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<site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4545678</site>	<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>©The Art of Change LLC, all rights reserved</copyright><itunes:image href="http://theartofchange.com/Podcasts/podcast_picture.jpg"/><itunes:keywords>training,customer,service,communication,skill,persuasion,influence,connection,networking</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>It's not just what you know but who you know that counts. Learn to turn contact into connection, connection into relationship, and relationship into results with Dr. K</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Building the Personal Side of Business</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Management &amp; Marketing"/></itunes:category><itunes:author>Dr. Rick Kirschner</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>drkblog@gmail.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Dr. Rick Kirschner</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
		<title>The Attention Economy and Fake Mainstream News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Oliver&#8217;s pHARMa-propaganda-and-lies tiradeÂ aboutÂ vaccines and those who dare question them motivated me to share what followsÂ (and toÂ tune out one more loudmouth from my TV viewing.) Too often I have the thought that it&#8217;s no longer the age of information, it&#8217;s the age of narrative in service to the &#8216;Attention Economy.&#8217; Facts are increasingly irrelevant when [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand Up for Your Privacy While There Is Still Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When our government has all the power to compel and the people must comply,  then our relationship is flipped, upside down, and backwards, because government should fear the people, not the other way around, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.   Contact your legislator, write to the President, and support Apple in its difficult stand against the surveillance state coming to pass on our watch.  ]]></description>
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		<title>On Vaccines, Injuries and the Ethics of Mandates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no problem with people choosing to vaccinate their kids. I have a big problem with government pushing industry agendas and coercing families to accept risky procedures in the phony name of 'the greater good.'  The drug industry hasn't earned and does not deserve the trust they demand from us.]]></description>
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		<title>Our gift to you, free for the next two days!</title>
		<link>http://blog.theartofchange.com/persuasion/dealing-with-difficult-people/our-gift-to-you-free-for-the-next-two-days</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OUR HOLIDAY GIFT TO YOU, FREE for the NEXT TWO DAYS!  (This offer ends on December 23rd, 2015)

My coauthored book, 'DEALING WITH RELATIVES' for Kindle is available for the next 2 days FREE at this link!
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		<title>Yes, Yes AND, Yes again!  What does “Yes, AND…” accomplish?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a brainstorming session it doesn't always serve to "yes, and" the first idea suggested as we would in an improv show. We want to build on an idea that will satisfy the need we're targeting, and this seems to require discriminatory thinking, which seems to be opposite of â€˜yes, and.â€™ How do you reconcile/incorporate this into the improv toolbox we are offering?]]></description>
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