Weekly Rundown:: Week of April 15th, 2024

Weekly Rundown
Written By Reed Dailey
 

Get ready to tee off with this week's episode of the Dailey Blend Show, where host Reed Dailey takes you on a fairway journey to the iconic Masters. From the lush greens of Augusta to the luxury confines of the new Nobu hotel, Reed shares his firsthand experiences and the unexpected permanence of the tournament's infrastructure. Dive into the world of golf, sports, and music as we also groove to the beats of DJ Lilicay’s jazz house and chill deep house mixes—perfect for any activity, including tax season! Plus, Reed offers a sip of simplicity with the Bee's Knees cocktail from the PDT book by Jim Meehan and raises a glass to Tuesday night Negronis, a new tradition in the making. Don't miss out on the latest insights from the Life Optimization Playbook, with free downloads to streamline your daily and weekly planning. And for the fashion-forward, Reed teases an upcoming golf apparel line inspired by community feedback—stay tuned for a chance to shape the future of golf wear. Subscribe to the Friday Top Five newsletter for the best of Dailey Blend in your inbox and join us for a round of conversation, inspiration, and a touch of mixology. It's all happening here on the Dailey Blend Show—your weekly caddie for life's varied pursuits.

Subscribe to the show on your favorite platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube, and follow us on social media for the latest updates. Don't forget to check out DaileyBlend.com for more content and to sign up for our newsletter. Enjoy your week, and cheers to Tuesday night Negronis!

📋 Episode Chapters

  • (00:00) Welcome back to the Daily Blend Show

  • (00:52) Masters Recap & Nobu hotel stay

  • (04:09) DJ Lilicay does chill, deep house mixes on The Daily Blend podcast

  • (05:54) Greg and I have been cranking up the content back on drink with Greg

  • (10:35) The Dailey Blend is excited about launching a golf project this week

Listen and subscribe to the show on the following platforms.

As always, you can get this episode and all previous episodes on such great platforms as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Anchor. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and have all the episodes downloaded automatically to your device. #DaileyBlendShow

Across Dailey Blend

  • Music Monday

    • This week, we are back featuring DJ Lilicay for a second time. This time, we are showcasing her Chill Deep House Mix—linked Here.

      • Check out here past mixes from last week’s Music Monday with her jazz house mix - Linked Here.

      • Check out all past Music Monday features - Linked Here


  • Throwback Thursday

    • This week we are continuing with our 6th release in the Tiesto ‘In Search of Sunrise’ series - Linked Here

    • Check out past ‘In Search of Sunrise Mixes’ - Linked Here

    • Check out all past Throwback Thursday features - Linked Here


 
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Drink With Greg & Negronis with Greg

    • Drink of the Week

      • We are back from the Masters, ready to kick spring off here in warming Chicago, thanks in part to Jim Meehan and his ‘PDT - Cocktail Book’ and the originator of the Bees Knees Mr. Frank Meier.

    • Tuesday Night Negronis

      • Introducing Tuesday Night Negronis: A Tradition Brewing with the Drink With Greg Community. At DrinkWithGreg.com, we believe that every sip tells a story. From the crisp citrus notes to the herbal undertones, each Negroni is a journey waiting to be experienced. So, after a few "Working Sessions" of Negroni-fueled Zoom calls, we are thrilled to introduce our newest tradition: Tuesday Night Negronis.

      • Join the conversation by using the #TuesdayNightNegronis hashtag and sharing your thoughts on how we can make this tradition even more special. Let's raise a glass to Tuesday nights, Negronis, and the vibrant community that brings them to life. Cheers!

    • Book of the Week

      • Spirited: A Cocktail Recipe Book that Takes You on a Journey Around the World - Linked Here

    • Podcast Channels

      • Check out all things from the Drink With Greg Podcast - Linked Here

      • Check out all things from the Negronis With Greg Podcast - Linked Here

    • Connect Online (DWG & NWG)

 
 

Tools & Toolkits - Life Optimization (Working Title)

Overview

Through its Life Optimization Toolkit, Dailey Blend is committed to enhancing personal productivity and efficiency. We are developing a comprehensive set of templates and playbooks to help you organize your life and optimize your execution. The Dailey Blend's Tools & Toolkits - Life Optimization - focuses on practicality and effectiveness; it equips users with strategies to streamline tasks, prioritize objectives, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. From time management techniques to habit formation strategies, the playbook serves as a dynamic guide for individuals seeking to maximize their potential and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.

Toolkit - Meeting Planner

The Meeting Planner is for helping you prep for meeting, execute meeting flawlessly, and the dominate the follow-up. Going to likely make some tweaks to this in the coming weeks, but the working DRAFT is working for me!.

 

Toolkit - Daily Planner

The Daily Planner is a resource designed to empower individuals to optimize their lives through efficient planning and strategic organization—this toolkit a daily tracker to help you accomplish those tasks based on the time of day. We will be enhancing this toolkit with different flavors over the coming weeks that examine priorities, grouping, and budget-2-actual tracking. Click the button below to get a copy of the ‘Daily Planner’ and kick your day off right by getting a jump start the night before!

Toolkit - Weekly Planner

Weekly Planning Playbook is a resource designed to empower individuals to optimize their lives through efficient planning and strategic organization. This playbook offers a weekly curated selection of tools and methodologies to enhance productivity, goal-setting, and overall well-being.

Click the button below to get a copy of the ‘Weekly Planner’ and kick your Monday off right by getting a jump start Sunday Night!

 
 

Friday Top Five

You can complement the Weekly Rundown with the Friday Top Five newsletter, where the Dailey Blend team shares things we thought were interesting that you need to know about, tips and tricks to tackle life, and of course, some music to get the weekend started right!

Friday’s Top Five (Now a Newsletter)

  • A Recap From Last Week

    • Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. Last week we covered Apps to boost productivity, prompts to enhance wellbeing, books to inspire, coloring books to decompress, and gear for the adventure ahead.

    • Friday Top Five Archives are Linked Here

  • Subscribe to the ‘Dailey Blend Newsletter’

 

Transcription - Dailey Blend Show Updates Website, Launches Video

Host Reed Dailey (IG & X - @ReedDailey): This is the weekly rundown segment of the Daily Blend Show

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Dailey Blend Show with me, Reed Dailey. This is the weekly rundown for the week of April 15, 2024. Back from the masters. There is so much to talk about, from golf to sports to music, to life optimization, efficiencies, and so much more. But before we do that, I want to remind you that this show is available on Spotify, Apple, podcast, and YouTube, and if you're a social person, and let's be clear, I am. The show is available on Instagram and DaileyBlend.com. So, like us, follow us, subscribe to us, hit us up, and do all those things because you know you want to, you need to. It's a must-have.

I flew down to the masters on Thursday and stayed at the Nobu hotel

All right, with all that said, let's jump into the show. So I, had the opportunity to go down to the masters for the first time. And for those that don't know, I spent about a third of my life. Now, if I look back at it, living in Atlanta and the surrounding area. So when I was down there, I always, you know, dreamed of going. I wasn't as big of a golf fan as I am now, but still, like, everyone talks about it when you live down there, much less the rest of the world. So having the chance to go out there was a huge, accomplishment or experience, however you want to think about it. And, you know, the whole weekend was great. I flew down on Thursday. I stayed at the new Nobu Hotel, which is at the backside of Phipps Plaza. So for those less familiar, Phipps and Lenox are the two malls, and they've both gone through just crazy renovations. And the fact that Nobu is sitting on the back of it, kind of tucked in, was quite nice. The hotel is fantastic. The bar needs, needs some TLC. the service was fine, but it was just kind of like, dirty and messy, if I'm being honest. the hotel was great. but, you know, you can just tell they've only been in business for six months. And I'm normally not a negative person. I was just a little bit surprised that a luxury brand would be that far off. But regardless, Friday morning, I drove out to the masters. Took about two and a half, 3 hours. Didn't really know what I was walking into, but, you know, parked in some random, you know, kid's yard, gave him $30. I'm pretty sure he made, you know, enough money to pay off a small loan, based on the number of cars I saw in his house, and then proceeded to walk through the gates, which no one really tells you about the masters is. It is just the massive property that Augusta National has. There are so many permanent structures, within that complex. You know, I had no idea. I thought everything would be sort of like a trailer or, you know, kind of stuff that they wheel in for the tournament and wheel out. But, you know, where I bought all my swag was just a huge store that is permanently there. All the bathrooms, all the concessions. Those things are permanent there. The golf course itself is obviously an immaculate immaculate. you know, in terms of, the look, the feel, you know, everything is great. In terms of, you know, the fact that they have a few things, you know, what is it? Domestic beer, import, beer. They've got, like, three or four sandwiches. Everything's wrapped in green. It's a couple of bucks. And obviously, the golf is top-notch. So, you know, it was just a fantastic experience. We actually drove back that night. You know, you can do it. It's not that hard. But, man, you're beat when you get home. So I, can't wait to go back. Ah, I've got an itch for it now. I want to go to the practice round on Wednesday where they do the par three. And, of course, you know, the ultimate goal is trying to figure out a way to play there, in terms of what's going on with Dailey blend.

DJ Lilicay does chill, deep house mixes & The Dailey Blend podcast

So we kicked off week number two of DJ Lilicay. So the first mix we did was her mix that I loved the tagline; it was like, get you through your. It was a jazz house mix and could get you through doing your taxes. And this is her chill, deep house mix. Both are fantastic. I highly recommend you check her out on YouTube, follow her on Instagram, and all that good stuff. In terms of the throwback Thursdays, we didn't release anything, net, new, but we've got the, full in search of sunrise testo series that, you know, folks have been, you know, just based on the analytics, folks have been loving. in terms of all those mixes, I'm really curious what everyone's favorites are. You know, I said for episode 155 of the Dailey Blend podcast. So this is the Dailey Blend Show. The Dailey Blend Podcast is my house-mixed series that's been going on for about ten years. I was going to take all my favorite tracks from the In Search of Sunrise series and put together a mix. So I still plan on doing that. And then, of course, speaking of Dailey web podcast, we've got episode 151, of that I've gotten really good feedback from friends on this mix. It’s definitely more chill and laid back. You know, I'm getting a little up there in the years, so I think most of my friends are sort of in the same vein of, you know, the big Edmunds sets don't really resonate with people. It's more that chill, deep house tech house that people like. And this was much more of that, like, sort of chill, deep house. So, if you like Deep House, go check out episode 151 of the Dailey Blend podcast. It is on Apple Podcast and Soundcloud. YouTube is not on Spotify, all because of licensing and other things like that.

Greg and I have been cranking up the content back on Drink with Greg

In terms of what's going on with drink, with Greg and Negronis with Greg. So, over the last couple weeks, Greg and I have really been cranking up the content back on drink with Greg. And so, coming back from the masters, I need something simple to warm myself up. So I went to, my tried and true PDT cocktail book by Jim Meehan. And, I was trying to find something, like, really simple and easy that was tasty, and I landed on the bee's knees, from mister Frank Mirror. So go ahead over to drink, of the week over on drink with Greg. Check it out. I'm recruiting. I am recording this episode on a Tuesday night. I got home a little early. Was, it like 520. And, typically, I record this either late at night or early, early in the morning. And since it's Tuesday night Negroni's, I'm having Negroni. Why we talk about the show. And so, if you missed it last week, we're introducing Tuesday night Negronis, a tradition brewing with the drink with Greg. The community tried to get that in there, and we, you know, we love Negronis. Obviously, it was what kicked off the whole, like, brand. And so we checked it out, and there's no Tuesday night Negronis hashtag. So we invented that hashtag. So, every Tuesday night, Greg and I are basically going to do our own riffs on the Negronis and share some pictures with the Instagram community. We might try to do some, like a Facebook meetup or Facebook group. It's a little easier on Facebook than Instagram, but, you know, if you're into Negronis, don't forget to hashtag us Tuesday night Negronis. And, of course, we're gonna do some merch in terms of, you know, how to take a sip of my Negroni. In terms of book of the week, we are continuing to focus the cocktail recipe book that takes you on a journey around the world. it's a fantastic book. Spirited, just is really cool. I'm a big fan of it, and I, hope you guys go check that out. Then, in terms of, like, the optimization playbook, So what I've done is I put together, my Dailey planner, my weekly planner, and now I've got the, meeting minutes planner. I'm sort of a couple days into it. I like it. I'm not 100% there, but I've iterated on it. Now I think I'm on version three. So I've got all three. So you can head over to Dailey Blend to check those out. And those are free downloads. if you like them, great. if you don't like them, shoot me some feedback. DM me, Twitter, Instagram, whatever. I’d love to get your feedback. Of course, we've got the Friday top five newsletter. If you are subscribed to it, you'll know that I missed last week. Sorry, set the masters. But, we'll be kicking that back up. And the biggest sort of announcement of this week is, over the last six months, I've been really noodling on doing something with apparel and things that I love. And obviously I went down the masters, and I'm a big fan of golf. So what I'm going to be doing over the next three to six months is really looking to explore launching some apparel line. And so I've got aspirations down the road. But I want to start simple, and I want to make it very much community-oriented, data-oriented, and feedback from friends in the Dailey button community. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to send out a questionnaire to, not a questionnaire, more of a survey to all of my friends, everyone that subscribed to the Dailey Blend newsletter. I’m going to put a link on daileyblend.com as well. And I want to get your information on what you like, what you don't like about certain golf brands, you know, apparel pieces, things like that, what, what moves you, what excites you. And so we're going to be sort of using Dailey blend as the incubator for this, and we're going to be working through, like, naming, branding, guiding principles. I guess it wouldn't be guiding principles; it would more be a charter. But, like, all the things that are involved with starting a business. And of course, I've been working sort of in the background with contacts of mine that are in the apparel space, sourcing stuff domestically as well as overseas, design, aesthetics, etcetera. So, be on the look for that. I'm pretty excited about it.

The Dailey Blend is excited about launching a golf project this week

And, yeah, that wraps it up for this week's weekly, rundown. you know, excited about launching this golf project and getting all y’all’s feedback. As a reminder, you know, we're on Instagram, we're on x. Check us out on Spotify Apple podcasts and YouTube. And of course, go head over to Daileyblend.com and sign up for our, Friday top five newsletter. It's gonna be the best thing you get in your inbox every Friday. With that said, enjoy your week. Happy Tuesday night. Negronis to everyone. And I can't wait for all the pictures to start flowing in on the drink with Greg. And Negronis with Greg’s Instagram. Thanks again for tuning in. Catch you on the next episode of, the Dailey Blend Show.

 
 
 
 
 

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