Thank you. Thank you everyone for coming along to the talk today. We have got 45 minutes which is not very long and we've got such a lot to cover. We're going to be talking about scaling up and then a number of topics within that. What we'll do is we'll have a chat and then we'll ask you for questions at certain intervals. If you do have a question it would be great if you could direct it to the expert that you'd like to answer that question and please keep the questions as concise as possible. That would be brilliant. Thank you. So we're going to talk about scaling up. Starting any kind of business is difficult but scaling up is even trickier I believe. What I want to find out is about how you make that initial leap from one to two and then beyond. Vanita. Happy to. I've been told that I'm going to answer that question. That's why I'm happy to as well. Commitment and attitude is what we looked for in the first few people but why you hire people in the first place is when you fall short of hands and skills. When you realise you're working ridiculous hours and the money in the bank is adding up that you can hire someone. It sounds obvious but that is when you start scaling up. Find a person with the right cultural fit so they feel about the world the same as you do or about the projects that you're taking on. They have the determination to complete it whatever may. That's what you want really. That's when you start scaling. I think growth itself requires a clarity of vision. Did becoming a B Corp help you to find that vision? I think we had a vision before we got certified as a B Corp organisation but yes you do need a very clear vision. My husband is in charge of the vision. I like to get things done so we both complement in that way. So yes we had a clear vision of making sure that whatever projects we take on from day one in 2007 this is going back. We only took on positive projects and people who joined us in the business as we took new people on. We were looking for passion, whether that be passion to save animals, whether that be passion to reduce poverty, whether that be passion for better mental health or whatever it be. They need to have something that takes them and makes them feel like I'm going to do something positive and that's what we looked for. Fantastic, thank you. Louise you have around 11-12 people in your team now. How did you start to grow your team? Did you look to outsource or did you hire initially? Initially I was introduced by a friend to a local recruitment company, 10-to-2 and they specialised in part time, well mainly working mums. So my initial person who worked for us was just doing admin and doing the bits I really didn't get around to doing was things like sending out invoices and chasing for about 5 hours a week. Initially because I was worried about all the employment law and all of that I actually paid 10-to-2 and then they paid her but eventually she came on the payroll. The second person it just got to the point where I couldn't go on holiday and the family were a bit grumpy so I thought I'd better hire a developer. Again that was through word of mouth but that was part time. I always made sure that I had two or three months' salary in the bank but you don't need a whole year's salary because you know the work will come to fill the time that you can sell. That was coming to my next question actually. How did you demonstrate stability to the people that you were hiring to let them know that this was a stable company that would be growing? At the time I was a working mum with two small children who were growing up and one of the things I wanted to be was a good employer. So my first two hires were both women with school aged children and that was about just being, I was expecting a certain amount of hours a week but actually being quite flexible if a kid was off sick. Well that's fine you know can you do something from home or if a child you get a call from school you need to go. I think actually it's about being a nice place to work and being respectful and not treating your employees in a way that you wouldn't want to be treated yourself. And then also quite early on before we even needed to we had a company pension scheme that at the time I contributed the whole amount to. So I was just trying to make us a nice place to work as well where people would want to stay rather than just move on because I could see that it was cheaper to do that than even the cost of recruiting somebody else through an employment agency. If you actually look at the financials around the cost of recruitment they're eye watering so it's about keeping the employees the good employees that you have as well. And how about yourself so when you do start to hire and you grow your team your role does change quite dramatically from a leadership perspective what have you had to learn and develop yourself? When I stopped developing websites I sort of grieved for about 18 months but then I'd realised that I'd hired people who were half my age and better at it than me. And that was actually quite nice because then I could sell stuff that I didn't even know how to do which was fun. And I think the other thing I've learnt is that when you delegate it doesn't have to be done your way it just has to be done in a way that's good enough. And I think the final thing I've learnt which is still a work in progress is that people are weird and they don't always react in a way that you expect. But I did have a good piece of advice from a very good friend of mine who said Louise don't hire people like yourself because you wouldn't want them working for you so that's worked quite well as well. I can't possibly comment Louise I think you're fabulous. Marika I'd love to have a chat with you. So Yoast is now a team of around 80 I believe. 80 in our Netherlands results and another 25 I think around the planet. Incredible. So what I'm really interested in is how you build and develop company culture in such a large team and then also how you bring the people that aren't in that core team in various other countries into that as well. So our entire HR strategy comes down to we believe that if you're good for your employees they will be good for you as well. And we don't have any other well that's just how we feel about it. And when we started out we were pretty much a small family and you want to we want to keep it that way but that's impossible. But we want people to know each other and to feel part of that Yoast family we still try to do that. So we do a lot of fun stuff. We do Lego building days every day after Christmas everybody comes in brings their families and we build. I don't know how many Lego blocks my husband will know but we build like tons of Lego everybody gets his own box and we'll put them out in our office. So we have we have crazy amounts of Lego in our offices. We do barbecues every now and then we do the know your colleague quiz in which you have to answer questions about your colleagues in order silly questions like what's your favorite color and what was the sport you were best in when you were six or something. But it allows people to talk to people they normally wouldn't talk to. And that makes the stepping up to someone you're not normally working with so much easier and with 80 people you want people to know each other and to get that. And I think we're succeeding. We're hiring we've hired 23 people this year so it's been amazing stuff stuff. That's amazing. Yeah. And what about bringing the people that are kind of in different different locations. How do you involve them with part of that process. So the people who are all around the planet. These are mostly our sport engineers because we offer 24 hour support but we want to sleep as well. So we have people in the United States but also in Bangladesh and the Philippines who do support for yours. So well they they came to our conference at Yoastcom and they will be next year. There will be another Yoastcom but we couldn't take care of them during Yoastcom because it's really busy during a conference and having those people around. And if people travel from the Philippines or Bangladesh for the first time to the Netherlands you need to take care of them. We know that now. So we are bringing them in another week and then they will come and work at their offices and know each other and during the normal period of time they have Skype calls. So we have someone, Taco, everybody knows Taco. He's our community manager. Oh no he's not our community manager anymore but he does all the support engineers and make sure that everybody talks to each other and knows each other. Brilliant. Thank you. I'm just going to make a quick point that I didn't explain earlier is. Please don't feel that Meg is being left out of this conversation but we've actually looked at topics and who is going to be the best person to speak on those topics. So Meg's up next with a little question I've got. But does anyone have any questions for any of the experts on the panels at this point? Any questions about scaling up or growth? Is one there? Yeah it's about growth. Marika said at some point we wanted to stay a small family but that was not an option. Is it really not an option? Or is it a choice? It's a choice of course. So at one point just to make the choice do I want to hire people? And I like growing I think. Not about money but making an impact and yeah we still like growing. But we sometimes stopped now and looking at them more. We decided not to hire anybody and we didn't hire anybody for weeks now. And we are afraid to tell our employees that we decided not to hire but they don't believe us. So it's a choice. You can stay small if you want to. But if you have a plugin with over a million users. Yeah that's hard to make sure that's being taken care of if you don't hire people. Are there any