We have an exciting announcement for you today, and some fun things as well. My name is Gloria Said, and I'd like to welcome all of you here for this exciting announcement today.  How about that? Okay, okay. Before we get started, I would like to say that my name is Gloria Said. I didn't say that already. I'm the Community Development Director for the City of Columbia, and we've been working over the past 18 months or so to put together a child savings account program. So we're excited that we've finally got to the day where we're ready to have the kickoff. It basically aligns with the city's 20-year Envision Columbia plan. They have seven focus areas and one specifically called Empowering Our Residence, and we have our little residents right here. So this is a way for us to continue to work toward those goals that our city council has set for us by providing this particular program. Ms. Councilwoman Devine was very instrumental in getting this going and expressing her concerns, and one of her major platforms is about empowering our residents. So having said that, I am basically just going to step aside and let her give you a lot of information about what this program is all about. Thank you, Gloria. Good morning. All right. Good morning, boys and girls. How are y'all today? Good. Well, as Ms. Said said, my name is Tamika Isaac Devine. I am an at-large council member and the Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Columbia, and it is so such my honor to be able to be here today. As Gloria talked about 18 months, I think this has probably been in my head for the last five or six years, and so I'm glad that we are finally able to be here and announce and kick off Columbia Kids Save. So just so for the folks who are here and the little ones, let me explain to you a little bit about what Columbia Kids Save is. So boys and girls, do you guys like money? Do you like to do things with your money? So what the City of Columbia wants to do is help you guys get some money and save it up so that you can do some really great things in the future. And so Columbia Kids Save is a pilot program and it is our new Children's Savings Account program for the City of Columbia. The City of Columbia is partnering with Richland School District 1, who you'll hear from representatives in just a few minutes, to provide and set up child savings accounts for kindergarten students. We're going to start here at Watkins Nance. This is going to be our pilot, but our goal and our intent will be to make this city-wide in the next few years. But what we'll be doing is we will open up an account for all of these boys and girls here at Watkins Nance who just started their kindergarten year, and we will open the accounts, open it up for them in their name, and Columbia will provide seed funding. We will put $50 in the account for each of these students, and then we will match dollar for dollar for the first $50 that they save as they go through the year. The reason that we decided to do this program, and Gloria talked about our initiative at Vision Columbia, but quite frankly statistics show us that long-term savings accounts help children and their family build savings. It helps them with asset building and it helps them see the possibilities for the future. Saving for college, what they're going to do once they get out of school, and what we do know is that when you start young and you give education, financial education specifically at a young age, you're building a lifetime skill that they will need long after they graduate from 12th grade. So this pilot program is for K-5 students, but we're going to start here at Watkins Nance for this year's class, the kindergarten class 2018-2019, and as our desire again, as I mentioned, to expand the program after a few years. This program is an opt-in only program, so the parents will need to fill out an application and allow us to open these accounts. But as I mentioned, once we open the account, the city will do the initial deposit of $50 for each of these students, and then we will match dollar for dollar throughout the duration of the first year up to $50. The deposits will be made here at Watkins Nance, so they don't have to leave here and go to a bank, but we will have our partner bank that will come here to the school and accept the deposits from the children. So from five cents to 25 cents to a dollar or whatever you guys have, you come in here to school and the banker will deposit it, and then you will see your money grow over the course of the year. Our reason for doing the Columbia Kids Save program is to jumpstart kids' savings for college. We do know that higher education sometimes is cost prohibitive, and we hear about it all the time, and we want these kids not only to see themselves going to school after they graduate, but we also want them to see how important it is to save and have financial education. We partnered with Watkins Nance for several reasons. Number one, it is a Title I school within the city limits of the city of Columbia, and it's also located in one of community development's target areas, and then personally I just have to say they have an amazing principal, and so I knew that this was the great place to start. Not only will we set up the savings accounts and do the initial deposit, but through partnering with Richland One, each of the children and their families will get over the course of a year financial education. We do know that with everything that kids have to learn during a school day, it is impossible for us to teach them everything that they need to within the confines of a school day, and so unfortunately kids don't really get financial education the way we would like to see it in elementary or even in any of the K-12 schools, and so having this will have an opportunity to give them some additional financial education, but the big part that I'm really excited is it's not just for them, it's for their families as well, and so the parents will also get financial education, talk about saving, building assets, understanding, balancing, checking accounts, what happens when you get money in and then you spend money and that money is now gone and how you have to build more money, so all of that will be part of it and we're so excited for the curriculum that Richland One and specifically Dr. Norton here at White Constance has provided that will support the families throughout this. We are so so excited to have three banking partners and you'll hear from one of them in a few minutes, but our partners with this program are South State Bank, Security Federal Bank, and First Citizens Bank, and they're all represented here today, so and I'll introduce those representatives in a few minutes, but White Constance will take on the role of educating the parents and the children about the opportunities and in addition the city will also bring our other resources. The Child Savings Account is just our newest addition to all of the things that we're trying to do to empower our citizens financially, so we've got our IDA accounts, our individual development accounts that the Community Development Department has had for many, many years. We also have our Bank On Program, which is introducing adults to banking relationships and helping them with understanding developing a banking relationship and saving, so this is just one piece and it's focusing on our most important residents, our kids. South State Bank will take on the role of housing the CSAs and as I mentioned they have graciously agreed to send a representative to the school to accept the deposits, because that way we know that no one will have any barriers, transportation, location to get that money deposited, but the banking representative will come here. The biggest part is in addition to, well not the biggest part, but another part in addition to actually the financial incentives, matching dollar for dollar up to that first hundred dollars, what we are going to also do is provide incentives throughout the year, so and I'm going to put him on the spot and he's not here, but boys and girls, how many of y'all would love for the mayor to come have lunch with you guys? Yeah, so we've got Lauren Harper in the back representing the mayor's office, so for kids who save, if you save some money, one of the things could be the mayor actually coming and having lunch with you here in your school.  I know my kids love to get free stuff and so we're looking for other partners to help us provide other incentives, so this is just going to be a really, really fun program opportunity, not just to teach our kids lifelong lessons, but also an opportunity to get them excited about saving and getting their families excited about saving. Lastly, before I introduce some of our other speakers, it is so important that this program is directly aligned with Envision Columbia. Columbia Kids Save hits our focus areas and so Envision Columbia has a goal that we have that we want to achieve by 2036 and part of it is attracting and retaining talent, empowering our residents and economic prosperity and endless possibilities and when we think about those goal areas, this really hits the heart of that. When these kids in 2036, when they have started a savings account at five and six years old, just imagine what they can have if they continue to save after this first year and so we're so excited about how that directly aligns with what we want to do here in the city of Columbia and the desired goal that we have in 2036. This program will actually be the very first program in South Carolina like this, but it's not the first program in the country. We will be joining other cities like San Francisco, New York, Boston, St. Louis and Durham, North Carolina that have all had very successful child savings account programs and so we're happy to take the lead in South Carolina to start this program and really show that this can happen here specifically in the south. And so with that said, I'll come back at the end and answer any questions that the media may have, but I would like to first introduce, if I could, vice chairman of the Richland School District 1 and the District 2 representative which Watkins Nance is part of his district and then I have to say my other half. Introduce Commissioner Jamie Devine for some remarks. Just to start real quick with a quote, I like to quote famous people so Nobel Peace Prize winner economist James Heckman argues that investments made during a child's earliest years offer the biggest bang for the buck, creating significant long-term benefits for both child and society. Child savings account programs and all children, the message that they have, the potential and the support needed for academic success and economic mobility regardless of where they come from and from their family finances. According to the Center for Social Justice Development, a low and moderate income child with a savings account of $500 or more is more than three times likely to attend college than a child with no savings account. And again we're thankful today to our partners who are here, the different banks that are represented and so we're thankful for what they provided to us in continuing to transform lives here in Richland School District 1 and we look forward to you all being the future of us in the next 16 to 18 years. You all will be standing going to college or in entrepreneurial role hopefully attending a two-year college with preferably Midlands Tech here locally but if not wherever you go again we want to start right here today and in the future right here. And while I'm here I also want to recognize two of my colleagues, Ms. Lila Anasals and Ms. Beatrice King who is in the audience as well. I want to say thank you guys for ladies for attending as well and again on behalf of the Richland Board of School Commissioners we're here to say thank you again to our partners, to our superintendent and staff and to what I think is one of the hard-working principals in this district, Dr. Linda Norton. Thank you for allowing us to have this program in your school. And to the young people always remember this is where it starts, this is where it begins. Have a great morning. Well good morning. And anytime we can gather and celebrate and invest in our young people is a great day here in Richland 1. To Councilwoman Devine and those our partners that have put this together, first thing we want to say is thank you. Again if we're talking about how do we grow a community, how do we grow generations to come? This is what happens. This is how we invest in our young people and kindergartners what is our mascot? A rocket which means you fly through space and you move from point A to point B. So what's happening today? You're going to get some fuel if you will, some rocket fuel, some funds and those funds are going to grow, which means that rocket tank might contain this much fuel but throughout the years that tank is going to grow and grow and grow so you can take that rocket and go into space and move forward.  To grow that fuel and to take these funds and grow it, it's going to take a little time but that's okay because sometimes the great things in life take a little time but it's going to benefit you. So again to our partners and young people you have to, I mean older folks you got to forgive me I got to talk to the kids. But again imagine all of us coming together to support what goes on in the lives of these young people make us a better community, a better community even today, right now. We're better than we were in terms of what we invest and what we spend with our young folks. So certainly to City Councilwoman Divine, the mayor, our partners, we thank you. We thank you for the investment. We thank you for the vision and we thank you most of all for the partnership because we know it takes all of us coming together to provide for our young folks and we're just so excited and elated to be a part and here at Watkins Nance as we grow in Principal Norton, we thank you so much for your hard work and the staff here in our community that supports these young people and this is a great day and a great opportunity to celebrate the future. And I'll leave, we all like to use quotes, I'll leave you a Chinese proverb that talks about one generation planting a tree and the next generation realizing that shade. So we're planting a tree today that might take about 18 or so years, but that shade tree is going to grow. So thank you so very much. Thank you all for being a part. Thank you. Again, we couldn't do this program without our partners. We were able, and Gloria talked about 18 months and I said six years, the big challenge for us was really to figure out how we could get this done. And so although the will of council in the city was behind getting it done, honestly, legally we had some limitations on how we were going to be able to provide the funding for this. And so we had the idea, we had the partnerships, we had the vision, but we didn't have the money. And that is the key to this program. And so because we could not put public funds in this pilot program, we had to seek partners. And I will tell you that Columbia is blessed that we have so many amazing banking partners throughout our city. And all, we had several who just said, how can I help? What can we do? And so we have three banking partners that are helping us with the pilot program, which will help us for the first couple years so that we can really tweak it and see how it goes. And then again, we will be looking at ways to expand it district-wide, city-wide so that we will need more funding in the future. And we've got some ideas on how we were able to do that. But in order to do the pilot, we had three banks step up and donate $5,000 apiece. We have First Citizens Bank, who James Bennett couldn't be here today, but he did send Brian, and I'm going to get it right. I'm sorry, Brian. Brian, would you stand and thank you so much, Brian, for being here, representing First Citizens. And thank you for your commitment and support of helping us. We also have Security Federal. And you'll hear from Kathy Snipes in a few minutes. And then we also have Montague Lafitte, who is the regional vice president of South State Bank. So again, each of these three banks donated $5,000. And so I would like to just ask if Kathy would come forward from Security Federal to talk. And then after that, Montague will come up. And South State Bank, again, in addition to their $5,000 put in their money where their mouth is, they have committed to send a banking representative to this bank, to the school to receive all the deposits for these students. And then they will house the accounts for us. And then I want to show you guys. And each of you will actually get your own piggy bank. So this is where you're going to save your money. And so South State Bank has provided all the piggy banks so that we have the kids can save their money and then bring in the piggy banks for their deposits. So I would ask if Kathy would come up and then after Kathy, Montague would come up. Good morning, boys and girls. On behalf of Security Federal Bank, we are so excited to be a partner with you and to serve you. And we know the power in learning to save at an early age. We have a Looney Tune program where we have representatives that go into schools such as this and do just what South State has committed to do. And we're so excited to be a part of this. Boys and girls, we have some goodies for you in the back as well. And one is in your pencil bag. It's a card where you save a quarter. You put it, when you have an extra quarter, or you save a quarter, you just put it in this card. And when you have it full, you have $10 to put in your new account. So just want to encourage you to save and tell you again, thank you. We're just happy to be a partner with you. And anyway, we can help just please reach out to us. Thank you and happy savings. Kids, are y'all excited? I tell you, I've got three kids that are probably between your ages and 10 years old, and they are not nearly as well-behaved as you guys are. So y'all have done a remarkable job. How about give yourself a hand? Real quick, I want to touch on three kind of statistics that we see in the workplace and in family life that I think really speaks to this program and some of the things that we're trying to do as a bank to make not just Columbia, but the state of South Carolina a little bit stronger. 19% of all American households have accumulated debt over time to pay for expenses associated with college or higher education. Roughly half of Americans say they don't have a personal budget or family budget to deal with day-to-day expenses, and a significant number of South Carolinians don't use the banking system at all or are considered underbanked. And so this program right here helps to start savings at a very young age that will help plan for the future. And as Dr. Witherspoon said, y'all have a bright future and this is the fuel for your rocket. Again, we're committed to improving the lives of South Carolinians and improving the lives of young people here in Columbia. We have started a bank and school program that enables students to build relationships with bankers. And these bankers come into the school just like Stephanie Betty will here at Watkins Nance. So far we've served 26,000 students across the state, and we're ecstatic about growing that number starting right here at Watkins Nance Elementary. So again, y'all have done a great job today. I know you will continue to do a great job every time you find a piece of money on the ground or some extra money somewhere. We encourage you to put it in the piggy bank and bring it to school, and we'll in turn put it in a bank account that will continue to grow over time. So again, thank you to Mayor Benjamin. I know he's not here to Councilwoman Devine, Dr. Witherspoon, Dr. Norton, and all the folks at the city that have allowed us to be a part of this program. Thanks so much and have a great day. I have acknowledged my colleagues before, but I have to say it again because and staff knows this. I'm kind of the idea Council person, you know, I go somewhere, I come back with an idea and, you know, and I expected to get done, but I'm only one person. But currently I am serving as vice chair and will send a chair next year of the Council on Youth Education and Families for National League of Cities. And that is where I first learned about Child Savings Accounts throughout the country. And all of them were in larger cities and none were in the south. And for the media, if you need, I can show you actually my husband took my other folder, but okay. So I can show you a map of the Child Savings Accounts programs. I don't need it right now, Quentin, just for media if you want. And it's on a website, the Child Savings Accounts programs throughout the country. There are none in South Carolina, Georgia or Florida. And so when you look at the south, the closest one in south is Durham and they they've just started their pilot two years ago. And so again, this is very innovative for us here in South Carolina. And there were a lot of obstacles legal and otherwise of getting it done. But you know, but when I came back and said, this is what I want to get done. My colleagues, the city manager and our community development staff said, okay, we can get it done. And so I want to thank Gloria Said, our director of community development, who is here, say, rave again. And Ron Scott, where did Ron go? And Ron Scott, I mean, Ron King, I'm sorry, I always do that to him, Ron King, who is administering this program and our bank on program. They have worked frivolously. And they have worked tirelessly with me over the last 18 months of saying, okay, how can we get this done? And so, but in addition to those two, the entire community development staff, they are a team and Gloria, I can't read. And Lynette, okay, yes, Lynette, and y'all will get to know Lynette. I'm getting to know Lynette and Lynette is getting to know me with my big ideas. And so Lynette is in community development as well. But the entire community development team, you know, there are people who are not here, but they are a team and they help get this done. I mentioned the partnership with Richland one, but definitely Dr. Lorton Norton and Ms. Liles. The two of them are the principal and vice principal of this wonderful school. If y'all will wave your hands. Thank you so much. I'm going to tell you, these ladies have so many ideas that the kids and these families will get support throughout this entire program. And I've just been in awe of everything that they have brought to the table at trying to make sure that not only is this program meaningful to the young men and women, the boys and girls, but to their families. And so this really will be a transformative program. And I'm so excited for them. I also want to thank, in their absence, over the years I've had interns who have worked on this program with me. Like I said, this has been in my head for about six years. So Mattal, I am worn and Amani Belton, I both I sent both of them emails today. Neither one are still in Columbia. They were students who work with me on this program, but I have to thank them in their absence because they did the initial research on child savings accounts throughout the country, what works, what doesn't work, what would work here, and gave us the foundation on how we were going to get started. And then lastly, the city manager in her absence because she is always very supportive of everything that I bring back and and says, let's get it done. And we we are finally here. So with that, I will answer any questions that the media may have before we have our last little surprise for the boys and girls. So I honestly, I we have roughly around 75 Linda in kindergarten right now. Our hope is to get, you know, at least, you know, 80% of those participating. It is an opt-in program. So again, the parents have to fill out the application and they have to allow us to do this. But again, one of the reasons we wanted to do Watkins Nance is the support that Dr. Norton and her staff give the families and the relationship that they have with the families. You know, one of the things that we do know is that especially when you're talking finances, when you're talking meetings, different things, you know, people, quite honestly, sometimes are a little bit weary. And we want to make sure that our families have the support and the information necessary to know that this is a good program for their children and their families. And so with Dr. Norton's support, I think that she will have personal touches with all the families. We do have some families represented here at the press conference today. So our hope is about 80%. But after the first year, we'll kind of know how that is. Monique talked about, or Kathy talked about the Looney Tunes savings that Security Federal has. My child's school has the Looney Tunes savings. And they're usually roughly around 40% that participate in that program. So it will start with, it starts with this group in kindergarten. And our goal is to follow this group of young people through fifth grade. And so the incentives will be for the first year, the financial incentives will be through the first year up to the $100. But after that, we're looking at other incentives. So as I mentioned, potentially the mayor coming, we could get other folks who come in the school. What I've learned with the Looney Tunes savings at my child's school, and there is no financial incentive there. But the kids, my little one is Friday morning, she's like, Mommy, I need my deposit because they get pencils and stickers. So you don't have to do a whole lot to incentivize. And so our goal is after the first year to keep incentives up, they won't be the dollar for dollar match. But there'll be others so that after, you know, when these young people leave in fifth grade, we'll see how their savings has grown. Honestly, the highest hurdle probably is the fact that our goal is for this to be savings for post secondary education. But the reality is, and Monica, you talked about some of the statistics regarding debt. The reality is we do know that we deal with families who have crises that come up where finances are needed. And so we have we have designed the program very specifically to there is a restriction on our dollars that can be withdrawn. However, we cannot restrict dollars that the children put in themselves. And so probably I would imagine the highest hurdle that I understand that a lot of other states have is that families quite honestly have emergencies that come up and they need to withdraw money. And so our hope is to be able and that's why we want to make sure we're bringing other resources to the table so that we're working with the families. And so, you know, if you have an issue that comes up, you need, you know, rent, you have a medical expense, you have, you know, fix your car that we have other resources within the community that we could be bringing to the table and making them aware of so that the first line is not going and taking out this money, but maybe having, you know, a community resource that can help you with that issue. It's definitely the families.  And so it certainly it helps us understand not only, you know, are you saving for your child's future, but you're saving for financial stability and you're building an asset for the entire family. And so the piece that will be really big is that the kids will learn age-appropriate financial education, but the parents will also learn the same information at their level. And so it's complementary. And so not only are we educating the young people, but we're educating the entire family. And what we do know is that when you educate the entire family about financial resources, about stability, asset building, saving, it helps them head off those issues that Monica, you talked about in statistics, when you have a medical bill that you have to deal with and you don't have savings, it'll hopefully encourage them. And I mentioned, you know, this is just a piece of what the city has and what it brings to the table. So the families will know about our individual development accounts, which is basically the similar account for adults. And as you save, the only three things that they can take the money out, the money is used for starting a business, going back to school, or buying home. And so, you know, the parents will have the ability to have access to that program as well. And so as their children are saving, they might say, yay, city, I want the IDA, and they may open an account as well. You know, Ron and his team have financial education about banking, about budgeting. I mentioned the bank on program, which is developing relationships with the banks and having your account in a bank. And so that'll be available to the families as well. So all those resources will be utilized to support the entire family. So all the whole family will get the education, but they'll also get the resources. And I don't want to put her on the spot. But Linda, can you come up? Because, yes, can you come up because she has some amazing ideas. So I want her to address that a little bit. But, you know, honestly, we know that, yeah, we learned to write in checks, but quite honestly, who's writing checks these days? Most people are not writing checks. So they'll get some of that information as well, but we'll also, you know, teach them about credit and debt.  I'd want something. She said, I don't have the money. I'm like, write a check. You know, I didn't quite understand that writing a check means you had to have money in the bank to actually buy what you wanted. And so I laugh because now my children or years ago, they were the same. They're like, well, just, just use your credit card. And I realize, you know, you swiping a card, they're not seeing money passing, but they don't realize that means you have to have money to back up either paying that bill when it comes to do, or if you're doing a debit card, money in the bank. And so those are the things that we'll learn. And, you know, Lauren and others kind of keep me up on all this bit currency and that kind of stuff. So I'm sure we'll have to make that part of it. So as the program grows, we'll add in some of that stuff. But I'm going to let Stephanie and Linda talk about some of the things that they've had that they're going to be teaching. Good morning. We are so excited. I'm a representative from South State.  So the thing about today, technology, he said about writing checks. I can teach you about writing checks, but the most thing that kids understand now is plastic cards. They don't understand the physical money part of it, but they do know what a debit and credit card is, right? Yeah. So that's one of the things I would like to bring in to teach kids about. Also having them, you know, bringing their money, you know, showing them how to count their money is a simple stuff like that. And I'm just so excited that to be a representative of South State. And I look forward to working with all you all. Yes, I would you say so. I told Dr. Winterspoon, I am not a media person. We're going to do our best to possibly integrate all content areas in the skills that the kids develop, specifically with math and with writing and reading. Our big word to start with would be deposits, deposits. So they will learn that not only am I putting money in an account, but I'm investing in myself. So often as adults, we have emergencies that come up. And then we find ourselves maybe sometimes getting a loan and not really having a backup plan. So we want our kids to start early. So we want them to start now looking at their money and adding it. And then they will learn, learn what interest means. Like someone's going to give me more money if I put my money in a bank. So they're going to work on all of those skills, even in their classes, learning early. And what happens when we want to send a message to our parents, we always use the kids. We tell them, we're going to have a program tomorrow. Tell mommy, you have to come. So parents, they're soft when it comes to their babies. So they're going to go home excited. Like Councilwoman Devine said, and they're going to say, I need my deposit. I need to put my money in the bank. Parents listen to their kids. And they're also going to say, you can't take it out because that's my money. So that we're going to use them to teach the parents as well. So this is going to be an awesome program. And we're going to embed it in our entire curriculum.


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He was up there on your boat cover this morning Yeah Hit the fire going He dropped a marshmallow the other night and he tried to bury it. Yeah I gave him a bone yesterday and he was chewing on it over the over his bowl And then he dropped it and fell I was a boy. He was done with that bone. Yeah, he wouldn't touch it again He does not like dirt on his food He's a human We'll be back with you as this is the end of this is the end of day three. Yeah What happened? It's yourself. I did not we're looking above and I hit you with the door. I went to look out Because she said I'm gonna go check the mail. I said, okay, I went to bathroom come out and she wasn't in Yeah, I thought maybe she's starting to get stuff out of the truck cuz we're not unpacked yet We just pulled in. Yeah, so I was like, well give her a hand So I went to look out and just as I looked out I seen a bun and Stars She opened up the door and hit me right in a snonker there So anyway, this is the end of day three not a lot happened today except We was hoping them praying to get back into town Yeah That coal pack why put another one on it and it run fine cold the other one was opposite It ran fine hot but when it's cold it didn't want to run right and the one I put on there I thought was a new one but It ran fine cold, but as soon as it got up to operating temperature it just started dropping the cylinder So we come back It's only running on three cylinders pulling that boat up and down hills and it got to where it was floored So we made it into town. We pulled into auto zone I just bought one and threw it on there seemed to be running fine now So but they were all four put on at the same time. So yeah, so we'll see and the last time We put all four on she had to go to four different stores to get them terrible Because he says well because it was eighty one dollars and he says or I got 261 dollars and buy a form like yeah, I can do that, but he says I'll have to order me and I said now I need it now Yeah, so cuz she got work tomorrow, I would have just waited and put all four in tomorrow and kept the three good ones Yeah, so anyway, so not much happened a we didn't go back out on the lake. So Which you know should have been a 35 minute Ride home and end up being about 45 minutes But that's okay. The old truck did good. All right guys So hope you enjoyed the trip with us and hope we filmed everything good enough. Don't forget check her out She's she's got some good footage, too But I only got like said only got one one one clip of the fish that I caught because They were playing music and stuff like that and I Hate overdubbing shit, you know voiceovers, but you get the idea. So Anyway, monkey did good She caught two fishies. Yep. All right. Now. We know what to do. Yeah It's a free go there again. We'll go fishing at night time. Yeah Well That way we don't have to be charged to park there. Yeah, and when I charge you to park there, it's ridiculous So it was after hours So I eventually brought the truck up there and just parked it because people that live there We're we're up there fishing and they parked their cars. I'm sure the public boat ramp Yeah, but I'm bit. I don't know about that it the parking there if they own it or not I don't know. Well, yeah, it's public. That's that's a state. I don't know how they get away with charging It's a state park. So it's not $15 It's $7 for every night parking a night per vehicle, right? Well, that's for Vehicle and trailer a vehicle is $5 Whether overnight or not. So if you go down there after they close nobody's there to say anything Right. Oh, it's hardly anybody there anyway and people that are there are idiots, but oh Well, we caught some fish. Yeah, we slaughtered them last night. Yeah. Yeah, so all right guys So again, thanks for watching. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it Mike says stop and I'll buy y'all don't forget check out her channel. She's got some good footage, too So we'll see you guys soon. Shea Bird met the man legend gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care


Oh, let's do, let's do. I like my color of chess, but I want to attract some other clothes. No, I can't second both games. And this is our Monocled Reborn Marathon weekend. Especially that first game. I would have been so close to winning that game. Everyone lined up on boardwalk after, and I just lined up and landed. If you want to know what the games are made, I made one more house early. Let me find you the link. Everyone has to pass. Someone's going to hit. I think I said that. I said the same thing man. So what the boardwalk of park plays. Here's basically the last video we put out for the Monopoly. And it's it'll explain the game and it links to another video that we have with the rules. If you see the description of the video and it'll provide a link to the rules that we're playing. It's a variant rules Monopoly game that we deal out. Okay. Welcome back brother. Welcome back brother. Welcome back. Glad to have you. This is fun. We're enjoying this very much. I hope you guys are enjoying as well. Okay, we're going to go at it. Hope you guys enjoy. In that, I'm going to win. Okay, let's roll. Who gets the card? These are shuffles. I'm going to do a cut. Eight to B. Did Baha put in here? I did. I'm not like green. Should we do two chips? It's time man. Warm up is over. Let's go. Last game is 20. Okay, today is the first day. Ten chips. Nice loot. We should do one chip aside in a different pot and anybody that wins three in a row gets it. Oh, like Rami Bank. Three in a row? Two. It doesn't need everyone. No, because if someone wants to join later, it won't work. Yeah, of course. We'll play more games tomorrow. Four-way time. Who didn't get an A? We all got an A.  The other side. It's not our place. Purple. That's the public. If you won't need your cars on the table. Oh, nice. That's not good. I got you. Who did he got that property? That's that for me. I like Rami's setup. You got first. Two reds and a boardwalk. And boardwalk. And these properties are left out. So these people can buy. Seven twenty. You're seven twenty. Seven twenty. There's money on the table now. Because boardwalk is up. And two reds, yeah. What am I? Seven twenty. What are you leaving? Give me one of your guys. Seven twenty. Wait, let me recount. How much do you have? Five fifty. Me? What did you say? I said nine forty. Eight sixty is eight forty. So someone needs a hundred more dollars or a hundred less? Minus seven twenty for me. Minus seven twenty for what? Eight forty. Five fifty? Eight hundred now. You got those? Double check mine guys. Mine double check. Oh I'm eight twenty. So you need a hundred more. So eight twenty. Eight twenty. You gave me seven twenty? Double check. Double check. Eight twenty. Four forty. Four forty. Four forty. Maybe that's the twenty dollars. Plus. Four forty equals that. Minus eight twenty. Minus eight forty. Eight forty minus five fifty. Seven twenty. That's even better. Wait up, wait up, wait up. We just finished. I'm giving you these three. Fifty bucks for one. You didn't say that. So you want the two yellows? You'll be able to make all the yellows. What do you mean the reds? You got two yellows? No fifty bucks man. You're getting the best. I still have to make deals. Do you want to do the offset though? And you won. I'm giving you the best. I mean that's a good deal for you. You're reds out. Because I have a better set than you. We have a deal. My cards are better than yours. Why wouldn't you do this? You're not sitting pretty without me. I'll give you these three. You're getting value. You're giving me one. That's sixty. I'm giving you four real rules. Is this fair? This is a good deal. I'll give you these three. I'll give you these two. You want the old deal. Let's go. You went that way. I have enough cash to build. That's the only reason I'm trying this. I'll give you these two. I'll give you these two. I'll give you these two. Let's play. I like the purple. This is what we ended up with. This is what I got. This is what I got. I got the utility waterworks. I got two of these guys and one red. This is what's sitting out. I got this. It's his favorite. I'm banking on railroads and greens. You got four railroads? You gave four railroads. This is so powerful.  You robbed me in the past. I'll give you the cheap street. Give me these guys. I want the utilities. I'll throw them in the park. What are you talking about? You don't believe in the purple. I used to pay $500 for this. Auction is much different. People are starting with $800. You want this and a red? Without the park place, I don't want the red. You're crazy. I like the cheap street and the utilities. I'm fine with not doing a deal. Do you want to win? Exactly. No reason is this. It's exciting. Who goes first? This is the best game for me. It's all about the railroads. If it's hot, we're screwed.  I'm a ten. He needed it. I'll take it. He needs to buy it. He's dodging. That's $16. You expect people to land on this? You're open lock for $16. Snake guys, go to go. $600. It's happening way too often. We shouldn't be landing there this often. You don't want to count? Why are you suggesting that? That's $560. $6. None of us counted the other game. We all started with $1,700. Why are we not counting? We all paid extra $30. How much are these? $560. Quite a discount. $1,660. That's it. You traded badly. I'll take those. I'm the money maker here. That is a money maker. You owe me $28. He missed that and it's over. Such a bad woman. That's hers. You snuck all the yellows together. I have no choice. Yellows are no good. I gave you two yellows for the rest. I was thinking. You know I collected all the reds in the beginning. Why are you trying to get a $5? Do you want me to get a $5? I don't want to get what you want me to get. $28. I want it in $8. In the beginning I can sip it. You're $200. I'm glad. That's me. You got a $1? I triggered some suspicion. You're too quiet. Sorry, Lily. This is the only railroad landing. One more. One more. He's on Cheek Street too. You're way back late again. $5. $4. $52. $52. $4. $4. $4.


Hello, hope you are well. My name is Frank and welcome back to my channel It is a pleasure to have you here with me today And if you guys need to be reminded about why I call myself the nutrition genius I'm being sarcastic guys. All these other influencers are balding. They're missing their hair.  So I'm gonna show you guys kind of what's going on in my kitchen, pantry, and house just so you have an idea of what I've been doing lately Haven't been feeling so hot. I did 30 burger reviews yesterday. So The thing that really helps with that is the water key for uncharcoal, which I will show you But you know, I was hoping that doing those reviews would help my business grow Even though I'm sacrificing my health now. I'm in this like predicament where basically once or twice a month I have to basically stuff myself with food. That's not you know Look if you go like once a week once a month to have a cheat meal That's one thing but I have to go to 30 different burger restaurants in a day. So a little crazy, but I Got myself into it. So on the counter here. I have my dinner for tonight So my barico pork tenderloin from Frankie's range meat We got organic white jasmine rice and these are actually organic butter beans a little different to cannolini beans I like to taste more Of course, we have our pineapple water fever, which is available on Frankie's range foods.com. There's some more rice in there We haven't been doing the cauliflower lately Over here on the counter. I have some of the beans which I'll show you when we're in the pantry I use the Mountain Valley water right now usually to rinse stuff while I'm drinking the Fuji water Here's some of the rice we have that was some Fiber powder for some plexros haven't done the smoothie in a little while the coconut oil cook with sometimes I put Coconut aminos in my rice maybe like once every two weeks. I don't really use it that much over here on the counter is Some masticum which is powdered up in a coffee grinder. This is available on organ supplements.com I have this with every meal guys very important for H. Pylori And some of you guys probably missed it because it was a few years ago now But I first started having the H. Pylori issues when I drank sheet milk Probably three years ago now and it never really went away because it had compromised liver function So definitely check out the H. Pylori video if you want to learn more about that on the table here We have some charcoal, which I'll usually take one or two capsules with dinner. That's the glass I'm drinking the kefir in some leftover and then that's some aged balsamic vinegar that I put on my steak sometimes So on the other side of the counter. This is all the produce I eat I have apples for dessert every day everything's organic, of course guys if you missed the video on why organic is Basically to reduce agrochemical usage. I think that video is over a year old now Lemons as well. I need to start using these and drinking some lemon juice in the morning for extra vitamin C Some organic onions usually like I'll have a cheat meal where I'll make burgers and I'll saute some onions on the burgers And I bought some potatoes because I need to really Make my french fries instead of eating the ones from the store because they always use vegetable seed oils. Here's some Bread, we were going to that bakery last week you guys saw In the upper-west side nice organic don't have to make it myself Water probably isn't that great, but I have been having some sandwich and potato chip cheat meals So I actually don't have anything my upstairs fridge right now besides some leftover roast beef from a day or two ago I guess I do use this mustard sometimes, but that's literally it into the dining room making my pantry This is the fugee water which we have and some mountain valley water. There's more downstairs I did get the bug spray labels guys. We'll talk about this next week, but you get a little sneak preview here And this is where well Not so much of my food is because I really don't have much variety in my diet The white rice organic lumbar bismati These are some Potato chips I showed you guys them last week the Organic spot love sea salt and vinegar. They're okay. Still vegetable seed oil.  I haven't really been using maple syrup. I was doing pancakes a little while ago, but too much fat really The white chocolate chips, you know, even in those chocolate chip cookies saying too much fat in my diet Some extra coconut aminos here I have some beef broth if I was like making some venison stew But now I just use the cauldron broth from frankies for inch food. It's much higher quality. This has so many ingredients in it So I'm not really a fan of this. They even have some like kind of artificial flavor and coloring in here It says leftover brown rice pasta. It's disgusting. Don't eat that stuff Some oats I never had some barley for stew And then that's just a bunch of like coconut milk coconut cream Sometimes I'll use to make the cookies Sometimes I'll use to like bread a pork cutlet instead of eggs I mean, honestly, the only stuff I really use is the rice And the beans and I have been having the potato chips is cheap meal lately So we're gonna head downstairs into the garage where I have some water and my refrigerator Okay So here is just some water I have I'll bring up like a case or two of the mountain valley a week from The warehouse and I have a few cases of fugee left to do got to stock up though Now in my fridge all I'm really keeping is the water kefir, which I'm out of so Since I'm at the warehouse every single day, you know, I usually have 10 or 12 of these filled up with water kefir And then I'll just get some more when I run out, which is going to be tomorrow morning In this is just the meat. I've been having so we have some of just the local ground beef In white paper and then some go testicles Which I haven't had yet because I kind of need the energy and testosterone boost But I'll literally bring a different steak or beef home every day. So the pork tenderloin is What I was having today I'll never really have more than one or two days worth of meat in my fridge or freezer I don't know. I there's no reason for me to because again, I'm down at Frankie's range meat every day I just kind of pick and bring home what I want and you know, I kind of like some variants here and there so Thank you guys for joining me. If you have any questions about What I've been doing what I've been eating, please let me know down in the comments below I don't think I missed anything. Oh, yeah. So when I go do those burger reviews, I'll drink water kefir Have probiotics charcoal and masticum with basically every single review so Before I had that and was doing that kind of protocol during the reviews The first whenever I just I felt like I was gonna I would like I'm never doing this again, but that stuff did help a lot and It does alleviate the negatives and damage of a cheat meal But I would say normally when you do something like that and pig out a lot You know, you're probably damaging your liver to some degree You're damaging your gut microbiome and it's pretty bad for your cellular health but The water kefir the masticum the charcoal that sort of prevents almost all of the damage So normally, you know when I'm eating a meal like the pork the rice the beans I'm healing my body. I'm eating something healthy. There's nothing negative in it It's positive from that nutrient perspective and it also has no negatives but The cheat meal transformation with the water kefir and the masticum and the charcoal it really just removes the negative so It's definitely better than not having it and I'm not actually really Damaging my health as much as you would think doing something like that, but You guys can go to frank-define.com to check out all my businesses Of course, I'm wearing my wi-fi shielding shirt and pants Feel a lot better in them Keep moving all day. No real issues with energy Thanks again for joining guys. Please drop a like on the video Leave a comment down below Subscribe so that youtube can unsubscribe me next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't Notify you of my videos as I said guys frank-define.com


We were just speaking in the studio about the potentiality and likelihood of Kenyan football stars representing us on an international platform regarding advertising, Kenyan tourism and representing our brands internationally. We are getting thrown led by Viktor Anyama, Michael Ingenio Lunga. I don't know, but be part of the program, join the conversation as well, talk to us what's your position regarding the same brand. Do we have what it takes to front a name that can advertise Kenya on a global map or probably with time we can have one? I think the conversation behind the scenes was interesting, it depends on what you want to sell, what are you marketing and is the person that you want to front for example as a brand ambassador for whatever you are doing suitable for that. You go into athletics and I look at somebody like Elliot Kipchogi, I think there's been Isuzu, he's now the brand ambassador for Isuzu, so it's relevant for that brand, it works well. When it comes to promoting our tourism here, perhaps they would look at somebody like Kwanyama who is out there consistently and help him or package him in a way that he can sell the country. And his name is allegorical too. But then again it depends on how you, like you said, education is also very important here. How do you package this person to be able to articulate whatever issues that you want him to address? So it could be issues of climate change for example, we are seeing more and more of these things, it could be something like wildlife conservation. So you need to be able to work with that individual to sell what it is that the country or the continent wants to sell. But at the same time want to go back and challenge Kenya and the continent. We are only always looking at players as brand ambassadors. How come we don't look and also look at the people who are managing the sport? Because more often than not you find that in football spaces these are people who have brought disrepute to the country and to the continent. Why can't we think about changing that? Because it doesn't matter how good Kwanyama does out there trying to sell the country and people come to the country and they find the football here is a mess. You don't have the credibility. Imagine if football in Kenya was thriving and we are filling stadiums every other weekend and still we have our Kwanyama and our Lungas out there marketing our country and our football. How powerful would that be? So we also need to look at ourselves, be it in the media, be it us who are trying to be entrepreneurial and managing the side of the game. We are all brand ambassadors. The event we have just organized, the inaugural Africa Football Business Summit, it got international coverage. If we had not done it well, what kind of image would that portray? It would have attracted global attention. Exactly. We had people from AS, Monaco, TST, Eastdale Low Business School, Parmas. These are all international brands that were represented in that room that I said a job well done. We will come back next year. So it's not just the players. Let's not focus too much on the players and give them a lot of pressure to sell something that is not sellable. Let's work on developing the industry here and changing the reputation that the game has in the country on the continent. Brian, you got overwhelming passion for football and you started this at a tender age. Unlike what we witnessed locally, people who got interest for football starting a club, an academy, which is out of day care. What drove you to venture into football entrepreneurship? One, we don't hear about sports entrepreneurship on the continent. It's something we don't address.  These are entrepreneurial ventures, but they don't think of themselves as such. So this is a gap you kind of realize. The other thing is that I came to the realization, having played the game very competitively both here and abroad. Yes, we have so much passion, we have so much talent, we spend a lot of time and energy in the sport, but just looking back, I started to wonder how come this sport is not creating opportunity for young people. You move around this city of Nairobi and you look at the average footballers. Let's not talk about those who are playing at the KPL, but the majority. Down there, you talk to the young people who are trying to make it. And you see a struggle, a struggle that needs to be addressed. And the only way we're going to address this is to bring entrepreneurship, to bring sanity in the management of the game in the continent. It's not about how many players we can try to push into the European market. For me, that's not a sustainable business model. How many players can you sell in a year? Maybe one or two, if you are very lucky, if you're running a top notch academy. And then you wait for how long before you sell another player. In the meantime, you're wasting thousands of talents going through your hands, but since they don't have opportunities to play abroad, then they will give up on their sport. And that results in other issues that maybe we need another forum to discuss. But that's really what drove me to set up the Football Foundation for Africa. How do we drive more resources into grassroots football so that we start to create a sustainable football ecosystem? So my passion actually now goes beyond just football. For me it's a passion for the youth of Africa. Because I feel we are disadvantaged and we have a great platform that we can use to empower ourselves and to empower communities. And for me that is football. A world football governing body thief, of course, suspended Kenya of government interference, sporting activities, but that will not probably the talk of our discussion this particular afternoon. But you know, World Cup is coming up in Qatar later this year starting next year. Starting next month until December and Africa is represented by Ebo Nations, led by the Black Stars of Ghana, Senegal, the defending champions for Afgan, Egypt are also there. What are our chances, continental chances? Because it's been at all orders defying all odds and probably getting to the semi-final stage. Is this time ours? Or we failed capitalizing on home soil in 2010? I think it will be difficult. You being realistic? I'm being realistic. Maybe quarter finals if we are lucky to have a team in the semi-final that I think it would be a job well done. But that's why I say we have not really tried to develop the game holistically. Just thinking of the talents. Look at a team like Senegal, world class stars. We are taking a team to the world cup that everybody is playing abroad. But do you know even one club from Senegal? Can you name a club from Senegal right now? Or a player playing in the Senegalese League? That's the challenge. And that's the truth by there. I can't remember naming a Senegalese club. So we haven't developed home? We haven't developed home. And the few who are making out, we push them to a pedestal. We try to say this is our only sign of success. You talk to people in Nigeria. They will tell you how badly their football is doing. Despite them having hundreds of players in different leagues in Europe. So it is really important that we start to focus on building sustainable which is one of the top class, strengthening our own leagues. Tanzania is trying their dream quite well and we can see they have even overtaken Kenya in terms of performance. But how many other countries have taken that approach to strengthen their own leagues, to strengthen their clubs so that they can even package their football to sell it not only on the continent but also outside. So that's the challenge for us. In terms of what chances are the world cup, again quarterfinal for me would be the realistic because when these players get to the world cup they have come from this club, this club. They don't have that pride to play in nation that for example they have to play for their clubs where their animal is more lucrative. More lucrative and we have all been directed towards you need to play pro for you to be considered a success. If you are playing locally then you haven't gotten to that place. I think Antoni Bafo mentioned during the summit the last player we celebrated that was playing in an African league was Abu Trika of Egypt. We have not had another one that we can celebrate globally and that's the challenge for Africa. By the virtue that you're coming from Kenya and you're starting it at home Maron, what are you doing to put Kenyan football to another level because I'm sure your priority revolves around the entire continent but coming from Kenya you must also be being a great patriot and doing something that will enable Kenyan to make strides as far as football development is concerned. For me first of all I have to say that I try as much as possible to package myself as African, as Pan-African but that doesn't defeat the fact that I come from Kenya and the Organization Football Foundation for Africa is domiciled here and I believe it can be a great asset for the country in terms of attracting people here, people who are already well versed in football development be it financial resources because what you realize again when you're in the industry there's so much interest in Africa people want to invest in African football but they don't have the right vehicles on the continent to help them and this is what the FFA provides. I've had conversations with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Ministry of Sports and I tell them this is an asset that I believe could be useful to the country when you start talking about sports diplomacy now football is more and more used as a tool to demonstrate soft power and these are things that we can use to brand the country we had guests from over 30 countries here in Nairobi to attend the Africa Football Business Summit that is something the government can tap into not just for tourism but also for development because this is knowledge you see we had each day low on business school from Spain they have given scholarship worth over 70,000 euros and these I'm trying to tell the universities here that attended can you please get your students to take advantage of these kinds of offerings but I don't limit it to Kenya as I said for me it's about building Africa because I think we need to work together more if we work as Kenya alone it's going to be very difficult look at now the world cup is 48 teams it's a collective responsibility yes what are the chances of an African country being able to host a world cup with 48 teams almost nil so we need to work together for example South Africa can't? I don't think 48 teams very difficult the last time it did it was 32 right? 32 and out of those West African nations Nigeria we get to be told that they got a might infrastructure having widely travelled have you ascertained the same? not really I haven't been to Nigeria but when you talk to them they don't have North African nations North African Morocco is doing very well I think it's one of the countries we should emulate and it comes to football development government has made it one of their priorities to develop sports and I think they stand the best chance of hosting the next African world cup but that is something also that needs to be explored to see whether it makes an economic and social sense for the continent thank you Brian for joining us this particular afternoon talk about the business of football in Africa of course Brian was the football entrepreneur and also the founder and CEO of football foundation for Africa body that is mandated to push and advocate for growth of football in Africa and even beyond our borders thank you for joining us and it's been a pleasure hosting you thank you very much Maxwell of course we've been talking about the business of football in Africa as a continent and way forward regarding growth of the game even ahead of the World Cup set for Qatar and for Kenya Africa getting represented by 5 nations unfortunately Africa getting represented by NAN and Kenya continue to miss in action hopefully one day in the future we will grace the global shop is as well don't go, stay tuned the touch line continues


Hey, welcome back to above life channel This is a little unique, but I'm doing a talk after the channel because we channel Judy Garland here on June 13th 2023 and It was weird. It felt weird. It felt heavy It felt serious and sometimes I have those experiences with spirits And I wanted to talk to you about it while it's fresh in my mind plus I needed to schedule it a little bit later So I'd have a chance to review the video myself a little bit at least part of it I got to watch part of it and right away as soon as I start watching it. I'm like, ah, I Totally understand what she's talking about and what she was trying to bring in and say So much I'm gonna tell you that I'm gonna cue you in on that So thank you for joining this is just a talk after the channeling session that we just did because I want to share with you as the psychic medium as a channel How this really works and this particular channeling with Judy today on Tuesday June 13th was heavy It was heavy. It didn't feel fun. It didn't feel great But I tried I persevered I showed up and I kept working through it, right? And then like there has to be a purpose for this there has to be a purpose. Well, I Want to talk to you about our own biases and how we get in the way of receiving information or interpreting information So this is an example of that Let me just check the sound quality and see how it is Can you hear me? Okay To be clear, this is not a channeling. This is the after-talk of the channeling to be clear This is not a channeling. There we go. I just felt the need to come back on and have a conversation about this Hi, Anna. Hi Patty. Thanks for being here Double patties So we just channel Judy Garland she Came in and talked about the past about her some of her Well, how do I say this she brought in a heaviness a very seriousness about Hollywood in about the system and the old structure and how the rich the rich white man are in power and how And she talked about children how they were abused and mistreated and given all sorts of drugs and just like grueling work hours and Abuse sexually abused and and their bodies were abused and I mean all this stuff, right? Like children didn't have rights She talked about human rights and she talked about our Humanity and it was very serious like heavy and I didn't expect that I Didn't expect that and I didn't want that. I wanted something uplifting and The truth is we are in very serious times. It is June 2023 and this is Pride month So people who are in the queer community are on high alert tightened alert. There are threats. There are serious safeguards that need to happen in celebrations and public parades and expression because of the political human climate human The political climate at this time in the United States Where in Connected into Judy's Channeling Focusing on the children she kept bringing it back to the kids and how that experience Informed her life journey and gave her all sorts of vices and bad habits and difficulty and mental health stuff There's all this stuff that came Because of how she was treated as a child So do you see how this is connected to what's happening in our society right now, especially with calling out and putting pressure on children children right now kids Particularly trans youth Okay, and so here's where my own personal bias comes and I'm gonna have a real talk with you here in a Bov live channel about that is It is very difficult to be a human person and to channel in Total purity without your own emotions getting involved and we do our best To do that to to be a clear channel to set aside our own biases And to be aware at least very aware of them when we step into session with you privately or publicly Okay, that's kind of how we the collective of psychic mediums that are in integrity and have ethics and are professional at this I've been doing this for 19 years and There's a lot that we do in prep before we do sessions so that we can Be in that integrity and be able to share the messaging as it's coming through But we are human just like you are and so it's really important for me I think to share this as a person who does channeling and psychic mediumship who is intuitive I live intuitively and it's my work. My job is intuition and psychic connection and So I think you as viewers are so curious and interested in afterlife and in connection Because you know, you're intuitive and you know, we are all connected and we you can get personal information Not about those winning lottery numbers or how to best live your life and make the right best choice It's about the support in the encouragement and the safety net of Love that's created by the unseen the safety net of love that is created by the unseen That is an energy That is what we all are energy beings regardless of your political party affiliation Your gender identity or your sexuality or your culture or however your body shows up in this lifetime The energetic of who you are transcends all of that. That is what connects us.  