Data Reveal

Mark Fedeli, Courtney Hastings and Andrew Churchill

Data Reveal is a podcast about why data is remaking our world in its digital image. It explores data literacy and perceptions about data, unique use cases of data analytics across market sectors, and the role of next-level alliances to protect the free world from autocratic regimes. read less
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S1Ep02. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Aug 25 2021
S1Ep02. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
๐Ÿ‘‰ Reflection and activation: 20 years after 9/11. 00:35๐Ÿง Politics is a profound tension, a tension between competing ideals and values. 01:20๐Ÿ’ฌ Data related to domestic violent extremism.03:12๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome, Dr. Daveed! 04:15๐Ÿค” DVEโ€™s are a growing challenge and wrong usage of data. 06:06 ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Daveed and Mark โ€˜metโ€™ via a counterterrorism blog in 2005. 08:59๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Markโ€™s experience on 9/11 and the vivid memories that have lasted. 6:48๐Ÿ›๏ธ Andrew was at a conference in Baltimore with the Social Security Administration and his work with the government after 9/11. 11:06โœŒ๏ธ Courtney was a senior in college and eventually began working on interoperability issues that caused the death of so many first responders during 9/11. 12:16โš–๏ธ Daveed was in law school at NYU, and 9/11 interrupted the course of his life and career. 13:096๏ธโƒฃ A positive outlook: Six things that have gone right tactically after 9/11/2001. 16:15๐Ÿ“ฑ Post January 6th: the maturation of technologically empowered mobilization. 21:11๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Social media can be used to not only mobilize movements quickly but also to predict actions and help prevent them. 25:12โ†”๏ธ Daveedโ€™s papers and overviews of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism and the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement. 26:30๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Militant anti-fascists and anarchists in the United States and predictions for the future. 29:46โ— Drifting to extremes: Our reactions are immediate and based on scant information on social media. 31:44๐Ÿค“ The quality of the information we all receive: basic critical thinking skills and media literacy are crucial now. 35:39Articles mentioned:https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/skinheads-saints-and-national-socialists/https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/behind-the-black-bloc/Connect with Daveed:https://valensglobal.com/who-we-are/#teamhttps://www.fdd.org/issue/domestic-extremism/Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep03. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Inclusive Nationalism with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross part 2
Sep 8 2021
S1Ep03. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Inclusive Nationalism with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross part 2
โš ๏ธ Reflection after 20 years of 9/11: We are at a time of profound tension. 00:36 ๐Ÿค” We need outside-of-the-box thinking, but a controversial view of virtually anything in 2021 can cost you your job and professional status, and that is not healthy. 03:30 ๐Ÿ—ฝ Buiding inclusive nationalism and challenges around it: It's important that we have a national identity that we're proud of. 06:01 ๐Ÿค“ Moving forward: the raising of the right values, reducing polarization, diversity, openness within generations, and what are the KPIs? 09:41 ๐Ÿ˜‡ KPIs for measuring inclusive nationalism: A sense of national pride and acceptance of people with different views. 12:57 ๐Ÿ”Š US-ness as a critical KPI: the noise of data surrounding us is a big challenge to overcome. 15:27๐ŸŒž We need hope, for an inclusive future, for our nation. 18:03 ๐Ÿ™Œ Takeaways: Ownership, humanizing others, and taking other opinions in. 20:45 ๐ŸคฉTransactional is not the same thing as transcendent. Togetherness isn't just some handout. 25:46๐Ÿ‘‰ Connect with Daveed:https://valensglobal.com/who-we-are/#teamhttps://www.fdd.org/issue/domestic-extremism/๐Ÿ“ฐ Daveedโ€™s Articles:https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/skinheads-saints-and-national-socialists/https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/behind-the-black-bloc/๐Ÿ‘ Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. ๐Ÿ™ƒ Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli โ˜€๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill ๐Ÿค“ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep04. An Inflection Point in Data with Chris Wilson