other questions at this point? That's one at the back there. Thank you. It's to Marika again. When you talk about getting your staff together in a remote working environment and you bring them over for the conference from a commercial side of it. Do you pay for the flights and the accommodation and everything? Yes. Very enough. Yes we do. Thank you. Any further questions? No? Okay great. Let's move on. Let's talk about highs and lows. Robert Cheese we have learnt to celebrate the highs and commiserate the lows together as a team. But there's often defining moments that shape how your company does grow. Meg I want to talk to you. Can you tell us about any of those real kind of best moments that you've had so far and maybe something that's given the organisation that huge lift that it's needed. Okay thank you Kelly. One of our best moments so far was being finalist in the Sussex Digital Awards. But it was also one of our lows as well because we were literally the only company at our entire table that didn't actually win an award. Which was kind of funny too at the time. But it was a real high to be recognised for that award. And it inspired us to work harder, to do better, to serve our clients better. And it also gave us a real lift. Like yeah we've done something really good here. And in terms of the low about it it was kind of like we were able to get over it quite quickly actually because we just thought okay we're just going to do better next time. And we should really recognise that we got this far this time. And in terms of other highs I think it's really kind of a combination of lots of little things that happen that almost in a way happen every day. So for example getting an amazing feedback form filled in by one of our clients. And you read it and you think wow yeah. One year in the project you don't really think about the outcome and their reaction to the outcome. You just want to get the project done and you want to do it really well for them. And you want them to be happy with it. But you don't actually think about the impact it's going to have on their business and their company. And when you see that in front of you and you read that amazing feedback you think yeah. We're going in the right direction. We've solved their problem and we've done a really good job of it and they've recognised it and now it's public.  So that's another example. Also if we've come up with a really good idea that we're not really sure it's going to work out and then it does and it takes off. One example is our help hubs that we run in Sussex. And they're open to anybody and people can come and just get help on the day. They can talk about any problems that they're having with their website. They can talk about marketing plans. They can talk about strategy. And we'll help them for free. And people come and get to know us and they can see what we're all about. And that was an idea that was generated at the very start of our company and we didn't know whether it was going to work or not. And it's actually kind of been amazing for us because I'll walk into a room and people have already heard of us before they've even met me. And that's a really good high for you when you spend 24-7 working so hard and you have no idea whether you're actually getting anywhere. Oh, that's wonderful. That's really fantastic. I had no idea that you did that either. I really liked what you said about the email feedback that you'd got. And it is all about celebrating those tiny little things that make that day a really, really great day. Thank you for sharing that with us. Let me just talk to you again a little bit because we had a discussion previously about how creatives have a tendency to be quite self-critical about their work and potentially sometimes about themselves as well. Do you think that's a trait that you see in you and has kind of an effect on maybe the lower times in your organisation? Yes, definitely. One of the things I do is I do graphic design and I do web design as well. And I think when your design is rejected by the client and that's almost a simplistic way because it's never just a straight rejection. There's always a conversation and everything. But when you feel like you haven't done your best job and they're not happy with it and that it doesn't represent what their brand is, for example, then you kind of think, you know, I'm not good enough or I need to go an upskill or I need to, you know, my creativity isn't there. And it becomes almost a personal criticism of yourself. And that can contribute to some of the lows that you have. Perhaps it is a trait of creators that you want your vision to come across and you want people to understand that vision because the design that you create is supposed to communicate something and if it's not being communicated then that's down to you and your lack of ability. So, yeah, definitely. It can be tough. I totally understand. Vanita, I'd love to talk to you about what's been your defining moment so far. When we started the business, we wanted three specific clients on our books. One was Marks and Spencer's because they had a plan A for sustainability. One was Solar Century because they are the largest European solar panel manufacturers and the third one was ECOVA, who are the plant-based cleaning products. We got all of them on our books one after the other and by 2014. So that was a real high, I would say, very, very high about it.  So you start looking for where you can go. So that was a very great start. And then there was a point at which I was like, I'm running faster than I can run emotionally, physically. And that is when in 2016 I had a burnout and it was a real low. And people, especially clients, were really understanding about it. So it was a high and a low in a way. And the burnout was just before Christmas really well planned, I think. You know, when you're heading to Christmas, you're trying to get everything out of the door. And my husband Tom is fantastic. He gave me loads of breaks and I reduced my working hours right down and I went through CBT and then practised mindfulness. It doesn't stay with you all the time. You have to actually practice. But it really helped over time. But that was a low in spite of such a fantastic high. So I had to sort of start thinking about how to celebrate those small successes. And then I started realising how that nice testimonial from a client, on the phone call saying, oh, thank God you saved us today. You cleared a hack from XYZ. And, you know, small things that happened, I started celebrating those rather than waiting for that big high that comes. And so, yeah, there's highs and lows. There's always things going on. But it's about celebrating the highs so that you don't sort of self-criticise on things you didn't win or didn't go right. Definitely. Thank you for sharing that. I really appreciate anyone that has the ability to share kind of a time that's been really tough for them. And I think it's really important. I think obviously Dan, what he talked about earlier with the WP and ARP, this obviously highlights that there is a very definite and clear need for that. I don't think it's just me. I'm sure many people and not just in the audience, but business owners are so self-critical about getting everything right for their employees, for their clients. It's almost like we make it our mission to do everything perfectly. And it's really hard. Our self-criticism is just not good. Louise and I were talking about this just before we came on stage, actually, about how when you are the business owner and you have a personal challenge that you're trying to overcome at the same time as one in your business, it's incredibly overwhelming because you need to be that person that paints on the perfect face every morning and gets up and goes out and sees those clients and still does those sales meetings and takes those calls. Yet inside you can be completely falling apart. So it's a huge responsibility and a huge pressure constantly. But when you speak about it to your clients, they are actually not that difficult to handle. I remember during that process, this was in November 2016, one of my favourite clients, we've worked with them for seven or eight years, they came in to talk about their website and I said, actually, I don't think I can absorb any information. Would you speak to someone so instant? He said, what's the problem? I said, I'll burn out. He's like, go home, I'll talk to anybody in your team, that's fine. And I had to learn to trust, delegate better. So actually being completely honest and authentic about your situation helped with your client relationships. They were really nice about it. They just said, go, find your groove and come back. Brilliant, thank you. Does anyone have any questions for the panel at this point? It isn't a really interesting topic. Any questions? Hi, I think a couple of you have got business partners, your actual partners, is that right? And a couple, I don't know about you guys. But I'm just wondering, you've got a low and you haven't got anybody to talk to about it because you haven't got a business partner. No, you can't really embed on your actual partner. If you're not doing business together. How do you cope with that? Or have you got any tips? I'm a sole director and one of my best friends used to be my accountant. But she's my friend on a Friday afternoon. Do you think it's... I have a business partner. So, you know, we do have someone to bounce off all the time, but I think my tip would be surrounding yourself with a support network, so finding other business owners or agency owners or put yourself in that in a peer-to-peer group where you have those people that you can turn to that will completely understand the situations that you're in. That's really important. Yeah, I've definitely needed a person and it's not a family person who's in the business. Thank you. Good question. Is there any other questions? I've got one here. In terms of, like, burn-outs, that obviously happened, it crept up, but in hindsight now, are there ways that you can put preventions in place thinking, like, for you and even your staff, thinking this is what we can do to make it a better environment to stop burn-outs in the future? Yeah, it's very personal for our team.  