Archive for March, 2022

The Road LessTraveled

Posted in electric bikes on March 28, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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For many years, Kat Woirol had a great job with General Electric in Human Relations. “It was a great ride,” she admits. “But after 25 years I was definitely looking for a different path to follow”  All she knew was that in her next act, she wanted to work for herself.  And was determined to quit commuting thru Atlanta’s notorious traffic jams. 

She dreamed of riding a bike to work.  So why not own an electric bike shop, in Atlanta itself? And that’s what led her to Pedego. “We found a spot inside the beltline,” she smiles. “In the heart of the city”.  Right next to one of the many “rails to trails” projects that are moving people off the highways and onto the forgotten byways.  Allowing her to slow down a bit and build a business that spoke to her heart. While still allowing her the freedom to ride home and be there when her 8 year old kid’s school bus arrives.  Becoming a trailblazer (and an eBike entrepreneur) along the way. With everything she ever dreamed of (and more).  All of which she gleefully shares on this week’s PEDEGO PODCAST.

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How losing her parents lead her to volunteering

Posted in charities, non-profits on March 26, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Monica loses both her parents to pancreatic cancer, first her mother and later her father.  Her mother wasn’t given many options – either chemo or let nature take its course.  With the low survival rate the decision made was to let nature take its course.  Monica being a researcher googled pancreatic cancer and found a chat group.  After reading a few stories posted by family members, Monica felt her mother had been given a death sentence.  After losing her mother in 2003 she continued to do research but found nothing was really being done.  She joined the PanCAN Albuquerque, New Mexico Affiliate in 2012 after attending her first PurpleLight. Monica always loved to volunteer, pancreatic cancer ended up choosing her mother and that lead her into the direction of volunteering with PanCAN.  Monica is the Social Media Chair of the Michigan Affiliate and has also served as the Advocacy Chair.  The first thing she tells people she meets who have been diagnosed or their family members is to contact PanCAN.  “I’d let them know there is hope not to give up, different things going.”  Monica feels going to Advocacy Day and sharing your stories with members of congress is very empowering.  It’s important our representative know “My mother was just not a statistic, she was not a number she was a real person.”  Monica was completely blindsided when she found out her dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer some years later.  Her father had seen what his wife and gone through so he was a little more aware and his was found earlier.  His symptoms were different, jaundice, itchy skin, he was able to have the whipple but sadly died less than a year later.  Monica hasn’t really come to terms yet in losing her father, she is still  mourning  her mother.  Losing both parents to pancreatic cancer Monica is more involved and invested in the fight against pancreatic cancer.  Quoting one of her favorite researcher, Dr Howard Crawford “It can be bent.”  Monica’s goal is to raise as much awareness, keep her mothers legacy alive, “I don’t want her to ever be forgotten and she won’t be forgotten through me or the work that I do.”

This episode of Living Hope is dedicated to Monica’s mother Ranjana Upadhyaya “MAA”

You can reach Monica through the affiliate facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2095769850634842

or email mmishra@pancanvolunteer.org

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Entrepreneurship IS All Fun & Games!

Posted in Business on March 25, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Summary

On this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, host Will Crist sits down with Josh Abbott, General Manager of Fun Productions. Josh’s parents founded Fun Productions nearly 30 years ago and grew it into the successful business it is today. Almost five years ago, Fun Productions implemented EOS and quickly experienced many of the benefits that come with the EOS Life. Throughout the episode, Will and Josh discuss the EOS Life, having fun at work, and much more!

 

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Shownotes

(0:28) Introducing Josh Abbott and Fun Productions

(3:48) How EOS Affected the Business

(9:43) The EOS Life

(12:58) The Great Contribution

(16:27) Compensating Appropriately

(20:50) Supporting Employees’ Passions

(25:24) Making Your Business Attractive to Talent

(31:59) EOS Predictions

(35:39) Getting Permission to Have Fun with Your Company

(42:42) Closing Thoughts

Links

Will Crist

EOS 

Josh Abbott

Fun Productions  

Quotes

“We were able to start working on the business and not just in the business, whereas I think pre-EOS we were very reactionary.” (6:07) – Josh Abbott