Sep 22 2021
S1Ep04. An Inflection Point in Data with Chris Wilson
Welcome, Chris. 02:20Chrisโ€™s career journey: Joined the army, his time in active duty, and his work with the Threat Reduction Agenecy.03:29Going to Stratcom, the Missile Defense Agency, USSTRATCOM, and the Qlick Federal team.06:12Defense industrial base manufacturers ensure supply chains because any issue can cause an immediate impact on real-world missions.  08:36Experiencing 9/11 at a Superfund site and his unitโ€™s work.10:26Impactful things after 9/11: the communication expedition for data and communication between federal agencies and across different systems. 15:19How do you measure interoperability: being able to communicate with the data in different mission sets. 19:51Having everyone operating from a single source of truth is crucial. 21:50How do we protect individual rights while protecting the sovereignty of the nation and society as a collective? 24:07Importance of leadership in bringing data across the multitude of agencies systems and operational domains 30:32Are we at a point where we can visualize information in these sort of โ€˜war roomsโ€™ like in the movies? 34:05Two driving forces are the functionals leading up by highlighting what we don't know and top parts of government leading down by saying, โ€˜This is where we have to get to.โ€™ 36:30Suicide and sexual harassment prevention examples. 39:13Building teams around data and the role of the translator who sits between the data scientist and the business or mission owner. 44:21From a leadership standpoint if you're going to lead up you want translators on your team. 46:18Define success: what are you looking to achieve? 47:39Chrisโ€™ AHA moment: Key thing to touch on in the future is data literacy. 49:39Connect with Chris WilsonLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopher-wilson-pmp-45993a3Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep05. Trustworthy AI and Women in Data with Monica McEwen of Deloitte
Oct 6 2021
S1Ep05. Trustworthy AI and Women in Data with Monica McEwen of Deloitte
๐Ÿ‘‰ 9/11  was a turning point in the government's willingness to try and use data more effectively. 03:16๐Ÿ’ซ The pandemic has created a significant turn to data and cultural change within organizations. 04:32๐Ÿ‘” Requirements for data are now being driven much more by the business and not just IT today. 05:28 โณThere are so many new technologies that exist today that make data analytics more powerful.  08:05 ๐Ÿ’จ Moving to the cloud will enable agencies to move faster, remove technical barriers, and enable better data sharing, ultimately increasing the speed of decisions. 09:35๐Ÿค– There's a vast misunderstanding of AI: building a trustworthy AI pipeline and describing AI in a more tangible way to increase acceptance. 12:11โšก The world's going to change in the next five years, and AI will be at the center of it. 14:36๐Ÿคจ Challenges faced with large-scale implementations of AI and data in the federal government. 15:44๐Ÿšฆ Examples of using data and AI from Arizona and Las Vegas. 16:43๐Ÿ’ป About younger generations that are being raised with technology and STEM education. 18:20๐Ÿ˜‡ The gender gap in companies is going to close: The rise of women in technological fields. 22:01๐Ÿ“Š General inequity is being looked at more closely: Interesting use cases of data to drive change. 26:12๐Ÿ“ˆ Investing in explainable AI, having confidence in data models, and building foundations. 27:59๐Ÿญ Data integration across all the silos that exist and creating a centralized data fabric is critical. 30:12๐Ÿ™ƒ The next level of cognitive capability is coming. 31:51๐Ÿ™Œ All the use cases: from IT, through enterprise, government, defense, etc. 33:52๐ŸŽฟ Lesson: "Don't get too far over your skis" 35:251๏ธโƒฃ First step: let's get the data integrated to the point that we can get the data into the hands of the decision-makers. 37:58Connect with Monica McEwen: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/profiles/monica-mcewen.htmlConnect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep06. A New Self-Health Platform with Femi Ayanbadejo
