Welcome back it's David Wong finally back from my 20-year absence. I've been training secretly with my My master Minky Minky the dog and after all this time now I finally come back with the next section of the wooden dummy form So are you ready to learn here we go? In this section, we're gonna do some pops out We're gonna start to do the first kick in the wooden dummy form and then we're gonna do some more Footwork too.  Okay, and then On sale side kick again on sale That's how and what do you call it? Cow sell and then jing zheung and just sell and then back to here All right, so that's the whole Section and I'm going to break it down one part at a time So first part is the three pop cells on the inside. So as we I showed you before this is the inside It's the outside. So the inside I'm going to pop with my right hand first Without the feet with just the hands. I'm going to go about inside 2 3 so there's a right left right You look from the front and be right left Right and notice that I'm going out at a 45 degree angle I'm not going sideways. Do not go sideways like this go at a 45 degree angle That's what you want to do. That's what's happening with the hands with your feet You are pivoting every time you're doing a pop So the first time you're going to pivot to the left. So left Right left It'll be pivot to the left Pivot to the right pivot to the left So when you put it onto the dummy It's going to be pivot to the left with the right hand Pivot to the right and then left hand pop Pivot to the right to the left right hand part. So those are the first three moves So one more time I'm here Pivot left pop right pivot right pop left Pivot right pivot left and pop right Okay, so you need to coordinate the movement of the pivot together at the same time on the pop Just for training you can just do this section repeatedly. So you get used to coordination. So it's one two You just do that repeatedly so you can get good at just this part Okay, so in the form we only do this three times right left right and from this point we move on to the next part So the next part we're going to do a outside pack. There's left hand here. You're going to drop underneath this arm And then I'm going to pop on the outside and then readjust my Stance to face forward. Remember we ended up facing left So now we're going to just adjust so that we're facing straight again So that's what's happening with the feet. I'm just adjusting and facing straight Okay, from that side, I'm facing left It looks like you're right by my left and then just Just pivot this foot so that now they're both Angled in towards the target Okay facing left This way you can't see facing left now this way It's left back to center All right, so on here All I'm doing is I end up here and then I go underneath and then face back to center Fox out on the outside and from here Fox out which means the chop to uh on the uh with the left hand Okay, let me just show you this section here. So I go one two Three and punch Okay, so I'm time. I was here. So one two Three three is actually two movements at the same time Okay, so one two three And if you combine together actually it's four five six, so it'll be like four five six Okay, one more time starting from three you go four five six one more time four five six Okay, what did I just do there? I did a fox out And then the fox I'll just drag down into a jut cell.  So I end up here. I'm going to go out And then I go park on the outside box out Just so punch Okay, so I end up here. So let's go one two three Okay, so that's what I'm doing again one two Three and the next three moves Is just doing the same thing, but now starting with the right hand. So now I'm going to go park on the outside Fox out with the Right hand and then just saw with the right hand and low punch So it's the same thing as the left hand. I just switched it with the right hand. So I go one two three Okay, so I ended up here curiously I go underneath Hux out on the outside Hux out over top And then just saw in low punch And then we just end up this section with just the double talks out like that Okay, so Let's go from the beginning one two three four five six seven eight nine We're in time one two three four five six seven eight nine And then ten to finish it off All right, so stay tuned and then we're going to show you the next part of this section


Hello people, I'm Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch so I really know the old ways traditional witchcraft because I was taught it by my mum and she by her mum and she by her mum and I'm here today with my ever popular online almanac series witches and today's almanac series is of course April I'm so happy spring has started summer's around the corner it's April and this is my almanac video for it. As always with my online almanac series I'm going to give you first of all a general April overview for witchcraft energies and activities that you might do in April as a whole and then we'll go into a bit more detail and look at significant dates throughout April the traditions associated them and how you might celebrate them through witchcraft. April is known for its showers because the earth is warming up with the lengthening of the sun and this interacts with the cold air coming in from the sea and we all get soaking wet in fact I got caught this morning I was buying myself a special treat in Starbucks and I parked in the power park and I had to rush in and I have never been so soaked in my life and of course as soon as I got inside it stopped and that's April showers for you. April is a month for you to look upwards into the heavens not just for the showers there's also all sorts of other things going on in the sky in April. One of the things I've always wanted to do and have done is cloud bust I have never been able to myself I did have when I was younger a school friend I mean we were very young you know so seven or eight it's one of my sort of quite early witchcraft memories standing around and she could bust any cloud you'd say to her about that one and she'd go and the cloud would disperse. But April is the month to practice this because we've got lots of little clouds which float over our blue skies pour with rain and then scuttle off into the blue so you could try a bit of cloud busting in April good time to do it because if it pours with rain and then the cloud disperses I would call that a success. Another reason to look for the heavens of course is that April is one of the great bird migrations the beautiful woodcock is leaving about 1.5 million of them are going to leave our shore on a long long migration towards Russia where they breed along with the rather cock shore starlings they also like to leave at this time of year and head back to Russia to breed we do have a native population of starlings as we have a native population of woodcock but mostly they are migratory but at the same time that the birds are leaving we've got those who are coming so the beautiful cuckoo that perennial spring bird is coming over in April but do you know the cuckoo rhyme the cuckoo comes in April it sings its song in May at the end of June it changes its tune in July it flies away that's our old cuckoo they only come here four months to dump their kids don't they on the willow warblers also another migratory influx bird and we're also going to get the nightingales house martins and white throats come in April April is the time when I believe the dawn chorus gets its loudest I'm not sure if it's at its peak but it gets its loudest because of course these migratory birds come here sit down think oh I want to guard some territory look at that girl over there she's rather fit and lay some eggs and so they sit and they sing and I have studied bird all of my life I'm slightly a bird nerd and so therefore I actually believe that they sing for the pure joy of it the lengthening days of course now are providing the amount of light that is required for egg laying for April really is the abundance of eggs the christian faith rather imposed veganism during lent on the british population saying that you have to be dairy free animal products free and meat free and if you didn't live by the sea or near a river then you couldn't eat any fish anyway and you're only allowed those on certain days of the week if you were lucky but the good thing about eggs is they store very well so of course all these poor christians would hoard their eggs and then on Easter Sunday when they're allowed to break their fast they're left with an overabundance of eggs and what better way to get rid of them and to decorate them gives them to children so they can roll them down the hill and play with them so with all the april showers and the birds migrating there's a lot going on as well as later on in the month there are three meteor showers which all coalesce together on a particular date shows us the hope that springs eternal in the month of april so that's my overview not particularly witchy is it apart from do some cloud busting let's get into the detail then first of april i am sure you all know that the first of april is april fools day now there is absolutely nothing witchy about april fools day but i could not resist and couldn't really have an almanac without putting april fools day within there there are many many traditions associated with how april fools came into being but i'm going to give you my favorite which is possibly one of the eldest so maybe is actually true so in the reign of king john in the early 1200s king john he you know he was the evil king who took over from richard the lion heart the good king king john decided that the county of nottinghamshire in england was particularly fine hunting country and that he would like to build a hunting lodge there so he sent the kings men off to nottinghamshire to the village of gotham to in order to annex the land and build himself log now of course the good folk of gotham were particularly unimpressed by this desire of king john and so decided to try and outfox him so when the kings men approached they all of them went out and pretended to be mad and they put on a good show you know they pretended to sort of drown fish i believe is one of the ways they did so and stand on their heads and put straw in their ears i did that scant information about the details about the king's men seeing this pile of madness then went home said we don't want to build a hunting lodge there we're likely to turn mad like those people obviously there's something in the water and they were persuaded leave gotham alone ever since then according to legend april fools day has commemorated this trickery next up we have second of april which is of course a christian faith of good friday now this is the day that they mark the commemoration of christ's death on the cross however it has a very long tradition with the delightful delicious and one of my favourite hot cross buns now everyone thinks that the cross in the hot cross buns was a christian symbol well yes of course it was because they had next it before then it was well used by the anglo-saxons as an offering to the goddess uestra and represented the four quarters of the moon and the four seasons and they would put it on their ulcers to her to make sure they had a good harvest so there are many many superstitions associated with hot cross buns one of them is that if you cut your hot cross bun in half and toast it and then give half to a friend to eat and you eat the other half you will cement that friendship together and it will never be broken isn't that lovely tradition i love that tradition i think it's great we should all go and do that hot cross buns are said to be very good at repelling evil and they were hung from the rafters of people's homes in their kitchens and in fact there is a tradition in the widow's son pub which is in london where the widow hung and a hot cross bun from her after every year hoping that her son who had sadly died at sea would return to eat it they continue this tradition the widow's son pub and there is a bag of rotting hot cross buns hanging from their ceiling