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At the Angel City FC game March 17

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Tobin and Christen Break Down USA vs Portugal with Abby Dahlkemper & Jess Fishlock ⚽️ | Episode 4

Tobin and Christen return with a supersized episode of The RE—CAP Show! After watching the USWNT tie Portugal in a heart pounding 0 to 0 World Cup match, they discuss what they saw and what they would like to see in the Round of 16. Later, Tobin has a conversation with NWSL and Welsh international star, Jess Fishlock, for her thoughts on the game and the US performance as well. Then, they are joined by friend and teammate, USWNT defender Abby Dahlkemper, for an insightful interview on playing in a toxic environment, prioritizing your mental health, “The Year of Abby D.” and so much more. Finally, Tobin sits down with an “off the field gamechanger,” Ally CMO, Andrea Brimmer to learn about what Ally is doing to provide a more equitable playing field in Women’s Sports. And, as always, community questions, a Japan / Norway prediction and Tobin’s Top Things!

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Oh I bet Shawna was a second guest, like Andrea Brimmer for Ally. The dress is gorgeous. A little segment about Football for Her.

that makes sense

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First-Of-Its-Kind Deepening The Bench Campaign Brings Support to Women in Sports Industry

Women in Sports and Events (WISE), the leading voice and resource for women in the business of sports, today announced the first-of-its-kind Deepening the Bench campaignfor the organization, which has successfully raised more than $4 million to date from professional leagues, teams and media organizations. The funds, pledged by the organizations listed below, will go to helping women succeed at all levels in the sports industry over the next three – five years.

·         Lead Partner: National Hockey League (NHL)

·         Championship Partners: National Basketball Association (NBA), NBC Sports, National Football League via the NFL Foundation (NFL), Major League Soccer (MLS) 

·         Supporting Partners: Chicago Bulls, ESPN, FanDuel

Since its inception 30 years ago, WISE has become the leading professional organization supporting women working in the business of sports.  From establishing the prestigious WISE Women of the Year Award presented at the organization’s annual luncheon in NYC, to growing its membership across 25 chapters nationwide, WISE continues to open doors for women.  WISE has created leadership training, mentoring and certificate programs to empower women across North America with the professional resources and network to help them excel.

“Women are playing critical roles at all levels of the sports industry across leagues, teams, agencies and organizations.  WISE is here to support their career advancement and to continue partnering with these organizations to ensure sports is an industry where women can succeed,” said Kathleen Francis, National Board Chair and President of WISE.  “These organizations, along with our WISE corporate partners and some individual contributors, recognize the value and contribution women make and the importance of creating opportunities for them to excel professionally. These investments are not just the right thing to do, they are the profitable thing. When women excel, we all win.”

Through this campaign, WISE is committed to developing ongoing thought leadership initiatives, building the organization’s infrastructure, and enhancing existing programs. WISE will continue to work with leagues, teams, agencies and organizations to create opportunities for women and will support their professional growth through these and other signature programs.   

The 27th Annual WISE Awards Luncheon will take place on March 15th at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City.  The 2023 recipients are Andrea Brimmer, Chief Marketing and Public Relations Officer, Ally Financial; Jill Gregory, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Sonoma Raceway; Hillary Mandel, Executive Vice President, Head of Americas, IMG Media and Carla Williams, Director of Athletics, University of Virginia. The WISE/R Symposium — a day-long program providing a 360-degree view of working in sports, including sessions featuring leaders from across the industry — will take place on March 14th, at The Times Center in New York City. 

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Wonderful Documentary

Do you love reading about characters of all races and identities? If so, you may want to check this film out.

