The Fred Factor Podcast: Recent Episodes
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On today's Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews E.C. Graf.
Eric Clifford Graf has thirty years of experience studying and teaching Golden Age Spanish Literature at universities across the United States and most recently in Guatemala. He has authored more than forty essays on Hispanic literature, art, and culture from medieval Spain to contemporary Latin America; he is author and host of two of Universidad Francisco Marroquín's popular online courses, "Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha" (donquijote.ufm.edu) and "The School of Salamanca" (salamanca.ufm.edu); and he has authored two other books, De reyes a lobos (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2019) and Anatomy of Liberty in Cervantes's Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel (Lexington Books, 2021).
Graf tiene treinta años de experiencia en el estudio y la enseñanza de la literatura del Siglo de Oro en múltiples universidades de los Estados Unidos y, más recientemente, en Guatemala. Es autor de más de cuarenta ensayos sobre la cultura, la literatura y el arte hispánicos desde la España medieval hasta la América Latina contemporánea; es autor de dos cursos en línea de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín, "Descubre Don Quijote de la Mancha" (donquijote.ufm.edu) y "La Escuela de Salamanca" (salamanca.ufm.edu); y también es autor de otros dos libros, De reyes a lobos (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2019) y Anatomy of Liberty in Cervantes's Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel (Lexington Books, 2021).
On today's Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews Robert Fulgham.
Robert Fulghum has published eight books of non-fiction in English:
- All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
- It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
- Uh-Oh
- Maybe (Maybe Not)
- From Beginning To End – The Rituals of Our Lives
- True Love
- Words I Wish I Wrote
- What On Earth Have I Done?
All rose to the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
The 25th anniversary edition of All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, revised and updated, and including 25 new stories, is now available in hardcover and paperback.
More than 17 million copies of his books are in print, in 31 languages, in 103 countries.
THIRD WISH, Fulghum’s first novel, was first published in Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Greek. It is now available in English in both print and on Kindle™ from Amazon.
A second novel, If You Love Me Still, Will You Love Me Moving, was published in Czech in 2011. A musical version of the novel was staged in the the Czech National Theater in Prague in June, 2013, and has had sufficient success to be contracted for an extended run.
A memoir, The Argentine Tango Chronicles of Senor Don Roberto Juan Carlos Fuljumero y Suipacha, was published in Czech in the spring of 2013.
Both recent novels are available in English – they can be downloaded here.
A new book of stories, “Crisis in the Cheese Aisle” was recently published in Czech, and a new work of fiction, and in July 2020, “Fireworks” another book of essays/stories will be published in Czech.
“The Mender of Destinies”, the first of a trilogy was published in Czech in the Fall of 2017. The second volume in that series, “Nine Dragons And a Sheep” was published in 2019, and the final volume will appear in 2020.
Robert was a Grammy nominee for the Spoken Word Award, has performed in two television adaptations of his work for PBS, has been a speaker at numerous colleges, conventions, and public events across the United States and Europe, and has authored a nationally-syndicated newspaper column.
He was a featured presenter at the Colors of Ostrava/Melting Pot event in Czechia in the summer of 2017, and will again be there at that event in the summer of 2020.
He has appeared onstage with two actors in 89 Czech towns and cities, and now is part of a theater troupe called FULGHUM’S FLOATING FIREWORKS.
Recently he has become a regular columnist for the Czech life-style magazine, MARIANNE, published monthly in Czechia.
His writing has been adapted for the stage in two theater pieces: All I Really Need to Know, and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas, and performed in more than 3,000 national and international productions – scripts are available from the Dramatic Publishing Company in Chicago.
Robert Fulghum was born in 1937, and grew up in Waco, Texas. In his youth he worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, and singing cowboy. After college and a brief career with IBM, he returned to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. For 22 years he served as a Unitarian parish minister in the Pacific Northwest.
During the same period he taught drawing, painting, art history, and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He sings, plays the guitar and mandocello, and was a founding member of the The Rock-Bottom Remainders – a rock and roll band of author-musicians. He is a member of The Beat Goes On Marching Band of Portland, Oregon, in which he occasionally marches in parades, playing cymbals and tambourine.
Robert lives in Moab, Utah, and in Kolymbari on the Greek island of Crete.
On today's Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews Victor Prince.
