
Guests:
– Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Money20/20
– Dennis Pratistha, Chief Investment Officer, Mandiri Capital Indonesia
– Tim Poskitt, Fintech Managing Director – APAC, Startupbootcamp
Produced by Rachel Williamson and Charis Palmer, with sound engineering by Kevin Hirshorn.
2024-05-0221 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 28: What will kill cash? Part IIIn this second part of our series on cash, cards and digital wallets, we shift our focus to the challenges and opportunities of an entirely digital payments world and look to the innovation happening beyond consumer payments.
We start with the legacy of India’s controversial 2016 demonetisation program, explore the role of central banks in cutting back cash, and investigate the future of cross border payments, where things are heating up.
Guests:
Monica Jasuja, Ambassador, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Anthony Thomas, Non-executive Chairman, MoMo; MD, Fintech, Delivery Hero
Brad Prag...2024-04-1724 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 28: What will kill cash? Part IIIn this second part of our series on cash, cards and digital wallets, we shift our focus to the challenges and opportunities of an entirely digital payments world and look to the innovation happening beyond consumer payments.
We start with the legacy of India’s controversial 2016 demonetisation program, explore the role of central banks in cutting back cash, and investigate the future of cross border payments, where things are heating up.
Guests:
Monica Jasuja, Ambassador, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Anthony Thomas, Non-executive Chairman, MoMo; MD, Fintech, Delivery Hero
Brad Prag...2024-04-1724 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 27: “Don’t be a dick”Debanking is a real problem for fintechs operating in Australia. Local companies and foreign intrants alike are not immune to a 30-minutes-to-midnight text saying “your accounts will be closed from tomorrow”.
Stuart Stoyan, founder of Moneyplace and former chair of Fintech Australia, is in no mood for making nice after five years of inaction from governments and regulators and feeling the humiliation himself of being told you can’t be trusted with your customers’ money, or data.
We discuss who’s been broken up with via text and ghosted, the chilling effect on doing business as a fintech...2024-03-2821 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 27: “Don’t be a dick”Debanking is a real problem for fintechs operating in Australia. Local companies and foreign intrants alike are not immune to a 30-minutes-to-midnight text saying “your accounts will be closed from tomorrow”.
Stuart Stoyan, founder of Moneyplace and former chair of Fintech Australia, is in no mood for making nice after five years of inaction from governments and regulators and feeling the humiliation himself of being told you can’t be trusted with your customers’ money, or data.
We discuss who’s been broken up with via text and ghosted, the chilling effect on doing business as a fintech...2024-03-2821 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 26: What will kill cash?In Part 1 of this two-part show we explore the resilience of cash for payments.
From cards and digital wallets to superapps and digital currency, we ask the experts what’s the killer app to kill cash in Asia, and what would mass uptake of global digital payments mean for financial inclusion in our region.
Guests:
Anthony Thomas, MoMo
Jason Bryce, Cash Welcome
Brad Pragnell, 34 South 45 North
Monica Jasuja, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Produced by Charis Palmer and Rachel Williamson with sound engineering by Kevin Hirshorn. Music...2024-03-1928 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 26: What will kill cash?In Part 1 of this two-part show we explore the resilience of cash for payments.
From cards and digital wallets to superapps and digital currency, we ask the experts what’s the killer app to kill cash in Asia, and what would mass uptake of global digital payments mean for financial inclusion in our region.
Guests:
Anthony Thomas, MoMo
Jason Bryce, Cash Welcome
Brad Pragnell, 34 South 45 North
Monica Jasuja, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Produced by Charis Palmer and Rachel Williamson with sound engineering by Kevin Hirshorn. Music...2024-03-1928 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 25: Untangling Filipinos’ complicated financial livesThere’s a story told by the World Bank that in 2009 more people in the Philippines had a mobile phone than a bank account – despite there still being some 450 rural banks alone in the country. Today, that story might be apocryphal and it also doesn’t mean Filipinos don’t have incredibly complex financial lives as GCash, employer loans, remittances, cash, and QR payments might all be used for income within a single family.
Netbank cofounder and Philippines banking and fintech investor Gus Poston says organising and simplifying the complicated patchwork of Filipinos’ financial realities is one of the bigg...2024-02-2721 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 25: Untangling Filipinos’ complicated financial livesThere’s a story told by the World Bank that in 2009 more people in the Philippines had a mobile phone than a bank account – despite there still being some 450 rural banks alone in the country. Today, that story might be apocryphal and it also doesn’t mean Filipinos don’t have incredibly complex financial lives as GCash, employer loans, remittances, cash, and QR payments might all be used for income within a single family.
