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How does Orange County provide publicly funded health care coverage to low-income children, adults, seniors and people with disabilities? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with CalOptima Health Medi-Cal/CalAim Executive Director Kelly Bruno-Nelson. CalOptima Health is Orange County's organized health system. She talks about CalOptima Health’s programs. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.caloptima.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Blackwell – Executive Vice President-CBRE Commercial Real
Estate-Orange County Multi-Family and Apartment Market Discussion with Barry Saywitz on "Let's Talk Real Estate: Your Weekly BS with Barry Saywitz" only on OC Talk Radio

Show Notes  Our very impressive guest today, Chris Westfall, is one of the most sought-after business coaches and keynote speakers in the world. He helped launch over five dozen businesses and has appeared on ABC NEWS, NBC TV and CNN. Chris’s new book, Easier: 60 Ways to Make Your Work Life Work for You, isn’t about taking the easy way out of difficult circumstances. It’s about overcoming tunnel vision, seeing things in a new way, and showing up differently when challenges arise. The book Easier is actually filled with difficulty, just like life is,” Westfall said in a recent interview. “in the midst of difficult circumstances, difficult relationships, misunderstandings, communication challenges … a new path emerges — a new possibility emerges. And that is what we will chat with Chris about today in our show titled: Finding Meaning in Life’s Messes. I am most interested in what Chris brings to the table regarding how we can better manage our lives. With that, let’s bring on our guest… For more… Check out Chris Westfall’s latest book: Easier: 60 Ways to Make Your Work Life Work for You Find out more about Chris Westfall at: www.westfallonline.com  

Having worked for the famed outdoor adventure/personal development company OUTWARD BOUND for over a dozen years, Laurel Zimmerman had clearly adopted their whole credo "to stretch your comfort zone" and "accomplish things you never thought you could" thru challenging outdoor adventures. But she could never have imagined how far that approach would take her in life, growing from instructor to course director, to admissions, to finally managing the national admissions office for the entire country, based out of an office in Asheville, NC. Or that it would eventually entice her to leave the company she so loved to challenge herself even further by opening an electric bike store in her adopted home of Greenville, South Carolina.

But that's exactly the leap she made in the middle of COVID, going from passionate ebiker to ebike entrepreneur.  Bringing her life partner, Ashby Knox along for the ride. "When I originally went to him with what seemed like a wild idea, I was really just looking for someone to bounce it off a bit" says Laurel. "But when I laid it all out to him, he jumped at the idea as well." 

Having already changed his life and jumped from a career in construction to a polar opposite in nursing, Ashby was no stranger to change.  For him, it just seemed like another way to help people (without the burnout and stress he'd been experiencing in health care). So they found a place in an old cotton warehouse in the quaintest part of historic Greenville (right near the Rails to Trails Swamp Rabbit Trail) and set out blazing new trails for themselves and their customers.

It's a romantic story about a couple of life partners who also work as real life partners in this real life adventure. Helping people achieve more than they can ever imagine. Right in the heart of Dixie. On this week's Pedego Podcast. Powered by Pedego Electric Bikes.

Dr Kim joined us to talk about the use of the ViewRay MRIdian for treatment of pancreatic cancer at Hoag Hospital.  Dr Kim explains that the tumor needs to be hit with high energy x-ray beams.  To be able to hit the tumor you need to be able to see the tumor.  Its that simple. 
This is the only machine that uses MRI imaging to visualize the tumor. Tumors move with each breath and this machine allows the tracking of the tumor in real time allowing them to be precise in delivering treatment.
This episode of Living Hope is dedicated to the donors of the View Ray MRIdian Dean and Gerda Koontz
#DeanandGerdaKoontz #PancreaticCancer #Hoag Health
See the ViewRay MRIdian https://youtu.be/RRx8kd0vaXw
 
 