So the trans piece hits home for me. I have somebody in my family that is trans and I Won't say too much about that because I believe that that's an individual's choice to to to share their life story or experience however that piece was me During the channeling with Judy today on June 13th 2023 When she was talking about the kids and the abuse of the kids and the targeting of the kids and the using them for whatever you could get That's what's happening now politically Children who are different different Are being targeted and being used as pawns in a political conversation They are being they're being used as marketing tools or propaganda and these are their lives It's just like religion has been used that way in the past. It's like Culture has been used that way in the past Diversity has been used that way in the past to create what? Marketing for political gains So we as people Are being used and manipulated and That's That sounds really harsh and kind of I hear myself say that and I go. Oh my gosh. That's so kind of conspiracy there is like but it's really It's a scenario that is Is around I mean, that's what marketing is like look at cereal boxes. Remember Tony the tiger Everybody wanted to be cool. They have the Tony the tiger cereal those frosted flakes. Everybody wanted that. It's so cool Like manipulated into purchasing that We put pressure as kids on our parents to buy that stuff This is the same kind of thing, but it is more nefarious. It is more malice So it's really important for us as spiritual beings as energy people as energy As an energy being to recognize that When we are being intuitive and receiving intuitive information Channeling information from our team our spiritual helpers your angels your guides your grandma from the afterlife That there are places within us that naturally block Some of the information because it might be too hard It might bring up some sorrow or sadness additional layers of grief that we might not feel prepared or ready to handle But I can promise you my friends here on above life channel Oh You are ready to handle it because I believe in you and I believe in us and I believe in our Existence as energy beings as spiritual beings in human bodies In human bodies and we get to have our full expression and we get to have our full freedom And part of that is to support one another The best way we can protect ourselves and protect our kids Is to love And I know that that's on many hallmark greeting cards And I know that's touted as a marketing thing in some arenas, right or this higher than thou righteousness spirituality just as much as the righteousness religious dogma And the truth is we exist in the in between This is Such an important time We have to care about and have compassion for the most vulnerable And we have to raise our next generation We have to lead by example And I'm not saying turn the other cheek, but I'm saying live in love In the expression of and the freedom of that and part of that comes through acceptance and recognition of people different than you are And being curious about that and letting them like judy said she said Let share your story And the people that will receive it and are ready to receive it will and the people that won't won't and they will It doesn't change your story What is happening right now will not change the life experience of these children the trans kids and the non trans kids They're all watching it's affecting all of them It's poisoning the water hole by adults using them using them exploiting them for political power and gain What kind of system is that that's not a system built on love acceptance and respect If you don't want to use the lovey hippie term. That's what my kid says. Oh, you're such a happy hippie You know like well if love is a hippie thing sign me up Here's the thing respect What happened to like treat your neighbor the way you would like to be treated like what what happened to that like what There's just some basic things right the basic To the ability to live your life the freedom should not be taken for granted and it's not But we must Recognize like when we're getting the intuitive information when we're getting our Triggers do you see this as triggers coming up right? It's connected into my heart space into the structure and constant and the structure of my heart chakra And there are pockets and places where I am scared to death Of the person in my life who is trans Because I don't want them hurt I would give my life To ensure that did not happen And the truth is I have worked in in schools right and I would give my life for your child to have their freedom To be themselves We shouldn't have to Do you see if we don't buy in to That either or scenario like judy said Both things can exist at the same time. I can drink my water and I can drink my coffee And they're not competing. Oh my gosh coffee. You're too hot You need to change so I can care. Oh my gosh. The water is not saying to the coffee.  This is why people have done ancestral work This is why in spiritual The spiritual marketplace there's all sorts of stuff about ancestors and let's work with our ancestors and Well, tell me about my past life and my lineages and stuff. It's because all of this stuff informs us As to what's up with us like our reactions and responses aren't just our own. They are ingrained. They are internalized systems of prejudice of bigotry of homophobia And when we're aware of that And we're willing to let our triggers come out but not become our triggers don't they don't have to become your identity You don't have to react because somebody else is presenting in a certain way. You still get to present however you want to present So if a protester is holding a sign yelling in your face You don't even have to make eye contact with them You can put your hands over your heart and sway back and forth. You can close your eyes You can talk to archangel michael in your head. You can feel the earth energy below your feet Or you can give them the beautiful symbol of love or you can pray or you can tell them bless your heart Or you can tell them i'll pray for you Okay, okay. That's the sarcastic part of me. That's really sassy and yes, I can be like that too and I get triggered for sure but This conversation with judy today was about the trans kids and it was about all of us As a society and how we pick on people that can't defend themselves. These are children being used And exploited for personal gain of grown-ass adults who have plenty of money To exploit them So how about you and I support them? Because they're the ones that are going to be taking care of us when we're in our nursing homes and care facilities They're going to be the ones that are in office in the future making decisions for us when we're 90 And live in on social security And what goes around comes around all right, all right Might have to turn the comments off on this one Or not Every time somebody makes a bad comment or negative comment or intense comment. Just put a heart I haven't happened reading my comments. You probably notice that it's been a good year since I've read my comments I used to read them and respond. I don't anymore because the people who really want that access and time with me either show up on my live streams or They have sessions with me or they join my small groups and Or they're on my facebook or instagram or whatever they're they're in other they're they connect with me other ways And i'm a little more discerning about who gets access to me and how that works, you know so too shall you So That's what judy was talking about the kids Yes So I wanted to have this conversation with you because I was bothered by the channel It wasn't fun light fluffy. It was hard And I still did it I kept at it. I could have taken it down But I knew there was a bigger purpose I knew there was so Thank you so much for being here on above life channel. Thank you for being part of this community I appreciate you very much. You've been a wonderful part of my journey I look forward to continuing to connect with you As always in the description below there are access links to services if you want to have a private session with me You can do that You can also join some of my groups. I've been starting to have small groups that are like old school psychic greetings Just kind of throwbacks It's been fun. I enjoyed it the first time we did it Where I answered questions for people about their personal psychic questions that they had So that was that was pretty cool. I really actually enjoyed that So i'm going to do it again in june here on the 22nd I'm going to do it again in july if if it's popular if people enjoy it. I mean is a service So you can access that with the links below in the description of this video All right, thank you so much for being here. I hope I've inspired your spirit To be yourself Giving you hope and encouragement To live your life You matter.  Don't give them the best of you or any part of you. They do not get that It's your life And you get to live it Just live it live it Thank you for being here. Thank you