Netbank cofounder and Philippines banking and fintech investor Gus Poston says organising and simplifying the complicated patchwork of Filipinos’ financial realities is one of the bigg...2024-02-2721 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 23: Will banking as a service trump core banking?Banks replacing their core banking has been likened to ‘doing brain surgery with a spoon’ and there are plenty of public examples where the surgery partly or completely failed.Is Banking As A Service a new pathway for banks struggling with aging core banking platforms?
We speak with Sachin Sharma, chief product and commercial officer at audax, the BAAS spinoff from Standard Chartered Ventures, on why the bank spun out a BAAS service, why he thinks banks should consider it, and the benefits BAAS offers for banks looking to reach a new customer base via embedded finance.
Produced by Rachel William...2024-02-1332 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 23: Will banking as a service trump core banking?Banks replacing their core banking has been likened to ‘doing brain surgery with a spoon’ and there are plenty of public examples where the surgery partly or completely failed.Is Banking As A Service a new pathway for banks struggling with aging core banking platforms?
We speak with Sachin Sharma, chief product and commercial officer at audax, the BAAS spinoff from Standard Chartered Ventures, on why the bank spun out a BAAS service, why he thinks banks should consider it, and the benefits BAAS offers for banks looking to reach a new customer base via embedded finance.
Produced by Rachel William...2024-02-1332 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 22: Orwellian dystopia or sci-fi future? Australia grapples with a digital IDA bill to introduce a digital ID is making its way through the Australian Parliament to better protect government-based identities and stem the flow of consumer data from insecure vaults. Bank-based digital identity verifications systems are already operating and international companies are, with government blessings, setting up shop in the country.
But the true question will be can anyone convince sceptical Australians that this isn't the much-feared "national ID"? And will ideas like singling out First Nations people to link their Aboriginality to this ID just allow the same conservatives who tried to torch digital health records do the same w...2024-02-0627 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 22: Orwellian dystopia or sci-fi future? Australia grapples with a digital IDA bill to introduce a digital ID is making its way through the Australian Parliament to better protect government-based identities and stem the flow of consumer data from insecure vaults. Bank-based digital identity verifications systems are already operating and international companies are, with government blessings, setting up shop in the country.
But the true question will be can anyone convince sceptical Australians that this isn't the much-feared "national ID"? And will ideas like singling out First Nations people to link their Aboriginality to this ID just allow the same conservatives who tried to torch digital health records do the same w...2024-02-0627 min
Breaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 21: What does 2024 hold for fintech in China?2024 is shaping up as the Year of the e-CNY, but can China be trusted with a global reserve CBDC? Our last guest Richard Holden says no. Cashless author Richard Turrin offers a full-throated reply, saying the rise of the digital Yuan is a lack of trust in the US dollar and how the US uses its power.
We also discuss how formalised data markets will change how fintechs obtain and use data, and how 2024 will be the year when Chinese fintech products and services will continue their slow global expansion.
Produced by Rachel Williamson and Charis Palmer, with sound engineering by...2024-01-3025 minBreaking Banks Asia PacificEpisode 21: What does 2024 hold for fintech in China?2024 is shaping up as the Year of the e-CNY, but can China be trusted with a global reserve CBDC? Our last guest Richard Holden says no. Cashless author Richard Turrin offers a full-throated reply, saying the rise of the digital Yuan is a lack of trust in the US dollar and how the US uses its power.
We also discuss how formalised data markets will change how fintechs obtain and use data, and how 2024 will be the year when Chinese fintech products and services will continue their slow global expansion.
Produced by Rachel Williamson and Charis Palmer, with sound engineering by...2024-01-3025 min
Military Veterans PodcastViewpoint 17: Rachel WilliamsonFull Episode: Ep 017 - SAC Rachel Williamson from 10th October 2021.In this Viewpoint: Rachel talks about her journey in becoming team captain for Team UK at the Invictus Games The Hague 2020. She was the first female team captain for Team UK at any of the Invictus games.She also shares how she is coping with her injuries and gives some great advice for others either joining the military or about to leave.Watch Full Episode on YouTube:Part 1: youtu.be/yg58dgRd_-kPart 2:...2024-01-2025 min