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Disney Daze: Steps, Rides, and Relaxation

Living Forward - April 15, 2024 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Join us for our 24,000 step-per-day trip to Disney World!  Teja pampered his bad leg in the mornings, while Barbara and our daughter hit the early entry lines. We go deep into the immersive Star Wars experience and speculate about the happiest dungeon in the world.  With expert help from Haley...

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From Rookie to Resident Alien: What We're Streaming

Living Forward - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Our favorite shows are back and we’re happily streaming again! With the actors and writers strikes behind us all, we'll tell you what's hooked our attention. There’s Nathan Fillion in The Rookie and unexpected depth in 9-1-1 Lone Star. There's the speculative genius of For All Mankind and the qu...

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Review Rant: Stars, Frowny Faces, and Rotten Tomatos

Living Forward - March 15, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We’re back! With all the regularity of the BBC’s Doctor Who season schedule, we’re on the mic again. This week we’re poking fun at the ratings and review systems that are foisted on us every day. Who decided frowny faces should measure sadness? And are more of them a good or a bad thing?  On a ...

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Don't Stop Believin', Rosanna

Living Forward - April 07, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
What could possibly keep two of the biggest rock bands throughout decades performing for die hard fans? Rosanna. So, don't stop believing that iconic melodies, lyrics and voice qualities of Journey and Toto will continue to wow millions of crazed-fans around the world! Journey’s on the road agai...

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You're Not Going Anywhere With Those Tight Hips

Living Forward - March 24, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Barbara and Teja attempt to stretch their luck by testing their physical flexibility and mobility. While following along a virtual class, they try their best to manupulate their muscles and ligaments they didn't even know they had. Can they survive rotating their hips like pretzels and dialing t...

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Box Store Bounty: From Snacks to Massage

Living Forward - March 17, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This is not about finding the best deals on family-sized hand sanitizer or stockpiling frozen salmon. It's about a self-indulgent, one-hour experience in a box-store traveling exhibit of an immersive full-body massage chair. Sign up for our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/hH5nZX Join us on Inst...

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Accent Misrepresentation Results in Yakuza Penguins

Living Forward - March 10, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
It would be a cold day on the South Pole if Hollywood ever got foreign accents correct. Self-appointed culture investigators, Barbara and Teja mock the incompentance of directors and casting agents and end up surrounded by Yakuza penguins. Sign up for our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/hH5nZX J...

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Fur, Foam, and Forensics

Living Forward - March 03, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Owning, caring for and loving all that is "cat", will furnish your home with a profusion of fur and all that comes of its relationship to the feline monster. Sign up for our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/hH5nZX Join us on Instagram @wearelivingforward https://www.facebook.com/livingforwardpodc...

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Who Pressed the Pause Button?

Living Forward - February 24, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Barbara and Teja defy escape velocity and return unharmed from an event horizon time-slip. 14 months may have passed since their last podcast, but you know...stuff. Sign up for our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/hH5nZX Join us on Instagram @wearelivingforward https://www.facebook.com/livingfo...

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Supply-chain technology for an excellent customer experience, with Microsoft’s Ashley Haynes-Gaspar

Connected & Ready - February 11, 2022 20:06 - 25 minutes
Ashley Haynes-Gaspar, COO for Microsoft Business Applications and Industry Clouds, talks with host Gemma Milne about key supply chain topics like how to coordinate stakeholders across your organization around your supply chain strategy, how to drive technology adoption, and unlocking the power o...

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How technology impacts humanitarian efforts, with IRC’s Daniel Coughlin

Connected & Ready - January 19, 2022 17:39 - 29 minutes
Daniel Coughlin, Director of Data Insights, Systems, and Architecture at the International Rescue Committee, talks with host Gemma Milne about how the IRC’s work in Syria and Afghanistan, how specific technologies actually help people in need, ensuring responsible technology use with vulnerable ...

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Supply Chain pain points and progress, with Mark Weimann

Connected & Ready - January 05, 2022 17:52 - 29 minutes
Mark Weimann, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management senior technical specialist, returns to talk with host Gemma Milne about what’s changed since their October 2020 conversation, and what hasn’t. Topics include the impact of supply chain disruptions on consumer behavior, new technologie...

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Be our guest: how tech helps small hotels act big, with Gautam Swaroop

Connected & Ready - December 15, 2021 17:04 - 28 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Gautam Swaroop, CEO of OYO International, about the impact of COVID-19 on the travel and hospitality industries, the role of technology in helping property owners respond to changes in what customers want and expect from a hotel, and new opportunities arising from innovati...

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Digital Fashion, Real Consequences

Living Forward - December 15, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Would you trust artificial intelligence to dress you? Barbara and Teja use the DressX app augmented reality feature to explore the world of digital fashion. They will dazzle social media fans with styles that will blow your mind! (and maybe your budget too...) We'll be releasing the pictures o...

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How AI improves medicine from diagnosis to cure, with Chad Robins

Connected & Ready - December 08, 2021 17:26 - 24 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Chad Robins, co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, about his company’s work in the emerging field of immune medicine, how they use technology to drive innovation, and the potential for their work to create further advancements in the area of personalized medicine...

