Okay, hey there everyone, welcome. Welcome to my first prayer session of 2024. This is absolutely amazing.  I have missed you so much. I think the last time we had a prayer session was maybe September or October. So I'm sorry about that ladies. It's just been crazy around here, but I'm glad to be here today. It looks like I've got some people here from Facebook.  I'm not really sure what's going on. So I guess we're gonna just be live on YouTube today, which is good. Let me just make sure that everything's good here. So welcome. So I see Zee Sapson Delay Goddow. I'm sorry, if I messed your name up, I'm sorry. And we've got Leah, welcome Leah. We've got Monica with the C, welcome. We've got Lauren. Hey, Lauren, I was thinking about you. We got Chelsea D from over across the pond. We've got Marilyn, hey Marilyn, welcome ladies. Also, if you would add your prayer request to the chat, I'd be happy to pray specifically for you. All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started. So Laura, we just thank you. We praise you, we honor you, we glorify your name and we just are so grateful that we get the opportunity to be in your presence. We thank you that we get another chance today, God.   But Lord, you are the one that is the promise keeper. So we just lift your name on high. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending.  You are Jehovah Shalom, the one who brings us peace. So we just thank you, Lord God. We thank you, Lord.  And if you're just joining, please add your specific prayer requests to the chat and I'm going to pray for you specifically. I wanted to share with you a scripture though that I got this morning whenever I was in my prayer time. And the scripture is in Judges. Judges chapter 10, verse six. If somebody would like to add that to the chat, I would really appreciate it. Judges chapter 10, verse six through, verses six through 16. Judges chapter 10, verses six through 16. And I'm gonna read it in the, let's see, what is this? This is the New Living Translation. But this morning I read it in both the New Living Translation and the New King James Version. And that is what actually hit my heart well. And I felt like I needed to share it with you. And some of us have been praying for a long period of time for these vibrates to go. And it gets disheartening, it gets, it gets, I mean, discouraging, you get weary, like it's not fun to be walking through this journey, especially when you're not making the progress that you wanna make and you're like, God, I've been praying, I've been trying to do what you're telling me to do, but it feels like nothing's happening. And what I have learned over these years that I have been working with women with reproductive issues is that some changing needs to happen in the soul area. Meaning the stuff that is all messed up in your soul, like the anger, the bitterness, the jealousy, the sin issues that you struggle with, those things have to shift in order for you to make progress in this area. Like, I wish that there was a different answer to that question, but there's not.  And He wants us to live holy lives. And I'm not talking about like somebody who may be in a situation where like, they believe holiness is like what the outward appearance looks like. I'm talking about the holiness, meaning the holiness of your heart.  And I know people don't like to hear this stuff, but this is what the truth is. And I've heard stories of people being healed of reproductive issues and they say things like, oh, I ate, you know, this food for X amount of time and I got healed or I took this herb or I drank this potion and I was healed. And those stories do exist, I think they're real, but for the vast majority of people, I think it's about getting your heart changed in order for you to experience healing in your life. Whether it is just, whether it is fibroids or a relationship issue or whatever the thing is, but it's about your heart. And sometimes, you know, we can, we'll pray and we want God to heal the thing because of something that we want, because it's something that we want, but what are we willing to do for God? Are we willing to serve Him? Are we willing to minister to other people like that might have the same problem? Are we available for His use? You know what I'm saying? So let me go ahead and read this scripture. I'm reading in the New Living Translation. This is Judges chapter 10 verse starting at verse six. It says, again, the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord, in the Lord's sight, I'm sorry. They served the images of Baal and Ashtaroth and the gods of Arram, Sidon, Moab, Amon and Philistah, Philistahia. And just so you know, the Baal and Ashtaroth, a lot of those little gods were gods of fertility.  Also, Baal was a storm god, a rain god and what he was controlling was the weather and what, and if you look back at the scriptures, if the rain was good and the crops were nourished because there was enough rain, that meant there was prosperity in the land.   You can go and do a study yourself on these idolatrous gods and sometimes we say, well, I didn't worship an image or I didn't worship a statue when there's all kinds of things that we worship today that we would not think we're worshiping, like social media or money or having the right man or getting married, even that desire that becomes an idol like, oh, I want to have a baby or oh, I want to shrink these fibroids, that can even become an idol and God wants our focus on him, not the things that he can give us, not the things that we have access to on this earth. And so then let me just finish reading here. It says, then, I'm sorry, they abandoned the Lord and no longer served him at all. So the Lord burned with anger against Israel and he turned them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites who began to oppress them that year. Okay, so think about your own life. Think about how if you've had times when you have turned away from God and you just, you didn't have time to pray, you didn't have time to worship or spend time with him or read the Bible, but you were doing everything else. And then all of a sudden, things aren't going right in your life and you feel oppressed and you feel like nothing's budging. You're bleeding more than you ever bled before in your life.  And think about how that feels. That feels like oppression. I can tell you that when I was going through that, it felt like oppression to me because I couldn't escape it. It was every month and it actually wasn't just one time a month. It was usually like the whole month and then maybe I got a reprieve to recover for a few days before the bleeding started again. I was trying to recover, you know, like you guys know the story. So if you're feeling oppression, think about where your heart is. Is your heart turned towards the Lord in every area of your life? Examine your heart. Ask God to show you if there are things that you are struggling with that are connected to the things that in your heart that are connected to like the issues of your heart. Anyway, let me finish reading. For 18 years, they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land in the Amorites that is in Gilead. The Amorites also crossed to the west side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim. The Israelites lights were in great distress. Finally, they cried out to the Lord for help, saying we have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal. The Lord replied, did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites and the Ammonites, the Philistines and the Cendonians, the Amalekites and the Moanites?  Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods so I will no longer, I will not rescue you anymore. Go cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you in your hour of distress. But the Israelites, this is what is beautiful about this. The Israelites pleaded with the Lord and said, we have sinned, punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies. Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the Lord and he grieved by their misery. And what's beautiful about that to me is they were like, no, please God, we know that you, we've turned away from you. We know we have. Please forgive us for doing that. And then what they did is they repented where it says they put away their foreign gods. Like that means they stopped doing the stuff that got them in trouble in the first place. They put them away, like they stopped doing it. And they started serving the Lord again and he was moved by their misery. So that means that he came and he rescued them. So I'm asking you today, is there any place in your heart where you need repentance? Like, do you know you need to repent? Like God's been after you for this thing that you need to repent of for a while and you have just refused to repent or maybe there is something in your heart that you've been just struggling with. You've been trying to repent, but it's just been tough and you haven't been able to like get past it. If that's you, then ask the Lord to help you to repent. So that's what I'm gonna lead us through some prayers of repentance first. I didn't know where God was gonna lead but apparently that's what he wants us to do. So Lord, I just ask you right now that you would come and first of all, bring conviction to our hearts and show us places in our hearts where we need to repent. Whether that is sexual immorality, whether that is fornication, adultery, whether that is anger, bitterness, control, whether it's selfishness, Lord, whatever it is, bring it to our attention. And if you feel comfortable adding what it is that you feel like you need repentance for to the chat, please do that. Lord, forgive us for all unrighteousness. Lord, forgive us for cheating. Lord, forgive us for being angry and bitter. Lord, forgive us for being fearful. Lord, forgive us for being anxious. Lord, forgive us for being mad at our mothers. Lord, forgive us for being mad at our husbands, Lord. Forgive us for that patriarch spirit that runs in families or that matriarch spirit that runs in our family, Lord. Forgive us for those rebellious spirits that run in our family, Lord. Lord, I just pray right now that you would just forgive us for anything connected to why we are struggling with fibroids or PCOS or endometriosis or PMS or PMDD or forgive us for anything that we have done that is connected to those issues, Lord. Please forgive us for abortions or being involved in an actual abortion that we had or assisting someone else in an abortion or encouraging someone to get an abortion, Lord. Forgive us, Lord. Forgive us for anything that has got us stuck in bondage over these issues of the womb area, Lord God. Forgive us, Lord. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness, Lord. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Cleanse us with your blood. Lord, we ask that you wash us in your blood. Wash us, wash us, wash us, wash us.  Wash us with your blood, Lord God. Wash us, forgive us for our sin. We're gonna wash us, wash us. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness, God. So right now, God, I pray right now that you would get to the root of why the issues are here. And I ask that you would show your daughters what the root of their particular issues are. And not only would you show them the root, that you would show them how to, that you would cause them to be healed, that you would cause them to be healed in their body now in the name of Jesus. That you would help them to put that root, cut that root out so that they might be healed now in the name of Jesus. And that you would bring healing by the power of your blood to those wounded areas in the name of Jesus. Are you angry? Are you bitter? Lord, I ask that you would help us to lay down anything that is contributing to why we are not well in our bodies. Thank you, Brittany, for posting the scripture, Judges chapter 10, 6 through 16. Hello, my, this is, oh, Johns. Hello, my prayer is for healing, for fibroids, hemorrhaging, stress, and worry. Thank you, Lord. So one of the biggest roots to fibroids is fear, anxiety, and stress. Fear, anxiety, and stress, that's like a really big one. So I just ask God right now that he, anybody who is struggling with fear, anxiety, and stress, and be honest with yourself too.  But there was a time in my life where I was so overtaken by fear that like I was afraid of my own shadow and I won't go into all the details of why, but God delivered me from that. Like, he really did. But recently, I recognized that I was still struggling with some anxiety and a little bit of fear. I don't know if it was a little bit or not. Just fear is fear. Fear is evil and involves torment and it's not from God. But the fear and anxiety and stress was coming from some other area that I didn't realize that I was actually being oppressed with. Like, I didn't know, it wasn't on my radar. So that's why we always have to be asking God to help us examine our heart so we can bring whatever it is that we're struggling with before him. But what I did was I recognized that I was struggling with fear and anxiety. And I was like, where did this come from? And I think the reason that I didn't recognize it is because when I struggled like before, it was different. It just manifested itself differently than how it was manifesting itself at the time that I discovered it. So I started going through like my whole life and like trying to ask God, okay, what's the root of this fear, anxiety and stress? Cause that's really the root of it. Like you have to ask God to get to the root of it. And some of you might be like, yeah, well I know exactly where my fear and my anxiety and stress is coming from. It's this thing. And if you know that, then here's the instructions on what to do. First of all, God says in his word that we are to fear nothing. It says fear not about, I can't remember, is it over 360 times? 365 times, I think that's what the number is. So there's a scripture about fear for every day of the year. I don't think that that was an accident. And he really means for us not to fear. So when we are in fear, worry, anxiety and stress, that is sin and we need to repent. So that's the first place we need to start is repentance. So if you're struggling with this, I want you to repent right now, Lord, I'm sorry for walking in fear, anxiety and stress. I'm sorry, please forgive me for that. And then the next part of this is like, well, why are you fearful and stressful? Normally, as has something to do with your connection with God, are you actually spending the time that you need to spend with Him? Are you taking your request to Him? Like the things that you have going on in your life that you are fearful, anxious, stressed about, are you actually taking those things to Him and actually trusting that He will take care of them? Or are you holding these things in your own hands, trying to fix them yourself? If you are doing that, then you need to repent for that too. So Father in Jesus' name, forgive me for trying to control the outcome of these situations that have caused me to be afraid. Lord, I put these things in your hands and I trust that you are going to help me overcome. And if you have to do that every five minutes to get your hands off of it and stop trying to control it, then that's what you need to do.  You don't even, you don't need to stop what you're doing. If you're at work and you're afraid, you can just pray those prayers in your mind or under your breath. Or if you're in a position where you can say it out loud, if you want to, but it really means, it really does mean that we need to take our request to the Lord so that He can help take care of our, fight our battles, take care of our situations that have us in stress, anxiety and worry. So Lord, we just thank you for that. Now in the name of Jesus and Father, I pray right now that you are shrinking the tumors for oh, John's now and you are stopping that blood right now in its tracks now. And Jesus' name that she would no longer hint that she would no longer Henry, hemorrhage. And God, I pray that you would cause her to take the things that she is stressed about and worried about to you, that you would answer her. Lord, your word says that if we cry out to you, that you will answer us and that you will come to our rescue just like it said in Judges chapter 10 verses 6 through 16. You said that when we are in sin, if we cry to you, and in this particular case, Israel pleaded with God and he had compassion on them and he came to their rescue. You know what he has a respect to? God is not a respecter of persons. If he shows you something in the scriptures, that means if it was done for them, it will be done for you. If it's done for Lauren, it could be done for you. If it's done for Monica, it could be done for you. Thank you, Lord. We got Leah, prayer requests, my health patients while waiting on transition, life career, mom, my mom, direction, provision, my favorite timing on the things she's believing for. Okay, so that's your mom's prayer requests. Direction, provision, divine favor and timing. Okay, Father, we just thank you. We thank you, Lord. We thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I'm just listening, Leah. Thank you, Lord. Bless you, God. So I'm getting the sense, Leah, that there are some things that the Lord actually has been telling you to do and it's the hold up. Like it's the hold up. Like you said you're asking for patience while waiting on transition for life and career but there are some things that is causing you to have to wait. Like he's giving you some instructions on some things to do and if you do those things, you won't have to wait because the transition will actually happen. So Father, I pray right now in the name of Jesus that you would cause Leah to do whatever it is that you told her to do so that her transition time is no longer a wait that you will help her to transition. Cause I feel like I'm getting the sense you've been in this pattern for quite a while already. Like this waiting, this transition waiting thing. And you don't have to wait anymore.  