I feel like the biggest thing that insurance agents struggle with specifically is closing the deal. You are one of the best closers on the planet. How can you help others become the exact same thing right now? Well, remember the famous story of the man on the streets of New York and he asked a hippie. He said, he says, how do I get to Carnegie Hall? Remember that? And the answer is practice, man, practice. And the answer is practice, man, practice. The reason you are where you are today is practice. You learn it, learn and do, learn and do, learn and do. Just practice over and over. And you can learn anything. Now, you may not become a genius, but you can learn any subject.  You just, you automatically learn, you absorb new material. And so therefore say, well, I want to be good at it. First thing I do is I get a book. I have, I was reading about having books on Amazon and that you could actually write your own book and you could put it on Amazon. So I told people, you know, you can write your own book. And then I realized I had lots of books on Amazon, but they were all put on there by publishers. And so I said, okay, I'm going to write my own book. I'm going to follow the process of writing a book and putting it on Amazon. And so I looked on Amazon and there are several free books. There are 30, 40, 50, 60 pages on how to write a book on Amazon. And you can just after the end of our conversation here, just go to Amazon and just put in how to write a book and they'll give you several different choices. Now, and if they sell you the book, the book is going to be $5, $4. They're not very expensive at all. So I just got three or four books and I read them through and I learned how to write a book. And I wrote a book and I said, what book would I write? And I said, I'll write a book on closing sales. And so I wrote a book. I think it's going to close that sale. And it's $5.99. Yeah. And so I think I sold it as a Kindle book, but I don't recall. And I have my creative person. I said, I want to get this book onto Amazon. And she said, okay, and she familiarized herself with the instructions. It's like a recipe, just a little recipe, follow the recipe. And so we put it up there. And it's called close that sale. And it's 24 sales closing techniques that I started off with many years ago. It was interesting. I started speaking in 1981, which was at the depths of a major recession. And I had to get people in the room. And I figured, how can I get people in the room? And I said, well, I could do a seminar on closing sales. That's what everybody wants to know. The one thing that sales people want to know. So I put an ad in the paper. And it's called 24 techniques for closing the sale. And I charged $95 for the seminar, three hours in the evening, seven to 10. And I had, I was really nervous, because I had never done a seminar like this before. And 100 people came to my first seminar, put an ad in the paper. 100 people came. And I guaranteed it. I said, if you're not happy for any reason, have your money back. And that was my starting, starting my kickoff in speaking, professional speaking. And I had, I think about 95, yeah, 9500 people in my first seminar. And what I did is I put together a really nice booklet on closing the sale. But it was all the things you have to do before you close the sale. It had 24 techniques. But the first thing you had to do is you had to make sure you were speaking to the right person, qualifying. You had to be sure that they understood the value of the offering. You had to be sure that you understood what they needed and so on. And then you had to get them to the point where they were ready to buy. And then here's 24 different ways that you can ask for the sale. And you'll notice that there's no pressure. There's no tricks. There's no ways to force people to buy. Everything is really low pressure, no pressure friendly. And that was my starting point. That's my kickoff in professional ceiling. And I had never written a book. I certainly learned a lot about it. And I had lots of information. So if anybody wants to learn how to close the sale, you just go to Amazon and there it is. I think it's $5.99. But here's the wonderful thing that I discovered. One of the major reasons why people are afraid of prospecting is because so often they get rejected at the end of the presentation. So if they know that they're going to get rejected at the end of the presentation, they don't even go and make calls in the first place. They say, why should I create? If I told you, I just came up with this when I was speaking to a huge audience, this one liner. And I said, if your company hired a marketing specialist company and they could go and interview and they could identify 100 people who would buy today if you contacted them. And here's the list. It's a specialized list. It's for you. And every one of these people will buy if you contact them today. But the list is only good from nine to five. After that, the list expires. So here's my question to you. If you got this list the night before, what would you do the next day? What would you do the next day? Well, I'd get up early and I'd hit it. As soon as nine o'clock, almost like a horse in a race in jing is I'd hit it and I started moving. I said, would you take time to drink coffee and talk with your friends and read the newspaper and go for lunch and BS and all of this stuff? What would you do? You'd be moving as fast as you could because every person you spoke to is going to buy. And every person you spoke to is going to buy. And so you just keep moving as fast as you can. I said, well, and at the end of the day, if you're not going to get to 100 people, but you're certainly getting a lot of people. So for now on, imagine that. Imagine everybody you speak to is going to buy.  And with that confidence, that feeling that, wow, if I get face to face with these, and you'll find that one out of 10 people will buy in any market, one out of 10 people will buy. So therefore what you do is you decide you're going to get in front of as many people as possible and one in 10 will buy. Just keep moving as fast as you can. If they don't buy, you say, thank you very much. Have a good day. Wonderful thing. Here's my card. Give me a call if I can be of any assistance to and get to the next one. Get to the next one because one of 10 is going to buy. So keep moving, keep moving, keep talking to people.  