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On 60 AmFm stations around the US, the show argues that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur when they forget creativity, risk, and passion! Join host Jim Beach, bestselling McGraw-Hill Author for his SBA award winning nationally syndicated radio show. Copy an idea, execute it better, start with less than $5,000 and reserve passion for family & religion.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    March 6, 2026 – The Moralists Glen Dunzweiler and Be More Strategic Charlie Curson

    Glen Dunzweiler – Filmmaker/producer, Public Speaker and Homelessness Advocate and Author of The Moralists The answer is what can I do? And you don’t have to do everything, but what can I do to make the people around me better? Glen Dunzweiler is a filmmaker/producer, public speaker, and video coach. His documentary yHomeless? is available on Amazon Prime and his new book, A Degree In Homelessness? Entrepreneurial Skills For Students can be found on Amazon Books! glendunzweiler.com  Glen wrote the book for students who only know how to be successful in school. He currently lives in Los Angeles and works to make his creative projects sustainable. In 2015, he moved from a professorship at CSU San Bernardino to Los Angeles to focus on the business side of entertainment. He found distribution for yHomeless? and began work on his second film, a biopic titled Deuce -about a former student getting himself out of The South Side of Chicago. In addition to filmmaking and book authoring, Dunzweiler speaks publicly about insights gained from working with the homeless and with community leaders; strategies for navigating the differences between academic and business success for students; and tips for smoother presentations for corporate audiences. Charlie Curson – CEO and Founder of Mandarin Associates & Author of Be More Strategic: 12 essential practices to build the life and career Planning is sequencing actions. It feels safe. Strategy is about choices. Charlie Curson is the Founder and CEO of Mandarin Associates, a strategic advisor, investor, facilitator, and accredited leadership coach with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations think and act more strategically. He has worked with more than 250 organizations across over 30 industries, partnering with global companies such as Visa, McDonald’s, Unilever, Experian, Volkswagen Group, L’Oréal, and Barclays, as well as ambitious start ups. Through this work he has helped design and deliver bold growth strategies, innovation programs, and leadership development initiatives that enable organizations and leaders to perform at a higher level in complex and rapidly changing environments. Curson has spent much of his career helping leaders build stronger strategic capability. After early experience in engineering and top tier consulting, he found his calling working with a world class strategy team in London that helped organizations design and implement ambitious strategic direction. Over time, clients increasingly asked not only for strategic guidance but also for help building the capability within their own teams. For more than fifteen years he has coached leaders around the world to develop stronger strategic thinking and decision making skills, emphasizing that strategy should not be confined to boardrooms or MBA programs but should be a practical skill available to anyone seeking to lead more effectively. Known for blending research based frameworks with real world application, Curson integrates cutting edge thinking with practical tools that help leaders and teams navigate uncertainty, clarify direction, and create momentum. His work focuses on helping people become more conscious, creative, and decisive in their leadership and professional lives. Curson is also the author of the forthcoming book Be More Strategic: 12 Essential Practices to Build the Life and Career You Want, which explores how individuals can develop the mindset and habits required to think strategically and succeed in today’s complex world.

    54 min

  2. 3 DAYS AGO

    March 5, 2026 – Highly Defective Bosses Joel Hilchey and High-Altitude Entrepreneur Chris Clearfield

