A conversation between Mark and Jeff, two information junkies, about a wide range of contemporary issues. We discuss current events, nerdy things, business concepts, marketing, technology, media and photography. As we are based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, there are lots of local topics. The podcast is generally upbeat and often covers current events and we occasionally have guests. Each episode typically has a central focus for most of the podcast but also lots of other regular topics incl ...
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Expand your investing horizons and look to the long term. Join hosts Christine Benz, Dan Lefkovitz, and Amy C. Arnott as they talk to influential leaders in investing, advice, and personal finance about a wide-range of topics, such as asset allocation and balancing risk and return.
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Through insightful conversations with Michigan’s business newsmakers and movers and shakers, host Jeff Sloan explores trending business topics impacting our state’s business community, economy and consumers.
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Elite Program Design and Coaching for High Performers
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Financial advisors want to build a scalable practice but aren’t always sure what to do next. Welcome to Wealth@Work, the podcast designed to help advisors think, make decisions, and cast a vision to create a business for the future.Join Ross for weekly conversations with successful financial advisors and the industry and business experts they partner with. Find out what the best advisors are thinking about and what actions they are taking right now to grow their firms. Learn to “questionstor ...
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Shark Bite Biz, hosted by David Strausser, started as a show on how to navigate to your business during the Covid Pandemic and now focusing on "the 3 G's": personal growth, professional growth, and business growth. This show has hosted many CEO's, VP's, Managers, and Small Business Owners all giving their insight as a subject matter expert in their field. The show has had legendary music producer Jack Douglas, Soledad O'Brien, film director James Cullen Bressack, Recruiter.com and CNBC Contr ...
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TotalCyclist Founder Chad Andrews talks about the best way to hire a coach - Should you hire a full time coach? I got asked that! - Google is good and bad. - Frequent contact (Phone, text and the best options) - Ride with your coach? - Nutritional insight - Does the coach "Get you" - Emotional support! - Certifications or not? - What value does experience bring to the coaching? - Vet the coach. Interview them! - Budget and what you get for that money. - Oh...interview the COACH!
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10 Programming and Coaching Mistakes YOU Might be Making
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46:41I don’t know about you, but I’m ALWAYS thinking about programming and coaching Even in my time off, I’m thinking about making myself a better coach, or how to better help the other coaches that I work with and mentor. Now this could be an incredibly extensive list, but what I’m sharing today are 10 of the biggest mistakes I see coaches making TODAY…
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Arunma Oteh: ‘A Lot of Innovations That Are Very Important to Society Have Come Out of Development Banks’
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44:55Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Arunma Oteh, currently of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. Arunma is a former treasurer of the World Bank and also served in various leadership roles in the African Development Bank. In 2010, she became Director General of N…
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Porn has changed dramatically over the decades and the money involved has skyrocketed. Porn has been the silent engine for change for the internet as it represents a huge amount of money despite being mostly not discussed in public. Mark and Jeff discuss the impact that porn has had on shaping the internet.…
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10 Keys to Improving Your Fitness Business and Making More Money in 2025
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51:38A few weekends back, I was working full steam ahead at my “other” full time job in life. Now most of you know me as a guy who trains people in the gym and creates content like this, with the goal of making everyone I come into contact with better. But this was my OTHER job…the one where I’m an elite Uber driver and sports dad! And on this particula…
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Daniel Rasmussen: ‘Be Very Wary of Illiquid Asset Classes’
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53:15Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Daniel Rasmussen. He’s the founder and portfolio manager of Verdad Advisers, a hedge fund. Before starting Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital Private Equity and Bridgewater Associates. He’s a member of the investment committee of the trus…
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A research group is predicting the rise of Superhuman AI and what the implications are for the world. There are two paths, a dystopian one and a utopian one. The timing is closer than everyone thinks and the consequences will reshape our world. What's more disturbing is that this group has a track record for their predictions previously and most of…
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Brandon Cullen on Niches, Marketing, and Building a Fitness Franchise
