Hello everyone and welcome. My name is Melissa Armo and I'm here today to review the tracking results for the month of October and November for the trades called in the live trading room. I have the room open every day from 8.30 to roughly about 11 o'clock Eastern time and I call the gap trades in the morning live each morning when I'm doing them with the entry, stop and exit. If you have questions you can feel free to reach out to me. You can call me at 929-3200 gap or you can email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. If you'd like more information about the classes that I offer you can feel free to go to my website as well, www.thestockswish.com. And you can also look for me on Fox Business Network where I discuss stocks and the market. So day trading and becoming successful day trading is really about chunking it out. You just take every day as it comes. I never know when I get up in the morning what I'm going to do that day. I have a system that I follow daily where I will rate the gap and then I will determine if it's a good long or short by mostly focus and shorts and really have to take a day by day. Whatever your goals are when you trade it is very important to look at it as a bigger picture which is per week per month. Some days you get up there isn't any trades that meet your criteria and then I don't trade. So that's how you kind of have to look at it. Some days are really big days and so every day is different in the market. It's the best way to look at it I think by chunking it out. So I have a system that I use. It's called the Golden Gap System. If you're interested in learning the system you can email me for more information. Going back starting at the beginning of October trading results 10-2 was off. Scheduled to be on TV. 10-3 was TTS. A good one. 1,500 profit. 10-4 was Tiva. 3,000 profit. 10-5 no trades. 10-6 was cost $1,100 profit. Weekly total $5,600. Average per day $1,867. All of these trades involve an advanced risk of $1,000 minimum. Just so you know. If you cannot afford to risk $1,000 per trade then you cannot do that then risk what you can afford. Still very profitable trades and calls using my system. And you can follow my trades and size yourself differently. 10-9 was cost $3,400 profit. 10-10 was a dowel. 6-25 is small one but still worked. 10-11 was a loss in HDSN. WMT was a winner. 10-12 JPM was a loss. Tiva was a winner. Nice one there. 1,800 Tiva. 10-13 was a TB day off. Weekly total $6,525. Average per day on that week, $1,631. Another good week there. 10-16 Spy was a loser. Apple was a really good winner. 10-17 Hog was a loser.  IBM was a winner. 10-19 Apple was a winner. 10-22 85.  And CLG was a really nice winner at $2,800. Weekly total of that week was big, $11,205. Average per day, $2,241. So October was going along here. 10-23 Matt was a winner. $1,250. 10-24 GE was a loser.   AMD big winner, $6,300. 10-26 CLG. First trade actually was a winner. I just didn't have the exit fast enough, but there were some people in the room that cut out. We did it again. Really nice later trade in CLG. 6,600 profit. 10-27 TV Day Off. Weekly total, $9,350. Average per day, what? $23,37. Again, looking at the results, looking at chunking it out day by day, taking it as it comes. 10-31 MRK was a winner. 10-30 MRK was a winner. 900 profit. 10-31 UA was a loser. Q-Com Two Trades were both winners. That was a good short that day. So October's totals were $35,080. Pretty nice month. Worked hard for it. Average per day, $19,49. Again, most of these trades are in the morning, very quick trades. Some were a little bit later holds, but that's rare, and it was only a few days in there. I do prefer to get the trades in the morning. November, off to a good start. 11-1 DDD was a winner, $1,200. 11-2 was TB Day Off, 11-3 was a radio day off as in Fox Radio. 11-6 there were no trades in my criteria. 11-7 was Tripp. Really, really nice Tripp move down short, opened and swushed, $3,960. 11-8, SNAP, $1,640. 11-9 was AMD again, $1050. And 11-10 was Disney, which actually was long, $1,575. So the November totals running through 11-10 is $9,425. So so far, October and November trading results, this is earning season period here. It's $44,505. Really looking forward to this coming week. Should be a big week in the market, a big week for gaps, right before the Thanksgiving holiday, which tends to be slow in the market. So this will be a big, big week to be very active here this third week of November. If you're interested in my method, you can learn my class, it's called the Golden Gap Course. It is a full-up today course on how to strategically find, take and play stocks at our professional bearish gaps. The class is online, you can be anywhere in the world and take it. The dates of the class on November 18th and 19th from 9 to 5 Eastern time. Class of the class is $4,999, that's $4,999 US dollars. If you're interested, you must email me for registration papers to fill everything out and sign up. You can email me at Melissa at thestockswush.com. If you're serious about day trading or doing options with my method or trading for 2018, I suggest doing this class. I may be doing one more class before the end of the year, but I don't know because I don't have my television schedule yet for booking. So the bottom line is that if you really are serious about trading all of the calendar year 2018, I would sign up and do this class if you can, November 18th and 19th. It's been a very good 2017 year in the room for my traders, for myself, and I expect 2018 to actually be better. I've been trading now for a long, long time, and it is true the more you do something, the better you get. And all the opportunities that have been coming my way, I've been taking advantage of speaking on radio and television, and that's really helped my own confidence and conviction to continue to make great calls. So empower yourself to trade the market. It's very, very important to believe in yourself in what you do. We'll talk a little bit in the webinar Monday night about emotions in trading as well. If you're interested in more information about what I do, feel free to reach out to me, call me. I'm still making myself available to talk to people one-on-one. I don't know how long that will last as far as timing with my schedule. But for now, if you really want to talk to me, you can still reach out and email me or call me at melissathestockswish.com or 929-3200 Gap. Thanks everyone. Have a great day.