    Joel Hilchey – Keynote Speaker, Author, “Fun-at-Work” Expert and Author of The 6-and-a-half Habits of Highly Defective Bosses: Serious Lessons for Accidental Managers  When you need a creative solution, separate the idea generation process from your decision process. Joel Hilchey is an ideas guy. His gift seems to stem from a strange combination of observation, insight, and blatant disregard for conventional thinking. He’s also a juggler (literally and figuratively). In addition to leading the Beanstalk Creative team, he maintains a busy schedule as a keynote speaker on workplace culture, creating unforgettable spectacles on stage. He’s the father of 3 kids, 2 of whom co-habitated a uterus, and he attempts to be a good husband. Joel has authored 4 books – most recently The 6-and-a-half Habits of Highly Defective Bosses – Serious Lessons for Accidental Managers, and he taught engineering for over a decade at McMaster University, where he was named one of the Top 150 Alumni. He’s a seasoned barbershop quartet singer, he formerly chaired the board of the world-renowned Hamilton Children’s Choir, and he’s a semi-competitive joggler (that’s right… juggling whilst jogging). Chris Clearfield – Leadership Strategist & Author of The High-Altitude Entrepreneur: A Framework for Scaling Smarter, Leading Better, and Living Freer The stuff that helped your business grow at the beginning, at some point, that really starts to hold you and your company back. Chris Clearfield is a leadership strategist, author, and Harvard-trained scientist who works with high-performing entrepreneurs to help them scale without becoming the bottleneck in their own business. He has coached founders and executives at SMEs and large companies, including Netflix, Microsoft, Etsy, and ExxonMobil, helping leaders navigate complexity, redesign how decisions get made, and build teams that operate with clarity, ease and ownership. He is the co-author of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It, winner of the National Business Book Award and the Thinkers50 Strategy Award. His new book is The High-Altitude Entrepreneur. Learn more at highaltitudebook.com.

    54 min

  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    March 4, 2026 – RIP Olympian Jeff Galloway and WSJ #1 Author Faisel Hoque (and a Quick Ten!)

    Jeff Galloway – U.S. Olympian, Best-Selling Author, Race Director, President at Jeff Galloway Productions and Fitness Expert If you find something that you can do that will help others improve the quality of their lives, then it will take on a life of its own. Jeff Galloway was a U.S. Olympian, best selling author, race director, and internationally respected fitness expert whose influence on the running community spanned more than five decades. A member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team in the 10,000 meters, Galloway competed among the top distance runners of his era before dedicating his life to helping others discover the benefits of running and lifelong fitness. Through his company, Jeff Galloway Productions, he created training programs, seminars, and events that guided runners of all ages and abilities, inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to pursue healthier and more active lives. Jeff Galloway passed away on February 25, 2026, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the world of running and personal fitness. Galloway was widely known as the inventor of the Run Walk Run training method, a revolutionary approach that allows runners to alternate running and walking intervals to improve endurance, reduce fatigue, and lower the risk of injury. The method opened the door for countless people who once believed running was beyond their reach. He was also the author of 19 books about running, walking, and fat burning exercise, including The Run Walk Run Method, the title book behind his widely adopted training philosophy. Through his books, coaching, and encouragement, Jeff Galloway helped transform the sport of running into a welcoming community where anyone could participate, and his impact will continue to motivate runners for generations to come. Faisal Hoque – #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author, Founder and Chair at NextChapter, Founder and Managing Director at Shadoka, Author of Globee Awards winning 2022 Publication of the Year for Best Business Book called Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change Unless you know and connect with yourself and connect with other people, you cannot certainly connect with your creation and the creation that actually creates value. Faisal Hoque is an accomplished entrepreneur, noted thought leader, technology innovator, advisor to CEOs, BODs, and the US federal government, and an author with more than 25 years of cross-industry success. He is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies. They focus on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. He also serves as a strategic partner and a thought leader for CACI, and works extensively with US Federal Agencies. CACI is a $6 billion public company who plays a vital role in US national security. He is a 3 times winning Founder and CEO of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards. At the age of only 14, he began what would be the first of many businesses; cobbling together stereo components to sell from his father’s home in Dhaka, Bangladesh in order to save the money he would need to support his plan to study in the United States. He built his first commercial software product at the age of 19 while studying at the University of Minnesota, and went on to hold management positions in Pitney Bowes and then Dun and Bradstreet. In 1991, Pitney Bowes recruited him to join one of their R&D groups before he finished his undergraduate degree. As a serial entrepreneur, he has raised venture capital from angels, strategic partners, and institutional investors to fund his innovative business-to-business startups. Over the decades, his companies innovated products and solutions that: provided middleware software for complex, secure transaction processing; created industry’s first set of re-usable software components for integrated B2B e-commerce; and pioneered comprehensive business value management frameworks and platforms. As a thought leader, he has authored a number of award winning books on leadership, innovation, mindfulness, resilience, organizational transformation, and entrepreneurship, including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change (Fast Company), and the #2 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Everything Connects – Cultivating Mindfulness, Creativity, and Innovation for Long-Term Value (Fast Company). His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fox, CBS, Financial Times, Mergers & Acquisitions, Forbes, Leadership Excellence, and Huffington Post among other publications. He holds a strong belief that it is through knowledge sharing that we may provide the greatest clarity on how to improve our collective future. As a globetrotter, he is passionate about nature, people, culture, music, and design, and he loves to cook.