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1:03:16Born into an entrepreneurial family in Ontario, Canada, Brandon Cullen was raised with a front-row seat to hard work and high expectations. Pushed by his father to excel both in life and on the ice, Brandon’s grit landed him a spot in the New York Rangers’ minor league system. But when a career-ending concussion shattered his hockey dreams, everyth…
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David Booth: ‘Usually the Great Ideas Start Out as Small Ideas and Then You Build on Them’
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49:08Our guest on the podcast today is David Booth. He’s the Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a firm he founded in 1981. David led Dimensional as CEO and later Co-CEO until 2017, when he stepped back from the daily management of the firm. David helped create one of the world’s first index funds in the 1970s and launched the first passively managed…
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Carol Cadwalladr and the Digital Coup
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1:01:43Carol Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist that published information about the Cambridge Analytics data breach and reporting related to Brexit. She was hit with a SLAPP (Strategic lawsuits against public participation) lawsuit, about her Brexit reporting, specifically related to a TED talk she did. Although she won most of the case, she did l…
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Jonathan Goodman on Internet Fame, Authenticity, and Being Good Enough, Repeatedly
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1:19:40Let’s start with a few questions to ponder… Why are we chasing Internet or social media fame, when the surest way to develop a strong business is by connecting with the family down the road? How is perfectionism holding you back? Or keeping you from taking the next big steps in your development? And is a lack of authenticity keeping you from truly …
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Cullen Roche: What Tariffs Mean for Your Portfolio
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58:17Today on the podcast we welcome back Cullen Roche. Cullen is the founder and chief investment officer of the Discipline Funds, which manages the Discipline Fund ETF. In addition, he heads up Orcam Group, a registered investment advisory firm he established in 2012. He’s authored several books, including Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Nee…
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Purchasing a new car is a large and tricky investment that people do relatively infrequently but it is a lot of money and there is a lot of sales pressure from the various dealerships. Right now with all the new US tariffs, this makes things even trickier for the manufacturers and trying to find the cars can be a challenge depending upon where they…
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Justin Moore on His 5 Buckets for Building Robust and Adaptable Athletes
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1:21:44What role should the weight room play in building FASTER athletes? How do you develop a program that’s built on sound biomechanical principles, without falling into the trap of doing corrective exercises for an entire hour? And why should you consider adding more “movement days” into your program? Well if any of those questions peak your interest, …
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Vincent Montemaggiore: ‘The Two Best Defenses Against Tariffs Are a High-Gross Profit Margin and Pricing Power’
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55:17Our guest this week is Vincent Montemaggiore. Vince is a portfolio manager at Fidelity where he manages the Overseas Fund. The strategy is highly regarded by Morningstar’s manager research team. Prior to taking over Fidelity Overseas in 2012, Vince ran Fidelity Select Banking from June 2008. He joined Fidelity as an equity analyst in 2004. Vince ha…
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Mental Health During Traumatic World Events
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1:05:42The world is going through an epochal event and the trauma from the constant stream of bad news from ever changing world events is difficult to manage. This is especially true with all the significant self inflicted damage that the US is currently doing to its own population. It may be the fall of the American Empire. This is a pretty difficult thi…
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Jean Chatzky: What Women Need to Do Differently With Their Money
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50:13Today on the podcast, we welcome back Jean Chatzky. Jean is the CEO of HerMoney.com and host of the podcast, HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. She has served as the financial editor of NBC Today for 25 years and is the financial ambassador for AARP. She appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC, and was a recurring guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has written…
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Mark took several Waymo rides (self driving cabs) in Los Angeles. It was an awesome experience. Mark and Jeff discuss the state of Autonomous self-driving taxisBy Connect2 by Mark Hughes and Jeff Cullen
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Jeff Aldham on Filling in the S&C Gaps in High School Basketball
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1:13:36How do we keep our young hoopers healthy? What are they doing well in their training? And what can they improve upon? And what do THE BEST young players do that others can’t or won’t? If you train young athletes in any sport, you’re going to love this episode with Jeff Aldham! Jeff is a self-proclaimed “S&C Coach trying to develop hoopers”…and whil…
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Dr. Jay Zigmont: Handling Your Finances When You Don’t Have Kids