And so when you have that attitude, it's called the law of probabilities. The law of probability says that one out of 10 people you speak to, if you have a little bit of intelligence, will buy. So therefore, just get up and start moving first thing in the morning and don't stop. Keep moving. And here's the most wonderful thing I say. If you call more and more or more and more people, what happens to your skill level? What happens to your skill? Yes, exactly. Your skill level goes up. You get better and better at calling on people. And when you get better and better, you make more sales. When you make more sales, you have more confidence. When you make more confidence, you want to make more sales. And pretty soon, you can hardly wait. And the wonderful thing is the more you call on people, the better you get, the better you get, the happier you are, the better you get, the happier you are, the more sales you make, the more money you make, and so on. This is just simply the way that you program your mind. And all the best salespeople do this is they just smile. For example, there's no, I don't want it, don't need it. You say, well, thank you very much for your time. You have a wonderful day. And if I can be of any service to you, please give me a call and keep moving, keep moving. And that's the attitude that you have to have to be successful. So good. So good. Mr. Tracy, I've taken up probably too much of your time, but I'm gracious for everything that you've done with us. Thank you so much for sharing today with 8% Nation. Well, I appreciate you calling me and giving me the opportunity to speak to your friends. And I, I'm really happy to meet you and see you and we will work together again. I hope so, buddy. Thank you so much. Also, those that are watching, make sure you go to Amazon and grab, I'm going right now after to grab close that cell. Mr. Tracy, thank you so much. You've been unbelievable influence in my life and so many. And thank you so much for being on today. Thank you very much, Cody. See you, talk to you again. Yes, sir, you too. Thank you guys for watching, closing that cell and you are unstoppable. Exactly. Exactly. Bye bye, my friend. Hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one you're going to love. It's right there. Click on it. See you. Here's what I want to leave you with. Okay, before we go, I want to leave you with my eight rules to 8%.  Right? Like if I look back over the last decade, here's the eight rules


Alright guys, I'd just like to make a video to explain one thing which I find has you know really really helped me more than anything else to Loose a dream I guess you could say it's like the golden rule or you know some sort of Magic power or method that you can use. It's not even really a method. It's just like a basic understanding Okay, and that is that when you're lucid dreaming Okay, you're not just a character in the dream a lot of you when you start lucid dreaming yours thing Okay, well, I'm in this new area. I'm in this new space. Let's let's see what I can do But when you think of it like that you have less control and you tend to find that you get drift You drift into different things, you know, maybe the dream will distract you You know, maybe a dream character will sort of interrupt you and bring you on different journey You take you off to some, you know magical place and you lose control and sometimes lucidity as well and The key that I want to just explain to you really is When you're lucid dreaming you are not just a character in a dream. You are the entire dream The whole dream is you okay?


And at a similar program elsewhere, the speaker said that the message of peace remains essential at this time as Nigerians prepare for the general elections in 2023. Notice that because of avarice, discrimination, selfishness, wickedness, conversiousness, there is no peace in the world. And what we are trying to do here today is to sensitize people. Because some people feel that when you talk of peace, it is just absence of law and violence, but it goes beyond that. How we want to see youth, to make sure that youth now, they don't give them that cliche of name. When you hear youth doing elections, it's about poverty, it's about violence. And we can turn that narrative so that youth can be a value for our system. But at the same time, we are able to allow people to understand this thing because it is very important that INEC, the media, CSO should intensify advocacy temple. You know, engagement is important. People are there, they don't know what INEC is talking and we should let them know so that they will turn out embers. Peace.


Good morning. It is July 11th, and we will be starting our special meeting. It is 8 30 madam deputy City clerk may you please call the roll councilmember staff here Councilmember Rogers here Councilmember O'Crepkey here councilmember Fleming Councilmember Alvarez Vice Mayor McDonald here Mayor Rogers present Let the record reflect all council members are present except for councilmember Fleming and councilmember Alvarez We will be starting our meeting today with a closed session So we will start with our public comment madam deputy city clerk We are now taking public comment on item 2.1 If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom Please raise your hand or dial star nine you have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period seeing no In chamber comment zoom host do we have any zoom? Callers We have no hands racing zoom. Thanks, and we have no pre-recorded messages for this item Thank you so much. So with that we will recess into closed session. Thank you Hello, we will now be reconvening our special meeting Madam deputy city clerk. May you please call the roll? Councilmember staff here councilmember Rogers here councilmember O'Crepkey here councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez Vice mayor McDonald here mayor Rogers Present let the record reflect all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez Thank you We'll now ask our madam city attorney to give report out Yes, thank you the council met in closed session on this in the special meeting this morning starting at 830 Gave direction this is regarding the recruitment for the new city attorney and The council gave direction to the recruiter and to staff and I have no final action was taken So I have nothing further to report Thank you, and with that we will adjourn our special meeting We will resume our regular meeting at 410 giving us time to switch over our technology Thank you very much for your patience