Oct 20 2021
S1Ep06. A New Self-Health Platform with Femi Ayanbadejo
๐Ÿค How Mark and Femi met. 00:35๐Ÿ™ƒ Entrepreneurs, like Femi, give us a different way of looking at disruptions. 01:59๐Ÿˆ Femi is a former NFL player. 04:09โ˜ฏ๏ธ Blending Eastern and Western philosophy and, medicine to maximize his career. 05:174๏ธโƒฃ Four levers of self-health: Survival, information quality, awareness, and traditional health performance metrics. 07:17๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธHealth and emotions are connected: Struggling through anxiety with exercising. 10:09๐Ÿค— โ€œWe have the ability to heal others and heal ourselves. And when we don't, we ask for help.โ€ 10:51๐ŸŽฏ Take care of yourself and then of others: โ€œSelf-awareness, plus selflessness equals self-actualizationโ€ 13:48๐Ÿ– Five stages of survival: Survive, assess, learn, deploy, and share. 15:21๐Ÿค• Mental health drives everything, and non-addressed trauma creates deeper issues. 18:29๐Ÿ“ฑ HealthReel app: getting body composition assessment on any smart device and the holistic component. 20:57๐Ÿ‘† We normalize sub-optimal living but in reality, it's not normal. 26:01๐Ÿ‘Œ Femi has heard it all: myths and issues he is addressing in a 52-week health journey. 26:55๐Ÿ™… Giving people information, raw data without education, and entertainment value is not enough. 29:30๐Ÿ˜Ž Government, military, and corporate fitness all can be addressed with the app: b2b, b2c, and direct to consumer approach. 30:21๐Ÿ’š Breaking things down on a human level--not an occupational level--to help people be better. 34:17๐Ÿคฏ Preventing depression, obesity, suicide in the military with data from the HealthReel app. 38:14โš™๏ธ Focus on the NASA algorithm: body fat and corrected BMI. 40:27๐Ÿ“Š Data literacy and evolution of what types of metrics are acceptable. 41:04๐Ÿคฉ Empowerment for self-health, through data, is so exciting. 43:24๐Ÿ“ฑ How to get the app? 46:04 ๐Ÿ‘‰ Download HealthReel: www.healthreel.com๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep07. Creative Disruption for the Next Federal Workforce with Monica Breidenbach
Nov 3 2021
S1Ep07. Creative Disruption for the Next Federal Workforce with Monica Breidenbach
๐ŸŒŽ Changes in the data world. 02:46๐Ÿ‘‰ The great resignation and the talent war are not that surprising.  03:19๐Ÿ›๏ธ The federal government is the nation's largest employer. 04:53๐Ÿ“‹ A need for a centralized dashboard for both comparison and benchmarking purposes. 06:25๐Ÿ“ˆ Agencies are not using the same HR systems, and a generalized platform would be beneficial. 07:56๐Ÿค” How to bring a more diverse population into the workforce? 10:23๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป We need to grow and include more digital native Gen Zโ€™s into the government workforce. 12:47๐ŸŒŠ The wave of the future: being more flexible, allowing remote work, and understanding who Gen Zโ€™s really are. 16:20๐Ÿ‘ด โ€œMy grandfather's workplaceโ€: looking at the changes in the workforce throughout history and accepting the change. 19:15๐Ÿค“ Young people donโ€™t know where to apply for government jobs. 23:44๐Ÿงฑ Is entering the federal government a brick wall? 27:47โ–ถ๏ธ Andrew is hiring for roles in the Qlik team: the labor market is incredibly tight. 29:55๐Ÿฆพ Matrix structures vs. stifling outdated policies and criteria: creating new organizational structures 32:04๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ Are we identifying data literacy as a skill we need? 36:05โ“ How do we quantify data literacy and segment it? 39:14๐Ÿ– From hierarchical to viral or visual: Five things we all need. 42:46๐Ÿคฉ Monica wants to inspire individuals to serve a greater good. 44:48๐Ÿ”—Connect with Monica Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-breidenbach๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep08. Leadership Intuition and Readiness with Jim McHugh of BigBear.ai
Dec 1 2021
S1Ep08. Leadership Intuition and Readiness with Jim McHugh of BigBear.ai