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Making retail experiences more intelligent, with Augusto Modigliani

Connected & Ready - December 01, 2021 19:20 - 25 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Augusto Modigliani, Chief Marketing Officer at digital signage, analytics, and marketing automation company Beabloo. They discuss expectations for the impact of technology on online and offline shopping; how companies are using AI, automation, and bot technologies to shape...

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Storytime with Barbara: Snorkeling

Living Forward - November 20, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Barbara goes solo this week with her inspirational tale of learning to snorkel. Sit on the edge of your seat as she stares down barracuda, wrestles with an inflatable dinghy, and masters the sea with her stellar doggie paddle. The coral was totally worth it.  Sign up for our newsletter! http://...

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How Mars keeps people at the center of digital transformation, with Carol Van Den Hende

Connected & Ready - November 17, 2021 18:20 - 20 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Carol Van Den Hende, Senior Digital Transformation Director at Mars, Inc., about how digital transformation at the company is helping reshape the customer and employee experience, and how to maintain a human-centered culture in a technology-fueled world.  Topics of discus...

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Tales from the Crypto

Living Forward - November 15, 2021 03:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Cryptocurrency is here to stay! Impress Elon Musk at the next SpaceX company outing with your wealth of knowledge. And find out why a TV show phenomenon might not be the best thing to base an investment on. Take the cryptocurrency quiz with Teja and see if you have what it takes to succeed in th...

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5G powers a new era for IoT and edge computing, with Neha Gandhi Vijay

Connected & Ready - November 10, 2021 19:55 - 26 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with AT&T’s Assistant VP of Strategic Alliances, Neha Gandhi Vijay, about understanding edge computing in the context of IoT and 5G, which industries and verticals AT&T is exploring opportunities with 5G and edge computing, business use cases for IoT apps, and how AT&T’s partne...

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Head to Head with Bread

Living Forward - November 06, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
It would have been easier to just buy a loaf of fresh bread from the bakery. But this is Barbara and Teja we're talking about. So, a quick visit to the Dedham Public Library to borrow a breadmaker, a multi-isle cruise at the market for specific bread-making ingredients, and an eye-bleeding read-...

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The changing world of cloud CRM, with Chris Cognetta

Connected & Ready - November 03, 2021 16:35 - 35 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Chris Cognetta, CongruentX’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer, about how cloud environments can help companies align their technology and operations to improve customer experiences and the importance of focusing on business outcomes, especially how these topics relate t...

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Count This!

Living Forward - October 30, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The true test of technology isn't what it can do, it's what it can't do. Teja saw a slick advertisement for the new app Count This. Now he and Barbara are on a quest to have the app count everything in their house. Where will it succeed or fail? Will this new technology save them the pain of hav...

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Super apps for smart cities, with Shyam Sunder

Connected & Ready - October 27, 2021 15:39 - 25 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Shyam Sunder from PayiQ about the growing trend of super apps and their impact on service delivery and the customer experience, and the implications they might have on the concept of connected cities.   Topics of discussion How mobile applications have become an integra...

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Blade Runner: Where'd He Get the Dove??

Living Forward - October 23, 2021 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Teja studied cinema. Barbara did not. So when they decided it was time to decypher the volumenous symbolism in the movie Blade Runner, Barbara started packing to move off-world. Drenched in sci-fi, religious, and film noir references the movie left them both looking for an umbrella. And they sti...

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Barbara Fails the Invisible Gorilla Test

Living Forward - October 16, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
It was supposed to be a fun afternoon out, to see the Imagine Van Gogh exhibition, but instead turned into a three-month wait. Yup! Barbara missed the invisible gorilla when buying the tickets. How could this happen, you ask? Join us and we'll tell you all about how our brain's selective attenti...

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Saving Facebook

Living Forward - October 09, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Facebook's massive outage this week is the perfect opportunity for Barbara & Teja to display their explainer skills so you can look hip and informed at your next distanced dinner party. The world may not have come to an end, but with millions of people's eyeballs unable to keep scrolling, visits...

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The intersection of physical and digital experiences, with Jane Alexander

Connected & Ready - October 06, 2021 15:59 - 32 minutes
Gemma Milne talks with Jane Alexander, Chief Digital Information Officer, about the impact of its Open Access and ARTLENS Gallery initiatives, the technologies behind them, how her team got critical stakeholder buy-in from the CMA board, and how other organizations might be able to learn from th...

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We'll Try Non-Dairy Yogurt...So You Don't Have To

Living Forward - October 02, 2021 03:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Long ago, we could all hanker for a hunk of cheese, but these are the days of nondairy alternatives! Never ones to shy away from a fun trend, for one exclusive night, Barbara and Teja eschew the cow, the goat, and the yak, and instead dive into a taste test of plant-based nondairy yogurts.   Si...

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Glass Blowing: At least it's a dry heat

Living Forward - September 25, 2021 02:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The heat is on when Barbara and Teja take a glass blowing lesson! There's nothing like standing next to a burning furnace of molten glass on a 95 degree day. Can Barbara handle the pressure? Can Teja remember what color he picked? They are now armed with new and saucy-sounding vocabulary. Who kn...

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