Hey friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another what I eat in a day on WW to lose weight. If you want to see all the food that I ate throughout the day today, breakfast, lunch, snacks, and of course dessert, as well as a little day in the life, some footage of the dog. I got some happy mail today and I had some packages delivered. So overall it was a fabulous day. So if you want to see what I eat on WW to lose weight, just stay tuned. Hi buddy, are you right relaxing in the living room? Wigging your tail, you're finally feeling a little bit better. You even have your favorite toy next to you. Yeah, you're doing good buddy. I love you. So here's my breakfast for this morning. It is not the prettiest. It did not quite go as planned, but I am super excited to have it. So what I have here is I have one of the buttermilk Kodiak cakes. This here is what I used for my pancake. I went ahead and added in some of this tropical fruit, this mandarin orange pineapple and blueberry that did not go so well just because the pieces were so large that it was really hard for them to cook into the batter. So it doesn't look pretty, but it's going to be delicious because it's giving me some tropical vibes on this spring morning.  So my pancake is a total of five smart points and then over here I have two over easy eggs for zero. So my breakfast is going to be a total of five smart points. Yay. No more snow in my backyard. How exciting is that? The snow my friends is gone. Makes me very happy. We can now see all of the dog poop in our backyard. How awesome is that? Here's what I'm having for my morning snack. It is about 10 o'clock. I ate breakfast this morning at about 7.15 or so. So of course, per the usual, I'm going to be having my built bar. As you know, I'm obsessed with these bars. They are only three smart points and they have 15 grams of protein and only four grams of sugar and they are absolutely delicious. They keep you satisfied. They keep you full. Built bar just redid their entire referral program and discount program. So I have a new discount code. I'll put that here on the screen and it will also be down in the description box below. But with this new discount code, you guys can get 10% off of either the sample box or the full box plus free shipping as often as you want. You can buy as many boxes as often as you'd like and just use the same code and you will always receive the 10% off and the free shipping. So I love that about built bar. I like that they've revised their discount program so that you can use the code more than once.  This one here is the vanilla chocolate cream. I don't know. I'm feeling me some vanilla today. They revised this flavor and since they've done that, it is so good. So I'm going to be having that for three smart points. I'm also going to be having two cuties that I've peeled and put in a bowl here and then I'm feeling some juice. So I'm going to go ahead and have a glass of juice. I am having this ocean spray pink light cranberry. This juice is zero smart points. It is only five calories for eight ounces.  So I'm just going to go ahead and have a small glass here for zero, my built bar for three, my oranges for one, for a total of a three smart point snack. Now that the weather is getting nicer, someone is going in and out a lot more. He wants to be outside, but he also wants to know what's going on. So he sits there. Here's the French doors in my kitchen. He sits there and he watches just to make sure nothing too exciting is happening inside. So here is my lunch for today. I am super excited for today's lunch. You can see here that I have some spring mix that I've just added about a tablespoon of fat free cheese and two tablespoons of my skinny kitchen ranch. So the dressing is a total of one smart points. And then over here I have made myself a toasted bagel sandwich. Super excited about this. So what I have is I have one of the 10 plus perfect bagels from Western bagel. These are my favorite bagels from Western bagel because they are only two smart points, two smart points for a full size bagel. You have to make sure that you're getting the healthy grain and they have to be the perfect 10 plus. So if you have not tried Western bagel, I highly, highly recommend them. They are absolutely delicious. They have tons of bagel options, full size, the smaller little miniature bagels for only one smart point. You can mix and match in their $37 special. That will get you six bags of bagels, whatever kind you would like, with free shipping for only $37. If you use my discount code here on the screen, you will save an additional 10%. That is a bargain. So six bags of bagels for about $33 with free shipping. Amazing. Highly, highly recommend Western bagel. I topped it with four slices of this Landofrost turkey breast for two smart points and one slice of Jarlsburg light cheese.  So for dessert after lunch, I'm going to be having a parfait. Look at this, you guys. This is a new parfait flavor combination for me. I am super excited about it. So let me show you what I put into my parfait. So first, I'm using the raspberry smart cakes. These are brand new, the raspberry cream. Oh my God, you guys, these are absolutely amazing. They taste like you're eating a juicy raspberry. I'm not even kidding. The flavor is on point. They are absolutely phenomenal. They are limited edition. When they run out of the raspberry that they use, they won't be producing this smart cake anymore. So I highly recommend that you order it ASAP because it is amazing. So the smart cakes, I have a discount code here on the screen down in the description box as well. But basically that will get you 10% off of your order. And then smart cakes also has free shipping. They are the same company that does the smart buns. So you can add some raspberry cream smart cakes and some one point smart buns to your order. So I have one of these raspberry smart cakes for one smart point. I also added just the light and fit Greek vanilla yogurt. So I decided to just go with vanilla because I thought that it would be a nice flavor combination with the raspberry and the chocolate. And the chocolate, my friends, is this. This is the Hershey's milk chocolate whipped topping. Okay, delicious. So you can have two tablespoons for only 10 calories. So essentially you can have four tablespoons, five tablespoons actually for one smart point. So yum. I only have about three tablespoons or so on my parfait. So it actually is zero smart points. So my parfait here is a total of three smart points. One for the smart cake, two for the yogurt, three smart points of a raspberry chocolate deliciousness. So I just stopped at my P.O. box. I had actually had to mail some things into my surprise. I found three items in my P.O. box. So I want to give a shout out to you guys that sent me these items. I appreciate it so much. So first I got this absolutely gorgeous card kind of on cracked paper with this nice gold foiled heart on the front with a super super nice note on the inside. So I want to say thank you to Edie who sent this to me. It's absolutely gorgeous and your note inside was so sweet.  So this will be going on my kitchen table. And then I also received a couple of packages. This first one is from Monica and she sent me a sweet card and apparently she is also a dog mom. So she sent me a little card thanking me for my channel and from one dog mom to another. And she sent me these towels.  Look at this.  That is so cute. And then she also sent me this cute little one that says shake it off with salt and pepper. So these kitchen towels are absolutely adorable. So those will be getting washed and put into use. So Monica thank you so much for the adorable kitchen towels and the very very nice card. And then I also got another package from JoAnnie. I hope I'm pronouncing your name right.  