โœ… Jim McHughโ€™s vast experience. 00:35๐Ÿค• Many government agencies are not ready for AI and ML solutions. 04:09๐Ÿ˜ณ Real visionaries get frustrated and burned out and resign. 06:38๐Ÿšš Supply chains are being rewritten. 07:44๐Ÿ‘” Not enough leaders are empowered. 11:58๐Ÿ‘‰ Supply management: a production, information, and financial flow. 13:10๐Ÿ”ง AI and ML is not a panacea for decision-making; it is a tool that can help. 15:19๐Ÿ•ด๏ธ Need to develop leadership intuition: relying too much on technology to make decisions. 18:50๐Ÿค” Understanding the ramifications of a decision before you make it. 21:15๐Ÿค“ Can we capture all of that intuition? 24:15๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆณ๐Ÿ‘จMultigenerational intuition: Get young people sitting alongside boomers. 25:31๐Ÿ’ก AI and ML are increasing confidence. 27:01๐Ÿ’ป Capturing the gut feel and information in boomers and putting it into the digital footprint. 27:59๐Ÿค Coaching and AI data as a perfect mix for the younger generations. 29:36๐Ÿฆ… The driver of change is progress: we have to push forward to make sure the USA is safe. 32:11๐Ÿ˜‡ Our interaction with data is critical: democratize data science and crowdsourcing. 34:32๐Ÿง Your data source has to be trusted. 36:20๐Ÿ˜Ž The wisdom of the crowds: Gen Z's are actively involved in crowdsourcing and reviews. 38:43๐Ÿฅณ A significant moment in the history of BigBear.ai. 41:27Connect with BigBear.ai:  https://bigbear.ai/Jim McHugh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmchugh/๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep09. Capitalism, Activism, and Motivation with Jere Simpson
Dec 15 2021
S1Ep09. Capitalism, Activism, and Motivation with Jere Simpson
๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ It's not good for capitalism to be filled with false information or even misleading marketing information. 00:35๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จJereโ€™s article, negligent behavior towards veterans, and his traumatic experience on 09/11. 03:31๐Ÿคฏ Taking care of veterans: Effective medicine is being pushed out. 08:40๐Ÿ˜ข The suicide rate of veterans is extremely high: 4000 suicides before Veteranโ€™s Day. 11:24๐Ÿค“ Studies about MDMA treatment and its effectiveness for helping with PTSD. 13:45๐Ÿ’Š Threat to finances and seeing shifts only when synthesizing herbal drugs is possible. 20:51โœŒ๏ธ People who are supporting MDMA treatments for veterans. 24:08๐Ÿ†š Competition between capitalism and activism. 25:28๐Ÿ˜จ Using the data, not the fear: what is the story of the data? 28:01๐Ÿ“‚ When data is not aligned with the process. 30:24๐Ÿ†™ Politics: when there is a will, there is a way. 32:29๐Ÿ—ฝ The decision room with all parties involved in the issue: ideas are part of our functioning democracy. 33:54๐ŸŒ Are we using the ground truth to make a decision: Data updates, quality, and handling until it gets into the decision-making room. 36:07๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ Connecting data in one click and solving data loops. 41:07๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ Getting help is needed to get through traumatic experiences. 42:19๐Ÿชœ Crossing the last bridge of efficiency: a shift from scarcity to abundance. 46:43Connect with Jere: www.linkedin.com/in/jeresimpsonRead Jereโ€™s article Iโ€™m Not OK: www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-ok-need-help-veteransokday-jere-l-simpson-1c๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep10. Uniting the Financial Crimes Community to Protect Vulnerable Populations with Ian Mitchell
Jan 5 2022
S1Ep10. Uniting the Financial Crimes Community to Protect Vulnerable Populations with Ian Mitchell
๐Ÿ˜ฑ Huge issues Ian is dealing with: 25 million people in human trafficking. $63 billion lost in unemployment scams. 02:25๐ŸŽฏ Human Crime: fighting fraud since he was 28, Ian believes we all can get involved in solving these issues.๐Ÿคซ The financial intelligence community deals in secrets to find fraudsters, terrorists, and money launderers. 03:19๐Ÿ’ธ The neural bank networks detect anomalous behaviors and fight fraud: Ian started in the risk management world. 06:57๐ŸฅŠ Working on the cyber front, sharing infrastructure, data, and fighting fraud, money laundering, and financial crimes. 10:07๐Ÿ™Œ Burned out, focused on recording music; Ian met Matt Friedman, and The Knoble was born. 12:15๐Ÿคฏ The mission of Ianโ€™s nonprofit is to awaken, equip and deploy noble people into the fight of fighting human crime: The Super Bowl project and innovation. 15:59๐Ÿ”— Interconnectivity between small frauds and scams: an example involving money moving to human trafficking rings.  