And it also the other thing that was regarding your health situation too. So Lord, I pray that you would help her, that you would help her in the name of Jesus. I'm getting the sense the same thing is for your mother too. The same thing. He's given her some instructions on what to do too on some things he wants her to do and her not doing those things the thing that's holding up her walking into the things she's believing for. He's not showing me what or anything like that, but so Father in Jesus name, I pray for Leah's mother and I ask you God that you would help her to do the things that you have told her to do that will help her to walk into the direction, the provision, the divine favor, the timing that she is believing for. In Jesus name. Hey, Lisa, looking forward to your conference. Jennifer Kay, hey, welcome Jennifer. Karen Blondin, happy new year, hello. Okay, Dorcas, hey Dorcas. My prayer request is for a healing from PMDD. Dorcas, as soon as I read that just now, I saw in capital letters, capital letters, anger. No, I actually saw angry, angry. That's what I saw. So if you're angry about something, that's at the root of this PMDD, I believe, based on the fact that it just flashed in front of my eyes as I was reading your prayer request of Father right now in Jesus name, I ask you Lord that you would go into Dorcas's heart and that you would help her to release the anger that is deep down. Actually, I see the anger is generational. It's not even rooted in the gear, the gear carrying something from the generations, like what side of her family is this coming from? I heard both sides of your family, there's a spirit of anger and it doesn't necessarily manifest itself in like the yelling and the screaming, but it's the I'm gonna hold it in anger, that kind of thing. So somebody might be angry and you might not even know they're carrying it. So here's the instructions for getting rid of things that are in your family line, repent for your family, act like you're the one that was angry back in the generations. So Lord, I am sorry for being angry, whether you're angry or not. Lord, I'm sorry for being angry. Forgive me for being angry. Cleanse me and I break agreement with that anger now in the name of Jesus. Cleanse me from all unrighteousness. And Lord, that wound that I have in my soul regarding this anger, I ask you to heal it now in the name of Jesus. Heal it in Jesus' name. And the other thing I wanna say too, sometimes we have to keep on praying over and over again until we're free. Those prayers, sometimes it is so deep that that's what we have to do. So I would continue to pray that often, every day, keep putting that before the Lord until the symptoms go away. And Father, is there anything else that is attached to this PMDD? Wow, I heard rebellion. I'm not sure. Okay, Lord, where's the rebellion coming from? So I heard the both sides of your family and that is something that you are actually participating in right now, whether you know it or not. Like if God told you to do something that will help your situation, I'll just use this as an example. Like say he said, you need to eat clean or eat the way I teach or whatever. I'm not saying what you heard from God, what you should be doing.  That's just an example. So Lord, I pray that you will show Dorcas where rebellion is showing up in her life right now in the name of Jesus. And if anybody else can act, if this resonates with you, grab ahold of this for yourself. Lord, forgive me and my ancestors for being rebellious and angry. And I ask you, God, that you would help me to release it. I break agreement with it now in the name of Jesus.  You no longer have access to me now in Jesus' name because I am healed and I have repented and I have turned my back on rebellion and anger now in Jesus' name. So Lord, I pray that the manifestation of healing in Dorcas' body would show itself now of healing in Jesus' name. And so if there is any instructions that God told you to do in the season of your life, Dorcas, and it was things that you decided that you didn't want to do or you felt like you couldn't do it or you wouldn't do it, it's time to say yes to God and stop like saying no. In Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. Also prayer for my dad that seems to have dementia and direction on how to get and afford proper care. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Father, I pray for whatever's at the root of O'John's dad, symptoms of dementia, Lord. I pray for whatever's at the root of it and I ask you to heal it. Now in the name of Jesus, I ask you to cleanse the bloodline of anything that is contributing to these symptoms of dementia. Now in the name of Jesus and Lord, if there is someone that is supposed to help treat these symptoms, Lord, from a physical perspective, Lord, I pray that you would bring access to it for O'John's and that you would provide the resources because you are the provider.  And if there's anything in the way of this provision, Lord, I pray that you would show it to O'John's and that you would help her to navigate that in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Jasmine Johnson, hello, please pray for me to have a flat stomach and be relieved from these fibroids that are bothering me. Let me say something about fibroids before I pray for Jasmine. So when you have fibroids, ladies, it is an indication in your body that you are not in good health, like especially when you're having symptoms and like you haven't done any work to try and shrink them or you haven't spent any significant time trying to shrink them through changing your lifestyle. It is a sign that you are not healthy. Your physical body is not healthy. So what I try to tell people to focus on and I know that you want the flat stomach and I know you want the fibroids to shrink and I know all the stuff. I know you don't want the symptoms and all that, but focus on getting yourself healthy and you will get the results. You will get the results that you're looking for because fibroids aren't just, oh, let me shrink the fibroid. Fibroids are a siren saying, there's stuff going on in my body. They're like, soon if I don't change what I'm doing, other things are gonna pop up and that's what I don't want you all to say. I don't want it to happen to any of you. Lots of women, you guys have heard my mother's story. I'm gonna tell it real quick. She got her appendix taken out when she was nine years old. When you have to get your appendix taken out at nine, there's a problem in your digestive tract. She had multiple surgeries, getting boils and cysts and stuff removed off the parts of her body through her 20s. When she was 36, she got a hysterectomy. At 42, she had a liver transplant and at 50, she was dead. She never changed her lifestyle and every last one of the things that was wrong with her could have been reversed or helped if she had changed her lifestyle. She'd still be here. So we can pray all day long that God will shrink the fibroids. We can pray all day long that he will stop the bleeding but as long as we keep on doing the same things that cause the fibroids to grow. And I'm not saying Jasmine that that's what you're doing but when I read your prayer request this prompted me to say this. If you're doing the same things, you're not going to change anything. Nothing's going to shift. You'll stay in the situation and continue to get worse. I don't care how many prayers you pray. There's the isolated cases where we can keep on doing everything we've been doing and fibroids will shrink. Like there's some isolated cases like that but disease does not go away by just saying a prayer all the time. Sometimes it happens but it's rare. We have to change. It's like a law. It's like you cannot keep doing.  Well, sure he could save you from walking falling off the cliff but nine times out of 10 you're just going to fall off the cliff if you keep walking towards the cliff. You didn't understand what I'm saying?  God please save me from the cliff.  Same thing goes for healing these fibroids. If you continue this lifestyle that led to the fibroids, you can pray all day long, they're not going anywhere. I'm sorry with the exception of a few isolated cases. So I want to encourage you Jasmine and anybody else who has this prayer for these conditions to leave. If you haven't already changed your lifestyle it's time to start. This is your warning. Start, change your lifestyle so you can have the flat stomach so you don't have the symptoms. As a matter of fact, when you start to change your lifestyle your symptoms go away pretty quickly. They do. Ask anybody who has committed to changing. And the problem is that it's hard to change. So I understand that as well. So Father in Jesus' name, I lift up Jasmine to you God and I just ask you right now in the name of Jesus that you would shrink the fibroids and relieve her from all the symptoms that are bothering her and whatever instructions you have for her specifically. Lord, I pray that you would speak them to her heart and not only would you speak them Lord that you would help her to carry out the instructions that it's going to take for her to get well. Yeah, so unfortunately I just really, I really wish that we could just say, hey, I'm sorry about how I've been treating my body and keep on eating cheeseburgers or whatever we're eating and they be healed. And it's just not, it's not the case. Hey, Kimmy, good morning. Bless you, dear sister. A triple A, please pray for endometriosis stage four in the womb and intestines. And you can be free from endometriosis stage four in the womb and intestines. So Father in Jesus' name I pray right now that you would heal the endometriosis stage four in these womb issues and these intestines issues, Lord God. I pray that since triple A is here on my channel that you would lead her, show her how to eat, to take care of herself and to cool that inflammation that is contributing to this endometriosis in these womb issues and intestines issues, Lord. And I pray right now in Jesus' name, God that you would get to the root of wine. I saw anger to pop up, anger and bitterness just pop up in my mind, in my mind's eyes. So it looks like that's what the root is or maybe some other things. You could go back through this prayer and pray what I prayed for someone who had, where I saw anger, but Father right now in Jesus' name that you would heal this issue and that you would help triple A to forgive, that you would help triple A to forgive and to release the bitterness and the anger now in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for the prayer. I actually have been eating healthy and always have been very active. That is good to hear, Jasmine. But let me just tell you this. If you still have a fibroid in your body and it's bothering you, it means you gotta go deeper. That's all it means. I don't know why some people have to be more strict than others, it just depends. But also it can be spiritual. So if you wanna go back to the beginning, if you haven't heard what I said in the beginning, it could be something that is spiritual that is connected to the fibroid that keeps it from moving away if you are doing all the right things from physical perspective, it could be spiritual. That actually happens often. So thank you for sharing that. Let's see. Big heart, Manny. Hi, I've been following you for a while. Love your videos, asking for prayers for my sleeping pattern. And with PCOS, I'm really trying my best to do better, feel better than going through a lot all. Thank you for posting your prayer requests. Father in Jesus' name, I ask you that you would give your daughter sweet sleep. That is your promise. There's probably something in the way of the sleep's bryhormonal. That's what I'm sensing. So Father in Jesus' name, I asked that you would get to the root of why. Manny, I'm assuming your name is Manny. Why she hasn't been able to fully commit to taking good care of herself, sounds like from the sentence, that you're trying to do it. Like you're trying to do it, but everything you've been going through has been interfering with that. That's at least how I'm interpreting it. I'm wrong, I'm sorry. But Father, I pray that you will help her to overcome that. That you will help her to be so Manny. I just saw that God wants you to meet him, come to him, spend time with him. And he is going to show you not only how to get healed from the PCOS, like healed where you don't have a symptom, an issue with it, none of it. Not only will he show you that, but the circumstances that you are in right now, he will show you how to get out of them and reverse them. So he just showed me. Like you have to go after God, like you never have before in your life and it's time.  So I pray right now that he would give you a special grace that will allow you to come to him like he's asking you to, so that you can be healed physically, emotionally and your circumstances can be healed in the name of Jesus. Oh, I didn't see this one triple A. I'd like guidance and provision on eating and drinking clean and well. Okay. So one of the things you could do is just go on my YouTube channel and start watching the videos. That's one place you can do. You can go to my website, watchlceeds.com and look at the information there. And you can always email me too. There's a place on my website to email me. You can have specific, if you have specific questions and I can direct you in the place and the way in which you can go to get the answers that you're looking for. So Father, I pray that you would fill triple A up with everything that she needs to get well in Jesus' name. I pray to recognize God's voice and to get clear instructions for my life, amen. So let me just give you a little bit of insight on how to hear God's voice clearly.   You just know. Well, the reason that you know is because you have spent time with them. And it's because you have a relationship with them. Like my kids could say mom in a crowded place and I know my kids voice because I spend time with them.  So same thing with God. The way we know God's voice and recognize his voice is by spending time with him. So I pray that God would give you a special grace to start spending even more time with him so you recognize his voice and when he does give you instructions because I know he's always talking. Anytime we ask him a question, he always wants to help us.  Another way for you specifically and just drilling this down a little bit more is to read the word. And sometimes I know this was me years ago whenever I first became a Christian and even sometimes throughout my walk just depending on what I was going through. Sometimes I just didn't feel like reading the Bible or when I would read the Bible I wasn't understanding what I was hearing or reading so it was like it was almost falling on deaf ears and I'm sure some of you may experience this but Father I pray right now that you would cause Maggie to understand what she's reading and also that you would draw her to your word that she would have such a desire for your word that she cannot put her Bible down. Like it interferes with other things in our lives she wants to read so much. Father I thank you and praise you for that in Jesus' name. The Lord did tell me that one day I will be healed. Amen. I believe that for you. It is his will for us to be healed. It is God's will for us to be healed. Now, does everybody get healed? No, but I think there's a reason why everybody doesn't get healed. Everybody doesn't believe that school of thought and I think when people with the vast majority of people who don't get healed is because they don't go after him, the healer, not the healing, go after the healer, not the healing. So anyway, and there's other reasons why people don't get healed too but that's a whole another conversation. But I believe that Jesus went to the cross so we could be healed because it says by his stripes we are healed. He was led to the slaughter, went to the cross, took all the stripes, died a horrendous death, died, preached to the people in hell and rose again in three days. He did that for everything, all our sin, all our sicknesses, both mentally and physically and emotionally. And I believe that he didn't die in vain. It's for us to be healed. Let's see. See if I missed, I might've missed a prayer request. Hey, Donette, hey there. Okay, praying for my sister who is currently being tested for PCOS. I pray God will save her soul and she'd get the revelation of all deeper healing that needed, just needed in her mind, body and soul. Amen, I'm in agreement with that. I like that. I like that prayer request for your sister and total agreement. Father, I pray that first of all, she would be healed physically and then she would take good care of her body that you gave her. We only have one place to live. And I pray, Lord, that you would save her. Her sister is praying for her soul to be saved. So I thank you, Lord, that you are saving Tanisha's sister now in the name of Jesus and that you would guide her to get a great revelation of a deeper healing and that you would heal her mind, body and soul in the name of Jesus. I love that, I agree with you. Please pray for the fibroid pain and the endometriosis. The doctor wants me to get another surgery. Okay, Rissa, I'm definitely gonna pray, but hopefully you've heard some of the things that I've been talking about today, so put some of those things into practice. And also, if I were you, I'll be asking you, asking the doctor, what is the surgery gonna do? Like, what, is it gonna stop everything? Is that what you're saying? Because you've already had surgery. Has it changed anything? But you don't have to take my advice, but I'm just saying that's a question that you can pose to the doctor. But anyway, I pray right now that you would do everything necessary to get to the root of why you have fibroids and pain and endometriosis and that he would heal you now in the name of Jesus. Go back and listen to what we've talked about this last hour, about the roots and figuring out what is at the root of why you have this problem in the first place and then pursue God like you never have before and watch him heal you and do a work in your life. Brittany, repenting for abortions and pre-medal sex, hallelujah. He honors that, he honors that, he honors that. Did I pray for her? I think I prayed for this prayer for bloating. Father, I pray that you would cause Barber's belly to go down now in the name of Jesus. And Father, whatever's at the root of the bloating, I pray you would reveal that to Barber and that you would cause her to pray through that and that you would reverse this issue that she has in her body now in the name of Jesus. Lauren, praying for forgiveness for divorce.  And you could still have those things. So Father, in Jesus' name, I ask you to heal the wound that is caused by divorce in Lauren. And God, I pray right now that you would wash her and cleanse her of all unrighteousness for God. And I pray that you would speak to her heart and that you would lead her and guide her into all truth in the name of Jesus. Is there a possibility, because I just saw this, I don't know if, is there a possibility that you and your ex-husband will get back together? I just saw that, I don't know. I mean, I'm not saying that they'll say if the Lord or anything like that, but that might happen. But Lord, whatever your will is for Lauren and that she would be healed, that she would be healed from the relationship, the wounds that happened in the relationship in the name of Jesus. Lord, we thank you for that. We thank you for that. This one right here, Lauren, I don't know if you've been seeking the Lord or running or whatever you have been, I don't know what you've been doing. I haven't talked to you in a long time, but if you are running, it's time to turn your face completely toward the Lord and pursue him like you never have before so that he can heal you from this situation. You need healing. Because before you could be married and be a mother successfully again, you need healing. And he has forgiven you, but there's wounds that come with this stuff. And I know he wants to heal you. He loves you. Is it possible to absorb people's anger and bitterness because I'm a forgiven person? I don't get angry easily. I don't hold grudges, but there's anger and bitter people around me, close family. So yeah, it can be generational. Absolutely, absolutely.  Pray like that and ask him because there could be, because it's possible you could be ticked off because everybody's angry and bitter around you. That could make you angry and bitter. So that was a good question. All right, ladies, this is the end of the stream. I wish I could stay here for hours and talk to you all. I would love it, but I can't. But I'm gonna be back on Wednesday. I think at noon, yes, noon, and I'm gonna be talking about herbs and answering all of your questions if you have them. I'm also gonna be talking to you about how to work with me. If you've been wanting to work with me or, yeah. So basically that's what I'm, what I am going to be talking to you about on Wednesday. So if you have any questions, please come ripe and ready on Wednesday at noon here on YouTube. I think I'll be streaming on Instagram too for the first time. I haven't streamed like this, but we'll see. If Instagram is your preferred platform that might be good for you. Anyway, love y'all so much and I'll talk to you soon. Lots of love, take care.


This is Mises Weekends with your host, Jeff Deist. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back once again to Mises Weekends. We're pleased to be joined by a good friend of ours, Pere Byland, whom I'm sure many of you know from his many appearances at Mises University and at the Mises Institute. He is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He studied under and I believe obtained his PhD through our Professor Peter Klein at Missouri. And he is the author of obviously many academic papers, but he also has two full-length books and I recommend both of them to you. You can find them on Amazon. One of them is called The Scene and The Unseen and The Unrealized, how regulations affect our everyday lives. I assume that's a playoff of Basiat. The other is his more recent book called The Problem of Production, A New Theory of the Firm. And that's roughly what he spoke about a week or two ago at our research conference here in Auburn. All that said, Dr. Byland welcome. Thank you so much. How are you? Thanks for having me. I'm fine. Well, I have a question for you that I asked a lot of PhD economists who are generally in line with our way of thinking. Our ideas, generally free market ideas, but more specifically Austrian school ideas, tend to get more traction in business schools than they do in economic departments. Why do you think this is? Is that a fair assessment? Yeah, I think it is fair. And I think that has to do with entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurship is now a growing field in business schools. It is usually housed within management departments, but it has become a specialization for business school professors. And of course, entrepreneurship, where do you go? There aren't all that many theories out there. All the traditional theories are either Austrians or proto-Austrians. So you need to be Austrian. And actually in the literature, the two classical theories used mostly in entrepreneurship literature is Schumpeter and Kirsner. So if you're an Austrian, you fit very well in immediately. You almost don't have to learn anything really. I mean, Mises is cited in the top journals in management and entrepreneurship. I don't think that happens at all in economics, not even lower level journals. Well, it's kind of interesting because here we're always labeled as the more theoretical branch of economics, at least in methodology. But yet, I would say, would you agree that it's a bit of a badge of honor to be cited in business schools because that's more of where economics is actually applied in the world of business? Well, I think so. Absolutely. And what we're talking about all of entrepreneurship and all of Austrian economics too is about the dynamics of the market and what happens. And everybody can see, I mean, basically even the blind can see that the market is changing, the economy is moving, stuff is happening. It's not basically the economics gang sign, if you will. I usually tell my students that, supply and demand, right? We're never where those curves intersect. And that static world, it doesn't exist. And the business school, it's obvious because you start from the bottom. It's bottom up rather than looking at the structures in the economy. So for anyone in the business school, they would look at how do I make my business stand out? How do I get competitive advantage and all these things? So basically, how do I cause inefficiency in the market? I mean, to an economist, that's basically what we're talking about. How do I make sure that I'm so much better than all the others, that there is no efficiency? And if that is what we're teaching, then we're sort of teaching anti-mainstream economics. Well, would you go as far as to say that economics belongs in business schools rather than social science departments in universities? Because ordinarily we think of economics as a social science. Yeah, well, business schools originally were practically oriented, right? Training people in how to run businesses and things like that. I see really business schools as applied economics. So if you have sound economics, then you will be able to explain all these things that are happening and basically how to do them as well. And if you apply Austrian economics on the real world or how people run businesses and so forth, what do entrepreneurs actually do? Well, then there you have it. There you have basically a bullet point lift for how to make sure that you stand out as a business. And economic theory is important there to guide both educators and practitioners in the real market. I mean, not the formalized sort of gang sign market. Well, when we're talking about entrepreneurship, obviously the Austrian school makes the role of the entrepreneur paramount in ways that I think other schools don't. You know, conceptually entrepreneurship, this is always a criticism. I know it's a loaded question, but do you feel like entrepreneurship can be taught? Is that what you do in your mind at Oklahoma State or is it something more that you study? Well, that's a good question. And I think I have two answers, really, because there are really two things we mean by that. And one is entrepreneurship as starting a business and going through the motions. I mean, how do you practically start a business? And there's plenty to that today where you need to go through all the legal hoops. You need to get the proper licensing. You need to figure out who is your customer. You need to figure out what type of product are they actually looking for. What does the competition look like, market analysis and things like that? That can certainly be taught. And we've taught that for well over 100 years. That's not a big issue. Then you have the sort of economic theory version of the entrepreneur as the driving force in the market to use Mises' phrase. And do you teach that? Well, that's more about understanding how the economy works. And I personally think that an entrepreneur, a real person starting a business, would benefit a lot from having an Austrian understanding of the marketplace, because that means that you can see what it is you're actually doing, rather than just starting a business and going through sort of checking boxes when you're starting a business. I mean, one example of that would be pricing, for instance, where in MBA programs, we teach students how to set a price cost plus. And I wrote about this at Mises.org as well. And that's a disastrous method, really. You don't start there as an entrepreneur. What you do is figure out who is the customer? What is the product? And then you say, okay, so what is this worth to the customer? What can I possibly charge? And then you figure out, okay, can I cover my costs with this price? So it's backwards. So teaching costs plus, that's just a certain way of failure. Well, on the idea of what universities do, I know Peter Klein has written not always favorably about this concept of business incubators at universities. Setting aside for a moment the notion of whether they're publicly or privately funded, give us your thoughts. Is the concept of a business incubator at a university a valid concept of something that we ought to be promoting or is it a boondoggle? Well, in a sense, it's really the infant industry, sort of an infant business argument, right, that it's protectionism. You protect them until they grow strong, and then you can release them into the wild or into the market.  I mean, to put it plainly. On the other hand, I mean, you can still learn a lot. You usually have entrepreneurs who are amateurs. They're beginners. They don't really know where they're going with this. They just want to do it. And you do have mentorships. You do get contacts and networking and things like that in these incubators because you seem to co-locate it with other people interested in the same thing. So there's knowledge sharing going on in these places that is not harmful in any way. It's very beneficial for people. But then you have the infant business argument.  Per, even amongst Austrians, as usual, there's more than one view of what the entrepreneur's role is and what the entrepreneurial process consists of. But in particular, there's sort of a split between how Kersner viewed this and how Mises viewed this. I'll just summarize briefly. Kersner talked about this notion of being alert to opportunities so it was really a discovery process whereas Mises made it sound more like there's a rational actor fighting against uncertainty and the role of the entrepreneur is to take risks in the face of that uncertainty. So you've got discovery versus uncertainty. Is this something average people who aren't studying economics should concern themselves with? Tell us what you think of these two ideas. Well, I don't think it actually matters for most people, which it is, if either. I think probably Kersner and Mises were trying to explain different things. And if you go with Petke's story about this, then Kersner is really trying to say how the markets equilibrate or at least have this tendency toward equilibrium. And he's doing this by talking about the pure entrepreneur, the sort of very theoretical view of what an entrepreneur does to function as being alertness in the market, alert to opportunities.  Mises, on the other hand, was trying to explain the whole economic system and the dynamics of the market rather than just that tendency of it. And of course, as a real entrepreneur, it doesn't really matter to you. But contrast with what we'll grudgingly today anyway call mainstream economics, what's the difference between the Austrian school emphasis on entrepreneurship as part of the process of understanding and studying economics versus more orthodox or mainstream economics? What's the difference in how entrepreneurship is viewed? Well, I mean, if you want to, just in one sentence, I would say that mainstream economics doesn't have an entrepreneur. On the other hand, you do have mainstream economists who study entrepreneurship, which is sort of a, seems like a contradiction. But what they do is look at small businesses and how many self-employed are there as a fraction of all people employed and things like that. And they talk about how economic growth follows from the number of businesses and how many businesses you have. There are small, medium-sized and so forth. So what they're talking about is really the market structure or industry structure. Whereas what we're talking about is a function in the market, someone who is the driving force and pushing the market one way or the other but always toward more one satisfaction and the solution to problems. But of course, not everybody shares our view of that we tend to have this image of the entrepreneur as an individual or a small business and almost a heroic individual, someone who's willing to take risks, personal, professional, certainly financial risks, even with their own family. But our progressive friends who don't always share this, if you recall a few years ago, Obama made his famous gaffe where he said you didn't build that. The idea being that in the view of a lot of progressives and probably a lot of conservatives too, entrepreneurs are sort of the lucky beneficiaries of this system that the government built and maintained and they just kind of lucked into it. So not everybody views the entrepreneur so nobly or heroically.  Yeah, I think the problem with progressives is that they sometimes get some things right. So they're the proverbial squirrel with a nut, the blind squirrel who occasionally finds a nut. And I think they're right in the sense that yeah, the government has provided a lot of things and yes, entrepreneurs benefit from that but that's usually because the government has monopolized these things and it said without government there would be no such thing as healthcare or roads or anything like that that we actually use, no infrastructure whatsoever. I mean, that's silly, of course. And entrepreneurs would do that sort of thing if government didn't prohibit them from doing it. But in the real world as it is today, when entrepreneurs say benefit from these things, we all do to some extent. We would probably benefit a lot more if government did not prohibit others from doing this. So it's a very inefficient solution, of course. And it's funny you would say that the entrepreneur is a hero because I'm teaching a course every semester actually at Oklahoma State called the entrepreneur a hero or a villain. Where I talk to students from all over campus, it's a humanities designated class. So we talk about entrepreneurship, different forms, different types, in different shapes and forms using movies and things like that to sort of illustrate what entrepreneurs can or can't do. And then we talk about the ethics of it all. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What are the consequences? And we use different theories of entrepreneurship to sort of illustrate our discussions. And part of the readings is HAPPA, for instance, the Ethics of Entrepreneurship. But we read Jean-Baptiste Say and Mises and others as well and watch Hollywood movies to try to figure out not only how entrepreneurs are portrayed, but what do they actually do? How are we supposed to understand this? Well, I guess one point we can make is they're not spectators, unlike so many people in the world. Let me also offer up a little bit more of a right-wing critique of the view of entrepreneurs. As I'm sure you're aware, there's been what we would consider a Fed, a central bank fueled M&A boom, really for the last 20 years almost. Someone like a David Stockman, who's more of a right populist, he would criticize this and say, well, a lot of times we're just talking about reforming capital combinations. We're just kind of moving money around. And that in and of itself is perhaps not as heroic as creating the next life-saving device or what we think of as the mom-and-pop entrepreneur. So do you think Stockman's right? Do you think, for instance, a lot of what Wall Street does and a lot of what the M&A markets do is not really entrepreneurial, but it's for lack of a better term, moving money around? Well, I think that can be entrepreneurial and there are plenty of financial innovations as well. And Wall Street, per se, might not be very entrepreneurial because it gets all these newly printed monies. So that's not very entrepreneurial. On the other hand, everybody, if you would go with Mises, is an entrepreneur in just acting because we bear the uncertainty of that action. And of course, in that sense, we are definitely in all ways entrepreneurs and they are running businesses as well. They're making investments and they could choose other investments. Yeah, of course, they're entrepreneurial. They're moving money around, but that's how they make money as well. That's how they create value, even though you could definitely argue that this is fraudulent or based, at least, in fraud through the central bank printing all this money because it changes the whole monetary situation. So, Per, one last question for you. You're Swedish. How long have you lived in the United States? Since 2007. Okay. So, in economics, we talk about the concept that incentives matter. Talk a little bit about how, I won't say socialist, I'll say in more socialist countries in the United States. How does a socialist system sort of drive entrepreneurs away? How does it beat the entrepreneurial spirit out of people? If we talk about incentives matter, then it seems like in a socialist world, there's a lot of incentive to be the next Apple, to be the next Tesla. But yet, our friends on the left would say, well, people pretty much do what they want to do regardless of incentives. Well, if they do what they want to do, then they have an incentive to do just that because they want to do it. That's the very definition of an incentive in a sense. So, that's a silly claim on their part. In socialist economies, or more socialist economies, the obvious problem would be that you don't get to keep what you make. So, if you make money as an entrepreneur in a socialist country, then of course you keep a very, very little piece of it. And you also have all these other regulations that really take choices away from you. So, you don't have all these alternatives to choose from. Basically, in any situation you would have in a totally free market been able to choose from all of these different options. Whereas in a regulated economy you have all of these few options that are allowed. And of course that means that you're going to create less value. So, in that sense the value that you do create that's less than what otherwise would have been and part of the value is also taken from you by the government. So, in that sense of course we have less entrepreneurship than successful entrepreneurship as well probably. So, from your perspective is America still among the most entrepreneurial countries in the world? That's a very tricky question because it sort of means it depends on what you mean by that and on what level. I think the US is probably it has a lot of incentives still in place because taxation is I thought it was going to be lower than it is. Let's just put it that way. And it's sort of free to start business. But America is wrestling with a lot of problems as well in health care and all these other industries that are super licensed and super regulated and I lived in Taiwan for a while in the early 2000s and Taiwan struck me as a very entrepreneurial society. But on a very different level because here in the US you would start a business and you would try to make it grow and become really big and prosperous. And of course you have a huge market in Taiwan you had all these street vendors and they were cooking in the streets and they were selling stuff and you had all these small private schools in the black markets. They didn't have the proper license and what not from the government. So, they taught kids anyway because there was so much demand and then they had all these procedures for how to escape when there was a raid and all these things. But that's very highly entrepreneurial. I don't see people starting schools in the black market in the US for instance. I don't see street vendors very much either. So, it all depends. Formal business is probably more commonplace here whereas it's more sort of everyday acting in other countries like Taiwan. So, it's different types of entrepreneurship but still very entrepreneurial. Right. I think that's an important point. We tend to think of a startup as a Silicon Valley IT firm that's out there getting venture capital money when in fact a roadside pop-up restaurant on a side street in Taiwan is every bit as much of an entrepreneurial effort. With that we're out of time. Dr. Pair Bailand, thanks so much for your time ladies and gentlemen. If you'd like to check out his books again they're both available at Amazon and you can also read his stuff at Mises.org and at www.PairBailand.com So, Pair, thanks so much for your time ladies and gentlemen. Have a great weekend.


Today is a sad day for so many animators because today we've learned that the legendary animator and Titan in the animation industry Richard Williams has passed away today. It's a shock, I mean he was old but he had so much energy, he was still prolific online, he was still sharing his knowledge and speaking of knowledge, the majority of animators probably have this in their office. It's a book that relied upon as a student so many times, I mean I wouldn't be where I am now without this book would be such an understatement. And I was really lucky to see him actually at the Academy of Art when I was a student there, he had a lecture showcasing all his walks, his silly walks, the theory behind it. When he was running around in that presentation room it was absolutely fantastic to see and it was so inspirational and it was just it was so cool to see him especially since I mean I've watched Roger Rabbit as a kid and after that I don't know how many times I'm just such a fan and it really is a legend has passed away. So I thought that today I would record something about his book but actually more about his app because I don't think I don't know how many people actually know about the app and I thought I'll record this in my review closet because as a student when I moved to San Francisco I was first in the dorm at the Academy dorm but then I moved to a studio and it was just it was a studio, it was a room, a small room in the kitchen and the closet just like this one just about half the size. I took everything out and put a desk in there and then worked there and I animated and studied and you know that that was the Bible that I mean I still have all these post-it notes from my studies. So I thought if I'm already talking about Richard Williams it should be in here and not that this would serve as some form of review but I do want to show the book to people who might not have it because it is absolutely amazing but again the app I really hope that you have the app and if you don't I'm going to show you why it is so awesome and such a good supplement to the book. So quickly thumb through that book to show you what's in there. Let's put this here aside. Oh man I forgot it's even dedicated man. All right so you can see here I mean again I highly recommend that you get this but contents there's just a massive amount of knowledge in this book in terms of just his history his background and after that it goes into the classic assignment the bouncing ball. I don't know how many times I looked at this and it's not just dry theory again they're examples they are drawings and actually this this is the first time where I realized that this sounds super weird but that you can disagree with masters in terms of their experience and what they taught you to where you don't just take everything they say and go I'm gonna do exactly the same thing it's more about kind of absorbing the essence and taking what they've learned and then adapting it and then and kind of building on top of that if possible and this is the classic drawing where he asked Mil to you ever listen to classical music while you're working and then you have this massive reaction and actually I'm absolutely able to work in silence but I do like working with music where either the music supplements the the shot if it's an action shot emotional shot or something or or if it's something where it's a bit more repetitive and I got to go through some mechanics of a shot that's not I don't really have to think about a performance anymore then I put on some moving the background that I know already just has some background noise it's just something that I prefer when I work but it almost felt like I was between like how can I disagree with what Richard Williams is writing here but I'm not smart enough to think of more than one thing at a time I don't think I'm smart enough either but for some reason it works but but anyway so it goes through the history of charts in between and just all the classic you got the pendulum all the classic assignments are in there then you start having basic mechanics then of course you have more of an old-school approach if you are compared to if you're doing you know cg animation nowadays but the illustrations are fun there's so many examples and even after the basic exercises it goes into a bit more complicated subjects you got smears and then you got walks and there are so many fantastic examples of walks there the breakdowns it shows you how you can exaggerate them how you can really go way too far in terms of breaking the joints all in terms of entertainment and style speaking of style different camera angles or crazy lenses so many examples you have cartoony you have realistic walks talking about spacing showing it from all different angles again different styles and different types of breakdowns and how far you can go with the successive breaking of joints the content is just absolutely fantastic you got sneaks then you got walks and runs again different examples to illustrate how far you can go then of course he talks about weight the changing of the c curve the line of action and just the different types of how you can show weight it's just so good I have to admit I haven't looked at this book in a while but I absolutely have to go back in there you got takes and accents just the foundation of any education in terms of animation it's just covered in here dialogue lip sync I love pages like this where you just have all the different styles and versions of eyes just this book is full of that and he goes into animal action as well so it's not just humans use examples or differences between humans and animals man I've looked at this that definitely remember looking at this in class also love how it's illustrated with the the shadowy part in the different colors just for simplicity and for an easier understanding of the theory there and there you go there's a lot of stuff in it it's it's not a thin book again there is just a ton a ton of absolutely fantastic material in this and if you are one of the very few animators who doesn't have this book order now I'll put the link in the description and if you check on amazon potentially you might also see that there is a dvd set of his lectures and all of this anime I'm gonna talk about this for the app but the dvd set is not cheap it's pretty expensive so I can understand it's big in investment especially as a student but your school might have that dvd set ask them if they have that somewhere accessible in their student library or whatever however your school is organized and set up but if you go into the app store and you're gonna type in Richard Williams you're gonna get this you're gonna have the app and it's $35 I mean I have it so it's that's why it says open or you have the sample so if you check out the sample it will give you an overview of what the app does have but it says sample where you can only look at things so if it says the kit here you have the outline of what's being covered so if you go here that's the only thing if you go here then you can't really look it says full app only but if you go onto the sample you will see this and you have the pages at your disposal you can go through this check them all out but the reason why I love this is because when you have this tap on that and it gives you the movie and as it plays you can take this and you scrub through and you can see the theory that you had in the book fully animated but the super cool thing is if you tap here you have the whole thing says your slide to animate you can slide and it's frame by frame you can go here forward and back and you can look at this here and really look at every single frame that is absolutely fantastic same thing with this example put your finger here and look at that you can go and check out every single frame so cool and of course you can just play it and there you go now when you have the app this is what you'll see you'll see my camera set up you will see the intro fully animated intro here you can skip that then again you got the whole kit which means that here you got all of this here so take wait for examples then you can say re-chapter and then go through everything you need to know here same thing here you have that it plays it and then you also have that fully animated or you can go in here and really slide and check this out in the frame by frame detail you can either slide or tap frame through it again what I showed you before in the book for instance animal action we looked at before re-chapter you have that here and everything that I showed you before in the book is here for you to look at and again basic animal walk pattern you see this whole thing animated and explained and you can click here again and slide through and really check this out frame by frame you can go back out and when you go back to the home there's also extras that shows you a silent film circus drawing the intro animation and the promo 34.99 I think so 35 bucks much much cheaper than the dvd set and I think a really really good companion piece to the book I think both of these are absolutely worth it and I think it's a cool combination because you can go through the book and look at this where we want to and go through the theory and text but if you need some visual examples and you're a better visual learner then you can look at the app and again the app is so much cheaper than the dvds and it really might be a better supplement potentially for you in your animation education but I'm going to leave it at that against the sad day today I just wanted to highlight his legacy and this is just a small example of the legacy that he has left behind and I think I'm gonna watch Roger Rabbit tonight it's a fantastic movie also for any of you speaking French it's really good in French I know that sounds super weird but the dubbing is great I've seen the movie and the making of this is really good making up in French about Roger Rabbit but anyway this is just a legendary book and if you're starting out now in animation and you need material this book again is a must-have if there's one thing you need to buy this is the book so I'm gonna leave it at that Richard Williams what a generous person to have shared so much of his knowledge it's really bananas it leaves such a legacy and it's just easy to say that he is a titan of the animation industry so if you don't know too much about him go and research I'll put some links in the description so that you can expand your animation history knowledge if you don't know too much about him check out the book check out the app and if you need a movie to watch to remember him and celebrate him let's watch Roger Rabbit tonight


I actually had this moment and I would say like this is really a turning point.  And girls night is upon us. Yeah. We were at I think like 72nd floor or something in Los Angeles. It was a beautiful restaurant. Yep. And great news of the city. Like the other night and my back was so huge and chiseled and I was like, oh my God. And my girlfriend was so beautiful and feminine. And I was like, I to just be a woman. I just want to like, I know it sounds a little silly, but like I just want to like embrace my femininity. Sure. I think at that point kind of like I got into this mindset. It was all very quick. Honestly, like I kind of stopped moving on. Really? So that was it. And you were just done with lifting? Yeah. I wanted my body to like display and like this about I mean, it takes a while, right? Yeah. I mean, yeah. So like at that point, like all of a sudden I started to get back into the mindset of like, okay, so like I'm not really, you know, fully looking at my PCOS as like a problem.  I'm going to want to have kids. And I was like, I like with powerlifting, I ended up having an absence of my period again because I had too high a testosterone.  You're like your own chemist. Yeah. You're realizing sort of and I guess you were at the extremes. I was at the extreme for sure. Yep. From there, I just started to like, I was like, I'm gonna take this really seriously, but like I didn't want to go back to the doctor. Like I already knew I had PCOS. I already knew that that's what they do. Um, and so like I was kind of looking into like, okay, do I just go back to my old regimen, do I go back to acupuncture and I decided to kind of take it into my own hands and like start to just experience. Okay. So pretty much literally how I was being created was I had been like working out. I just kept stacking vitamins and like it was like a lot of research I did. So on your own body also, right? Yeah, exactly. Okay. And so I'm like a lot of trial and error, but like I really like everything and I felt like I tried like it had its own benefit and I honestly felt so good. Like I was taking all these things and I have so much energy. My period. Were you journaling? Were you like writing down notes of how you felt or? I was. I was like super failed, but I think like at that point like I already signed. Sure. I was like okay. And was it purely capsules that you're taking or were you? Pure capsules. Okay. Got it. At this point, like I feel so good. Expensive by imagine. I mean, I'm like Btmi, but I was like back me and like chat back me and date back me. And it was like so bad. Why do we have this? And I know period and like my energy stuff, like I was always fatigue and like here's like the biggest difference I felt was like all those things went away. And I was like, this is mindful. Like it's like, oh my God, this is amazing. That's really cool. I started to like give it to all of my friends. Even just like once they have PCOS and like they also had very like similar experiences like and so for instance, like my sister, she has nothing, but she's like, I've never felt this amazing before ever because what like somebody doesn't realize is like they might have a minor on the balance and they just take a little bit to bring your body back to where it's supposed to be. And I feel like most women don't realize the effects of hormone imbalance until menopause. For sure. Right. That's kind of when they first start learning. Like, why am I feeling this way? And it's because they're an imbalance, but the society and everyone that's you're supposed to feel that way when you go through menopause. Exactly. People look at TMS as normal and like TMS is not normal. Like that's a hormonal imbalance. You should not be having TMS. Well, this is just fascinating to me because for the first time since really hitting puberty, now it seems like you have an answer for all of the things that you've been unhappy with with your body, you know, like things that you couldn't necessarily figure out all of a sudden are now solvable. And you know, what is that feeling like?  I think like nothing really beats the fact that like, okay, for one, I feel amazing, but like two, being able to like now bring it to others or are in a place that where I was, like it's really been so cool like getting out to people and see the difference it's been making in people. And I think like I wouldn't trade any of my past just because like it's been so freaking like in my language. Yeah, you can swear. You can swear. I think it's like amazing. Honestly, like I just wish there was something like this. Years ago. There's so much that I am today because of those things. Like I think it really socialized and everything, but like I know, I mean, like this feeling right now is amazing and like I got those things. So I mean, the best thing I can say.