but not mouldy ones because the tradition is that the buns do not go mouldy who knew this year easter falls in the force of april my brother's birthday as well happy birthday billiam the anglo saxons called april easter mona the austere mona i have no idea if i pronounce that right but this is how it's spelled the austere mona this means the month of the goddess austere and of course there is such an etymological meaning you know word associated link between austere and austere it brings all the promise of woman herd and abundance and fertility as well as looking forward and hope that also has links towards the dawn and the east austere it is a time for children it's such a joyful and happy time it was of course taken from the festival of austere from the anglo saxons by the christians which is why we have pretty much the same name don't we the slightly more anglicized version of it and eggs and children go together hand in hand and i'm going to give you an old romany cell which you can start on easter sunday this is a traditional gypsy spell which is where a lot of the old ways magic you know did come from they did a chat to becoming women of their times i don't know if it works i don't know anyone who's done it i found it in quite an old book and i thought it was a charming spell and i don't see why it shouldn't because you're doing the energy of it but here is my romany spell to conceive a child for this spell you will need an egg that you have broken in half and cleaned the shell you need a representation for the child who was to conceive and i'm going to use some rose quartz shaped in an angel it just needs to be able to fit inside the egg shell lastly you will need a piece of material and i found some satin ribbon start this spell on easter sunday take your poppet and place it within the two hearts of the shell taking your material i want you to carefully wrap it around the egg and the poppet place this package on a windowsill for 28 days every morning you're going to unwrap the egg from the material and take out the poppet place the poppet on the windowsill to be bathed in the sunlight each night place the poppet back within the egg and wrap it again on its material and place the package by the side of your bed overnight before you leave it on the windowsill the next day the gypsies say a child will be conceived 12th of april is the new moon beautiful new moon and this moon is in aries and aries will bring you creativity and fun this is the time to go out and mingle and be social funnily enough the uk government is actually lessening its covid restrictions on the 12th of april and so on the 12th of april the best thing i think that as a witch you could do is have a party invite some friends around sit in the garden get your drinks out have some lovely food hot cross bums always a good one and enjoy yourselves now as i mentioned previously the 23rd of april is the time when there is a competence of three meteor showers and two of them are at their peak on the 23rd these meteors are the lyreads the puppets and the aquarids and they will all be giving us a great show the lyreads have particularly long trails coming down to the earth and are particularly spectacular there is no real significance in these meteor showers apart from the fact that we need to go out and look at them because this is a particularly spectacular fireworks party that april's putting on to celebrate spring the 26th of april and it's the early morning of the 27th is the day of the full moon it's best viewed as it rises on the 26th but it doesn't come to its full perigee until about 3 30 in the morning now the perigee is when the moon is closest to the earth and it is going to look 14 percent bigger apparently so we can call it a supermoon and so super moons have a greater strength and a greater energy so get ye out and make your moon water next week i'll make a moon water video and you can watch it then and if i do i'll put it here this supermoon is also the perfect time to do a drawing down the moon's bell which i think we were doing in february's almanac possibly i'll put whatever videos almanac it was in up here for you to watch i can't really remember but a drawing down the moon's bell is very simple you go outside you cast a circle you take your wand you point it at the moon ask the moon to bless and recharge you and the moon should shine her beauty and strength around on you and if you're feeling a bit which i can quite frankly say i've been feeling a lot recently due to the lack of everything in my life due to builders i hate builders i want to build her again go out and stand under the supermoon of the full moon and do a drawing down the moon's bell finally we have the 30th of april this is velpergus nacht in the uk this was the traditional date of the devil's birthday this is the night where the devil rides through the land collecting his followers with him charging them with their tasks for the oncoming year it is the time when the evil is at its most extent in this country the devil's birthday the dark witches and wizards would hold bonfires to celebrate this night of their dark master the good people of the earth would therefore stay inside and hang heather over their doors to prevent any evil spirits stopping as they passed by and casting their malevolence across them and a lot of the dark witches and warlocks did celebrate and commune with the devil and if you speak of the devil the devil appears so tonight unless you are that way inclined stay inside lock your doors hang heather to prevent an evil entity entering your home this feast day i find so much more scary than halloween halloween is merely when the dead walk the earth and i spend quite a lot of time communing with the dead halloween is when the devil rides out and all his minions follow and then you come to the end of april but don't forget in the middle of april is going to be my coven meeting and if you want to join do go to patreon.com forward slash jenny meatherl and you'll find all the details it is great fun and i look forward to seeing you there do come and join us otherwise i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give me a subscribe and a like and i'll see you in my 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Hi everyone, my name is George and I'm a senior multimedia engineer at Colabora in this presentation I'm going to talk to you about transporting media through containers using pipe wire Now you may ask yourselves pipe wire is an audio service, right? No, in fact, it's not just that it's known as an audio service, but it's it's actually something that enables Processes to share any kind of media with each other and and share also devices with these processes So it it allows transporting audio and video Between any process in the system It is built so that it has support for containers right from the beginning and a built-in security system which we'll see in Overall, this is how How the pipe wire system looks like so there are there are applications all these green boxes at the top These are applications that connect to pipe wire crossing through the various security buyers be it containers or or in something else and They connect to pipe wire and they create So-called nodes which are objects that represent the streams of these applications and these nodes Then connect to each other and they form a pipeline that then allows media to flow from one application into another Let's see a simple example We have an application Let's say we have a system that needs to receive camera freed camera feed from the network for using a network camera and Then it needs to display this camera and also record its contents These are three distinct functions Something that receives the feed from the network something that displays the feed to the display and something that records on the disk Now without pipe wire This needs to be one application that handles all these three With pipe wire we can actually split this functionality into three different applications We can have one application that receives the content one that displays it and one that records the disk and This can be done without any additional overhead since transferring media through pipe wire is zero copy In a graph this looks like this We have three distinct applications the receiver the viewer and the recorder They connect to pipe wire and pipe wire acts as a bus It allows these applications to be linked together and allows media to flow from one to the other Now I said pipe wire is container ready In fact While this can be implemented with these three applications running natively on on the same host as pipe wire in fact It's not necessary. We can have these three applications in different containers And we can restrict the functionality that is provided to each of those So we have a system that looks like this We have a container a that runs the network camera receiver that has access to the network and to pipe wire And nothing else. It doesn't have access to the display and it doesn't have access to the storage And then we have a second container with the viewer that has access to the display and pipe wire But nothing more and finally we have container see with the camera recorder application. It has access to storage and that's all and All these three have to connect to pipe wire and they have to To open the socket to connect to pipe wire now these connections to pipe wire Are restricted connections and that means that these applications Because they are coming from different containers They do get access to pipe wire, but they cannot do much with that connection. They cannot really See the other clients that are connected by a choir and they cannot change settings or manipulate devices Or things like that. They can only do what they are intended to do and what we allow them to do now Let's see how this works in a typical Restricted sorry in a typical socket connection We have the application Sending a connection request to the application that has the socket in this case It's pipe wire and then pipe wire returns a file descriptor and then the application can freely send Data to this socket and communicate with that application in pipe wire This is the the most simple case like When we have application audio applications, for example in our desktop machines, they connect like that but when we are talking about Sunboxing we have Two different security models that can be applied the security model one Works like this the application Coming from the container has access to the socket, right? So it sends a connect event To that socket asking pipe wire to to connect then pipe wire it internally. It has an a module that applies permissions for that client Basically pipe wire internally tracks Every client separately and tracks the permissions of each client separately So every client can access different objects with different permissions inside pipe wire Even though it can send protocol messages The responses are basically filtered by pipe wire. So if for example the application is asking to Read an object that it doesn't have read access to then pipe wire will return that this object doesn't exist, for example So with all this logic is handled internally in pipe wire So the application connects and pipe wire applies initial permissions and then It returns a file descriptor to that application, but this file descriptor is initially blocked That means that the application Cannot really write to it or maybe it can write but it will not get any response from pipe wire yet Now the fourth step what happens next is that pipe wire notifies the session manager in In this case wire plumber it notifies that there is a new client and then wire plumber has Some logic to look at this client Inspect it see what kind of client it is and apply a set of permissions to that client Typically, this is to allow the client to actually see the pipe wire core object, which is the main Connection object and also to give it some permission to create streams Now on the sixth step pipe wire unblocks the connection after the permissions are applied pipe wire unblocks The file descriptor so now the application can freely talk to pipe wire and look at what objects there are But since we have applied permissions, it won't be able to list all the objects available But most likely it will be able to create a stream because that's what the application is for right so we have Applied permission that enables this application to create a stream So on the seventh step the application creates a stream and when it creates the stream Again, nothing happens in pipe wire pipe wire then instead notifies the session manager that there is a new stream available and then the new stream is Appears in the session managers logic and the session manager chooses. What to do with the stream if it is If it is allowed for this application to create this this kind of stream Then this new stream is indeed linked to a target. So it gets linked to another node That may be another application or maybe a device Otherwise if the application is not permitted to create this kind of stream Then an error is returned and the application is denied the request for that stream So then pipe wire sends back an error to the to the stream and the application bails out This is the first security model Now there is also a second security model, which is somewhat more advanced more secure and Involves a middleman, which we call the portal This portal is a separate application that sits between The container and the host barrier. So it has access The application has access to it through the container, but the actual process runs on the host Now the application is not able to access the pipe wire socket directly, so it sends an IPC call to the portal Asking for a connection to pipe wire this IPC call can be anything from it Simple socket connection or a debas call or something similar Then the portal connects to pipe wire and Again pipe wire applies initial permissions To that connection and returns a file descriptor, but indeed in that case it doesn't it's configured So that it doesn't block this file descriptor And then the sandbox portal Gets the connection It has access to most objects right in pipe wire at this point and Then it applies permissions based on what the application is because the The same container may have different applications that need different sets of permissions. So checks what the application is and Then it applies permissions It could do that by consulting a database for example a database with permissions per application or something like that That's typically what happens and then applies the permissions To pipe wire. So pipe wire now has a very specific set of permissions for this connection and now the file descriptor of this connection on the sixth step is Sent to the application and the application now has a connection which is restricted So far wire plumber has not been involved, right? So the whole initial permissions Setting is done by the portal Then the application creates a stream right and the stream goes to pipe wire and From from this point on it works like before so the wire plumber gets notified about this new stream and then it checks Is this client? allowed to create this kind of stream if yes, then it links the stream to the Target device or target application. If not, then it denies the stream and sends an error back This is a little bit nicer because it takes the logic of applying permissions away from the session manager and moves it into a separate process and it also Doesn't expose the socket of pipe wire directly in the container Instead it all it exposes the socket only to the portal and the portal is the only thing that gets exposed to the container But otherwise, it's pretty much the same now. I want to show you a demo In this demo I have Two web cameras on on a machine that are being shared to different applications in separate containers containers are built with podman and The applications are getting access to both cameras simultaneously As you will see, but they are not getting access to any other resources by a pipe wire Let's see that So I'm running this demo on my work machine on my laptop Where I have two USB cameras connected One is the internal one from the laptop and the other is a secondary camera external one As this is my work machine and I'm actually currently using it to record this presentation you will see in the WP control status Command line you will see that I have a bunch of applications connected here doing both audio and video. I have like four audio devices connected and two video capture devices and Currently I'm using OBS studio to capture this presentation so it's both capturing from my microphone and from GNOME shell, which is my desktop shell and it's Screencasting the content of my screen To OBS for capturing. So this is what it looks like in In the graph, this is the this is these are the nodes inside pipe wire and you can see I have GNOME shell connected to OBS and my Sound card connected also to OBS and While this is happening. I am going to start Two containers. So I have prepared a podman container of image That is based on on Debian unstable and I have added pipe wire and wire plumber in that image And I'm going to start it with a script which looks like this So it's it's starting this Pipeware Debian image that I created and it's binding the pipe wire and Wayland sockets to it So that it has access both to pipe wire to capture the video and to my Wayland display so that it can show the Graphical window output. So I've started this container Now I'm going to go to the MNT directory, which is where I have put my my scripts In in these I have mounted my scripts basically there. So I Have a Bunch of scripts here. Let's look at the camera first. So I have a camera one and camera two scripts that display The two different cameras respectively Let's look at their content camera one both scripts are To steamer pipelines Camera one is capturing with pipe wire source from devs video zero And the second one is capturing again with pipe wire source from dev video two So this is the first camera And let me start another container here and this is the other camera now. I have both both cameras Being used simultaneously from two different applications in two different containers. Okay, that's not Something new we could do that before Now let's try to do something More interesting. I have another script called mix which takes both cameras using two pipe wire source elements and Capturing them both and then rendering them in the same window using just streamer's compositor element that renders into a single Window output so both cameras are now being captured from this single application in the first container And I'm going to start the same script in the other container and You see how both Containers capture the same image exactly and they are perfectly synchronized as well and If you look at performance pipe wire itself is using only two to two point something 2.6 before Of CPU time while the just just the launch processes are using much more. These are doing The heavy lifting the rendering of the window while pipe wire is only capturing from those devices from video or 0 and video 2 and moving the buffers To these applications in the two different containers Without copying the buffers so it only transfers the file descriptors of the of the memory that it needs to share and Of course this 2% is not just the two The two video cameras because as I said, I have OBS studio running still so this is what it looks like I have all these GST launch processes. I actually I'm running two GST launch processes, but they appear as four streams here because Every pipe wire source element into streamer creates a new stream to pipe wire So it has a different node And that's why I'm seeing two nodes from the first application and two nodes from the second application capturing from these two cameras and then I still have my OBS here recording as usual now That shows the cameras, but it didn't Show you any security features. So how how do we know that this is secure? So first of all, I would like to compare WP control status, which I showed you before this is on the host running because I exited the container and this is WP control status in the container as you can see It doesn't have access to any of these objects. No client objects. No audio devices. No video devices even So it doesn't see what happens in the host. It doesn't have a clear picture of the graph Additionally, I Could look at WCLI LS for example, which shows a list of available objects and it only gives me two objects the pipe wire core and The client node factory which is used to construct Streams While on the host this would give me a huge list of objects Which are all the nodes and all the ports and all the clients Which have been created in pipe wire now I because I'm giving access to this Client node factory I'm giving access to that in the container my Clients here camera one camera two and mix are able to construct streams But if they are able to construct streams to capture video Maybe they should be able to capture audio as well or playback audio. Well, this is also restricted here And I have created two scripts to showcase this audio capture and audio playback the sage Audio capture is also just streamer pipeline using pipe wire source to capture audio this time And on your playback again pipe wire sync Playing back some test audio Audio playback to the sage shows an error. It says not permitted and audio captured to the sage again I just it says not permitted and the same happens with Standard pipe wire utilities like PW record that captures audio into a wave file So this is supposed to connect to the microphone and record something to this wave file, but it says not permitted And again PW play which plays back a wave file not permitted Now where this is coming from This is coming from the session manager from wire blumber which I have modified in order to To check If a process is coming from a container and then restrict its access So I am using the first security model that I showed you in the slides where The container has full access to the pipe wire socket, but the session manager restricts What the client can do with this socket? So in this script here, I have added this function container check that for every new node that connects It checks if the client is Coming from a different host so it compares the host name of the client versus the host name of wire blumber and Of course this check is not entirely secure in a production system. We would have to check something else not the host name Because this can be manipulated, but For this demo This was the simplest form of checking and this is why I've done it like that So if the host name doesn't match that means the client is coming from a container And then I'm also checking the media class of the stream And if it doesn't match stream input video, then I'm sending an error saying not permitted and this string here Is exactly what gets displayed in the command line over here so we saw this demo and Now I'm going to show you something else that we've built on a GL for For the instrument cluster demo On the instrument cluster demo we feature LXC containers That Run separate images of a GL so there is a host That runs pipe wire and There are two containers the instrument cluster container which takes care of displaying the instrument cluster and The IVI container which has the applications of the IVI system now the host is Taking care of managing the devices like the also devices for audio output and input But the the IVI that has the applications is the one that runs the policy Even though we have Pipe wire running on the host the actual policy it runs on the IVI And that means that we have a separate instance of wire plumber running on the IVI that manages all the applications that run in there and Allows them to securely access the host and the instrument cluster container uses Alsace So it doesn't go through pipe wire for audio output For stability and security reasons But every time there is a sound coming out of the instrument cluster it poses everything that goes on in the IVI So it sends a message through a through a separate IPC IPC protocol and causes the wire plumber running on the IVI to pose and Stop producing audio so that we can hear the audio from the instrument cluster And this is what it looks like in a graph So two containers instrument cluster and the other container is the IVI container and we have Two instances of wire plumber and one instance of pipe wire pipe wire runs on the host Then we have one instance of wire plumber on the host which Manages the devices. So this is the one that Actually discovers what kind of Alsace devices we have and makes them available to pipe wire And then the second instance of wire plumber in the IVI container is the one that has the policy So every stream that connects from the IVI goes Is notified into that instance of wire plumber and then this instance is the one who decides if the instance can be Allowed to connect or not While the instrument cluster application Uses a separate IPC demon pipe wire IC IPC. This was written specifically for this purpose and that When it sends a signal to pose then this pipe wire IC IPC basically Sends a signal to pipe wire and then that signal propagates to wire plumber and wire plumber poses everything and Disconnects devices and mute devices and so on So here I want to show you the interaction between the host container and the IVI container and for demo purposes I have created a virtual machine. That's running Debian in which I have copied the wire plumber configuration from AGL so that It has the exact same configuration as an AGL So with this configuration now there are two they're going to be two instances of wire plumber One instance, which is going to be running on the host container and it's going to be managing the alsa devices and Secondary instance, which is going to be running on the guest And it's going to be handling linking policy now let's start By entering the IVI guest first of all I want to show you that In WP control status right now, there is no wire plumber instance running and there are no devices listed Now to start with I'm going to start wire plumber in the container And I'm going to start it with some debug output so that you can see the activity And I'm going to start it with the policy configuration file So you see that it starts to register some Endpoints which are policy specific and I'm also going to go to the host I'm going to verify that there is something connected now There is wire plumber policy and we have all these endpoints registered these are coming from the IVI container you can see that the user running these instances would at IVI and I'm also going to start wire plumber now here in the host and again with some debug output so that you can see the activity and in this instance It's configured to only handle the devices so it starts And let me find another terminal So now if I look at WP control status, I can see that It the built-in audio device is also registered now It's it's here and I have another instance of wire plumber running Which is actually on this on on the host container now if I enter the guest again I Will try to play some audio from the guest and It works That was all I hope you enjoyed my talk. 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Peace be upon you and welcome to our brand new show on Imam Hussain TV making a house a home. My name is Raghad and with me I have Fahima Muhammad, a qualified life coach and NLP practitioner who will be discussing how to overcome today's struggles faced by families within their homes. Today's topic will be how to build a better relationship with your children. Peace be upon you Fahima. Peace be upon you. Thank you for coming today. Thank you very much for having me. Can you start off by telling us a bit more about yourself and explaining to our viewers about life coaching and NLP? Yes, absolutely. Life coaching is something that you would turn to if you want to live in a much more fulfilled and happier life. If you want to be successful professionally and personally with all your relationships. So if you feel that you want to take your life to the next level then for everyday challenges and everyday issues this is life coaching for you. It's a safe space, it's non-directive, it's non-judgmental, non-biased and it will actually get you to air out whatever issues and you know whatever you feel without thinking that there is actually a problem that needs fixing because you don't actually need fixing. We believe that we use our clients' own potential to get them to whichever level and whichever standard in their life that they want to achieve. NLP on the other hand is a little bit more like therapy. So I combine the both with my practice. I do not just one-to-one coaching but I also do coaching within groups, whether it's in companies or institutes in schools and NLP is about understanding the way in which the human mind thinks and linguistics is about the language that we use and programming is the habits that we create. So that's neuro-linguistic programming so that's how it's broken down. And we can actually change the way we think, change the language we use and also being aware of our habits, change that to actually form better habits and form better ways in which we see things and with those paradigms that exist within us then we can actually create better lifestyles. So just to clarify to our viewers, live coaching isn't so much fixing a problem, it's more about enhancing what you already have or enhancing your lifestyle. Yes, definitely. And I'm not just qualified as a general life coach, I have actually been qualified in mindfulness coaching, relationship and couples coaching, existential, positive psychology and group and facilitation within companies and organisations. But today we'll be talking about coaching within the family between parents and their children. Yes. And children, when I say children we mean children of all ages, so from young children to- Adulthood. Adult children. Yes, absolutely. I think it's vital to understand that relationships will change over the time but at the same time it's important not just for parents to have good relationships with their children growing up when they're young but to build these sort of relationships that they can carry forward even into adulthood. Okay. Generally I think relationships is important obviously for our families, you know even if I go into companies you can be skilled and talented but if you don't have good relationships then even you won't be able to work properly. So you know it is my forte to discuss relationships in any sort of setting and obviously being in a family it's the most vital.  Absolutely. So your parents' relationship with you will more or less determine how you carry on your life. Yes, of course. You know when we are you know come into this world our bond and our connection and our you know existence is mainly with our family members and siblings and you know extended relations. So it's important to understand the impact of the relationships that you have in your home and that is carried forward you know how you are at school, how you are you know with your colleagues and how you are with anyone generally and it does stem from the foundations of the house. Of course. These do show that you know having good relationships does you know relax our mind, you know it helps us with our nervous system and you can have all the materialistic you know requirements that you need in your home or in your life but without good relationships there is never real happiness and fulfilment. Yeah a lot of parents who don't make the time or the effort to build other good relationships with their children end up just buying them loads of goodies and they call them and gifts thinking that it will enhance the relationship or enhance the atmosphere at home. Yeah I mean that's why the understanding here today is mainly or even for this show is to help with my studies previously knowing about today's psychology like everyone's talking about mindfulness and positivity and even existentialism which is about you know finding meaning and purpose in life. So all of these things exist around us today and I want to bring that with today's psychology as well as the way in which we live you know in Islam as Muslims and with the teachings of the Ahlul Bayt and everything that's been taught in today's psychology I've always found it very easy to refer to it being exactly that and we always think that it's difficult to have our religion you know you know enforced in our everyday lives but actually it isn't it's just named differently it's labeled differently so I'm trying to bring the two together to make parents to make children to make families understand that everything that's happening around us is within our religion and you're saying about some people sometimes religion can make it more difficult but in fact no religion can make it easier because it's giving us the right guidelines, the right directions of what's better for the family what's better for the children so in fact it goes hand-in-hand religion and lifestyle absolutely and it's just the way we look at things I mean life coaching just opens up a new avenue and a new perspective and it helps you sort of see things in not so very you know narrow minded view and our religion it might have been started many many centuries ago but at the same time it is very current and that's why I find that it's important to discuss you know how we should live and how to take our religion forward and you know it is modern it is you know upcoming it's just the way where we you know discuss all these issues and we bring it into our households and make our children understand but we have to have that understanding first as adults as parents so that we can you know filter these sort of information so that we can have the best relationships we can and it starts really with the parents a lot of people come to me saying that their children need coaching and they cannot control their children but I find when I have a word with the parents I think they need the coaching first because children are especially at a young age they just mirror us and they they sort of like copy what we do and it's not just what they see you know how we act to them we have to actually be a certain way even when we are talking to other people outside for example if we're in a car and there's a bit of like you know tension with traffic and there's road rage if you as a parent it's going to carry on and react and you know respond in a particular way that's what your child is watching a lot of parents do do feel all my child's out of control or I don't know what to do with with the child that we take into life coaching or therapy and they just forget they do forget that actually it starts with them as parents even when the child is a still a baby you think that he doesn't understand actually he's watching your every move he's watching your every bit of angle your every bit of shouting and that's where it all starts having said that it's never too late is it no absolutely not I know everyone says it's good to start from a young age yes ideally it is but you know even if you start from a young age the connections can be broken the bonds can be you know a little bit you know uneasy at certain stages because we all grow we all change but we need to understand that changes in it inevitable and with anything in life let alone children growing up and we need to understand their psychology you know as parents it is a gift to be and it's a blessing but we can't take it lightly and we can't take it for granted we need to educate ourselves nowadays we need to sort of you know not just bring our children up the way our parents brought us up we need to understand that the way in which they think the environment they're in and we need to bring them up in certain ways because of our own learning and our thoughts are so important and it's narrated even Imam Ali aleyhi salam as you know I said like what's your thoughts because they become your words what your words because they become your actions what your actions because they become your habits what your habits because they become your character and what your character because they become your destiny and that's really powerful just from your thought and we think that we can think whatever we want and we can actually do something and our children should be told and conform in a different way to the way we do things but actually it doesn't work that way yes big mistake that all parents do a lot of parents okay I can do that but I won't do it in front of my children yes or I'll teach my children that what I'm doing is wrong not don't do that and I do see a lot of parents they'll do something and then they'll tell their children please don't be like me I'm doing it wrong but I realize that your children as you said earlier mirror everything you do subconsciously and they will go for the ones that you really don't want them to do so it's really important that like you said you know we have to be role models you want something good for someone else then you have to be that way you know you have to treat people like how you want to be treated a lot of people have problems with behavior as well in their children and it stems from you know understanding child development knowing that their memory is different they will forget and when they're young you have to be you know reminding them a little bit more it might be frustrating but it's the way you as a parent look at that why would you find it frustrating when you know that their memory is not as good we as adults cannot you know remember all the time but it's your attitude attitude is really important and yes we are nowadays especially in our households with everything with technology with the advancements in so much but the household you know lifestyle is declining you know there's lots of you know high rates of divorce and separation you know relationships between spouses are not even friendly anymore so that children don't even see the mom and dad getting along so they don't get along with their siblings how they know what it's like to be friendly exactly that's they think it's the norm isn't it yes and how about the parents now what you're saying about parents being a role model how about the parents that say actually we're at work most of the day and we only get to see our children about two or three hours during a day and that mainly with their with the nanny or in the nursery how would they how would you tell them how would you tell them how would you guide them in being a good role model to their children that's a very interesting question a lot of parents complain about time one point is that time is what you know you want to make of it and with my mindfulness it's not about how much time you have it's about what you do with that time and if you focus on the time that you have doing what you need to do spending that quality time with your child and focusing that you know that we're going to do certain activities and we're going to spend certain amounts of time say before bed or you know during bath time or dinner time where we're gonna have conversations then those five minutes ten minutes half an hour or whatever it is that you spread along the week can be just as vital because they are parents that stay at home and they can be in front of their children all the time but they're not actually with their children okay not actually spending time with them so even those two three hours can be utilized in a positive way absolutely a good example to your children in that two or three hours well that's what mindfulness teaches us which is around every time it's about being focused in the moment that you're in and making the best of it doesn't matter how long you have you can still have a really good and great and amazing impact on your child you have to have organization skills you have to have routine you have to have discipline and you have to be your word and your children need to see that if you make a promise you've got to keep it too and if you say that you know there's certain things you're going to take away from them if you're going to like you know I wouldn't say punish them you know it's very harsh because I don't like it's about positive discipline so it's about making them understand why they're being told certain things and why things being taken away from them because of these these are the consequences because discipline is all about trying to help them have more self-control yeah and speaking of discipline that's where a lot of the working parents go wrong because they feel so guilty leaving their children all day long so they feel like you they don't want to discipline the child yes because they don't want to lose the child's love but you're saying discipline is actually very important no matter how how much you you feel that you don't want to hurt the child's feelings or you don't want to distance the child you're saying that's actually very important and it brings them yes I mean that's why it goes back to understanding child development and psychology you have to read up about it at the end of the day we need to build children for the next generation who are strong and motivated who know what it's like to be in a team who know that life is tough you're not going to get everything you're not going to have everything that you want but at the same time you know you're going to provide them the safety the security the welfare that they need but without the over-spoiling because you feel guilty you don't need to feel guilty you're providing for them in many ways which they don't understand and see you don't need to tell them but as they get older they will understand but if you're going to spoil them and if you're gonna have them take advantage over those things you know children are also getting clever nowadays they're very clever so they will also write on you yes they will write on you and you will actually lose control over them they sense the guilt yes they sent the fear yes they sent lack of control absolutely they know how to play with that absolutely and when you want children growing up in a particular way with good behavior it's good to have rules and regulations it's set its routine because they feel safe then they know that this is what needs doing and it actually sets them into a really good habit for later on and that's when parents find that as teenagers or when they start you know secondary school they have no organization skills they have to be on top of them even when they're older only because those routines have not been set from a young age and even if you have got grandparents or nannies whoever they are looking after your children you need to have that you know that sort of level of communication and of relationship with them to sort of you know tell them this is how I want my child to be brought up the strict rules and regulations can be carried forward by the whoever's looking after them yes and it should be yeah those things should be discussed so that you know the children know and have been told and there has to be communication that certain things have been said and done you know the day has carried on with a routine that you would normally set as well so they realize that it's followed through you know with the nanny the grandparent as well as the parents yeah I met two children a while ago and we were faced by a mother who was chatting at her children giving them instructions telling them I think not to run on something and the two children turned around and told me you know what I'm really glad that my parent my parents are strict with me because that way they never shouts at me because I know exactly what I need to do all the time so my mom actually never shouts at me and I was actually I was taking back by that I just thought wow that's actually it's coming from a child who appreciates his parents having strict rules and regulations so that the parents don't have to constantly shout at them constantly throw instruction at them yes yes that is a good point but at the same time now that you say that parents that do feel they don't have control because it's not easy you do have difficult children the different characters and parents get overwhelmed and it's very very normal to sort of feel that you know you are pressured by outside you know environment your own work and then it's very easy to lash out so you need to have practices like meditation it's really healthy for you and your child and even if they're young and it only takes literally three to five minutes if they're sitting in silence reflecting for the day in Islam it says to reflect it says to have that so when you and your child are doing this together it's such a good way of bonding and connecting it's a good way of getting them to be a disciplined child and actually being in the moment so that when you find that they are actually misbehaving your reactions a lot calmer and you're actually reacting you're responding so as a life coach when you think reflecting and meditating would it be a good idea as a family to come together for that five minutes and do something like Salah Jama'a and then all praying for something that you all want as a family like you know to go on a holiday or even a bigger home or an extra sibling you know to all come together and pray for that one thing that everyone in the family wants routine is important even when it comes to your Salah it's not about being robotic and explaining to your children that this is what the rules are in Islam it's about having them understand the meaning and you know having them actually understand why we're doing certain things and when you have that door is important that will enhance and help you with your relationship and with your connections with your children and I find that even if you don't want to bring so much like all the time Islam says this Islam says that you don't need to bring those labels in especially for children which they don't have that you know understanding yet for young children so you know there are meditations which is grounding meditation which just helps them you know just feel safe in their home just to know that their parents are there they have you know they're setting around them in a particular way that keeps them you know really safe and that's what you know children really want is to feel safe and secure and if your family your parents can give that to you then they will turn to you always knowing that they can come to you for anything because you've already set that foundation yeah so what my question to you is can you put Salah under the umbrella of meditation? Absolutely I mean you know Salah if you were to actually perform it with the right intention it is actually that kind of feeling anyway right of feeling you know revitalized if we understood you know what it actually brings out for us and made our children understand it it's not just a robotic routine it's not on autopilot that we just got to do these set things and take it off the boxes yeah because that's what we do even as adults it's something that we come all together like I said feel safe even feel safe the knowledge that Allah can protect us family and guide us and hopefully give us direction and give us what grants us what we ask for as well at the end it gives them a bit of ambition a bit of just this kind of feeling of you know feeling really like you know we belong you know children want to feel that they belong and they're connected and people we say well you know there's it's so difficult with time but I'm sorry but the same parent will have time if there was a gather if there was some they'll be fully make up and you know it come back from work and they'll arrange it so it's not about time she'll come back from work she's got everything ready the dress is out on the bed I'm going out but but the day that she wants to sit with her kids or her children she'll you know I need to cook and I need to do other things now so you know we all have yes we have to have that mindset that we are giving a responsibility we are given a responsibility when we have children don't take it lightly we are accountable for our deeds not just for ourselves but what we transfer to our children and whatever deeds they have in the future we can have a big impact by the way in which we teach them we bring them up and their choices as adults will reflect that even if they make mistakes no one's gonna say you're gonna have perfect children but we can catch them when they fall they will hopefully not make mistakes that are too severe they will come out of their mistakes and make the right choices in the end it's not about perfection it's about correcting yourself it's about knowing that if you've done wrong you can admit it and you can correct it and you can make it right and it's about doing the best we can for our children yes okay Fahima thank you very much I think we're coming towards the end of the first half of our show and hopefully after the break we'll be taking some questions from the viewers regarding building better relationships with their children and how they can be empowered as parents how can how can they give the confidence to their children and just really answer the questions that they have and thank you so much thank you very much welcome back to our show making a house a home where today we are discussing how to build a better relationship with your children for sister Fahima we have some questions from our viewers that just wanted to know how to build better relationship with their children or where they can improve or where they're going wrong so I have the first question from sister Zahra a lot of the time my child does things which I need to correct him for or tell him off for how can I make my relationship better with him if I'm telling him off often I mean that is obviously a problem which I always get questioned about and we have to have a different attitude as parents firstly we have to understand that as I mentioned before that children will be forgetful and our responses and reactions do have an impact and we have to understand that children's behavior is normally their way of showing how they feel it's their emotions so you need to be aware of what exactly is the consistency within which they be misbehaving and that's one point I can't go exactly on to detail because I don't know the exact misbehavior of the actual scenario but overall I would say find out from your child you know is there really something that they don't understand like if you're telling them to do certain things you have to explain it to them in a certain way whether it's in a story whether it's giving them some sort of like idea of the consequences of them misbehaving and what happens because a lot of the time we just direct information to them without giving them sort of understanding why they should not do it and it's better not to even say why they should not do it but actually just guide them as to what they should do so all they have because it's a very small amount of information that children can handle so instead of being negative all the time and saying you shouldn't do this because say you should do this because so it's the way in which you give information to your children so that's why language is important the kind of words you use has to be positive the kind of reaction that you give them and the attitude and you should have you have to be patient because children at a young age I'm assuming this child is young that if they're being told constantly then you know they're probably also trying to seek attention because maybe I'm just assuming that that's the only time you may even give them the attention is when they're being told off so that's something to consider as well and she was more she was quite concerned about how not to ruin her relationship with her child by telling him off possibly she can think about the way she tells him off I wouldn't say tell off at all yeah it's about explaining it's about reasoning yes or guiding rather than telling off it's positive discipline yeah because we're trying when we're trying to give information to children especially when it comes to discipline it's about having them you know take control themselves giving them self-control and disciplining themselves so if you look at disciplining in that way you will not be angry angered by what they do because you're just thinking of teaching them and even if it's the teaching which is constant and they're totally getting it wrong you have to check yourself it always comes down to you so going back to the nlp kind of thing isn't it it all starts off with how you think how you're thinking if you're thinking negatively about this child he's naughty he's horrendous he's doing this on purpose and obviously you're going to lash out on him yes whereas if you're thinking in a positive way he's just learning yes he needs a winding he's expressing himself yes then you'll you'll react differently won't you yeah I mean there are children that will play around and they will do things which is deliberate but then again that's also them expressing their emotions so if they feel that they're doing if you feel that they're doing certain things to constantly get your attention then obviously attention needs to be given and that needs to be you know you need to take a step back and analyze the whole scenario and situation as well especially when there's more than one sibling involved and if one sibling is playing up because maybe they're not getting the attention that they require and they're only getting the attention is when they're doing something bad and the parents giving them that sort of like you know feedback and I understand even from the question that you've asked is that children you know she wants to praise her children more and yes children need praise but don't make it fake make sure that the praise is given in that moment so when you actually see your child behaving and acting in a particular way call them out straight away and say you know I just noticed you just share with your brother or sister and you know that's very very you know amazing that you could do that adequate praising yeah over praising because sometimes over praising the child he becomes a bit you know of a confident you know thinking yeah I mean children are generally confident you know they do feel like they can express themselves and sometimes it's a good thing sometimes it's not so it's not about that it's about giving them sort of something to look forward to doing again you know so that's what I mean with the positive stuff so when they when you catch them out doing certain things that are good a kindness act you know a good gesture or whatever it may be or being polite to their to the other family members if they came from somewhere to visit or whatever it may be then you actually are you know encouraging that child to do it again instead of saying yeah and don't compare them to other children compare them to their previous behavior always compare them to themselves to show them that they can improve they are improving and there's always room for more improvement yeah that's much more healthier and even going back to telling off you can say yes you were such a good boy you done this this this what's going on today yeah that's another way of yeah there could be something that happened at school yeah yeah absolutely okay I have another question from sister Rukhaya and she asks if the child is being looked after by a nanny or a grandparent then how can I hold on to the same connection we discussed this a little bit earlier but could you discuss that a bit more of course like I said the connection between parent and child you know is is like it's it's it's a spirit which is like a bond which is natural and you can only create that and build that by the communications that you have with them and it's not just communication like verbally it's the physical side of it it's the physiology side of it so you know hug them a little bit tighter make them feel you know that they actually you know they are still important children only want as every adult does it's just to feel that comfort and that safety and security and like I said you know those quality times needs to be you know really focused on the child when they're there in front of you and give them that space give them the time to talk and even talk about yourself and your day and open up so that they will open up back to you so um and you have to have a good relationship with the person that's looking after your children because you know maybe a phone call during the day or a text message can be received and that could be relayed by the nanny or the grandparent to say your mom's thinking about you your dad saying hello or vice versa you know if you want to have a word with mommy we'll send her a text and if she's busy she'll text back so there's always constant communication that there's thought there doesn't mean that you know they're not there they totally out of your life so you need to also when you come back ask what their day like listen to them listen to them not just the children but also whoever's looking after them okay so whoever's looking after them you need to have that connection so that you become a team yeah and speak in front of the children so that the children can see there's a teamwork going on here and you are concerned you are concerned you are interested and you're taking time to actually you know be aware ask ask about them yes okay um seems like we have a lot of questions about working parents okay um and uh i've got another question from someone who hasn't put their name down that's fine it says can working parents have some connection as one who who is at home i think like i said when you're at home you can be so easily distracted as well thinking that you're with your child and you're giving them attention but actually i find that when you're away you give more quality time so that could be looked at as that as well yes it depends on what kind of a parent you are in coaching we identify four different types of parenting you know and obviously you know there's a parent that totally dismisses their child and doesn't really take any interest in their child there's the other parent that is more taking interest in their child's behavior and emotions but not actually acting upon it saying you feel this way and they will take note but they don't know how to deal with it then you have the one that actually understand want to pay interest doesn't want to fix it for them but wants to see it from their perspective you know when you have children we want to fix it we want to you know do things for them but actually does harm we need to see things from their side of you know the set their side of the world as well there's perspective especially teenagers yeah that's when you build a connection because you're not just informing them you're not just advising them you're actually understanding from their perspective first and you know even in adult conversations if you try and be empathetic there's a difference between sympathetic and empathetic empathetic is putting yourself in someone else's shoes it's very quite impossible it's very important that you try and put yourself in your children's shoes first so your children could actually say that you know mom and dad are actually you know trying to see it from my side even if they don't agree with me and in coaching it will help you you know ask questions for whatever decisions your children have and have made so that you understanding them and they themselves will see if it's the wrong or right and if they don't then you can guide them okay yeah a lot of moms i think feel that because they're working the stay at home moms are actually doing a better job but like i said it's not necessarily true a lot of stay at home moms are busy branching busy shopping and you know not saying that that's the issue but that's the case yeah but that is what a lot of stay at home moms do anyway so i don't think that working moms should be too hard on themselves i just always will come across to say no matter whether you're working or not working whether you feel that you have time or no no time it's your mindset if you have interest if you have awareness if you have that real you know way of being with yourself and filtering it down to your children five minutes or an hour would not make a difference to you you have a strong mind to take interest in your child's work to be there for them that even if you say one sentence could be more impactful than being at home all day and just talking a lot of you know something that doesn't have any impact at all so it's about you being a certain way we need to assess ourselves continuously we need to understand who we are first we need to know our values and our beliefs and we need to relay that to our children for example you know when we make a promise the most important thing in islam is you know keeping your promise people say i have the right intention and you know it didn't work out but you know what if you had the right intention that promise would be shown in that action and if you cannot do that for your children and disappoint them then how else are you going to be looked upon in the rest of society remember our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him and our family was only chosen as well um one of the reasons was because he was trustworthy before he became the prophet he had those qualities and characteristics beforehand so we need to build children with the morals and the virtues that we see all around us even in the imams times of struggle times of difficulty how to be you know a certain way but we have to be that first as parents then we can teach that to our children yeah i think that's where life coaching comes in because other parents who are working carry guilt and that's where you can come in you can change that guilt into how to make it better and how to improve the relationship how to build the relationships in that small amount of time so why should a parent go to sleep with the guilt in their heart they should be able to sleep knowing that they've done their best and tomorrow will be a better day and you know the time is five point imams they had so much struggles and we always think that at the end of the day we can't do what they do we cannot be as good but they managed that in the most severe times and our times in this day and age in the countries that we live in we have so much around us we put the pressure on ourselves we want the bigger house we want the bigger cars we want the extra pay and yes of course you know we have to live a certain lifestyle but we put the pressure on ourselves so at the end of the day we have to also step back a bit and know what's our priorities if we're going to you know want that expensive car we're going to work hard for it but at what cost so we need to analyze how we live in our homes you know we want to develop ourselves but how do we develop ourselves you know are we going to leave a legacy where it's like a big house and a big car and a business or is it building children for generations that actually going to follow through and you know help people around us and actually build better societies and generations to come so we have to take responsibility even if we don't we're not parents we have to conform a certain way according to our values and our beliefs so that we can actually show people in society that you know living in this life is more than just the materialistic things more than just conforming to just our secular education it's more than that because that's why problems are occurring today because there's absolutely no understanding and no meaning and that's where the value is lost in our homes okay so just one more question before we finish off and I think it's a good question to finish off with okay so this is a question from Fatima and she wants to know what is the impact of a good relationship for a child that is growing into adulthood um like we said we can build and break relationships and connections throughout the stages but obviously if you do have a really good bond from a young age and you have built that you know connection with your child it will carry forward as adults as well and um because you need someone to look back on you need someone to sort of feel that you know they're looking at you to actually give you that support and that guidance and you want to make them feel proud of you and when you have a set way of living and believing with the right values and morals behind it then obviously as an adult you're going to make the right choices and decisions and you're going to carry those teachings from when you were brought up to your own lifestyle so obviously the impact is huge and even in psychology you know it only takes one word that is negative that a child might hear and they can carry it through adulthood thinking that that's how and who they are yeah so there's many studies to show that actually you know bringing up children is very very vital as to how they grow into adults and if there's one bad parent or if there's one word that's constantly being used to describe or label a child they will believe that within themselves even silently and you know it could actually have a negative impact just comes to show how much impact and how much you have how much of an importance you have to your child that even if you call him something like silly it will stay with him that's what i am i'm silly they label themselves they label themselves upon what you have labeled them yes and it just comes to show how important we are as parents and to guide them into their adulthood and who they become definitely yeah thank you for being here for him and i hope our viewers enjoyed today's discussion and hopefully we'll be back next week for more discussions on how to make a house a home if you've been affected by the following topics raised in this episode please contact your local gp or for here on the hand on coach fm one at hotmail.com


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What is up? Thank you guys for joining today man. I'm excited.  I've been following you for so long. Thank you for being honest, though Of course man. Thanks for having me. You got it man for all those that don't know Jeff root Not only is a titan in this industry. I mean I'm telling you guys you can learn some stuff from this man I promise you that but also he's gonna be at 8% nation at Nissan Stadium with these dudes behind me Grant Cardone Ray Lewis He's gonna be a panelist speaker being able to answer your questions live from stage buddy dude up For those that don't know you give us a little rundown on who Jeff root is How you got your start in the business how you camp with this crazy idea to have like the most listened to Insurance podcast of all time Yes, but it's it's fantastic. I every time I get on a plane dude. I plug that thing in Yeah, so I've been in the life insurance business since oh six started at Northwestern Mutual Financial planning boots on the ground type guy Oh sevens started selling over the phone. I just went through my natural market and bought a batch of leads and One of the guys Wanted said hey, do you really do I really need to see you do I really need you to come to my office? Can I just do this over the phone? I was like, I think so and so that was kind of my taste and I was like, okay This I'm on to something here So I started buying leads and in 07 it was like shooting fish in the barrel You can go to any lead vendor and it was I mean it was you close a very high percentage It was really good until about I think oh a and that's when that pink hosting I don't know if anybody started pink hosting It's just a technology lead companies use and that kind of diluted the quality of leads and so I learned how to market for myself So I went to work for a call center life insurance call center and at the same time learn to market and that's where I kind of got my chops and marketing and you know about a year later and You know selling probably at the time, you know 2000 policy at the time I'm close to 3000 policies sold over the phone Total, you know, I've been able to kind of home the life insurance marketing aspect of it and the selling over the phone and So to bring that to you know the life insurance modern life insurance selling podcasts that you referenced, you know That's where I'm teaching agents To sell over the phone market online because there wasn't any there's not anybody teaching it at the time This was a couple years ago, you know, there's a few people out there doing it. It's great You know, but that was in response to people asking me like Jeff Hey, how are you ranking in Google right now or how are you selling? You know all these policies and you know How did you show up on this? You know in this magazine things like that and that's the kind of stuff we talked about in the podcast, you know It's a tight get yourself out there. It's you know, it's the modern life insurance selling So did that and then kind of put everything into a book And so I wrote a book called the digital life insurance agent. It's on Amazon And that is literally everything that I know even today everything I know is in that book So if you wanted to kind of take that route of telecells like it was basically all my podcasts Everything that I know in that wrapped up in that in that book. So and then to current day is on that digital MGA so taking all that helping agents You know with a more with telecells focused life insurance cells And so we built technology and back-end processing team to you know, take all the Non-revenue producing tasks off the table So so ages can focus on selling and training them to sell using technology and the things that I've learned and also doing that We're just we're just starting we just launched something to for the final expense side of things called digital senior benefits And digital senior benefits.com. So Exciting stuff, but yeah, that's that's where I am today Dude, that's amazing man to think that I didn't even realize with people selling over the phone back in 07 I started in 19. It was like I don't know or like it was like eight years ago nine years ago 2011-2012 and 2010 and Back then I wasn't allowed to Ask data birth. I wouldn't allow to ask health. I started out as like a captive agent I wouldn't love to you know do nothing no quoting no selling You you go to the home, you know, I had no clue there were people selling back on the phone even before I started That's that's just amazing Yeah, when we started we had to physically mail the application To the client, you know, and then we figured okay now now the examiners will start taking it Okay, so it got a little better so you upload you take the application over the phone fill it out You know pen to paper still And then upload it to the examiner and the examiner take it out. Okay, it's getting a little getting a little easier I don't pay for postage anymore and they can get the signatures and sometimes the social and everything like that But now it's so easy. I mean there's every company has some yeah or anything like that It's just it's you know, it's getting better every year. It's getting easier I think that I think that I think my next question and maybe more for me I know the audience gonna get something out of it, too. What was the vision behind Modern life insurance selling podcast. I've always just been so enamored with that man Yeah, so I mean like I said before it was in response to all the inquires all the emails and phone calls and It got to the point where some people didn't believe me, you know, like You know and so I almost felt like at one point, you know, there's I'm not the only one doing this And so I interview other people who do it and or doing these different things It's not just what you hear about when you trained at Wherever you start in the business, whatever captive or or whatnot. It that's everybody Trains and absolutes like this is how you do this. This is how you run your business and then you know people see me talking about these things and you know and and You know and it started from there was more to prove something to people like you guys really don't believe this Like this is a lot easier than it sounds, you know, you just have to you just have to get the knowledge and implement I mean all all I really am is a knowledge worker You know I absorb knowledge and and act on it. And so, you know, that's a second step to this whole thing So, you know to hear from other people on the podcast That's why interview other people because there are everybody has something They're good at that they can teach somebody, you know, so I may know something about Marketing life insurance online, but I don't know everything somebody else is gonna know something more than I do in different areas And that's why I did the podcast one. So yes about the vision. That was a long-winded answer Really, I wanted to meet other great people And I wanted to prove to people that other people are doing it and to motivate other agents to do that to bring the industry forward because the industry like I just mentioned before it started, you know It's filling out applications mailing them then to the Uploading exams and now we have these E apps and everything but the industry keeps moving forward And I think this is my way of kind of moving it forward with agents so if I can get a lot of agents that believe in this and You know, we can create this kind of movement of digital life insurance agents Then, you know, maybe these insurance carriers will get their apps together and start using the technology that all these other industries have, you know Completely well, thank you for pioneering that setting all that up man, dude and being and then to be to I Can I can already tell you're just a you're just a humble good, dude Because because to say that, you know, you did all this You know and that you you still learn from people and the people that know a lot more than you I'm telling you what it may be true, but you know a lot man. You've you've you've you know a ton You've got an incredible book like you said you've interviewed a ton of success people in this industry and that's what's cool is Sharing what others know with an audience and you've you've built an awesome following that that follows that podcast I want to ask you this though if you had to Say there's an agent that jumps on and watches this and they're like dude. I want to be Jeff root or What's one tip that that that that you would give to them to kind of to get started to kick off selling over the phone Generating leads through SEO and Google and online, you know and and just selling over the phone in general kind of kick starting that Because a lot of people they just don't know where to start Yeah, well, I mean I would I mean I would find a Okay, I'll start and say that we're I mentioned I'm a knowledge worker, right? And so a lot of people just don't have the knowledge to act They don't have the confidence to do something and so what's cool about what you're doing Cody is you know You're you're giving people that as well You know and you're you're giving in the tools and the knowledge to do that and showing Hey, there's other people that do this too So once people have the confidence then they're ready to step out And so if you can give somebody the confidence in a roadmap, you know And so I guess I would say find a mentor whether that's you or somebody else, but so that's something that is somebody that will Give you a roadmap on exactly what to do and then if you do these steps you go back to that person and say okay Now do these steps because that's how I'm mentoring people because a lot of people that that I talked to they don't do the work, right and You know, I haven't okay duty steps And I never hear from them again, but the people who do those steps they come back to me Okay, I'll talk to you. Well, we'll keep going and you know, we will build this thing So if you can find a mentor that can show you the roadmap that has done it that is you know That's and they're out there by the way, and and I'm sure a bunch of them are going to be an 8% nation That's you know a really cool thing about this event Clearly and you mentioned when we jumped on that you've been to a lot of events you love events What is it about? If there's an agent on the fence out there that's like dude, I don't know if I want to go to 8% nation Man, I don't know if I want to get go to this insurance wealth conference at an info stadium What advice can you give on why you believe they should? so the cool thing about an event like this and getting insurance agents together and You know Pete and even the I guess the influencers on stage together is we're all talking about the same things and When you meet some of these agents at an event That's where a lot of value comes and you you may get a bunch of motivation from these guys You may get a lot of actionable advice from some of these speakers But the people you meet at these events and the connections you make those Elevate your business so I can tell you we had a mastermind in Austin for For cell-term life, which is where the podcast is hosted and we had that a few months ago And we had 20 agents there.  I'm an awesome traveling national Everybody's probably traveling from somewhere to get to Nashville You're more vulnerable when you're in when you're outside of your element and you open yourself up and you you know you kind of I guess absorb all the you know all the information and and it's just It's just a cool thing when you're at a conference that you can just get so much information and connect with so many people You have no idea what's gonna happen and that's why these events are so important I've and I thought about putting on an event like this for years I've just never done it and then like I'm so behind what you're doing because I've been waiting for an event like this Thank you, buddy, man. I appreciate that very much man It's a it's it's a lot of work our teams our teams grinding all day every day And we're excited to get there and he's on stadium the end of the end of next month, man It's nuts to think literally 34 days six hours and 56 minutes away. It's dude is flying by it's nuts Okay, so Jeff's gonna be on the panel. We're gonna have we're gonna have the audience submit questions Is one of the guys that's on stage guys and gals on stage answering questions and also We're gonna have some premier ticket holders that are gonna be able to ask questions with a mic What do you expect that? Because I love Q&A laugh. I think Q&A is is as valuable as anything else What do you think that they will learn? Simply by being able to ask like you said a lot of these influencers and learn by getting it having the ability to Actually ask a handful of the top influencers in this industry live with some live Q&A So that's the cool thing because it's it's not on script, you know and It's gonna force panelists and speakers to To give answers off the cuff you can ask a very specific questions, you know because a lot of people might go up there not give you the whole You know Yeah, but now you can press and they're gonna have to tell you Come up with those questions, you know, that's what I'm looking forward to like I'm an open book and so like Whatever you have come at me, you know I'll talk about my failures too. I'll talk about whatever Whatever it is What was the okay? Yeah, well, thank you buddy. That's super super super valuable I love that especially because it's you like you said it's off the cuff It's it's it's they are going to have to answer you they're gonna be in front of a thousand people in a stadium, you know, it's like that's What is you mentioned failure what is one thing That you learned After felling in this industry because we all fell at something in this industry at some point or another, right? What was it about you because 92% of agents fail Oh something that you learned that allowed you to not only to learn from what you were doing but internally able to get back up and keep going yeah, so in the beginning when you're When you're grinding and just just doing everything you can to be successful in this it's easy to cut corners I try to cut some corners and it every single time it led to failure Whether it's like SEO, I had a website generating 750 leads a month. I was doing some shady stuff to it You know just through the search engines and I was using you know, this was six plus years ago I was using some shady tactics and then overnight it went down to like zero leads. I got a Google penalty, right? And that was tough 750 leads to zero And then you have you know, I talked to agents daily and everybody's looking for Everybody's looking to cut corners like hey, how can I shorten my you know my my timeframe to success or to get leads from my website or to you know to cash flow this business better and There's no shortcuts, you know, you can't take these shortcuts And so that's kind of what I learned is that a lot of agents try and try and find those and they spend all this mental energy on that and It'll get you trouble the end of the day Yeah, I mean a lot of my failures were due to me in the beginning taking shortcuts and Yeah, so I'm I'm no longer do that and you know, I'm yeah And you know what there's no shortcuts to success. Yeah, you know people like Jeff root all the other guys gonna be at this conference They didn't become extremely successful Over night They didn't become extremely successful in 12 months. They didn't become successful in a couple years It takes time And that's why I'm excited to get everybody there to learn for people like you dude going out as we close this thing up Thank you again for being on I know our audience is gonna love you at a percent nation, buddy And we're actually we're gonna be an insurance news man in Chicago together here your next week Four days, I think Yeah, that'll be a ton of fun As we close out Give me one last pitch for all those that are like I'm on the fence man. I don't know whether I should go to this I'll tell you why I'm excited for it and I hope that gets other people excited all the Practitioners all the guys in the trenches every single day to get people together like that in one Area and you know, you have time cut out. I've seen on the agenda. Yeah, we're listening to people But we have you know those parties we have the break time you have the vendor areas you have all these times where you can just connect with other agents and That is where you're gonna get the most value that is where I've seen agents really kind of Get their aha moments get their takeaways from the whole experience And so yeah, you have a badass lineup of speakers, you know But what should get you excited is is meeting other people in the trenches Because it's lonely out there. I mean, I'm in my office by myself most of the day, you know And to meet people it's it's a cool thing. It's it's a good experience No doubt. Well, it's this it can be a super lonely business. That's why people like jeff man They go to events They answer live q&a They have a killer podcast they focus on bringing value and helping others Dude, I've learned way more from you Then you'll ever learn from me. And so I'm super good.  I've been listening to your podcast for years and you didn't even know it Every time I go on the plane I turn this dude on He's gonna be a panelist answering live q&a at 8% nation in nashville the end of next month at nissan stadium Dude, thank you again for being on this brother Can't wait to see in chicago next week and I can't wait even more to hang out with you in nashville 34 days It'll be fun. I can't wait to do this be a lot of fun for all those that are curious Just got a little code if you made it this long in the video Sell term life if you use the code sell term life Jeff may have a little discount for you a little hookup. So dude, thanks again for being on Thank you all for watching. Please do me a favor if you're thinking about going If you're on the fence, you need to get there go to aprecination.com to grab your seat to get to this amazing Incredible conference and to hang out with jeff rude in nashville. Thanks again for being on brother. Appreciate it very much. Cheers. All right