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A Moment of Silence offers unabashed accounts by Black artists in Minnesota facing The George Floyd Uprising and COVID-19.  The Anthology shines a light on a rich Minnesota literary community of leaders, activists, politicians, mothers, scholars, youth, and elders who speak truth and resilience at a time when it is needed most. Inspired both by the desire to imagine radical and futuristic realities and deeply moved by the assertion of political power and collective solidarity in the Black Community, this project boldly asserts, 'We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For'

VISION

An Online Literary Platform to Lift up Black MN Voices & Build Community

A Living Historical Archive

A Celebration of Blackness

FUNCTION

Monthly Artist Features Rotate + Weekly Spotlights

SUPPORT

Donations Support the Artists, the Project, and Future Opportunities to Grow

FEATURED ARTISTS: Chaun Webster  •   Rebecca Nichloson   •  Tylie Shider  •  E.G. Bailey  •   Stacey Rose  •  Beverly Cottman  •  Lisa Marie Brimmer  •  Marlon James  Shannon Gibney  •   Douglas Kearney   •  Junauda Petrus-Nasah  •  Malick Ceesay  •  Aimee K. Bryant   JuCoby Johnson  •  Kim Hines •  I Self Devine/Chaka MkaliTish Jones  •  Wisdom Young  •  IBé   •   Keno Evol   •  Andrea Jenkins Sagirah Shahid  •  Truthmaze/William Harris  •  Angela Shannon • Alexs Pate  •  Candrice Jones   •  Sarah WhiteAbdifatah Farah  •   Baba Louis Alemayehu  •  Sherry Quan Lee  •  Anton C. Jones  •   Harry Waters Jr. Danez Smith  •   Carlyle Brown   •   Rohan Preston  •  Alexei Moon Casselle   •  Valérie Déus Mary Moore Easter   •   Michael Kleber-Diggs  •  Amoke Kubat  •  Atlese Robinson   •  Nothando Zulu Oya Mae Duchess-Davis  •  Joe Davis •  Harrison David Rivers  •  Erin Sharkey  •  ShaVunda Brown Toki Wright   •   Taiyon J. Coleman  •  Arleta Little  •  Antonio Duke  •  Namir Fearce Carolyn Holbrook •   Kory LaQuess Pullam •  Sha Cage

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More at the link.

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Passage

Passage is a fantasia on class, colonialism and connections between different groups of people. It discusses difficult topics on the one-on-one level without calling out specifics, allowing for the audience to fill in for Country X, Country Y, and anything else. No one person seeing it will have the same experience, since every single person’s life is different in the way they see things, the way they experience things. And yet, in the end, the play is able to bring everyone into a similar state of mind. It’s beautiful and thought provoking, sparking conversation as people leave the theater.

One of its greatest assets in this production was the glorious sound design. There is a surround sound speaker system in a 360 degree area, which allows there to be so much more intricacy in it. Through sound, the audience can identify where someone is walking, the underlying tone of a tense moment, and the continuous usage of it highlights the moments where there is no sound, when the whole theater is silent except for the words being said.

In addition to the sound, the lighting is used wonderfully. With a theme such as a dark cave meant to bring enlightenment and truth that people aren’t ready to face, light becomes an important visual symbol that is casually interspersed in the beginning before the audience realizes how important it is to the overarching story, beyond the conflict between Country X people and Country Y people.

This is a play of mysticism and to challenge the way people think. It doesn’t tell a traditional story in the way that there’s a beginning middle and end, an arc and character growth. Instead, it focuses on the experience. What do people think when they see this? Would they think of their own country or a different one? Would they have any frame of reference at all?

Upon leaving the theater, somebody told me that they felt bad for not feeling something poignant and significant at the end of the play. And yet, I think that was the point. The play says that there is no easy thoughtful answer to anything in life, that everyone experiences everything differently and it is impossible to really bring people to the same side and place mentally. And that’s because of the differing experiences and the way we think about them in different ways.

Rating: 5/5

Tickets Available through May 26:

https://sohorep.org/passage

Trigger Warning: continuous haze throughout the whole play and a gunshot sound.