Have you ever thought about how Google seems to know the answers you’re looking for? Do you use Siri or Alexa to help you do simple tasks? Don't those “tools” make your life a little bit better? The answer is a resounding yes. Similarly, we think about how artificial intelligence is applied and the medical field. Technology in our day and age is continually being innovated and evolved. And because of the recent pandemic, a new type of healthcare paved its way in the world: Telemedicine.Telemedicine is a type of service or technology that allows medical professionals to diagnose and treat patients remotely or at a distance using telecommunication technologies such as our cell phone devices and smartwatches. It also makes use of AI to advance medical care by making diagnosis precise, prompt, and convenient.Join us in today’s episode as our guest Harry Glorikian, shares with us the new technologies that will be implemented in the near future that makes use of AI and computer science to help make healthcare more accessible to all.Memorable Quotes:If you do a Google search and it gives you what you want, there's a strong taste of artificial intelligence behind that. When you're speaking to Siri or Alexa, there's artificial intelligence in there, it is everywhere. Except you don't really know that it's there and that's the best kind of technology, the kind that helps you and you don't even have to think about it – Harry GlorikianI think physicians need to think more like a private equity firm where they optimize the outcome rather than the typical entrepreneur where you’re making a nickel on every transaction. – Harry GlorikianThese technologies now allow you to clue yourself into your own being and be more informed and maybe make changes yourself before you have to go into the system. So it's empowering individuals to take charge of their own healthcare. –Harry GlorikianResources Mentioned: Book: The Future You: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Get Healthier, Stress Less, and Live LongerJanuary AILevels HealthAbout the Guests:Harry Glorikian is a global executive with 20+ years of influential leadership in life sciences, healthcare, and healthcare IT. Known for operational experience, definitive business strategy, execution, IT excellence, and large-scale reinvention, he is also a driving force behind major business transformations that accelerated growth, efficiency gains, cost reductions, and competitive advantage for market leaders as well as up-and-coming innovators with next-generation ideas.About the Host:Dung Trinh, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Irvine Clinical Research, a medical missionary with TongueOut Medical Missions, and holds leadership positions with multiple health care organizations in Orange County. He is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and Host of “Health Talks with Dr. Trinh” which can be heard weekly on OC Talk Radio. Connect with Dr. Trinh:HealthTalks OC WebsiteTongue OutFacebook PageFacebook (Personal Account)InstagramLinkedInYouTube

Summary:
 
On this episode of Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, host Will Crist talked with Alex Freytag, an expert EOS Implementor. Alex is also the author of Profit Works, a book that unravels the complexity of incentive plans in order to increase employee productivity, cultivate an engaged workforce, and maximize company potential. Throughout the episode, Will and Alex discuss his EOS journey and the importance of properly compensating employees. 
 
Shownotes:
(1:13) Introduction to Alex
(1:43) Alex’s EOS Journey
(7:40) The Benefit of Employee Compensation
(10:48) How Pressure Impacts Performance
(13:19) Human Reactions to Being Rewarded
(18:19) We First vs. Me First
(21:18) Identifying Effective Incentives
(25:48) Incentive Plans with Company-wide Input
(30:53) About Profit Works
(32:49) Utilizing People as Assets
(34:09) Purpose of Profit Works
(38:27) Quality Relationships in the Workplace
(42:52) Closing Thoughts
 
Links:
Will Crist
EOS 
Alex Freytag
 
Quotes:
“Well and that really is what we as EOS implementers aim at isn’t it, it’s to really help businesses thrive.” - Will Crist, (5:54)
 
“So if we talk about employee retention and you talk about attraction and best places to work, the companies that are able to balance those rewards, their workforce is the one that tends to be the most successful from a profitability standpoint and from a growth standpoint.” - Alex Freytag, (8:32)
 
“The amount of pressure in an organization is directly correlated to performance, and so companies that don’t apply any pressure in the organization, no standards of performance, no expectation, no core values, no measurables, no scorecards, no 10-year target, and so forth, tend to have lower levels of performance than the companies that turn that dial up on those expectations…” - Alex Freytag, (11:47)
 
“...pick a minimum threshold of profit that the company has to reach before the incentive plan kicks in and then arm your workforce with tools and training and resources to actively find the money to incremental profit dollars over that threshold.” - Alex Freytag, (24:26)
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It's time for another monster show at this weekend's MONSTER JAM Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 26-28, up in LA at Crypto.com Arena (the former Staples Center downtown).
Listen as we talk with the driver of the legendary GRAVE DIGGER truck on how he got into this crazy world and what he loves the most about it.  And what to expect as the drivers go all out and push these legendary "monster trucks" to the limit (and beyond) on the latest stop on this tour.
On this week's OC SPOTLIGHT, on Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO. 

It's time for the PINNERS CONFERENCE and EXPO this weekend (August 26-27) at the FAIRPLEX in Pomona, CA where you can learn something new and/or meet those creating some of coolest things around. Because PINNERS is two events in one.
It's a conference featuring 100+ Pinterest-based classes taught by the best presenters in the nation. And it's also a show with 200 top businesses providing beautiful options in the worlds of DIY, crafts, cooking, self-improvement, photography, party planning, scrapbooking, holiday, beauty and fashion and all sorts of other great things. 
All that and more.  This Friday and Saturday, August 26 and 27 at the FAIRPLEX in Pomona. Hear all about it here on OC TALK RADIO, Orange County's only community radio station.

Meet Irakli (Rocky) Bandzeladze, EVP, Head of Business Banking at Banc of California. And hear his fascinating "immigrant's story" that takes him from his native war torn country of Georgia (around the time the Russians invaded there as well in the 90s) to America (and then California). With little in his pocket but a dream.  A dream that took him to college and eventually into banking. And recently earned him a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine.
A skill that serves him well as a board member for the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  Proving again the power of the immigrant's journey. (And that you don't have to be Hispanic to be part of OUR COMMUNITY!)  On this week's OUR COMMUNITY PODCAST. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.