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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

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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/

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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

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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Will work for FUN

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

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Meet Ted Duley, who after a 50 year career in the insurance industry found a new way to work (for fun this time fun) as organizer of the Sacramento Pedego Owners Group (and moderator of their Facebook page). Using the skills he’d acquired as a Sr. VP of Operations, he quickly recruited 71 new members to the group and organized 29 group rides for a total of 2,567 miles. As Ted says, “Having just retired I wasn’t looking for work, but when I purchased my Pedego and discovered how much fun this could be, I just couldn’t help myself from bringing others along for the ride”. Adding a new line to his long and successful resume, “willing to work for fun”.

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Run Your Business Without Ruining Your Life

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

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Where There’s a Will There’s a Way, Will Crist sits down with Dawn Abbot to discuss EOS implementation. Dawn is an entrepreneur, business owner, and Professional EOS Implementer, and she is passionate about helping small businesses become the best version of themselves. The duo discusses all five elements of the EOS Life, Dawn’s entrepreneurial journey, and why they think EOS has the power to change the world.

Thanks for tuning in!

Shownotes

(0:31) Introducing Dawn Abbott and Her EOS Journey

(4:47) Dawn’s Experience as an EOS Implementer

(6:10) Prioritizing Employees

(17:13) Living with Purpose/Defining Your Why

(21:00) Appropriate Compensation/Providing Value

(25:30) Supporting Employees’ Passions

(29:39) Changing the World with EOS

(36:24) Closing Thoughts

Links

Will Crist

Dawn Abbott

Quotes

“When I was in a place where I didn’t know that I could run this business by myself, what actually happened from 2017 to 2019 was a 30% revenue increase and a 260% net profit increase. And it was all because of the EOS process.” (4:15) – Dawn Abbott

“I love seeing the impact that EOS has. I love small-business owners…and I am saddened when they’re on that treadmill that I once ran.” (5:04) – Dawn Abbott

“If [employees are] the most valuable assets, why would we ever want them to be less than? Why would we ever want to not take care of them?” (8:30) – Dawn Abbott

“When you’re doing what you love and things that come easily and naturally to you, your energy is high and your production and output is crazy because you’re in your zone. And the minute you have to drop down and do things that you don’t like doing, you can never bring your energy back up that day.” (12:54) – Dawn Abbott

“It’s a beautiful thing to be able to have a full, rich life that contains more than just the grind.” (38:06) – Dawn Abbott

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What to expect and why clinical trial participation is safe

Posted in charities, non-profits on February 22, 2022 by OC Talk Radio

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Tori Larrick, Patient Service Manager with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network guides us through clinical trials, what to expect and why clinical trial participation is safe. Tori encourages anyone considering clinical trials to feel comfortable with reaching out to Patient Services and asking questions. The first step is to feel free to contact PanCAN Patient Services. They’re happy to talk through any fears or concerns before making a decision.

You can reach out to them on the website pancan.org, call 877-2-PANCAN or email patientservices@pancan.org

This episode of Living Hope is dedicated to our Caregivers. Caregivers are important to the Survivor’s journey. We thank our Caregivers and want you to know you are not alone, we are here for you. Regardless of where you are as a Caregiver you can reach out and speak with a Patient Service Case Manager and also ask to be connected with another Caregiver to share experiences.

Clarification on what is the Institutional Review Board: An IRB consists of at least five members of varying and diverse backgrounds. IRB members should have the professional experience to provide appropriate scientific and ethical review. An IRB must have at least one scientist member and at least one member whose primary concerns are nonscientific.

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