That's not the way we work. So giving them flexibility, if someone's mum's not well or they're going to go and visit their family member in the middle of the day, so be it. Being flexible as an employer is really important, but your employer can do everything right, but you have to watch your thoughts personally and watch your energy levels, watch your motivation that morning to come to work. If you're feeling really not so motivated that day, go for a run. Come back an hour later. You might be a better person to talk to. So it's about dedicating time for exercise for, you know, watching how your endorphins levels are is very important. Does that answer your question, actually? Thank you. I could go on, so I should.  Is there any more questions at this point? No, okay, well let's talk about WordPress, because it would be a bit weird if we didn't at WordPress conference. So Louise, Indigo Tree, you specialise in website design and actively promote WordPress as your chosen CMS. Have you ever looked at alternative solutions and what were the reasons for those? Yes, we have. When Guttenberg was first announced, I was like, okay, all developers better start learning React. So they all learnt React or learnt bits of React and then said, actually we're a bit bored with doing WordPress themes. We'd like to do other interesting stuff. So we've been looking at other ways of building websites static. We've also got some Laravel resource in-house, so we've built a large Laravel website. But particularly, the workshop we did this morning with Gatsby and using the REST API, that's based on React. So I'm really interested in using WordPress in different ways. That's partly to keep the team engaged so that they can progress their skillset. But in going down the route of looking at static sites, we've also looked at other CMSs. So there's one called Netlify CMS that somehow does something clever with GitHub and then links to Netlify and it publishes things. And we've actually taken some open source code from Yoast and implemented the Yoast traffic lights within that as a plug-in in an open source. So basically you can have a good writing experience because I think one of the best things about WordPress is the ability to edit the content for users. And I go out and train all our small business clients and they like the fact that they can log in and see their posts and their pages. And if you go to another CMS, a lot of the other CMSs really aren't as easy to understand. So it's trying to work out if we didn't use WordPress what would be a good solution. And we've now got a few clients with static sites that don't use WordPress. But it's still sort of 80% of our work, I'd say, at the moment. Because actually it's a good experience for clients. If you look at the lifetime cost of owning a website, it's the cost of keeping it updated as well as the cost of actually doing the development. Do you think that that's going to change how you define your company offering moving forward and maybe also how you hire and who you hire? Yes, because we'll definitely have a core of people will like a WordPress website and people will come to us because they know locally we're the go-to people for sorting out pickles in WordPress. But actually there will be other stuff that perhaps WordPress might not be the best solution or it might be a clever solution with a REST API that might need a more advanced skill set than perhaps a junior developer would have. But a junior developer might well be perfectly capable of building a very good custom WordPress theme. So we're definitely looking at how we can split our offering and do some really nice, higher-end, more expensive stuff but still keep the everyday WordPress stuff that we've actually got a really good local reputation for. Brilliant, thank you. Meg, how about you?  Shake it up creative is full service. So you offer marketing, PR, design, web development. But you're not WordPress specific. So you already do offer alternatives. How do you approach that? How do you approach that in your kind of day-to-day world? Well, I mean, we do love WordPress when we use WordPress a lot and we will recommend it to clients. But some of the time the clients will come to us and they've already got a system in place or they have a system that they want to use because of the type of product that they're selling or service that they're selling. So it really is so much part of the initial conversation with the client of what we're going to build on, what platform we're going to use and if it's WordPress, then that's great. We love it. And if it's not, if it's something else, for example, you will code in Shopify or BigCommerce or something like that if it's an e-commerce solution. So it really is part of the conversation at the beginning and we won't say you have to use WordPress or any other kind of system. It's about finding the right solution that's going to solve their problem Does that answer your question? Yeah, it does answer my question. And sometimes as well, sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you, sometimes as well, some of the projects that we work on because we are marketing NPR and SEO, some of those projects don't involve WordPress at all whatsoever because there's no website involved in the project. Have you had to find more kind of outsourced support to support the different things that you use as well? Yes, yeah we have at times. But also I'm very, I'm quite, I like to work things out myself a lot of the times and so I'll try and upskill as well because I think going forward the future I'll be doing less and less upskilling probably and just hiring people who I know could do the job and I don't have to learn how to do it. But yeah, I have upskilled myself and we'll try to find developers who work in whatever system it is and get them on board for that project. Brilliant, thank you. Any questions for the WordPress section from the audience? There's a man touching his ear, I thought that was a question. Okay, we'll move on. So I'd like to talk about diversity and I'll talk to Marika. I'm looking around actually and it is relatively diverse in here today but I'm still often quite surprised at the lack of women that there are at tech conferences. So I want to talk a little bit about how that's changed over the years and how it might have affected you. But Marika, you've been carrying out a little experiment today, haven't you? So I'd like to hear what that is. I've done it yesterday actually because today I had my own talk and I was away but I've been counting the number of questions that were raised by men and women during this conference yesterday and that was because when I was in work in Europe and I didn't attend every talk, I didn't attend every talk here so it's just a little experiment in work in Europe I didn't see a single woman raising a question and I knew that I wanted to ask a question but I was scared too. So when I started counting and I saw so very few women who did that. So yesterday I counted the total of 36 questions and six were raised by women and there are fewer women here than men but I still think that's under representative. But all in all, writing is really good in diversity. This has been the most diverse conference in women on stage and women in the organisation that I've ever been to so that's great. But still something very dear to my heart to have more women in the WordPress community. Well that's something that I'd like to talk to you about because I know that and we've touched on it a little bit by one of the questions in terms of having a partner who is also your life partner in your business. So I kind of want to understand I want you to tell us what your experience of that has been so usually and there's nothing wrong with being a secretary but usually people assume that I'm your secretary and so also inside of our company I often have to claim my position and say well actually I have a PhD and I can do this and that's hard so I stopped doing this I don't know how to say this in English so when I pick up my children from school I stop talking to people about what I do because they just assume that Joost is being the boss and I'm just some employee or something and that really isn't the case and that's just a prejudice and that's normal but it's hard because I have to I face that on a daily basis and trying to tell people that I'm actually more than just like an assistant Have you had to change your kind of management style or learn or be more adaptive to cope with that? Yes and I don't know whether I'm learning I guess and I'm getting better at it and I think I actually did a talk at Joost I think two years ago in which I said in which I showed them my resume and in which I did some talk about about how we all have prejudice and it's okay but still now there's somebody working in our office oh this is going to be online now we have to talk about it some more and there's someone in our office and he's talking about the gentleman of the board and we have a board and there are four people and I'm in it and I'm not a gentleman so I'm like oh I have to address this to him and that's hard because then you have to claim your position but he's talking about us and Omar also thinks that he's only talking about Joost and Michiel so we're the four of us and not about him and not about me and I have to say something about that and I