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john a. powell holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion; is a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies; and leads the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He tells Eboo why “bridging,” building connections with others, is the crucial, hard work of our time.

john a. powell (who spells his name in lowercase in the belief that we should be "part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify") is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and appears regularly in major media to offer expert insights on a host of issues.

#011 - Rites of passage guide Larissa Conte understands that humans are not separate from nature and brings this perspective into her work to bridge diverse worlds as an integrative systems coach, helping business leaders enhance their “power literacy” along the way. In this heart-centered conversation, we explore the art of transformation (aka living and dying), the difference between self-care and selfishness, the power of paying attention to subtle things, and the potential each of us has to be a healer.

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Summary

Özlem Özkan is a Mindset coach, host of the “Bridging” podcast and author of the book “The Student”. 

After living in different countries, transitioning from teaching to the corporate world and now making a name for herself as a podcaster and entrepreneur, she definitely knows how to bring something good to a conversation.

In the episode, we talk about self-limiting beliefs and how to fight them, entrepreneurship, mental toughness, the power of taking action today and much more. 

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It has been a year like none other for our children, youth, and families. Through this time of isolation, separation, anxiety, and zooming everything – our young people have also built determination, empathy, resilience, and a strong commitment to justice in the world. In the Bridging Worship Service on May 16, 2021, we recognized and celebrated our graduating High School seniors. Included were stories, readings, and reflections from Lifespan Religious Education Coordinator Carson Jones, Student Minister Alia Shinbrough, Senior Seminar Advisor Bill Carmody, and graduating members of the Senior Seminar youth group. Featuring music from the UUCSR Vocal Quartet, Jazz Ensemble, and a new recording from the Young People’s Choir conducted by RE Music Specialist George Weisman.

Naz Kawan is a 28 years old social entrepreneur based in Amsterdam; originally from Irak. She co-founded two companies: A Beautiful Mess and Mondmaskerfabriek. A Beautiful Mess is a local textile factory based in the Netherlands and works with tailors with a refugee background. While those companies produce sustainable clothing for brands like Tommy Hilfiger and surgical masks for the medical industry, Naz enjoys being a social entrepreneur. Naz tells us how she not only dreams about a more sustainable world but how she practices what she teaches. She thinks the time is now; we all have to take responsibility for what is happening in the world, right now.

Guest Naz Kawan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nazaminkawan/

✧ Website: https://abeautifulmess.nl/

Host Özlem Özkan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/

✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/

Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to gain a Master in Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor in Education in Amsterdam. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started attending retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to expand their awareness, learn, practice and transform in all areas of life.

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@ozlemozkanbridging

David Nebinski, New York-based, is the VP of growth at 7:47 Gratitude Experience and host of the Portfolio Career Podcast. He interviewed 140+ people who blend their passions and interests while earning income. Furthermore, David has interviewed Seth Godin twice. David says just start by supporting your friends by asking “How can I help?”.

Learn more about David and Portfolio Career Podcast: https://www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com/

One Email Away Newsletter: https://www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com/oneemailaway

7:47 Gratitude Experience: https://www.747club.org/

Host Özlem Özkan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/

✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/

Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to gain a Master in Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor in Education in Amsterdam. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started attending retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to expand their awareness, learn, practice and transform in all areas of life.

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@ozlemozkanbridging

Selina Mohabir originally from Toronto, Canada stepped into the unknown six years ago by taking only one decision: following her dream. She left a succesfull career to backpack in Europe. Later she was hired by Nike Headquarters Europe in the Netherlands where she became a director digital commerce. In a time where many people have to live in the unknown, Selina believes that we all have answers inside of ourselves. We just need to take space and time to listen to it. 

Host Özlem Özkan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/

✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/

Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to gain a Master in Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor in Education in Amsterdam. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started attending retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to expand their awareness, learn, practice and transform in all areas of life.

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@ozlemozkanbridging

A conversation with a creative soul which is authentic, embraces her vulnerability and is all about imperfection. Karsu is a singer, songwriter, pianist, musician, and so much more. She has performed in more than twenty countries whereas three times at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York. Where does the Dutch-born get her confidence from? What does it really take to be an internationally known singer?

Guest Karsu Donmez

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karsudonmez/

✧ Website: www.karsu.nl

✧ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/karsukarsu

Host Özlem Özkan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/

✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/

Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to gain a Master in Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor in Education in Amsterdam. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started attending retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to expand their awareness, learn, practice and transform in all areas of life.