So check this out you guys. So she sends me five packages of smart sweets and there's a little note. Hang on I got to find it. There we go. So she sends me five packages of the Christmas smart sweets which actually you guys these ones are my very favorite smart sweets. I wish that they would bring the back these packages with this adorable note. Look at this. Mr. Rogers love it. But check this out you guys. Look at the price on these smart sweets. $0.59 a bag. So she picked these up at a local discount store for me for $0.59 a bag and sent them my way. Oh my gosh. JoAnnie I think it's JoAnnie. Thank you so much and your note was so cute. I love the Mr. Rogers and the smart sweets. You can never go wrong with smart sweets. So thank you to all of you that send me happy mail. It seriously means the world to me.  So thank you so much. So this is going to be my afternoon snack. It's about three o'clock. I've been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, doing laundry. You saw my happy mail that I received. It has been a very productive day. So let me show you what I am having for my snack. So here on my plate I have 30 of the Sharp Cheddar Thinnables. These I hauled in my netrition.com order that went up on Sunday. So make sure that you check that out. You can have 30 of these Cheez-It type of crackers for two smart points. That's crazy. I love me some Cheez-Its and they are really high in point. So I was excited to find these Thinnables and they are delicious. I also am going to have a wedge of laughing cow cheese. I think what I'm going to do is dip my Thinnables in it just for that little bit of extra cheesiness. And then here I have a bowl of some grapes. So this is going to be a three smart point snack. Oh and some water. So this my friends is my afternoon snack. So I just got home from grocery shopping and to my surprise I have several amazing packages that have arrived. So in this box here is my pro granola. I'm so excited. So here I have the espresso cluster which so far is my favorite. I also got a bag of the vanilla cinnamon cluster. This one in the espresso are only two smart points for one half of a cup which is crazy for granola. I have not tried this one yet. This is the peanut butter cluster. This one is actually three smart points for a half of a cup. But honestly half of a cup of peanut butter granola for three points. Yes please. And then I also got the vanilla cluster which I have also never tried. So I'm super excited to give that a try. That one also is only two smart points per half of a cup. If you have not tried out the julian bakery granola it is phenomenal. I do have a discount code down in the description box that will give you 10% off and free shipping on your order. So I'm excited to try the vanilla and the peanut butter. So of course I will be reporting back to you on what I think of those flavors that I haven't tried. I also came into smart sweets. I have a ton of bags of smart sweets. I have all of them. I have the Swedish fish or the sweet fish. I have the fruity gummy bears the sour gummy bears and I also have the sour blast buddies. All of these bags of smart sweets are only three smart points each which is crazy. My discount code for these will get you free shipping on your order. So I know they're a little on the pricey side but if you like candy and gummy you can't go wrong with smart sweets and for three smart points and the bags are about 1.8 ounces. So if you use the free shipping code it saves you some money and it doesn't feel like as much of a splurge. And the last thing that showed up was my DAX. So this is a new company that I've been working with. This company is an salt free spice company. Their spices are amazing. I've been buying them for a long time but they did reach out and asked if I wanted to work with them and I said that I loved their products. So they offered me a discount code for you guys where you get 10% off and free shipping. So I'm going to put that down in the description box below. So they kindly sent me some of their spices. So the first one is the original red, the green zest which I've used before which I love. Their steakhouse, blackened, red mountain rub, barbecue queen, super Greek lemon pepper, citrus grove. Look at all these you guys. Taco night, Italian blast, Asian zing, everything but the salt, Cajun voodoo, kaboom and hot sauce and salad dressing. But there's one that is not listed that I actually got and that is this. This is chocolate crave. Okay I'm super excited about this. It is like a powdered chocolate. How delicious would this be you guys and coffee or just sprinkled on top of yogurt? So I will obviously be giving you a lot of information about DAX but what I did pick up in this order is the chocolate crave. I also got the lemon pepper because I eat a lot of chicken and lemon pepper is amazing on chicken. I also grabbed another container of Italian blast. I've actually purchased this before and I love, love, love this spice. I also got the original red. I have not tried this one. I do have the green and I love the green. The green is amazing on vegetables. So I did pick up the original red and then I grabbed the red mountain rub because I thought how delicious would this be with summer coming on hamburger, steak, chicken that you want to cook on the barbecue. And then lastly I grabbed the citrus grove. I've never tried this one but it sounds amazing. I was thinking more along the lines of fish but I'm going to do some research and of course I'll be getting back to you guys with more information about DAX but I will put the discount code down in the description box for you guys as well. For tonight's dinner I'm going to be making taco casserole. I am super excited about this recipe. It sounds amazing. It is very low smart point and that's even using low fat.  So let me show you everything that is in our taco casserole. You're going to need some tortilla chips. I'm going to go ahead and use these baked tostitos scoops. You're going to need some chicken. You can either use ground or shredded. I'm going to use shredded just because I had prepped that in meal prep. You're going to need some salsa. So any salsa of your choice. Some taco sauce. Fat free cottage cheese.   So I'm going to go ahead and use this Mexican style blend. Taco seasoning. A bell pepper. An onion. And last but not least some garlic. So let's get started on our taco casserole. So the first thing that we need to do is get our vegetables cooked down. So here I have some nonstick cooking spray in my pan. To that I'm going to add my cut up green pepper and my onion. And then I'm also going to add a good sized scoop of garlic. I'm going to let this start to cook down and then we'll add in our taco seasoning and our taco sauce. And in the meantime we're going to go ahead and put our cottage cheese and sour cream mixture together. We're going to put our sour cream and cottage cheese mixed together. So I have one cup of my fat free cottage cheese. And then I'm going to mix that in with one cup of light sour cream. So we're going to go ahead and add both of those together. And then we're going to give this a good stir. And then we're going to go ahead and just set this aside. And then this will get added to our taco mixture. To a Ziploc bag you're going to want to go ahead and add 32 of the tostitos baked scoops. We're just going to push this with our hand. We want to get these all nice and crunched up because we are going to be adding these chips to both the bottom of our casserole as well as on top of our casserole. So just get them into these nice smaller pieces and ready to go. Once your vegetables start to cook down you're going to go ahead and add in your cooked chicken.  