have to do that on a daily basis and Joost never has to do that because he is the founder, he's really important but we wouldn't be here if I wasn't here Thank you Vanita, I want to talk to you about it as well so how has diversity and digital changed for you over the years and how has it affected you? There are more people applying for jobs from across the world but there are always people applying from across the world in terms of diversity I think we have less diverse people applying at the moment because of Brexit I would say I know I'm not trying to be all blamie about it but when it comes down to it the number of candidates coming through the door have reduced but that's again European issue I suppose across the world we get more men apply for jobs so more men get the jobs you can't that brings me to the principle that I don't like positive discrimination just because I'm brown, because I'm a girl I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to just say I'm going to hire the brownest person, the girliest girl it's not fair so as a company owner I have to be and I am really conscious of always hiring the right person for the job it doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy or whatever their choices are in life as long as they are passionate as I said and equity over equality is how I look at things it's something that my grandfather went on about that it sounds weird to bring this up but he didn't give equal inheritance to his children so he had five children and he decided to give different amounts to different children because he didn't believe that my father needed anything he didn't give him anything and that's fine because he didn't need anything and the same thing applies in our business where it doesn't matter how bumpy or how uneven the container is the water looks even on the surface so somebody might need more training they get more training somebody doesn't need it they don't need it so they don't get it so it's not that I'm being prejudiced towards this man versus this girl or anything like that so that's how I've always looked at it's not equality, it's equity that's my bread training or diversity principle and I have to be extra conscious because people can make judgments about it Thank you for sharing that just to top it actually this hasn't been pre-planned this question but while we're on the subject of women speaker panels this has been fantastic this conference it's been an equal number of women and men speakers which I think has been fantastic and this is kind of to everybody do you actively put yourselves forward for speaking opportunities like this or is this something that you still struggle and hold yourself back from? I'm just nervous that's why I don't put my name forward once I'm sitting with if I'm sitting and everybody else is sitting that's fine if I have to stand and everybody else is sitting that's not good for me but that's nothing to do with man and woman that's just I think I'm just nervous What about you Meg? For me it's about well facing challenges and pushing the boat out and also if you're out there and you're in front of people you're representing your passion in your company and what you're all about and that's never a bad thing because you want to raise awareness and you want people to know about you and to have heard about you and so yeah my business partner and myself we both try and put ourselves forward when we think we would be a good fit in whatever event or conference whether large or small and I think I've mentioned this to a couple of people here but I've put myself forward to speak at the next Brighton SEO conference which is seriously scary and I'm really nervous about it and it is a massive challenge for me personally and also professionally too and I've been planning it for months and months and months and it's one of those things that you kind of think I can do it, it's scary but I'm going to challenge myself and I'm going to do it because it's for the benefit of my company at the end of the day and also on the note about female speakers I think in particular at tech conferences tech type of conferences and at Brighton SEO for example it's great I think it's fantastic to see women up here speaking and representing what they love and what they do and what they love and their passions Thank you I don't mind speaking but I get really nervous making small talk and asking questions that I didn't know I was going to be asked Sorry Louise, pressure One of the reasons I was happy to do this and I like the word camps is actually it's a really nice friendly place to do it as well and for good or bad there's not going to be any clients probably watching this unless we share the video with them so from that point of view it's fine and it's good to practice In terms of generally I do a lot of networking and I have a very specific strategy so I'll always be in a bright jacket because I know all the blokes will be in grey suits or hoodies I try to check the cricket score I know the ashes have started I don't know what the score is at the moment but I will make sure I know what's going on with the cricket, the rugby and the football and I try to read a newspaper to make sure I can make small talk about stuff because actually to get into a conversation with a group of men if you can know something about sport or cars or something that usually helps We've got five minutes left Marika I really put myself forward I think I always hope even if my talk isn't that good and I hope there's somewhere in the audience there's women sitting there and thinking I can do that better than she does and maybe then gets up but from the moment I got my daughter she's eight years old now I have three sons and one daughter I want her to grow up in a place in which people are exactly the same and we need more females on stage in order to make that happen and even if your talk is really bad then somebody thinks I can do better and that's great so you always have something there I love that attitude, thank you we've probably got four minutes left now so just open it up to any last questions from the audience yes we've got one there, thank you Thank you so much for speaking at the conference this weekend if there's anything in particular that tech conference organisers can do better to start encouraging more women to apply to speak or to even attend that's a good question I know but in the raising questions we can have if a woman asks the first question research shown that more women will follow but I'm going to play with that but I'm not going to say in which word because but that could be like a simple solution to get a woman well, she knows I'm going to ask the first question and then other people will follow and as far as applying I think asking I think a lot of women are afraid to apply so if you ask them then they may they will and then if you reject them you should let them know this is a personal thing but if you ask someone and then they apply that could be like a boundary and you could be like oh no I'm not going to do this but then you should let them know that's something that word camp organisers sometimes forget to do That's really important feedback absolutely I think you guys are doing really well I get approached almost every other word camp and I freak out there has been a point when he didn't get an opportunity because they wanted a brown woman on the stage which I felt was reverse of that's when I say I don't like positive discrimination and I want to be here for my credit not because of positive discrimination that's the way I look at it so I do understand you want more women here and yes you should approach them but don't refuse the ones that want to be here they might have something important to say I hope that answers your question thank you, is there any other questions just while we think we've got like two minutes left your questions is one there I just want to address it interested if you had a view on, I've worked for companies before where mothers as soon as they have children they're kind of treated very differently almost like you said that they're seen as being working less or going home in the child circle picking up from school and I just wanted an experience you've got for children which is amazing and a partner how do you think we can shift attitudes in the businesses towards mothers so when I got my first child he's 12 now I got my first child very young I was totally treated differently but I was working at the university now and then it was over so I had my PhD and I finished my PhD because I became a mother I wasn't in for my what do you call them promoters I wasn't interested anymore because I couldn't work full time anymore I didn't want to work full time we take care of it at Joes but that's because I have children myself we have four children so we understand how to work with that but I think a lot of employers tend to have like a bias against women who have children or women in the age of maybe getting children and that's hard and I don't know what we can do about it women will always get children I hope so because otherwise we don't have people anymore Thank you I think that's all the time that we've got I believe Have we got any more time? We've got one more minute Is there any more questions? Yes, if they ask for any breaks for anything the default answer has to be yes find out what happened later it's fine when a woman with a child or a father with a child either way when they say I need to go and you know they have a child let them go they will respect you and come and tell you what has happened later I think that's the policy that any employer should adopt and then I think that gains trust and people don't take they don't take the mickey they come back and tell you what happened I think if you can be a really good employer and I've got a 19 year old and 21 year old and there have been occasions where I've literally had to just walk out the office and say clear my diary for the rest of the day I think if you can be a good employer to your employees in that sort of situation you will get a good employer staying longer you will get great retention you will get great loyalty and actually all the companies that aren't that works in my favour because people won't be moving to them Fenina made a really good point it's about the fathers too so just let I am the secretary Yoast is forgotten that he is the father he is at home exactly the same amount of time as I am but still everybody thinks that I raised the children that I decided to get four children we did that together so fathers should be allowed to get out as well and that's something that's at least in the Netherlands isn't that normal so maybe the solution is with fathers at least as well thank you are we done now thank you so much everyone we're out of time