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54:27Our guest on the podcast today is Dr. Jay Zigmont. He’s the author of a new book called The Childfree Guide to Life and Money, and he’s also the founder and CEO of Childfree Wealth, a financial planning firm dedicated to helping people without kids. Dr. Jay is a certified financial planner, and he also has his MBA, as well as his PhD in Adult Learn…
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Travelling to the US as a Canadian in 2025
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1:01:41Mark just returned from travelling to the USA and times are difficult between the two nations. The current administration is also very tough on many visitors with some visitors being detained or deported from the USA for limited reasons and with little due process. As it stands is it not hostile to Canadians yet... but that might change if things g…
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Ryan Patrick on Speed Training Mistakes and the Allure of Big Weights
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1:14:04Training young athletes is tough these days – especially if you’re in the private sector. With so many athletes getting training at their high school, playing sports year round, and struggling to stay consistent with their workouts, how can we help them be successful? Well luckily my guy Ryan Patrick and I are here to help you out! Two of the bigge…
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Sudarshan Murthy: ‘These Countries Are in Much Better Shape Than They Were 10 Years Back’
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31:09Our guest this week is Sudarshan Murthy from GQG Partners. Sudarshan is a co-portfolio manager on all GQG investment strategies, which include global equities, US equities, and emerging markets. Before joining GQG in 2016, Sudarshan worked as an Asian equities analyst for Matthews International, and he was also a sell-side researcher at Sanford Ber…
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Brady Welsh on Ego, Humility, and Communication as a Strength Coach
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1:14:02If you were a basketball strength coach, what do you think you could learn working for a coach with NBA experience like Aaron McKie? Or what about a guy like Matt Painter, with his 19 seasons at Purdue? Or what about the one and only John Calipari? A guy who has had tremendous amount of success at numerous schools? Well today’s guest can give us th…
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Barry Ritholtz: ‘How Not to Invest’
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1:05:57Today on the podcast, we’re welcoming Barry Ritholtz. He’s co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a firm that was launched in 2013. He’s the creator and host of Masters in Business, one of the earliest finance-related podcasts. He also regularly posts on The Big Picture, where he’s been covering everything…
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Tell me a Story - The Importance of Storytelling
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1:10:12Mark and Jeff discuss the importance of storytelling to conveying concepts, engaging people, and helping to remember life events. Stories change how your brain works and is critical to connecting to the information being conveyed.By Connect2 by Mark Hughes and Jeff Cullen
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Lee Taft on Braking, Directional Steps, and Building Elite Basketball Speed
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1:13:12Do you want to help your athletes get faster? More explosive? And teach them how to move effectively in the process? If so, you’re going to love this week’s episode with Lee Taft! From PE teacher to world-renowned speed coach, Lee has always questioned the current dogma when it comes to speed training. And in this episode, we’re going to break down…
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Mellody Hobson: ‘The Fire Was Lit by Scarcity’
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52:54Our guest on the podcast today is Mellody Hobson. She’s the author of a new book for children called Priceless Facts About Money. In addition, she’s co-CEO of Ariel Investments, where she is responsible for management, strategic planning, and growth for all areas of Ariel outside of research and portfolio management. Additionally, she serves as cha…
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Mark and Jeff discuss the current outbreaks of measles, a disease that was considered eradicated decades ago in Canada. This is particularly relevant to travellers and to individuals that were originally vaccinated in the 1960'sBy Connect2 by Mark Hughes and Jeff Cullen
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Andy McCloy on Entrepreneurship, Becoming an Elite Coach and “Playing Business”
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1:18:58So you’re having some success training and coaching, and that’s got you thinking about opening your own gym. Congrats! But before you do…listen to this episode FIRST! Andy McCloy is not only one of the realest dudes I know, but someone that practices what he preaches. He’s running one of the most successful coaching gyms in the United States out of…
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Ramit Sethi: ‘We Have to Make Money Fun and Connective’
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54:24Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I’m Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Today on the podcast, we welcome back Ramit Sethi. Ramit is a personal finance expert and author. His latest book is called Money For Couples: No more stress. No more fights. Just a 10-step plan to create your Rich Life togeth…
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Mark and Jeff discuss something as far away as possible from politics.... Antarctica!By Connect2 by Mark Hughes and Jeff Cullen
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