So welcome back to the 24th edition of the RCA Training Tips Show where it's today. I'm joined again by bike fitting expert Neil Stambry, who's been fitting road cyclists for around 10 years in conjunction with being a sports physiotherapist. So in this video, we're gonna talk about a topic that Neil actually wanted to raise because it's an issue that a lot of his clients face and that is numb or sore feet while cycling. So Neil's gonna pinpoint three areas or causes and then what you can do in order to fix the issue. Now, if you've evaluated this video today, please don't forget to like it. And if you're yet to subscribe, please do so if you wanna see more content like this in the future. And for those road cyclists that are keen to take their performance to the next level, the up-level road cycling course is reopening. At the end of October, I'm gonna be welcoming in 50 people only. So stay tuned. In the interim, you can download my free book. So let's get into it. I'll try and break it down into discrete parts so that it's kind of easier to understand. There's two main causes of foot numbness on a bike. There's foot numbness which occurs from something happening inside the shoe and then there's numbness which occurs from greater positional issues happening further up the chain. So starting with the foot ones, the logical one that everyone thinks of is my shoe is too tight. So if the shoe is restrictive around the forefoot, particularly laterally, if you've got quite a wide foot trying to cram it into a narrow shoe, the foot will get squished from the side. That's a technical medical term. That's what it's called. It'll get squashed from the side and as it gets squashed, there's a whole bunch of intrinsic nerves which run between each one of the rays of the toe. I think they're called the inter-digital nerves and depending on which textbook you look at, they're called different things. But as the foot gets compressed in laterally, those nerves get squeezed. You can, if it gets quite bad, you can get a thing called a neuroma which is a bit of scar tissue built up around one of the nerves. But most of the time, neuromas are fairly rare. Most of the time it's just that generally the shoe is too tight, squeezing the foot, the nerves get squashed and the foot goes numb. The toes spreading forward go numb. There's also circulatory issues that occur for the same reason because there's vascular structures in between each one of the toes. So if the shoe is too tight around the forefoot, it can compress all those nerves and blood vessels. There are, the best way to get around that is obviously by a wider shoe. So the particular shoes of note which are quite wide across the forefoot. Lake are excellent and I've got a set of lakes just in the standard width, the old CX237 which has now been superseded by the CX238. Really high quality mid-range shoe and the standard width of lakes is quite wide. But you can also buy them in a wide width which is really wide. So if you've got quite a splayed triangular foot which spreads across the forefoot a lot where you're just looking for more space around there. Lakes are great. Bonts are pretty good as well. They've got a fair bit of space around the forefoot although they can tend to be really rigid which is not good for foot numbness for a lot of people because it prevents the foot from flexing and pumping circulation through the foot. But Bonts have got quite a bit of room around there and then you've got things like the City Mega and a couple of other ones. The new range of Shimano shoes are quite wide across the forefoot as well. So having a shoe which is wide enough to accommodate your foot is a no brainer. In terms of other intrinsic things you can do in the foot to reduce problems with these nerves and these vascular structures. Let's say that you've got the beginnings of a new Roma or even though you've got a wide foot you're still getting a bit of this kind of compression occurring and you've got quite a wide shoe that's accommodating it. You can trial using a thing called a metatarsal dome and I've got a couple here just to show you. These are ones which David from G8 has now supplying with his ArchTech 2620 modules and these come in two different heights but there's all different shapes and sizes. And these are basically just a little dome which essentially sits, if this is your foot, they sit underneath the forefoot and then they spread those metatarsal joints apart a little bit. So they create a situation where there's this kind of spreading effect, particularly useful if you've got a new Roma, I think called a Morton's new Roma, which is a scar tissue formation around the nerve. But generally if you're looking for a bit more circulation through the forefoot, a slight little metatarsal dome like that can splay the forefoot and create the conditions needed to pump a little bit more circulation through the foot. So a metatarsal dome, relatively inexpensive way of testing that theory, it's one of the things that we use occasionally. How much are those things? Oh, a couple of bucks. These come with David's insoles. I don't know if he sells them individually, but you can buy stuff like this on eBay. These are just ones which come with those inserts. And there's different shapes of them and stuff like that and different heights and different softnesses and so forth. But these ones are quite nice. Yes. So in terms of the compression around the forefoot, you can reduce it with a wider shoe. You can reduce it with stuff like this. And then one of the kind of logical methods of reducing forefoot pressure is to spread the pressure over a larger area. So let's say that you're putting pressure down on the pedal and there's 10 kilos of force going through with every pedal stroke. If you've got a foot that's got, let's say you've got quite a high rigid arch which doesn't deform much. When you place pressure on that foot on the bottom of the shoe, all of the load will go through the metatarsal heads just behind the toes, right? And if your arch isn't actually contacting the bottom of the shoe, all of the 10 kilos goes through a fairly small patch, right? So if you spread that pressure over a larger surface area, you get less focal pressure on the met heads. And so the logical thing to do here is to add arch support. If you create a situation where you're lifting up the arch just moderately, it basically takes load away from the metatarsal heads and spreads it over a larger surface area on the bottom of the foot, it might increase the surface area of contact of the bottom of the shoe by double or triple depending upon the shape of your foot and how rigid the arch is and how your met heads are contacting the bottom of the shoe. And that can be enough to just spread pressure away from the metatarsal heads and reduce hot foot and foot numbness and all that kind of stuff quite a lot. So arch support is probably one of the biggest things to get right, particularly if you've got that type of high rigid arch foot. In terms of the other stuff, the stuff that higher up the kinetic chain which can cause problems, there's a bit of background to this. The way that the circulation works in your foot is it works on a muscle pump system. So when your calf muscle contracts when you're riding, walking, running, whatever you're doing, part of that contractile effort, the part of the way that the vascular structures have evolved in the back of your leg is that will then pump circulation through your foot, just like your heart pumps, right? Same kind of idea. Because the human nervous system has evolved sorry, the human body has evolved to walk and run, we've adapted in this way such that our calf musculature pumps circulation through our feet when we use our feet, right? So anything which challenges that on a bike can create a problem. So let's say for example that the seat is far too high, the rider's riding with the seat way too high and their compensatory adaptation to that is to point their foot really rigidly down. On the down stroke, their calf muscle is contracting really heavily to keep that rigid toe point happening and on the up stroke, it's never coming off the pedal. So they just ride like this. Their calf muscle is contracting all the time, which means that there's no circulation pump occurring so they get numb feet. So if the seat is too high, you can get numb feet. If the seat is way too low, you can also get numb feet because on the down stroke, the pressure, sorry, on the up stroke, the pressure doesn't come off your foot. So this is kind of a harder one to visualize but if the seat is way too low, the pressure will always be on the pedal if it's way too