Cast and Creative:

Andrea Abello -- Q

Purva Bedi -- H

Yair Ben-Dor -- R

Lizan Mitchell -- G

K. K. Moggie -- B

Howard W. Overshown -- D, J, S, Gecko, Mosquito

Linda Powell -- F

David Ryan Smith -- M

Christopher Chen -- Playwright

Saheem Ali -- Director

Arnulfo Maldonado -- Scenic Design

Toni-Leslie James -- Costume Design

Amith Chandrashaker -- Lighting Design

Mikaal Sulaiman -- Sound Design

Ryan Courtney -- Props Design

J. David Brimmer -- Fight Director

Nicole Marconi -- Production Stage Manager

Kellie McMenemon -- Assistant Stage Manager

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7-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson to retire after 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson is truly the most up-to-the-minute NASCAR megastar to climb out of his car, with the seven-time champion asserting Wednesday that 2020 will be his closing season of stout-time racing.

The winningest driver of his era will admire a 19th season within the No. 48 Chevrolet and all some other time inch a file eighth championship. Johnson made the announcement in a video on social media.

“I am so grateful for 18 wonderful years of racing in NASCAR,” Johnson talked about within the shaded-and-white video made out of highlights from his career. “This sport has been lawful to me and allowed me to attain one thing I in actuality love. I showed up chasing a dream and finished more than I idea that you just need to well maybe imagine. I am having a search forward to subsequent season and celebrating what's going to be my closing 365 days as a stout-time Cup driver. I do know what this crew is ready to and I hope 2020 is one in every of the becoming yet.”

Johnson joins an exodus of classy drivers that started when Jeff Gordon retired after the 2015 season. Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Danica Patrick and Jamie McMurray are amongst these that followed Gordon.

Johnson, whose social media put up carried the hash ticket “Chasing8 one closing time,” scheduled a Thursday recordsdata conference at Hendrick Motorsports to discuss about his resolution. This could be a familiar farewell scene for the crew since each and every Gordon and Earnhardt were Hendrick drivers.

Johnson had two years closing on his contract when recent sponsor Ally signed on earlier than this 365 days to interchange Lowe’s, which had subsidized Johnson from his 2001 debut thru 2018. Ally closing month announced a 3-365 days extension to sponsor the No. 48, nevertheless Johnson’s future change into now not tied to the renewal thru 2023.

“Jimmie Johnson is a story in racing, the epitome of sophistication and the final representative of our designate,” talked about Andrea Brimmer, chief advertising and marketing and marketing and marketing officer at Ally. “We're proud that Jimmie will attain his outstanding NASCAR utilizing career with Ally as his significant sponsor.”

Johnson has 83 career victories, tied with Cale Yarborough for sixth all-time. The California native’s seven titles are tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for most within the Cup Series.

The 44-365 days-frail Johnson has been in a two-365 days droop and closing obtained a scamper in 2017. He had two various crew chief adjustments this season and left out the playoffs for the key time since the format started in 2004.

Johnson carried out 18th within the final standings and has trusty 5 high-5 finishes the closing two years. He obtained his seventh title in 2016.

Johnson has pushed for Rick Hendrick his total Cup career and situation a NASCAR file in a success 5 consecutive titles from 2006 thru 2010, an accomplishment that earned him Linked Press Male Athlete of the Year after his fifth crown.

All 83 of Johnson’s wins admire reach within the No. 48 and include two Daytona 500s, four victories at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a file 11 wins at Dover Global Speedway, nine at Martinsville Speedway and eight at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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Queer Voices - Andrea Jenkins & Lisa Marie Brimmer

Queer Voices Poetry, Prose, and Pride Andrea Jenkins & Lisa Marie Brimmer Genre: Social Science Price: $9.99 Publish Date: May 1, 2019 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press Seller: Ingram DV LLC Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living, loving, working, learning, playing, reflecting, knowing, inventing, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability. Contributors: Cole Bauer, Ryan Berg, Stephani Maari Booker, Lisa Marie Brimmer, Kimberly Brown, Nate Cannon, Anthony Ceballos, Stephanie Chrismon, James Cihlar, Venus de Mars, Jay Eisenberg, Gary Eldon Peter , Kelly Frankenberg, Ben French, Julie Gard, Christina Glendenning, Rachel Gold, Molly Beth Griffin, CM Harris, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Andrea Jenkins, Kristin Johnso, Michael Kiesow Moore , Bronson Lemer, Raymond Luczak, Catherine Lundoff, Josina Manu, John Medeiros, Nasreen Mohamed, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Janauda Petrus, Trina Porte, Karolyn Redoute, William Reichard, Katie Robinson, Dua Saleh, Lucas Scheelk, Erin Sharkey, Nicole Smith, Christine Stark, Vanessa Taylor, Bradford Tice, Ann Tweedy, Morgan Grayce Willow, S. Yarberry, Ariel Zitny http://dlvr.it/R6g7y6

