How are you going to succeed as an artist in 2023? With plenty of doom and gloom being broadcast all around you, how are you going to focus on your goals and what are you going to be doing differently in order to make sure that you achieve them? In this video, I'm going to share three vital areas that you must focus on in order to achieve the success that I know you're looking for. Well, hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name is Sophie and I help artists just like you to set up market and grow a highly successful business doing what you love. And if learning more tips and tricks is exactly what you could look for right now, then you're in the right place. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel, hit the bell to get notified every time I post a new video. Let's talk about the three vital areas that you must focus on if you want to succeed as an artist, especially in 2023. Number one, your strategic plan. What am I talking about here? Yes, I'm talking about the artist's business plan. I talk about it a lot on this channel. Make sure to check out this video as well, because this is the seven steps to putting together your artist's business plan. And I talk about it a lot, why? Because it's absolutely vital if you want to build a business from your art. Here are three reasons why you want to be having a business plan. Number one, to make 100% sure that the thing that you think you want to do is actually going to work out, and it's viable, and it's actually going to make you money. Because here's the thing, we all have these dreams of the type of business we'd like to build, but until you crunch the numbers, until you do the research, until you fill out the plan, you don't actually know if it's going to be viable as a business. It might be a great idea, it might be a fabulous hobby, but it's not necessarily a business. So that's your number one big reason why you want to have a plan, because by the time you reach the end of it, you'll have worked out if what you've decided is viable, and if it isn't, you'll have worked out a way likely to make a change so that you can find a way to make it viable. Number two of those three big reasons why you want to have your artist's business plan, and that is of course to work out your ideal target audience, where to find them, and how to put the right offer in front of them at the right time, so that you can easily make those sales. I think one of the biggest mistakes here is the artists are frightened to niche down, they're frightened to work out who their ideal audience are, and so they try to market everybody. Now I don't know about you, but I don't have the time to market to everybody, I certainly don't have the budget to market to everybody, and so therefore determining who we are going to work with makes your job a lot easier, and that is a big part of why you want to build your artist's business plan. And number three, to decide the ideal strategy for growth. Listen, it's really easy to put together a simple business, and you can end up going round and round and round doing the same sort of things, getting some sort of result, maybe quite an average, you go from year to year kind of going round and round and round. Is there anyone watching here who's maybe been in business for three, four, five years and actually just going round on the house to will, and you haven't actually grown? So the third most important reason why you want to have a business plan is so that you can plan for growth. How is year two going to be different from year one? How is year three going to be different from year two?  And if you haven't grown, that's because you haven't got a business plan. So don't forget to check out that video, there's also a free checklist, a free business planning checklist as well, which I'll link below this video. As well, just to really help you to make sure that you get this plan done. At time of shooting, I'm just about to run a five day free business planning challenge. So if you happen to be watching at point when this video is coming out, have a big look for the link below this video where you can join that free challenge and you can get a bit of a kickstart into that business plan. Now if you're watching at a later date, I'm probably going to do it again. So make sure you've got the details and just make sure that you're on my mailing list, which you can do that really easily by grabbing any of my freebies. And then you can look out for that challenge because we will be doing it again. Number two, really big area that you need to focus on, that's your mindset, a winning mindset. You've likely heard me say before that 80% of your success comes down to your beliefs, your thoughts, how you see the world, your mindset essentially. Now here's some quick things that you can do in order to take yourself from negative to positive mindset. So here's some top tips. I hope you've got a pen and paper. Go ahead and write some of these down. Here are those top tips. Number one, start your day with a powerful morning routine. That could be exercise, nutrition, hydration, however you want to start your day. Number two, listen to motivational podcasts or videos. Read or listen to audiobooks around powerful topics that are going to help you develop and grow. Number four, meditate daily. Get used to quietening your mind and getting yourself in a really focused and positive state. Number five, surround yourself by like-minded people. That is one of the most easy things you can do and likely doesn't cost you very much. Find other artists who are looking to do the same thing and hang out with them regularly. Okay, let's get back to those three vital areas that we need to focus on in order to get success in 2023. The third one is developing your creative practice. Well, sometimes you can get so wrapped up and focused in on all the business stuff and don't get me wrong. You absolutely do need to do that business stuff. But sometimes you can end up just creating on a bit of autopilot. Now, a lot of people are not going to want to admit to doing that, but I know I've done it myself. And the end of the road for me was actually burnout some years later. So it's not great route anyway. But developing your creative practice is really, really important, not just for your own growth, but the growth and development, of course, of your art. And of course, if you want to build that successful business, then you want to make sure that your product or service is improving, right? You don't want someone to buy the same thing that you offered last year. You want to make sure that you've upgraded that, that there is something better for them to buy in the following and subsequent years.  If you were a dancer, you would be doing a certain number of exercises to warm your body up. If you're an athlete, you would be doing stretches and exercises to warm your body up. Now, why is it as artists, people think they can just dive straight into the studio, straight onto the work of art, and magically transform it. It doesn't always work like that. Just like anything else, you can improve your art by simply practicing. So if you're looking at what you're creating and you're thinking, it's not as good as I'd like it to be, then just keep practicing. And developing your creative practice involves work away from the main thing that you do for a living. That means the warm-up exercises, the drawing, the observation, the mucking around, the play, the trying different colors. Those are the things you can do as a painter. And if you're not a painter and you do something else, then work out what that can be in your field as well and build your own powerful creative practice.  So here's a quick recap on those three vital areas that you want to focus on in order to get success in 2023. Number one, you wanna have your strategic plan. Number two, you wanna create that winning mindset. And number three, you want to develop your creative practice. Now, if you've loved this video and you're thinking, gosh, Sophie, the mindset stuff sounds like it's really the area I need to focus on, then I've got just the next video for you. All right, I've got a video entitled 10 Confidence Tips for Artists. It's definitely the next place that you wanna look if you haven't watched that video before. That's gonna help you build up self-belief and your self-worth. And it's absolutely where you wanna focus at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. All right, aligning your mindset for success. So check out that video that's right here on the screen right now. Go ahead and watch that. And don't forget to leave me a comment below this one. Let me know what it is you're gonna be focusing on out of these three areas, as I love to hear from you. I love to hear your progress. And of course, love being part of your artistic journey. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you on the next one.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Star and Eleven show. Everton vs Crystal Palace, huge game at Gotherson Park. Everton could secure their Premier League status in this game. Last game of the season normally a little bit, well, bit of a celebration. People go for a drink. Well, if we win this people may be going more for it, more than just a drink. But we'll have to wait and see. Let's get into it with my team to get the three-pointing Golden Pickford. Of course, a back three of Seamus Coleman, Michael Keane and Mason Hallgate. Michael Keane was massively missed at the weekend. I think we would have dealt with Bremford a lot better than he'd been playing. And of course his replacement got sent off. So it's good to have him back. Seems funny saying that. Ben Godfrey is available. I don't know how fit he is. Listen, I just don't know how fit he is. Maybe with it just being the one game at Gotherson, the manager might go for him rather than leave him. I don't know, I'm just going to put Michael Keane in for this game. But who knows, maybe he'll put Godfrey in and leave Mason Hallgate out or even maybe Seamus Coleman out. I don't know, but that's what I'm going to go for. At right wing back, I'm going to go for Alex Awobi. Listen, he might end up starting the game in midfield. We might play three midfield, but I just think that in a game like this, what's worked for us is having the two wing backs. And obviously on the other side, Michael and Cole, I think that's worked for us. I don't think we should be changing too much. It's bad enough losing players without changing the formation. I think that's done well for us in the last few weeks. And obviously what we saw at the weekend, having four at the back being massively stretched, obviously down to ten minutes, proves that we need to have a back five, really, that covers the whole pitch. We're just not good enough at the back to play otherwise without maybe Ben Godfrey with the pace. Or maybe he might be a four if he comes into the team after we can see. In midfield, I'm going to go for Abdelhaid D'Corey and Donnie van der Beik. I'm thinking Donnie van der Beik plays in that position that Delphers playing in, that we tried to use on Dick Gomez at the weekend. That's proper six. Somebody picks up the ball and uses it well. Alan, there must be some kind of issue there, some kind of injury issue for him not to have started the weekend against instead of on Dick Gomez. Why you'd start on Dick Gomez ahead of Alan? I don't know. So there might be some kind of injury issue there after we can see. So I'd start those two and then ahead of them, I would keep Anthony Gordon and Ray Charleson in those two. It's more like inside, right and left positions rather than wingers. I think that's Ray Charleson's best position. I think the numbers back that up. I think he makes more chances when he plays in that position. I think he can read the flicks of Dominic Carvelin. He'll be playing up front. Anthony Gordon, yes, works hard. His end products got to get better though. His end products got to get better in this game. It's been really lacking in the last few weeks but it's added in more Damari Gray and I'd go for him ahead of Damari Gray. Both of them haven't had really decent form of late. So Gray can come off the bench. He's an option off the bench.  The squad is really bare at the moment and obviously those two red cards at the weekend won't have helped but we have got a couple of players backing and it is a huge game and we've just got to go for it. It's as simple as that. We've just got to go for it and get the three points and that would mean that the season would be effectively done and we wouldn't have to worry about that trip to Arsenal on Sunday. Everton, make it happen. So we can all get a proper night's sleep please. There you go. I know the fans will do their bed at the game. The atmosphere will be incredible again. Absolutely no doubt for our last home game of the season. Let's put it to bed blues. Let's get over the line. Let's get it sorted and then we can rest easy ahead of the summer where I'm sure there's going to be a lot of changes at Everton. There you go. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos, join us over on Patreon. We do daily live videos over there. The link is in the description and it will be on the screen in four seconds. See you later.


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And now with Howard Duff starring as Spade, Wild Root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in The Adventures of Sam Spade. So watch these expenses, Evie. There's always something. Yes, but this will be saving. It saves confusion and saves fretting. This gadget here? What is it? It's a mineral butt.  It's for busy men like yourself, Sam, so you don't have to burden your mind with petty details. See, it has this dial on it right here. And you drop these little cards in this slot. You don't have to worry about that. That's for me to take care of. Oh, good. Then when you come into the office and supposing you have an appointment with Mr. Jones at two o'clock, and you forgot about it, you just dial two o'clock and the little card pops out. And it says Mr. Jones on it. How do I remember to dial two o'clock? Oh, well maybe it's in the instruction book. But anyway, now go ahead, Sam, please. The card's right in there. Now dial two o'clock. Go on, Sam. Let's see. Just like a telephone, Sam. Now what do I do? Well, give it time, Sam. It's sinking. Must have forgotten. Uh, Jones, Mr. Jones, do you think it's dead? Sam, I don't understand it. It was working perfectly. Well, I'll take it straight back first thing in the morning. You'll have to. It'll never find a way itself. You've got your book, sweetheart. Yes, Sam. I don't understand. It was working perfectly. Well, it's all right, honey. It doesn't matter. October 5, 1947, to Hillary Exxon Esquire from Samuel Spade, license number 137596. Oh, honey, it's only a memo robot. Subject, the Adam Big Caper. Dear Mr. Exxon, October 2nd in San Francisco was one of those days that you see blown off the calendar by a gust of wind in the movies to denote the time is passing. It was a day for scraping off the minutes with a fingernail file and wondering whether the display ad I'd paid for in the classified section of the phone book wasn't just a waste of money. It certainly wasn't the day. I'd expect the leprechaun to walk into my office. He said his name was Adam Fig. He said he was the butler at Exxon Manor in Los Nidos. The limousine, Mr. Spade, is waiting to take you away. We mustn't keep them waiting, must we? Of course we mustn't. Who mustn't we? Why, Mr. Hillary, of course, sir. Oh, Mr. Hillary. And old Mr. Exxon. The old gentleman is very ill. Dr. Feige's office is down the hall. Turn to your right, second door. Well, I assure you, sir, that Mr. Exxon is the best at medical care. Your duty will be simple to prevent his death. Do I donate blood or just frighten away the evil spirits? It isn't quite that, sir. Someone is trying to kill Mr. Exxon. He's a very sick man, and I'm sure he'd prefer dying from natural causes. Uh-huh. I get $25 a day and expenses. Here is an ample amount in advance. But you should, sir, that the old man is a nasty, cantankerous, villainous, crooked, intelligent man. $500? Please, Feige, you're talking about the man I love! Los Nidos was at least an overnight caper, so on my way out, my lovely and charming secretary, Miss Perine, handed me a brown paper bag which contained A, one pair of socks, darned, B, one shirt, ironed, and C, the apple, which he always polishes for me the night before. We arrived at your large southern-style mansion two hours later. Feige! Oh, Feige, where the devil have you been? To the city, sir. I can't find the keys to the liquor closet. Where are all the maids? What happened to that cook we hired yesterday? Who is this man? And why is he wearing that necktie? This is Mr. Spade, sir, the detective. Oh. Oh, uh-huh. I'm Hillary Exxon. Come in, come in, please. Go on upstairs, Feige. See what that girl is doing to my father. I don't believe she's in this at all. Very good, sir. In here, Mr. Spade. Pardon the condition of the house. The old man has been firing the servants again. Your father, you mean? Yes, yes. Every time he gets shot at, he fires all the servants. He gets shot at pretty often? About once a year, in the fall. You always hire a detective? No. Oh, dear. I'm not keeping you up, am I? No, no. Excuse me, please. It's much worse this time. I can't get any sleep guns going off in the middle of the night. The whole household disturbed. When and where was he last shot at? Yesterday morning at about half past one. I dug the bullet out of the woodwork myself for 38 caliber embedded in the doorframe that leads to Ms. K. Wood's room. Oh, that's his nurse. Was she with him at the time? No.  She sees to that. Shot come from outside? Yes, yes, but we found nobody on the grounds. No traces of anybody. I don't know whether dad knows who shot at him or not. He's such a closed mouth, old devil. You don't take care very much for your father, do you? To be frank, Mr. Spade, if hating weren't such an effort, I would despise him. He is without a doubt. Well, listen, listen. There, there. That's just a sample. Well, come on, come on. Let's see what's eating him now. I'm quitting, Mr. Exile. I can't stand another minute yelling, screaming, throwing things at him. You must have done something to set him off. I didn't. This is Mr. Spade, Ms. K. Wood. Oh, Detective. I'll make you happy. I don't know that I'm a private detective, Ms. K. Wood. Mr. Spade, I only hope you can prevent a murder. If there's any way at all that I can help, I... Thanks. I'll see you downstairs after I've talked to the old man. You'd better go in alone, Spade. Oh, Ms. K. Wood. Do you have a throat spray downstairs? I seem to be congested. Facing ammunition. Who are you?  Come on in. Don't be afraid, son. Come on over where I can look at you. It's hard to keep my eyes open. Oh, I mustn't do that. I mustn't do that. Oh, so you're the detective, eh? That's right, Pop. You want to take a little nap or something. I'll come back later. Oh, what did I say just now? Come back later? No, no, no, no. There's no reason for you to come back later. I'll say everything I have to say right now. The shot woke me. I didn't see anything. I don't know anything. I've got a million enemies. I can't remember the names of any of them. Why don't you try to remember? I could have them checked. Wasting your time, sonny. In my day, I've wiped out a hundred men and I'll outlive anybody who's gunning for me now.  Proud. Sonny, a past like mine is the finest thing an old man can have. I've swindled my partners and betrayed my friends. I've turned state's evidence just to see my associate get sent up for 20 years. And they say my wife died under peculiar circumstances and I got rich offer insurance. Now I'm done talking. Oh, do me a favor, son, please. I've got to get a half hour, 20-minute sleep room. You'll keep them out, everybody. Please, will you? Sure, sure, pop.  Oh, thank you, thank you. He closed his eyes, rolled over and fell into a heavy sleep. I stood there a moment, looking down at the frail, wasted old body. Then I cased the room. And digging the bullet out of the door, Hillary had done a good job of ruining any chance there might have been approving the directions had come from. I strolled out on the balcony. It was a pretty night. I lit a cigarette and took it in. Then I heard the door open and closed, softly behind me. Nurse Keywood was at your father's bedside. She was filling a hypodermic from a small vial of bluish liquid. He didn't awaken when she jabbed it into his arm. Then she saw me standing in the doorway. She hastily dropped the medicine vial into her uniform pocket and came around the bed to meet me. Oh, Mr. Spade, oh, thank heaven. Why, when I saw you standing there in the half-night, I thought you might be there. Thought I was who? Why, the man will fire the shot. It was a man? Well, I don't know. I didn't see it happened. I just assumed that... You shouldn't have done it. I warned you, sir. Eleanor. Oh, we're disturbing him. Let's talk outside. Okay. Good to breathe something beside sick room air. I thought you got used to things like that in your profession. Why are you so unfriendly, Mr. Spade? Nurses are human. Aren't detectives. Try me, sweetheart. I know what you're thinking of me. But after a week in this horrible house, that poor man, he's frightened. He's really frightened. What of? By the shots. Thirty-eight caliber or hypodermic? Surely you don't think that I... He's supposed to be under sedatives. The doctor's orders. Sorry, sweetheart. It's my job to suspect everybody. Can't you forget your job? Even for a moment? Sure. Sure.  Is it that bad, Sam? Yeah. Almost bad enough to be good. Come here.  It was a very satisfactory love scene for both of us. For reasons of her own, Barbara wanted to keep me out of that sick room for a while, and she did. For reasons of my own, I wanted to get that medicine pile out of her uniform pocket, and I did. Then, as suddenly as we had fallen into love, we fell out again. After she'd gone to her room, I went back to my sentry duty around the house. Under a light on the front veranda, I examined the bottle from which Barbara had taken the injection for your father. It was labeled Sodium Thanatol, and it had been dispensed by a firm called Ibis Chemicals Limited in Cairo, Egypt. Until the house, high and frenzied, I started running toward Barbara Kaywood's room. I slammed the terrace door open and found a light switch. Barbara was sitting upright in the center of a bed. Her face jerked up so abruptly that it seemed a neck had snapped. She flexed both hands to her chest and fell face down among the bedclothes, staining them with her blood. No weather I went through, over or around the screen that stood between her room and the old man's. I circled Exxon's bed. He lay on the floor on his side facing the window. I went outside. A thirty-eight automatic lay on the ground a few yards away from the building. I put that into my pocket and listened. No shadows moving, nothing. Then he was on me before I could be sure he wasn't a medium-sized tree. Break your back, lead the way. The warm stuff in my cheek might have been the thing's blood or mine. It gathered me up and bent me back at my throat. Then I remembered that hands are stronger than fingers. I started with these thumbs. Then his huge body began to twitch. He was holding his fingers and sobbing like a baby. I pulled him up to his feet, poked him in the back with a flat of my hand. I followed him through and opening in the hedges and down a long pitch-dark lane for the lights of a squat brick house set on the top of a slight rise. As we approached to the door open the light screamed out onto the porch. That tall man framed him a doorway was the last person in the world I expected to see. Oh, Marcus, you brought him. Oh, master, very delight for service but have much pain in fingers. Always complaining, Marcus. Welcome, Mr. Spade. Come in, my dear fellow. Come in. I've been expecting you. By blackmailing me. And if you don't, Romet Exxon could have you booked for forgery. Blackmail, definition of character? My, my, my, my dear fellow, please. This is the most painful. But if I had but the original letter I could destroy it and go back to the filth. Oh, the filth. What happened to it? That fig, that stinker stole it. He burked on my home. Are you taking part-charts at all, Exxon? Oh, don't be a fool, man. I want Exxon to stay alive. I must find out some part of his life which will have an exchange value that will cancel out what he has on me. By the way, old thing, you've met Miss K-Word, but the present moment, she's milking me for $150 a day. She's supposed to go to the old man, by whatever means necessary, into talking about his past, and that information she has to bring to me. That ought to be easy. Exxon brags about his past. Now, so far, I've learned that Hillary Exxon stole two heifers of the livestock show in Abilene in 1906. I feel for you, Captain. I wouldn't get much on the current market, would it? My dear fellow, I've a proposition to make to you.  Well, maybe something can be arranged, Captain. Good, excellent. May I have your word on that? Well, there isn't much time, Captain. I'd better trot on back. No, show you the door, sir.  Run. Flee. I assured him that I would heed his warning, bat him goodnight, and start it back down the lane in the direction of Exxon Manor. Business was going on as usual. There were no shots this time, only the screen. When I got to Barbara's room, you and Adam were standing at a bedside trying to quiet it down. Well, Mr. Spade, is this the way you guard the house against intruders? Where have you been? Ask Adam. What does he mean by that thing? I'm sure I don't know, sir. I've not left the house. What happened here? Oh, she woke up screaming. She said someone had come into the room and torn off her bandages. A nightmare, of course. Please. Please, I want to talk to Mr. Spade, Lord. Oh, please, please go.  Please, Hillary, you go too. Good. Some questions I want to ask you, sweetheart. I don't know. But look here, Spade, look here. She's just had a terrific shock. She shouldn't be questioned. The code of detective transcends that of the medical, Mr. Hillary. Perhaps he should have a few minutes alone with Miss Cawood. Oh, very well, very well. The guy, I suppose, is no better. Remember what the doctor said, Miss Barbara, not too much exertion. What happened, Barbara? Well, it could have been a dream. Somebody was standing over me in the darkness and peering down at me. And then he started to rip off my bandages and I screamed. And one thing came into the room and he turned on the lights and he was gone. It could have been a dream, Sam, and I could have been crying at the bandages myself and in my sleep. But you weren't. It wasn't a dream. I've been talking to Captain Sherry. And then I thought... Oh, well, how much do you know? That you've been feeding the old man truth, sir. I'm beginning to talk in his sleep. How much talking has he done? Well, plenty. How much have you told Sherry? Well, just as little as possible. Why? Because, Sam, if we can keep that old man alive and out of jail long enough to sell what we know to Sherry for what it's really worth, we'd be fools not to do it. What makes you so sure you'll stay alive long enough to collect, sweetheart? Well, because... You're going to help me, aren't you, Sam? So I helped her. But not for the reason she fought. I made a lot of noise leaving her room and going to mine. Going back, I didn't wear any shoes. I slipped into a clothes press in her room so quietly that even she didn't hear me. I left the door slightly ajar and waited. Time passed and I was stiff from standing still. It happened at about 3 a.m. The glare of his eyes told me the threat of a gun in my hands meant nothing to him. I jumped to his side, twisted the knife away from him, picked him up in my arms and carried him, kicking, clawing and swearing back to his bed. He lay there, breathing hard. Then he smiled.  You had me figured out the first time you came in here, didn't you? Not quite, Mr. Exxon. The gun under your window was the clincher. All the time, I got tired of shooting into door frames. Look, you're dying, Mr. Exxon. There's no use trying to make up stories now. Yeah, right, sonny. I knew that nurse would sit up in bed after I fired tonight and then I let her have it right through the screen. Why? You know, she was doping me up and sneaking in here at night and listening to what I was babbling about. Maybe you weren't saying anything important, Mr. Exxon. 18 years ago, I killed my wife. I wanted to carry the secret to my grave. I did it then. Mr. Spade, what's happened? He's dead. He's dead? Did he say anything, sir? Did he confess anything? You must tell me if he said anything. 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What is up everybody it's Stas here and in this video we're going to be doing an overall market update taking a look at the Dow Jones the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq we're also going to be talking about what I did today in terms of my trades as well as some stocks and ETFs that I'm watching and looking to trade right now in the stock market in the month of November in 2019 and as you guys read in the title yes there are two stocks that I think offer a lot of potential right now a lot of value right now and that could break out and give us 10, 15 even 20% gains and I want to go over those two in particular in this video as well as you guys and D gas because let's be honest those are two of the most requested tickers in the the community and honestly across the YouTube channel here so all I ask from you is if you enjoy the video if you enjoy the content find it informational feel free to go down below or informative not informational informative feel free to go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and don't forget to join our StriveSmart discord group chat and our StriveSmart Facebook group all of those are linked down below so let's get into it starting off with the S&P 500 here guys with about 12 minutes left it's currently down about 8 points down about 0.25 percent down a quarter percent here on the 11th of November and if we're just judging off this hourly chart here guys the uptrend is still holding itself so despite the fact that we are red right now we're probably going to close red unless something crazy happens here in the in the next 10 minutes you know we're still maintaining that moving average which over the past couple of weeks as you guys can see here again on the hourly chart we've been holding it as a support you know making higher highs making higher lows and really just continuing the uptrend you know over these past couple of weeks so at this point I'm not worried that the uptrend is breaking I personally think this is simply a cool off period before we continue to a potential all-time high again and honestly before we continue just continuing this uptrend honestly so at this point guys the fact that we are looking like we're probably going to close above 3085 here 3080 that's a good sign because that's an old resistance that was an old all-time high and again closing above that level we'll be closing us above the 50 SMA as well so this is simply just a cool off period in my opinion in terms of the S&P here clearly just trading between you know that 3080 level and about 3097 so tomorrow what I'm going to be watching for you know what are these futures looking like in the morning what are these large caps looking like you know if we're gapping up let's say the futures tomorrow morning are up quarter of a percent 0.3 whatever it may be that could be indicating to me to us as traders and investors that we're gapping up and we're looking to fill up to that previous all-time high and ultimately potentially break out and make an all-time high so that's what I'm watching for but you know one thing that I'm worried about is if we actually break this 50 SMA on the downside we may be going down to maybe 3067 which is a support that I'm looking at right now and if we break that we may be going all the way back down to 3045 and at that point that's going to be a pretty sizable correction where we would probably find support in my opinion on this 180 SMA on the hourly chart that's again if we do end up selling off all the way down to 3030 3045 but at this point guys one step at a time watch these levels first before we talk about those levels on the bottom so overall you know that's kind of my thoughts on the S&P just cooling off a bit and again I'm interested in seeing what's going to happen over these next couple of days in terms of those technicals so the Dow Jones right now it's pretty flat believe it or not down about nine points heading into this close in about nine minutes down about 0.03 percent and if we go to that hourly chart just like the S&P you guys can see although there is a bunch of mumbo jumbo here which I am sorry about you guys can see that this 50 SMA this green line just like the S&P is being held as a support and today we got a critical guys critical bounce on top of that 50 SMA on at a higher low right at about 27 500 and we kind of rallied pretty heavily from there and you guys can see on this one day chart exactly what I'm talking about this is pretty impressive right we gap down from Friday's close all the way down to 27 500 then we pretty much filled the gap all the way back to where we closed out on Friday we kind of plateaued a bit above there we were green for this part of the day and now we're kind of selling off again heading into the close but nonetheless I think this is a pretty good move for the Dow which in my opinion is why it's remaining bullish because again this big pop here equates to a nice 50 SMA bounce on that hourly chart so what am I watching for going forward here very similar to the S&P you know is this thing going to maybe pull back down to retest that 50 SMA or tomorrow is it going to pop up break that all-time high and ultimately hit a higher high to continue that uptrend pattern that's kind of what I'm watching here you know a bigger pullback maybe bring us down probably to I'd say you know 27 400 which is an old all-time high we would probably hold that as a support maybe even down to 27 300 on the downside so those are some levels on the Dow Jones that I'm watching right now the NASDAQ guys down about 15 points right now and again I apologize for all the mumbo jumbo these are just notes that I'm you know not really notes but trend lines you know supports resistances that I'm drawing out throughout the day to help myself but let me explain it to you very quickly to kind of get a better understanding so these levels are obviously the main levels on the NASDAQ right down 15 points down 0.2 percent right now so all you're going to have to worry about now in my opinion if we pull down is this 81 20 level as indicated by this red trend line right 81 20 if you guys have been following the NASDAQ and the markets in general you know this was an old all-time high you know for the index right around here so ultimately I think if we were to see a further sell off a correction of about 3 4 percent probably not 3 4 percent actually what maybe 1 2 percent we may be going down to this level at 81 20 again a very critical level and we may be holding that point as a support before you know continuing up or you know potentially breaking it and selling off even further but at this point as long as we're holding that 50 SMA we're probably not even going to go back down to 81 20 but the second we break it if we break it in terms of that 50 SMA we're probably going back to 81 20 but at this point just watching it you know upside of you know of about a couple percentage points probably less than 1 percent at this point to the all-time high and if we break that of course there's even more than 1 percent in terms of you know if we get back to another all-time high and even further up right so that's kind of what I'm seeing on the NASDAQ right now in terms of the overall markets as well so let me know down below in the comments what are your thoughts on the market today wasn't a great day it wasn't an extravagant day but it was one of those days where we saw a bit of cooling off so I think this is setting up for either a massive pop tomorrow or the next day or maybe even a further pull down tomorrow and again keep an eye on those futures guys keep an eye on those large caps so what did I personally do today guys well the truth is I didn't really do much trading but initiating one position which is kind of going to transfer us into those two stocks that I'm watching right now because one of those two stocks is a stock that I initiated this position in so we might as well just talk about that and just hop into the two stocks in general so PayPal is that stock guys I know I've been talking about it a lot on this channel but I finally initiated a swing position in PayPal stock right now ticker symbol PYPL and this is a stock that's kind of been choppy over the past couple of weeks let's be honest with ourselves right if we look on this hourly chart you know this is very difficult to trade right and went from 102 down to about 94 bucks a reported earnings it shot all the way back to 108 very very choppy again guys like I said and we sold off all the way back down to 100 bucks which again very very choppy right so now it seems like we found support at 100 bucks which I think is very attractive right if we go back to that four-hour chart you know you can see this general 99 100 101 level is where we double bottomed a couple months ago um really about a month ago in the beginning of October right we we briefly held it before the earnings report again we dropped below it but ultimately we broke above it after and ran all the way up to 107 and now again we're pulling down and it's been a couple of days that we held 100 if we look on the five day chart you can see it was one day two days three days four days and today was the fifth day that we really confirmed 100 bucks 101 as a support and we actually started to break up and this is what gave me the initiative to take a position in PayPal and let me read you guys what they reported very briefly in terms of earnings and kind of their um you know guidance in terms of their EPS for the year which is actually outpacing what the analysts were expecting and that's kind of a positive thing in my opinion especially as I'm looking at this from a swing trade perspective so I'm pulling this up on my phone right now PayPal had EPS of 61 cents versus the 52 cents expected so they crushed on EPS and again this was back on I believe the 24th of October their revenue came in at 4.38 billion and that also beat um the analysts expected revenue which was 4.35 billion and the interesting thing is back to that profit for the year in terms of EPS you know analysts were expecting 2019 profit to be 2.97 but now PayPal has adjusted it to expect 3.06 per share to 3.08 and that again if they hit those targets in Q4 here you know that's going to be incredible if they you know exceed or even hit that total profit goal for the year and I think that's going to be really all all all PayPal needs over these next couple months one two three months to get back up to that 110 level 115 level maybe even back up to 120 bucks so at this point I'm viewing this as a longer term swing trade so I initiated a smaller position today because whenever I'm swing trading guys I'm not hopping in 100% right away I'm buying in it depends it depends on the swing honestly but typically I'm buying in 10 15 20 percent at a time so at this point I think I bought in 10 15 percent of my goal position at around I believe it was one I think it might have been in the 101 90s 101 90 92 or something like that I bought a little bit and in my opinion it closed very bullish well in a minute it's going to close very bullish here at a higher low and hopefully we see a little bit of a pop after hours as well so I'm feeling comfortable right now with the initial stake here and ideally guys for me to add more on a technical basis here because we look at fundamentals and technicals it's going to be if we break on a technical basis this 180 and this 50 SMA being that yellow and that green line on this four hour chart because these levels have been resistances so for me to be comfortable adding another 10 15 percent that's where I'm looking to do it probably 104 maybe 105 those are you know areas where I'd add more money probably more money at 108 maybe some profit taking at 110 before potentially adding more if we break that level but of course I'll let you guys know that here in the next couple of weeks so there goes the market you know Dow ended up closing green very very briefly or slightly rather the S&P down about seven points NASDAQ down about 10 points so pretty flat day overall and yeah so that's what I did in PayPal that's the first out of the two stocks that I'm watching that have a lot of potential from here in my opinion in these last couple of months of 2019 and that second one is going to be Shopify guys and Shopify I've been talking about this one as well this is a company that has had ridiculous growth right if we're going to that three-year one-week chart you know you guys can see this is insanity right from 37 bucks up to about 400 that is a tenfold guys if you were to put a thousand bucks you'd turn your thousand into ten thousand um pretty much since about three years ago in the month of November of 2016 literally guys which is a return that's absurd right you'd blow the markets out of the water if this was your only investment but anyway we're seeing a sizeable retracement and we've seen a sizeable retracement in Shopify over the past couple of months from 409 down to about 300 bucks right that's a potential that's opened of around 30 percent and we're seeing something similar here to PayPal right we're under the moving averages on the four hour chart and we're kind of finding a support at a very critical spot which in this case is 300 bucks and let me show you guys why so a couple months ago back in June we held roughly 295 300 before we hit that 400 level so that's one jump or a bounce or a hold at 400 300 right so that's one point of support back in the beginning actually more towards the end of September we held it right towards the end of October we held it twice right double bottom before we tried the breakout but we failed to right and now we kind of dip below it in this past week but we're finally recovering back above 300 and we're actually doing quite well despite the markets being read today up about six bucks on Shopify up about 2% here and they reported earnings which kind of led the stock to go down a bit further here down to about 280 a couple of days ago and they reported EPS of negative 29 cents so they lost they lost money versus the 11 cents expected so analysts expected a profit for Shopify they did not come out with a profit so that's kind of negative but their revenue here hit 390 million versus the 384 million expected so if we're looking at Shopify here um this is a more risky play in my opinion than PayPal but it has a lot more upside than PayPal actually let me let me double check that because we had 30% on Shopify profit potential but PayPal might actually be close to that as well um no it's not it's about 16% so it does offer a lot more um than PayPal and the thing is with Shopify guys you know and a lot of these growth names that kind of run like crazy when when there's hype behind them you know they could report EPS that's poor like Shopify did but investors and traders in a week two weeks three weeks they might forget that right and let's say you know the stock sees a technical break they might hop in regardless of what that EPS is because that's kind of how growth beasts um not all of them but some growth beasts they trade that way right you know they see massive dips you know people hop in on those dips and sometimes you know the stock ends up rallying way way harder um again despite maybe an earnings is bad despite you know a miss on EPS or revenue um you know that's just kind of how it is right i've been watching a lot of stocks you know Roku's another one that's like that you know they they they crash after earnings you know and now watch them go all the way back up to 170 right it's very very possible so Shopify that's kind of how I'm viewing it right I won't take a position in this one um until we break out of those moving averages I know I took a bit of an early position in PayPal because I actually see this as more um of a safer move than Shopify but Shopify I want to wait and see a break into at least probably 315 before initiating a position um that's just me that's just kind of my risk tolerance um with it and of course if it breaks below 300 um that could be a potential head and shoulder pattern and we may be going down even further from there but at this point I'm just playing it by ear and watching those moving averages because you know again growth growth monsters like Shopify they can catch on fire very quickly they can they can go 10 15 percent in a week and we can be here in no time and then it could run up to 400 in no time and uh that's kind of what I'm waiting here I'm just waiting patiently for that pop and then of course I'll end up buying in and I'll let you guys know so those are two stocks that I think have a lot of potential here Shopify and PayPal now let's go over natural gas very quickly you guys and kind of some other watch lists and stocks that I have here um very very briefly before I do end off this video so you guys today guys saw a onslaught right it got crushed 15 percent which kind of you know reiterates my point that I make a lot on this channel never hold these over the weekend never hold these overnight at that point in all honesty right you know because this can happen to you if you were holding this from Friday hoping that it was going to go up on Monday you would be down 16 percent and really you're back holding right now right so this is really a prime example of why you shouldn't but now that it made this move to the downside we have to analyze this and see what could happen now right so you guys de-gas they follow natural gas natural gas whenever it's going up that's when you guys is going up whenever natural gas is going down de-gas is going up so you can imagine de-gas did amazing today and you'd be right right it was up 16 percent up 15 bucks but going back to you guys we can kind of see here on the 20 day chart this is looking not too good we hit 290 got rejected um right you know I was hoping we'd hold 275 we gap down below it yesterday and yesterday's video I was talking about we might hold 268 we ended up breaking that the uptrend trend line that I have here we broke below it completely now the only hope I'm having is we end up holding 258 to 260 as a support which honestly a lot of people in the discord chat which again is linked down below have been talking about this level at about 258 260 so at this point that's kind of where I'm looking for at the bottom out right you can kind of see this you know this is looking like a head and shoulder starting as well to be honest right left shoulder head maybe we hold this level 260 again like I said that kind of makes sense because the RSI is very oversold you know if we start the pot from here maybe we get back up to 275 again right and from here guys if we break out no head and shoulder will be forming but if we start to get rejected again at 275 we start to fall down a bit you know that could be a right shoulder and ultimately we could be back down to 258 or even lower right that that's that's one scenario that could potentially play out but being honest um you know looking at the fundamentals here you know if we start to get withdrawals from natural gas you know demand's going to go up here in the next couple of weeks heading into the cold months um you know of the winter I personally still think that this has more upside potential I don't think this is going to crash through the roof right now because it doesn't even make sense right because again inventory reports they're all about supply and demand if people are withdrawing right if there's a lot of you know demand for natural gas what's the price going to do it's going to pop up it's going to go up it's going to be bullish so at this point I'm still sticking to my guns um you know I still think natural gas has potential to get over 293 bucks this winter um and really I'm just looking at this as a pullback and I'm just letting it wiggle out here over the next couple of days before I really do initiate um either a position in you guys or degas um and honestly I'm probably not going to be swinging them because I never do that unless it's in my smaller account but you know before I do make even a day trade I want to see what it does in terms of holding that 260 to 262 level like we talked about so if we break that level guys you know degas is going to be um in play again tomorrow because that's going to be pretty bearish for natural gas right if we go back to natural gas we break 260 we could be gapping down to 248 which opens up a massive window of profit on degas right and let me just quickly calculate how much of a percent drop that would be for natural gas about four percent four percent times three which is what degas goes up whenever natural gas is going down that would be a move of around 12 percent for degas if natural gas does that dump down there but if we hold it guys run up to 290 above three bucks obviously you know you guys are going to be massive right you know we saw a massive pull down um you know down to 15 bucks from 20 that's opened up 24 percent profit if we get even higher than that obviously we can make 30 35 percent um you know even 40 percent if we get even higher than that so overall I'm watching it you know I'm keeping my eyes on it but I'm not rushing I'm kind of letting things play out I'm kind of letting the fundamentals play out um and really looking to see what this Thursday report at 10 30 am is going to be looking like because that's going to give us a gauge for the next week of what natural gas prices could be doing so overall that is it for natural gas that is it for you guys let's kind of go rapid fire now on a couple of stocks um on my watch list here apples up two bucks this thing is not stopping guys this is probably the hottest stock in the stock market right now um you know I you know this is just insane right you know one side of me it's like short short apple stops but the other side of me is like you're crazy if you're shorting apple right so I'm just letting it go at this point um I own it in my long term accounts I might even consider trimming some profits at this point because I'm up so much on my apple position guys it is ridiculous if you remember a year ago um I don't even know how many of you guys have been watching me for a year but a year ago I was buying apple heavily um in the 140s and in under a year guys I've made like 80 percent on those shares it's insane not maybe not 80 maybe like 60 70 percent close to that 70 ish percent on the shares which is out you know insane right and the name and game of investing is buying a company you believe is undervalued you buy that company and you sell or start to sell some of the shares when you believe it's getting a bit frothy when you believe it's getting a bit overvalued even if that's within a one year time period that's kind of how I do it a lot of people would be like don't do that because your taxes will be higher which is a very good point right but if it runs so much in a year guys under a year I'm still willing to sell out or not sell out completely but trim some profits even if I'm paying a larger tax than I would if it was a long term capital gains tax for example which is anything over one year so apple I'm watching that of course you know biggest one of the biggest stocks in the market you know Amazon right now down about 14 points um kind of weird in a horizontal pattern right now not really doing much over these past couple of days um you know Facebook dipped into the 180s today guys not looking too good but ultimately still holding this trend which is a a good sign for the bulls out there we have Microsoft hitting 146 today guys wow very strong move in Microsoft Disney another stock that honestly I'm kind of looking to enter this one potentially tomorrow we didn't get that move that I wanted that I talked about in yesterday's video which pretty much was getting it at 138 that never happened it actually dipped even further down which honestly is good because that opens up even more money for me to make so I might enter here potentially sell at 142 that could be a potential goal um um here for Disney and you know that's pretty much it guys I don't want to hold you too long in this video and um one more thing actually BABA is one that you should be watching because they reported um 30 billion dollars in one hour they they sold um I think it's 30 billion it was like 14 billion again um in terms of the Chinese currency which equates to around 30 billion dollars I believe correct me if I'm wrong but there's been a lot of protests in Hong Kong guys I believe the markets there were down like 2.6 percent um in a day or something like that there's been killings riots protests so that is actually why this thing and JD.com and a lot of the Chinese stocks dipped this morning but they ended up rallying so these are ones to definitely watch and JD I believe is reporting earnings um either today either tomorrow one of these days they're reporting earnings and that could be an earnings play as well so pretty much guys that's it for the video if you enjoyed it feel free to go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you do want to see further content from me and if you want to be further connected with the community the StrifeSmart discord group chats link down below the StrifeSmart Facebook groups link down below as well as the StrifeSmart merch if you want to support me and support the brand so I'll catch you all in the next video thanks again for watching peace out


Welcome to the Hawaii Food and Farmers series. My name is Kristen Jamison and today I'm here with a net gala from the Green Wheel Food Hub to chat a little bit about how spending EBT dollars at the farmers markets can help support the local economy and our agriculture here in Hawaii. Welcome, Nenette. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to talking with you. Yeah, so can you just start off by telling us a little bit about what you do at Green Wheel and why the organization exists? Sure. Green Wheel Food Hub basically is working to provide support for sustainable local agriculture and particularly we like to focus on getting local fresh food to people who are in underserved areas and to people who are lower income so that they might not normally have this access. Right now our primary focus is on a couple of farmers markets where we support using SNAP which is foodsteps and I'll get to that. So there's two farmers markets where we're at. One is the Honolulu Farmers Market Wednesday at the Blaisdell Center. Everybody just calls it the Blaisdell Market Wednesdays from 4 to 7 in front of the concert hall and the other one is in Kalehi, the crop shop at Kohio Park that is sponsored by Kokua Kalehi Valley. So at those two markets we assist people to use their SNAP benefits to buy fresh local produce or not just produce other any eligible items. So how does that work? Is there a special card that we use? Yes. So first of all SNAP SNAP is supplemental nutrition assistance program. It's the program formerly known as food stamps. Officially it's called SNAP but a lot of people still call it food stamps. And the SNAP benefits are on a debit card called a EBT card. A lot of people ask me what's EBT? Electronic benefits transfer and that includes SNAP benefits and also any cash benefits might include WIC women and kids and children program. So it's one card that acts like a debit card. So the EBT is a card and SNAP is one of the programs that is on there. The balance is kept on that card and so we just swipe that EBT card and people get as many green bucks as they feel they'll need. This is one green buck. Oh it's not showing up very well but it's a token basically worth one dollar. So it's almost like whenever you go to the fair and you get your raffle tickets. Exactly. Well it's script. So it's like script. It's worth one dollar and if they don't use it all they can return it for a refund that goes right back into their card. So you know I have a lot of customers buy more than they think they'll need and they just return what they haven't used. So have you found that this has helped people get more access to local vegetables using EBT cards? Yeah because it's good. Again as I said not just vegetables but any permitted foods which would include breads. Nothing that is meant to be eaten on the spot but people can even buy for example frozen meat, smoked meat to take home or at the Blaisdell Farmers Market there's a guy who sells fresh pasta and sauces. But one thing is that even the prepared foods at that market use as much local product as possible. But anyway so any permitted food they can use this dollar for dollar as if it were cash. They can't get change or make it. There's a few glitches because it's can't be broken. There's rules but basically it's pretty simple. Most of the vendors accept it. The vendors who have any eligible items are very happy to accept it and then at the end of the market they give me back the green bucks that they've collected and then the next week I bring them a check. So it's really great for the vendors. They get a check for their whatever it is without them having to hassle with being able to accept food stamps individually and go through the whole application process and you know whatever hassles are involved. They're very happy with it. But the customers are so thrilled. Over and over people tell me how much better the produce is at the farmers market than it is at supermarkets and that makes sense. Most of the supermarket produce is imported. So it's 10 days old when it arrives. You know I've had people say why I can't believe how long my lettuce keeps or my greens the vegetables are keeping longer. Well they're fresher actually. You know if you like I brought along some lettuce that I bought yesterday if you'd like to take a leaf or two and just crunch it. All I did was wash it. Can you hear this. That's great. I don't know if the audience can hear that. This is so crunchy. I use it like chips. And so you're saying that the quality you get at the farmers market is a lot better because the produce is being picked fresher. You're getting it you know just a couple days after it was harvested right here. Actually that lettuce I bought last night was harvested yesterday. At other markets an evening market it might have been it will have been harvested the same day. A morning market may be the day before. And that freshness also confers you know more nutrition too that you're having access to because the longer it sits there the less nutritious the food becomes. Better flavor which translates into I'm more likely to eat it. So yeah definitely the access to this. And the interesting thing is there's a reputation that farmers markets are expensive. In my experience prices are comparable to the supermarkets if not cheaper. And as I say there it's fresher for the same thing. So a benefit all around there is no downside. Everybody wins. Everybody wins exactly. So with this program how how big is the buying power of EBT to give folks the ability to use their EBT dollars at the farmers market. Well total EBT for the state of Hawaii and I am just giving a very rough number about half a billion dollars a year. Five hundred million dollars a year comes into the state through this federal program. Only a very small of that amount of that is currently going to the farmers markets. And of course people need a lot more than what they can buy at a farmers market. We don't grow wheat here. We don't grow rice here. There's a lot we don't grow. Grains and even cheese. There's very little cheese here or so forth. But the vegetables and other fruits and other products that are grown in Hawaii and there is some meat and there's eggs and there's things like that. It would be lovely if even a small percentage of people would come and buy at the farmers market instead of the supermarket. Because that money when you spend money at whether it's food stamps or your own money that you've earned or inherited or whatever. Money spent at the farmers market. The number I've seen generally and again I'm not sure exactly how this was calculated but I've seen numerous times that a dollar spent at the farmers market will generate about a dollar seven day at least in local economic benefit. So whenever people use their SNAP benefits at the farmers market they're actually using federal dollars to help supplement the local Hawaii economy rather than spending it at a big box grocery store that's going to send a lot of big proceeds of that money back to their corporate profit. Exactly. That's the big benefit to our economy. It also where since local agriculture is so precarious anything that goes to help the farmers remain sustainable and viable is something that benefits everybody in the state. So what are some of the benefits of shopping at a farmers market? Well besides the fact that it's so much fresher and more delicious and keeps longer so that I don't waste it. For me there's the relationship. The first farmers market that I was able to shop at is the KCC market on Saturday mornings which is a bit more than I think it's 14 years a little over 14 years ago that it started. I've been shopping with the same farmers for 14 years. You develop a relationship you know them. Okay this is going to sound awfully hokey. When I am eating something that whether it's just a piece of lettuce or tomato or something that I have cooked I love to cook so something that I have cooked using those local ingredients. I'm very aware of who grew it and the hard work that they put in so that I could enjoy this beautiful food. I feel very grateful and that makes the food much more delicious. That feeling that I have that somebody has worked hard so that I may enjoy this food. That means a lot to me personally and not everybody's going to feel that way but I hope some people may think about it at least. It's not something you get at the grocery store always. Oh heavens no. Heavens no. So yeah that relationship that I've developed plus if I have a question I could ask them. I encourage people to please wait until the farmer isn't busy or the vendor we've been up in a farm stand it might be a baker whatever wait till they can answer your questions but then they're usually happy to chat with people and to answer questions and to explain what something is and it's not just the farmers. The customers too customers at farmers markets tend to be a friendly bunch. Yesterday you came over to our table and we started talking and the next thing here I am on your show. Right across the Isleway was the purveyor of lettuce and asparagus. Exactly. Exactly. So you know when I'm doing my shopping there or I still shop at KCC on Saturdays very often I get into conversations with people other customers what happens is like I'll be picking a broccoli rob and somebody local has never seen broccoli rob so they say oh what is that and then how do you use it and I explain it and say oh I'll try it and they try it and the same thing goes I may ask somebody how do you use this Asian vegetable that I've never seen before and I wind up liking it. So people aren't getting this vegetables at the farmers market they're also getting recipes yes new experiences and new friends. Yes exactly. Yeah so the the benefits there's so many benefits and no downside to shopping at a farmers market. Well the one thing is look again Blaisdell is where I do the green wheel but at KCC I've been shopping there for 14 years I about 12 years ago I stopped buying any vegetables and fruits outside of the farmers markets with rare occasion I may occasionally buy an apple but basically the one thing that I buy that I cannot buy locally grown I can't cook without garlic and nobody's growing garlic they've tried but garlic just doesn't grow well here so I buy garlic otherwise produce is from the farmers market. Why did you make that choice you know for the last 14 years to pretty much shop exclusively at farmers markets for your produce? Partly because of the higher quality why should I buy something that is going to rot in two days and but also it's really the relationships that I've developed with the vendors and also my desire to support local agriculture as I said there's no downside to it it's all positive. I factually when one vegetable that I love is my mother was French so I grew up eating asparagus and artichokes and no but no artichokes here and I have literally stood in a market looking at artichokes and I look and the stem is kind of brown and I just say you're so long from the farm and I put it back. Wow yeah well thank you so much for sharing all this information you have about your experience at farmers markets. You're going to take a quick two minute break and then we'll be back to talk a little bit more about farmers market after a couple messages. Aloha my name is John White Haley and I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you so I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to talk story with me and some very special guests every other Monday here at Talk Story with John White Haley. Come on in join us express your opinion learn more about your state and then do something about it. Aloha. Welcome back to the Hawaii Food and Farmers series. I'm here with Nanette Geller talking about farmers markets and the local EBT program with Green Wheel Hawaii. Thanks welcome back Nanette. Thank you. It's Green Wheel Food Hub. Green Wheel Food Hub yeah. So right before the break we are chatting about some of the things that you can and can't find at a local farmers market. So what are some of the things that are really tough to find locally. Well as I said the one thing that I must have is garlic. I had then there's like stone fruits peaches plums apricots but even if I can if I buy them at a supermarket they're not nearly as good as I remember eating them when they were fresh from when I was a kid. So I don't miss them. Honestly why would I care about peaches when I could eat mangoes when they're in season. I live for mango season. I occasionally buy an apple occasionally but really there isn't that much that I feel oh I want that and I can't find it. I usually manage it's not about what I can't find it's what I can find and part of it is how do you shop how do you cook. I look to see and I've done this all all my life not just because of the farmers markets. I look to see what's there and I buy say how will I use this which I can buy rather than saying oh I want to make artichokes that I can't find artichokes darn. So in the kitchen rather than building your grocery list around a recipe you're building your recipes around what you can find at the farmers market. Exactly. That kind of reverses almost the way that a lot of people cook. That's true and it doesn't take long to change that mindset especially when the results are so delicious. You know when ingredients are this fresh and delicious it's so much easier to cook. I don't have to do very much to them to have a feast. What are some of your favorite local ingredients to cook with. Well actually the asparagus because I've loved asparagus all my life so I buy it very often when there's skinny spears I toss them with olive oil and roast them at high temperature for about 10 minutes and then I can just serve them on a plate I could serve them with a poached egg on top I could make a pasta I could make a salad I could put them in sandwiches all kinds of what things this or I might this is a kind of a fat spear I could use it in a stir-fry I could steam it what I'm actually going to do tonight is kind of interesting I'm going to make a pizza shave this with a vegetable peeler and in very thin shavings and pile it on top of some the cheese on it the pizza crust cook it and when it's almost ready I'm going to add a couple of local eggs and put it back so that the eggs are really still runny and that's going to be dinner tonight and I was all inspired by the asparagus that you picked up yesterday when they're fat like this I sometimes do that and when they're skinny I do something completely different so yes I buy asparagus actually very often but what I'm going to do with it depends on what kind of asparagus I find but all of this a lot of it is seasonal so right now I we're buying a lot of oranges and tangerines because the citrus is in season so we're eating that every day you don't have to do anything with a local orange other than cut it and put it on a plate when you're talking about the oranges and how you know you can't get stone fruits in Hawaii I like how you didn't frame it as oh I have to sacrifice you know peaches because I eat local but rather oh look at the abundance of other types of fruits that I have access to. Rejoice in what you have and life is so much more pleasant and so one of the things you know that you said we don't have that it's hard to you know sacrificing about this garlic that is one thing I really like my mother was French I can't cook without garlic come on so that's one thing I buy but it this brings us to something there are a lot of so-called farmers markets that a lot of the stuff is imported sometimes most of it and you can one thing I do when I go to a new farmers market a place I haven't been I look around if I see garlic I know that they permit imported stuff and I don't blame the vendors if it's permitted I don't care but don't call yourself a farmers market if it's wholesalers selling their off-grade produce or overstocks or even if it's first grade stuff but imported what's a great pro tip you know if you're at a farmers market look for garlic you know that not everything on the table yeah and some of it may be but you have to ask and I've found with very rare exceptions I think that people will be honest and tell you if you say is this did you grow this or is this from Hawaii they will be honest but you have to know to ask so what questions should people be asking and that the farmers market well as I said the first question it is if it's a market you haven't been to before now I know at the Blaisdell market and kids they there is a very strict rule all produce has to be from the state of Hawaii and that's not the case at all the farmers market right it's it's the case at the Blaisdell or actually and some of there are other markets where I know that is true the KCC market it's true actually all of the markets that are run by the farm bureau they do have a strict rule about that it's got to be from Hawaii they won't allow which is why you won't find garlic there are other farmers markets excellent well-run and very strict about only local produce but many when you're right here near Ford Street mall you'll see plenty of garlic down there it's not local so I would say the first thing you do is look and see if you see garlic if you don't see garlic ask what is the policy on produce that is not from Hawaii and again I have never had anyone lie to me as far as I know they will usually be happy to tell you what is local and what isn't if it's not if it isn't all local so I try to I try to support markets that are 100 local that's my own preference but if I have to fill in with from a market like Ford Street Ball or Manoa or something where they have imported stuff at least I can check to see what's local rather than asking you know what isn't isn't local are there any other questions you like to ask farmers I do I actually and again this is personal I will ask about the growing practices for example obviously if somebody is certified organic that has a lot of meaning there's also there are some farmers who do what's called Korean natural farming but many farmers are following a really good practice they many of them are no spray or if they use any fungicides or sprays they're using the same ones that an organic farmer would use so I would rather you know I do ask about those practices and if it's something that matters to you uh you can ask and make a decision on whether it's okay with you um those those are the main things I ask oh of course I say where is your farm and what else do you grow and what other markets do you participate in I may ask so if anybody's interested in being part of the Greenwill Food Hub program you know to have access to buy local produce with their snap dollars how can they get started well okay if they already have snap they just come to my table at the play still and I will assist them so they the individual what farmers do not accept their ebt card they just come to me as many green bucks as they think they're going to need and I will give them I'll tell them what they could buy I have a paper that lists the vendors who accept it and what types of items they're allowed to buy so it's really easy but if somebody does not yet have ebt and they think gosh I might qualify I'm low income and I could really use some extra money to pay for food um then the this is the uh brochure helping hands Hawaii and if you can have the phone number there but we're just call helping hands Hawaii they screen for eligibility and then um help with the problem with process great well hopefully um after today some more folks might be coming down to a bladesdale to I hope so to use their ebt dollars at um the farmers market through the Greenwill Food Hub and thanks so much for sharing you know your my pleasure of expertise on farmers markets here in Hawaii my pleasure and thank you very much for having me this has been the Hawaii Food and Farmers series with Nanette Geller talking about the Greenwill Food Hub here in Hawaii thanks so much would you like to take these home I'd love to thank you it's fantastic it's great that is here's the bags they were good well thank you so much by the way this is good raw too I know it's people don't realize you can eat asparagus oh it's delicious in fact um you know people make a salad of shaved asparagus the thick ones are perfect for that so here I kind of nibbled it this way