    54 min

  4. 5 DAYS AGO

    March 3, 2026 – Super Connector Steve Ramona and Passive Investing Patrick Grimes

    Steve Ramona – Host of Doing Business With A Servant’s Heart You got to step into every interaction that you have in our business. For your personal life, really doesn’t matter how you go really uplift them. What value can you bring to somebody? Steve Ramona is the host of Doing Business With A Servant’s Heart – Steve’s guests are Top Business Leaders who will get great resources and tips in the Podcast to help the audience grow their personal and professional lives. Steve Ramona is a unique super-connector/ Human SEO specializing in building impactful partnerships through personalized introductions. With a remarkable portfolio involving $1 billion in projects and over $125 million in partner deals, showcasing the incredible value he brings to every partnership. Steve is dedicated to facilitating connections that yield results. His introductions are not just emails; they include tailored video explanations that add a personal touch and ensure each connection is meaningful. Showcasing the incredible value he brings to every partnership. In addition to his partnership work, Steve hosts the popular podcast, *Doing Business with a Servant’s Heart* podcast, which reaches an audience of over 50,000 people per episode and continues to grow! He also produces the TV show *Together We Serve*, boasting a remarkable monthly audience of 1.2 million viewers. Featuring inspiring CEOs, founders, presidents, and entrepreneurs with incredible stories, Steve uses his platforms to forge powerful collaborations and partnerships. Join Steve on his mission to create meaningful connections and foster growth through service! Patrick Grimes – CEO and Founder of Passive Investing Mastery Nobody was telling me anything about. Here’s the 50 different ways you can invest into alternative investments that don’t have the same market fundamentals and aren’t driven by the same factors as real estate in the stock market and and by the way, they’ll build real stability, real security in your financial portfolio. Patrick Grimes, the CEO and founder of Passive Investing Mastery, has helped hundreds of successful professionals reach their financial goals through alternative investment options with tax-advantaged cash flow, appreciation, and limited exposure to market volatility and inflation. He has been active in investments since 2006, including purchasing land and distressed assets, renovating, and stabilizing for cash flow. Patrick’s private equity firm, Invest On Main Street has acquire thousands of apartment units and is diversified into natural gas and oil portfolios across five states. He is a frequent speaker on podcasts and at conferences. He writes on alternative investing and coauthored the best-selling book Persistence, Pivots and Game Changers. Previously, Patrick designed and built manufacturing automation and robotic systems in the medical device, EV, and aerospace industries. Patrick holds a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA and MS in engineering.