You just want to make sure that your vegetables are almost all the way cooked and your chicken has warmed through. Once your vegetables have finished cooking through and your chicken is nice and warm we're going to go ahead and add in eight ounces of taco sauce. So I'm going to go ahead and add this whole bottle of mild taco sauce. It is exactly eight ounces and then we are also going to be adding our pack of taco seasoning to the taco sauce.  Next you're going to go ahead and add half of your crushed up tortilla chips to the bottom of your baking dish. This is not a 9x13. This is the smaller one I believe 6x9. I want my casserole to be a little bit thicker so I'm going to use a smaller dish. To the top of your crushed up baked tostitos scoops we are going to be adding our meat mixture. So go ahead and add that on top of your chips and then you're just going to get that nice and evenly spread out over your chips. Again it is only half of the tortilla chips on the bottom. Once you get your meat mixture nice and spread out over the top of your tortilla chips the next step is we are going to add all of our sour cream and cottage cheese mixture to the top of the meat and then we're just going to take our spoon and again spread that out nice and evenly. Try to get a little bit of the sour cream and cottage cheese mixture over the entire casserole. Once you get your sour cream and cottage cheese mixture nice and spread out we're going to go ahead and add the rest of the other half of our tortilla chips just sprinkle that over the top of the casserole and then after that we're going to add our cheese and then this guy is ready to be covered or uncovered whatever you prefer it does say to keep it uncovered so I will probably do that it's ready to go into the oven so we'll get our chips on there we'll get our cheese on there and then I'll show you the casserole right before it goes into the oven. Alrighty and here is the casserole right before it goes into the oven this you guys looks amazing it is full to the brim so if you wanted your casserole slices a little thinner you could use a larger pan but I want this to be a nice thick slice of taco casserole so we're going to put this into the oven at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes until it is cooked through and our cheese is nice and melted I just pulled out the taco casserole let me just tell you how delicious my house smells it reminds me of a Mexican restaurant in here which is never a bad thing so I just pulled out the casserole look at this oh my gosh this looks so delicious you can smell the chips it smells amazing so I'm going to let this cool I'm going to cut this into six servings plate it up and I will show you what my dinner is going to look like and give you all of the smart points all right look at this this is the completed taco casserole this is going to be my dinner so I have one serving of broccoli I'm going to top it with some spray butter salt and pepper and then this my friends is the taco casserole it looks so good look at that chicken and cheesy I went ahead and topped it with just a about a tablespoon of salsa this dinner looks amazing one sixth of the taco casserole is only five smart points five you can have this entire meal for five smart points yum and it's her turn to sit outside hi Lola turned out to be a really nice day and it's clearly not too cold she doesn't do cold so it must be fairly nice outside this is going to be my dessert tonight I'm going to have some of the smart sweet sour blast buddies obsessed with these I love them I like these more than sour patch kids I think the flavor is on point it is only three smart points for this entire bag of basically sour patch kids so I have had a lot of you ask me how much you get in a bag so obviously the ounces are here on the bag so you get 1.8 ounces but you guys want to see the number of candy per bag so I'm going to dump these out on a plate and I'm going to deliver and show you exactly how many you get for three smart points so there you have it that is the number that come in each bag for three points so roughly two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen eighteen twenty about 30 pieces so not bad you guys at all for three smart points 30 pieces of candy I love me some smart sweets the discount code that I have for you guys is here on the screen if you go to the smart sweets website and you enter my discount code you will receive free shipping on your order you can get the gummy bears the sour blast buddies the sweet fish they have both sour and fruity gummy bears love them so yes not bad for three smart points use my discount code earn yourself free shipping and enjoy some candy on w w hey friends thank you so much for watching this what I eat in a day on w w to lose weight I hope that you enjoyed the dinner recipe I shared it was amazing as well as seeing all of my meals throughout the day and of course seeing my fur babies my mail was so exciting today and the happy mail thank you again so much to all of you who send me happy mail it seriously warms my heart if you're new to meet my channel make sure you subscribe hit the notification bell that way you're notified every single time a new video is uploaded give this video a thumbs up comment below let me know what you thought of this what I eat in a day and of course I'll see you guys the next one bye for dessert after lunch I'm going to be having a parfait look at this you guys this is a new a parfait flavor combination for me I am super excited about it so let me show you what I put in to my parfait so first I'm using the raspberry smart cakes these are brand new the raspberry cream oh my god you guys these are absolutely amazing they taste like you're eating a juicy raspberry I'm not even kidding the flavor is on point they are absolutely phenomenal they are limited edition when they run out of the raspberry that they use they won't be producing this smart cake anymore so I highly recommend that you order it ASAP because it is amazing so the smart cakes I have a discount code here on the screen down in the description box as well but basically that will get you 10 off of your order and then smart cakes also has free shipping they are the same company that does the smart buns so you can add some raspberry cream smart cakes and some one point smart buns to your order so I have one of these raspberry smart cakes for one smart point I also added just the light and fit Greek vanilla yogurt so I decided to just go with vanilla because I thought that it would be a nice flavor combination with the raspberry and the chocolate and the chocolate my friends is this this is the Hershey's milk chocolate whipped topping okay delicious so you can have two tablespoons for only 10 calories so essentially you can have four tablespoons five tablespoons actually for one smart point so yum I only have about three tablespoons or so on my parfait so it actually is zero smart points so my parfait here is a total of three smart points one for the smart cake two for the yogurt three smart points of a raspberry chocolate deliciousness


Feeling constantly hungry, blurry vision, and unexplained fatigue? These could be signs your body is sending you a warning. But here's the good news. It's not too late to take action. Many of us dismiss these symptoms as everyday annoyances, but they could be early indicators of approaching type 2 diabetes. While you may not be diabetic yet, your body might be struggling to manage blood sugar levels setting the stage for future complications. Don't panic. This is not a diagnosis, but rather a call to action. I'm not a medical professional, but I'm here to share some valuable insights and encourage you to consult with a doctor for proper evaluation and guidance. Hunger and cravings. Not just for sweets, but salt too. This could indicate insulin resistance, making your body work harder to use energy. Blurry vision. High blood sugar can temporarily affect your lens, causing vision changes. Numbness, tingling, or pain. Hover of damage can occur with high blood sugar leading to these sensations.


Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien coming alive from T F N N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 10 a.m. Eastern time on Monday morning, 30 minutes into the trading day and we got markets starting off to the downside right now. You got the Dow off 51 points trading at $27,999. The Dow had been up about 150 points pre-market coming into things. S and P now negative 12 points that have been positive about 12 points will pull up the charts in a moment. S and P is trading 31 28 Nasdaq negative by 65 points trading at 85 99 the Russell basically flat trading at 16 24. And as you see the chart of the S and P up there, we were as high as 31 58 pre-market. Talk about a little bit of a sell off now trading 31 25 folks. That is 35 S and P points almost were approaching in a heartbeat. We'll pull up the VIX to start things off the volatility index as you may expect trading higher 13 73 in that volatility index as the S and P's pull back a bit to start Monday trading jumping over to the indices. We'll start it off with the Dow currently trading 27,957 so much for 28,000 Dow. And as I mentioned, we were up there at about 28,200 pre-markets. You're solid 250 points now off the highs that we had coming into the open Nasdaq 100 quite a sell off as well 83 21. We were up there at 84 56. You're talking about 130 Nasdaq 100 points gone S and P 500. There you go. 31 25. We mentioned we were size 31 58 pre-market crude oil bouncing around a bit currently trading at 56 31.  And there's your gold contract catching a little bit of a bid 14 68 and the euro US dollar as well catching a bid at one 10 62. In terms of what you have happening, what may be playing into some of this new tariffs in place Brazil and Argentina. They are getting tariffs for steel and aluminum. President Trump saying that they are devaluing their currency. What you also had in here is that Trump continuing the pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates at a time when we will get the jobs data on Friday record unemployment records in the stock market. President wants a weak dollar and he is coming after that Brazil in Argentina with new tariffs. Stay tuned folks coming back at 10 o'clock with Tom live programming all day at T if and then we'll be right back


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside to Him. So who has seen an iron cuter than this little guy? I honestly had never even considered owning a mini iron or project iron or travel iron or anything like that in the past. I've walked past them in the aisles of Joanne numerous times and just always thought, what do I need that for? I've got an iron. But Alyssa just came out with this one. It's a counterpart to their TG1600 that I've talked to you guys about before with the auto lift technology. And I just could not resist trying it out. And what I found was that I actually prefer it to my larger iron for many, many different tasks. I had no idea how cumbersome and kind of annoying it was to maneuver that large iron around some seams and some areas that I wanted to press for my projects. So I put together a little list of some ways that I have been using the mini iron to finish off my projects. Now, I've been taking these videos over the course of a couple of months. So you're going to see different fabrics and I'm in different outfits and there's probably different lighting situations happening. But I was just kind of like as I was going and reaching for the mini iron thinking, here's another great example of a way that I prefer to use the mini iron over the larger iron. All of those practical uses for the mini iron that in my opinion are honestly a better experience than using the larger iron. This mini iron happens to be superb. It happens to be excellent. Like I said, I've never used a mini iron before, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. But whenever I look up reviews or read about mini irons, what I see more often than not is that they don't get hot enough. The heat is not consistent. The steam is kind of like lackluster and they're super hard to use properly. I feel like what Aliso has done is really taken their mac daddy version and just shrunk it down. Honey, I shrunk the kids right here. This works just as well as the full size iron. The steam works wonderfully and it gets super hot and super even. It even has this like precision point on the plate here. The plate uses diamond coated ceramic. So that's how you know it gets super hot and the heat is distributed evenly. It also has an epic eight foot cord, which from what I see is kind of unheard of whenever it comes to travel irons. And it's like ergonomic.  It's got multi heat settings, all kinds of different heat settings for different types of fabric. I don't know. I just feel like this guy is just like if this is the only iron that I had and I didn't have a big one. I can't honestly say that I would not be able to sew complete garments just with this little guy.  Sew an entire dress using just a mini travel iron. That would be hysterical. But in addition to the iron, you also get this ingenious little silicone resting tray that they have coined the soulmate. How cute is that? And it has two sides. One is your storage side where the iron actually gets like snugly fits into the plate itself and doesn't go anywhere. Or you can use the resting side where it's just meant for the iron to sit on top and has some vents for the heat to kind of travel through so it's not just a whole bunch of heat in one little area. And you can obviously lift it and put it back down as you are going through your projects. So this little guy is fantastic. They literally just put them on sale. They've been preordered up until this week. And now they are for sale open to the public. Anybody can purchase them.  So head on over to aliso.com. Use the products drop down menu. Go to the mini iron. You can learn a lot more about all of the features that the iron has to offer. And you can go ahead and purchase it from there too. Anyways, so I hope that you will check out the mini iron. I hope that this video showing you how I've been using it the past couple months helps you see how it is a valuable tool to have in your sewing room. And you will grab one for yourself. If you do that, please let me know in the comment section below. I would love to know how you're going to be using it. Are you a quilter? I think this will be great for like those little squares and those little itty bitty seams. The mini irons perfect for that. Or if you sew doll clothes or children's clothes also invaluable. Or if you're like me and you just sew women's clothes, you know, I'd love to know what tasks you are looking forward to using the iron with. But that's going to do it for me today. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon. Bye


Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I can't turn up to your lecture. I'm a mother with a successful career. I'm very happy for you. That's wonderful. I think you made a great choice. I think motherhood is awesome. You should have as many babies as you want and not get bullied by feminists for it. No, but I am a feminist. Which many of them do now. There are women stuck up for me online. I didn't want them bullied by anybody. I had as many children as I wanted and I've got a career. So I'm not sure what you're... You might be confused.  I think feminism, as Piers has been discussing here or hinting at, I think feminism has collapsed into rampant sexist man-hating bigotry and female supremacism. I don't hate any men. That's what these hashtags mean. Toxic masculinity. The future is female. I'm not female. Where's my future? Okay, let's bring in Janice Fiamenga. Your future is mansplaining to women.  Love mansplaining.


If you're one of the 10% that's actually going to make it in the business, then you're going to succeed at high, high levels. This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  What's up everybody? Ricky Caruth here. Welcome back to my channel. So today I want to do this video for people who are thinking about becoming a real estate agent. I want to give you the one, two, three, four, five step process to easily become a real estate agent. I've been a real estate agent since 2002. I've been the number one remax agent in Alabama several times. I've been selling 100 properties a year for the last six years straight and I'm still going. And now I'm to the point in my career where I just want to give back to the industry. So I started coaching for absolutely free. I have over 20,000 agents in my coaching program and so many success stories. And I wanted to do this video for people who are thinking about getting into real estate. Most of my content is focused around people who are already real estate agents to help them take their business to the next level. But I wanted to do this one for people before they get into real estate. One thing you should know is that the failure rate in the real estate industry is so incredibly high. They say 90% of real estate agents don't make it within the first five years of being in the business. Why is that? It's because it really is a hard business to get started in and to gain momentum. Another reason is that the classes that you take to get your license don't really teach you the real life scenarios and how to actually sell real estate, which I'm going to get into.  And most people don't understand the philosophies and the work ethic that goes into actually owning your own business and what you have to do on a day in day basis and hold yourself accountable to do what you need to do to succeed. And a big part of it is that you have to get out there and meet people you've never talked to before on a very high level to get the momentum going that you need to to make the sales that you need to make to pay your bills, to continue the momentum, to get to the next level to start making more money. And then after two or three years, if you're one of the 10% that's actually going to make it in the business then you're going to succeed at high, high levels. So I'm wishing that for you. That's why I'm making this video because I want you to be one of the 10% who make it in the business. Okay, step one is to take your pre-license course. Okay, this is normally a 60-hour course that you have to take before you can take your state test to get your license. So that's going to be state specific. So what you want to do, I'll put a link in the description that you can go to and take this course online. So you click the link in the description, you pick pre-license course, you pick your state and then you get started. This is a $400 course. Now with the 60-hour course, you can get this done as quick as you want to. I've had agents that came in and blew through it in one week and I've had people where they literally drug it out for a year or two. Once you start the course, you only have a year to complete it or you have to pay the $400 again. My advice would be to sign up for the course and get done with it as soon as possible. Okay, everything in real estate, including getting your license, is stages. And what we want to do is we want to bust through each stage as quick as possible to get to the next step, next step, next step, next step. We want to move as fast as we can. This is the same mentality that's going to help you succeed in the business. You can find out where to take the state test and how to sign up for it through the company that you did your pre-license course with, or you can call your state's real estate commission. And generally, most states, it is 140 question tests, multiple choice. So 100 questions of that 140 are going to be general questions about real estate. It's going to be the same for each state. The other 40 will be state-specific about the real estate law in your specific state. Now, what I would do to prepare for this state test is take as many practice tests as possible. What I did was I took a practice test and I failed it. And then I graded it myself. I went back and looked at the ones I got wrong and tried to figure out why I got them wrong. Then I threw the answers away and took that same test over again like I never took it. Of course I passed because I already graded it once myself and I knew what all the right answers were, but I was training my brain to understand the way that they asked the questions. Then I would throw that test completely away, a new practice test. I would take it. Now, I may or may not have failed that one, but I did better than the first time I did the other practice test. I did the same thing. I graded it myself, figured I did wrong through the answers away, took the same one again. Boom, threw it away. A third one. I did this process over and over and over again until I was making an A on every single practice test on the first try. That's when you know you're ready for the state test. Now, if you fail the state test, don't worry. You can take that test as many times as you want. Okay, so go in there.  But if you fail the test, just know that it's not the end of the world. There are so many successful agents in my market that took that test eight to ten times. Okay, so don't worry about it. One big thing about real estate is that you're going to have moments where you feel down or frustrated or depressed even with certain things that happen. You know, maybe a best friend chose to use a different agent. Maybe you failed your state test. Whatever it is, it's okay. The top producers don't let these kind of things affect them. They keep moving forward. They just blow right past it. Okay, I failed it. Great, let's take it again. Right? I learned a little, a few lessons on failing that one. Let's apply that to the next one and let's keep going. You can only get better if you keep going. The only catch about this is if you do not pass the state test within a year from passing your pre-license course, you have to take the pre-license course all over again to start from zero. Now on to step three, as soon as you pass your state test, now we have to pick a broker. We have to pick a broker before we actually get our license. We have to have a broker that will sign for us. Your broker is the one who's going to take responsibility for you and be liable for you if you make legal mistakes. Once you pass your test, you have 90 days to find a broker. Let me give you my two cents on finding a broker really quickly. Looking for a broker, a lot of newer agents are more concerned with their commission split and this and that. I think that the most important thing in the beginning of your career is to go with a broker, go with the company that you feel will teach you the most. Somebody that you feel will really put time into you, show you the ropes and teach you the insides of real estate. Because I'm a coach and I can teach you how to build your business on a general basis, how to talk to people, what to say, how to treat them, how to follow up, how to initiate the contact, who to contact, what to say. I can teach you all of that but I can't teach you contracts of your area because every area is so different. I can't teach you the law of your state. I can't teach you a lot of the insides of the business, the local business of real estate has to be taught by a local agent or your broker. So go somewhere that you feel they will teach you the most and here's the good thing about it. If you get in there and they sold you the moon and once you get involved, you realize they're not teaching me as much as they said they were going to teach me, you can leave immediately. You're not locked into any company. You can leave.   