22:22๐Ÿ˜Ÿ Human trafficking:  labor trafficking and sex trafficking 25:27๐Ÿง Online sexual exploitation of children has gone up exponentially: Banks can detect online sexual exploitation  27:03๐Ÿšฉ Innovative projects; Umbra and Super Bowl: working groups to find ways to share information outside of criminal investigations and launching Member Center for sharing red flag data. 29:19๐Ÿ’” Heartbreaking story: Bank detected ten human trafficking rings, got scared, and shut down the pilot project. 35:26๐Ÿ‘” Agile leadership requires a quick response: 39:21๐Ÿ‘ Getting Gen Z involved: you can live a life of purpose and make money. Live a purposeful life. 42:53๐Ÿคฉ Ian sings and plays his song โ€œOld dirt road.โ€ 44:42๐Ÿ‘ Ianโ€™s song โ€œI'm not done yetโ€ 46:09๐Ÿฅณ Many people joined Knoble on a voluntary basis after their great Resignation: living life with a purpose is different from just living. 48:31Connect with Ian: www.theknoble.com๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep11. Season Recap: Discussing What Data Really Reveals
Jan 26 2022
S1Ep11. Season Recap: Discussing What Data Really Reveals
๐Ÿ The end of season 01 and our impressions. 00:35๐Ÿ“ป College radio hosts and various topics in our podcast all centered around people. 02:05๐ŸŒ‰ Treating podcasting as a bridge between the human and business sides, not as a commercial. 04:51๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ Daveed Gartenstein-Rossโ€™ episode: a journey into radicalization pre and post 9/11. 06:20๐ŸŽฏ Discussing the third-rail topics thoughtfully and not provocatively.  07:34๐Ÿค“ Chris Wilson and what the word joint means: translator, leadership, and interoperability. ๐Ÿง Monica McEwen and cognitive diversity with machines sitting alongside people, risks, and the stove-piped datasets. ๐Ÿคฏ Defining data literacy as a soft skill and cultural part of it with Monica Breidenbach.11:18โšก Femi Ayanbadejoโ€™s fundamental change in data usage: Our health is tied to each other. 18:09 14:15๐Ÿงฑ Monica Breidenbach: Building the workforce for Gen Z, a digitally native audience. 21:53๐Ÿ†™ Jim McHugh: true ability and readiness to use the data; organizations must adapt. 26:35๐ŸŒ Two forms of intuition: Jere Simpsonsโ€™ innovations, challenging exclusionary structures and going beyond old tools. 31:15๐ŸŒž Ian Mitchell: Living purposefully, fighting fraud, and protecting disadvantaged and vulnerable people. 36:10๐Ÿฅ… There is evidence everywhere that data impacts our lives; once data reveals the ground truth, we can change the conditions. 37:50๐Ÿ™ƒ The Qlik Federal Team has brought out its culture through this podcast. 39:25๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S1Ep12. Bonus: Kids and Tech with Loyal Hastings
May 10 2022
S1Ep12. Bonus: Kids and Tech with Loyal Hastings
๐Ÿ‘ง Loyal is nine years old, and she loves learning in STEM.  01:12๐ŸŒ‰ Fun engineering projects: building bridges with toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and marshmallows. 02:20๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Third graders are learning about history and social studies: Loyalโ€™s favorite podcast. 04:43๐Ÿ‡ Loyalโ€™s friends talk about podcasts in school: when you got sucked into like the deepest hole of podcast. 07:04๐Ÿ˜ Word association game in the episode. 11:20๐Ÿคฉ What Loyal wants to be when she grows up: she and her friends chose so many great careers! 15:36๐Ÿค– Kids donโ€™t talk about technology so much, but Loyal knows what the future brings. 18:47๐Ÿฆ Robots and machines do things for you: ice cream factory and robots in your computer. 20:16๐Ÿ˜Ž Loyal has some cool ideas on what adults should talk about a bit more. 21:14โšก Why Loyal doesn't have social media and what she thinks about followers. 24:04๐Ÿ˜‡ What adults should know about kids: a big manipulation adults donโ€™t know about. 26:20๐Ÿง Are girls controlling everything? 27:26๐Ÿ‘— The unfair pink tax and double standards. 28:45๐Ÿšจ Markโ€™s favorite book and the disappearance of childhood. 31:34โœจ Loyal shares a couple ways you can use technology. 32:35๐ŸŒžโš–๏ธ She explains how technology is affecting us in a good and a bad way. 33:58๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™€๏ธ Lead with girls using data. 36:03๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S2E1 Finding Your Strength Zone with Alan Stein Jr.