    54 min

  5. 6 DAYS AGO

    March 2, 2026 – Hacking the Human Mind MichaelAaron Flicker and Business Beyond Borders Dean Foster

    MichaelAaron Flicker – Founder/CEO of XenoPsi and Author of Hacking the Human Mind: The behavioral science secrets behind 17 of the world’s best brands The power of words are very commonly underestimated by entrepreneurs, by marketers. MichaelAaron Flicker is an American entrepreneur and behavioral science strategist who serves as the founder and chief executive officer of XenoPsi Ventures, a brand incubator that provides financial, marketing, and intellectual capital to a diverse portfolio of companies. He started XenoPsi when he was just a young teenager and has grown it into one of America’s fastest-growing private firms, leading nine operating companies and consulting with more than 100 brands across sectors. MichaelAaron is co-author of Hacking the Human Mind: The behavioral science secrets behind 17 of the world’s best brands, a book that reveals how top companies use behavioral science to drive lasting growth. A recognized thought leader at the intersection of business and marketing, he founded the Consumer Behavior Lab to help brands apply behavioral science principles, and he co-hosts the Behavioral Science for Brands podcast exploring the latest insights in human decision making. His work has been featured in Fast Company and other industry publications, and he has been honored as one of NJBIZ’s “40 Under 40.” He holds degrees in political science and philosophy from Boston College and lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children. Dean Foster – International Business Expert and Author of Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World You can’t change the culture that you’re choosing to work with. That’s not your job, and it’s a long process to try to do that, but you can manage it and manage it for success. Dean is the founder of DFA Intercultural Global Solutions ,and founder and former Worldwide Director of Berlitz Cross-Cultural. Based in New York City, Dean has played a central role in the development of the field of cross-cultural training and consulting. Dean has worked with most major Fortune 500 companies, national governments and NGOs (the United Nations and World Trade Institutes, among others), and as guest lecturer and faculty for premier educational institutions, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University School of Business, New York University, and Darden Business School. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries. He is the host on CNN of the nationwide “Doing Business in… ” series; a frequent guest commentator on culture, global work and social issues for CNN, CNBC, the BBC and other radio and TV shows; and has been interviewed in Newsweek, USA Today, New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the creator and host of the more than irreverent podcast, “Oops, Your Culture’s Showing!” Dean is a frequent presenter at major international conferences related to global work and cultural issues. He has been an active member of and speaker at the annual international conferences of Worldwide ERC©, the National Foreign Trade Council, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the International Institute for Human Resources (IIHR), and other organizations. In 2012 Dean was inducted into Worldwide ERC’s prestigious “Hall of Leaders”; in 2013 he received the Forum for Expatriate Management’s acclaimed Lifetime Achievement Award. Dean has written many articles and published six books, including “Bargaining Across Borders“, voted as one of the top ten business books of the year by the American Library Association. As a contributing editor with National Geographic, he wrote the monthly “CultureWise” column appearing in National Geographic Traveler Magazine. His latest book, “BUSINESS BEYOND BORDERS: Stories, Tales and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World” was published, November 2025. Dean is on the faculty of American University’s Intercultural Management Institute in Washington, DC. He received his Master’s degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, NYC.

    54 min

  6. 27 FEB

    February 27, 2026 - So Worth It Kaelyn Query and Building Authority Rusty Shelton

    Kaelyn Query – Award-winning Event Producer and Author of So Worth It!  We actually make more money doing less events because we’re spending more time on each these clients then become repeat clients. A lot of our corporate clients were on retainer for them, and so we actually do better with less events. What a wild concept, right? Kaelyn Query Caldwell is an award-winning event producer, small business owner, serial entrepreneur, author of So Worth It!, consultant, professor, and public speaker based in Lexington, Kentucky whose work spans clients across the United States and beyond. She began her career in events and hospitality during high school and turned her passion into a professional venture in 2013, eventually founding multiple successful companies including Kentucky Event Company, LexEffect Venues, and My Wedding Planner while producing countless events nationally and internationally. Kaelyn hosts the Big Ideas Small Business podcast and serves as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Transylvania University, where she mentors and teaches aspiring business leaders. Her entrepreneurial achievements have earned her numerous honors such as Entrepreneur of the Year and Top Event Planner recognitions, and she is active in her community through leadership and board roles. When she is not creating experiences or writing, Kaelyn enjoys travel, cooking, and time with her wife and son. Rusty Shelton – Founder of Zilker Media and Co-Author of “The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego“ The way you punch above your weight class today is not to lead as a company with something to sell. Instead, it’s to lead as a thought leader with something to teach. Rusty Shelton is the Founder of Zilker Media and Co-Author of “The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego“. Rusty Shelton first spoke at Harvard on the changing world of marketing and PR at the age of 23. He is a bestselling author, dynamic keynote speaker and successful entrepreneur who has focused his career on helping leaders build thought leadership focused on impact, not ego, writing three acclaimed books and speaking around the world to a variety of audiences, from YPO to SXSW Interactive to Forbes. He is Chairman of Zilker Media, an award-winning agency based in Austin, TX that builds people-driven brands and Senior Marketing Strategist at Forbes Books. Rusty’s keynotes blend humor and targeted examples to challenge assumptions about personal branding, showing audiences how to build authentic thought leadership focused on impact, not ego. He’s known for a mix of story-telling, candor and practical, put-it-into-action-next-week guidance – showing leaders how to make an impact and build trust in an increasingly skeptical world – and have a lot of fun along the way. He has shared the stage with Steve Forbes and Alan Mulally, spoken for YPO, EO, SXSW Interactive, the University of Texas, numerous Fortune 1000 companies and served on the faculty at more than 20 Harvard Medical School CME courses. He is the co-author (alongside Adam Witty) of The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact, Not Ego (ForbesBooks, 2023), which features a foreword from David Meerman Scott, Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant (ForbesBooks, 2018), which features a foreword from Steve Forbes, and co-author (alongside Barbara Cave Henricks) of Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Mindset (Berrett-Koehler, 2016). An avid Texas Longhorns fan, he sits on the University of Texas Texas Exes PR Committee and is a proud member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Austin, where he serves on the board. He lives just west of Austin in Spicewood with his wife, Paige and three children (Luke, Brady & Sadie) and their very rowdy black lab, Charlie. Rusty loves to play golf, fish, coach his sons’ sports teams and is the QB for Lake Travis’ top “old man” flag football team.

    54 min

  7. 26 FEB

    February 26, 2026 – Doc Holiday Will Cooper and Brian Will

    Will Cooper – AKA Doc Holiday – Founder of Stock Market Ping Pong We’re not looking for miracles. We’re not looking for home runs. We’re looking for safe, simple, repeatable, profitable trades. Will Cooper is a serial entrepreneur turned professional day trader with more than 15 years of experience building companies in the Oil and Gas industry. During that time, he founded and helped develop seven start ups that collectively generated more than $500 million in gross revenue. When the COVID pandemic disrupted the energy sector, Will shifted his focus to the financial markets, transforming a long standing personal interest into a full time profession. Over the next two years, he developed a proprietary trading protocol and algorithm designed to identify repeatable opportunities using a disciplined, rules based approach. Today, nearly six years into his trading career, Will trades independently from his laptop, applying the same structured thinking that guided his success as an entrepreneur. He now shares his experience and methodology with others, helping traders understand the principles of consistency, discipline, and process that drive long term performance in the markets. Brian Will – Serial Entrepreneur and Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of The Dropout Multi-Millionaire: 37 Business Lessons on How to Succeed in Business With No Money, No Education and No Clue I had always build businesses that don’t require me to actually be in them and working them. Brian Will is a serial entrepreneur who has created or co-created seven very successful companies in four different industries over the last thirty-five years. These companies were worth over a half a billion dollars at their peak. His first business was a 10-year stint in the landscaping industry that he started when he was twenty years old. This was followed by three online internet start-up companies during the dot.com boom of the late nineties and early 2000s. Today, Brian owns a growing chain of restaurants in the Atlanta area as well as an Insurance and Technology company based on Denver and a residential and commercial Real Estate business in Georgia and Florida. He also serves on city council in his hometown of Alpharetta, Georgia. Brian is an industry leading Business and Sales Management Consultant to companies from startups to fortune 500. During the course of this career Brian has done multiple turn around projects and helped those organizations drive billions of dollars in sales. He now owns a growing chain of restaurants in the Atlanta area, an Insurance and Technology company in Denver and a residential and commercial Real Estate business in Georgia and Florida.

