For Friends And Family Podcast

Phil is Canadian but lives in the UK. He works for Snow and Rock a ski retailer part of a larger retail group of about 100 stores. He tells me how they are coping and what is next for retail.

The passion that Murray speaks about the 10 sports documentaries he has picked is infectious. See the list below. Follow Murray on Twitter at @murraybarnett<br /><br />We also did a bonus list of 12 ESPN documentaries from when he worked at the company.<br />The lists are in no particular order. On the podcast, Murray tells me his super faves.<br /><br />1. A Sunday in Hell (1976) | YouTube | Cycling<br />2. Deep Water (2006) | Amazon Prime (rental) | Sailing<br />3. Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) | Netflix | Skateboarding<br />4. Do You Believe in Miracles (2001) | YouTube | Ice Hockey<br />5. Freedom's Fury (2006) | N/A | Olympics <br />6. Iverson (2014) | YouTube rental | Basketball<br />7. Salute (2008) | Amazon Prime | Olympics<br />8. Sons of Cuba (2009) | Amazon Prime | Boxing<br />9. TT: Closer to the Edge (2011) | Amazon Prime (rental) | Motorcycle<br />10. Barkley Marathons: The race that eats its young (2014) | Amazon Prime (rental) | Running<br /><br />Bonus<br />Murray's Best Ever ESPN Documentaries<br />1. Kings Ransom – NHL’s Wayne Gretsky’s controversial move to the LA Kings<br />2. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson<br />3. 9.79 – 1988 100m Olympic Final<br />4. The 16th Man – 1995 Rugby World Cup<br />5. June 17th 1994 – OJ<br />6. The Two Escobars -The 1994 FIFA World Cup and the tragedy of Andres Escobar <br />7. Jordan Rides the Bus – Michael Jordan plays Minor League Baseball<br />8. Unmatched – Evert and Navratilova<br />9. Once Brothers – NBA players torn apart by politics – Croatian Drazen Petrovic and Serbian Vlade Divac<br />10. No Mas – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran in the 1980’s<br />11. When the Garden was Eden – 1970’s New York Knicks<br />12. White, Blue and White – Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles at Tottenham Hotspur during the Falklands crisis

Eric lives in Peru by the ocean. The country is getting ready to open up with no masks required. He sent me a photo of a bleach UV truck. He tells me how Peru intends to open up safely. He doesn't sound convinced.

Tim lives in Arizona and has 2 boys 5 and 9. His wife works. He doesn't. He became the greatest Dad that ever lived. He tells me how the kids are coping and what it's like with school online.

"They don't question the government!" Per tells me how Sweden can be lemming-like and how his wife's nephews told her NOT to come back at the beginning of the pandemic. We also learn about whether Sweden's plan is working for the country.

Mary Ellen in Toronto and Edith in London are both watching for the 'new normal'. Lots of things are not making sense. We also talk about vaccines and whether any of us would take them...first ;-) Pretty much an all round no to that.

Our man in Australia, Ben Parsons, tells me how he took a wrong turn and ended up in another state that required him to fill out forms to get home. He also told me about how sport is coming back in June and no one is wearing masks when they are out.

I've done 50 episodes during COVID. This recap episode points out the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Mary Ellen lives in Toronto and she is sorta depressed with the whole COVID thing. It's quite cute and hilarious. Edith and I laugh a lot. Edith says London is starting to return to normal but they are a long way off.

Ben lives near Brisbane. He is married with two kids. You basically have to get a visa to cross state lines and people are getting restless. Australia kids never stopped going to school as it would mean that their parents would have to take care of them.

Jenny is single and so is Mike. She is in Denver and he is LA. They are not happy that they will have to get tested for more than STDs before they date someone. They also agree that dating after COVID is going to be a mess. Especially if you are OCD.

Marketing guru and connector, Jed Schneiderman, gives us 9 reasons you need to do marketing different including for your business and personal brand during COVID. He is also a Linkedin expert and gives us 2 tricks to help you get your voice heard on the platform.

