first night of Ramadan and we're having fun but I want to ask you guys how was the first night of Ramadan or the first day of Ramadan was it painful was it normal you know for me it was it was pretty normal because you know I'm a I'm a sinless individual where I love to discipline myself especially during the month of Ramadan but enough about me you know month of Ramadan is an amazing month but with hashtag L&T you just take it up a notch in amazingness that's an award but hashtag L&T were live what did you guys have for Suhoor for me I had kebab with the rest of the L&T family the crew everyone had kebab in the morning but we'll see what we're having for Suhoor tonight but it's 2 a.m. Karbala time 12 a.m. London time 7 p.m. DC time and it's time for hashtag L&T were live baby in the holy city of Karbala let's go kick it off with what's trending and it will be back very short to stay tuned who loves chicken if you do love chicken then you're you in for a treat 24 karat gold chicken wings 50 for a thousand dollars now if you thinking when when someone says gold you think of jewelry earrings necklace ring watch bracelet ankle bracelet whatever no no no we're not talking about jewelry we're talking about food where they mix 24 karat gold with it this is yeah I can even describe that you're rich but your filthy rich when you're eating wings with 24 karat gold wrapped around it or dipped in 24 karat gold now according to them it's it's digested and edible gold so when you eat it and you know when the doctor god forbid if you die the doctor's gonna be a gold digger because he's gonna be looking for that gold but 50 wings for a thousand dollars and people think that KFC is expensive anyways enough with that what else is trending subhanallah an explosive eruption at Hawaii at Hawaii you know Hawaii Hawaii's volcano sent ashes 30,000 feet into the sky 30,000 feet into the sky that's crazy that that's where airplanes fly that's like 10,000 meters up in in in midair but the 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have a three- year-old Ali Hadi nicknamed a lot we you know I love them a lot we this goes out to you when you grow up you're gonna see that three-year-old I love you Baba but and of course all of us we love our children but sometimes a lot we which is his nickname he gets on my nerves just like how any other parent gets mad when their children don't listen to them or when they say stuff and don't really try to negotiate anything you know for example if he picks up a hot plate and I say don't do that the reply you can say yes daddy I'm not gonna pick that up I'm actually kidding I know he doesn't say that he would he would go pick up the plate and when it drops and it breaks and spills everything in it on his other hand and he gets burned I get mad you know the low man doesn't listen Baba this goes out to you listen to your daddy you know what what ends up happening is me getting angry at what he did because I hate when I see a child getting hurt so I go back to myself I say you know what this is a little child and that's what actually comes me down you can't really be that angry at a child but now slapping and he could make him really learn the lesson that next time if he does touch that hot plate or sometimes he loves he loves doing this is a real story he loves doing this when we're sitting on bed and he wants water he would drink some of the water from the cup from a special cup won't drink from any other cup just a special cup drinks and then pours the rest of the water on the bed why you know I get angry because the bed's all what now he has to sleep next to us but you know you don't need to do that but you know I I get angry but if I do slap him it's gonna leave a scar it's gonna leave a mark a damaging to his personality sometimes which also results into depression but and when I do hit him it may result in him hating me or not loving me anymore forgiving him at the same time might also lead to a being in a position where he keeps on repeating that same mistake so what do I do I want to hear it from you guys what do I do when what do other parents do in regards to punishing their children and that's the question for you guys tonight three two one oh my shah Allah on point should you punish your children tonight's question should you punish your children how you can participate it's very simple you can dial the number shown right now plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and you can slow and you can let us know what you think about tonight's question you can send us an audio note of an audio message a written message comment on Facebook we are live on Facebook as well so you can go and comment there we are receiving Facebook comments on shah Allah will read them out loud so don't forget whoever participates your names will be in here and I need this full bite tonight I'm kidding but let's take a very short break and we'll back very short so just stay tuned once again we do welcome everybody tonight live from the holy city of Karbala and tonight we're trying to find out what you guys think should you punish your children or not I gave an example of my son earlier a three-year-old who gets on my nerves do your children also get on your nerves I believe 100% so they do so let us know how you discipline your children or should you punish your children that's your question for tonight now let's get into a little bit of a point of should or should you not punish your children now according to debate.org 38% of people say yes you should punish your children and 63% say no you shouldn't punish your children now those who said yes you should the 38% they said that it will teach them a lesson so that means that that father right there who's pinching the ear of his son I don't know if it stays there not but pinching the ear of his son will make him learn the lesson well next time if he does do that same thing again he's gonna know that that ear pinching or a slap or that spank will come to him at the same time kids are creative you know that if they're not gonna do that thing they're they're gonna think of something else you know to piss you off with but kids are beautiful they're very beautiful but those who claim know that punishment isn't the solution to your kids they say that it leaves a depression and the parents should learn other methods to teach their kids a lesson now every parents wants their children to behave and have good manners in front of everyone whether you have a three-year-old in my case what do you have an eight-year-old a five-year-old any children if he's not a teenager you want them to behave properly in front of your guests especially in front of your guests because they're in your house behave well in the mall behave well in shopping centers you don't want them you know going wild you know on like a in the mosque especially in the mosque wow when the Maulana is sitting there giving a lecture all you hear is kids screaming in the next door room or you know someone else screaming and playing so should you punish your children that's a question for tonight now we resort to punishment or return to punishment the consequences as we believe this will set things right and but unfortunately children rarely know or rarely don't know what what's going on they're not understanding the situation that they're in let's not forget you know we were children once and even if we were to go back and look at the situations where we did wrong we're gonna think to ourselves what were we doing because in that state we don't know the difference between what's right and what's wrong and even if we go back to history we'll find when Moses went to the castle of Pharaoh Pharaoh want to see wanted to see if that was a a prophet or not he brought coil lit coil fire and prophet Moses still wanted that fire so he knew that the instincts of a human being as a child they don't know anything about fear they don't know anything about you know being disciplined being in a situation where they're not understanding their own personality yet so that phase right there is very sensitive for the child so how do you discipline your children well according to news 18.com we have a few six points to mention there but before we do that we have a call from Nisreen from Canada go ahead sister Nisreen welcome to hashtag LNT episode two of the special Ramadan series and we are live tonight's question should you punish your children go ahead sister yes hello yes welcome to hashtag LNT and your question for tonight should you punish your children okay how then so what punishment it will be by taking from them what they like mm-hmm and give them the right proper way mm-hmm right thing okay sorry okay so you mean grounding them taking like way their ps3's and and their cell phones and so on and so forth I don't know if you're yes yeah okay okay all right thank you very much assistant history for joining us tonight from Canada and your name I actually wrote your name right here if you can get a close-up on that your name is written right here and it will be placed inside the draw so right here sit up sit up I don't know if you can see that but your name is on this and it will be placed in this bowl so first name for tonight goes into the bowl now we were talking about news 18 calm and how they're mentioning six things that instill good behavior in your children without you actually punishing them now let's go through them number one you need to understand your child you to understand that in that phase that they're in their personality isn't at its best yet they'll do everything for you to grab your attention you know they'll throw water you know I have to go through that my my son loves water I don't know why but he loves playing with water he throws water everywhere everywhere he sees and he has to throw water so just to grab the people tension they hit they sometimes even they imitate and this is very important when kids are small they imitate the things even if you do once they'll imitate it because that they have a free memory which they need to fill up with experiences and with behaviors so they imitate that's very dangerous as well for you to take into consideration that your kids and understanding them as well now number two never raise your voice at them because they don't know what's going on they're not understanding you screaming at them they're not understanding your words they don't they just see you screaming voices coming out of your mouth nothing else they're not understanding you in the best way so try not to not to scream at them as much and you know the era of fathers all the respect to my dad and everyone who has an era of dad they can't seem to understand that when when when we do something wrong right away they'll they'll scream but anyways number three spend time communicating with your children that's very important because one of the main points within a relationship between the father and the son or the father and the daughter or the mother and the son or the mother and the daughter the communication between them the connection of you between you and your child is very important because his personality grows you become a friend a best friend listen to them if they're going through a tough situation listen to them because you really you should be the one cultivating the heart the personality of your child because if they don't find that they're gonna go they're gonna go somewhere else for their heart or for their personality to be cultivated and that sometimes even some majority of the times it's it's it's very dangerous for the child but we just have received an audio message from sister Zina from India my opinion regarding should be punishing a child is I believe that parents desire is of good upbringing of their children never abstain from beating them when required but most intellectuals consider this tyrannical method of upbringing is barbaric and harmful for children and I feel the same a child cannot be reformed through physical punishments perhaps it might have a temporary effect on the child but will very be harmful in a longer run like for example when a child is beaten he gets habituated of barring down his head to torture and force he may perhaps start thinking that force is the only key to success he starts thinking that when one is angry he should beat by giving physical for punishment to the children the parents set an example for them to adopt the tyrannical laws of the jungle in the future lives the children who get beatings develop hate sometimes antagonism against their parents the children never forget the harsh treatment they receive at the hands of the parents and most of the Indian parents do physical punishments on their children's repeated beatings can make a child timid and especially a coward we have a wise hadid from Imam Ali al-Musalam that look man the wise told his son my son if you learn good etiquette when you're young you'll benefit from it when you're older whoever values good etiquette will give importance to it and whoever gives it importance will take the trouble to learn it so being control of yourself while disciplining one must ponder on the same and sometimes not go overboard in the attempts to discipline so I believe is there are many other ways for example against the talent talk to your child you can understand his problem and not take such you know high measures for physical punishment etc thank you very much thank you very much sister Zina from India for joining us and this is your name written down on this paper and inshallah it will be placed let's get this right here name right there all right right there that's it inshallah your name will be placed in the draw second name for tonight going into the bowl now we are receiving a few at Facebook messages I'll read but before that let's check out the public opinion and see what they've said in regards to this and we'll be back to read out the Facebook comments so let's do that Asalaamu Alaikum everyone I'm Dr. Zakaria Abbas from India today's topic for Ramadan is it right to punish a child or not well I am against it because as a doctor I can tell you that in the early adolescence period and early teenage life if you inflict cruelty on the child the child may get into psychological disorders they can be a psychological impact on the child but of course in the early teenage life it is a parent's responsibility to develop a positive and a friendly relationship with the child you need to know and understand that you can be a good friend and once you do that the child himself is going to share everything with you you need to develop that rapport after teenage life when a lot of youth gets into you know bad habits like smoking weed smoke smoking cigarettes or alcohol then it is your responsibility to stop that you need to find out where the child is using the money from if it's your money it is your responsibility to cut the pocket money okay Asalaamu Alaikum this is Tanveer from Bangalore India well this topic is a pretty large topic to talk about a quick two pointer about is one being a being Shia follow Ahlul Baith's teaching in terms of the various stages of learning the way Guaruglu 7 up to the age of 7 let the child be free 7 to 9 you got to restrict your kid 9 onwards you got to be a friend now this is point 1 point 2 is punishing and disciplining are two different things they're two different words punishment is needed it's like a game in a game if you do not have restrictions the game cannot be a game that applies everywhere that's about it thank you thank you very much for those who join us tonight from the public opinion telling us what they think in their opinion should you punish your children now just to go through very quickly so we can go check out the expert and what they have said and go to will read out some of the Facebook comments that are coming in but number four on the list of how to instill good behavior with any children while not punishing them physically now number four is help them solve their problems a lot of the times you need your child to for them to hold on to their personality or for them to grow their personality and that can be achieved by you giving them the ability to solve problems on their own which is very important help them but make sure for them to to for them to hold to for them to resolve their own problems number five teach teach them how to handle their emotions and that's important as well you know not not for little kids but for older ones as well teach them this is very important teach them how to handle their emotions and how to express them their emotions to you become a very close friends to them that connection between you and your child number six teach them patience and teaching the patients has to be from you you have to be patient for your child to be patient you have to be really calm for your child to be calm as well and that's goes out to me first before it goes out to everyone but let's read out one comment on Facebook and I will go to ask the expert Hassan Ali he says children should be punished not physically but in a way that makes them understand their mistake hoping to win the trip to Paris inshallah inshallah your name and all the others that commented that commented not saying Salam Ya Hussain no no no that commented saying answering giving the opinion on tonight's question so saying Salam Ya Hussain we're not gonna put you in the draw but let's ask the expert very quickly and we back very short I'm just talking about the number Ramadhan Mubarak should parents punish their children this is one of those age-old questions children indeed like adults definitely do benefit from an environment where there are clear boundaries and there's a structure there are certain rules or guidelines that should not be violated either by themselves or someone else and they expect that someone who violates those boundaries will somehow be punished or will not be rewarded because this is just and fair this is part of the innate human nature nature we do need some sort of boundaries and it is a form of abuse not to discipline children at all just let them run wild because this is something they need but of course when we talk about punishing someone per se sometimes that has a bit of a negative connotation we might not always be talking about doing things that are in someone's best interest or to help them grow but rather we might be talking about control or lashing out emotionally or offloading our own emotions or doing things to children or people because we don't know how to handle the situation and that's it's human but it's not necessarily a good thing and it on a long-term basis it's not going to really help the child develop the sort of behavior we'd like or to really result in a good long-term relationship so some form of discipline and boundaries is good but of course how to do that is something that's going to vary a lot from case to case one of the truisms of life is that we find it much easier to tell people what they're doing wrong than to tell people what they're doing right this again it's the same for children and adults whereas the reality is we respond much better to people who are telling us what we are doing right it doesn't matter if I'm a four-year-old child or a 40-year-old child my inner child likes to be told that I'm good and I'm successful and I'm doing a good job and it makes me want to do more now of course when talking to a four-year-old that's going to be praising different behaviors but nonetheless that's an extremely effective way to instill desired behaviors in children or even in animals incidentally however it does usually take more thought it is a bit more of a challenge to identify what is going well it's usually difficult to see what is going wrong but that can sometimes help as well rather than necessarily always having a dynamic of trying to keep someone in control also it is important that expectations are communicated clearly to children there are certain things we may more or less understand as adults such as behaving properly that might not be meaningful say to a five-year-old or a six-year-old but if you outlined to them specifically what they ought to be doing then it's much easier for them to do it and indeed children are rather remarkable in that they do like to please the adults in their lives so they may try extra hard if it's outlined very nicely so that's a good thing to keep in mind as well now with respect to disciplining children in hadith there are of course different things that are mentioned but one of the things that has always stayed in my mind is related from Imam Musa Al-Qadim when he advises someone who asks him about this that instead of hitting his child he should just separate himself from him for a bit so make the child feel like the father in this case the father is unhappy with him and this is going to be enough to to punish him if you will because it's something that's really going to hit him and then the Imam tells him but don't do it for too long just do it enough to send the message because obviously the child is very sensitive a short time to us might be a long time to them but this is good advice to keep in mind as well from our Imam peace be upon him have a great month of Ramadan and hope to see you soon thank you very much sister Amina and loss for joining us tonight hopefully inshallah we can all get to understand us parents get to understand how to discipline and also instill good behavior within our children there you have it familiar everyone can understand now how to discipline the children and it goes back to your personality and how you want to raise your children thank you very much for everyone that joined us tonight we are getting a lot of comments hopefully inshallah whoever commented on tonight's episode your names will be written down and placed in this drawer right here in this bowl fish bowl right here and we'll have a good night take care waslamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh


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Hello to everybody and welcome to our soundbites webinar and I want to say it's a real pleasure to be sharing the first of our season two soundbites connecting with now webinars with Sherri Lee Rutherford and the Ida Institute. Sherri Lee and I have known each other for about five or six years when we worked together on a number of different things in the UK both professionally in terms of different activities but also on patient-centred research. And so now Sherri is in South Africa and I'm in Australia. It seems particularly special for us to be hosting this first collaborative international soundbite webinar from the same same hemisphere but opposite sides of the world. So today's session is focusing on research that I and colleagues have and are doing in collaboration with the Ida Institute and where we have in the past received Ida Institute research grants and we've just recently got one from the from the institute and I'm going to be talking about this in the context of the connected hearing health research in now. So first on is a project that was led by one of my colleagues David Dr. Maidman who's at Lefford University in the UK now which used the Ida Institute's why improve my hearing telecare tool and this is a tool that's delivered prior to the hearing assessment appointment so I'll be giving the results of that study and secondly my colleagues at now taken yarn this speech of myself recently received an Ida Institute research grant to use in my hearing explained tool and I'll be talking about our plans for that research. So this is a new set of webinars so what's new so other than the collaborative nature of working with leaders in the hearing health care field that the event is live and we want it to be much more interactive so there's going to be a couple of polls and a Q&A in the middle of the presentation and also at the end so we would really really love to hear from you you can give questions as you go along and don't be shy please please join in we really want to share this event with you so we're really excited to be kicking this off and I'll now hand over to Cher who'll give a brief overview of the Ida Institute so over to you Cher. Thank you so much to Mel and everyone at now and the soundbites team for inviting us and for inviting Ida to join you on this webinar and we're just thrilled to join you and we're excited about the friendship that we have with now and of course we're very excited about the work that we are all doing together so I will say just a few words about introducing the Ida Institute for anybody who may not yet be aware Ida is a non-profit organisation that was established back in 2007 and our mission is to build a community that embraces person-centered care and empowers people to get the hearing care that they need and at Ida we thrive on collaboration and co-creation is at the heart of everything that we do and so we enjoy and we prefer to work with people professionals, academics and persons with hearing loss to co-create innovative solutions, tools and resources in hearing and in communication that helps us to make the care that we deliver more human-centered and so the resources for person-centered care involve clinical tools, telehealth tools for clients and patients, professional development tools and of course ethnographic videos and so if you're not yet familiar with the tool section on our website you can visit IdaInstitute.com and you can feel free to get lost in the myriad of tools and resources that are available. The Ida Learning Hall is also something worthwhile visiting it is our free e-learning platform where we've co-designed training courses and educational materials with collaborators from all around the world to help you on your journey to become a more person-centered clinician and these courses are accredited by the leading accrediting audiology accrediting bodies around the world so that could be worth your while exploring as well and then finally another thing that we do to support the development of person-centered care further is our research grants so Ida provides three small research grants to recipients every year and we do that excuse me to further support the development and the evidence specifically in audiology and hearing care and so of course that's also going to be the topic of our discussion today where we're going to be talking a little bit more about the tool and the research that now is going to do to help us develop that evidence further so with that thank you so much Mel again for for the very kind invitation and I'll hand over back to you. Okay so I'm going to move on to the first presentation and given that the one of the studies is about tele-care and we've seen a huge increase in the in the use of tele- audiology over the last seven to eight months as a result of the COVID pandemic I just wanted to give you a flavour of the kind of technology that we're looking at at Niles Connected Hearing Health Research Programme so we're looking at a whole range of different types of tech but today we're going to particularly be focusing on pre-assessment and pre-fitting preparation but when we're thinking about delivering health care it's not just about the tech we need to think about how this fits into the patient pathway so this is so this slide here gives an overview of the research that we're doing it now and what we really want to be to do is to maximise the impact of the research that we're doing for patients and audiology so we want to find out what it is that they want and we want to find out what works so we've got a couple of projects sitting in the health service research area so one is looking at barriers and facilitators to connected hearing health with the aim to the aim was when we did it to try and increase uptake but of course it's in a huge uptake over the last few months. We did another study also on the back of COVID looking at outcomes clinical outcomes for in-person versus remote services and with the name being to minimise face-to-face clinic appointments and down the bottom we've got two of our sort of technical innovation developments which have a very mature patient focused feel about them so one is looking at a pre-assessment where we're looking at preparing patients and audiologists before the hearing assessment appointment and then study looking at post fitting to improve support and to increase motivation. So when we are thinking about person-centered care this is how often how I think about it so we have the audiologist and the patient in the clinic and both of them when they are at the assessment or fitting appointment have got different thoughts in the head so with the audiologist it might be they're thinking about getting the hearing aid fitted in the short time that they have for the patient it might be around wanting to tell their story and so when we think about person-centered care we're thinking about a shared understanding of needs, desires and interests and we're looking for a collaboration between the audiologist and the patient and that really is the sort of where we're getting to with patient-centered care. So with the first study that I'm going to talk about this is a study like I said which we carried out in the UK and we were looking at assessing the why improve my hearing telecare tool and the idea was that we wanted to encourage patients to reflect on their own individual needs and abilities but before they came in into the clinic to make them better prepared to work more jointly more closely with audiologists and making sure that things that are important and relevant to them are addressed. So the study that we carried out was a mixed method study so the first part was a randomized control trial where people were randomized either into the why improve my hearing tool along with standard care or they're in the control group with standard care only and it was quite a large study of 57 adults with hearing loss. At the end of the study we showed that there was no significant in the outcomes at 10 weeks we had a whole bunch of outcome measures but we did see that see a significant increase in patient readiness so they're readiness to do something about their health and we saw 10% increase in the why improve my hearing group compared to the control group but probably what was more interesting from this study was that we also did some qualitative semi-structured interviews so we did this with 10 adults with hearing loss and five audiologists and the idea was to explore the views of both patients and audiologists towards the tool when in the audiology. So this is where that was done by David Maidman and Edna Hepham and myself. So from the qualitative research there were three overarching themes one was that the tool helped patients to prepare for the clinic appointment in advance and it helped enhance discussion between the patient and the audiologist and we also had some signs this had the potential to influence outcomes after the appointment. So looking at the first theme being better prepared so people reported that they'd be that the tool helped them to become more aware of the difficulties they were having and sort of gave them a bit more of an idea of what they wanted out of any rehabilitation and it also helped patients who were unaware or in denial of their hearing loss. So one of the quotes was you almost have to be confronted by the problem to take it forward. We also showed that the tool helped enhance patients readiness and motivation to engage with adult rehabilitation and encourage people to think about specific difficulties. So this audiology said the motivation from the tool is that it encouraged patients to take control of their own hearing health and not just be passive. So moving on to the second theme which was that the tool enhanced discussion between the patient and the audiologist. So there were reports that the tool helped improve the flow and the efficiency of the appointment and also helped to give an idea about what to expect in the appointment. So this patient said it gives you the agenda. I knew what the discussion was going to be about knowing it made me relax more. And as I mentioned patient-centred care earlier it made the appointment more patient-centred for both the patient and the audiologist. So we want this and it helps support the audiologist and understanding the needs of the patient. So I got a lot out of the patient and it was more personalised for her so really tapping into that person-centred approach. Finally in terms of outcomes there was a suggestion that this may have the potential to influence uptake of hearing aids but also to improve outcomes after the appointment. So this audiologist said I'm not sure she would have been so enthusiastic about trying hearing aid if we had not used this tool. It helped her to come to that decision herself and talk herself around to the idea that hearing aids would be beneficial for her. So it really helps patients sort of get more control over their hearing health care. Okay so what are we doing it now? So in terms of what patients and audiologists want this is reflected in now's approach to innovation and tech development. So I'm going to just move on to some work we're doing on some pre-assessment work. So we're using this sort of model work which involves design thinking and lean startup and agile methodology. So in the beginning with design thinking we're thinking about what is the problem to the patient. So what are the issues? What is it that people want? So that's the empathised part of it. In terms of defining what the issues are what they might look like what the focus might be that's the next stage in the process and then the next stage is to start ideating to think about what kind of solutions or features might address the particular problem. And once the design thinking phase is over it's time to move on to the startup phase and we use this sort of build measure learn approach this lean startup approach which uses MVP. So some of you may have heard of minimal viable products which is basically these sort of bare bones of a means to be able to identify what kind of features people want and having done one MVP and learning what it wants it's a iterative process which can go through a number of times and the study that I'm just going to talk about in a second is on his fifth and final MVP. So we're really getting a good idea of what it is that patients and audiologists want and then the final stage is the development of whatever the tool is going to be. So maybe the development of an app who may be the developer of an online tool and this sort of agile sprint process is the process that we're following in now. So what do clients and audiologists want? So this is a study that's being led by Jeremy Pang in the bottom right of the slide and what we've seen in the discovery phase is that clients say that they want to be better prepared and to be able to have more of an expectation of what they want from the hearing journey. So this is very, very similar to the study I was talking about a minute ago. But what also has come out of this study is this theme of trust, this idea around personalised and self-paced patient education to really sort of try and facilitate acceptance. In terms of what audiologists want again they want to be better prepared so it's obviously a really key theme here and try and understand the client's motivation. So again we saw this in the UK study but what also came out in this study was this idea about developing and building rapport. So clients don't always know what they want to ask and having some sort of information beforehand can really help build rapport. And where we're at with this study is that both clients and audiologists want to be better prepared and then to a productive relationship built on trust and rapport early on in the hearing journey. So going back to where we are at the moment we've done the discovery phase when the final stages of this iteration lean startup process and then depending on where that goes we're going to move on to the development of our tool and I can talk a bit more about that later. So there's lots going on watch this space. It's probably time now to move on to the sort of second part of our session today where we're going to be talking about the My Hearing Explained and Cher is going to give a bit of an overview of that so over to you Cher. Thanks Mel and just while that presentation is coming up that's wonderful so the tool that we want to share a bit about today is called My Hearing Explained and I'm just going to do sort of a brief overview of what the tool is and what it's intended to do and then Mel I will hand back over to you and you can tell us about just the really exciting research that you guys are going to do at now and using the IDA grant to do exactly that. So the My Hearing Explained tool if we go to the next slide it is a tool that is designed to transform the complex information from a hearing test into language that is easy to understand. It's designed to help people understand the hearing loss and then also to enable them to explain it to the people that are important to them in their life. It's very much designed as a conversation tool and it is something that can be used as both a self-report tool and a tool to explain results. So if we go to the next slide. So what it is it's a personalised infographic and it's centered around an illustrated head and it's surrounded by icons for loudness, clarity and brain energy and so what you have underneath is a box that you can fill out with the patient where you're going to fill out what they struggle with and also what they can hear and this here is interesting because we are trying to also maintain a strength-based perspective which is very much in line with the principles of good information sharing and then there's also spaced document the patient's most important communication situations and then on the left hand side of the panel as you're looking at it the patient now has an opportunity to indicate on the scale what their ability to hear sound is and what their ability to understand speech is and also how they rate their energy for listening. So this is the self-report part of it so the patient can rate that and later on when you as the clinician are doing the audiological testing and the speech testing you can also put your markings on there and then there can be a discussion about how these might agree or maybe there's some interesting discrepancies and you can explore with them further why that might be and then there's also a space to document and things that you've discussed all your different recommendations and the treatment options so that perhaps you've recommended some technology assistive devices different strategies referrals and so on and so this is very much helping the clinician to facilitate shared decision making which is one of the cornerstones of person-centered care and yeah so if we go to the slide how it works pretty easy you can download it again freely from the IDA website you can print it there's also an editable pdf if you are working remotely so you can do it via screen share and then you simply use the tool to guide your conversation in the appointment and importantly the tool has been designed first and foremost for the patient or the client so the idea is that they take it home as a as a document and as a summary of the things that you have discussed and the tool is intended for sharing so we should encourage our clients to take it home share it with their loved ones and have that conversation about hearing loss and how it impacts their life and also what they plan to do about it further and so on the next slide our final slide here is just to say that I think or I hope it's clear that you can use this tool throughout the appointment so you can use it during the case history phase and you can use it during the explanation phase and also the management phase of the appointment and the real purpose of the tool is to facilitate a conversation and help people make sense of their hearing and then also enable them to share it with their families and I think an important characteristic of this tool is that it demonstrates in a very physical way that you as a clinician have been actively listening and yeah so I'm going to hand over back to you now because Mal because you are going to do some amazing research on this tool and and help to provide further evidence to support the use of this tool so back to you. Okay thanks Cher so yes so we with a couple of now researchers taken young who's a researcher audiologist and Liz Beach who's head of behavioral sciences and we earlier this year we were lucky to get an I do institute research grant and the study that we're going to do is to assess the use of the my hearing explained tool with a focus being on to align communication strategies between adults with hearing loss and their communication partners and the person who's leading this research is to own up in the top right hand corner of the slide there. Okay so we've got a slightly shorter planning to communicate this is the short title of this study and as many of you listening today will know that hearing loss affects many areas of people's lives it's not just about the hearing loss it affects their communication it affects their cognition both of which are addressed in the my hearing explained tool and it affects other things such as things like mental health and we know that communication partners are also impacted by hearing loss so there's been quite a bit of research talking about third person disability so a communication partners also can experience some of the psychosocial and other issues around hearing loss such as stigma. Communication partners we know can play an enormous role in the success of hearing rehabilitation and we know and it's been shown on a number of studies in systematic reviews that by aligning strategies of the adult with hearing loss and the communication partners by joint working leads to better outcomes in the end and people there's been some research done in other areas outside of audiology so in the field of behavioural insights and that research shows that people who share their intentions are more likely to make the change and more likely to stick to them so this is something called pre-commitment so this is where it's really great working it now where we can bring together audiology behavioural sciences and put them together and create really novel research so what we mean by pre-commitment I'll give you an example so this would be for example if somebody was cooking dinner so the communication partners cooking dinner and the adult with hearing hearing loss was eating their dinner that when they were pairing it they were very mindful that they faced each other when they were having a conversation or if they went into the fridge and to get something out they would stop talking whilst they were facing away from their partner whilst in the fridge and when they turned back around again they could continue with the conversation so it's those kind of communication strategies we're looking at and what's really interesting I'm going to try this out quite recently is that there can be sort of these sort of it can can have these things around bets so you know to go and see whether people actually do what they say they're going to do and so you can have a bet which is like you know if you do that you know I'll cook you dinner for the rest of the week or what's been shown is that if you take something away from somebody that's more likely to be motivating than if you give somebody something so maybe for example taking away somebody's early evening gin and tonic if they don't do what they had agreed to do so these are the kind of things that we're going to be looking at around the pre commitment so the actual study itself the research question is does the tool facilitate understanding of hearing loss and lead to a line communication strategy so the keyword here is aligned so we wanted to go and assess whether tool improves the understanding of the communication improves the communication partner's understanding and in terms of their impact of the hearing loss for the person who has it and see whether there's going to be an improved understanding compared to the standard audiogram we also want to go and have a look at the perceptions of hearing loss from both the from both parties point of view from the person with hearing loss and the communication partner and see how they intend to align their communication strategies depending on the discussions that they've been having and then finally to assess the value of the pre commitment commitment and urging the setting of and subsequent achievement of the communication goals so it's all around looking at goals is looking around the needs of both the both parties who will be taking part in the research so we're looking to recruit sorry it's a bit slow we're looking to recruit 16 dyad so dyad is a couple and we're going to randomise them into two groups one group will get the standard audiogram the other group will have the hearing tested using the my hearing explained tool the results will be explained to the adult with hearing loss and then there's going to be a discussion between the two of them in terms of the results of the hearing loss as to whether they got the pta or the my hearing explained tool and together we're going to look to develop communication strategy so there's going to be some discussion around that with the looking at developing a pre commitment nudge and then post discussion there's going to be some questionnaires and joined semi structured interview four weeks later and then finally we're going to have a follow-up interview to assess how well each of them or the couple are aligned in terms of their communication strategy and was the pre commitment pre commitment nudge successful so it's got some sort of novel angles to it in terms of the behavioural insights and I think it's really important to see whether we can try and get um um align strategies and outcomes better um align between the two so I'd like to ask you um how you developed the tool because I think you had a really sort of participatory approach to that yeah yeah thank you for that question Mel I think um you know we we anecdotally have known for a long time and um you know many clinicians I think will agree that we've always realised that the the audiogram is um is limited in many ways but when we look at the audiogram as a counselling tool specifically and um as a tool to um help people understand their results we we had to do um a little bit of field research and so we've done quite a bit of surveys and interviews and focus groups in the run up to the development of the tool and I think what was super interesting we uncovered so many interesting things and that will be a talk in itself but um I think one of the most interesting things that we found is when we asked um clinicians um are you interested in um having a new tool or a resource available to help you explain the hearing test results 99% um of the respondents actually indicated yes and so for us that was a very strong motivator um and and a confirmation that we were on the right path with trying to innovate and find a new solution um for talking about hearing test results and I think the field research also the interviews and the focus groups from uh from different consumer groups um that we ran they all confirmed each other and there were wonderful comments from um from consumers and clients who were kind of highlighting the limitations of the audiogram in terms of really understanding you know what can I hear um and what is the functional impact of a hearing loss on my life so so we kind of had that confirmation from both clients and professionals that there's a gap and so it's always nice when you're trying to design a new tool that there's agreement from both parties on that so a very strong yes um that helped us to to move forward with that project and thank you everybody for some of the comments that are coming in now we just want to go and say um a final thank you to chef for joining us today it's been a real pleasure as always to share the screen with you share and thanks to the soundbites team and thanks everybody for for tuning in


Pleased to be joined by General Manager John Robinson, obviously you know him well. You picked him in the first round in 2018, but I wonder, what's the best thing about Rashawn Evans that you didn't know until he got here and became part of your team? Yeah, I mean, I think anytime you're evaluating players, you can watch the game film, you can go to practice, you can go to games and see what they do on the field. Our scouts did a great job. They talked to the coaches and staffs about his personality. I would say the biggest thing is his coachability and his work ethic. He's been a tireless worker here. He's been extremely coachable. And I think it shows in his on the field play by the way he's improved. We were interested to learn about Michael Pruitt in the last segment. And he's the guy was a fifth round pick of the Minnesota Vikings has a great rookie year. And then since then, he goes on sort of the parade of practice squads until he gets to Nashville. And now he's part of this football team. He's that tough, dependable team first guy. Yeah, I think he embodies that fighter spirit that a lot of our players have and that we want in players, guys that have overcome situations and really kind of carved out a niche for himself. He's done a really good job for us, plays a variety of roles for us. His versatility is really good. He can play on the line of scrimmage. He can play in the backfield as a fullback. We can detach him as an FTI in as well as being an important part of the kicking game. Your 2019 first round pick defensive tackle, Jeffrey Simmons, starts practice this week. What has he been doing over the last six weeks to prepare him to hopefully be part of the Titans team over the last couple months of the season? Yeah, I mean, he's really been working hard with our training staff, you know, rehabbing that need, getting in as best as game shape as possible, heavily involved in the meetings, trying to learn and work some technique things that we coach up front along the defensive line. I know he's excited to be back out there and we're excited to have him. The opponent this Sunday, the Los Angeles Chargers, their quarterback, Phillip Rivers, who's been there like 40 years, it seems. What's the challenge playing against a Phillip Rivers offense? Well, you said it.  He's played in this league a long time. I'm not sure there's a coverage or blitz that he hasn't seen in his time. He's a fiery leader. You know, he really makes that offense go. So we'll have to do a good job, you know, with disguising our coverage, with matching our rush with our coverage to try to throw him off. Turn to the Los Angeles Chargers defense. Gus Bradley runs that defense. We obviously know him from being the head coach in Jacksonville. What are the potential problems that a Chargers defense can cause a Titans offense this Sunday? Well, I think, you know, it's a couple of years in that system under Gus. There's a lot of veteran players over there. They're really good up front, you know, with Boso, with Ingram, with Mebane Justin Jones out of NC State. He's really having a good season for him. Thomas Davis comes over at linebacker. Casey Hayward, the Vanderbilt product. Extremely productive guy in the back end. So, you know, we'll have to really do a good job trying to match and trying to outwit those veteran guys. Give us John Robinson's keys to the Titans winning over the Chargers. Well, I think for us it's about execution and effort.


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Mary, tell us a little bit about the Lyric Theater Group. Lyric was founded in 1952. So this is our 62nd season, we're very proud of that. We've been in the greater Portland community for decades. We are a volunteer community theater. We originally were, the founders were members of Portland Players. And when Portland Players decided to focus more on plays than musicals, it was a group of very ardent musical fans that decided that they would like to produce musicals. And so Lyric has always had, as its mission, producing musicals. And so we are completely, we're a non-profit, and we're completely volunteer-based. And how many shows a year do you do? We do, lately we've been doing four shows a year, plus one play at the end of the year. Next year we're actually producing five musicals in the year. So we're getting a little ambitious. And where do you get your volunteers from, the actors, et cetera? We really draw from the community. The Southern Maine acting community and musical community is incredibly rich with talent. And so it's, we always have open auditions. And so far, that's always worked really well for us. And where do you get your funding from? Funding, again, is completely we're a non-profit. So it is completely from donations from the very generous, greater Portland community, and our audience, our ticket sales. And have you always been in this location on Soros Street in South Portland? No, interestingly enough, we started in Portland. We used to perform at Deering High School. And a fire in the 1970s occurred and destroyed the old rehearsal space. And so we were nomads for a few years. And then through the beneficiary, Cedric Thomas, who the playhouse is now named after, we bought this property and have been here since the mid-70s. And what's the range of musical that you do? Are they all just classic musicals? Are you doing any modern ones? What's your sort of play bill? We try to do a range of shows to appeal to all sorts of different tastes. We opened our season this past year with Avenue Q, which is very modern, very up-to-date, a recent Broadway hit. And what we also do, Broadway Classics. And we've done everything from the sound of music and My Fair Lady. So we really try to do a lot of different shows that will appeal to different audiences. We try to do shows that would appeal to children as well. We've done shows like Annie and Oliver, Oliver this past season. So we try to present a range of theatrical offerings. I returned from Crete this very day and there is no delay. Tell us what was everyone yelling about? John, we're here on the set of A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the forum. Great opening number, greatest opening number in the history of musical theater. Tell us about the show. Well, you get no argument from me on the greatest opening number, certainly. The show is a classic. It's one of the reasons we chose this particular piece.  When jokes normally live maybe a week on the internet, these particular jokes have lived for 2,000 years. They're based on the plays of Plautus, an ancient Roman author. So I think it speaks a lot to the quality and the caliber. In addition to the fact that when it was created, they injected quite a bit of the vaudeville-type humor, which I think just makes it a classic. It's got a lot of different elements. It's got humor. It's got a good love story. It's got a good chase scene. Tell us a little bit more. What's the show about if people don't know? Well, it's about a slave, Pseudalus, who wants to get his freedom. In order to do this, he has to find a way for his master hero to get the girl, Philia. In between all of this, however, there are a lot of other factors keeping him from that. And it's all about how Pseudalus copes from one moment to the next. And always manages to proceed.  It's got that kind of fun and zany feel to it. And like you said, it's got a great love story. It's got the chase scenes. It's got just a little something for everybody. And do you think it still resonates with people? Do even younger audiences, they still find it funny, do you think? Well, that's a good question. We'll find out, certainly, but I think it will. I think the humor is there. I think the characters are great. We have certainly tried to push the boundaries of it and we're playing it just as big as we possibly can. We want our actors to have fun. We want them to be challenged. We want our audiences to be challenged too. We hope that it's gonna be one of those shows where if you blink, you'll miss something important. It's gonna be that fast-paced. And in the show, there's a lot of different things that happen all in different places, almost all at the same time. Is that difficult to stage? It's incredibly difficult to stage. And this isn't the largest stage in the world. So it's all about making it look bigger and working within the confines and making 18 people work on a set that's probably only about 25 feet across and maybe 20 feet deep. I think one of the selling points of the show is the Stephen Sondheim music. He was challenged back in the day to write a conventional show. Someone said, can't you write a regular musical? So he did and it was for him. There were some great numbers. They're all hummable. And you walk out with a very different feel from what you find in other Sondheim shows. You have, of course, all the classic humor that goes with it. And I think it's really got some tremendous appeal. And if people want more information about the plays that are coming up, if they want to volunteer, if they want to donate, where can they go and get more information? Absolutely. We'd love to have more volunteers and more patrons in our audience. And they can go to www.lyricmusictheatre.org.


to the latest edition of Tell Health in Hawaii. I'm Vikram Acharya. I'm the CEO of Cloudwell Health, Hawaii's only all physician-founded telemedicine organization that's dedicated to providing care to all the residents in the state of Hawaii. We have an awesome show for you today. On our show is Greg Salas, former national football league player and University of Hawaii alum. Greg, how you doing today? I'm good, Vik. Thanks for having me on, man. Looking forward to chatting with you today and having a good discussion and dialogue. Yeah, no, thanks for being on. To get things started, talk to me a little bit about your background, where you're from, what got you into sport, and we'll go from there. Yeah, well, I'm 33 years old, born in 1988, but I grew up in Southern California. I played a lot of sports growing up, and mostly, and a lot of it was because older brothers, I always wanted to do what my older brothers were doing. So shout out to those guys who were kind of playing sports and letting me get involved and play some tackle football in the back yard when I come. But I just grew up playing football from a young age and I skateboarded, I played baseball, I did a lot of outdoor things because I had a lot of energy. So my parents liked to put me in organized sports and I was fortunate enough to receive a few scholarship offers and chose the University of Hawaii. Ultimately, probably the best decision of my life, met my wife here, we have kids, things worked out. So came over here in 2006 and played for four years here and had a solid career and then ended up in the NFL getting to get Harry my name called. And yeah, now I'm post-NFL career, working for Learfield, representing the multimedia rights and corporate partnerships here at the University of Hawaii. So back at my alma mater and yeah, living life. But that's kind of how I got started in sports and that's kind of just my general background. That's very cool. What was it like growing up, training as an athlete? Obviously there's a lot of physical preparation, daily regimens, what was it like when you were practicing, getting on the field? What was it like? Yeah, you know, I say back in my day, Jesus, that sounds weird to say, but at times it changed the sports culture and I guess training regimen and I think we'll talk about this, the mental aspects of sports, it's changed a lot where it's a lot more specified. It's a lot more intense than, you know, people with their social media is involved now and there's a lot of other factors that get into it. You know, I pulled around some heavy weights and ran with a little bit of a parachute on my back and that was speed training. Now it's so much more science focused and they really dial into the things you can do and even for these high school kids, man, they're really doing cutting edge, top edge, resistance and speed training. But yeah, that was it.  But, you know, preparing back then was, you know, not the same as it is now. You know, I ran some cone drills and stuff in high school to get me prepared, but you know, as you progress and go up levels, you can see the different types of training you can do. So yeah, it's intense for sure to say the least. You, it sounds like you played a lot of different sports growing up, but you ended up going with football. What was it about football that was your pick? I guess natural selection. You know, football chose me, probably if I was better at another sport, maybe I would have chose that one, but no, football just seemed natural. And you know, maybe because I was scared to get hit, I ran away and dodged people really well. Yeah, it just came natural. I, you know, I think I had, you know, some speed and some natural talent and some, you know, some ability to catch the hands and judge ballhand eye coordination that just ended up working out for me.  We get to wake up and watch some football on Sundays and then our Pop Warner games were a little bit later in the day.  And that was kind of our weekends back in the day. But yeah, I have to say that that was just the sport I was most naturally gifted at, you know, for sure. Yeah.  You have a lot of options in terms of where to go to school. Well, what brought you to University of Hawaii? Well, I really didn't have that many options. I had to be, but I got lucky later on, you know, I was a late developer. I was a late bloomer. You know, I didn't really grow into my body and mature until, you know, at the end of my junior year and I ended up growing about six inches over summer. I had a really big, big growth spurt, you know, and then my senior year, I was able to put some stuff together because you usually get noticed a little bit early on in your career, you know, as a sophomore and junior. I didn't start as a sophomore. I didn't start as a freshman. I didn't start as a junior until halfway through the year. So my senior year was kind of my coming out party and was fortunate enough to get on the radar of the University of Hawaii kind of by force. We put a lot of highlights out there and sent them to a lot of schools and had a lot of help with that from family friends. So yeah, just fortunate to end up them offering me and that was the first division one offer I got. So I already knew, you know, I already kind of had an affinity towards Hawaii. Just the beauty, natural beauty had never been before. And then once they offered me, that was I was all in already at that point. So yeah, easy decision for me. Once you landed, you're like, this is where I wanna be, huh? Yeah, you know, we took a trip out there and my parents came with me and, you know, we're all excited.  You get to see the campus and do all those fun things. And, you know, I think I've always, you know, I loved surfing growing up. I surfed in high school with my friends back home, you know, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach.    And no, things worked out. I really benefited from that and grew up a lot in those years. When you're in division one, top tier program, playing on the football team, there's a lot of expectations, not only on the field, but also academically. Now, how were you able to balance all of that throughout your time at UH? Yeah, well, I wish I did a better job, honestly. I think that's why I ended up after my playing career going to pursue my MBA because, you know, I really didn't, you know, it is a lot.  I really was at a lot of time and dedicated to pursuing my dreams there. I was still, I still graduated and did, you know, I would say almost, I almost did the bare minimum, which I always caution players against because you have a real finite time to really maximize this opportunity. It's a grind, but it's the funnest part and the part you look back on and never regret. But yeah, you just got to focus. There's a lot of focus, you know, the football part kind of takes care of itself when you're doing the right things, but obviously you still have to be eligible and take care of everything in the classroom to make sure you're able to play on Saturdays.  You're here for four years already, here four to five years. Take the time, really focus on a degree that you're going to be interested in once you're done with college because you don't want to graduate and, you know, end up realizing you wanted to focus on something else. So, and majority of them are not going to make it to the next level. Very fortunate that it worked out for me, but a majority of players, you know, the 1% of the 1% that gets it caused, the 1% of the 1% are going to make it to the NFL or whatever, you know, professional sport they're going to make it in. So I always have a heavy emphasis on education because I see the value in what it can do for someone post-athletics because it's going to be, I'm sure we'll talk about this again, the mental part, but you go from, this is your identity, you're an athlete, everyone wants to talk to you because you're a football player. That ends, you know, for a lot of people at the end of college, that's it. You know, you can't play football anymore. That's for sure. You can play pickleball, you know, some basketball, you can play golf, you can do all these other things, but football ends, especially organized football, tackle football. When that's done, it's done. And it takes the transition period to get acclimated to that. You know, you mentioned the importance of mental health and it's mental health awareness month. Mental health is a very significant subject right now in terms of people getting access to the care they need. When you were training, when you were in college at UH as well as in the pros, how much emphasis was there on mental health compared to now when you talk to athletes? Yeah, you know, I wouldn't say there was a real focus on it at all when I was, you know, going through high school, college. Once I got to the NFL, towards the end, so I entered the NFL in 2011. And I'd say around 2015, 2016, you can really see, obviously sports science starts playing a huge role in, you know, making sure the body is maximized, but also mentally, where we actually have a team psychologist there for you.  So they kind of know the effects of, you know, sunlight and they start to do those things, but, you know, that can really drain on somebody, not just that, but also the pressures of football, but, you know, be mentally sharp, you take all this time to prepare your body, you got to make sure you take the same amount of time, if not more, to make sure your mind is right. Are there any coaches in particular that were really good about saying, look, you know, we want to make sure you're just as focused and good physically as you are mentally when you were in the pros? Yeah, I think all the coaches, you know, understood for the most part, and that's where the team, you know, the whole setup of an organization comes into play, right? Because, you know, it can be head coach driven, it can be, you know, organizationally driven from owners. So yeah, like I said, you can kind of see that trend. I'm sure everybody has a sports psychologist on, in every organization now, because of the importance of it now. I think it was just an underappreciated segment that was underrepresented in professional sports and even college sports. You can just see the difference, even now here at the University of Hawaii. You know, when I played here, there was less emphasis on it, but now there is more emphasis where there's safe spaces to talk. You can go talk to counselors at any time. So they want to make sure that you take part of the area yourself mentally and especially professional sports, so much of the game is won in preparation and in film study.  So the mental aspect of it is huge.  Yeah. Let's talk through that a little bit. During the week, what types of mental exercises or mental health related activities are being done by professional football players? Because a lot of the week is a lot of, like you said, it's not a mental, it's not a film study, it's a lot of preparation, which is not physical, but it's more mental, right? Yeah, well, I guess it really depends on the individual, right? If we're really talking about, if we're talking about preparing and kind of what are your habits, your good habits for preparing for an opponent that week, that's a completely separate issue. I'd say from if someone's struggling mentally or whatever the case may be, that people are going through all different types of things, no one really knows what's going on in each individual's life, right? They can have family issues, they can be struggling to make the correct financial decisions, they can have relationship issues, could be a number of things. And if you're not taking care of those things and getting the help you need for that, then it's not gonna take care of itself on the field. You're gonna struggle on that aspect more than likely. So I know now there's more emphasis, there's more opportunity for players to speak to people. I've been retired now for about five, six years, so I can't really speak to the opportunities that are, because I just don't have any firsthand knowledge anymore, but like I said, towards the end of my playing career, they had a sports psychologist there, 24-7 for you to speak to. Mm-hmm. Now, when you're mentoring younger athletes or people who say, I wanna play in the NFL, I wanna play at UH, what types of mental advice do you give them to keep persevering around resilience, around mental health? What advice do you give? You know, it's different. You can see the way people are on certain paths and without knowing too much. Sometimes it's very surface when I'm speaking to people without really getting into what can really be causing them to tick or why they're making certain decisions, right? You're just kind of talking to people in general, but the people that I have had an opportunity, you just try to find out a little bit more about what's going on in their life, more personal stuff. They're upbringing, there's circumstances now, so you can get a better feel for who they are and how they're coping with things. And you just wanna make sure that they're taking care of themselves, right? I think you always gotta take care of yourselves first and foremost, just sort of like on an airplane, right? You gotta put your own mask on first before you can put it on anybody else and help anybody else, right? You gotta do the mental gymnastics there to make sure that you're operating at full capacity. But I just always offer encouragement, right? There's always gonna be setbacks and failures and those are always opportunities. I always tell them failures and setbacks are always opportunities. I can't imagine anybody in life going through it where everything is just success, right? It's never gonna be instant. You're gonna have to put in the work and it's like, I always referred to it as you're making deposits in the bank. Everything you're doing now that it's all adding up and then it'll pay off in the end. It's an investment in yourself. So those are kind of like some of the surface stuff I try to push onto other folks when I'm talking to them in group settings. Is there a moment in particular you'd like to share where maybe something happened in a game or there was a setback during the game personally or on the team side that resilience and perseverance really paid off long-term? Oh yeah, I mean, it's so apparent and everybody has their own, you know, slogan for this but for us, it was always one snapping clear, right? It's, you can't worry about things that have taken place already. You gotta learn from it and you gotta move on and be prepared for the next moment because you have a whole game to play still, right? You can, I could have dropped the ball on a big down, you know, early on in the game but I know, look at the next opportunity I get or the next play I get, the next assignment I have I'm gonna make the most of it. You gotta have a short memory and I think a lot of that holds true in everyday life, right? You gotta learn from mistakes you've made everybody makes mistakes. You gotta learn how to laugh things off and find humor in everything and move on and use that, you know, use it as motivation and I think some people do that better than others that's always something I think I've done well is use setbacks as motivation but everyone's different but those are some of the things that we always talked about the one snapping clear mentality where, you know, you can have a really, you're never gonna be at the top of the top and never even be at the low of the lows. You gotta try to stay even keel and I think that's important in the game of football but also in the game of life. Yeah, you know, there's a lot that's been coming out especially over the past 10 years around the safety of the game. Looking after players, like I said after they're no longer in the NFL. What are your thoughts on player safety after they leave the NFL? Are people being well taken care of? Is the league appropriately providing? What are your thoughts on that? Yeah, you know what, I think the NFL does offer a lot of assistance for players but the thing is you have to want and I think this is something that a lot of people struggling struggle with is admitting that something can be wrong or wanting to seek help. I think that's an issue that can be destigmatized that, you know, you don't have to white knuckle it and be strong because you're a big strong football player. It's okay for things not to be going all right. And the NFL does have a lot of whether it's information packets to hotlines.  It seems like for webinar series or helping recruitment for players transitioning educational benefits if you play enough years and get vested in the league, right? Hotlines, you name it, there's an emphasis on it and I know they speak about it at the games and in the facilities but yeah, there's help but I think they need to, people need to, I think they need to, the most difficult part is asking for the help and going and receiving it, right? People are afraid of that bad news or what they might hear or what they might let out of their mouth, right? So I think that can be done culturally a better job of destigmatizing that and I think it is. I think enough people are talking about it. It seems every day you hear a celebrity and athletes say they struggle with mental health. It's okay to seek help. It's okay to not be okay. What's not okay is to hold it all in and not seek help. Yeah, that's an interesting point, Greg. That relates to everyone, not just professional football players. If you feel something, you should seek help. You should seek counsel, yeah. And Vic, and likewise, I'd be remiss to remind people that the top CEOs, they all have mental coaches, right? I mean, a lot of successful people, even if you don't have issues, it's okay to still talk to somebody and whatever it is about, right? To a third party that really is no judgments, no motive, just someone to talk to and figure out issues and pill back layers, learn how to attack problems in a different light, maybe just a different perspective. Everybody does it, even people who aren't struggling. And I think it's a very important part for people to understand that even the most successful people in the world have a mental coach or somebody that they can talk to you and confide in. That's a really great point. Greg, you made the transition from professional football to now your current job. And what was that transition like for you? Was it different because, you know, you're training as an athlete all the time and now you're working. How was that for you once that was done? You know, I think I always kept in the back of my mind that you're gonna transition at some point.  So I had always kind of had that in the back of my mind. And I kind of, and in the NFL, they say that stands for not for long, not national footballing, but not for long because the average career is two years, two and a half years to give or take. So once I kind of saw the writing on the wall where, you know, I've had a lot of injuries, I've been in the field for six years, you know, that this can be it. I immediately went towards education because I utilize the NFL every off season basically whether it was a personal financial wellness class and like the Wharton School of Business or Miami School of Business, I always kind of utilized those to kind of expand my knowledge outside of football and pursue other things that I knew eventually I would be passionate about. So that's what I did. As soon as this was done, I, you know, the NFL has a great program. They offer financial aid, you know, so not only can I go get an MBA, I can also get my MBA paid for as long as I'm maintaining a certain GPA. So I took full advantage of that. And now I'm sitting here four years later out of the NFL five years later with an MBA, a nice career path that I'm on and enjoying life with my family and not really worried about the things that come with the transition. But I know it's difficult for a lot of people. It was difficult for me, you know, I don't think I let it hit me until a few years out where I'm thinking like, oh wow, football is actually over now. I kind of missed this. I'm watching it on Sundays now. I'm not participating. I started Fantasy Football League for the first time last year. But now I really enjoy it to love the game and watch it, you know, and enjoy just watching good football. Yeah. I mean, you're trajectory through, you know, athletics and now professionally as it relates to mental health, it sounds like it's so much around mindset, you know, just perseverance, optimism, reach out for help if you need it, use the resources that you may have at your fingertips to really make sure that you're in the right space as you ascend through different phases of your life. Yeah. Yeah, I think perspective is a big deal on the right and I'm fortunate to have a good team and, you know, a great wife and kids now and parents and siblings. So, you know, I know it's different for everybody's circumstance, but, you know, there's hotlines, there's things available, right? That are toll-free, whether it's, you know, I know not everybody has the same set of resources and circumstances. So I just think it's important to know what's available to you and, you know, you got to kind of, you got to want it, right? You got to want to seek to help and feel better and like you said, you're never at the highest of highs, you're never at the lowest of lows. So like you said, mindset is key. Yeah, and especially for athletes, you have to pay attention to both the physical and the mental.  Yeah, yeah. Well, I think a lot of people don't realize that people make a living because their mental is so good in the NFL too or in any professional football, right? You know, the more you know, the more knowledge you have, the more valuable you become to an organization. So, you know, it's not always the most physically gifted guy who ends up making it, right? There's also a mental aspect of it. And then for athletes, you know, they need to understand that a lot of it is transferable skills. The things you learn, the grit, the determination, the hard work, you're doing all that. And then now it's just trying to try to focus it in another aspect. Yeah. Greg, it's just a really awesome to have you on the show. I mean, I appreciate you having me on, yeah. Yeah, your ability to articulate mental health is just been phenomenal because, you know, when you think of professional sports and football, you think of the athleticism, the physical athleticism that people see. But this was a really great conversation on just life, but also mental health. And that's the most important topic these days and something that everybody has to keep in mind. No, for sure. It's important, you know, and like I said, you see people talking about it a lot more now.  And it's important, and I'm glad that people are talking about it more because I think that's the biggest thing is opening up and having the conversation, right? Not being, you know, holding it in and keeping things closed but being able to discuss things. Yeah. Thank you so much. Really appreciate your time, you know, and it's just great to have a conversation on something that, especially athletes, sometimes struggle with, you know, feelings, mental health, and especially now, it's very important to have this conversation. I'm glad we're doing so. And I really appreciate your time and thanks for being on the show. Yeah, no problem, Vic, any time. Appreciate you having me on. You take care. Have a great day. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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