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‘That’s Not Right’: 5 Questions With Ally Financial CMO Andrea Brimmer

Ally Financial first disrupted the financial services industry 10 years ago when it launched its digital-only banking brand. Since then, it has remained true to its vision to be “a relentless ally for your financial well-being.”

With the tagline “Do It Right,” the brand has retained a strong customer-centric focus by “putting the customer at the center of everything we do,” Ally’s CMO Andrea Brimmer told Hermann Behrens, Chief Growth Officer, NA, at Interbrand.

In its latest campaign, developed with new agency partners Anomaly, MediaCom and RG/A, Ally has taken its fight to competitors by attacking their poor service and lousy rates while rolling out a new cashback rewards program.

The “Letter to America” print ads and ad spots, which served as a teaser to “It’s Payback Time,” are part of a wider campaign that will be rolling out throughout the fall.

“We couldn’t be more pleased with the campaign,” said Brimmer. “We’ve created really strong social conversation, strong levels of traffic to our website and landing page, and every day we’ve broken new records in terms of most account openings.

Behrens spoke with Brimmer to learn more about Ally’s disruptive strategy, its customer commitment and its vision for the future.

Ally’s new campaign really highlights that banks need to look after customers’ money by focusing on their financial needs. What was the thinking behind the campaign?

When we launched 10 years ago during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, consumers were very apathetic toward the banking category literally wasting their hard-earned money on lost interest and fees. Our thought at the time was the world doesn’t need another bank—but it absolutely needs a better bank. So we tried to create emotion, and I think we did an amazing job in terms of the product and service offering for solving for customer pain points.

Fast-forward 10 years later, the economy is good, unemployment is low, and people are getting a little apathetic again toward paying attention to their money. Sitting in a conference room with our new agencies, I asked: “Can everybody tell me where you bank and how much interest you’re making?” And while everybody knew where they banked, not one person knew how much interest they were getting—sound familiar?

That was a huge “a-ha” moment.

This idea of apathy really drove the campaign—this idea that you work really hard for your money and your bank should work just as hard to make sure you make money from that money. We really wanted to convey that what’s happening in the category is not right, and people need to start paying attention again.

What does the next phase of this campaign look like?

We’re continuing to keep the brand’s “Do It Right” tagline and we’ve created a really interesting construct, which we call “insight, inform and inspire.”

We’re in the “insight” phase now to reawaken consumers around the idea of money-mindfulness and paying attention to their money.

The activation for this phase includes some big bold newspaper ads, television and digital outdoor in Los Angeles, Detroit, Charlotte and Boston. We also did a full two-hour takeover of New York’s Fulton Street subway station. And there’s some really interesting social involved on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter that drives consumers to a landing page at Ally.com/payback, The web page has a calculator and shows the 1.9% interest we’re paying—including the total value of your money if you move it over to Ally.

The next “inform” and “inspire” phases will launch in the December timeframe. They will continue this idea we’ve started to tease that “better is out there” and then really start to define what “better” means.

As part of your disruption journey, how has Ally managed retention as well as acquisition of new customers?

When we first launched, it was really about getting on people’s radar and creating awareness for this new brand. The focus was to explain that there was a new type of financial solution through digital banking, and that we were putting the customer at the center of everything that we were going to do in this category—which had really never been done before.

A lot of our effort was spent helping consumers get over that mental hurdle of: “What do you mean there’s no branch to walk into?” Soon, we started to transition to no branches equals great rates.