Jul 20 2022
S2E1 Finding Your Strength Zone with Alan Stein Jr.
๐Ÿ“š Alan is Mark's old friend and a successful author. 00:35โœ๏ธ Alan enjoyed writing a book called Sustain Your Game: writing books serves as a therapeutic way to serve himself as well as others. 01:29๐Ÿ—๏ธ You have the key: โ€œPeople have the power to change more than they most likely believe they do.โ€ 03:10๐Ÿ€ From basketball player to coach to motivational speaker: Coming from a family of educators, Alan always had a natural affinity to be of service to and teach others.  05:04๐Ÿ’ช The best advice a coach gave to Alan about finding the Strength Zone. 06:21๐ŸŽฏ The epicenter of being a coach is in transformational leadership: empowering others to improve behavior and improve results by believing in themselves. 08:33๐Ÿ˜‡ Be the leader you want to follow: having an authentic and appropriate vulnerability. 11:21๐Ÿคฉ Making your team stronger with the diversity of thought, age, and background: we need to nurture respect, appreciation, and curiosity. 15:31๐Ÿ† Diversity culture and data blended with respect for others: a story about a basketball coach with 4 key stats that heavily influenced winning and losing the game. 19:15๐Ÿค“ Leading indicators of success and performance, but what about stress? 22:16๐Ÿฆธ The road to a settled mind is being at peace with the fact that we donโ€™t control things in the world and channeling our response to those circumstances. 24:43โœ… Trying to live a truly mindful and physically fit lifestyle vs. checking the boxes of doing the โ€˜rightโ€™ things. 29:13๐Ÿง˜ Is bringing mindfulness to business meetings possible?  31:38๐Ÿคฏ Measure the things the right way and get the data to combine with the human aspect: do more of what works and do less of what doesn't. 36:54โ— Keep things simple to make your business effective: find your goal and measurable behaviors and data that will get you to your goal. 40:20๐Ÿ‘‰ The acute problem in a generational change in the federal workforce. 43:03๐Ÿ“ฃ A message Alan would give to all in the federal government: being inclusive instead of divisive and highlighting the things that do unite us. 45:16๐ŸŒŸ What did Alan learn from Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant? 46:23Connect with Alan: www.alansteinjr.com๐Ÿ”—Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. โœ… Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill โ˜‘๏ธ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic
S2E2 Listening, Humility, and Data with Mark Meersman
Aug 3 2022
S2E2 Listening, Humility, and Data with Mark Meersman
๐Ÿ† Mark and IPC built a brand on doing analytics in a really unique way: combining Qlik and AWS. 00:51๐Ÿ“ˆ "The market is following Qlik and AWS": all in one solution for all the data Mark found in Qlik and the innovative solution of AWS to leverage technologies of their customers.  03:55๐Ÿšฆ Comparing Waze to Qlik. 05:05๐Ÿคฉ Why Mark threw away some BI systems: Data model patent Qlik made for fast reach of data. 08:00๐Ÿ˜ท Mark became a TV personality: using data to inform the community during COVID and elections to reduce widespread fear in the community. 10:32๐Ÿ˜‡ The national, state and local data combined with COVID data, social vulnerabilities, and school data provide amazing results. 13:55๐Ÿ’ช Data helped the community organize communication, transportation, school breaks, and made decision-making more confident. 16:40๐Ÿค“ Breakthroughs: IPCโ€™s first word chosen for values is humility 19:26๐ŸŒŸ โ€œIPCโ€™s culture and core values of our firm are professionalism, integrity, loyalty, and family.โ€ 22:05๐Ÿ’ก Markโ€™s ideas on implementing data for helping students with gaps create success journeys.  28:29๐Ÿ‘‰ Transparency and accountability in leveraging technology can magnify results in government agencies and funding programs. 34:37๐Ÿค Connect with Mark: www.linkedin.com/in/markmeersmanConnect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney:๐ŸŽค Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli  ๐ŸŒŸ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchillTwitter: @FAChurchill  ๐Ÿคฉ Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic