Marketing Clients(A journey from inexperience on display)

I don’t endorse most of the work by the more naïve me.

These older works are included, in no particular order, simply to provide an idea of the sheer volume of marketing trial, error, and experience that I have learned from by flubbing and gradually learning what leads to success. And this collection doesn’t even show hundreds of additional newsletters and images that I have composed and edited as the paid promotion specialist for multiple companies.

Past marketing manager and specialist
2010-2023
Past trials & errors on the slow path to experience

A good friend of mine was once
suffering in her cold-permeated
body, desperately wanting a hot shower
but the water heater wasn't working...

I know many of us
experience the winters
as difficult to get through,
let alone enjoy, for many reasons,
and one of them is just
heating up the body.

I see you...huddled by the heating vent,
wrapped in a wool blanket, chilly when
you'd rather be chillin' this winter!

What if I told you that, unbeknownst
to you, foods you eat in the warmer seasons
without suffering from their cooling
effects were actually bringing
down the temperature experienced in your body?

I've built my cold tolerance by
design, through simple methods
everyone who tends to be cold
needs to know.

There are foods we eat that counter the warmth
our wondrous, God-given body wants to give us.

And foods that boost your warmth further.

Plus, what makes this work. You can go behind
the food lists, to understand whether a food
might be neutral, cooling, or warming for you.

What meals? What snacks?
What sauces? What dressings?
What teas?

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your wallet might frown at, cursing your
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BIO FOR TOM PALKA
Career Guidance Researcher, Producer at "Why Learn This?," and Inventor of "The Money Shift™" Board Game

Tom Palka researches psychological trends in business, money, investments, jobs, and the economy. His insights make him a sought-after educator and authority, yet as an investigator and inventor he is somewhat reclusive and iconoclast. His inventions include a game that you would have to play to believe it could exist! Part adventurous race across the board; part big-picture career counseling with financial literacy training; and part reflective self-development experience, The Money Shift™ game is in a class of its own.

As a child, Tom overcome a near-drowning, and, having survived this traumatic challenge, he knows from experience what it feels like to desperately lack the resources you need. He has committed his life to relating to that feeling when you're "underwater" on your home, and to the experience of being so buried in stressful work that you just need to "come up for oxygen." Beyond abstractions, desperateness is a real, palpable feeling in the body. Being trapped underwater without his breath is something Tom credits with propelling him to a career in helping others acquire their needs. Yes, Tom affirms, severe lack can shake you for a very long time. He has a way of being present with people who are experiencing their own types of lack. In a comforting manner for many, Tom articulates what near-drowing was like for him, and what he learned about himself from climbing out and up, and surviving to live and thrive.

As Tom grew from childhood, he would excel in the subject of finance, even before he would recognize his survival-story is a unique gift in his field. Tom is both insightful and eloquent in connecting your search for the right career move to your deepest experiences and yearnings. Speaking from his specific experiences, Tom's voice on entrepreneurship, economic insight, and stewarding wealth in meaningful ways provides us with "fresh air." His game, The Money Shift™, and the "Why Learn This" online video channel give you practice in pulling yourself out of "survival mode" and onto solid career ground.

The Money Shift™ game drops you right into exciting learning experiences that you and the whole family, peer group, or classroom (high school and up), will enjoy playing to improve your life. The game offers you a steady stream of tried and tested creative resources for financial learning and life wisdom. You can do more than 'live to see another day," but learn life lessons capable of transforming a whole lifetime.

If you are tired of "flailing" and "trying harder" to survive, there is a way through it, advises Tom. When you cherish life and know its worth, there is a way through. When you grab a hold of your true goals and desires, the calm shore is reachable. The resources he has presented and unveiled, including "Why Learn This" and The Money Shift™, help you go towards you objectives and grow successful. Players and students know Tom as someone who goes beyond his "comfort zone," as an introspective researcher and inventor, so that many can find a more comfortable life.

I was one of the student lab-member founders of the Digital Ethnographer’s Workbench.

I composed copy for the WhyLearnThis and MoneyShift platform.

I composed copy for the WhyLearnThis and MoneyShift platform.

Tom Palka is founder of Why Learn This! and maker of the games The Money Shift and the Savvy Shopper. He is a financial planning professional with a heart and a vision. Today we go up close and personal with Tom.

As young people in school must eventually come to realize, the rest of the real world isn’t exactly like school! What are some ways our youth can catch a view and even an experience of the incredible ways people, ahem, grown-ups, use their talents through work?

Tom and his team love encouraging kids to ask one question: Whatever it is that you want to do with the rest of your life, why should you learn [this]? "This" being a certain skill-learning opportunity presented before them today.

Through WHY LEARN THIS, youth discover a world of ways they can play this game called life… In the game action, hot new technical skills and come together with timeless soft skills as old as humanity to open doors for each player and create new possibilities. Choice appear, and alternatives to weigh their choices against. In the game's more introspective action, it even introduces players how to play the game in life of shaping and forming yourself into who they desire to be.

When young people Interview professionals on Why Learn This Media, the online experience turns into an exciting, up-close-and-personal field trip, taking you closer to work in practice at a range of careers beyond what was ever feasible before.

These interviews provide a distinct advantage over the exploding amount of online information elsewhere. We know that every few months, the amount of information online doubles, and much of it is about work. Talk about information overload! Yet Why Learn This Media has been devoted to interviews "straight from the horse’s mouth” at the very location the work takes place. There is nothing quite comparable to seeing the work site and hearing the sounds happening at a job that a young person might be interested in pursuing. The interviews at each company include a range of employees of different skill levels, professions, and company executives. You get to see what’s happening at the places where careers are spent, a huge advantage when you’re sorting through the massive information base out there. Don't miss this opportunity to find out what resonates for you!

Being young and having the privilege of a career guidance center and/or school is some good nourishment for a teen’s life, but remember the youth want to grow beyond school into the right form of work that helps make their desires possible—everything from having a home, to vacations, opportunities for self-expression, hobbies and recreation!

WhyLearnThis is dedicated to fanning the fire of your curiosity and desire to succeed in the career realm of a fulfilling life.

No metric more so than the rate of engaged, motivated students validates what school systems are teaching, so we are able to raise that key bar for schools. With 13 million kids in school and a $95 billion Department of Education, raising motivation and engagement with training and career goals makes a true difference.

As we aim to provide youth with the gift of forming their goals, we are based in the Bay Area, where there is every career in the world, everything from tech innovation, to Bay Bridge construction and deconstruction, from creative design to management.

Our request for funding goes to creating the videos, editing them with clarity and fun, and implementing the website.

We will use an abundance of talent in making the videos, from scheduling meeting with the professionals and employees at their workplaces, to generating an engaging video pace.

So thanks for your support of WhyLearnThis!

I studied at the Distributed Cognition and Human Computer Interaction Lab. This is where my presentation at ISGS was based from. I was also a T.A. for the courses, “Everyday Cognition," "Distributed Cognition," and "Human Computer Interaction.” http://hci.ucsd.edu

From the Cognitive Science Department, I participated in this 2001 technological-social experiment in pervasive information environments. My role related to student engagement with the information technolgoy design – https://www.sdsc.edu/pub/envision/v17.1/designing.html

In column 2.2.1, from UC San Diego I joined cognition researchers from the world’s leading institutions to present as well as learn at the Academic Congress of the International Society of Gesture Studies. http://gesturestudies.com/files/isgsconferences/ISGS02Program.html

I helped model the concept of the multiple stakeholders in the IRWM approach.

Using GIS mapping and visualization technologies, I helped generate the graphics and labeling for the presentations used by the IRWM.