And once the marketplace started accepting digital financial services, we’ve become super disruptive in terms of awareness as well as product acquisition. Using what we call our “disruptor calendar,” we’ve done a series of different things to retain customers.

With our new splurge alert app, customers tell us what their financial kryptonite is, and we geofence those locations. And if they walk into one those spots, they’ll get an alert from Ally, that might say, for example: “You spend too much money here and you’re saving for spring break.”

It also pushes an alert to people customers have identified as their support network, who might text to say, “Don’t go in there and spend—you want to go on vacation!”

We also did the Lucky Penny promotion, where we had 10 pennies in 10 cities across the country. The Ally-branded pennies were each worth a thousand dollars and created a scavenger hunt to remind people that “a penny saved is a penny earned”—and even the smallest amount of savings can add up over time.

And then we get a huge interruption around the Super Bowl where we created a virtual reality game called The Big Save. The phone app only worked during commercial breaks, and it rained down virtual money for users to catch and put into a virtual piggy bank. People with the top 15 scores were granted their savings wishes. So we paid for college for one kid. We bought a car for a family who lost a car in a hurricane. We helped pay some medical bills for another family—so that has been a really interesting tactic for us.

On the acquisition side, we use a combination of email, digital and social to acquire customers in a very efficient and effective way. It’s been a bit of the one-two punch to put as many prospects in the top of the funnel through disruptive techniques. And then once they’re in the funnel, we use efficient media to help drive them deeper through the funnel and convert them.

Ally is a disruptive brand—a challenger brand—and you’ve got to be very authentic in the way you balance the business and your brand values. How do you keep this relentless focus on being your clients’ ally?

One interesting aspect about Ally is our size. We’re a top 25 digital bank, a top 50 bank, and it would seem like we’re a big company, but we only have 8,300 people. We still feel like the same scrappy company with that same hunger we had when we launched 10 years ago.

And customer-centricity is part of our culture—the customer is sitting around the table with us in literally every single conversation that we have.

We know that if we ever take the customer for granted, we’re done—because that’s 100% what we stand for. It’s why we selected the name Ally, and it’s why we selected our “Do It Right” tagline. Which also happens to be our strongest brand tiller. And it’s why we use words like “relentless ally” because that’s who we are and what we’re about.

And I can honestly tell you that we will sit around the table and debate for hours about whether something is that the right thing to do for the customer. This 1% promotion is a great example. It’s open to both our customers as well as our prospects. And so this is not some kind of a tease or promotion to just get you in and then slip you into some lousy rate. This is our way of saying: “If you’re our customer, we thank you.”

Looking ahead three to five years, what does the next move look like for Ally?

The pivot is to really the move toward becoming a full usage brand through providing new solutions.

For example, we have a lot of really interesting data—not necessarily data about our customers. The data can be useful for people to learn about the area they live in. For example, they might to know: What is the average cost of cable and am I paying too much? Or what does an average person pay for a car payment and how should I be thinking about that?

When we aggregate data for the benefit of money-mindfulness, we truly become a usage brand on every level. I don’t think about us as a bank; I think about us as a tech company that happens to have financial products.

The key thing for us is keeping that human touch and making sure people know that there are always humans available to you 24/7/365—and that’s a huge differentiator.

Get more insights in our Q&A series.

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Blue Door Photoset with Andreas Brimmer @andreas-brimmer

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Ally Bank's Andrea Brimmer on Millennials and Cars - Interview From the DT Booth at CES 2018

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Road to Brandweek: Ally Financial’s Andrea Brimmer on Brands Being ‘Human’ in Times of Crisis

With the U.S. unemployment rate hitting 10.2%, a number not seen since the Great Recession of 2009, money is on the mind of many Americans. Andrea Brimmer, chief marketing and public relations officer of Ally Financial, will take the virtual stage at Adweek's upcoming Brandweek Masters Live summit, Sept. 14-17, to discuss how the company... Road to Brandweek: Ally Financial’s Andrea Brimmer on Brands Being ‘Human’ in Times of Crisis published first on https://improfitninja.tumblr.com/

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Boy in November (2017).