Corporate Thought

Hank Ingram is the proprietor of O.H. Ingram River Aged Whiskey. He brought some by for a tasting. We starting tasting his Flagship.

Hank mentioned the term white dog, the clear spirit prior to aging, so I was curious to look up a bit more.

I’m a lawyer so of course I was interested in the Supreme Court case Hank mentioned as the basis for getting his floating rickhouse approved. For the non lawyers, here is an article, and here is the real deal.

By the way, speaking of rickhouses, here is why they are called that.

You can learn more about Hank and his whiskey at ingramwhiskey.com

My conversation with Dr. Tom Tonkin. We had a wide ranging conversation. He dropped a lot of knowledge on us including the following tidbits:

Tom has a background in NLP. Here is a brief overview of the inputs that Tom spoke of.

Tom’s favorite British Statistician of the 1700s actually turns out is George E.P. Boxof the 1900s, but no matter. The quote is “All models are wrong but some are useful.”

I mentioned the concept that it is not a lack of resources but rather a lack of resourcefulness that stops you attributed to Tony Robbins. This lead to a conversation about Self Directed Learning. Tom mentioned four components to self directed learning: 1) Being Resourceful 2) Having a Desire 3) Having Persistence and 4) Having Initiative.

Tom introduced us to the conative, the third area of the brain.

Ok, so the backpack review guy is Chase Reeves. And my backpack is the Pro Executive from Waterfield.

Tom introduced us to the Google Ngram Viewer. I went down a rabbit hole playing with it.

Tom mentioned one of my favorite reads of last year, Atomic Habits by James Clear and his exploration of habits as systems.

We went back in TV history to L.A. Law and their opening scene each week.

So Tom didn’t give me much to go on with his next tidbit…Gail something from Dominican University. I found her (Dr. Gail Mathews) and the study about writing things down.

Tom’s Daily Ritual:

Tom looks at his digital task list. His choice of digital task/idea manager is todoist.

Tom uses fountain pens to hand write one page of tasks into an analog notebook and then works out of the notebook during the day. Tom’s choice of notebooks is the Baronfig.

At the end of the day, Tom transfers his notes from the day into his digital manager.

You can find Dr. Tom Tonkin on most of the socials including an app I had not heard of before – VOXER where he invites you to send him a message or question and he will respond.

My conversation with Debbie Levin was one of my favorite conversations this year. Some notes from our conversation:

Debbie went to USC film school and wanted to be a film critic. She did celebrity interviews that she got just by calling them. These included George Segal, Richard Dreyfuss and Henry “the Fonz” Winkler.

The Environmental Media Association, which Debbie has spent her career with was started by Norman Lear and Alan Horn.

Debbie’s good friend is Wendie Malick who starred on Just Shoot Me!

I mentioned Ed Begley Jr. who was on a documentary about the EV1, Who Killed the Electric Car. Debbie told a story about Ed riding his bicycle to the Oscars.

Debbie convinced Wendie Malick to get David Spade to host the 10thanniversary of the EMA awards ceremony with her.

Debbie helped build the brand around the EMA by recruiting Amy Smart to help out (She later set Amy up with her future husband.)

Debbie mentioned not knowing what a Step and Repeat is…in case you don’t either.

So I told Debbie I don’t love the paper straw but that I had used a straw made of pasta which we both agreed was genius. So now I know where you can get them.

Debbie can be reached at the Environmental Media Association and at green4ema at the socials including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Jeff is a transformational business coach.

He the owner of Admentus and can be reached at Admentus.com.  His website is full of great free resources and is a treasure trove of good information.

He is also the host of the Building to Scale Podcast, available on his website and wherever you get podcasts.

Denver mentioned getting in fights at Friendly’s. There are not many of the iconic ice cream shops left. I failed to ask him what his favorite treat there was…I still remember the Jim Dandy fondly.

We talk extensively about Denver’s book – but here is the link to Bigfoot, It’s Complicated.

Denver challenged me about looking up his name and Bigfoot on Google images…well, you know I had to do it.

Olympic National Park is where Denver took his wife for their 15th anniversary.

Denver referenced getting skewered on Saturday Night Live and the late night talk shows. I couldn’t find the episodes for the Jimmys – Kimmel and Fallon but here is Stephen Colbert. All of this proves – you really make it when the late night shows make fun of you.

I love how Denver “hugged the cactus” and embraced the disinformation two times – coming from both sides of the aisle. See this recent article in the New York Times.

Denver told the story of how they got into the distilling business and it started with a trip to oh Ben Nevis Distillery and Highland cows.

You can find Denver at denverleeriggleman.com and on twitter @repriggleman and @denver4va and on Instagram @repriggleman

Uluru also known at Ayers Rock is a massive sandstone monolith in the “Red Center” of Australia. For more, watch this video.

Never heard of the magpie or “Swoopers” attacking people – I wasn’t kidding.

Gabrielle mentioned Stephen Denning. I was not familiar with him. I found numerous books he authored including The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling.

Aristotle’s Three Types of Rhetoric: Ethos, Logos and Pathos.

Gabrielle is the author of several books including Stories for Work and Magnetic Stories

Gabrielle can be found at https://gabrielledolan.com/ and you can subscribe to her newsletter and get a 7 Day Storytelling Starter Kit for free.

Anthony grew up in Enid Oklahoma

This is the Motorola Startac Flip-phone for those who don’t know

Shonda Rhimes wrote The Year of Yes

For the episode with Dave Almacy – see here

This was recorded before the news became big about the Colonial Oil Pipeline but boy, was he prescient.

Olivia Pope is a character on the TV series Scandal

You can reach Anthony Hayes at The Hayes Initiative

Delphine references Sweet Valley High.

She was a product manager. To learn more about that job, check out this article

What makes for an MVP (minimally viable product)

Malcolm Gladwell’s TED Talk about Spaghetti Sauce

Boulo is available at boulosolutions.com

You can find Delphine and Boulo on LinkedIn, Indeed and follow them on Instagram