Hi everyone, Joe for JazzPeaceCaseBreaks.com. We're doing a random number block randomizer for this group of teams right here. That unlocks. Pick your team number 26. There's everyone right here. Big thanks to Steven, Zach, and Lonnie for making this happen. Here are the numbers here. And let's roll it in randomized names and numbers. One and a four, five times. One, two, three, four, and five. Got Zach down to Lonnie. One and a four, five times for the numbers. One, two, three, four, and five. Nine down to three. Alright, Zach with nine. Lonnie with eight, zero, two, six, five, and one. Zach with seven, Steven with four, and Lonnie with three. Now I would say zero gets any and all redemptions, including one of one redemptions, but Lonnie also has number one. So he's got his bases covered. Thanks guys. I will see you in the next video for the break. JazzPeaceCaseBreaks.com


How would you assess the overall energy of the team tonight? Tonight, I'm gonna be honest, it was bad energy.  Would you attribute that to anything? Was it just one of those nights? How do you look at a night like this? I think it was just one of those nights we came in unprepared. We just got to be better than this. Jared, what makes covering lorry marketing so tough? Amazing player all around, shooting-wise, driving-wise, and finishing at the round. So you really have to guard them on all facets of the game. Jared, what's going on? It's amazing seeing him back out there. And you know, he's coming back to his old self. He's still not totally there, but she saw glimpses of it tonight. Has there been any different with him out there on the floor? I didn't feel like old cares, you know. That's not how he's gonna be yet. But when he gets back to himself, he will be. Is it surprising that he looked as bright as he did even after three months out? I was, I'm gonna give a lot of credit to our training staff they bring us along the right way. They make sure we're healthy and make sure we're completely ready for the game. Jared, is it encouraging to see him take all the contact at the rim like he did in the fourth quarter and play right through it? It's encouraging that he's still going up with a lot of confidence. He's not letting the injury hold him back.  It is so, well, we had 32 assists against Denver and then I don't know, it just didn't seem like we had a lot tonight. So it just shows that we still have to bring the same type of energy every night against any team.


What's up guys, Michael with Jaspie is doing a quick recap for 2023 tops pristine baseball two box break random team number 14 was done auction style on fanatics live Here is the list positive if you need to There you go. I'm getting into the recap here Pee Weed of 50, Bayo to 75, Ruiz to 75 Christopher Morel that is gold to 50 Alvarez to 75 Young to 99 and Then the rugs we had a Scott Rowland to 99 and a Tony Gonsolin now the encased cards Jay Ram Otto Grissom to 75 had an orange Adley to 25 Prazzo Bogarts to 50 Chipper Jones going going gone gold to 50 Griffey Crone Rodriguez Ashcraft Otto and a Christie Matthews into 75 that does it for the recap. Thank you to everyone who got into the break Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys


I say can you just tell me a little bit about what the last 48 hours have been like? I imagine it has been very hectic for you. Yeah, it's been a world when, you know, I love Texas. You know, they gave me an opportunity to go to Minnesota and Minnesota gave me the opportunity to come here. So everything worked out and, you know, this is where I want to be.  Okay, so you get to Fort Myers, you touch down there. And then how quickly did you find out, hey, this is not your destination? Yeah, I met the team. They're really excited to have me. You know, they really, really welcomed me.  It was that they're very welcoming. They really wanted me. And, you know, I went to bed that night after taking the physicals.  And, you know, they seem like they thought I think they thought I was going to be sad. But I was so happy. I was so happy to get the call here because I wanted to be here from Texas.  And I always want to be like Derek Jeter. So I get the opportunity. I'm stoked. I was going to ask you what was your initial reaction? Were you in disbelief at all that, hey, I just got here and I'm going to the Yankees where I wanted to be all along? My dream came true.   And, you know, I got the opportunity to win a World Series this year. So, you know, I can't ask for anything else. Being a Yankees fan growing up, being a Jeter fan growing up, did you have a favorite team? You know, they're all my favorites. Just the history of the club. I'm walking in the clubhouse and looking around and seeing the pictures of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munten. I'm a baseball freak. So, you know, I do this for the rings and for the love of the game. And this organization is a class organization and it's the best in the world. And, you know, everything here is about winning and the history of the game. It means so much to me. And, you know, I'm just happy to be somewhere where that matters. Have you imagined what it might be like for you putting pinstripes on?  Yeah, I'm really excited.  So, you know, I'm nowhere close to him yet.  And nothing matters unless you got the rings. So, you know, we're going to do everything we can to get 28. You've had an interesting career so far. You've caught for a little bit something that you had never done before, kind of thrown into the fire. But how has that helped you, kind of, relate to pitchers? It's helped me a lot. I've been able to, you know, understand game calling. I understand the different personalities that pitchers have. You know, they're all different. They all have a different schedule. You know, they pitch one day a week. So, they go about things a different way. But having to deal with them and from behind the plate, it's given me the opportunity to understand that. And, you know, they really appreciate the effort I put out at Shortstop because at the end of the day when I was catching, I was helping them. Now when I'm playing Shortstop, you know, I'm helping them as well. But knowing the game calling is really helping me at Shortstop. And it really helps me build a relationship and trust with the pitchers. How would you describe yourself not only as a Shortstop, but as a teammate?  I play hard. And that's all you can do.  And I'm a winner. If they're firing on all cylinders, it looks like that offense can do a lot of damage. What do you think it'll be like to be a part of that lineup? Yeah, I'll definitely, you know, looking in there, seeing the guys on the team, you know, definitely be on the bottom of the lineup. But I'm going to do everything I can to help the team win. And then at the end of the day, that's all that matters. If it's moving runners over, stealing bases, putting the ball in the four hole, putting the ball in the gap. You know, I kind of got different clubs in my bag, so I was just picking the right one. Isaiah, thanks for the time. Thank you so much.