    54 min

  8. 24 FEB

    February 24, 2026 – Land Sales Brent Bowers, Storm Chaser Josh Morgerman and IBM Salima Lin

    Brent Bowers – Land Coach at The Land Sharks There’s this special thing about American land that people just want to own it. Brent Bowers is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and educator who serves as the CEO of Zech Buys Houses LLC and a Land Coach at The Land Sharks, where he helps investors build passive income through buying and selling vacant land. A former U.S. Army officer with more than eight years of service, Brent began investing in real estate in 2007 with the goal of creating financial stability and spending more time with his family. Over time, he shifted his focus from traditional residential investing to land investing, recognizing its simplicity, scalability, and ability to generate recurring income without the challenges of tenants or property maintenance. As the president of Zech Buys Houses LLC, he has built a portfolio of land and real estate investments and developed systems that generate consistent monthly income. Through The Land Sharks, Brent now mentors and trains investors on his proven strategies for finding, acquiring, and reselling vacant land, helping others create reliable cash flow and long term wealth through land investing. Josh Morgerman – Founder of iCyclone  People ask me this all the time. They’re like, what’s wrong with you? And all I can say is, listen, honestly, I was born this way. Founded by storm chaser and adrenaline junkie Josh Morgerman, iCyclone is the brand name under which he chases hurricanes and collaborates with others on weather-related projects. The iCyclone team is a loosely-affiliated, cross-functional club of chasers, researchers, and meteorologists unified by their shared passion for Earth’s mightiest spectacle: the hurricane. The iCyclone mission has always been to penetrate, experience, and document the inner cores of hurricanes as they thrust ashore—via video, data collection, and blogging. iCyclone’s original chase turf was exclusively the USA. That changed in 2007, when Josh Morgerman singlehandedly hunted ferocious Category-5 Hurricane Dean on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula—the only chaser to do so. This splashy debut launched a string of solo, daredevil Mexican chases that have established Morgerman as the most prolific chaser of Mexican hurricanes and a specialist in this region. Since 2007, he’s logged a whopping eight successful hurricane chases in Mexico, on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in doing so has captured rare video footage and useful data for the USA’s National Hurricane Center. In 2013, when the Atlantic failed to produce any chaseable hurricanes, Morgerman and the iCyclone team expanded their focus to East Asia, chasing and penetrating the inner cores of an incredible four typhoons in just over a month, including Category-5 Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines. Recent high-profile chases include devastating Hurricane Odile in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 2014; Typhoon Goni in Ishigaki-jima, Japan, in 2015; Typhoon Dujuan in Su’ao, Taiwan, in 2015; and the incredible Category-5 Hurricane Patricia in Jalisco, Mexico, in 2015. Salima Lin – Managing Partner, Strategy, M&A, Transformation, and Thought Leadership at IBM Consulting Humans as humans, those who have AI will replace those who don’t use it. Salima Lin has more than 25 years of management consulting and leadership experience in developing and executing business and operating strategies, driving transformation, developing new business models and operationalizing process improvement. During her career, she has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies, primarily in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics, medical devices, managed care, and healthcare delivery. Her experience spans strategy development in the Americas, with strategy and transformation across industries and domains for IBM’s consulting business globally. She has a master’s degree in health policy and administration from Harvard, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and biology from Simon Fraser University.

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On 60 AmFm stations around the US, the show argues that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur when they forget creativity, risk, and passion! Join host Jim Beach, bestselling McGraw-Hill Author for his SBA award winning nationally syndicated radio show. Copy an idea, execute it better, start with less than $5,000 and reserve passion for family & religion.

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  • Creator
    Jim Beach
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    101
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    Explicit
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