low. So if we put your seat that far too low and your knees are up around your chest, you would never experience a situation where the pressure would go on and then off the pedal. It would just always be on through the whole pedal stroke. So that can cause numb feet. If the seat's way too far forward or way too far back, it can create issues with the calf engagement at the bottom of the stroke, which can cause similar issues. And I guess the big one, which is probably the most common causation of numb feet in my experience, of all of them except for possibly lack of arch support is if the cleat position is too far forward. So if the cleat position is too far forward on the shoe, the rider will over engage their calf, like we spoke about in one of the other videos, just to stabilize the foot on the down stroke. And that will then lead to this lack of circulation through the foot. So depending upon the individual rider, if they're a massive heel drop or a toe proro or whatever, there'll be a point at which, when the cleat gets far enough back on the shoe, their calf muscle will go, oh, that's better. And it will come on and off, on and off and pump circulation through the foot and then numbness will probably disappear. So there's a couple of products out there which can help you if you need the cleats a long way further back. There's a Speedplay Extender Baseplate. This is an alloy device made by Speedplay, which has just got some much longer slots in it to enable more rearwards translation of the cleat. And it's also got two sets of bolt holes, which will enable another 10 millimeters of rearward translation on the cleat as well. So for people like myself who need their cleat a long way back on the shoe for whatever reason, and one of them can be foot numbness, this is a good way of getting in a fair way back. Another option is there's been a few of these come out over the years and these are probably the best ones I've ever seen. These are made by like in Switzerland. These website you might put a link in the description. Yeah, these are really good. These are a three bolt adapter. So you can see that they're curved to suit the bottom of most shoes and they come with some shims and stuff to suit the curvature of most road shoes. And they basically bolt onto the bottom of the shoe using the three bolt locations there, the traditional triangular cleat, and then they've got a 12 and a 24 millimeter stagger.  And so this can be another good option. These are made out of really high grade alloy I believe and they're strong as anything. They're one of the best solutions I've ever seen for a three bolt cleat. The only downside is they do increase the stack height of the cleat a little bit by three millimeters. The good news is that when you go this far back on the cleat, the stability of the foot over the pedal is so good that extra stack height almost doesn't matter. It's almost irrelevant. So you can use these to approximate a mid-foot cleat position as well. If you're having really difficult problems or you've got peripheral vascular problems and your circulation through your feet is no good. Or for other reasons, which we'll talk about in another video. If you wanna run the cleat a long way back and approximate a mid-foot cleat position or get fairly close to it, these will enable you to get fairly close as well. So we'll talk about mid-foot under different circumstances in more detail. But if you've got a rider with really compromised circulation in the feet and nothing else works, almost always mid-foot will give them relief from their foot numbness because it just completely resolves any calf engagement across the bottom of the stroke at all. And mid-foot, obviously what that means is to have the center of the cleat directly under the middle of the foot or very close to it. So the foot becomes inherently very stable on the pedal. The calf relaxes and does nothing. Circulation is free to pump through your foot and all of the load through the bottom of the shoe tends to go up through your arch and splay the foot that way rather than up through the metatarsal heaps. So it's a last-ditch effort mid-foot if you've got a person who's really struggling with foot numbness. But it almost always works. Right. So where would you start if someone's experiencing it? Like you've obviously outlined a lot there. Is there any specific starting point you'll just un-lush in your shoes first? Yeah. Start with that, see how that goes and then maybe try changing shoes? What would you do? First of all, the easy stuff that's free and easy to experiment with, sticky foot inside your shoe and do it up moderately and just have a feel around the lateral parts of the foot on the left and right hand side. If the shoe is really constrictive or you can feel your fifth metatarsal or your first metatarsal bulging the shoe out, it might be too constrictive around the front. If you cannot feel when you stand in your shoes, if you cannot feel any contact across the arch of the foot, it's pretty likely that you need some type of arch support to spread the pressure away from your metatarsal heads. Something like David's G8s or any off-the-shelf orthotic that's got a sufficiently high enough arch so that when you stand in them, you can feel that arch pressure quite solely across the bottom of your foot. It's a good place to start. In terms of the seat height and all that kind of stuff, have a look at the other videos we did on that. Yes, or link to below, yep, good idea. That'll get you pretty close and the balance stuff, the four and a half position is less likely to be causing trouble. But the cleat position, if you want to experiment with that, go further back, just move the cleats far back as it can go. You might need to lower your seat a little bit at the same time to keep everything else in balance and then see if that gets rid of the numbness. And that way, using those kind of three major ideas, you might be able to figure out at least roughly where it's coming from. And then it's less likely that you'll need something like a metatarsal dome. I give them out fairly rarely because most of the time we solve the foot numbness issue using one of these things. Okay.


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All right, you are still watching Waze, now International Day of Awesomeness, celebrated on March 10th every year is a day where anybody, no matter who they are, may celebrate their awesomeness. Yes, we all possess qualities that makes us awesome in some way. So today, let's go out or go out of our insecurities and prepare to give ourselves praises that we deserve. So no one is perfect, especially, you know, we know that nobody's perfect, but everyone in one way or the other has amazing characteristics. So all you have to do is spotlight yourself today and concentrate on all your good qualities and what makes you special, use this day to share joy, telling others how wonderful and amazing you are as a person. So I am the most amazing person on earth, if I can say so myself. Because today, the day of awesomeness gives me the liberty to celebrate myself. So welcome, awesome Mary, for coming late. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. You look amazing, by the way. Thank you. Always looking amazing. Thank you. Yeah, so what's awesome about Mary? I think I have a lovely personality. I really do like myself a lot. I know. And I hope people like me as well, but I don't really care, I just do like myself. So yeah. Yeah, I know. Glory, how about you? Well, when I saw this, one thing I really like about our show is just this, every day is very important. There's just something to celebrate each day. And today is just about being awesome. And of course, I'm also awesome and fly too. You know. No, I think we know the secrets for glory. We know what to give her. To wring out people from them. Oh, I know what you mean. I don't go there. We know glory is true. We keep the secret to ourselves. But hey, I mean, everyone is awesome in one way or the other, right? I think people shy away from giving themselves their flowers, right? Give yourself some credit. You deserve it. Sometimes I look back, I see how far I have grown as a person. And I know that. You know what? Well, you've done well.  You've, you know, you've weathered a lot of storm and all of that. So just sometimes just pat yourself in the back and say you're doing amazing. So yeah, that's that day. Glory, what did you find for us in the news? When I saw this, I was like, oh God, not again. Yesterday it was something. Today another accident. It's about a 40 foot container on Friday, which is today, fell off a trailer of O'Dwell Lake Barge in Ward Stadium Lagos State. And I recall that some time ago, I think we had something similar to this, which claimed lives. So my only, I was just happy that no lives were lost for this. But the question I have is how do we contain this? How do we stop this from reoccurring as frequent as it is now? I don't even know. Is the government listening? What are they doing? Who is supposed to do what? Is someone not doing his or her job? What can we do to reduce or stop this? It's so sad.  And we saw an accident that just happened last night.  So obviously that truck was trying to run away, but the people around, I don't know, they were trying to stop the truck. So you could see them visibly angry, stoning the, and telling the driver to come there, because the driver of the big truck stopped meters away from the, where the crash had happened. So it meant that he was not even willing to stop. You know, they had to like force the truck to stop. And there was somebody that was pulled out of that car life less yesterday. So we don't even know whether the person, it's just at the Glover Junction in Ikoi there. So I don't even know what happened. Honestly speaking, because it was too scary. It just literally happened right where we were there.  It's something that I think if we start to bring a lot more stringent measures, right? I am very sure. Because for instance, the bus yesterday that took that rail track, had no business, you know, taking that rail track. Then even though you want to take a rail track, maybe that is a crossing. Let us say that is where they normally take every day. When a train is coming, the train, there's always, yes, you can be faster than the train for the magnetic pull. To pull the bus to the train, it tells you that the train was really close. So the driver was trying to play smart. I mean, so that's what I'm saying. And that driver was not hurt. The people, yes, it wasn't hurt. So that's the thing. So we really need to, and this is to the government, you need to start to be a lot stricter with these people.  See the person that hit me today? I don't understand. Everybody was on standstill at a traffic junction where the light was red. Clearly you could see that these people were distracted. Even not that maybe I had my seat belt on or all of those security. The impact of that? Yeah, it was so bad. I would have hit my head maybe on my steering or something. Because it was that bad. The impact was that bad. I didn't even know my lip was bleeding until I left the scene and I also bled. So I mean, these things are just carelessness from the parts of humans. You know, it's sad. Let me take your story, Jennifer. Mary. Mary. Okay. Our ex-presidents, Buhari, has said that Bola Tinnubu's election stands. And if you are aggrieved, go to court. President Muhammadu Buhari says that the February 25, 2023 election, won by APC's Bola Med Tinnubu stands. And that anyone who is aggrieved with the outcome should go to court. The spokesperson, Garba Shayhu, in a statement on Thursday, March 9th, said that Buhari is against any plans to annul the elections which may have, which may have been said that was categorized, characterized by irregularities. So that's what our ex-presidents have told us. Absolutely. If you're just waking up to know they've really taken you to court or I don't get, why is this still saying we should take you to court? I'm just re-emphasizing what they've said before. I don't understand. This election just, we came because... It's already in court, they've taken you to court. I don't know if our leaders even understand what it is that they've done. I don't know if they understand the... I think they just don't care. You know, because I want to give them benefit of doubt, that maybe they just don't understand. Because nobody has disputed that somebody won an election. What people are saying is, if you promised XYZ and you didn't deliver on those promises, what are the penalties for those failed promises that you didn't deliver? So that's all people are asking for. I don't know. Yes, people will go to court, but you see the truth is you need to also wake up and smell the coffee. You're caught in Nigeria. How reliable are they? How fair, how just are the systems, the justice system in our country? You just need to be sure of what you're saying. Because again, I don't know. Sometimes it feels like maybe we're asking for too much as citizens. We're not asking for too much. Or we complain a lot. Or we complain a lot. Or we just like to make noise and all of that. No. If a system was done and it seems like there was something shady around it, the best thing you can do as a leader is to allay people's fears and say, no, this system was transparent and do everything within your means to make it, you know, I mean, prove that it was fair. But they know it wasn't transparent. But what I don't even understand is why they just keep saying, go to court, go to court. Because they know what the court is about. In your face, go to court. If you want to cry, just go to court. I mean, we are in a country where judges are not like particularly comfortable.  Yeah. So poverty, I've always said this thing, I would keep saying, yes. So poverty and it's a cross-bord, right? The people that are supposed to be well paid, the people that are supposed to be independent, you keep them subservient, you keep them running cap in hand to you and all of that. Do you think the people will not do your bidding? They will do your bidding, right? So it's a very tricky, it's a very tricky subject. And I have said it that after March 18th, I'm just going to leave politics for you people. Because they don't consign me. Anything people want to do is your country. I will just continue to live in it. The Kogi state governor says he wants to arrest residents rejecting old Naira notes. For the life of me, I don't understand this story. But in a statement that was signed by the commissioner of information, Kinsley found on Friday, the governor said that old currency remains a legal tender, warning that residents found rejecting it should be punished according to the law. What law? What law? The reason the Kogi state government joined other state governors government in the country to pursue the case was to ease the hardship occasioned by unavailability of the new Naira notes, which the court fully granted. It is therefore unacceptable that some persons and businesses will continue to reject the use of the old Naira notes even after the court judgment validating their use. Rejecting old Naira notes is a clear disobedience of the Supreme Court. Anyone who rejects the old Naira notes should be reported to the security and government authorities for immediate action. Also, banks that refuse to accept old Naira deposit shall be sealed as the state government will not accommodate financial institutions that will fully disobey court orders, more so the orders of the highest court in Nigeria. What I don't even understand is why CBNO say is it like they are giving in to what the Supreme Court is saying? Because that's just why people are confused. Even at such a day, I heard someone telling me that they are not going to accept, I think he is a public driver who uses his vehicle to carry people. So it's like he does not accept old notes, he doesn't care. Nobody is accepting old notes. But CBNO has produced a statement that yes, there was a memo that they released that they said that the old Naira notes are still valid. So I think people are just scared because it's a country where tomorrow night they can wake up and say, oh no, we didn't say that. I didn't see that release though. I didn't see that release. Well, I just wanted to, I even wanted to say that you see what people are doing now, because from the report that I am trying to do is documentary for a client. And the report is that they are saying that people are doing trade by butter. So I have 10 gallons of Pamoye. Please give me whatever we exchange. There's no even if it's for us to do cash again. Give me Pamoye in exchange for Yam or something.  Because it's becoming back and forth. We don't know whether to use it or not to use it. So people are just deciding, no, let's trade with our commodities. So Glory, give me Brazilian hair. I give you Chinese rice. Okay, so we'll take a break. I'll check with that CBN. I haven't seen that release yet. I saw it. I'll check with our finance person coming much later. So when we take a break now, when we come back from the break, we want to discuss how we can live above... How we should not live above... Because I'm living above my means. How we should not live above my means. It's almost impossible. Stay with us and we'll be right back.


I often talk about building a true fan audience, a community of readers or viewers who just love your presence and your work and who follow your content consistently, right? But there's a difference between having a true fan audience and being a guru. And I feel like it's important to talk about that difference and why it's a danger to go towards becoming a guru. So the way that a guru, well, let me just first explain the origin of the word guru. It's from certain ancient spiritual traditions, notably I think Hinduism and Eastern traditions where a guru is like a revered spiritual guide for the students. And some students almost give their entire life over to their guru. Like anything the guru says asks the student will give, right? And you know, I believe in freedom of religion. So however someone wants to practice a religion, follow some guru, that's fine. I mean, that's if it works for them, you know, it's not my part to say. But when it comes to business, when it comes to building our own audience, I think we should be very careful when we are going in that direction. And I'm certainly in danger of being a guru for some of you. And I'll tell you why I don't want to become one and what the dangers are, okay?  I don't like their critical feedback. I don't, you know, when I'm not open to it. When I expect that my audience will do everything that I say. And so I am baffled when I sell something and they don't buy it. They're like, Oh my gosh, no, I should have control over their will. You know, this is why it's so dangerous. I mean, there are people in my industry who essentially this is part of the danger of learning marketing, right? Because learning marketing and persuasion, which I don't teach persuasion.  And when you learn it and when you start to do it, you start creating a dangerous level of control over your audience. People start to, because they like your presence, your energy signature, there's a match there. What you say can sometimes sound to them like universal truth. And that's dangerous because every person has their own authentic path toward growth, toward their higher self. And to say that you have the exact step-by-step strategy for all your students is a lie. It's just not true because you don't know what that student, that that person in your audience, what their life path is supposed to be. So how can you have a step-by-step path? Which is why I am always in the mode, in the mindset of experimentation and exploration. And everything I share with you, I hope you know, is from my own experimentations and that you should take it as an idea for experimentation rather than the absolute truth. It's interesting, one of my students recently, you know, in one of my classes, in my most popular class, my Facebook ads course, I recently shared a significant experimentation I was making. I said, you know, there was one significant teaching in the class that I want to revise, possibly want to revise because I've noticed this happening over time. And I'm going to try to experiment with something differently now. And this was a potential change to a significant pillar of my Facebook ads teaching. And to me, I want to tell you what I'm experimenting with because you might want to experiment with it too because nobody has the absolute truth, not even to something like Facebook ads or marketing or anything. And one of my students said something interesting to me. They said, you know, in the feedback form, which I'm very open to feedback, but this part I wanted to share with you, they said, you know, you are essentially saying that one of your core teachings was wrong. You never told us to come experiment with me. You know, meaning that the suggestion was that I was supposed to teach the absolute truth about how to use Facebook ads correctly. And I'm sorry if you think that I have the absolute truth to anything, including marketing or business or productivity or how to make money authentically or anything that comes out of my mouth. I don't have the absolute truth for your life, for your path, for what you're supposed to do. All I can tell you is things that have worked for me, things that have worked for some of my clients, things that I'm observing that seem to be right to me. It is all experimentation and exploration. When you start to say, well, George, you know, you're supposed to know the truth, then you're starting to see me as your guru. And I should not be your guru. You should only have one guru.   You should always follow your conscience, the best that you know how in connection to the God of your understanding or in connection to your highest self. And take everything from any teacher that you follow to be a suggested experiment. Does that make sense? When we aspire and the reason why so many people, influencers, messengers, creators aspire to be gurus, of course, we hopefully you understand because it feels so good to have the adoration of many people. It feels so good to be able to say something and watch people do it. You know, follow your instructions exactly as you teach them to not stray from your will, right? Not my will be done. Dying will be done. The God of your understandings will be done in your life, not my will, right? Now, I hope that I'm connected to some higher wisdom in a way that some of my suggestions to you are good experimentations that will shorten your learning curve in business and marketing and anything that I might teach you. But when we aspire to be a guru, what happens is that if you believe in such things, we create karmic attachments for many lifetimes and can create burdens for many lifetimes. But let's talk about on a practical or earth-based or day-to-day level is that, well, there's dangers for both the student and the guru, right? The danger for the student is that their free will gets increasingly stripped from them. If you follow everything I tell you and think that what George says must be the way and I must follow him step by step and it must work for me.  I would rather you figure things out on your own. Now, like I said, I can help you maybe shorten the learning curve a lot by saying, well, I've tried a bunch of things. This might be a better experimentation for you to start out with and hopefully you get good results sooner rather than later, right? But your free will and your personal agency and your ability to solve problems and be creative on your own is of paramount importance to you and to me as well. So that's a danger of being following a teacher wholeheartedly, you know, you're stripping away your personal agency and your creative problem-solving abilities, which is one of the most important things you have in life, right? Maybe the most important. The second thing is that you stop learning truly when you only follow one teacher is that you don't realize all the things that you're missing out on, your worldview becomes very, very narrow. So that's a danger to you, the student, following a teacher like a guru. Okay, now again, I'm not talking about spiritual traditions, religion. That's a separate thing and I honor your practice of religion. The danger for the guru in business is that if I become a guru, I stop learning because I'm in an echo chamber. I only say what feels good to me, what comes to me and then I have my students pair it back to me, what I say and nobody disagrees with me. I don't allow any disagreements or I ignore critical feedback. Then I stop growing and I also create karmic attachments, like I said, and I become egoistic and hubristic and yeah, it's not a good thing. So that's why I've always been very obsessive about getting feedback from my students and I tell them, please be honest with me. If there's something that rubs you the wrong way, something that you disagree with, something that worked for you differently, maybe you found a different way, that's better for you. That's better for you and maybe for others too. Then I want to know about that and I want to experiment with it and maybe share that with others so that more people can find a better experiment. So anyway, I think I can end this video by now, just by saying, be aware of your own aspirations to be a guru. You can still passionately teach what you believe, of course. Passionately teach what you believe. Passionately help others with what step by step you know. But the key is to be open to the fact that they might know better than you. The student might know better, and I should say this, hopefully the student knows better than the teacher for what's best for the student's own life. Now, the student looks to the teacher for, okay, you've spent a lot of years experimenting and give me some good experiments. But just be aware that it's all experimentation, explorations that you're giving to your students. And they might find better ways than what you know for them, okay? And you should study what they bring to you and be very open to their feedback, not that you shouldn't be confident. See, I'm very confident. But this is really about how do we balance confidence and humility? And that's, anyway, that's the message for today. I hope this is helpful. I'm always open to your comments and your questions. I'm so grateful for your willingness to experiment with me and get some ideas for me and then find your own way. So I look forward to your comments below. I'm just going to give you a moment to make any comments while you give me a moment to see any comments from the live attendees of this video. Let's see here. Yes. Thank you for joining me for this video. Carissa, Tim, Shweta, Gregory, Alexandra, Donna, Melanie, Prem. So, yeah, a couple of comments here. And Donna says, thank you for sharing this. So many coaches do not want to acknowledge this. Yeah, it's human nature to want adoration and to want to be right. Because from our human evolution, when we are rejected from the tribe, right? When we don't have a tribe or we're rejected from the tribe, we had a very real danger of dying in the wilderness. So we have this ancient drive to be adored, to be part of a tribe, not just to be part of a tribe, to be one of the adored members of a tribe.  And all the things that we all evolved thousands of years to understand, though, to want in a very visceral way, right? So yeah, let's see. Shweta says, oh, and the comments are disappearing from the lot. But anyway, you can see the comments if you go to the Facebook post. But thank you for your comments, Shweta and Miriam and Melanie and Prem and everybody who's joining me. Okay, all right, I'm gonna let you go. And just remember that you have truly, I was gonna say you have all the answers within you. But maybe a better way of saying is that you have the power within you to discover the best answers for yourself. All right, I wish you well. Take care.


Egypt secretly planned to supply 40,000 rockets to Russia. Leaked US intelligence documents indicate that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia in February and instructed officials to keep the production and shipment of rockets secret to avoid problems with the West. The president of Egypt, one of America's closest allies in the Middle East and a major recipient of USAID, recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia according to a leaked US intelligence document. The Washington Post reported that a portion of a top-secret document dated 17 February sums up purported conversations between Sisi and senior Egyptian military officials and references planned to supply Russia with artillery rounds and gunpowder. A US government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address sensitive information, said that, The Washington Post emphasized that providing arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine would represent a potentially explosive gambit for Egypt. A nation that, despite deepening ties with Moscow, remains deeply invested in its partnership with the United States, which for decades has provided the country with more than $1 billion a year in security aid. Senator Chris Murphy, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, said that Egypt is one of our oldest allies in the Middle East. If it is true that Sisi is covertly building rockets for Russia that could be used in Ukraine, we need to have a serious reckoning about the state of our relationship.