My friend LA real estate agent Dave says it's dead out there. He tells stories of deals falling apart multiple times, getting certified to see houses, and what lies ahead for the housing market.

My friend Raj Pannu lives in Manhattan. He has an MS of Immunology and a PhD in Biochemistry. His wife is a cancer doctor on the front lines at a hospital in NYC. He has some great insights into how the virus is impacting NYC and what the future holds.

Nate and I talk about 4 blog posts he wrote. See below.<br />Nate was a former manager at Inc. magazine, suicide prevention counselor and cattle rancher in the Australian Outback. He's now a coach who helps business owners and artists with strategy, mindset and emotional resilience. He also covers these topics as a writer in his column on Thrive Global and his blog on Medium.com.<br />These are the 4 topics we discussed that are also blog articles Nate wrote.<br />Be grateful for assholes<br />Stop coddling yourself<br />Why too much time is screwing you<br />Why can't you complete your 10-year goal in 6 months?

During this downtime, there are ways to make money online. Mike and I give you the step by step system to make your own online business. $10 per day X 365 days = $3650 which is a trip to Hawaii we think. We are probably wrong but you get the idea.

My Canadian friend based in France wanted to remain nameless for this interview as he has spent many years focused on his online privacy. One of the smartest guys I know about the Dark Web and keeping your information private online. He gives me some tips and tricks as well as REAL data on COVID.

Joel Comm (@joelcomm) and I see each other at social media conferences. We may not agree on everything and we look at the world from two different perspectives but we both believe that on social media you need to be civil. We discuss having to ban friends from our Facebook. It's not pretty.

My friend Simon lives about 4 hours out of Helsinki. He gives us some history about Finland including that they were actually Swedish for 800 years and then Russian. He's watching his Swedish neighbors and their COVID experiment. We also talk about his female prime minister and their 70-year-old president working together and the Internet as a human right.

My Swedish friend Per Sjofors tells me why his country approached the COVID virus differently than others. His insights into how Swede's think helped me understand. I also like IKEA although we didn't talk about that. Opportunity missed. Next time.

Ben Parsons tells stories in his great accent about how Australia is staying at only 6,000 cases so far. The best story about the guy who keeps getting fined by the police for running in Sydney.

Mike, Eric, and I give you insights on how to start an online business for next to nothing during COVID. Tips, tricks, resources, and strategies to get your idea from your brain to the internet for almost free. Make you money while you sleep.

Journalist Richard Clarke worked for Arsenal FC for 14 years and now is a sports consultant for football/soccer clubs in the UAE and Indonesia. We had a great discussion about sport overseas and in the UK. He has so much energy!

Edith, Mary Ellen, and I get passionate about what is going on as the pandemic hits London UK, Toronto, and Los Angeles hard. <br />We have a really passionate discussion about what's going on and how the United States is perceived abroad. <br />PM Boris Johnson is put into ICU and things look grim all round.

Mike has been dating in LA for a while. He wants to settle down with the right woman. They are elusive it seems and COVID isn't helping. It's a mess and we laugh a lot.

I wanted to randomly call towns around the world. My friend Dave thought it would be better if call small towns in America with weird names. Challenge accepted. I speak with David in the mayor's office of Chugwater, Wyoming population 202.

Sylvie is East German and a long time cancer researcher in the UK who has a PhD in virology. She helps me understand 'viral load' and how COVID may be around for a long time.

Sometimes doctors don't agree. Esther and I discuss information on Vitamin D from a previous podcast as well as how to tackle dental emergencies during COVID. Esther does a podcast on her channel Alternative Food Network.

Corina used to work for my company Jumpwire and now runs social media communities for video gaming brands around the world. She tells me how the virus has lead to exponential growth in gaming. She also tells us which games to try.

My cousin Aidan has lived in South Korea for 20 years. He's married with 2 boys and lives on the island of 700,000 called JeJu off the coast of South Korea. The technology they use to control how the virus spreads is quiet impressive.