Facts Not Feelings with Brooke C. Furniss

Did David Long not send us into the weekend the right way or what?! What was your biggest takeaway from our conversation with him? If you haven't already connected with David, you are missing out on knowledge left and right! Connect with and Follow David Long: https://qrco.de/bd5FE2 Watch Show David Long: https://lnkd.in/gFAXtFwr It is Graduation Season. Chris's niece Abbie graduated ove...

Today we hit the ground running with the one and only David Long. David holds many titles: Executive General Manager for Hansel Auto Group in Santa Rosa, California, Founder of Pandemic of Positivity, Consultant, Creator of "All Things Used Cars" on Clubhouse, manages 58 Used Car Buying Centers from here to Brazil, and many more allocates that could take up this entire page. What is his...

Sooo, Friday was fun right?! We decided to test the limits of the whole technology and people theory on a Livestream. Huge thanks to the many that jumped in full force and assisted. I guarantee all that listened felt better. happier, and all around had a better day as Laurie has a way of doing that to people.  Watch Friday's show with Halter: https://lnkd.in/giBkgeaW Follow Laurie: https://qr...

If you are in the same room with the incredible Laurie Halter, you will 1. Instantly feel better 2. Feel the love that she exudes 3. Be a better person 4. Be able to tackle the day She has this innate ability to find the very best in a person and let that person's talent shine bright like a diamond! #Rihanna While she may be known as the master connector in our industry, #BossBabe and owner o...

USA! USA! USA! It's Memorial Day, which means a couple things. The majority of people have the day off...except sales! Enjoy your cookout at the stores. The rest of us are enjoying our day around the BBQ, in the sun, and with friends. The real reason we are able to do all this is due to the name of this holiday: Memorial Day, originally know as Decoration Day. It is a day set aside to honor t...

It takes all of us. It takes all of us uniting in love, locked arm in arm. On May 24, nineteen students and two adults were killed in a horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. GoFundMe has stepped up and provided a one stop landing page that has been 100% vetted for donation options that are trustworthy and safe. Let's all unite to help anyway we can to help these famili...

Happy Monday Everyone! DMSC is bring the heat for sure...and I am not just talking about the weather! Speaking of which, running in 65 with 0 humidity feels like running in 50 in Chicago. Wine and 80...how does anyone every leave here?! The only downside..this time change...man! I am not 20 anymore! First day of DMSC is in the books and have had some great speakers so far. You want to be pumped up...

Get your writing utensil ready as Tim Cox is coming to the Facts Not Feelings Mic and bringing the heat! He is dropping knowledge bombs left and right! Oh and did I mention this weekend will be the the 2 year anniversary when yours truly was listening to Tim speak, and I had no idea that Facts Not Feelings would be born?!   I guess an interview THE Brooke Furniss on Facts Not Feelings was not enou...

You are looking at the title and thinking how am I going to pull all that together....glad you asked! Sit back and watch! Digital Dealer is officially in our rearview mirror. It is incredible to see such brilliant and amazing humans come together to move this industry. As a female in this industry, I love seeing females championing other. We have so many epic women in this industry. Laurie Halter...

You asked, I delivered! Boom! The Metaverse Team is here to give you quick intro into the this crazy virtual world and the basics of how to get started. I promise to keep this high level as this is new to most.  You may be asking yourself, why is this even important? Isn't this all science fiction and smoke and mirrors. Citi predicts the Metaverse is an $8-13 Trillion Market opportunity. Not...

It is Monday and we are on location in Sunny Tampa at Digital Dealer! Let the shenanigans commence! Good luck to all the speakers, you re going to crush it! So apparently there was a horse race this weekend? Holy shnickies Batman! Rich Strike (80-1) odds, was largest Kentucky Derby winner since 1908. Never count out the underdog and never stop believing! Also this weekend, Charles Oliveira was str...

A lot to unpack this Friday morning! Bringing you in on the special project I have been working on with some brilliant minds in our industry *Cough...Name Drop* Brian Kramer, Dusty Sutherland, and  Jarrod Kilway *Cough...Name Drop*   Spatial and Ready Player Me dropped some incredible looking avatars, and we are definitely checking them out! Thank you, Shea Richburg for posting about this update! ...