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And let's take a look at this one. These wonderful podcasts at CP Conversations. Let's take a look at this episode of CP Conversations, with your host, Nicole Luongo. Since we're already in February of 2021, how did that happen? I don't really know. I thought it would be a good time to talk about self care. And boy, do I have the perfect guest to introduce all of you to. She's my friend and her name is Kathy O'Connell. Kathy is the director of Radiant Abilities, LLC, which provides resources and products for people with disabilities in the areas of self-esteem, relationships, personal empowerment and living the life you want. Kathy has a specialized focus in helping people with disabilities with dating and relationship success. She works from the premise of a healthy self-esteem, increased confidence and good boundaries that build the foundation for success in dating, relationships and sexuality. Kathy's work in this area also includes providing staff trainings, teaching at Syracuse University's Inclusive U, teaching community classes, creating an online course and speaking on dating, relationships and sexuality at conferences. Kathy is a licensed mental health counselor and certified rehabilitation counselor, so please welcome my friend Kathy. It's so great to speak with you today, Kathy. Thank you. What I wanted to talk to you about today is we're going to cover a couple of topics and the first one is how parents can empower their child at any age with this healthy sense of self. And as you know, a healthy sense of self is a huge factor when it comes to loving ourselves and self-love.  So I was interested in learning, A, from your perspective, what is self-love? And B, what was your childhood like having cerebral palsy and did you have self-love at that time for your disability? So to me, self-love is the ability to love, honor, and value all of who you are. And when I say all, I mean both the use of drinks and your weaknesses and being able to accept all of it as in the beautiful package that you are. And for disabilities and with SIPAC, I would say that included in that, it's the ability to really own your disability. And the natural part of who you are and be out in the world as a person with a disability. Yeah, I love that because you're an example of that. You're out in the world. You have a family, you're married, you have a son, you own your own business.  So you're out there. Well, you always like that. I would say so. The second part of your question is the weird, I forget to say, but where did I learn self-love? And that was with my parents. When I was a boy, they had no clue how to raise a child would seem big. But luckily, I was to the left of their four children. So I, they were simple, simple, simple by the time I came along. And they, their premise was, and they very much adapted it, that I should be able to live how I want to live. And yes, I would have challenges and obstacles along the way, but they should not deter me from the life I wanted to create for myself. And that's a lot of passion about working with other people. So your parents actually talk to you about your disability? I'm curious, because I'm the youngest of 11 and my parents didn't talk to me about it. They had no clue.  Well, you know, probably a lot of the most important stories that I take away from how they raised me was I have three older brothers who are very much older than me. They were age 13 to nine by the time I came along. And when my parents got the day, no exception for me and went home to tell my brothers, my father sent me for it. Well, she had a simple policy and that means that she may need a little help along the way. And my parents, they were very simple and very direct. So I think I learned from their example to always acknowledge it, but I did not take up the whole conversation. OK, wow, that's that's really cool. And as you grew older, did you have some challenges in your life as a result of having CP? Yes. Now, one of the biggest challenges, and again, I'm from a older generation. So when I began to go off as a kindergartener, it would seem before inclusive education was illegal. So I went to the club and looked at a lot of things to go off, which was 45 minutes away from my house. Now, the school where all my brothers went was five minutes from my house. And that's the way all my neighbor and friends thought. So I'm like, why am I being put on this bus? He goes 45 minutes the one way. He was educated and then I got there. And they were teaching me things that I already knew like how to have time because my mother was from the get go. She read to me. So I already knew things. So long to do it short. I hated it there. And but but sometimes my parents were rural followers and they wanted me to go there. So I began doing what comes to very natural to seven years and every day when the bus again, I was going to fall out to the bathroom about not wanting to go. And I did that for six weeks. And finally, my mother came in and said, OK, we are finding you a way to go to school with everyone else. Wow. So you you went to that school for two years? Um, yeah, I got in first grade there. The very first of our second grade. Wow. And that was the time where it wasn't really second grade. They were older kids. And then there were kids who did not be able to have any physical disability about behavioral issues. So do you think that early experience shaped you a little bit? It shaped my whole life. Really? Because I even though I was only seven and I didn't really know what I was doing, except following what I wanted. It shaped how it's verified that I always need to listen to myself and make decisions that may go against other people, but know that I trust what I need to do is the best for me. And that's important because, again, we're talking about self love. You have to love yourself enough to trust yourself.  You know, especially when you get to be an adult. Now it's different for parents and we'll talk about that. And for parents who are listening, what advice would you give them? Let's say if they have a child with CP or any other disability. Say they're seven like you were in today's day and age. What do you think they might be struggling with and some tips of what they can do? I would recommend it and I'm a mother. So I know how hard it's to give me to really listen to your child. Because it was out the money. My mom was listening to me and pulled me out of it to do all. But had I not done that, I think something within me would die. And that sounds very dramatic. But I think that by doing that, it gave me the courage I needed for a whole life of challenges and trying to figure out what was the best for me. Because as parents, our ultimate mission is to teach our kids to listen and make the decision on what's the best for them. Do you think that's harder for parents who have children with disabilities? Yes, yes, yes. I think it's very hard. And I saw my dad struggle with that a little more than my mom. Like he did not want me leaving. That's a good one, because he was scared that I wouldn't get what I needed. And then that's important. I'm 16 and I'm on a drive. And he was scared about that, but he was the one taking me out and, you know, so, yeah, I think that it's really hard. We get to activate it, but it's similar with disabilities and more vulnerable. So in living in like with the vulnerable one up and then you have 100 years of vulnerability, which again, it's why you really need to do it. Then they're in the resolve in your children of listening to themselves. Is there anything that people can do at home? Like, you know how we're all at home now and some people might have more time than they did before because they don't have to go outside of the house for work, you know, if there's ways that people want to practice self-love or a simple exercise that a parent can do with their child, what do you do with your son? When my son, it's more the moment than where I catch him saying something where he doubts himself. And then I use it as an opportunity. By teaching, by teaching opportunity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, but in terms of having kids with self-love, I would say. We're kids, particularly, that it's probably really good. And that's in my mind because I'm reading Judith's humans autobiography.  Can you remind our audience who she is, the trouble that she is? She, we think Crick Camp. Judy is in Crick Camp, but she, and I could be wrong about that. But I think I might, that she was the former kind of health and human services under Bill Clinton. I don't know. I could be wrong about that. But anyway, Judy is a great advocate. Who acquired polio at a very young age and grew up in the 1950s using a wheelchair. And at the beginning of her book talks about being a little kid. And they thought, oh my gosh, children with disabilities need to read it. So be read it by their parents so that they know they're not alone. And so that they know that saying it gets better really does happen, that you get through the hard times of being a kid and you can grow up to have all these situations and do all these wonderful things. Yeah, that's a great story. Now, didn't she she was a traveler because didn't she participate in like sit-ins to? Yeah, she was in syndrome at the age. No, it gives them back to even before ADA. To naming 70s, that I can't think of the proper name of the law, but it helped begin the children's rights and the employment, the discrimination of people with disabilities. Wow. Yep, she's incredible. Yeah. So what what part of the book, that beginning part of the book, what did it say that really touched you? Um, we just said that every day that she began Cindy Doc about she grew up in Brooklyn and going down the century to her friend's house, but she couldn't get up the stairs. So all she could do is all in the sidewalk, you know, hey, can someone come out and play? Wow. So. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's even though we've come some way, there's still a lot, lot to do as far as accessibility and just just that one topic alone. Right. But and I know you a little bit so I could tell people that you're an author of a book. It's a fantastic book. I suggest that they buy it and read it. And in your book, you talk about how you always didn't accept your disability. Is that the right way that you would describe? Right. Because again, I grew up in a different time. So even though I had some boys of experience, I was also often the only one throughout my childhood with a disability. Me too. So I was always in the different one. So I would say, looking back now, that it wasn't so much accepting my disability, but accepting being different and being OK with being different.  Did you ever try to and I know for you, it might be a little harder to do this, but to hide that you had a disability?  I mean, did you ever try to hide it or minimize it? And if so, what did you do? Well, I think I have slides and do the work I didn't know I was doing. But the time that I the time they were trying to hide it. And they left it. That's now what I would go out with my friends when I was in my 20s, go out to your bar and I would meet a guy and I would bear it. And they say that now that I will like try not to move that much, it would survive in the bar. So he couldn't be that my accent. So those were the times and because dating and relationship was by far the hardest challenge of living with the disability that I encountered. What what are some of the hurdles that you came across when you started dating?  And by that, I mean it's much like we're dealing with racism. It's a belief in society that because of the very presence of your disability, you are then looked as inferior in the realm of dating and relationships. Wow. And we we don't talk about that. It's a society. No, I mean, did did anybody talk to you about it? Like as you started getting older, like your parents or your brothers or maybe a friend, did you talk about, hey, you're getting older.  You want it. You want to date. It's a natural thing to want to do, whether you have a disability or not. It doesn't matter, right? Well, no, no, no. To this episode of CP Conversations with your host, Nicole Luongo, brought to you by cerebral palsy conference.org. Today, I will be talking to my friend, Daryl Perry. Daryl is a brand building certified personal trainer, a habit based nutrition coach, a community manager and a podcaster who just happens to have cerebral palsy. Daryl believes the most important relationship you'll ever have is the relationship you have with yourself. He uses the fitness and weight loss industries as his playground to show you how to develop genuine confidence and happiness while getting lasting results. For more information, check out yourlevelfitness.com and Daryl Perry.com. And now I get to talk to my good friend, Daryl. What's up, Daryl? It's it's another just another day in paradise, Nicole. Just just staying busy and doing the things. How have you been? I'm good and where is paradise for you so our viewers know where you're. Let's see, paradise for me right now. We don't have as much snow outside, so I'm going to say I'm going to say down in Florida, that's paradise for you. But where do you where do you live? I live outside of Cincinnati, so just kind of Midwestern. OK, so I'm in Florida now. Did you get some of that snow and all that stuff that's going on? We got like the the outside edge of it. We didn't get a ton. But yes, I remember that you live in Florida and you know, like that's where I would want to be right now, because it's a little chilly here right now.  It's funny you say that because it's going to be like in the forties. Oh, you guys can. And it's never it's only like once a year, twice a year. So I actually have been in cold weather. I just don't my body does not react well. I just can't get warm. I just don't like it. So I will that I understand. And I know because my my in-laws all live down in Florida. And I know my brother-in-law, who coaches soccer, he says, whenever the temperatures get down into the sixties, you start seeing people in sweatshirts and drinking hot chocolate. Like they just they're not acclimated to cooler temperatures down. Exactly. I'm in South Florida. Where where what part are they in? He well, I'll tell you this used to be up. This used to be up by Tampa. This was in like this, but they live now. I want to say just outside of Jupiter, so probably not. OK, wow, I didn't know that.  All right. Yeah. So the last time I talked to you was when you had me on your podcast. Thank you very much a couple of years ago. And I wanted to just catch up with you and I want to see you're doing so many different things now. And I wanted to just show people what is possible. When they have CP or if their child has CP. And I know that you are a personal trainer. And what I was wondering is how did you land in that field? And was it difficult having CP and trying to go through? Because don't you have to go through like certifications and all sorts of stuff? Well, so a couple of things, what really kind of got me into this and this is going to I mean, everybody listening will be able to probably relate to this as I had a really good orthopedic and a really good physical therapist that put me on kind of a my therapy and more or less hard of her size. And it was a very encouraging sort of environment. This one is probably 12 and 13 years old. And this just kind of laid the foundation for it. So what kind of got me interested in exercise was was my orthopedic. Now, as far as becoming a trainer, the certifications there, I mean, there it's it's basically kind of like your personal training certification, I would say it's kind of like any college level course, maybe a one to 200 level course where it does take some time if you're going through itself, which is what I did. But it takes like four to six months to get that certification. The hard part, at least when I first broke in a decade ago, was when I was certified is that you know, having the Internet kind of like it is right now, you can showcase and build your portfolio ahead of time. You know what it's like being an individual that has CP going into physical building and saying, hey, I'm here to apply for this job. And you're kind of digging yourself out of the hole before you even start talking. So I know that's, you know, it's it's it's still a little bit more difficult for those of us that have CP or similar similar disabilities, but like it was just seemed much more difficult at the time because you didn't have really online portfolios. We're just kind of starting back then. What was the most difficult part for you? Was it was there anything physically that was difficult? I will say certification. So as far as getting the certifications, no, what kept me out of really doing my own thing as a trainer was I was terrified to teach people how to do squats because my form is not like it's I basically do everything wrong. So it was kind of this whole mindset of like a thought process of, OK, well, if I can't do this exercise 100 percent perfect, how am I going to be able to teach somebody else? But all you do, and this is what our buddy Sam would tell you as well, is like you just learn how to cue your your clients through the exercise. And, you know, for anybody that wants to be a fitness professional, because the cool thing is there are quite a few of us now. If you're interested in this stuff, like just learn the learn the techniques. You don't necessarily have to be able to do them. Yes, it's nice if you can. But if you can't, you can still be an effective coach and trainer. But that was that was difficult because some of the a lot of the moves I have to modify for my own use. Yes, yeah. So when I'm teaching others, it's you know, it's it's good for program design, because like I know all the modifications. But if I'm trying to show them the basic move, it's it's definitely pretty challenging for sure. And when you got started, was that what you used to do classes at the local United Terrible Palsy where you live? So the cool thing like so I got this certification back in 2011. I wasn't really sure I was working a desk job at the time. And I was kind of like I wanted I always wanted to be certified. I didn't know what I was going to do with it. And then a couple years later, we just happened to have a UCP down the street. And I went and I got in touch with the program coordinator.  