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I don't know if I'm right in telling you about it, but I treated the same kind of case at Shiloh, and the bullet kept moving, just like yours, and there was no way to stop it. How long did it last? Not as long as you have. You've been going two months since the fight. And how much longer I got, Doc? Well, there's no way to know. Another month, maybe longer, maybe less. I just thought you'd want to know, Nielsen. Better to know now than when it's too late to do anything about it. What are you going to tell Alice? What's there to say? Well, with her planning the wedding, there ought to be some explanation. You, uh, want me to tell her? Just say I changed my mind, and I'm heading west. Where are you going? Back to Dodge. To look up the Mailer Brothers? If they've killed me, I don't see any reason to let them go on living. Chester, can you force it up a little more? Well, no, not much, Mr. Donner. Come on. Yeah, that's better. Hold it there. Hold it there. Can it turn loose now? Now, let's just try one more nail. The only thing that's going to fix this door is the whole noose. We'll hold it for a while. Cuss it wood so rotten dry it won't hold a nail no more. Well, haven't you two given up on that door yet? Oh, hello, Kitty. I give up a long time ago, Miss Kitty. Matt, Jim Nielsen's back in town. Jim Nielsen? Nielsen's dead, Kitty. No, he's not. He's at the long branch right now.  Are you sure? I've seen him. I've heard him. The Mailer boys heard about it? It won't take long, the way it's getting talked about. Tom, Mailer rode up to Clay City, Mr. Donner, the day before yesterday. Charlie's the only one in town. I guess I better go see him. What about Nielsen? Well, if he's spreading the word, he'll be where I can find him any time I want. Hello, Charlie. What's trouble? I don't even let me pick it up. You want me to hold her for you? Well, Jim Nielsen was in town. Nielsen? Nielsen's dead, Marshal. Tom did for him. He's not dead. He's back in Dodge looking for you and Tom. All right. He's welcome. Look, Charlie, I know a lot of people are on your side, but there are a lot of others on Nielsen's. I'd like to stop this trouble before it goes any further. It was a fair fight, Marshal. I know it was. Any time Nielsen wants to stand up again against either of us, we'll be ready. That'd be better if you'd stay out of sight until he leaves. I can't do that, Marshal, and you know it. People would say I was a coward. What people say isn't important, Charlie. I don't hide from nobody. Now, the only thing behind that fight was some temper and some strong words. Aren't you man enough to forget it? What are you going to do about it, Marshal? There's nothing I can do if you're set on facing Nielsen. Except try and get him out of Tom. Self of old-fashioned ideas.  Only the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip can bring all of L&M's full, exciting flavor through to you. 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Look, Jim, I'd like it if you'd go back to Abilene. I'm not gonna do it, Marshal. I got nothing to go back to nowhere. What does that mean? I'm gonna die from that gunfight we had. The bullet's still in me. There's nothing to be done about it, huh? No. Nothing but trying to settle the score.   I had too much to live for when I faced up to him the first time. I was gonna get married. I owned some land. Those were the things I was thinking about. I got scared and tightened up. Man shouldn't have anything to think about in a gunfight. It was kind of hard not to. But I don't have now, Marshal. I don't have a thing to lose.   You can count on that. Drink with me, Marshal? No. No. Not tonight, thank you. Nielsen, you're looking for me and my brother. You'll forget it, Charlie, and get out of here. Where should I get out to, Marshal? You want me to run away, Nielsen? Hold it, Charlie! Is he dead, Marshal? Yeah, he's dead. You satisfied now, Nielsen? It was a fair fight just like the first one. And just as needless. Not to my way of thinking. Tell me, Marshal. When's Charlie's brother gonna get back to town? Mr. Dill want me to stop you before you got up to the plaza. Yeah, what for? Well, Jim Nielsen's waiting for you. Nielsen? Wait. What about my brother? Charlie's dead, Tom. Did Nielsen do it? Charlie, come after him. I thank you, Chester. I thank the Marshal. Tom, you gonna ride in anyway? I got no place else to go. Here! Free up! Press it up your taste. Smoke it, L&M! Enjoy full, exciting flavor through L&M's pure white miracle tip. L&M draws taste richer. Smokes cleaner. That's why today more people are changing to L&M than to any other cigarette. So free up! Press it up your taste. Live modern. Change to L&M. Make today your big red letter day and start to live the modern way. Live, live, live modern. It's America's fastest growing cigarette. You're in Clay City. I was. I signed up for Charlie and me. Take a pack train clear to Lincoln County. Charlie's dead.  Maybe, later. I thought Nielsen was here. He left about a half hour ago. Happened to know where he went. No. Can't you get your pack train together and go, Tom? Oh, you know I can't, Kitty. What goods are gonna do you looking for Nielsen or waiting for him? It's something I got to do. If he kills you, what are you gonna be proven? My brother's dead. Killing Nielsen won't bring him back. Some men ought to be killed, sure, but not you and Nielsen. You're fine, man. Both of you. My brother was a good man, too. Kitty, what would you have me do? I don't know, Tom. Be in the kind you are and after what's already happened, I guess I got no right trying to tell you what to do. Now, do you know if Nielsen figured on coming back here? I don't know, Tom. I'm going to my room. I was just about to order that drink. Then you'll have to have it without me. Thank you for sitting with me, Kitty. How long have you been here? There's not a thing I can do as a kitty. Not if you don't take the guns away. Yeah, they'd only find more. Then you watch them kill each other, Matt. I can't do it. It won't be but a few minutes. He was looking for Tom over there on Paganza. All right. You get out of sight some, please. All right, sir. Soon, Marshal. Hello, Tom. Look to Tom. I'm going to ask you to do a brave thing. Would you let me keep your gun for as long as you're in town? No, I won't, Marshal. You and I have been good friends, Tom. I'd like to keep it that way. But you won't do what I say. What would you do with you at my spot? What you're going to do, I guess. Tom, it's a different kind of a fight this time.  He's got nothing to lose. I kind of wondered why he'd come back. That's why.  I'd like to leave, Marshal. I'd like to be rigging our string of mules with Charlie, but there won't be any more of that. All right. All right, Tom. I told Nielsen and I'll tell you, from the beginning this thing has been needless. My mistake was not throwing the three of you in jail right off. Marshal Dillon, have a drink with me. No, thanks, Tom. Going back to my office. Goodbye. Well, Nielsen, I guess there's no reason trying to talk any sense into you, either. It's gone past talking, Marshal. You aren't figuring on stopping me. There's nothing I can do. I'll see you later. There's nothing I can do for him, Matthew. You must seem like such a waste. He was a good man, both of them was. There's no reason for you to feel bad, Matthew. You tried your very best to stop it. Someday there's going to be a law about carrying guns and there's going to be fights like these. It'll bring it. A man got the right, Mr. Dillon. They're going to lose it, Chester. This sort of thing doesn't stop. Doc, I'll have the body taken away. All right, man. I'll be with you if you want me to. Yeah, sure, Chester. I think I'm ready for that drink everybody offered me. Me too. You reckon this kitty knows? By this time I'd think so. There he is, Mr. Dillon. Well, you made it, huh? You killed both the Mailer brothers. Yeah? And in fair fight, huh? Yeah. I want to ask you something. Make you feel anybody? Tell you the truth that don't. The moment our star, William Conrad. Americans today are earning more money than ever before. And smart Americans are planning ahead too, to preserve prosperity. They're investing part of their paycheck every payday in United States savings bonds. And you can too, an easy, automatic way, by joining the payroll savings plan and buying savings bonds regularly where you work. With payroll savings, money is set aside for you by your employer before every payday, in any amount you say. That way, you never plan on the money and never miss it. Payday after payday, these sums grow under savings bonds. And before long, you'll find you have a collection of them. 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So I'm here at dinner in San Diego with some friends of mine and we're having a great time and guess what? I'm drinking water and everyone else here is drinking alcohol. One of the big misconceptions about going out is that people think they need to drink alcohol to be able to have a good time and that they somehow become more charming when they drink alcohol. Somehow they're a bit of a conversationalist. But Dacia and Tom and I are pretty okay conversationalists, am I entertaining to this point? It's pretty entertaining. Wow, wow, what a rousing reception that was. Gold am I an entertaining conversationalist at dinner?  So I've been drinking water here, lemon water. My friend's gold, what were you drinking tonight? I had tequila. Tequila, Dacia what did you have? Tequila. Tom? Tequila. Okay, so I've just been sipping water and we're having a great conversation here. It was wonderful. In fact, I took a 30 day break from alcohol about five and a half years ago and then I just kept going. I haven't touched alcohol since March of 2010 and I want to teach you how to easily quit alcohol just for 30 days and you'll be able to see that when you go out you can just be fun and be wild and entertaining and not be boring and dull without drinking alcohol. So I put together just a short little two minute video and if you just click on this video right here right on my head it'll go through to my website. I just shot it with this iPhone, nothing fancy but it's just two minutes long and I'm going to teach you how to easily quit alcohol for 30 days and I'm also going to give you three ways on how you can easily quit alcohol and go out in social situations like this and just drink water or just drink soda and wake up in the morning feeling fresh or ginger beer. Everyone needs a driver. There you go. There you go. It's so easy. A lot of people think oh I can never go out if I'm not drinking I've got to stay at home but just go over there click on this video right now. Just aim the mouse at my head and go click and I'll take it through to my website.  We're going to dance on tables right? You see look I'm the most exciting person at the table at the moment and I'm not drinking alcohol. There you go.  We spend so much money on alcohol. Imagine if you just quit for 30 days how much extra money you would have in your bank account. So I'm going to teach you just three simple ways in which you can easily quit alcohol for 30 days and see these huge changes in your life. So anyway we're going to go out we're going to party now in San Diego they're going to be drinking champagne and doing shots and getting hung over in the morning dragging their lazy asses out of bed. I know that she's not recording. That's true she does. She's going to be sweating out the alcohol. Whereas I'm just going to be waking up tomorrow morning going zippity doo dah zippity ay my oh my what a wonderful day how about that do you like that? So anyway if you want to learn how to easily quit alcohol and still be social and still be fun and still go crazy click on this video right now little two minute video I shot on my iPhone over at my website and I'll show you how to do it. See ya. Thanks for listening to the alcohol free lifestyle podcast. I want to load you up with some free stuff right now. So if you want to go to JamesSwanick.com slash guide I will send you my quit alcohol guide which has helped six figure entrepreneurs and top professionals produce or quit drinking. 