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BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Cold Call, the podcast where we dive deep into the stories behind groundbreaking Harvard Business School case studies. Tim Ferriss has been called the Oprah of Audio. His podcast, the Tim Ferriss Show, surpassed a billion downloads and reshaped the digital media landscape. Yet at the height of his success, Ferriss found himself at a crossroads. With podcasting becoming a crowded competitive space, he wondered whether the medium that had defined his career was still the best vehicle for his curiosity, creativity, and impact. How should a creator who has always thrived by reinventing himself decide…

A US border patrol chase that began with a suspected illegal immigrant ramming into a federal patrol car ended in a crash — sparking a tense standoff between residents and law enforcement in Chicago Tuesday, according to reports and authorities. A red SUV driven by a person suspected to be in the country illegally rammed into a Border Patrol vehicle before attempting to flee the scene in the city’s Southeast Side, Department of Homeland Security officials said. A US border patrol chase that started with a suspected illegal immigrant ramming into a federal patrol car ended in a crash, sparking…

Guerschon Yabusele is operating on a steep learning curve, according to his new head coach, and it has looked like that. Yabusele, 29, has struggled to find his footing this preseason, while alternating frontcourt positions, with his minutes in Monday’s loss to the Wizards looking especially clunky. Yabusele is the biggest offseason acquisition by the Knicks after signing as a $12 million free agent, and at 6-foot-8 is a natural power forward but strong enough to play center. Guerschon Yabusele wins the opening tip of Monday night’s preseason game against the Wizards. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Against the…

Recently, my yoga teacher commented that “Fall is a windy time of year.” Depending on where you live, the cool wind may pick up or briskness cut the air. This seasonal shift can feel energizing, or rev up your anxiety. But my yoga teacher was not just talking about the external weather forecast. She was also talking about the shift of weather inside of each of us; that is, a feeling of worry, frenzy, and overwhelm that ramps up quite predictably each fall. Not coincidentally, these freshly stirred up feelings might bear relation to the weather around us; after all,…

Ben Rice has made it clear he has a legitimate, middle-of-the-order, big league bat. Austin Wells has made it clear he is a legitimate big league catcher. If the Yankees could merge the two players into one, they might have one of the top all-around catchers in the game. Instead, getting the rest of their games to catch up to their current strengths remains the next challenge in line as the Yankees try to best utilize Rice and Wells in the same lineup. Aside from a stretch in August when Rice threatened to take over the bulk of the starts…

For the better part of a year, Zohran Mamdani has not paid a political price for his sickening anti-Israel and anti-Jewish positions and comments.  Thursday’s mayoral debate promises to be the end of the honeymoon.  Not that his opponents, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, needed more ammunition, given the Queens assemblyman’s reckless tax plans and anti-police, pro-criminal agenda.  But Cuomo and Sliwa will come to the crucial face-off bearing fresh evidence that the socialist front-runner is unfit to be dogcatcher, let alone mayor of New York.  The smoking gun is Mamdani’s outrageous reaction to the end of the war in…

So many horror movie trailers, such little time!  October is finally upon us, and with that comes an increase in horror movies, television shows, and related documentaries! In the past week alone there has been a plethora of trailers dumped into our lap for our viewing pleasure. Let’s sift through them, shall we? Psycho Killer Psycho Killer is a horror movie melded with a psychological thriller and a twist of Satanism for good measure. The movie is written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), which is no surprise given the promise of the story yet to unfold. Furthermore, the trailer is…

Mike Shildt’s surprise departure from the Padres was announced as a “retirement,” and team personnel are insisting it was Shildt’s call to exit after feeling “worn down.” However, it was hard to see him lasting in that role considering his very poor relationship with some of his coaches. Sources suggest one of the coaches was recently so upset after feeling insulted by Shildt that a fight nearly broke out. Shildt gained a rep as blunt and temperamental in St. Louis, where he was fired after an excellent season. In St. Louis, the feeling was he didn’t treat the support staff…

D4vd’s former Hollywood Hills landlord has hired their own private investigator to probe the death of a 15-year-old girl who was found dismembered in the rapper’s impounded Tesla last month, according to a report. Property owner Mladen Trifunovic hired a private investigator after the mansion D4vd had been renting for $20,000 a month was raided by cops investigating the death of teen runaway Celeste Rivas Hernandez, TMZ reported. The owner of D4vd’s former Hollywood Hills home has hired their own private investigator into the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dismembered in the rapper’s impounded Tesla last month.…

Jodi was unexpectedly fired from her job. Henry just got divorced. Tara is a proud parent of her new baby. John just retired from his 30+ year career. While our everyday lives tend to fall into predictable patterns, life mixes it up from time to time. Like Jodi, the unexpected happens, or like Henry, Tara, and John, while there are no surprises, new challenges are still likely to arise that can’t be predicted. Between the closing of one chapter—the job, the marriage, the singlehood, or the career—and the firm landing into a new one, comes a transition zone: an emotional…