Hard work is hard. Being broke is hard as well. Because we either sacrifice now or you sacrifice later. What sacrifice do you want? Today we're gonna be talking about what it takes to provide. I'm gonna talk about what it takes to provide for yourself and to actually just get the freedom that you want, the financial freedom and also to get away from the rat race possibly. And I'm also gonna talk about what it takes to provide for your family as well. And yesterday I read a quote that hit me really hard. And the quote was, some people will go broke for their kids, but they won't get rich for them. I was like, damn, that one hits hard. And the reason why is because I've coached thousands of parents and one thing that I noticed with them, actually there's quite a few things that I noticed with them. But this hits so hard because a lot of parents I feel are actually like this. And I'm gonna go over the different aspects of this that really hit home with me is a couple different aspects. But even if you don't have kids right now, this still is going to help you because we're gonna go over some deep psychological things in today's podcast. So there's a couple of reasons why it hit me so hard. Number one, so many people are locked into their job because they fear not being able to provide for their family, right? So they don't get the full financial success they possibly could. And so they're staying broke because they're afraid that if they lost their job or if they weren't able to provide for their family, then you know, it would hit the fam. And so that's the first thing that hits home with me. The second thing is that some people love their children so much they'll spend their last dollar to get them whatever they want. And the third reason why is because people don't realize what their children are missing out on by simply them not living up to their true potential. I'm not talking about your kids living up to your true potential. I'm talking about you living up to your true potential. So we're gonna go through every one of these. And here's the thing that I'll say I've never met a parent that doesn't want their children's life to be better than theirs was. Ever, not once. You know, parents the most giving time I ever see somebody in their life is when they're talking about their kids when they're working with their kids when they're trying to help their kids in some sort of way. So everybody first off the way I wanna start wants their children's lives to be better than none. But one thing that really holds a lot of people back is they think I wanna make a lot of money and in order to make a lot of money I'm gonna have to put a lot of time into it. And time equals money to them. More money equals more time.  And nothing can be further from the truth. Now for some of you guys are like, that's so foreign to me. I don't even, it's not even, I'm not even comprehending that right now. But we'll dive into that as I go through it. It's not true that more money means less time with your children. That's the first hang up.  And one of the main reasons why you're not succeeding and what it is that you wanna succeed in is because you think that in order to make more money you're gonna spend less time with your kids.   I'll make less money because I love my children that much. When in reality it might be a better thing for you to make more money because that would actually help your children out more. And I'll tell you why we're gonna dive into it. But basically what it comes down to is a poverty mindset. I can tell you this because I've worked through my own poverty mindset and still to this day continue to work at this poverty mindset because it took 25, 30 years to build this poverty mindset in my head. So now I'm working to try to unravel it. And time does not equal money, money does not equal time. I'm gonna say that first off. So first thing we're gonna dive into is more money does not equal less time with your kids. And if you set up your business if you wanna set up a business or if you have a business and you think, okay, in order for me to have more money I need to work more, you can do that if you want. You can set your business up that way or you don't have to. That's completely up to you. More money does not equal more time. You know, if you own a business more money if you're smart means hire more people. Hire more people means more free time or more time to work on the things that you want to. So whether you have children and you start a successful business and it starts to get more successful you can bring people on to then do more of your work for you which means more money equals more people which actually means more free time. That's foreign for a lot of people. I definitely understand that. You know, for me in my business we have 12 employees in my business. I can literally go and do all of my employees work every single day but I would have absolutely no time to sleep. Who wants that life? I would be working 24 hours a day every single day. The point of hiring people and hiring amazing people is so that they come in and help you. They're really good at what they do and they have their own part of the business that they basically and their mind own in your business which allows you to take time to do what you truly want to do to whether that's free time with your kids or whether that's I don't have any kids and I just want to really focus on, you know for me I don't have any kids but what I really want to focus on is just coaching people. You know, I can have a bunch of different coaching courses and that's what I want to take my time doing or creating content like I'm doing right now. Creating a video for YouTube and Facebook and Instagram which is also going to be a podcast episode. So for me, it's one of two things that I want to spend my time doing and the reason why I hire people because I want to create content and I want to coach people. If you have the kids maybe you just want to spend more time with your kids. So when your business is more successful it actually means more time with your kids. And so, you know, I work probably 40, 50 hours on average per week but I've worked 110 hours before in old businesses and run them into the ground but I work about 40, 50 hours a week now and our business is doing multiple seven figures because we have incredible people in place that allow that to happen. I hire them because they get to stay in their zone of genius. They're incredible what they do and then I get to stay in my zone of genius which is coaching and creating content and everybody does what they're really good at. So more time or more money does not have to equal more time in your business. The first thing that I wanted to dive into around that is so many people are locked into their job mentally because they fear not being able to provide for their family. I'm gonna let that one sink in because I know a lot of people listening to this are not doing what you truly want to do because you are afraid you won't be able to pay their bills. And I get it, I completely understand where you're coming from. I understand that fear. People work jobs that they hate for their families. But who said it has to be that way? Even if you don't start your own business what if you just had a job that you loved and you still were able to provide for your family? What would that look like? For some people that idea is so foreign because they've hated their job for so long and they just feel like that's the way that it is. And it's a novel idea and it's super selfless to do something that you hate doing every single day in order to do it for somebody else, to provide for people. But who says that it has to be that way? What if you loved what you did and you still provided for your children? Whether that's your own business or whether that's working for somebody else what would that look like? Is that a paradigm shift for you?  Maybe you saw your parents hate their job in order to provide for you. And so now you're working a job that you hate in order to provide for your children. What would it look like for you to work a job that you absolutely love? What would that look like? Let's say you make $60,000 a year now working a job that you hate. What if you got a job that paid you $50,000 a year but you loved it? What would that look like? You know, it's an extra $10,000 difference in income. I understand that but could you still live off of the income if you made $10,000 less? Maybe. And if you did, would you show up at home a better person if you loved your job than if you hated your job? Would you show up a better person for your kids, a better father, a better mother for your children if you loved your job and didn't hate it? Or at least enjoyed it? Maybe not even love it. If you just enjoyed it instead of hating it. What would that be like? You know, so many, we live in this society and we see people that are preaching hustle and preaching the struggle.  