“59% of food bank users have a post-secondary education. 50% have full-time employment… The social contract has been broken.” Millions of Canadians were lied to. They went to college, played by the rules, found full-time jobs only to discover that a paycheck no longer guarantees food on the table or a roof over their heads. A warning here for Americans as well. What happens to a country when doing everything “right” is no longer enough to build a decent life? That is a Broken Country... Broken Country is a new documentary examining how Canada went from one of the safest and most prosperous countries in the world to a nation struggling with an affordability crisis, homelessness, public disorder and a growing loss of faith in its institutions. Follow @BrokenCountry_

its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?

This photo with @anitakirkovska feels like 100 years ago. It was March at @vellum_ai HQ in Manhattan. Time flies. Already an experienced public speaker, she wanted to double down on her strengths while finding and fixing any weak points in her game. A keen student of growth and personal development, and highly technical A-player in her career, she took to unique flavor of executive voice and public speaking coaching. We got her Three Resonances (voice, messaging, and identity) ringing clearly and confidently for industry keynotes, customer demos, and key internal conversations. Is AI flying faster than time? At a prominent angel and VC-backed AI company (@ycombinator @leadersfund @dharmesh @arashf, to name a few), it wasn’t long before she was effectively de-facto C-Suite in addition to her role in the trenches as an operator. Her voice, clarity of thought, and courage to speak mattered more than ever. When The Three Resonances combine, we hear The Frequency of Truth, bedrock of The Sound of Leadership. When you speak, you lead. Your voice tells the world who you are. Unleashing it is a matter of unlearning what’s unnatural. From there, you can go forth, and speak BOLDLY 👊

Across all human time periods, saying what you actually think has always been a pure demonstration of courage.

American friends — We made Broken Country to answer one question: what happened to Canada? A country that was the envy of the world is now a shell of itself. It didn’t happen by accident. It happened one bad policy at a time. Every one of those policies sounded good when it was sold. Mass immigration at a pace our housing, hospitals and wages couldn’t absorb. “Free” health care you wait months to actually use and increasingly are offered death instead of care. More programs, more promises, more government standing between people and their own lives. The result: separatist movements in three provinces, a generation that can’t afford a home, and a government insisting things have never been better. When I look south I see a country that isn’t perfect, but is thriving. With your midterms two weeks out, I’d ask you to look hard at three candidates running on the exact promises that took us down: Texas — James Talarico. On video calling capitalism an “oppressive system” that must be “dismantled.” Now he says he’s a capitalist. Texans should ask which one shows up in the Senate. Michigan — Abdul El-Sayed. Deleted thousands of posts before running. Told NBC his family had no Muslim Brotherhood ties; his own half-sister’s posts say otherwise. You can delete tweets. You can’t delete a record. Florida — Angie Nixon. A card-carrying member of the DSA, whose platform calls for defunding police and open borders. She says she disagrees with those parts. Then why join? We’ve lived where this road goes. If you want to see it for yourself, watch Broken Country at BrokenCountry.com. Don’t make Canada’s mistakes.

One of the most persuasive forms of content: Predictions. A lot of people are scared to make bets publicly. But people have always paid attention to people who have an idea about future direction. It helps to remember the risk isn’t real. If you are wrong, great—you can explain why. If you are right, great—people think you are the best to listen to in your niche. Predictions require two things: 1. That you have the finger on the pulse of your market 2. That you understand second and third order consequences (cause and effect) For example, a hot topic right now is AI (of course). Now an obvious prediction is that AI is going to make us all more powerful. But that is so boring (being unique means saying something that someone hasn’t heard before). When we think about second order consequences, the most interesting predictions come from flipping the script. A positive creates a negative etc. One example is that as the world becomes more artificial, people crave more connection with real people. And so a good bet is to build your message, and offers, around community. Answer this question: Where do you think your niche is heading? Then, don’t just talk about it. Take action and show people the way.