Pier Paolo Alberghini has spent 30 years designing and harmonizing spaces using an ancient science that most architects have never encountered. Every building you walk into is either working for your health or quietly working against it and the difference comes down to principles the ancient Romans, Renaissance masters, and Egyptian pyramid builders all understood. Modern architecture forgot all of it in 1700. And we've been paying for it ever since.

Pier Paolo is Vice President of Biogeometry for Europe and a direct student of Dr. Ibrahim Karim, the founder of biogeometry. He has designed and harmonized buildings across Toronto, Geneva, and Florence, and has presented to thousands of practitioners across seven countries. One of his most documented cases: a client diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and given 2-3 years to live survived 13 more years inside a home he and Ibrahim harmonized — a case published in a 2013 Montreal architectural magazine.

He is now the lead biogeometry architect on the Casitas at Kokomo Botanical Resort in Turks and Caicos, 16 buildings designed from the ground up to emanate healing energy to everyone inside and within a 5-kilometer radius.

He explains:

◼️ Why every cathedral, pyramid, and ancient temple you've ever felt at peace in was built on a "power spot" — and why modern architects have no idea what that means or how to replicate it

◼️ The Parkinson's patient given 2-3 years to live who survived 13 more years inside a biogeometry-harmonized home in Toronto — and what that tells us about the spaces we're living in right now

◼️ Why 16 buildings at the golden ratio (1.618) create an energy field that heals everyone within a 5-kilometer radius — and how every single design decision at the Casitas flows from this number

◼️ The EMF truth your phone company doesn't want you thinking about: why using your phone or computer without a biosignature attachment is linked directly to long-term neurological damage

◼️ 13 things you can change in your home or office right now — starting with moving your bed and desk 40 centimeters from the walls to escape the EMF field running through them

◼️ Why sleeping under a cathedral ceiling "desiccates" you the same way a pyramid desiccates a mummy — and the one small fix that eliminates the effect entirely

◼️ How humanity lost its right-brain intuition in 1700 due to the Cartesian shift — and why Ibrahim Karim believes we are finally in the process of reclaiming it

◼️ How to find power spots anywhere in the world using pendulums available on Amazon right now — and exactly what to do once you've found one

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – Intro

05:14 – What Is Biogeometry? Breaking Down BG3 Energy and Why It Matters

10:00 – Why Ancient Cathedrals Made You Feel Something (and Modern Buildings Don't)

15:40 – The Casitas at Kokomo: Designing 16 Buildings to Heal Their Inhabitants

20:33 – The Parkinson's Patient Who Lived 13 Extra Years in a Harmonized Home

25:00 – Power Spots: The Earth's Gift That Most People Walk Past Every Day

30:07 – 13 Ways to Make Your Home and Office Biogeometry-Friendly Right Now

35:00 – Cathedral Ceilings, EMF, and the Sleep Destroyers Hidden in Your Bedroom

40:00 – Ancient Builders Always Chose Their Sites Deliberately (Here's How They Found Them)

43:00 – The 1700 Cartesian Shift: How Humanity Stopped Trusting Its Intuition

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Joshua Counsil is the co-founder of Good Robot Brewing in Halifax, a multi-award-winning hospitality and beverage company with three venues, national wholesale distribution, and The Beverage Factory, a co-manufacturing facility serving brands all the way to Costco.

Good Robot Brewing was weeks away from insolvency. No ad budget. No agency. No playbook. Co-founder JOSHUA COUNSIL posted about a silent reading event on Facebook, and within 72 hours the taproom was at capacity. That single idea didn't just save the business, it became 5% of their website traffic for the next five years and helped fuel a $10M brand built almost entirely on earned media, raw authenticity, and doing the opposite of what every competitor was doing.

He explains:

◼️ How one $0 Facebook post pulled a brewery back from the brink of insolvency

◼️ The "zig where they zag" framework that turned a corn beer into an award-winning product and a viral campaign

◼️ Why publicity is the most underrated marketing channel — and how to manufacture it without a PR budget

◼️ The brutal truth about running a business vs. opening one (and why most entrepreneurs get blindsided)

◼️ How Josh uses AI as a strategic thinking partner — not a content machine — to break through writer's block and sharpen product positioning

◼️ Why founder-led content still wins, and what happens to your brand when the founders stop showing up

◼️ The mindset shift that keeps entrepreneurs going when the fire hose of problems never turns off

Timestamps

02:15 – Why Josh loves conferences more than most people love vacations

05:00 – Raised by murder mystery dinner theatre owners: how that shaped everything

09:30 – From engineering to entrepreneurship — quitting his job in Seattle for a brewery idea

14:00 – Landing in Halifax and the culture shock of a non-hustle market

18:30 – Weeks from insolvency: what the early days of Good Robot really looked like

23:00 – The silent reading event that packed the taproom in 72 hours

27:30 – Zigging where competitors zag: the corn beer campaign that no one expected

32:00 – Publicity over paid ads: why earned media builds brands that ads can't

36:30 – Knowing what you suck at — the most underrated business skill

40:00 – Using AI as a strategic partner, not a shortcut

🔗 Connect with Joshua Counsil on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joshuacounsil 🍺 Good Robot Brewing: goodrobotbrewing.ca

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Everyone's automating their LinkedIn outreach. Everyone's using AI to personalize at scale. And almost everyone is getting ignored. Zivko Dodovski, CEO of DoneMaker, has built a thriving B2B lead generation firm by doing the exact opposite; zero automations, zero AI messages, and a manual outreach process that consistently books 8-10 qualified calls per month for his clients.