Victor Prince is a leadership author, speaker, trainer, and coach. His latest book, The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership from a Walk Across Spain (HarperCollins, July 2017) has reached the Top 100 Bestseller lists in 8 categories on Amazon.com's ebook store, ranging from Business Leadership to Travel Writing. It was mentioned as a top business book of 2017 by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, is stocked in public libraries in 15 countries across six continents, and is available in English, Spanish, and Chinese (with a Korean version coming next.) His first book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press, 2015), has reached the Top 20 in 3 categories on Amazon.com's ebook store (Leadership, Teams, Management), is stocked by public libraries across three continents, and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Victor delivers keynote presentations based on his books and several other topics.
Victor is a corporate trainer with thoughtLEADERS LLC. He has trained students across 13 time zones in leadership, communications, and strategic problem-solving techniques.
Victor is a Certified Executive Coach who has helped clients in the US and overseas. He specializes in helping clients in the financial services and private equity industries. He brings a business-driven approach to coaching inspired by his time as a management consultant.
Previously, Victor had 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions using and teaching leadership, communication and analytical skills.
Victor was a consultant and case team leader for Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. He worked on and led strategy engagements with clients in the US, UK, France and Spain. While at Bain, he was also a trainer in the two-week intensive session held annually to train new college hires from all of Bain's global offices in all aspects of Bain's consulting methodology.
Most recently, Victor was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In that role, he was a founding member of the team that built the new federal regulatory agency. He ran a division of 300+ staff and $100 million+ of budget that included human resources, finance, travel, procurement, facilities, security, information technology, equal employment opportunity, and the consumer complaint response center.
Prior to that, Victor was a member of Washington DC Mayor Fenty's cabinet as the Director of CapStat, the performance accountability program to improve performance of the $10 billion local government. In that role, he also served as the coordinator ("czar") for the District's implementation of the $240 million in federal funding received from the 2009 Recovery Act.
Victor was a Senior Director of Marketing & Analysis with Capital One responsible for internet marketing strategy. His team won a Center of Excellence award for success in web site strategy. He also taught several sessions of a full day course on structured problem-solving and writing to Capital One associates.
Victor was head of marketing for Webs.com, a do-it-yourself website building property with over 20 million sites built. In that role, he set up the email infrastructure and strategy, built a performance data dashboard, and launched advertising campaigns on Facebook and Google. Webs.com was purchased for $117 million in 2011.
Victor earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, he served as Chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the student government representing 10,000+ students in Penn's twelve graduate and professional schools. He earned a BA in International Studies and Economics (magna cum laude) from American University in Washington DC.
In addition, Victor has served in volunteer community service roles, including as a mayorally-appointed member of the DC Police Complaints Board and as a pro-bono consultant to a non-profit organization, Compass DC. He is the General Manager of the Carlstad Crusaders, a multiple-championship winning American football club in Sweden. He has also been accepted into Mensa.
Victor lives in Indianapolis, Indiana and Karlstad, Sweden. When he is not at work, you can probably find him biking or hiking a trail somewhere in the world.
On today's Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews Jay Samit.
International bestselling author Jay Samit, is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Described
by Wired magazine as “having the coolest job in the industry,” he raises hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sells companies to Fortune 500 firms, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends. Everyone from the Pope to the President calls on Samit to orchestrate positive change in this era of endless innovation. A former NASDAQ company CEO and Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte, Samit helped grow pre-IPO companies such as LinkedIn, held senior management roles at EMI, Sony and Universal Studios, pioneered breakthrough advancements in mobile video, robotics, internet advertising, ecommerce, social networks, eBooks, and digital music that are used by billions of consumers every day.
Combining innovation with commercial success, Samit is the consummate dealmaker; his list of partners and associates reads like a who’s who list of innovators, including: Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, David Geffen, Richard Branson, Paul Allen, and Pierre Omidyar. A proven trend spotter, Samit accurately predicts the future because he is constantly working with those who create it. Samit is author of Disrupt You! (published in ten languages) and Future Proofing You (Wiley 2021). His column on exponential technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Spatial Reality, autonomous vehicles, etc.) is published by Fortune and he hosted the documentary series Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year. Samit frequently appears on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC and has been quoted in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Businessweek, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Variety, Fast Company and TechCrunch.
Samit is a change agent, who combines his bold vision and humor, to motivate listeners to become innovators within their organizations. Samit gets people passionate about overcoming obstacles, teaching them how to think bigger and embrace change. Samit motivates and delights audiences from Moscow to Mumbai, Lisbon to London, Phoenix to Philadelphia, Beijing to Berlin, Toronto to Tokyo, Seoul to São Paulo, Chicago to Chiang Mai, Amsterdam to Adelaide, Dubai to Denver with compelling keynotes that leave the crowd wanting more.
