Yield reports for corn are slow to come in and most reports are under last year’s numbers. Wind, water, and disease damage have left field averages lower than expected and leading to low test weight. This and more in this week's #BIFR.

George McReynolds, CFP® is a veteran wealth manager, tax strategist, and best-selling author who has spent four decades at the intersection of money, taxes, and real-world decision-making.After leaving public safety in 1985, George entered banking, where his early grounding in tax fundamentals made him a natural fit for working with business owners and affluent borrowers. He became a go-to resource within private banking circles, earning what he describes as a “ringside seat” to how wealthy families

Not everyone walks into an Enneagram workshop excited to be there. In fact, there are usually a few skeptics in the room, and that’s okay. In this episode, I’m sharing a recent experience from an Enneagram team workshop in Nashville. One participant admitted that he didn’t want to attend the workshop and didn’t want to take the Enneagram assessment. But after receiving his results and learning more about his Type 8 pattern, his reaction changed completely. He described how surprisingly accura...

Everyone's arguing about whether AI will replace 90% of your job. Steve Orrin, federal CTO at Intel, says that's the wrong number to even be worried about. We discuss how a $25 million deepfake of a bank's own CFO exposed a whole new category of cyberattack, why sprinkling "AI pixie dust" on a problem doesn't actually solve anything, and why, thirty years into being a CTO, his best advice still comes down to surrounding yourself with people smarter than you.All of this right here, right now, on

Join the dialogue - text your questions, insights, and feedback to The Dignity Lab podcast. Summary In this dose of Dignity, Jennifer explores how power operates in everyday work, family, and community life, emphasizing that power itself is not inherently bad but is the capacity to influence what happens, whose voice counts, and what becomes possible. Drawing on Mary Parker Follett, French and Raven, and Dacher Keltner, she distinguishes “power over” from “power with,” describes multiple form...

If you run an MLM or direct selling company, payment processors classify you as high-risk before you process a single transaction — and most founders don't find out why until their account is frozen or terminated. In this episode of The Payments Guy, Frank Sena breaks down exactly how payment processors evaluate MLM and direct selling companies, what underwriters are looking for when they review your application, and what you can do to build a stable, long-term payment processing relationshi...

In this episode, we explore how Meta's Muse AI can transform business operations by automating everyday tasks. We discuss its unique aspects that provide considerable advantages over its competitors.

What if service partners approached every property manager as the CEO of the property? In this episode of The 7-Minute Harvest, I sit down with Kisha Owens, Property Manager at Rosemary Glen Townhomes, a Carlisle Residential build-to-rent community in Whitsett, North Carolina. With approximately 20 years in property management, Kisha has developed a perspective shaped by service, responsibility, and the understanding that every property operates much like its own business. Early in her career...

Schneider Electric's Thomas Kwan explains why chemical plants should map their loads before buying software, and why "the optimizer decides" isn't an operating philosophy.Jonathan Katz, executive editor of Chemical Processing, recently spoke with Thomas Kwan, an energy transition expert at the Schneider Electric Sustainability Research Institute, about his most recent Energy Saver column for Chemical Processing, titled "The Flexible Chemical Plant: Scheduling Energy Use Without Sacrificing

Preview: We tend to remember our corporate career success as a story of effort, judgment and capability. But that is rarely the whole story. Timing matters. Context matters. Relationships matter. Opportunity matters. So do the people whose contributions may no longer appear in the version of the story we tell ourselves. In this episode of Life Acumen at Work, we explore how success can distort memory, why leaders may overestimate what is transferable from past wins, and what chan...

You know the frustration: someone pushes for a decision or action, and someone else says they need more thought, while others have their feelings hurt and withdraw or get emotional. Here's how to tackle those circling friction issues. Let's make meetings more effective! Text me with your feedback

We hear all the time that trust takes years to build and seconds to break. But what actually is trust? One useful way to think about it is as a perception of safety. Not necessarily physical safety, but the sense that the people and environment around us are stable enough to predict. That has important implications for leadership. A boss whose mood changes dramatically from one day to the next may not think they’re doing anything wrong. But employees learn quickly. If bringing a problem to yo...

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www.marktreichel.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-treichel/NCUA’s second-quarter 2026 CAMELS data is out. There’s been no NCUSIF (National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund) briefing yet — that typically comes in September or October — but the CAMELS counts and the June financial data are on NCUA’s website. In this solo episode, Mark Treichel walks through what the numbers show and what they might mean for your credit union.The headline: an industry bifurcating, pulling apart at both

What can you learn from ten incredible leaders in one podcast episode?A LOT! In Part 3 of my special celebration series, I’m sharing some of my favorite takeaways from episodes 28 through 37 of The Energized Leader Podcast. We’re talking about: ✅ Building trust and psychological safety ✅ Communicating with difficult or dysregulated people ✅ Developing resilience when you want to quit ✅ Creating an energized workplace culture ✅ Motivating and recognizing employees ✅ Replacing automatic “no”

In today’s episode:The favorite excuses leaders are using to explain poor performance, from COVID overhiring to “consumer malaise” and a familiar generational complaint. What if the problem you’re blaming on employees is actually a leadership problem? Jessica and John examine how “going below the line” can turn accountability into an alibi. A meeting nobody wants to attend may be telling you something important about the person running it. The question to ask before blaming the audience might