 

“For a very long time, [we waited] for people to ask for raises, and if they asked for a raise [we would] assess and give them a raise. But what we found was there were folks out there who are not going to ask for a raise, and they may start to feel resentment around the fact that they haven’t been offered a raise.” (16:42) – Josh Abbott

 

“We put out ads for one [open position]—we were just looking for one person last year. And I think we ended up turning [the ad off] after we got 35 applications in four days.” (29:24) – Josh Abbott

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Irish Eyes are Smiling

Posted in electric bikes on March 21, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Hear how Peggy Taylor from St. Louis found the proverbial pot o’ gold at the end of her rainbow (in the shape of an eBike).  One year after her heart gave out and forced into a frightening heart transplant.  With two bad knees (and few prospects for every getting out in the world again). Until her Irish luck kicked in and led her to a Pedego electric bike store. Where (despite her fear) she found herself up and riding again.  And now can’t stop pedaling. Racking up over 2500 miles in her first year since buying her eBike.  With a daily pace (weather permitting) of 30 miles/day.  A heartwarming tale about “Peg O’ My Heart” on this special St. Patrick’s Day edition of the Pedego Podcast. 

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Leading Your Team to Success Instead of Burnout

Posted in Business on March 18, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Summary

On this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, host Will Crist sits down with Derek Gerber, Senior Vice President of Explainify. Over the last year, Derek has been implementing the EOS system at Explainify, and the results have been nothing short of impressive. Their discussion covers the changing video landscape, the EOS Life, and how EOS has affected Explainify.

 

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Shownotes

(0:37) Introducing Derek Gerber and Explainify

(3:38) How Video Has Changed during the Pandemic

(11:19) The EOS Life and Explainify

(18:01) How Explanify Is Making the World a Better Place

(21:04) Appropriate Compensation

(22:23) Derek’s Other Passions

(24:12) Implementing EOS at Explainify

(30:00) Value, Compensation, and Viewing Employees as Human Beings

(43:10) Closing Thoughts

Links

Will Crist

EOS 

Derek Gerber

Explainify  

Quotes

“After implementing EOS over the past year, we continue to grow. It has onboarded our team members in a much more effective way, and then it also shows them that burnout is not a celebrated, award-winning opportunity here. We don’t do that. We work to openly communicate and create transparency and trust across each department.” (17:18) – Derek Gerber

“A year ago, when we were growing quickly at a state of point, we put out a couple of job applications. We had four applicants over six weeks—at a time where we needed to hire people very quickly. Now, [after implementing EOS] we had 600 applications in four days, and we had to shut it down.” (41:40) – Derek Gerber

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From the Classroom to the Bookshelf

Posted in book publishing, Business on March 18, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Whether you have aspirations of being an author or helping authors achieve their book publishing dream, the path to publishing is never a straight line.

In this episode of the Pub Date podcast, Dr. Jen Dorsey and Vanessa Campos talk with Maria Dismondy on her journey to becoming a publisher. Maria started out in the classroom years before writing ten books. She loved getting powerful messages into the world through realistic fiction and saw a need to have more diverse books for children. So much that she began Cardinal Rule Press in 2015. There Maria uses her experiences as an award-winning author to work with writers on getting their messages into the world. She takes pride in mentoring Cardinal Rule Press authors and offering a customized marketing campaign that her team coordinates and implements.

Learn more about Cardinal Rule Press here: https://cardinalrulepress.com/

Follow them on social media:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-Txy1Kgq4P_ZztrrQrqzg

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cardinalrulepress/

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Produced by OC Talk Radio at UCI Beall Applied Innovation

Producer: Paul Roberts, founder of OC Talk Radio

Executive Producer: Emily Carpenter-Pulskamp of Little Red Communications

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Selling eBikes in Silicon Valley

Posted in electric bikes on March 14, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Meet the entrepreneur selling eBikes in the heart of Silicon Valley, Jeff Scanlan, who opened Pedego Menlo Park (right across from Stanford University). Who after years in the area in various business development roles for hospital supplies, technology supply chain management services and even local and national non-profit organizations like the Leukemia Society decided to try a different path.  But one with a similar mission: to make an impact in his community by “delivering critical services to large segments of our country’s population, whose needs would otherwise go unmet.”  One ride at a time (this time).