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Hi, my name is Robin John and I'm the president of Tuft College. I was inspired to do something about unemployment in Africa, thinking about the youth of today, having no opportunity to become creative people. So I decided to get along with some friends of mine and start the school for creative people. I just want to know, yeah, a student can come and use this for free. Yes. A student can come in and use this place 100% free for a whole year. Beautiful thing about what we're doing in here is by the time you're done, we will register a company for you so you can go out there and set up your own business. So I don't know where you are in your life at the moment, but we're here to support you. If you cannot afford school fees, we've got you covered.  Just remember, when a going gets tough, tough will get you going. Once again, Africa is not perfect, but I love the fact that Africans in the diaspora are coming back home to spark a change that you and I are looking for on the continent. This is indeed commendable, and I just want you all to do me a favor for us to appreciate this brother by liking this video. It's so important to me. Please like this video. Thank you for liking. If you are new to the channel, please do me a favor, subscribe, and be part of this awesome channel. Dance something that I always thought it's impossible in Ghana. Wow. I mean, a freelancer school? Yeah. And it's free. I mean, freelancing that is free. That is free. No, tuition-free education. That's mind-blowing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. Sorry, are you a Ghanaian? I am a Ghanaian. Were you born and raised in Ghana? Yes. I've lived over two years of my life in Ghana, but I lived on as a teenager and I'm back now. You know what I do things for Ghanaians for free? Not only for Ghanaians, the whole of Africa. The whole of Africa? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, can we give you a round of applause? Just want to know, yeah, you mean students can come and use this for free? Yes, they can come in and use this place 100% free. For how long? For a whole year. This is the real free education that a person has been talking about. You're born in Ghana. Uh-huh. At what point did you live Ghana? I left when I was 17 years old.  I'm back now. Why would you live in the diaspora for 30 years and decide to return back to the motherland? Why would you do that? I need to check in. I need to check in when everything is okay with you, man. Why did you come back? Well, I just came to change the trajectory of many people's lives. You know, I used to come from time to time and go to, you know, public schools and teach them reading. Okay, literacy. But this time around, I said I want to do something bigger and better. Something that will be impactful and something that will change people's lives around. Yeah. You know, there's a saying that when you give someone a fish, right? They'll come back the next day for another fish. But when you give someone a boat, they will fish for themselves and feed the whole community.  Like the fish. Every time, give me some cities.  That's what freelancing is all about. That is what it's all about. And how do you intend to achieve this? Intend to achieve it very simply. Open a school like this and get people who cannot afford to pay for the tuition to come in here, school fees free, learn without any disturbances.   But rather, just come here in peace and study very hard. There was only a couple of days ago, just about three days ago. And there was a lady who could not pay for her school fees. So my friend was looking for money to pay for her exam fees. And she was 30 minutes late for her exams. So we had to get some money together real quickly before she could do her exam. But guess what? If you come to Taft College, you'll never have the problem. Did you say Taft College? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You need to get approved off from Taft. Taft is a registered company. Is it? In the Gambia. Oh, wow. You know, Mr. Fa? No. Oh, yeah, yeah. My adopted father is called Taft. So I'm taking the money on his behalf. Maybe what we could do is we could partner with Taft. With Taft? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we could take this concept to Gambia and to the rest of Africa. So the name of the school is Taft College. Taft College. What does the TA rule? So it's very simple. T is there, H is, M-A is African and F is Freelancers. So the Africa Freelancers College. Taft College. When a going gets tough, tough will get you going. What are the programs that are being offered in Taft College? Oh man, we have a plethora of colleges, programs. We start off with graphic design. We have classical music production and notation. And then we also have music production. Two different courses. So we want the next Mozart's to be coming out of here. We want the Hans Zimmer's to be coming out of the school. Wow. We have digital marketing. We have even auto-mechanic. You know, Ghana is now, we have so many assembly plants in Ghana. Yeah, yeah. And it's so sad because we have all these assembly plants coming to Ghana. But we don't have a very skilled workforce. So what we decided to do is get people into this trade so that we can get people straight into work before they even graduate. And then we have different courses. We have hospitality. We have a school of fashion design. And we have photography, videography, and the list goes on. If you want to find out everything about our courses, you can go on our website. Is it school that is all about material? We have the practicals. This is more of a practical-based education. It's not about all the theoretical stuff. Okay, because in where we are going as a country or the world in which we're going in, it's not just about what you know. It's also about what you could do. So what we've decided to do is get people focused on the hands on education because there's a lot of people who don't want to go to universities. What do they do? They still have to be skilled one way or the other. So we focus on skills development. And that is what we are doing in TOF College. Do not only learn creativity like fashion design, but you also learn the rudimentary principles of business.  