That sounds terrible. Who wants to succeed by struggling your way to success?  I don't know about you, but I don't wanna do that. But we think that that's what it takes because that's all we see people talking about. People love to brag about the hustle. They love to brag about the struggle.  Sure, you definitely have to work hard. I won't say that you don't have to work hard but it doesn't mean that you can't also have time with your family. Successful business does not mean no time for family. That's something that you have to realize. Sounds terrible. Most successful people, this is a funny thing, we look at it and we think, oh my gosh, in order to grow a successful business, I have to basically hate my life every single day. No, you don't. Most people who are successful love what they do and the reason why they're so successful is because they love what they do and they don't mind doing it. And so they sometimes accidentally work a little bit harder and maybe they do go out of balance and work 80 hours a week for a month and then they go way out of balance the other way and then they go down to 30 hours a week because they work so hard for that month but they love what they do so they don't see any difference between them. It's literally like their business is a part of them. It's like their arm. You know, what would it look like for you to love what you do?  What if you could make money doing something that you love? I want you to think about that because for some people, that idea is so foreign. It's something I want you to ponder on. Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. The next thing is some people will spend their last dollar for their children, which is also a beautiful thing. It's a novel idea.  What if you didn't have to spend your last? What if you had enough money to buy your children what they wanted? What would it be like for your children to say, dad, I want this? And you went, okay, no questions asked. Don't even have to ask how much it is. What would it be like for your children to say, mom, I want this new PlayStation? I don't even know what number PlayStation, five, seven, six, 12. I don't know what PlayStation number one. Mom, I want PlayStation 12. And you're like, all right, go buy it. Not how much does it cost?  What would that feel like to know that you built a life to say, f**k it, let's go get it? How different would that make you feel? How would you feel about yourself? How would you feel about your family? How would you feel about your own success if you were the person that created that? You don't have to have an answer. I'm just asking these questions to try to shift up the foundation for what you actually think is real. Cause believe me, I lived in a poverty mindset for a really long time. The idea of go ahead and get it was foreign to me for the longest time. What if you could live your life going, all right, son, go ahead and get it. All right, daughter, go ahead and get it. I don't even care how much it is.  What would that feel like? Not, oh my gosh, they're about to turn 16. I don't know how I'm gonna afford a car. What if it was just like, okay, go ahead and get it? What would that feel like? Can you lock your brain into that feeling and go, I want that feeling in real life? I wanna know what that feeling feels like. What would that look like for you? What would it look like for your kids to say that they wanted something and you said, let's go get it? That's all I want you to think about. Instead of having a struggle and just pay the bills and just get by, what would it look like on the other side of that to think, I could get my kids whatever it is that they want? Just something to dive into that I want you to kind of think about. And then the next thing is people don't realize what their children are missing out on by them not making more money. Here's the big thing. People have children that, and once again, the jobs that they hate in order to provide for their family and that is freaking selfless and amazing. But what if you were able to make even more money and be able to provide for your family at a really high level and then you could travel to wherever you want to? What would your children's life look like if you could travel anywhere in the world? I remember when I was a kid, I remember being in like third grade. Third grade was the very first time that I ever saw a picture of the Coliseum in Rome. And I remember reading about it and learning about it and being like, that's incredible. That thing is 2,000 years, and I was blown away. And I was like, if I could just go see that thing one time in my life, it would be amazing. All I wanted to do was see the Coliseum. Imagine if your children felt the same way and you went, yeah, let's go ahead and hop on a plane next week and we're gonna go to Rome and see it. What would that be like for your children? To not look at it in a book, to not see it on the TV, but to go and experience it. To experience Italy, to experience Rome, to experience the food, to experience the people, to hear the languages, to see all the different types of people that go to that place. How much more rich would their life be? I'm not talking rich in money, rich in experiences, would their life be if you could do that for them? Just sit on that for a little while, just think about it. Think about what that would be like. It's possible. Everything is possible. Everything is possible. You just have to make it possible. Think about what the travel would be like. Think about what the safety could be like, right? If you don't have much money right now, you might not live in the best part of town. How much more safe could your children be if you were in a better part of town? I remember I had a coaching client not too long ago and we were speaking and his biggest fear was that his son would be shot by the time he was 13 years old because he lived in such a bad part of town. His main job was to get, his main goal in life was to make $100,000 so he could put a down payment on a house outside of where they live because he wanted his son to be in a safer place. What would your children's life be like if you could provide them more safety? Think about that for a second. And then another thing, what would it be like if you could afford to send them to any school? What would their, how much different would their life be if you could send them to any school? Maybe you want to send them to a private school instead of a public school. Maybe you want to send, you know, move to a different part of town that's a better part of town that has better schools so they can get a better education. How much different would their lives be if you made more money so you could provide them a better education? How much better would their lives be if you fast forward 20 years if you worked really hard right now and they were able to get a better education? What if they get into college and it doesn't matter what college it is, you just say, you're going. You got in, you're going. Don't care how much it is. What would that life look like for you? I understand, it might be foreign for you right now but it doesn't mean it's impossible. It's 100% possible but you have to be the person to first believe it and then actually make it possible. That's the thing about creating stuff in your life.  And I get it, I get it, I get it. You've got to provide. But what if you were to not quit your job today and go do something but if you were to slowly transition over the next year or two years into what is that you truly want to do? What is it you're truly passionate about? What would their life look like? How much more rich would their life be an experience if you could travel where you wanted to go? If you could move to the part of town and put them in the school that you wanted to, if you could say yes to any college that they wanted to go to, how much different would their life be?  If you were to fast forward 20 years from now what would you putting in the work and doing what you want to do do for your children's lives? I'm not talking about right now I'm talking about over the next 20 years. What would that look like? I understand, you might be locked in a job right now but what if you were to make a two year plan to transition out of it and to start building your e-commerce business start building Amazon business start building your coaching business start building your real estate business whatever it is it doesn't have to be right now but what if you were to be able to transition and have I'm gonna have my two year plan I'm gonna have my three year plan to transition out of this to finally give my children and my family the life that they want. Think about that because we either sacrifice now or you sacrifice later. What sacrifice do you want? There's two types of hard, right? Like hard work to be successful sometimes it does require some hard work a little bit out of balance every once in a while. You could either be working hard and put the hard work in there hard work is hard. Being broke is hard as well but you are the person who gets to choose which hard that it is that you want to choose either it's hard work or it happens to be the hard feeling of being broke because some people will go broke for their kids but they won't get rich for them. What would your life look like if you decided to get rich for your kids? Hey thanks so much for watching this video if you wanna learn even more about Master Your Mind click right here and watch this video as well. Because let's be real if you don't figure out how to get past the fear in your head that's holding you back from the life that you want then you're going to have to stay in the place of mediocrity that you're in.


So, we start off with discussing what is actually a web application versus a website. And there has been a question in previous lectures, for example, because sometimes I use these words interchangeably. And one of the sources, if you look at Wikipedia, basically says the general distinction between having a web page that's dynamic and a web application is not really so clear. And this is exactly why these words are used interchangeably. But websites are most likely to be referred as web applications, other ones that basically have a similar functionality to a desktop software application. So for example, if you would take, let's say Google Docs, which is similar to Word, you would definitely call it a web application. Whereas a small website that describes, I don't know, your personal website describes yourself and basically maybe your CV or so on would be a website. So this is not clear, it's not entirely clear cut the distinction, but in this course we use the definition, the web application is a dynamic website with a functionality similar to desktop software. And this is good enough to work within this course. So generally, when I refer to a web application, I mean something that's a bit more substantial than just content. Now as a reminder, we've covered how client and server are distinguished and how the client can send a request to the server. For example, we can send a get request to get the URL description of Wikipedia. And then at some point we get a response, hopefully we get a status code 200, everything is okay. And we get the document we want to read. Now generally, everything that is on the client here is described as the client side, which of course makes sense from the terminology or sometimes also as the front end. So it's the stuff that is in the front towards the client basically. Whereas everything that is on the server is on the server side, it's in the back end. And of course this, remember this is a simplified view, quite often you have multiple servers. So you could have an application server, a web server, a database server and so on. But all of that together is referred to as the server side. And what this generally means is if you have something that is on client side, it means logic is executed on the client in the browser. It happens after the server has returned a page and that means that the server also has to send all of this logic. So for example, JavaScript is a typical, originally is a typical client side language. And that means that all the JavaScript is executed in the browser. And this also means that the server has to send the JavaScript file to the client. The client can basically look at it. And of course on the server side it looks opposite that the code, the logic, whatever we have is executed on the server before the response is sent back. And this means that for example you could execute some logic and depending on what happens you send back different HTML code or different pictures or whatever. And typical language is for this is the classical one I would say is PHP, but also things such as Java, Java server pages and so on. And nowadays, and this is also what we cover in this course, there is also JavaScript in the back end. But the basic principle is everything is executed and then something is sent back. And if we compare this or summarize this, a client side web application is an application that uses client side languages. So for example, JavaScript in the browser, whereas a server side web application would use server side languages and execute the code on the server side. But of course, this is not very clear cut because you could have both. I could have some PHP scripts here. I could have some JavaScript that runs on the server. Then I could still send some JavaScript to the browser. So typically I would say you have applications that are both containing client side and web and server side code. And this means typically you don't talk about what kind of application is it, but you rather talk about where is my code executed. So you talk about, okay, this script is client side executed. It's stuff that runs in the browser. Whereas maybe some of this code is in the back end, it's server side executed. So typically you talk about the execution. You do not talk that much about is it a client or a server side application. Because in most cases, it's both. Now, why do we have this distinction? Or why is it important to think about it? There are certain advantages and disadvantages with both approaches. And if we look at the server side execution, the good thing is the code is private. Because it's executed on the server, you only send results back. That means the client never sees your code. And that can have certain advantages. For example, the client is not able to change the code. Whenever you send something back to the client, technically they can do whatever they want with it. Because it's saved on their machine. The other thing is in JavaScript, for instance, we look at different versions. And you also remember from HTML and CSS that there is a history. And we have to support all different versions. If you run your code on the server, you can specifically define which version you are installing. And that means whatever code you write, you don't have to be as careful that it's compatible with different versions of your language. So you can enforce a specific version. This means that you can typically use non-standard language elements. So you can use elements that are not available everywhere. And also, you can actually access server-side resources. So for example, the database. This is, of course, one of the main advantages why this is used. Because you would like to directly access your data, different applications, and so on. So this is the server side execution. The client-side execution then means, of course, the code is public. We have to send it back. This is typically happening through a GET request. And then the server sends a response with, for example, the JavaScript file. And this means you can change the code. This is, remember, similar to cookies or cascading style sheets, where in my browser, during the runtime, basically while my website is visible, I can change things. This is usually OK, but still, you have to be aware of it. Plus, if you have lots of vulnerabilities in your code, they're directly being exposed. You have to be compatible with different browsers and language versions, because you're never sure what your client has running on his or her machine. One of the big advantages, and this is why it's getting, why it is popular, is that it lowers the execution load on the server. So the client executes all the logic and assume you have a script that takes five seconds to execute. If you send this to a million clients, then it takes each client five seconds. If you run the code a million times on your server, then the server has all of the load added, basically. So in a way, by distributing the code to the client, it might run a bit slower there, but it scales. It scales much better. This, of course, comes at the cost of network traffic. So if you have to send the script to the user, you have to send the response. And nowadays, scripts can be quite large, so this adds up to the network traffic, actually. Whereas on the server side, you send the request, all the execution happens on the server, and then you only get the result back, which is typically much, much smaller than sending all the scripts to the client as well. So this is a little bit the distinction between client-side, server-side applications, or rather, as we said, client-server-side execution of languages of code.