Samit provides disruptive solutions for such corporate clients as Adobe, Amazon, American Express, AT&T, Best Buy, Coca Cola, Disney, Facebook, Ford, GE, Google, IBM, Intel, McDonalds, Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, Starbucks, Unilever, Visa, and dozens more.
His keynotes are a high energy presentation on how to create and embrace change in any field. Designed to be as entertaining and inspiring as it is informative, Samit customizes each presentation to highlight the sales, marketing, and leadership goals of the audience before him. Samit delivers a speech that stays with the audience long after the conference has ended.
In today's Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews Russ Roberts.
Russ Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He founded the award-winning weekly podcast EconTalk in 2006. Past guests include Milton Friedman, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Piketty, Christopher Hitchens, Bill James, Nassim Taleb, Michael Lewis, and Mariana Mazzucato. All 675+ episodes remain available free of charge at EconTalk.org and reach an audience of over 100,000 listeners around the world.
His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than 10 million YouTube views, have been subtitled in 11 languages, and are used in high school and college classrooms around the world. His poem and animated video “It’s a Wonderful Loaf” (wonderfulloaf.org) is an ode to emergent order. His series on the challenge of using data to establish truth, The Numbers Game, can be found at PolicyEd.org.
His latest book is Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis (Hoover Institution Press, 2019). His book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness takes the lessons from Adam Smith's little-known masterpiece The Theory of Moral Sentiments and applies them to modern life.
In this Fred Factor Podcast host Fred Fransen interviews Julie Young. Julie Young is Vice President of Education Outreach and Student Services for Arizona State University, and the Managing Director of ASU Prep Academy and ASU Prep Digital School. Julie is the leading voice for revolutionizing K-12 online education on the global stage. As the founding, President and CEO of Florida Virtual School she and her team grew the organization from a handful of students in 1996 to a highly acclaimed online school using personalized, next generation learning solutions. Young and her team grew FLVS into a diversified, worldwide organization creatively serving over 2 million students in 50 states and 68 countries worldwide.
In her role at Arizona State University, Julie works to create new school models that meet the evolving needs of students. Under Julie’s guidance, ASU Prep illustrates what the future of school looks like. Leveraging the connections between high school and college provides students with a new continuous model of education, unencumbered by age and grade level barriers.
Among many recognitions, Julie is the distinguished recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, she was featured in Digital Learning’s Converge Yearbook as a top 50 innovator, named Technology & Learning Top 30 Influencers in Ed Tech, 2010 and received the Florida Diversity Council’s Multicultural Leadership Award. Julie started her career as an elementary educator, and continues to use that lens today as she designs internationally connected and engaging models of education, that keep students at the center. Julie continues to put her expertise as the leading authority on virtual and online education to use as she advises a number of entrepreneurial education and technology organizations.
Julie graduated with a MEd from the University of South Florida following her undergraduate work at the University of Kentucky and is a Fellow of the 22nd class of the Pahara – Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She and her husband Bruce have been married for 40 years and have two sons, two beautiful daughter-in-law’s, and four amazing grandchildren and two golden retrievers. Her passion and desire to see all students succeed is the motivating factor behind all she does. When not working, you can usually find her on a boat or a beach.
Education
Masters of Administration and Supervision, University of South Florida
Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, University of Kentucky
Today Fred Fransen interviews C. Bradly Thompson.
C. Bradley Thompson is a Professor of Political Science at Clemson University, where he teaches political philosophy. He is also the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and the founder of the Lyceum Scholars Program.
During his academic career, he has also been the Garwood Family Professor in the James Madison Program at Princeton University, a John Adams Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies (University of London), and a fellow of the Program in Constitutional Studies at Harvard University.
Today Fred talks about the hardware and software challenges teachers face using digital content in the classroom.
On this edition of the Fred Factor Podcast Dr. Fransen talks about the use of video in a classroom full of digital natives.
Dr. Fransen shares his own philosophy of teaching and the transmission of knowledge, skill, wisdom, and motivation.
Join us as we learn, explore, and connect to the world of education on the Fred Factor Podcast!
In today's episode Fred talks with Don Wettrick about empowering student innovators & entrepreneurs.
Don Wettrick is the founder of the STARTedUP Foundation, an innovative nonprofit dedicated to creating a world of self-starters, visionaries, and value-driven youth. By empowering students to embrace their passions, identify problems and build solutions we are allowing them to build more empathetic, future-ready, and happy lives.
Certell Co-Founder Angelika Quitschke speaks with Dr. Fred Fransen about the origins and foundation of Certell.
Fred Fransen shares how Certell is working to meet the challenges high school teachers are facing in the classroom today.