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@ozlemozkanbridging

Eva Cristina Pérez Ramos was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She grew up with big appreciation for some basic needs which are often taken for granted in the West, such as life security, food and water. Her appreciation for these basic needs and freedom in her life started expanding even more when she moved to Denmark, China and Spain. Living nowadays in Spain, facing the global pandemic, she still has great appreciation for the food that she can buy in the grocery store, even though she needs to stand in the line. While the public transport was partly shut down in Spain, she was grateful that she could walk to work without any insecurity or fear that something would happen to her. Here is a very special viewpoint of a strong woman who believes that perfection doesn’t exist for a reason. It’s up to us to appreciate life, accept things we cannot change, be courageous to change the things we can and contribute to the world. 

Host Özlem Özkan

✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/

✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/

Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to gain a Master in Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor in Education in Amsterdam. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started attending retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to expand their awareness, learn, practice and transform in all areas of life.

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@ozlemozkanbridging

Episode 15 of CRYSTALCAST features Jamie Pritchard of Precise Mortgages.

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Crystal Specialist Finance's podcast series is back with another guest from the world of specialist finance providing you with expert insight and helping you to either write more business in this sector or start for the first time.

Episode 15 features Precise Mortgages' Head of Sales - Jamie Pritchard. Jamie joins Kris Corns to talk touch-point training, the increasing popularity of bridging with brokers and the resilience of the property market.

Jamie said: "I'm very positive about the resilience of the market and after 9 housing ministers in 10 years it has weathered the storm of both economic and political uncertainty which shows that demand for housing is strong.”

This recording is for intermediary use only and the views expressed are of Jamie Pritchard alone.

There's been a much stronger focus on calling ObjC from Swift than the other way around, but in this talk we'll cover both directions and the parts of the Swift language involved in the process.

ObjC Interop Overview

• Nikita Lutsenko's talk: https://realm.io/news/altconf-nikita-lutsenko-objc-swift-interoperability/
  • NS_SWIFT_NAME
  • NS_SWIFT_UNAVAILABLE
  • NS_REFINED_FOR_SWIFT
  • NS_SWIFT_NOTHROW
  • NS_NOESCAPE
  • NSEXTENSIBLESTRING_ENUM
  • Nullability Annotations
  • Generic Annotations
• ClangImporter (omit needless words logic lives here)
• PrintAsObjC
  • Kevin Ballard's PR to include unavailable/deprecated/availability attributes: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/6480
  • ObjC codegen via string manipulation. Very hackable.

Proposals on ObjC Interop

• Referencing ObjC key-paths: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0062-objc-keypaths.md
• Referencing ObjC property selectors: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0064-property-selectors.md
• Referencing ObjC selector of a method: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0022-objc-selectors.md
• Great API transformation: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0005-objective-c-name-translation.md
• Import ObjC constants: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0033-import-objc-constants.md
• Make optional requirements ObjC only: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0070-optional-requirements.md

Swift has evolved since 1.x to have a fluctuating amount of magic/implicit bridging from ObjC and Foundation types, sometimes going in the opposite direction towards very explicit type conversions.

We've started seeing more of what the "steady state" looks like as Swift 3.x/4.x development matures.

In the early days, Swift users would need deep compiler internal implementation details to know which NSNumber-representable type could implicitly convert. As of SE-0139 that's a lot clearer.

The subtleties of unenforced protocol conformance semantics: https://oleb.net/blog/2016/12/protocols-have-semantics/

Proposals on bridging

• New from Doug Gregor, limiting @objc inference: https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/objc-inference/proposals/NNNN-objc-inference.md
• NSNumber and NSValue: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0139-bridge-nsnumber-and-nsvalue.md
• Optional to payload or NSNull: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0140-bridge-optional-to-nsnull.md
• ObjC lightweight generics: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0057-importing-objc-generics.md
• Import id as Any: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0116-id-as-any.md
• NSError bridging: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0112-nserror-bridging.md
• Fully eliminate implicit bridging: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0072-eliminate-implicit-bridging-conversions.md
• Remove bridging conversion behavior from dynamic casts: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0083-remove-bridging-from-dynamic-casts.md
• Ole Begemann on "Protocols are more than Bags of Syntax": https://oleb.net/blog/2016/12/protocols-have-semantics/
• No protocol for non-user constructable types (e.g. library-vendored types) :(
• Conventions are useful, even if not for technical reasons. Case study with Realm trying to buck NSError ObjC conventions: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/pull/1123