From VOA Learning English, this is the Help Report. Millions of people in developing countries live near toxic waste sites. A new study looked at the dangers of living near these chemical waste dumps. An environmental group in New York studied water and soil samples from 373 waste sites in Pakistan, India and Indonesia. The researchers found that more than 8.6 million people were living near the sites in 2010. Richard Fuller was an author of the study. He says lead, chromium, mercury, phosphates, pesticides, and other kinds of chemicals were found. Mr. Fuller heads the Blacksmith Institute, which paid for the study. The institute works to solve pollution problems in low and moderate income countries. The study says people living near the dumps lost more than 828,000 years of healthy life from toxic waste exposure. The researchers based this finding on estimates of illness, disability, and early death. They say malaria caused less illness and early death in the same three countries, while air pollution caused a little more. The study found that lead created the highest pollution levels. If this metal is absorbed into the blood, it can harm the brain development of unborn babies and lower the intelligence of children. Two-thirds of those exposed to lead near waste dumps in Pakistan, India, and Indonesia were children and women of childbearing age. The Blacksmith Institute is studying toxic waste sites in 70 other developing countries. It hopes to help organize cleanup efforts. Richard Fuller says the countries he is working with want to cooperate. It's just going to take a lot of work. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


The nunchucks have to be one of the most iconic symbols of the martial arts, perpetuated by our ten-year-old minds and sheer badassery of this weapon. With one foot in ancient Okinawan history and another in contemporary storytelling, there are a few things that make one feel as martial artsy as one does after a good chucking session. But as cool as they look, and as satisfying as it is when you perform that perfect pass-off, we do have to look at the other side of the chain. In reality, nunchucks can be incredibly dangerous.  And when swung properly, they can generate a lot of kinetic energy and deliver bone-breaking strikes. And depending on where you live, they might also be illegal. So we're gonna take a quick look at how they got so popular, the legality around them, and then take a look at a surprising example of how they are relevant and used today in modern society. Now the history and origin of the nunchucks are a bit fuzzy, with conflicting details on their origin and intended use. Many believe they were ancient farming tools as a rice flail, others argue that it was originally a weapon, and then there are those other theories that say that the nunchucks stemmed from two pieces of wood connected by rope that were clanked together as a sort of warning system. Whatever the origin actually is, they found their way into Okinawa and Kobudo, and are one of this most signature weapons in the martial arts. The popularity in the West burned something to see with Bruce Lee and his incredible display, or once again in the 80s with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the weapon of choice for Michelangelo. But perhaps the popularity was the cause of its own backlash. See, Bruce Lee, and I also see Michelangelo, had substantial experience in training with the nunchucks. The 10-year-old who wanted to emulate their onscreen heroes, well, didn't. In the hands of a novice, it's not hard to imagine how many injuries occurred from untrained kids swinging around the set, or if you were like me that didn't actually own a set of nunchucks, finding anything that you could tie a string to and swing around. Many parents began taking exception with the romanticized portrayal of the nunchucks, and it wasn't long until the restrictions of the weapons began. Starting in the 70s and continuing up until today, some states and countries have laws in place that prohibit the ownership or use of the nunchucks. Canada, Germany, Chile, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Norway all have sets of laws banning or restricting the weapon. England, Wales, and Scotland have similar age-related restrictions on publicly owning the weapon, and in Hong Kong it is illegal to possess the nunchucks unless you qualify for a permit as a martial arts instructor licensed through law enforcement. Even in the United States, California, Arizona, New York, and Massachusetts all until recently had laws banning or limiting the use of the nunchucks. The laws in Arizona and New York were eventually overturned, with a case in New York arguing that banning nunchucks was against the Second Amendment, and it prevented martial artists from being able to train with them. During the rebroadcast of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK, they actually edited out footage of Michelangelo using the nunchucks, and later in the show, Mikey switched to a grappling hook. The live action movies of the 90s took a similar hit from parent complaints. Parents, and even a couple of cast members, felt that the first film showed too much violence with the weapons. As a result, there was a very noticeable tone down in the sequel of their usage, and in many cases, the weapons were substituted for non-lethal analogs. Combat cold cuts, anyone? Today, it's different from country to country, and if you aren't sure about your legal rights to use, own, or carry the nunchucks, then I encourage you to look up your local laws to see if they are banned or allowed under specific conditions or fully unrestricted.  I don't know, I personally feel that they're no different than any other weapon found in the dojo, and honestly, should really be more a matter of teaching kids what's safe and what isn't. You can ban a nunchucks, but it doesn't take an engineer to tie a string around two sticks.  Then there's the argument that the nunchuck is just too impractical for today's use in self-defense. Perhaps. But then again, maybe not. Speaking of law enforcement and nunchucks, in recent years, the ancient weapon has found a new place in modern-day usage and perhaps unexpectedly by police officers. In many police departments, mainly in California, the nunchucks are allowed for police use and have found their way into the arsenal of non-lethal weapons. Now these nunchucks are sold and developed by retired police officer Kevin Orcutt and they've been updated to fit the specific role. The Orcutt police nunchuck, or OPN for short, is intended as a possible replacement of the long baton. Sporting a lower profile and being easier to conceal, the OPN is primarily intended more as a wrapping tool to bind wrists and ankles in order to apply non-lethal pain compliance to someone being put in the custody. With stories of police brutality in recent years, Orcutt felt that this was a good option to officers in order to control suspects without having to resort to beating them. Now, of course, it is in the ideal situation that you can peacefully subdue someone when push comes to shove or if a suspect becomes violent or a threat to the officer, the nunchucks can still aptly be used as a striking tool. So, what do you guys think? What is your opinion of the nunchucks? Where are the laws where you live? What is your favorite ancient martial arts weapon and how would you like to see them make a resurgence today? So, let us know down in the comments what you think. Thank you guys so much for watching and if you liked this episode, please click the subscribe button or the like button and we will see you next time. Same mat time, same mat channel.


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What's going on everybody? This is Giovanni from the options trading channel today is May 4th May the 4th be with you. Yes. That was cheesy But either way we're starting to get a signal here on the cues what we're looking at here in the middle chart is The one-hour candlestick chart for the cues the one on the far right is the daily chart on the cues and the far Left is the two thirteen calls that expire in eleven days the calls that I'm interested in trading should the Candlestick close above that upper mobo band. So we still got about 1516 minutes until this candle closes. I'm gonna be very patient here and And just wait for that signal to close that candlestick to close and then we'll get in on those two thirteen calls We'll see what happens guys Sorry about that guys. I got a phone call as soon as I was I got that signal and was buying I bought two Call options. Let me show you that but I bought two of the May 15 Two thirteen call options that expire in eleven days bought them at 552 Just bought two of them down a little bit on its twenty six dollars twenty four dollars As you can see, I am trading the new account here we'll see how this trade turns out and And I need to actually put in a sell order for ten percent gain for half. That's at six oh seven 607 Let's go ahead and default quantity Limit order 607 review Send and It's there and it's working Either I'm gonna win some or I'm going to lose some we'll see how this trade turns out Well guys guess what my ten percent sell order went through at six oh seven Let me show you that trade. I bought at 552 sold at six oh seven I'm currently up on the day a hundred and five dollars This is working beautifully right now because the markets are absolutely moving. I'm gonna hold that second Contracts for bigger games. Let's see what happens from here. I'm super excited that It's it executed flawlessly Alrighty guys, I went ahead and sold that other contract at six oh three you can see here I bought two at 552 Sold one at 607 sold the other one at 603 For a total profit for the day a hundred and six dollars minus commission. So a little over a hundred and three dollars Total so far. So I'm up. This was a good start. I'm happy with it We shall see on the very next trade how it goes for the here now. I made my profit my ten percent Thank you everybody so much for watching