Are you down to drop 6-figures on Nike's NFT? Yes, you heard that right. Nike and RTFKT studios dropped their NFT, and it has broke the bank! Mind you that you cannot wear these shoes and at the current time, there is no new kicks smell as they are virtual.    Who out there is tracking tire sells? Did you know that TraXtion scanned 35 million vehicles, and 45% needed alignments, rotations, or...

We are "tackling" the NFL Draft, waving goodbye to AJ Brown, taking a page from SemRush's book on why it is so important to treat your clients and customers like a human and never take them for granted, and giving a huge shoutout to Sean Bingham and his epic summit of Mount Everest. Only 6,014 people had climbed Mount Everest as of Dec 2021. Sean can now be added to this this. What&...

Meta, Meta, and more Metaverse! Ramesh and John enlightened all of us on Friday about what the Metaverse and virtual reality truly is and how it can help businesses if used correctly. With people like Brian Kramer leading the charge on meeting the customer in the Metaverse and Kevin Frye tearing down the Crypto barrier, our industry is in good hands.  Today I am honored to be a guest on Ian Nether...

Whether it is Mark Zuckerberg (Meta ex Facebook CEO), Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO), or Wall Street analysts, everyone wants a piece of the Metaverse. Media outlets have extensively covered the Metaverse as a potential future workplace or Internet.    Several years ago, Ramesh Ramloll and John Hopkin, two pioneers of virtual worlds, made the Metaverse their workspace. I asked them about the Metaverse...

No need to double check the calendar...yes today is Tuesday and not Monday. We are switching it up this week and doing the Monday Recap on Tuesday! This Friday we dive into the Metaverse and Virtual Reality with the brilliant minds of the CEO of DeepSemaphore LLC, Ramesh Ramloll, and Software Engineering Wizard and lead software developer and application designer for RezMela system , John Hopkins....

Today we pull an audible and are going live for the first time in Facts Not Feelings history. Fingers crossed for no technical glitches!   With it being Jackie Robison Day, today we chat about breaking barriers. This week has been filled with women in sports doing just that: Rachel Balkovec's historic debut as the New York Yankees' Minor League team manager, San Francisco Giants' Al...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The weather is starting to turn, all sports are in full swing, and there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel of winter!   What was your biggest takeaway from my conversation with Andrea Amico, Founder of Privacy4Cars? Did you know that if you are in wreck that your data could be extracted as it is not protect?   I would like to challenge not...

Think of the last time you were in a rental car or when you turned your car back into the dealership. Did you delete your phone's information from the car? When you were in the vehicle, how many other individuals had their phone's info left behind on car? Do you know truly know what your car knows about you and what others have access to when you don't delete your data?    Andrea Am...

What a weekend! I am still trying checking my pulse from the UNC/Duke game! UNC handed Coach K his first ever loss, his final loss at Cameron indoor, and then defeated him in his final game as Duke's head coach...assuming he doesn't pull a Tom Brady! We have one hellavu game tonight! Huge congrats to South Carolina as they cut down the nets in the Women's Tourney!   A big thanks to...

You better eat your Wheaties before this episode! Chris Tragasz, a cyber security forensics specialist, is on the show today. Prior to utilizing his skills in the auto industry, Chris served in the IL Attorney General's Office as a specialist in criminal data analysis and extraction. He figured if he could hold up having every syllable of his expert testimony under a microscope and not buckle...

Talk about eventful weekend! WWE at the Oscars, CODA and Apple+ brought home awards, Cinderella's clock hit midnight, UNC and Duke will be facing each in the Final Four, and we had the incredible Dan Moore on the show on Friday. Is your business simply writing a check for the newest shiny object and walking away with a set it and forget it mindset?    This week with we have brilliant Chris Tr...

Inspecting what you expect is vital to any business. Being able to standardize metrics from all vendors is an essential part of our industry. Vistadash makes it seamless for dealers to see all reports in one place in a fraction of the time it would normally take jumping from one report/system to another, all while trying to standardize the metrics. The result: dealers can hold vendors accountable,...

If your Bracket is not a dumpster fire at this point, I applaud you! Not only is mine barely holding on by a thread, my sanity after this weekend is barely intact! Luckily, we had Candice Lowe take us into the weekend with some solid knowledge on how to improve our processes. What was your biggest take away from the episode? In today's Monday Recap, you hear mine. We also cover why it is so i...