I've been with seven companies. I would learn all I could, change to another company, learn all I could, change to another company, learn all I could until I got where I'm now, which is with Remax. I've been with them for almost 10 years now and I'm here to stay. This is the best company in my opinion. They have the highest income per agent. They blow every other company in the world away in terms of income per agent and that my friend is what matters. But Remax might not be big in your market. And I'm not saying that Remax is the way to go for everybody. What I'm saying is is go where you feel is the best fit and just know that you can move at any moment. But eventually you do want to settle into a company because that is going to be your brand. Moving on to step number four to become a real estate agent is once you've passed a pre-license, you've passed your state test, you've found a broker. Step four is to put together the application with your state's real estate commission. They're going to want all the evidence that you've passed all the tests and courses. They're going to want an application signed by your broker accepting the responsibility of you. They're probably going to want your high school diploma or GED and copy of your driver's license. Every state's probably a little different. So they'll have a checklist for you. You're going to put all that together in a package and mail it off to them. Once you mail it off to them, that could take anywhere from seven to 14 days to get your license back. When you get your license back, it's going to be a temporary salesperson's license. And now most states have a 30-hour post-license course you have to take. You have six months to complete this 30-hour post-license course. Once you pass that 30-hour post-license course, they'll replace your temporary salesperson license with an associate salesperson's license, which means you are good to go. You're good to go as soon as you get your temporary salesperson's license. You can get out there and sell property, list property, talk to people about whatever you want to talk to them about in terms of real estate, and get after it and go make some money. Now from this point forward, you're going to have continuing education, which is per state in Alabama where every other year we have to put in 15 hours of continuing education. And there's some classes that are required, so that's going to be per state. But definitely look into that and know where you stand on that. You definitely don't want to let your license expire because if you let it expire too far, then you might have to start the entire process over again. So definitely keep your license active. And moving on to step number five, the final step in this process. And this is if you really want to learn how to sell real estate because everything up to this point is not going to teach you how to sell. It's going to teach you law. It's going to teach you vocabulary of real estate, stuff that you'll probably never use. What I want to do at this point is become your real estate coach for the rest of your life for absolutely free. Yes, completely free. That's at zero to diamond.com. There's a 90 day action plan. It's going to put you in position to sell 100 properties a year if that's what you aspire to do. Once you complete the 90 day action plan, me and you are going to get on a one on one call to talk about the last 90 days, what your successes were, what your failures were, what the problems were. I'm going to help you through whatever problems you're going through and try to help you get on the right track. We're going to start having coaching calls from that point forward for zero dollars. All I want to do is help you succeed at the highest level. I also wrote two books. I'll put a link in the description for that. If you want to learn more about me, my story, and everything that I've went through to get here to this point to where I'm selling 100 properties a year as a single agent and I'm able to turn around and influence the real estate industry in a positive way. I will also put some links to some other videos about real estate success that I've made that I think will really help you with your mindset and understand the philosophies behind what you need to do and how you need to be prepared mentally to tackle this real estate career that you're about to embark on and really find the most success, the quickest, the best, the easiest, the most efficient path. I'm all about efficiencies and I'm all about valuing the relationship with your clients over the transaction. If you create a bond with someone, regardless if they want to buy or sell today or not, that is now where 10 to 20 deals to you over the life of your career through repeat business referrals and referrals of referrals. This is regardless if they wanted to buy or sell or not the first day you talked to them, the first month, the first year. It doesn't matter if we create the relationship with thousands of people as many as we can and they know that we're there to help them, not just to do a deal. We will build the biggest, strongest, most effective, most dominating real estate business in your market. Okay, I hope this helps you get on the right track in terms of how to become a real estate agent, the things that you need to do and the step by step process all the way to actually selling 100 properties a year. Let me know if there's anything in the world I can do for you. If you have any questions at all, just leave me a comment or DM me on Instagram at rickykeruth. We'll see you guys on the next video. Be sure to subscribe to my channel and let's go.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2018 GMC Sierra 3500 Crew Cab Long Box Dual Rear Wheel Denali is stock number 12641Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2018 GMC Sierra 3500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. It puts out 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around, inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood in this video. Red Quartz Tin Coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the upper right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. Click that, and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the polished aluminum rims, and it has Milestar Patagonia AT tires, these are LT 235 80R 17s, and they got a pretty good amount of tread left, I'd say probably 70% of the tread left on those tires. Frame and underbody is in really nice shape, other than being a little dusty. Front fender, not too bad, those have one little touch-up spot there. Has the LED running lights, projector lamp headlamps, factory fog lights, front bumper is in pretty nice shape, there is one little ding in the middle there. Front bumper parking sensors, you get the chrome trimmed grille, this one has the true cowl induction hood that's fully functional, and I'll show you how that works in just a little bit. You get the cab lights up top, passenger side front fender is in nice shape. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you.  It's all remaining factory exhaust, cab corners, and lower rockers all look really good as well, and it comes with a nice set of factory chrome step bars. Dually tub is in pretty nice shape, coming around to the back, you get the painted rear bumper, rear bumper parking sensors, full towing package, rear bumper steps, receiver hitch, 4-pin and 7-pin wiring. The tailgate is in nice condition as well, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Has a shock down assist, fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package, and you also get LED bed lighting up there, 7-pin wiring, and then the LED bed lighting is on that side as well. Got some side box tie downs, and that tailgate shuts nice and solidly. Going down the driver's side, this dually tub is in pretty nice shape, does have one little touch-up spot there, got a couple little rock chips that have been touched up too, but that's why we do the videos. Back rim is in excellent condition, and down the rest of this side of the truck, doors look pretty good, has the telescopic tow mirrors built in directional signals, LED side lights, they do telescope out like that, I believe they're power folding as well. Inside, the Denali package gives you the tan leather interior, there are no rips or tears on the seats, you get the Denali stitched into the headrest, and the seats are in really nice shape. Factory floor mats, auto headlamps turned out four-wheel drive, factory brake control, you get tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, and like I said, these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides, so you know that both sides are working properly. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 51,547 miles, you do get a digital spinometer, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. It comes with the leather-wrapped heated steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls, heated steering wheel button, and forward collision warning controls on the left. It does come with the Allison six-speed automatic heavy-duty transmission with the optional tap shift, and this one has the GMC IntelliLink radio, AM, FMN, Sirius XM radio capabilities, you can see it does have the factory navigation system on it, AM, FMN, Sirius, and then you have your projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay to play music, media, and you can even put your own navigation system on the screen, it's pretty cool. CD player, heated and cooled seat buttons, dual climate controls, power pedals, stability control, that's for your cargo lamps, also for your LED side lights, and bed lighting, parking sensors, lane departure warning, and factory exhaust brake. You get two USBs, two 12-volt power points, and then a 110-volt, 150-watt plug-in in here. Cell phone holder, it also has the cell phone charge pad, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition, smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked in, and the headliner is in really nice condition as well. You do get a power sunroof, map lights, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, and sunroof and power side and rear window controls, on-star and SOS capabilities in the mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats, and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are in excellent condition as well, does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have, power sign rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up for extra storage, and the carpeting and floor mats back here are in nice condition. You do get side cardinair bags, you can see the LED lights in the bed, bottoms of the doors all look really good, and the LED side lights are extremely bright. We'll start it up, take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today of this 2018 GMC Sierra 3500 Crew Cab Longbox Dooley. It does have the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine, once again this one has the L5P engine, 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a pressure oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. There is your emissions sticker, oh and that's where the cowl hood, the air comes in down to the air cleaner. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we got it. Go to that website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com or summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. In fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left. Link to more GMC 3500 truck videos like this one on the upper right. Link to this vehicle on our website on the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos on the lower right. Click those, check us out and we're super excited to help you with this super clean 2018 GMC Sierra 3500 Denali Crew Cab Longbox Duly in red quartz tin coat. Thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe and share.


Finding ways for teachers who again are absolutely burdened and myopic in terms of what they have to do every day to have different points of entry into the grant so that it's not one size fits all, everybody's going to get this treatment. I hope you can join us but rather here are four or five different pieces of the overall grant design and depending on your own interest, your own engagement, your own timeframe, the fact that your husband's in med school or you coach the baseball team or whatever the case may be that you can find a way to participate. So finding there's multiple entry levels and recognizing that some teachers really all they have time for right now this year, this semester is coming and listening to a provocative lecture. That's fine. We've had in both grants over three, three and a half year projects, consistently 50, 60, 75 teachers coming at the end of a school day. In both cases, some of them driving an hour after school to get there staying until eight o'clock at night and driving an hour home, just literally to talk about history and I think there's value to that. I think there's something to be said for exposure and for conversation and for that sense of a feeling that they're staying on top of a current trend.


Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. Our program is about to begin. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to Smithsonian's Acting Provost and Undersecretary for Museums and Research, Richard Curin. That's a New Yorker talking. Good evening and welcome to the 17th National Design Awards. I'm delighted, yes. I'm delighted to be in New York to celebrate with all of you in Cooper U.S. spectacular Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden. Isn't this a fantastic place to set up? Now the National Design Awards honor high and lasting achievement in American design and bring global attention to design's contributions to the betterment of our world. Something we sorely need today. Recognizing designs, creative leaders, expanding access to the museum's rich and diverse collection, and advancing public understanding of design, Cooper U.S. is opening up doors for all who are eager to learn here in New York, around the country, and across the planet. So first, a big round of applause and congratulations to tonight's National Design Award winners. The Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of the United States, is honored to recognize your important achievements. I see in your work a reflection of design's remarkable empathy for the needs of a diverse and interrelated humanity. You, as designers, inspire us to think boldly about the future and take positive action to turn vision into reality. Many thanks also tonight to all of those of you who support Cooper U.S. and the National Design Awards program. I especially want to thank First Lady Michelle Obama. The First Lady has held the National Design Awards in her heart over her tenure over the past eight years. And she has been and continues to be the honorary patron of the National Design Awards. So we thank her for her valued service to the Cooper U.S. and also to the Smithsonian community. As some of you may have seen on TV or read in the papers, this has been a historic season for the Smithsonian with the recent opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. It comes at such an important time when that museum, teaching about tolerance, about appreciation, about understanding, about respect for diversity in our country, has become all the more important beyond what we ever thought when we started building that museum. And the First Lady and President Obama have been valued important supporters of that museum and our entire Smithsonian family. I want to express a sincere thanks as well to Cooper U.S. tremendously hard-working board. I know this board well, very well. And they work incredibly hard for the good of this museum and the people it serves. And of course, to the staff, about the hardest-working staff at the Smithsonian that really, that believes so strongly every day what it's doing to make our country better. This year, this museum broke a historic record in attendance, its exhibitions and programs drawing throngs of visitors from around the city and around the world. They learned a lot about design. And most of our visitors left here incredibly inspired. And some of those visitors, no doubt, will become great designers in the future.  