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When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures.

Join us this October 13 in San Diego and let’s celebrate 8 years of Cafe con Pam In this episode, Pam sits down with Lucy King, a dynamic financial and business coach dedicated to uplifting marginalized communities and breaking multi-generational money cycles. Lucy shares her journey from a toxic job environment to finding her true purpose, emphasizing the importance of self-care, mindful spending, and continuous personal development.Get your cafecito and join us as Lucy discusses the significance of therapy, holistic coaching, and the support systems that helped her succeed. Follow Luzy ...

In this podcast, I share some of the best practices I follow in content development—strategies and processes that have consistently worked for me. I won’t talk about models like ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) or SAM (Successive Approximation Model), I’ll only focus on practical insights, as there’s already plenty of information available on those frameworks.

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Send us a textDawn talks with Bob King. An author, closing coach, filmmaker, and sales superstar. Bob consults with sales teams and sales professionals of all types—from retail to in-home sales to business-to-business—bringing One-Call Magic to pitches, curing slumps, boosting team performance, and turning total strangers into happy customers, often at the very first meeting. Dawn and Bob talk about sales. How your team, your staff, your employees, and yourself all contribute to sales.In this episode…Who is Bob King and whom does he serve? (1:05).Thoughts on closing as the final exchange...

Feeling stuck in a cycle of wanting more but not quite being able to grasp it? Not just profits and revenue, but something deeper, something more impactful? Matt Murray is bringing something to the table that’s designed to help you achieve that “something more” that you’ve been looking for: A new book with a fresh perspective on success.

The financial establishment---banks and investment bankers, such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley---were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels, and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.

J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.

For 60 years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus---created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King---an entertainment empire called DreamWorks.

There are 1.3 million lawyers in the United States. Most do not work in private practice. Of those who do, many want to have a thriving law business but don't know how. The space has become more competitive than ever. In the last five years alone, I have seen dozens upon dozens of lawyers going out on their own to try their hand at this game of law. As a law firm consultant, I have worked with many firms who are trying to carve out their own piece of the pie. The thing about law firm growth is that everyone has a different definition of success and what it means to own a successful law firm.

In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England’s coast with a plastic fish tag. Fourteen years later that fish—dubbed Amelia for her ocean-spanning journeys—died in a Mediterranean fish trap, sparking Karen Pinchin’s riveting investigation into the marvels, struggles, and prehistoric legacy of this remarkable species.

Welcome to Palace Intrigue, your premier destination for all the latest royal family news and gossip! Join us as we delve into the captivating world of royalty, covering everything from KateGate, Prince Harry's Spare status to King Charles' battle with cancer, Princess Kate Middleton's health scare, and the scandals surrounding Prince Andrew.Get ready for an insider's look into the ongoing drama between William and Harry, as well as the juicy gossip surrounding Harry and Meghan. From royal family weddings to family feuds, we leave no stone unturned in our quest to bring you the most ...

Daniel Barbarisi quits his job as the New York Yankees beat writer for The Wall Street Journal and begins a quest: to join the top 1 percent of Daily Fantasy Sports ("DFS") players, the so-called "sharks", and figure out whether DFS is on the level - while maybe cashing in along the way. DFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It's the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans to bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams.

Welcome to Palace Intrigue, your premier destination for all the latest royal family news and gossip! Join us as we delve into the captivating world of royalty, covering everything from KateGate, Prince Harry's Spare status to King Charles' battle with cancer, Princess Kate Middleton's health scare, and the scandals surrounding Prince Andrew.Get ready for an insider's look into the ongoing drama between William and Harry, as well as the juicy gossip surrounding Harry and Meghan. From royal family weddings to family feuds, we leave no stone unturned in our quest to bring you the most ...

In The Gospel at Work, Sebastian Traeger and Greg Gilbert unpack the powerful ways in which the Gospel can transform how we do what we do, releasing us from the cultural pressures of both an all-consuming devotion and a punch-in, punch-out mentality - in order to find the freedom of a work ethic rooted in serving Christ. You'll find answers to some of the tough questions that Christians in the workplace often ask: What factors should matter most in choosing a job?

Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza”.

Mike Drop is a refreshing return to the very beginning of god’s creative design for growing his kingdom. Jesus is not a cultural commodity, and if you want to see real change, you’re going to have to embrace his original design. Mike Thakur walks you through the entire process of entrepreneurial kingdom building with scripture, successful business practices, and cordial humor.

In this dramatic portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, best-selling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes of some of the biggest deals in U.S. corporate history. A fascinating tale with a cast of characters that includes Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, T. Boone Pickens, Dennis Levine, and most of the other key players of the '70s and '80s takeover era, King Icahn is the first biography of the business buccaneer who changed the course of corporate America.

Decried as “human cockfighting” by Senator John McCain and dismissed by the New York Times as a “pay-per-view prism” onto the decline of Western civilization, the UFC seemed by 2000 to be bleeding out. The cage fighting promotion had been banned in thirty-six states and was struggling to cover production costs for its next event.

There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization—virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming.