From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of Enterprise Data Automation and event series brought to you by Io Tahoe. Okay, we're back. Focusing on Enterprise Data Automation, we're going to talk about the journey to the cloud. Remember the hashtag is data automated. And we're here with Lester Waters, who's the CTO of Io Tahoe. Lester, good to see you from across the pond on video. Wish we were face to face, but it's great to have you on theCUBE. How's the way, Dave? Thank you for having me. Hey, you're very welcome. Hey, give us a little background. CTO, you've got a deep, deep expertise in a lot of different areas, but what do we need to know? Well, David, I started my career basically at Microsoft where I started the information security cryptography group there, the very first one that the company had. And that led to a career in information security. And of course, as you go along with information security data is the key element to be protected. So I always had my hands in data and that naturally progressed into a role with Io Tahoe as their CTO. Guys, I have to invite you back. We'll talk crypto all day. We'd love to do that, but we're here talking about, yeah, awesome, right? But we're here talking about the cloud. And we talk about the journey to the cloud and accelerating everybody's really interested obviously in cloud even more interested now with the pandemic. But what's that all about? Well, moving to the cloud is quite an undertaking for most organizations.  You have hundreds and hundreds of database instances and trying to shed some light on that just to plan your move to the cloud is a real challenge. And some organizations try to tackle that manually. You know, really what Io Tahoe is bringing is trying to tackle that in an automated fashion to help you with your journey to the cloud. Well, I mean, look at migrations or sometimes just an evil word to a lot of organizations, but at the same time, you know, building up technical debt veneer after veneer and year and year and year is something that many companies are saying, okay, it's got to stop. So what's the prescription for that automation journey and simplifying that migration to the cloud? Well, I think the very first thing that it's all about is data hygiene.  You've got an opportunity here. So I see the journey to the cloud as an opportunity to really sort of clean house, reorganize things, sort of like moving out. You don't, you know, you might move all your boxes, but you're going to probably cherry pick what you're going to take with you. And then you're going to organize it as you end up at your destination. So from that, you know, I get, there's seven key principles that we, that I like to operate by when I advise on the cloud migration. Okay, so let's, you know, where do you start? Well, I think the first thing is understanding what you got. So discover and cataloging your data and your applications. You know, if I don't know what I have, I can't move it. I can't, I can't improve it. I can't build upon it. And I have to understand those dependencies. So building that data catalog is the very first step. What do I got? Now, is that, is that a metadata exercise? Is it, sometimes there's more metadata than there is data. Is metadata part of that first step or? You did, metadata is the first step. So the metadata really describes the data you have. So, you know, the metadata is going to tell me I have 2,000 tables and maybe of those tables, there's, you know, an average of 25 columns each. And so that kind of gives me a sketch, if you will, of what I need to move. You know, how, how big, how big of the boxes I need to pack from my move to the cloud. Okay. And you're saying you can automate that data classification, categorization discovery, correct, using math, machine intelligence. Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct. So basically we go and we will discover all of the schema, if you will, that's the metadata description of your tables and columns in your database and the data types. So we take, we will ingest that in and we will build some insights around that.  You might have something else there that you need to sort of bring site onto. And part of this journey is going to be about breaking down your data silos and understanding what you've got. Okay, so we've done the audit, we know what we've got, what's next? What do we go next? So the next thing is, remediating that data. You know, where do I have duplicate data? I may have, you know, oftentimes in an organization data will get duplicated. So somebody will take a snapshot of a data, you know, and then end up building a new application which suddenly becomes dependent on that data. So it's not uncommon for an organization of 20 master instances of a customer. And you can see where that will go when trying to keep all that stuff in sync becomes a nightmare all by itself. So you want to sort of understand where all your redundant data is. So when you go to the cloud, maybe you have an opportunity here to consolidate that data. Yeah, because you kind of like to borrow an Einstein apply an Einstein bromide, right? Keep as much data as you can, but no more. So, okay, so you get to the point to the second step you kind of want to reduce costs, then what? You figure out what to get rid of or actually get rid of it, what's next? Yes, yes, that would be the next step. So figure out what you need and what you don't need. Oftentimes I've found that there's obsolete columns of data in your databases that you just don't need or maybe it's been superseded by another, you've got tables that have been superseded by other tables in your database. So you got to kind of understand what's being used and what's not. And then from that, you can decide, I'm going to leave this stuff behind or I'm going to archive this stuff because I might need it for data retention or I'm just going to delete it. I don't, you know, you don't need it at all. Now, unless the most organizations if they've been around a while in our so-called incumbents, they've got data all over the place, they're data markets, data warehouses, they're in, you know, all kinds of different systems and the data lives in silos. So, you know, how do you kind of deal with that problem? Is that part of the journey? That's a great point, Dave, because you're right, the data silos happen because, you know, this business unit is charted with this task and other business unit has this task. And that's how you get those instantiations of the same data occurring in multiple places. So, you really want to, as part of your cloud migration journey, you really want to plan where there's an opportunity to consolidate your data because that means it'll be less to manage, it'll be less data to secure and it'll be, it'll have a smaller footprint which means reduced costs. So, I mean, people always talk about a single version of the truth. You know, data quality is a huge issue. I've talked to data practitioners and have indicated that, you know, the quality metrics are in the, you know, single digits and they're trying to get to 90% plus. But so, maybe you can address data quality. Where does that fit in on the journey? That's a very important point. You know, first of all, you don't want to bring your legacy issues with you, as the point I made earlier. If you've got data quality issues, this is a good time to find those and identify and remediate them. But that can be a laborious task. We've had customers that have tried to do this by hand and it's very, very time consuming because you imagine if you've got, you know, 200 tables, 50,000 columns. Imagine, you know, the manual labor involved in doing that and you could probably accomplish it but it'll take a lot of work. So, the opportunity to use tools here and automate that process is really will help you find those outliers that's that bad data and correct it. Yeah, and you talk about that automation. I mean, the same thing with data cataloging, you know, one of the earlier steps. I mean, organizations would do this manually or they'd try to do it manually and that's, you know, a lot of reason for the failure.  You just don't want to do it. So, okay, so then what's next? I think we're plowing through your steps here. What's next on the journey? The next one is in a nutshell, preserve your data format. Don't, don't, don't, don't boil the ocean here to use a cliche. You know, you want to do a certain degree of lift and shift because you've got application dependencies on that data and the data format, the tables in which they sit, the columns and the way they're named. So some degree you are going to be doing a lift and shift but it's an intelligent lift and shift using all the insights you've gathered by cataloging the data, looking for data quality issues, looking for duplicate columns, do it, you know, in planning consolidation. You don't want to also rewrite your application. So in that aspect, I think it's important to do a bit of lift and shift and preserve those data formats sort of as they sit. Okay, so let me follow up on that. It sounds really important to me because if you're doing a conversion and you're rewriting applications, that means that generally, you're not generally, you're going to have to freeze the existing application and then you're going to be refueling the plane as you're in mid-air. And a lot of times, especially with mission critical systems, you're never going to bring those together. And that's a recipe for disaster, isn't it? Great analogy. Unless you're with the Air Force, you won't bring them together. No, that's correct. It's, you know, you want to have bite-sized steps and that's why it's important to sort of plan your journey, take these steps out, you know, using automation where you can to make that journey to the cloud much easier and more straightforward. All right, I like this. So we're taking a kind of a systems view and end-to-end view of the data pipeline, if you will. What's next? I think we're through, I think I've counted six. What's the, lucky seven? Lucky seven. Involve your business users. Really, when you think about it, your data is in silos. Part of this migration to cloud is an opportunity to break down these silos, that naturally occur as part of the business unit. You've got to break these cultural barriers that sometimes exist between business and say, so for example, I always advise, there's an opportunity here to consolidate your sensitive data, your PII, your personally identifiable information. And if three different business units have the same source of truth for that, there's an opportunity to consolidate that end-to-one as you migrate. That might be a little bit of tweaking to some of the apps that you have that are dependent on it. But in the long run, that's what you really want to do. You want to have a single source of truth. You want to ring fence that sensitive data and you want all your business users talking together so that you're not reinventing the wheel. Well, the reason I think too that's so important is you know, I would say you're creating a data-driven culture. I know that's sort of a buzzword, but it's true and what that means to me is that your users, your lines of business feel like they actually own the data rather than sort of pointing fingers at the data group, the IT group, the data quality people, data engineers say, ah, I don't believe it. If the lines of business own the data, they're going to lean in, they're going to maybe bring their own data science resources to the table and it's going to be a much more collaborative effort as opposed to a non-productive sort of argument. Yeah, and that's where we want to get to data. Data ops is key and maybe that's a term that's still evolving, but really you want the data to drive the business because that's where your insights are, that's where your value is. You want to break down the silos between not only the business units as I mentioned, but also as you pointed out, the roles of the people that are working with it.  I could use that, I don't have to rebuild that, I'll just use that as for my application.  Yeah, you know, I want to talk a little bit about the business context here. So, okay, so we always talk about data, it's the new source of competitive advantage. I think there's not a lot of debate about that, but it's hard, a lot of companies are struggling to get value out of their data because it's so difficult, all the things we've talked about, the silos, the data quality, et cetera. So you mentioned the term data ops. Data ops is all about streamlining that data, pipelining, infusing automation and machine intelligence into that pipeline. And then ultimately taking a systems view and compressing that time to insights so that you can drive monetization, whether it's cut cost, maybe it's new revenue, drive productivity, but it's that end-to-end cycle time reduction that successful practitioners talk about as having the biggest business impact. Are you seeing that? Absolutely, but it is a journey and it's a huge cultural change for some companies that are, I've worked in many companies that are ticket-based IT driven and just to do even the marginalist of change or get insight, raise a ticket way to week and then out the other end will pop, maybe a change that I needed. And it'll take a while for us to get to a culture that truly has a self-service data-driven nature where I'm the business owner and I wanna bring in a data scientist because we're losing, for example, business might be losing to a competitor and they want to find what insights, why is the customer churn, for example, happening every Tuesday? What is it about Tuesday? This is where your data scientist comes in. Last thing you want is to raise a ticket, wait for the snapshot of the data. You kinda wanna enable that data scientist to kinda come in, securely connect into the data and do his analysis and come back and give you those insights which will give you that competitive advantage. Well, I love your point about churn. Everybody talks about the Andreessen quote that software's eating the world and all companies are software companies and SaaS companies and churn is the killer of SaaS companies. So very, very important point you're making. My last question for you before we summarize is the tech behind all of this. What makes IOTAHO unique in its ability to help automate that data pipeline? Well, we've done a lot of research. We have, I think now maybe 11 pending patent applications. I think one has been approved to be issued, but really it's really about sitting down and doing the right kind of analysis and figuring out how we can optimize this journey. Some of this stuff is in rocket science. You can read a schema into an open source solution, but you can't necessarily find the hidden insights. So if I wanna find my foreign key dependencies which aren't always declared in the database or I wanna identify columns by their content which because the columns might be labeled attribute one, attribute two, attribute three or I wanna find out how my data flows between the various tables in my database. That's the point at which you need to bring in automation. You need to bring in data science solutions. And there's even a degree of machine learning because, for example, we might deduce that data is flowing from this table to this table and present that to the user with a 87% confidence, for example. And the user can go or the administrator can go, no, it really goes the other way. It was an invalid conclusion and that's the machine learning cycle. So the next time we see that pattern again in that environment, we'll be able to be able to make a better recommendation because some things aren't black and white. They need that human intervention loop. I just wanna summarize with the Lester Waters sort of playbook to moving to the cloud and I'll go through them. Hopefully I took some notes, hopefully I got them right. Step one, you wanna kind of do that data discovery audit. You want it to be fact-based. Two is you wanna remediate that data redundancy. And then three, identify what you can get rid of. We don't oftentimes, we don't get rid of stuff in IT or maybe archive it to cheaper media. Four is consolidate those data silos, which is critical, sort of breaking down those data barriers. And then five is attack the quality issues before you do the migration. Six, which I thought was really intriguing was preserve that data format. You don't wanna do the rewrite applications and do that conversion. It's okay to do a little bit of lifting and shifting. After the fact. Yeah, and then finally, and probably the most important is you gotta have that relationship with the lines of business, your users, get them involved, begin that cultural shift. So I think great recipe, Lester, for safe cloud migration. I really appreciate your time, but I'll give you the final word if you bring us home. All right, well, I think the journey to the cloud is it's a tough one. You will save money. I have heard people say you go to the cloud it's too expensive, it's too this, too that. But really, there is an opportunity for savings. I'll tell you, when I run data services as a SaaS service in the cloud, it's wonderful. Sorry, a PaaS service in the cloud, it's wonderful because I can scale up and scale down almost by virtually turning a knob. And so I have complete control and visibility of my costs there. And so for me, that's very important. I also gives me the opportunity to really re-infense my sensitive data because let's face it, most organizations kind of like being in a cheese grater when you talk about security because there's so many ways in and out. So I find that by consolidating and bringing together the crown jewels, if you will, it's as a security practitioner, it's much more easy to control. So, but it's very important. You can't get there without some automation and automating this discovery and analysis process. Well, great advice, Lester, thanks so much. I mean, it's clear that CAPEX investments on data centers are generally not a good investment for most companies. Lester, really appreciate Lester Water, CTO of Io, Tahoe. Let's watch this short video and we'll come right back. You're watching theCUBE. Thank you.


Mama showed me pictures of their way. I believe Darryl Macken would be an amazing, honorary recipient of the Wesley Mortgage Community Hero Award. I met Darryl Macken in 2015 when I joined a Soldiers Child Foundation after the loss of my military husband. My four children have received birthday presents in the mail each year since their daddy's death. We have also enjoyed going to the fun camps where we go long-lasting friendships with other amazing kids just like that. And now we'll be able to receive secondary and college scholarships. Darryl's Foundation now serves close to 5,000 children across the United States who have lost a military parent. Our lives and so many others' lives have been completely changed because of Darryl's choice to say yes to this calling. We have been given hope to live out a courageous future, honor, and love from Darryl and his outstanding organization, Soldiers Child Foundation. What are you doing, dude? Well, I was just scrolling down Facebook and saw something on there. We said, we're looking for community heroes and I immediately responded with your name and an organization and about a week later I started getting phone calls from this Titans organization and man, it happened fast. Tell me what's Darryl like? He's amazing. He's definitely like a father figure to us. We love his family. We love his wife, his kids. I met him on my 13th birthday. So he threw us a party. My sister and I, we both have February birthdays and he's just kind of always been there for us. It's really brought a lot of healing just like seeing that there's other people out there that are experiencing what we are experiencing and that they can also relate and they can help us get through it. Darryl first started his organization after his neighbor lost his son. He was about a month out from his return and that's when they got the news that he had died and Darryl was there and supporting his friend and finally his friend in frustration and in grief. He said to Darryl, Did it matter and does anybody care? And those two questions struck Darryl really hard and he didn't go home that night. He ended up walking the neighborhood. And then as I was prepping for my own son's sixth birthday I caught an attitude of all the work that went into it and then I found myself staring at that image of the boy receiving his father's flag and then I realized that what I get to give my son there are so many children that will never get that from their father and I still get to give that gift. But this letter is the reason why I do what I do. Nothing else matters to me than this sentiment that we celebrate the children and they feel celebrated. We honor our fallen and the surviving tells us that we do and then we give the children a hope to live out a courageous life and they are. That's it.


Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions. The understanding in this context means the transformation of visual images, the input of the retina into descriptions of the world that can interface with other thought processes and illicit appropriate action. This image understanding can be seen as the disentangling of symbolic information from image data using model constructed with the aid of geometry, physics, statistics, and learning theory. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems that extract information from images. The image data can't take many forms, such as video sequences, views from multiple cameras, or multidimensional data from a medical scanner. As a technological discipline, computer vision seeks to apply its theories and model for the construction of computer vision systems. Subdomains of computer vision include scenery construction, event detection, video tracking, object recognition, 3D pose estimation, learning, indexing, motion estimation, and image restoration. Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Computer vision is concerned with the automatic extraction, analysis and understanding of useful information from a single image or a sequence of images. It involves the development of a theoretical and algorithmic basis to achieve automatic visual understanding. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems that extract information from images. The image data can't take many forms, such as video sequences, views from multiple cameras, or multidimensional data from a medical scanner. As a technological discipline, computer vision seeks to apply its theories and model for the construction of computer vision systems.


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We're now going to solve an example problem for Newtonian fluid and what we're going to do is we will be given the velocity profile for laminar flow between two parallel plates and we're going to try to determine the shear stress on the upper plate and the direction of that shear. So we're told that the velocity profile, this is the given, it's going to be u as a function of some maximum velocity between the plates is this equation and the geometry that we're dealing with looks something like this. So we have an upper plate and both of the plates are fixed, they're not moving. We'll define a coordinate system x and y about the center line and we're told that the fluid flowing is water at 15 degrees Celsius and we're told that the channel height is h equals 0.5 millimeters. Okay, so we have water flowing and then looking at this profile that we have defined by the equation, this is a parabolic profile. On this flow we call it plane plus cell flow but we get something that looks like that and then here at the center line we would have u max which appears in the equation that we have. So that is the condition and what we're trying to find, oh and the other thing that I should say is u max equals 0.30 meters per second and fine. So what we're after, we want to determine the shear stress on the upper plate and we want to know the direction of the shear stress. Okay, so how do we go about solving this? Well, what we have in our back pocket thus far is we know that water is a Newtonian fluid and we've also seen that tau is equal to mu du by dy. So we have a velocity profile, a function of y, we'll have to look up the viscosity in order to get the proportionality constant in that equation so we can look it up for water and we can go about our solution. So let's work on the solution beginning with the Newtonian equation relating shear rate and shear stress. So we see we have the du by dy, let's evaluate the derivative of our velocity term and by taking the derivative remember I'll write out the velocity here, u over u max is 1 minus 2y over h squared. So we have to take the derivative with respect to y, we have u max, so we get that when we take the derivative of velocity with respect to y we can collapse that into minus 8 times u max times y divided by the denominator we have an h squared. Okay so we know from our Newtonian relationship between shear stress and shear rate that tau is equal to minus 8 mu u max y divided by h squared. So let's plug in the values and see what we get. Looking up the value for water, what did we say, a 15 degree C viscosity is equal to 1.3 times 10 to the minus 3 kilograms per meter second. So let's plug the numbers in and see what we compute. So you'll notice in the equation I've included all of the units just to be on the careful side you should do that although it's getting more practice you won't always need to do that but you can then check for the dimensions of your final result from your analysis but when we put in the numbers we calculate we get a negative 3.12 newtons per meter squared and so that comes out to be the final result that we get. Now if you recall with the question, let's take a look back, they were asking for the shear stress on the upper plate and give its direction. So when we went through this analysis and we determined this as being the shear stress is that shear stress on the upper plate or is that shear stress in the fluid? Well it turns out if you go back to the derivation that we used when we came up with tau equals mu du by dy we were considering a little chunk of fluid as it was deforming and we came up with a relationship from that so that is really the shear stress in the fluid not on the solid. So tau here as reflected in this result is actually the shear stress on the fluid and consequently the shear stress on the wall is going to be in the opposite direction. So if you remember our coordinate system, we had y in that direction, x in that direction that means that on the fluid the shear stress is in the negative x direction and on the wall it's actually in the positive x direction because it would be the equal and opposite. So if we were to sketch this out what we have is the shear stress on the fluid tau on fluid is in the negative x direction but the tau on the wall is in the positive x direction. So just like in statics if you draw a little picture and you say the direction that it's going in that would be good enough and then you would write 3.12 newtons per meters squared and what you could do is you could assign area as being unit area or one meter squared and with that you can then determine the stress that is on one meter squared of the upper wall. So your answer would be 3.12 newtons on the upper wall in the positive x direction. So that concludes the example of determining the shear stress on the upper wall and what we find that it is in this direction and it is 3.12 newtons assuming area equals one meter squared.


PhiloSift is an open-source software pipeline designed to facilitate phylogenetic analysis of metagenomics data. It uses existing programs like LAST, HMR, and Placer to automate the process of analyzing protein coding and RNA sequences from metagenome datasets generated by modern sequencing platforms, Illumina, 454. The pipeline allows users to perform phylogenetic hypothesis testing, compare community structure across multiple samples, and identify associations between the abundances of certain organisms and sample metadata. This article was authored by Aaron E. Darling, Guillaume Jospin, Eric Lowe, and others.


Hi my name is Alex. I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama and today I'm going to show you how to find databases on the library's website. The University of Alabama libraries provide access to over 600 databases. We have everything from databases for academic journal articles to databases of streaming movies. To get started finding these databases go to the library's website at lib.ua.edu and click on the databases link in the quick links bar. Because we have so many databases I wouldn't really recommend browsing. However you can do a quick browse by looking at some of our most popular databases. There is a databases search bar on the right hand side of the screen. If you know a database by name a title search is pretty easy. You could do a keyword search but if you're looking for databases for a certain subject class or major you're really better off using the subjects drop-down. Now we're looking at 40 databases that would be good for engineering. You'll see some of the best bets at the top of the screen. These are basically just databases that we consider to be especially good for engineering. You'll also see who the research librarians for this subject are and you can find their contact information if you need some extra research help. You'll also find certain types of databases by using the database types drop-down. You'll find ebook databases journal article databases and newspaper databases among others. Finally you can find databases by certain publishers if you use the publishers drop-down. That's all for now. If you have any questions you can call us text us or visit ask.lib.ua.edu to ask a librarian.