And some of them will end up winning National Design Awards. So bravo, congratulations for a museum and a mission that continues to serve our nation. And now it's my great pleasure to introduce Cooper U.S. Accomplish and Dynamic Director. The fiction at the Smithsonian is I'm her boss. But that, as Barbara and members of the board and the staff knows, that is absolutely not true. It seems like it's the un-array around. Please, an enormous welcome for a dynamic leader, Caroline Bowman. Thank you, Richard, for that inspiring introduction. Hello, everyone. Welcome and welcome home to Cooper Hewitt. As you can see, we are overjoyed to once again celebrate the National Design Awards in the museum's truly spectacular Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden. Seven years ago, construction trailers were moved into the garden so we could begin Cooper Hewitt's transformation. After a redesign that celebrates its history and its community, the garden is now a public asset and treasure. Dynamic and activated with design installations, performance, ping-pong, and events like tonight. It's a verdant and vibrant pathway into design that leads people directly to the museum. Please do help us extend that pathway beyond the museum's campus by sharing our celebration this evening on social media. Now, I have a little sniffle. Please don't share that on social media. And use our hashtag, and I promise to like every one of your posts. And yes, it's OK to use your phones while I'm talking. No worries. A very special thank you to First Lady Michelle Obama, who has graciously served as our honorary patron for the last eight years. Mrs. Obama is an exceptional friend to the design community and to Cooper Hewitt. And we look forward to working with her well beyond Pennsylvania Avenue. Cooper Hewitt educates, inspires, and empowers people through design. We do this through exhibitions that advance public understanding of design's impact, education programs that inject design thinking into classrooms nationwide, and interactive technologies that inspire people to jump in, participate, and create like designers. I hope that all of you pulled away from the cocktail reception tonight to enjoy the galleries and see the awe-inspiring design currently on view. From the opulence of NDA winner Tom Brown's selects to the ravishing reuse of textiles and scraps to the inspiring design stories in By the People to name just a few of our special exhibitions, The Magnificent Diversity and Range of Design discovered here defines the Cooper Hewitt experience. All of this would not be possible without the steadfast support and enormous enthusiasm of our Board of Trustees, as well as the generosity of hundreds of friends, including all of you. So thank you all so much for joining us this evening at the Nations Design Museum. And a heartfelt thank you to my dear friend and collaborator Barbara Mandel, Chair of Cooper Hewitt's Board of Trustees. Barbara is an extraordinary leader who has done wonders for Cooper Hewitt through her years of service. A transformative gift from the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation realized the museum's digitization of its permanent collection in just 18 months and unheard of achievement in the museum world. 200,000, yes, 200,000 design objects spanning 30 centuries are now online and accessible, making Cooper Hewitt an incredible resource for design enthusiasts across the globe. Another first. Just last month, Cooper Hewitt represented the United States at the inaugural London Design Biennale. 37 nations came together to present an outstanding exhibition of ideas and ingenuity in the historic setting of the Somerset House. We decided to replicate Cooper Hewitt's ever-popular immersion room on a global stage and take our innovative technologies on the road and across the pond for the very first time. We had thousands of excited visitors enjoying the pen and its power to collect objects from all of the installations. A sincere thanks to Secretary David Scorton, who is forging ahead with quite an exciting global vision for the Smithsonian and who helped make this possible with the Smithsonian National Board. And we can't thank Bloomberg Philanthropies enough for being with us from the very start. So stay tuned for many more international Cooper Hewitt collaborations. Now back on campus, Cooper Hewitt is a hub of design inspiration every day, but especially during National Design Week, which started on Saturday with our hands-on design kickoff with more than 1,500 visitors engaging with NDA winners in free workshops. An immense thanks to Michael Francis, who jumped at the chance to make National Design Week a reality. Yes, now 11 years ago, but never too many years gone by to thank him again for the immeasurable impact of this week-long celebration of design. I love this image of proud teenagers exhibiting their creations with opening ceremonies, Carol Lim. And I don't know, but I'm imagining that this Kenzo dress took a little bit longer to construct. What do you think? Thank you, Kenzo. On Tuesday, our NDA winners mentored over 300 future designers at our Teen Design Fair. And later that evening, we held our very first winners' salon with in-depth design discussions happening all over campus between the NDA winners and design enthusiasts. An enormous thanks to our stellar winners for your participation all week long. You really inspire all of us. So thank you. And a gigantic thank you to everyone in the Cooper Hewitt staff who come together to make this all happen seamlessly and always with loads of enthusiasm. So thank you, Cooper Hewitt team. And thank you to our Gala leadership, who helped us to create this unforgettable evening. And a special thanks as well to David Stark and his design team for bringing the garden inside, right? And just wait until you see our dessert. I'll just leave it at that. Huge, huge thanks to Design Within Reach and Facebook for your continued commitment to and support of the National Design Awards. We couldn't do it without you. So thank you. Thank you also to Corning Museum of Glass for our stunning trophies that you'll see in just a moment. And I'm really happy to have Eric Meek, one of the glass blowers with us tonight. Lots of thanks. And thanks to Smithsonian Media for their media support. And finally, sincere thanks to Target. I'm incredibly excited to announce that just this past week, Target renewed their vital support of Cooper Hewitt's 19 design challenge. Yeah. And the winner of this year's challenge, 16-year-old Claire Christensen, is with us tonight. Her winning design for an outdoor chair will be installed in our garden as soon as the tent comes down. Claire, would you please stand up? That's right. There she is. Thank you to trustee Todd Waterbury for sharing in our excitement to launch a high school design challenge and with Target's embrace, make it happen. Thank you, Todd. Together, we are inspiring the next generation of designers and leaders. The Target and Cooper Hewitt teams have worked hand in hand for well over a dozen years to deliver our shared passion for design to the broadest and most diverse audiences possible. Since 1946, Target has generously given 5% of its profits to local communities. Today, that percentage equals more than $4 million a week. So thank you all. And I'll be back a little bit later this evening to begin our awards ceremony. Thank you and bon appetit.