Zivko started in radio broadcasting before pivoting into B2B sales, where he discovered that genuine human connection on LinkedIn outperformed every tool, shortcut, and automation he tested. He now runs DoneMaker, a LinkedIn organic outreach firm that has helped clients like J Baker Media land 5 clients in 2 months and Jones & Lamb LLC generate $14K in a single month — all without spending a dollar on ads.

He explains:

◼️ Why "over-personalization" is the new spam — and how savvy buyers spot it in seconds

◼️ The exact connection message framework Zivko uses to start real conversations without pitch-slapping

◼️ Why LinkedIn's API suppresses automation tools and what that means for your outreach results

◼️ How to use Sales Navigator to build targeting so precise it turns outreach into a near 50/50 yes-or-no conversation

◼️ The profile optimization mistake most small businesses make — and why the "billboard approach" backfires

◼️ Why commenting on viral posts can generate more impressions than posting on your own feed

◼️ The dot-space LinkedIn trick that instantly reveals who's using automation to reach you

◼️ When LinkedIn simply won't work for your business — and what to do instead

Timestamps:

02:00 – From radio broadcasting to B2B sales and founding DoneMaker

05:00 – Is radio advertising still relevant in 2026?

08:00 – How Zivko personally uses LinkedIn to grow his business

09:20 – The hot take: no AI, no automations — everything manual and why

12:00 – "Over-personalization" — the new red flag buyers can smell a mile away

15:00 – The exact connection message framework that starts real conversations

18:00 – Why Sales Navigator is the most underutilized LinkedIn tool

21:30 – From connection request to booked call — the full outreach sequence
24:00 – Profile optimization: what to do (and what to ditch) depending on your company size

26:00 – Where posting fits into the outreach strategy

29:00 – The commenting strategy that beats posting your own content

32:00 – Cadence, blog strategy, and the top/middle/bottom of funnel approach

36:00 – LinkedIn articles and newsletters — worth it or not?

38:00 – LinkedIn ads vs. Meta ads — why you should never test creative on LinkedIn

40:00 – The dot-space automation detection trick and when LinkedIn won't work for you

Connect with Zivko:

Website: donemaker.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zivkododovski

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John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started.

Visit EOFire.com to set YOUR Entrepreneurial journey ON FIRE!

Email: John@EntrepreneurOnFire.com

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Rich Brooks is the founder and president of flyte new media, a web design and internet marketing company in Portland, Maine. He has been interviewed by Inc. Magazine, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, and many other news sites, all looking for his insight into online marketing for small business.

He teaches a web marketing and social media for small business class at the University of Southern Maine.

Finally, he loves sharing ideas and showing people how they can successfully market their business through social, search and mobile marketing, no matter how busy they are!

On this week's episode of the podcast, we are discussing word of mouth marketing with Christel Wintels. Christel Wintels is the Franchise Owner & Executive Director for BNI Golden Horseshoe. Christel has spoken, and written numerous articles about business networking and building a lifetime of referrals through the philosophy of Givers Gain. She has received Outstanding Achievement Awards from BNI both nationally and internationally, including Director of the Year in 2019. Christel’s mission is to eliminate cold calling by helping business people create a lifelong referral network.

Check out Christel from @BNIGHRegion on IG and Facebook; @christelwintels.

In this special bonus episode of the Merged Marketing Podcast, in the wake of the current pandemic in the world right now- Jay and David sit down and talk about the state of the marketing industry and how people should be allocating their time and resources in their business.

Do you want to know whether or not you should be devoting said time and resources towards marketing during all of this? Keep on watching.

The Merged Marketing Podcast unlocks the marketing tactics and secrets behind every day brands. Each week, David Louch and his co-host- Jason Hunt, will bring you expert commentary so that you can make better choices when it comes to growing your business.

Today we are discussing brand strategy with Ron Caughlin. Ron has an impressive resume of being the head of marketing for brands such as; Tim Horton's, Dairy Queen, Toronto Pearson International Airport, and Destination Ontario. He now operates his own brand marketing agency, Branded, while also educating future marketing professionals at Humber and Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario. Ron is going to share with his experience developing integrated brand marketing solutions on this week's episode of The Merged Marketing Podcast.