You know it's a collective effort down on that goal line everybody made plays everybody got pushed back and I was a guy That was able to capitalize off of him.  Do you remember that conversation and what kind of spark is your name?  Just the way I handle myself day-to-day, you know, I come in here I want to work hard.  They would have be a teammate like that. I've learned from some great guys and you know, it was funny We had a referee that was here doing training camp and he was one of my teammates in Denver and One thing that he said to me back in the day was up you thought this couldn't happen to you It was just a game of football just the ins and out of the business understanding the business side And I think that kind of shifted my perspective on the hey the NFL It's a it's a business and you got to make sure you're approaching that way once you realize that but overall man It's just I'm here to do a job. I got to do a great job at doing whatever I'm doing whether that's on special teams Whether that's starting on defense, but at the end of the day, you got to go out there and make those plays Sorry if you've been asked about this, but that that go line stand the last one in the league that the team pulled that off And won Super Bowl Malcolm's interception against Seattle kind of nice to be in some very exclusive Yeah, I think that's a whole nother level though to be and if we're Malcolm winning the Super Bowl Making big plays but man that just goes to show this NFL you got as long as you have an inch This is just chance for you to win. It doesn't matter if it's 99 yards away Or if they're on the inch yard line, you got to go out there and play and leave it out there on the football field And let the game be decided in your hands by playing hard


Namaste. In this session, we will discuss about multiple generations at workplace. After this session, you should be able to recognize the multiple generations at workplace, identify the prominent features of different generations, appreciate the issues and challenges for different generations, particularly pertaining to their behavior at work and we will also interrogate the best ways of engaging various generations at workplace. Why we should bother about this topic? Why do we study intergenerational relationship in organizations? Very first and basic reason is that probably first time in the history in the large organizations, we are having three or four generations of the people working together. Different generations grow up in different times. Naturally, that affects their psychographical profile and that happens to be different from each other and any kind of difference in the worldview or approach reflected in the psychographic profile is bound to result into some altercation or misunderstanding. So, we need to recognize that in order to respect the diversity across the generation, we need to understand the generations and appreciate the strength and the limitations of each generation. So, we need to recognize that different generations respond differently to different organizational or HR practices like talent management, employee engagement etcetera. So, that is why we need to study generations closely. Transferring from specific knowledge and skill from the retiring employee to the new job incumbent is one of the very important challenges and activity of HR function and function of the overall organization. If we wish to enhance the effectiveness of the knowledge transfer across the generations, we need to study the generations more carefully. A 2005 study conducted by exchange of found that at least 45 percent of the respondent organizations think that they are failing, they are not doing that workforce knowledge transfer very efficiently. Nature of the task to be conducted at workplaces are also becoming more and more complex. With more and more complexity, you have more and more specialist working in teams which bring complementary skills. Because of the increasing complexity of task, naturally in our team, people will be coming from multiple generations. So, the task like robotics or biomedical research or digitization, they are multidisciplinary in nature. Not only multidisciplinary, they involve multiple generations of technology as well. And because of that, different generations are comfortable with different kinds of technologies involved in a particular project. And that is why we need to understand how different generations respond to different stimulants how their psychographic profile are similar or different. Lack of engagement at workplace is almost like a pervasive problem. We discussed in the session on employee engagement that more than 70 percent of employees at workplace worldwide according to the surveys published by Gallup are not fully or well engaged at workplace. One of the reasons for the lack of engagement is poor communications across generations. In order to address this issue, we need to study generations more carefully. We need to understand the generations more carefully. Comfort with technology, preference for leadership style, different response to different issues are natural ways of expression of the generational differences. Generations have to be understood in context of these particular types of stimuli. Issue of specific region has world's most positive view about generational diversity. With 44 percent respondents are confident that it contributes to workplace productivity. This may be related to the cultural profile of these countries as well. Because in these countries, so in these cultures, old age also commands respect naturally. Nonetheless, as we discussed in the previous session, diversity enhances the productivity, innovation, creativity. Multiple generation is one of the aspects of diversity and that is also likely to enhance the productivity, innovation and efficiency of organizations and the teams. If we manage the multiple generations carefully, what do we mean by generation? Definition, basic definition of generation means two essential components. Number one, it has a common location in historic time period. So, they are related to a particular time period and second, they have a distinct consciousness as a result of the important event during that time period. So, these two factors shape generations. Generations are built on identity. Identity can come in an organization, can come because of the entry in the organization of people in particular time and that is called cohort based identity. Identity can come from the natural age of the employees. So, that brings the age based identity. Identity can also come from my belonging to a particular community. It is based on my kinship and based on the kinship, we can have incumbency based identity. Generations are chronologically linked. Generations are not watertight compartments. Generations interact with each other. So, there is a transmittive characteristics across the generations. Multiple source of identities work in the organization. Organization are the places where identity is emerged from multiple sources and a particular identity can be provoked at certain point of time based on organizational clues or external events.


Oh my god. Yeah, bro. You slammed it, too What's going on guys welcome to another video I Like it loud ate it. What's going on guys? Welcome to another video today. I got my boy fish You annoy me. What up? I love how the camera is like all the way up. I'm so sure compared to you, man Yo, I'll get done. Yeah, but today what we have going on he actually came to me out came to me out came to We're actually out here in Atlanta today. We're gonna be pond fishing I'm actually filming or he's filming a video where I actually pick out his fishing lures And he has to go fish with them So if you guys want to go check out that video after you're done with mine be sure to go do that Be sure like this video as well before we even get it started today I'm gonna be doing a $1 Walmart fishing challenge about $1. I mean all the lures that I pick out I'm gonna either pick out three to five lures and they're gonna be around a dollar to a dollar 25 We're gonna go do that right now. Let's get it started Dude, it's recording now. Is it recording? Yes, you're sure? Yes. It won't mess me up. All right guys This is what we're doing today. I'm picking out like three to four lures around like a dollar to a dollar 50 This is a really inexpensive lure challenge. We're actually a Walmart. It's just very very cheap and I already had I actually already picked up everything I'm gonna just tell you guys but Norm wasn't recording. So I got this really exclusive popper right there Look at that thing. Oh, yeah Only a dollar Walmart material right there. We're I lost them again They're we lost them the first time. There's a swim baits 82 cents guys That is cheap. That is very inexpensive. Now. Let's go. Let's move it to the soft plastics We don't have much of a selection, but we're making it do and I've lost where'd they go, man There they are. All right, so we got these crawls. We got a little dollar bin right here It's cheap as you can get so we got these little Junebug crawls right here by yum Swim bait popper move with one more soft plastic. Let's see There we go right there See that. Oh, there's a guy. Oh, there's a good man that color. Oh, yeah, that's juicy They're gonna kiss what we're going guys. Are these a little like speed worm looking? What does he got I'm calling? It just says creature on the package.   It won't be long.  All right guys, this is what I actually tied on first Norm's over there fishing his little little deal. Go check out the video on its channel It's where I picked out his lose I got this little Texas very great here with that $1 curl and then I actually have a little pop bar here guys We're gonna start off with this poverty. He's already got a bite first cast. We're gonna see you start He's throwing a frog. I'm throwing this little pop bar. Really?  I feel it. Oh How do you not? Dude, I you took it under. I Waited the hook set to just never had it Nice no one nice got me a bucket of salad On that cast right down there do one of the probably You got him.  Good job Small guy, but he got it done. All right guys and or just got his first fish.  You know what I mean like come on now I could say a lot of things about this fish right now. We got to keep it PG. Oh my god Look at that.   Let's get a cool little release on it. Oh, that was beautiful. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah There's a crawl I picked up first for it just just had knock it just had to get the monkey off my back All right, man. This is why they call it $1. This is a $1 Walmart challenge, bro Come here real quick. I'm trying to switch my bait. You know how they have this thing where you rip it off Yeah, all right first of all, there ain't even thing And how am I supposed to? Walmart, bro Walmart you guys better click that like button for this $1 Walmart fishing challenge It's okay. I stabbed my thing through it So we got this crawl out of the way out of the four lures that I picked out at Walmart Now we're gonna move on to the this little worm speed crawl So guys, we just got this crawl over with that one right there Now I'm actually gonna move on to this little speed worm right here We should be able to knock this one out perfect right here. It's just I think the tricky one's gonna be this swim bait I think the pop are we're gonna be able to catch a fish on it's just the swim bait I think it's gonna be the most tricky is so we're gonna save that for the last. Here we go We got this little speed worm lead weight Bobber stop boom looking juicy right there $1 at Walmart. Let's see what we can do. Let's see if we can Yeah, good job Noah. I'm just messing up today. I don't know what I'm doing So that will worm out here. You guys are wondering what I'm pitching at There's actually a few stumps right here seeing if we can knock out these finesse baits right now Then we can focus on the pop water I just landed right next to a fish, but there's grass on my bait Uh-oh Smallly it's tiny But guess what it's fish number two on the second bait low baby guy man another little baby But guess what that's this fish number two We got the second bait knocked off now We're gonna move on to the pop are and it just started raining. I think we're gonna get a good bite See buddy should get a bite in this rain. Oh my god Yeah, bro. He slammed it too dude.  That's three out of the four baits Dude, okay, if they're gonna eat it like that. I mean he did he slam you better got me the juice bait I don't know man. I think I kind of I think I kind of I was messing with you for there for a second I think they're gonna eat it though I think they're gonna get it pretty guys look at that fish right there little baby guy He's a little chunker. Look it's kind of a little thick guy on the pop are I'm gonna continue to throw it a little bit more and then we're gonna move on to the final swim bait All right guys moving it over to the other corner of the pond Let's see what we have over here. Oh Go Lee bro, I was really my bait in and he was just tagging it I had to do the limbo to get to dodge my lure guys I came back to my truck to grab the scissors and norm left his hand. Look at that. He just spills. I think he's fired Norm's fired. He's he's never gonna be featured in the episode again We're surprisingly moving on to the final bait of the challenge This is a little swim bait that we got for like 80 cents as you guys can tell right there There's a swim bait little baby swim bait. I'm kind of worried about it Even though it just seems like the babies are biting right now even though I know there's some bigger ones in here. Just seems like the babies are biting There's a lot of grass in here. This hook's exposed. It's gonna be hard norm Just caught a fish. We're gonna go try this bad boy out. Oh Dude whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He wasn't a slob But he tried to slurp it up right there Bro He's he really wants it. Oh my god. He about took my rod Dude, it's just this fish.  Let's see if the fourth time's Fourth time's a charm Yes Dude, come on now. You gotta give me that one right there freaking giants I didn't go by that was a pretty entertaining catch right there It took me three times four times matter of fact, but I got to swing him up on the bank He wanted that swim bait that challenge is completed, but we're still gonna continue to catch some bro Come on It's like it's the fish bro. They're so small that they can't get it. I actually let him load up on it too Dude, he's right there. That's that is his home Come on now Give me a break Well, I just think they're following it back all the way. He'll eat that lizard like there's next.  Come on, baby Oh, yeah, look at that. Dude. I've literally caught two fish on into the eyes already knocked off the wal-mart special 88 82 cents for two.   They're fun to catch though, man. When you're catching them on top order like that I don't care the size. They're fun to catch Oh my dude, that did sound like a nice one, bro Thanks for hooking yourself, man. Thank you very much, buddy I love how the little ones like that big and bad and they just take off do what it just got so light outside It's like Lou is about to get dark and they're just like, oh, let me flip on the lights real quick Golden bro Golden see ya, buddy Dude, my arms are so short, bro They're oh my god, dude. Look at that. That is just get longer. You have a tall friend like this It just makes it so much easier guys. Thank you guys so much for watching. Are we actually doing it like this? Oh, we're doing it like all right. I'm being a hundred percent guys. I'm short. I'm five eight, man This guy's like seven six six two. Thank you guys so much for watching this video If you guys want to see more challenges like this I completed the one dollar walmart challenge this guy right here If you want to go check out his video where I actually picked out his fishing lures for the day He came out here did the whole thing go check out his channel It's fishing with norm i'll link him below go subscribe Like his video like my video do the whole deal guys. We're gonna collab here soon for some more videos So be sure to stay tuned for that be sure to leave a comment below and what you guys want to see next Thank you guys so much for the support. We're out


Welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh. And I wanted to talk to you today about trading education.  Sometimes there's newsletters. You can even buy books on trading or watch free YouTube videos or go to free webinars online. While you can pick up tidbits of information, many people fail to really get the full understanding of that trading education unless they throw themselves into it lock, stock and barrel. What do I mean? Focus on one specific strategy until you're doing it really, really, really, really well enough so that you're making money or successful. Now you say, well, Melissa, how do I know what strategy to do? Well, that may take time. Nobody ever was born yesterday and then gets up and takes their first trading class and then all of a sudden successful. Well, that could happen. And maybe that's happened to somebody out there in the world. People take a series of classes until they realize what they really want to do and what strategy they want to really focus on. Sometimes it has to do with your schedule. Sometimes it has to do with your lifestyle, where you live as well. For example, I live in New York. The markets were open during Eastern time zones, so that's good for me because I live in an Eastern time zone. So as far as what you're doing and when you're doing it, no matter what you choose to do, I really think it's important if you're risking money in the market to learn first. Right now, we're in an environment where the market is bullish, but volatility is still here. There are days where the market seems sluggish, even though we're in uptrend. There are days that we fall that scares people. A lot of times people are trying to read the market to get trades and also people are in these free chat rooms right now and they are trying to get picks from people and get trading ideas from complete and total strangers. While some people have made money in those rooms, other people have lost money in those rooms and lost a lot. Typically, when you look at the overall market, you say, well, is it something that you could really do and be successful? Of course. And then you say, well, why are a lot of traders not successful? Well, there's many, many reasons, but the one reason I really want to talk about today is that many people do not have proper trading education. They flip around and never really throw themselves into it. What do I mean? I mean, take a class, learn something, ask questions, participate, follow through trade, trade small size, trade in a demo, work themselves up, go back and ask the teacher or the person that you learned from or your mentor questions. Continue the process. Don't give up. Don't quit. I think people tend to do a class and then quit very quickly if they don't find that they're doing well. Maybe you don't understand something. Maybe you didn't get the class right. Maybe you didn't really fully understand it or maybe the class who didn't teach you anything and the strategy doesn't work. That's true, too. Sometimes people ask me, you know, what is it really that I'm going to learn in the Golden Gap course? That is a main meat and potatoes course that I teach. While I have other subcourses that teach various different things, the main class, the big class that I teach on a monthly basis, that you're going to learn the system, the system that I do on a daily basis for options and day trades is called the Golden Gap. You are going to learn in the class the Golden Gap 26-point rating system. That is the thing, the main meat and potatoes of the class. That's the entire day, the first day of the class on the Saturday. Sunday, the second day of the class, you will learn the entries. There's six different entries that I do. Then there's targets. You will learn that as well and exits. On top of all of that, I discussed many, many things about motivation, money, wealth, and success and really trying to develop yourself into a person that has a positive and optimistic attitude that believes that you can pull money out of the market. A lot of times, going back to what I said previously, people start through this process to train. They want to be successful, consequently find themselves losing, and then they give up or have a negative attitude about the market. Everybody goes through a process. That process takes time. You may take 10 steps forward and 2 steps back and 3 steps forward and 1 step back. I found that with myself when I began trading as well. I didn't wake up and create the 26 points automatically. It was a process of over 3 years and I didn't have 26 points out of the game. I had a few that I added and it was a process of wanting to lose until I figured it all out. I did it all with real money.  At the same time, I was working full-time too. Things take time. It's like building a house. Think of it like this. You start from the ground up. You lay the foundation. Then you build it up. Then you have the framing work. Then you get the plumbing and electricity and so on and so forth. At the end, you have the beautiful decorations and the furniture and you put in and you're living there and it's happy and everything's great. All of these things take time. We're living in a world where everybody wants everything yesterday and today. Think of trading as an education. It's building the foundation for you to make sure the house is sturdy. I'm sure everyone remembers the collapse of the building that just recently happened in Miami. It did not have a firm foundation. There were defects in that building. Most importantly, the foundation as well. It's very interesting how they make those buildings and how they're building those buildings down in Florida. First of all, it's low elevation. Second of all, they're building them differently now than they did 50 years ago. They lay the concrete. They put these pylons now in the concrete so they're sturdy. But you still have these different buildings that are sinking here every year. And again, now there's a lot of people that are in this population. It's grown in Florida. People are all moving there and the elevation is low. So there's a lot of things when you think about it, when you're like, okay, there's really, really, really, really important to have a firm grasp and foundation for trading. Well, I took an educational class when I first started out and I didn't learn gaps or learn how to make money in it. I did learn a basic foundation, which really helped me build the house that I have now to trade gaps successfully. The foundation was based on technical analysis. That was a firm foundation for me. It was a good foundation for me. Everything I do is based on technical analysis. While I talk about fundamentals on television, I do not use fundamentals to trade or make trading decisions. So technicals is where it's at for me. But it's the analysis of the technicals in the gap itself, which again encompasses the 26 points, which is my golden gap grading system. That's the system that I use to make the picks to determine which stuff to trade each day and what direction. And again, if it's going to have momentum because that's how you're going to make money. We're in a weird period right now.  Is it going to last? Nobody knows, but I will tell you, you must know what you're doing in order to risk money in the market. Take it step by step. Do not be overly aggressive in your trades. Make sure to book profits and think about what I said today about having a firm foundation for education because it is very important just because you took a class in the past. And you didn't learn anything from it. And you spent money doesn't mean you can't learn anything in the future. I pride myself in really trying to mentor people to teach them things, not just in the class, not just in the paid classes, but in the live daily trading room and also doing little videos like this where I'm giving tips for people to make and understand what they need to be focused on. Focus on technical analysis. Focus on one strategy when you're doing it. If you're doing something that doesn't work, leave it be, quit it, do something else, learn something else. You still have plenty more time between now and the end of the year to make money and be successful and turn your year around if you're not having a good one. If you have more questions, you can email me and Melissa at thestockswitch.com. Have a great day, everyone.


Here we go, top of the mountain, views all around. Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. Triglav National Park! Good morning guys. Welcome to our odyssey. So yesterday we arrived in the Triglav National Park here in Slovenia. Last night we had to take a campsite because all the free spots around this area are apparently being patrolled by the police. I think they must have like the same apps that we're using to find the free camps. So we didn't want to risk a fine so we just booked a campsite. So we had a really amazing day yesterday, we visited Lake Blad. It's a very, very, very beautiful spot. You can walk around the lake which we did and then we rent a boat and you could road to a small island there where there's a big church on the small island. It looks so picturesque. It's absolutely stunning. This place is like the place to go. It's very, very nice. The water is like crystal blue turkeys. So we went for a swim as well. The water was warm. It was just an amazing day, amazing place to visit. And today we have made our way deep into the mountains and we'll be taking you guys on a hike with us. Yes, hiking! For those of you that have seen, we did a 3000 kilometer crazy hike from the top to the bottom of New Zealand. If you haven't seen the music video we made about this trip then check it out here. But today we have decided to climb Mount Visevnik in the Julian Alps. This peak is 2,050 meters above sea level and is one of the most popular in the park. So we absolutely can't wait to get going and show you guys the mountains that Slovenia has to offer. Let's go! So it's about a four and a half kilometer hike today with an elevation gain of around 690 meters which is not so bad. It's nothing compared to the 18 kilometers and 1050 meter elevation gain that we had to do when we climbed Snowden. If you haven't seen that episode you can check that out somewhere here. So we have hit the trail and so far it's like a dirt road going through beautiful pine forest and we've got some sun, some clouds, some shade from the pine trees. So far it's a nice easy route with a sort of gentle elevation climb. Yeah it's been very beautiful so far. Not too much effort. It's a very very nice stroll at the moment. Amazing! So the trail changed a little bit. We came off of the main trail and now we are on like a very narrow and very nice trail. Actually we are at the moment on our own as well. So it's quite steep this one as it's become a lot steeper since we came off of the road. Yeah you can feel like my breathing. It's like breathing harder and it's more exhausting but it's nice. It's really nice. So we're getting up into higher country now. It's very peaceful and very beautiful here in this forest. Yeah you have these sort of clearing areas with lots of wildflowers around and grasses. It's a very very pretty area. Absolutely. I don't think that many people are taking this trail here because it's very very narrow now. It's like slightly off the main trail and it's beautiful and peaceful and quiet. Okay so we are about one kilometer from the top now and we're starting to get the views. We're starting to get really beautiful stunning scenery around. You see mountains for miles and miles around in all directions and we can just about see the peak in front of us. So not long to go anymore. That looks like the peak up ahead. Really high up now. So we're finally getting above the trees and out into the rocks and we have a crazy view all around. It's really nice. The views are amazing. Yeah we haven't done a lot of mountains recently. We've done a lot of mountains in the past but not for a little while. So we're definitely feeling this one but we'll make it to the top and you know the view is always worth it in the end. Slovenia, your mountains are great. The Julian Alps are really spectacular. So I think we have just a short peak to go until we reach the top and we'll catch you there. You can see where we started way down there in that clearing at the bottom. That's where we started the hike. That's where a red tornado is parked and that's where we've got to return back to. Out of the 7-inch, 2050 meters above sea level. Now we have to go down now but we are both quite exhausted so it's good we're on the way back down. Get back to red tornado. Get back to our home. Yeah but it's been really really nice. We made it! Copy better bud. I think they're growing. They're still growing. So that is it for today's adventure. We're going to start driving south now and head towards our next destination which you'll find out about in our next video. We really hope that you enjoyed experience the beauty of Slovenia today with us. Yeah Triglav National Park was a massive highlight for us and an absolutely incredible place to visit. If you did enjoy this video please hit that like button and don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We will see you next time. If you enjoyed watching this video you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys we will see you next time.


All right, I'm really excited today to be with Suzanne Colberg and we're gonna be talking about the mindset for Healthy weight loss Suzanne thank you so much for joining me. Hi George. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm excited because I know a lot of us Well, probably most of us watching this can stand to be more fit and We know that it is not about you know Things that are outside of it's usually things that are within us our mindset our emotions that allow us to make better choices So I'm really looking forward to to our conversation I want to be sure to first share with people what your bio is and then we'll kind of get into so people can know your background alright, so Many of us desire lifelong changes to the way we eat and move But we tend to cycle through patterns of dieting and binging Suzanne has overcome the cycle. She personally went from being super obese at and you know, these are her words super obese at 150 kilograms, which is 300 what was it? 330 pounds amazing so 3 and 3 pounds to Releasing something like 171 pounds, which is 78 kilograms or yeah So that is and it did it over three years. That's a really healthy time span It's not one of those you know kind of yo-yo situations Suzanne's great passion is helping people escape the cycle by understanding that it isn't about looking for the external thing But consistently taking imperfect action. I love that so much Suzanne knows that no single approach is right for everyone So she is trained in a range of modalities including Neuro linguistic programming Which is NLP. I think some of you've heard of this energy medicine personal training and Suzanne's educational background includes a bachelor of medical science So Suzanne, thank you so much for having this conversation. I'm looking forward to learning some things too. Thank you, George So I know I understand that you have actually some slides you wanted to share with us I don't know if you want to do that first or yeah totally. Yeah, I'll I'll lead with that. I'll share that now. Yeah, that'd be great There we go cool make that big Yes There we go, okay. Yes, you've kind of done my bio, but I just wanted to do a quick Explanation, especially you said done it sustainably not quickly. I have done that before Yes, yes, so my parents With the best intention put me on my first diet age four to fit in a flower girl dress my sister's wedding and It kind of went up and down From there. So I have lost and regained in excess of 500 kilograms in my life In in 2006 7 I lost 43 kilos only to gain it all back and more and in 2011 12 I lost 60 kilos only to gain it all back and interest So these pictures the dates are correct up down up down And then from 2015 through 2018 I released 78 kilograms and there's a really subtle shift in my language there That's really important It's that if you just close your eyes for a moment and think about anything that you lose your keys your wallet Your kids, you know, whatever you like you got this almost frenetic. I need to find it You know, and when it comes to weight, we know consciously we want to lose it We want to weigh less but our subconscious doesn't differentiate that so this subtle shift to release and that language might not work for everybody, but shifted Removed thanks for service whatever was really really powerful and it's really powerful with my clients. So I just always mentioned that So basically this is the kind of people that I work with so if you fall into one or all these categories Then you'll probably find benefit from this presentation People who have tried so many times before and they're always looking for the next thing, you know, the one that will fix me And they think they lack willpower or motivation I could do a whole presentation just on that because the fact that you keep showing up means you have amazing willpower and motivation But you don't feel it and I get it And you feel like a fraud because you know what to do You just don't do it like people often could write a diet book themselves They have all the knowledge, but it doesn't mean that they can implement it and that's where the frustration comes from So I've developed this thing Model called the struggle cycle. So most people are here. They're like, okay I'm carrying extra weight whether it be a little amount or a big amount.  Do you know what I mean? The answer is in me And you just keep taking imperfect action This also cycle is very relevant to business as well. So it's it's a model you can use for many things You just keep showing up. You just keep doing something And you know the way out is through so to speak And then you acknowledge the progress that you're making so often we we we want to be over here like we want to be Not having any coffee never eating chocolate again Subsiding on like enjoying kale. I'm sorry. I'm a weight loss coach, but kale still tastes like I'd rather be fat But you know we acknowledge the not only the things we do as in the little steps each day But the things we didn't do as in like I used to slam a whole family block of chocolate and now I have half That's progress, you know, it doesn't have to be this all or nothing on off kind of thing So if you put it all together It's like an infinity symbol it's in Sometimes, you know, we're looking for a cure. Well, first of all, you're not broken But this goes around and comes around again. Like you may nail this one habit I'm like, you know, I get up every morning and I go for a walk or I drink lemon water or whatever it is But there's other things there's more steps. There's deeper and for many of us with weight Weight actually isn't the root cause. It's the surface thing. It's like The physical representation of a mental and spiritual and stuff. So It can be like really scary, but it's going around and in any moment Like if you're having this thing where like I just need to find the next program the next course As I said business weight same sort of thing if you take a breath there and go, oh, am I in an eye suck face? Like I'm already doing this. I've got my rock hammer. Just be patient Just keep taking action keep going because I'm making progress and you can slip back up into the top Ah, I see.   It feels like it's failure. It feels like I'm one step from giving up but it's actually Pivot into the like if you can sit with that feeling and I know it's uncomfortable And we don't want to and that's why many of us eat to push it down to ignore it to to hide it But if we can sit with it like don't live there But sit with it and go, okay This isn't working out how I thought the results aren't coming fast enough But you know, I can celebrate the fact that I you know, I'm tracking my habits or I'm making this a priority Or I'm still in the room, you know, just the little things enough to keep going And yeah Great great and speaking of habits, you know There's this there's this wonderful I guess analogy or two or way of thinking about it, which is the compound interest idea And I saw a lot of it's coming up on one of my slides, but yes, I wanted you to share that too. Yes Okay, cool. Awesome. I'll jump back in there's not much to go. Um So has this come back up george to say the struggle side? Yes. Cool So you're likely on the struggle cycle if you're kind of a bit i'm getting this who's I don't quite understand it Um, if you're trying to change everything at once and you do all the things and then no things So you clean out the pantry you join up the gym You say you're going to go five times you you know swear off coffee You do everything and then burn out get overwhelmed and do nothing That's a sign of the struggle cycle if you focus on the gap between where you are now and where you want to be because often like for me, um 78 kilograms 170 pounds is a long way You know and at the beginning there was many things I couldn't do that I can do now But it's focusing on that very next step as I said if you want to Give up something entirely like I wouldn't recommend that I still quite like chocolate and stuff But some people do want to but like to be honest I used to eat two family blocks a day I don't know what you call them in the u.s But like big blocks of chocolate Cutting that back to one and a half to one it was all progress because when we go all chocolate no chocolate it does terrible things to our hormones to our like all Go on about that as well, but like focus You know if you're focusing on it's going to be there or here that's a sign of you're on the struggle cycle We compare our start to other people's successes I'm not saying don't get inspired by before and afters I'm not saying don't look up to somebody But you don't know how long they've been working at this and sometimes You know both in business and in weight We it's sensationalized in the magazines or the articles like you know drop a dress size in five days Get to six figures in a month or something like that Some people may do that like the unicorns But then the magazines don't show after the after like what's their month like after they've made six figures What's their size like after the Christmas? You know and we get overwhelmed and frustrated because we're not there yet and in the moment like Tim tans is my favorite. I don't think you have them over there. They're like a chocolate biscuit If I want to eat a chocolate at the chocolate biscuit If I say no, I don't magically drop five kilos in that moment But if I say yes, I feel better if only for a short period of time So that's the sign that you're on the struggle and ways to transition into the success Um is this dream big act small and imperfectly? Change one habit consistently I'll go into that on the next slide with the compound interest And celebrate every small step not just the ones you take but the ones that you you're not taking anymore Like I used to drink eight cups of coffee a day and now I drink seven it all counts And then this little mantra that I use is intention plus a tension equals outcome Often we have the intention. We buy all the food. We clean out the pantry. We print out the stuff Um, but we don't actually take the stuff. We don't sit down and put it into our diary We don't give it the attention. We go.  Like the attention doesn't mean 24 seven This takes over your entire life because we have responsibilities children family work obligations But this is important too. And I love in your teachings, George And you're saying like put the self care stuff in first and the rest and the naps and all that first because Both of these together bring you the outcome So this is the compound interest bit. I was excited because you mentioned it and you hadn't seen this So um, these are my progress photos. So at the beginning It was slow if you look at the dates on these like june to september to december You don't notice a big lot of difference and the thing is we're changing one habit at a time as opposed to Diets where you change everything. Yeah, you do drop a buttload of weight really fast But then you get burnt out overwhelmed and then you gain it all back When you change one habit at a time the the results are slow to start with but you have this positive compound interest over time Because as you add in new habits The original habits you established are still taking effect as you add in the next ones So your results actually speed up It's a matter of having that trust and self belief to stick with it long enough to see at the end There I will be honest between march and august there. I had a tummy tuck So, you know, that's I don't want people to think oh my god, you know Because I had a lot of skin and that was really uncomfortable But you know, you can still see like here at the end There's not a lot of weight difference between these three photos at all. I think it's five kilograms Which would be eight or nine pounds But it's those habits and still taking effect all the things that you're doing And it becomes your new way of being and I've said it many a time But I'll say it again celebrate frequently because a lot of us will be like I'll celebrate when I get to my goal weight when I've made six figures when I've done all that But every little thing every new move you can do in a yoga class every new Exercise that you try like pole dancing was my dream. I never would have done it at the beginning because just no You know, um celebrate everything because it's powerful I think I've got I've got one or two more um And and when I say this I don't want to make people think it's not going to be effort Like when I say just change one thing and whatever It is going to take effort and you're worth it, you know before and afters they rarely show the messy middle We just think oh There's something I'm missing or something wrong with me because it wasn't that simple a journey for me Which is why I always say I have ups and downs And and don't compare ourselves to not just other people But previous versions of ourselves because we can be like when I left high school I was able to run 10 k's easily not me clients. I've never been a runner Or before I had kids or whatever That body you don't want to get back to where you were before because that body that version of you gained weight You want to create a new way of being and and accept where you are now if you used to run 10 k's or miles I know you guys measuring miles and you suddenly go and do that not only are you likely to get down yourself You're probably going to do an injury To really assess where you are now have an honest and real conversation with yourself. What can you do today? So nearly done in any moment you can make the decision to change your life by weight And I really love for anyone watching this to share in the chat box Your takeaway the takeaway that will bring you closer to your goals I don't know if you have takeaway in the us if you call it that but um, it's like fast food here So I was like there can be positive takeaways and by sharing it not only do you um when you have to summarize something in your own language It helps you implement it But also sometimes someone else may read your share and it's inspiring for them So it's never just about learning from the person learning from each other is really really powerful Yeah That was amazing. Yeah, so um You've worked with a lot of people uh on on this mindset change and you've shared your story. Um, can you think of a Kind of a client that you've worked with for whom this This kind of change has also resulted in in a physical change many um There's one client for many of my clients. They're also entrepreneurs. Um And they hold themselves back showing up in business doing video going to networking events having photos taken Um because of their weight they feel, you know embarrassed or they feel uncomfortable Um, and they don't fully show up themselves. So There was one client who came to me and we had this big discussion and she just knew The diets and exercise wasn't the way she knew there was something deeper going on Um, but wasn't sure what that what that is and we worked together. Um one on one for six months and now she's in my membership program Um, and it's it's really about like what's what's the what's the deeper thing that's happening here like is it Really about the weight because sometimes the weight is the easier excuse because it'll be like, oh I'll do that when I've lost weight, you know And then for her it was like I'll get the photos taken when I've lost weight So she was holding herself back from losing weight because she didn't really want the photos because she had this like visibility I suppose it would be fear or something like that Um, so it's kind of like working through that and sometimes too It would be like, I won't have the photos done because then I'll lose weight and then I can't use them and just the little stories that we we tell ourselves And um, yeah, we worked together For six months in that time she released, you know 15 kilograms and that's I don't usually share numbers Like she's happy for me too, but it's not about that. It's about the deeper Understanding and not only did she get all the photos done rebrand do whatever put her prices up She's just like like Now that that fear has been addressed and she's still got a little way she wants to go but you just you can see in the energy in the way she turns up in in somebody's like vibrance When they're like not like oh When and when because if you put it off to I get to a certain number on scales or a clothing size When you get there if you still don't have the confidence or self-belief or the thing You thought you'd have you just put the goalpost back. Oh, I just needed to drop five more kilos Oh, I need to get toned. Do you know me? And you know, that's a pattern for the people I work with that underlying it It's it's not actually about the weight at all But you know you have to come to that realization on your own I love that you You know people come to you for the physical, you know weight weight release, etc but The way that you coach them is about the mindset and their and their day-to-day actions And I think the result of that not surprisingly it not only helps with their health and their weight But it helps with everything else as well And because that's you know, we change from within so thank you for Kind of anchoring that transformation from self-empowerment essentially So how can people work with you those who are watching this? You have we have ways of working with you that are either one to one Yes, you know when you do one to one you have a membership program Yes, you have online courses Yes, and you also have a newsletter A newsletter But tell us about maybe tell us a bit about each one. So the one-on-one. How does how do people work with you one to one? Working with me one to one it's It's very bespoke I don't have the Suzanne method because as I said everybody's body is different A lot of people benefit from a weekly check-in like an accountability call We call it the Sue's shoulder shake we'd love not like, you know, having you done the things because nobody likes that But it's like what did you plan to do last week? And how did you go and what did you plan to do next week? And we set it up because it's just that that touch point and that checking in and then because weight is really heavy No pun intended, but it's emotional and it can bring up all your stuff and it can be easy to kind of just kind of like Flow to or try if you're working me on a mind. You don't get away But to just when things are going Peer-shaped to run away and that's when you need to support the most because there's never any judgment. Anyway, I could talk about these pages anyway Short calls like that every week and then based on that longer calls. I do hypnosis. I do nlp as I said Uncovering timelines limiting beliefs depending on what the person needs. So it's very bespoke Some and then another reason is when you're rolling you probably don't need to see me so much You can kind of be on your own and when you're having a hard time We have more so I don't have a set you get this many hours this kind of package. It's you know It's built with the person. I don't have a lot of availability for one-on-one because I'm only one person Um, and then my group it's called why weight and it's got the infinity like from the thing I'm really excited about it all lining up and technically weight Is in weight on your body But the reason it's an infinity is why weight because these habits can be in anything I actually have a few people in my membership who didn't want to drop weight More about doing things sustainably continually all that sort of stuff. We meet four times a month as a group Live we're varying time zones because I'm in Australia and I have people in the US and people in the UK And they're all recorded. So if you can't come live, you can watch them You can ask questions beforehand. We have a really super active Facebook group The only one I've seen just as active is your master heart George Because one of my pet peas is an active Facebook group is a promo and I get there it's tumble weeks, but anyway And it's really supportive and we have fun. It doesn't have to be dreary We have a scavenger hunt every month where you've got little things that you do Um, it's all voluntary and then I send a prize to somebody who's who's completed it. Um, yeah I like to make it fun And then my short courses. I just finished up my first one Called reboot your resolve. It was really good. We had a blast and they're available as home study So, um, I'm gonna be aiming to do one every month or two a month life It depends but you can purchase any of them as the recording afterwards And then if if you just want to like sauce me out and see if you like my vibe, I get it My newsletter goes out, um, genuinely once a week and I have some form of Tip update thing something it's I just share my newsletter because I don't like ones that are just I'm sorry. I shouldn't say that I don't like ones that just go read my blog So I do like to give something juicy for people for signing up for it And um, yeah, and there's some special offers and stuff from time to time in there Cool very good. So I'm gonna have the links in the notes of the video So if you liked what you saw here today, please do check out one of Suzanne's offering Some of you are saying, you know, I just want to work one on one with Suzanne. That's great. Contact her about her availability If not, maybe join her program or check out her her short course And definitely if you want kind of ongoing inspiration and motivation and and tips Check out Suzanne's newsletter. So I'll have those all in there Thank you so much Suzanne. Is there any kind of uh, send off you want to share with us and in terms of our how we can You know be better in our meeting our goals Just be it starts with kindness Being really kind to ourselves because when we are feeling that stress and overwhelm we're tending to want to eat Because I could start a whole thing on that but because sometimes guilt is easy to deal with then disappointment and that sort of stuff So start to the kindness awareness when you realize you're doing it It feels like you're taking a step backward But awareness is key to be able to shift from that struggle into success and just keep going in perfect action Trump's perfect inaction any day. Awesome. Thank you so much Suzanne. Appreciate your time today. Thanks, George