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Can I Develop My Idea Into A Book?

Posted in book publishing, Business on March 14, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Is Your Idea a Book? Sometimes a small idea can become a much bigger conversation (55k words or more of conversation) and other times it’s more of a blog post. On this episode of the Pub Date Podcast, Dr. Jen Dorsey and Vanessa Campos share how the rhetorical triangle can help you answer the question, “is my idea enough for a book?”

This is the step you MUST take before having the book talk with people in publishing. It’s so important that we developed a course to help you master the book proposal–even if you’re not planning on pitching your book to the big publishers.

Start your publishing journey with a little help from the book broads: https://www.broadbookgroup.com/bbg-publishing-school 

 

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About the Write A Winning Book Proposal Course:

This course gives you the roadmap you need to craft and position a winning proposal. We help you put it all together to make your publishing dreams a reality. You will learn how to:

  • Create your elevator pitch

  • Showcase your writing skills with chapter summaries

  • Integrate your book in your business with a solid marketing plan

  • Set yourself apart with a strong author bio and platform

  • Bring it all together with an editing checklist

 

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Negotiations Are like Relationships

Posted in Business on March 11, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Summary

In this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, Will Crist sits down with Christine McKay, CEO of Venn Negotiation. Christine is one of the world’s best negotiators, and her resume speaks for itself. She’s helped nearly half of the Fortune 500 companies as well as several hundred small and mid-sized businesses. Together, Christine and Will discuss negotiating in today’s world, embracing emotions to improve negotiation skills, and changing the world with the EOS model.

 

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Shownotes

(0:19) Introducing Christine McKay, Venn Negotiation

(1:21) What’s Happening in the World of Negotiation?

(4:47) Seeing Others’ Humanity during Negotiations

(11:10) Scarcity vs. Abundance

(19:19) Don’t Be Afraid of Emotions!

(26:34) Freedom Starts with ‘No’

(31:25) EOS Can Change the World 

(45:29) Closing Thoughts

Links

Will Crist

EOS 

Christine McKay 

Venn Negotiation 

Quotes

“If we don’t create an environment that allows us to have hard conversations about the state of our relationship in business—or even in our personal lives—then at the end of the day, we’re not going to be successful.” (3:36) – Christine McKay

 

“We’ve created a culture where the fear of loss is greater than the hope for gain. How sad is that when there’s so much gain that we can hope for, when there’s so many possibilities.” (18:33) – Christine McKay

“What do you think it would be like if, by the time we hit our ten-year target, you had 100% of the people in this organization living the EOS life or have a path to it? What do you think that would do for the attraction of new people, retention of your best people, and motivation for everybody?” (39:13) – Will Crist

 

“Making money is not the most important thing. That has brought us to our knees, and we’re struggling with that.” (46:15) – Will Crist

 

“Negotiation is a conversation. It’s a conversation about your relationships, and you can’t win relationships. So, stop trying to win them—work on building them and growing them…Create that space that allows not only for you to grow, but for your counterparts to grow too.” (47:25) – Christine McKay

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Cowtown Party Bikes (and Pedego eBikes)

Posted in electric bikes on March 7, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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If you’ve ever wondered “what comes next?” hear the amazing journey of Vicki and Neal Peden, who went from a career in real radio (where she was the News Director for a big radio station in Dallas and he was the Chief Engineer). To hanging up their headphones and heading in a totally different direction as the founders of Cowtown Cycle Party, a 16-person BYOB party bike that’s like a big bar on wheels. 

A path that eventually led them to eBikes as well, as they opened a complimentary Pedego Electric Bike store for the many others who wanted to ride along on their many guided trips thru the famous Ft. Worth stockyards (and their daily cattle drives). And all the bars and BBQ joints for which Dallas and Ft. Worth are famous. 

A truly a wild ride down one of the many “roads less traveled” for these modern day cowboys and eBike Entrepreneurs.  For whom “fun” is an everyday part of their vocabulary (along with “yee haw” and “y’all come”).

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