Wow! I just want to know you invested in all this by yourself pretty much. Yes, yes. Yeah, you know, it's a passion that I have. You know, it's a dream I've always had. I'm a creative director and I just wanted to change the lives and the creativity landscape of Africa because people look at us as creative people as third-class citizens. No one really respects the creators, but I believe in this millennium, creators are the newest outlets. So we need to teach these creators how to be very proficient and excellent at their work so they can start making money and they need an opportunity. So we thought this season we will create an opportunity, give them industrial machines and they can go to work. This is really mind-blowing. You invested in this by yourself.  No, matter of fact, I think that the teachers do because we are not just working with ordinary teachers. We have the person leading this course as a fully-fledged fashion designer called Alakam the Taylor. He's the lead in this class. You know what I mean, right? So what we have done is we have partnered with industry professionals and we've also partnered with influencers such as Alakam, Twins Don't Bank, the Hama who produces for Saqqordia, the biggest advertising agency in Ghana, and the list goes on and on. And now, guess what? We have Walter Meyer. He's joining our digital... If I'm joining now, I want to know, like... Now, guys, do you want Walter Meyer, right, to become a mentor for our digital media section? To find the script if everything is free. I mean, what we decided, matter of fact, if you look at our business plan, the business plan was designed as a fee-paying school.   Unfortunately, this is going to be a free school. And he got mad at me. He said, reverend, reverend, reverend, reverend. He needs to go back and pray about it. And I said, you know what, I thank God the Lord will provide, you know. So we decided to just make it a free school and we want to partner with donor agencies, organizations, you know, if you want to do your corporate social responsibility with us, you can always assist with provision. I need to help you out in here. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. This is an amazing initiative. Thank you so much.  And I know there's so many talent out there who are looking forward to be bigger than even what I am. There's an opportunity. The equipment are not there. So I had to create for them. But it's so hard to create for so many people. So what you've done, I think if you are watching this video and you really want to sponsor a student, please, I mean, reach out to me. No, not him. They have to reach out to you. They can't reach out to you. No, don't reach out to you. Reach out to him. You know, is there a new website? Yes, you can go on our website, visit our website at www.tafcollege.com or you can email us at admin at toughcollege.com. And if you want to send us a WhatsApp message, give us a call or anything, you can call us on with a gana code plus two three three five seven zero zero six six zero zero zero six thousand. I think Mastercard Foundation will be so much interested in this. Mastercard Foundation. My goodness. I worked with them recently. So I think I'll send them this video. Mastercard, I'm just calling you out in this video. Please. Because that's what they do. And they can actually take care of the host today. That old behavior. I think I'll reach out to them on your behalf. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, if you like what is in here, I've got more to show you. Come on, let's go. Still got more to show you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that a mini office or something? A small office. I mean, is it a reception or something? Yeah, that's the reception. That's where, you know, all the ladies are working. There go beautiful ladies in there. It's part of the school, man. It's part of the school, yeah. What happens in here? In here, it is our music production suite, photography, podcasting, everything is going on in there. Come on, let me show you around. Whoa. This is a world of crypts to it. Whoa, yes, yes, yes. Am I saying hello to the lady? You see the one in Chajo? Yeah, I'm sure you can, you know who it is, right? It's the one and only Natalie Ford, BBC. Wow. Yeah. Good to see you, Natalie. She came to visit us today. She's just surprised us. And she wants to see what is happening in the school. Yeah, so yes, that's what it is. First impression? Any space. It's a brilliant initiative. Yeah, I think it's a very much needed initiative. Much needed initiative. Wow. Let me show you around. I mean, this is an amazing board we have over here. This is not your normal board. It's a digital board.  It's a touch screen digital board. So you're not limited to maybe 32 tracks or 64 tracks. You can have 1,000 tracks and layer your music together. So it's super amazing. And now we have... This is just for music lovers. This is just for music production. Music production? Yes. Yes, so you've got the keyboard in. I think I need to start out music career.  That's the song you did. The word is mine. I don't know who did it. Matter of fact, we want to make you another song. Oh, really? Yeah. We're going to make you our edition of What Am I? How about that? Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Next door, we have our dual photography and podcasting studio.  And over here, obviously, we know that podcasting is a big deal. So we've been teaching our videographers how to shoot podcasts and that sort of thing. So this is our podcast slash photography room. This is impressive. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I mean, that's what I said earlier, that you've done something that I thought it's impossible in Ghana. Wow. When you hear the name Africa, what comes into your mind, man? Oh, boy. An empty book. You open a page and you can write whatever you want to write on it. You're not restricted. I think freedom, latitude, escapism, that is what Africa got dots for you. You can come in here and become a property developer. You can come to Ghana and become a school teacher and a school proprietor. I did not even think that I would become a... to have my own school. When we first met, you know, I think... I think I didn't go into details about that. I met him, like, a year ago. Johnny Wayne this year. No, no, last year. Last year? Yeah, last year. Then you told me, I live in the U.K. and I want to move back to the continent. Yeah. We finally were. I remember I watched a video of this lady in Kenya about the real estate private. 200 years. I loved it. And it was such an inspiration. So I created a whole real estate project with 170 homes. You know, I showed you the 3D animation. We have the floor plans. We have everything, you know. And then I showed you. And then I said, this is what I want to do in Ghana. Literally, I know that we'll be starting this school because I came in here and I saw the need, that this is the need, what they need first. So our prioritizer will put the real estate on the side and we're going to focus on the school, give people a career, give them confidence in life, and give them a disposable income so they can become their own captains of their own destinies. So right after this school, it means that you're capable of establishing your own business out there. You will not only be capable of starting your own business, this is what we are going to do for you. Graduated from the school, we will set up a company for you. We will pay for it.  Not only that, you can still come to our campus, use our equipment, and all our facilities to become a professional freelancer. Yeah, so we have a fully functioning headdress in Southern. We did it from scratch. You can do it from barbering here. You can do your hair styling in there. You can do makeup. This is the nail bar. We're going to furnish the whole place with all the stuff. The nail bar in there, washing the whole thing, the headdries on the wall. And in this corner here, anyone have a look at this beautiful wall. You can come and brand this wall with your logos for any cosmetic company who wants to partner with us. I really want to be a student of this school. Because I believe that after graduation, you'll be so empowered. So this side has been designated for wig making. It's become very fashionable these days. So we decided to focus on wig making. Over here, we'll put an industrial wig making machine in here. We'll put some mannequins in here. There's going to be lots of hair flying all over the place. Yeah, and we're going to be teaching people how to make wigs from scratch, and how to prepare wigs. So you can come and change your frontal of your wig in here. I really want to know how can the student apply for the school. Oh, that's very, very easy. All you just have to do again is go to our website, www.tofcollege.com. Click on Contact. You see an application form. Fill it and send it back to us on our email address, www.adminatofcollege.com. You can also check our social media handles. We are on TikTok. We are on Instagram. We are on Facebook, YouTube, everything. Just click on Top T-A-F College, and then it will pop up. I just want everyone to be educated. Learn something to do with skill training, because I believe that is the future. We are living in the automated age, and very soon computers are going to take over. If you can use the sudden jobs that would always remain fashionable, the sudden jobs that computers can never take over. So it's always a good idea to learn a skill and also get your education, get your university degree, and that sort of thing. Hey, you know what? The Jews do that perfectly. They always teach their children a skill, a training, and that sort of thing. So one day, if you are unemployed, you can always revert back to your skills. That's why Jesus was a carpenter. Are you trying to replicate this school anywhere else, apart from Ghana? Ghana is just the pilot of what is to come. We are starting in Ghana. We are going to prove the concept. Next year, we are going to reinforce the concept and maybe you choose what to go next. When does the school begin? The school will begin in three weeks' time, on the 13th. But we are taking applications in a moment, so please hurry up, send your applications because the windows are closing very soon. And if you want to partake of this international outfit, please do not hesitate. I think there is one thing that is missing, which is agriculture. No matter the fact, we have an agricultural program already. We were going to start this year, but we decided no, let's focus on these ten subjects. But next year, we have some very interesting courses coming. We have a catering school on campus. We will be doing agriculture. We have partnered with different farms. We are also working with Ayunam, the Ghanaian farmer. She is a mentor on this program. So we have all of that in place already. We just cannot do it all in the first year as a new school. We cannot take too much on, otherwise we are fully burdened. So we are scaling up next year. We have shoe making and design next year. We have fashion and TV design coming next year. We have jewelry making. We have skin signs where you can make your own cosmetics and hair wash and shampoo and that sort of thing. We have quite a few subjects in the pipeline. It's only a matter of time where we will introduce it to you guys. Totally a matter of time. It's a favorite village boy, Mr. Ghana, baby. Don't forget to like this video. But I believe that you all need to share this video so that people from other parts of the world will know that there is a free school for freelancers in Ghana. I will see you all in the next one. Ayunmaya, peace out. Thank you.