Now, at the time, I'm like, well, I'm not a physical therapist. I don't know how any of this works. But you find out that they I mean, they were doing a lot of activity and enrichment activities, and that's kind of basically what this was. So, you know, staff would kind of come in there and supervise and then we would have groups in some cases upwards of like 16 to 20 individuals. And the cool thing is if you're a fitness instructor like this was the energy that you would feel in this class was amazing because see a lot of these participants were nonverbal, but they have other ways of communicating. And as a group, as a fitness instructor, you feed off of the energy. Now, also as a fitness instructor, one of the best skills that you can have is being able to adapt to the room. A lot of times when people start, we'll have their program written out. This is what we want to go through. This is the routine. If we're going to use music, this is what we're going to use. And you couldn't do that with this with this group. Like I would come in first couple of times, I had something right now. And then after that, it was kind of like, OK, well, we're going to do. We're going to do a full warm up. But literally how you guys are responding to me in some cases, exercise to exercise is going to determine where we go. So it was it was always it was something I wanted to do once I got certified as I wanted to do the adaptive programs. And then when I went in and did this group, like it was probably it was the best hands on experience that I had. And I enjoyed it. I did that for about 15 months, even a little bit after the time that I stopped working for that particular company that I was with that was close by. But yeah, it was it was a cool experience for sure. You know what I love about that story, Darryl, is that you literally adapted your coaching style to your audience. And anyone, any good coach is going to do that. And for you, did that cause you were just starting out? Was it stressful at all to try to?  But the only way that you get better at all is by practicing.  But but no, it was it was great. And I mean, there were a few of them that I that I really, really, you know, like it was kind of the highlight of their week when I would come in and oh, yeah, and they made crafts and stuff for me for Christmas. It was so cool. So yeah, that's the best feeling. I used to volunteer with kids. So I know exactly what you can't beat that feeling at all. And I'm sure I'm sure that they really bonded with you. Not only because, you know, you do have CP and you don't see that. Now you're saying that we're seeing that more in the fitness industry. And that's wonderful. So I just think that that's great that you started out that way. And then like you have like five jobs, even when I just read community manager, personal trainer, you know, podcaster, how do you do balance all these things? And do you have a favorite out of all of those? So I'm really fortunate where the work I do like my job. And that's not even because I have a full time job that I do as well. That's that's in marketing and I'm part of a marketing team. We do a lot of the execution for like emails and messaging. We also do some strategy and stuff. And we work with I'm with well, it was Teespring, it's now spring. We just literally just did a rebrand today. And but I'm fortunate because the company that I work with is that they're very encouraging of, you know, when you're when you're when you're working for them, you're working for them. But when you're off the clock, they want you to pursue all the other things that you do. So, you know, my job and my stuff that I do during the day prepares me for the stuff I do outside of working hours, the stuff I do outside of working hours is kind of like my chance to to test and try things. So like when I go in and like, hey, why don't we because my job is actually part of my job is trying to teach content creators how to design and then sell their merchandise. So like things that I try on my own. Yeah, is that's that's actually where I'll go in and say, OK, why don't we why don't we suggest doing this? And so yeah, I'm fortunate to where everything kind of blends. But it's it's it's busy for sure. And I live by my calendar. I have a calendar link that basically has all my stuff connected. And if if there's an open time on there and you book a time on it, I will look at my calendar that day and I'll be like, OK, I've got a call with Nicole here in two hours. We're going to be talking for 45 minutes. Awesome. Here we go. So we made a spot for me. So I'm thankful because I know how not busy you are. And I wanted to to see if you like do does anyone ever ask you about getting into the industry and people with disabilities, do they want to want to try to do that? Yeah, yeah. So I mean, really, and the cool thing is with all the stuff I do. So like with with fitness, with podcasting, with marketing, I'm I definitely will I like to because I've been to get to this point. I really, really had to hustle and try and and follow my face a number of times over the course of about, you know, five to seven years. So anybody that I can talk to that wants to do any of these things, like if I can figure out a way for them to do it in months, what took me years to figure out, I'm always happy to do it. And I actually think anybody that has CP that wants to become a personal trainer, absolutely do it because one thing that that trainers are always trying to do is to set themselves apart and just by design. I mean, people will pay attention to you when you're working out. If you're somebody interested in fitness and you have CP, you know, you you've probably experienced this. Now it's a there's two sides of it because you're going to get the attention that most trainers are really trying to get. But by the same token, if you're going to end up trying to be an employee at a studio, unless you have a really good relationship with somebody already, you're probably just going to end up honestly being the mascot. You may or may not get the same opportunities as other trainers. So if you're if you're looking at becoming a trainer and getting a job at a gym or a studio, you have to have really, really good relationships with your owners and your managers beforehand. Because otherwise you can get into something where you kind of get stuck. I've been fortunate. The studios that I worked with were were very progressive. The owners were very open minded. One guy even said he's like, look, you're here because you have you have the disability like you're different than the other trainers I have. You bring somebody else something else here. And then the other and so and that was that guy was he was over in the metro area or close to metro area in Cincinnati. And then I worked for another studio owner here on on the Kentucky side where I live. And, you know, kind of the same thing. Like, you know, she and I just had a really similar philosophy on things. We would talk a lot about, you know, like program design and stuff. But I do a lot more on the habit based nutrition stuff. And I am a trainer as well. So we kind of had a nice rapport and it literally was like I was talking to her one day and I was like, you know, I think I want to get back into training and within a couple of weeks, like, you know, I was back there. I had some clients that that some hold over clients that she had. I had some other people that I was bringing in. So but yeah, I mean, it's it's a great field for somebody to get into. I just I would recommend thinking of what you're wanting this to be a big picture. Like if you're wanting to just become part of a facility, I would build those relations first if you're wanting to do this where like you are running your own business, which is actually what I would recommend. Just start thinking of what is setting you apart besides just having CP. And if you do that, especially in the landscape we live in now, well, you know, so much of this is on Zoom.  I mean, it's really pretty cool. So what does that you part aside from CP as a trainer, like, are you going to make me if I train with Daryl Perry, am I going to be doing 9000 four piece? And are you going to scream at me like? So here's where. So this is this is this is actually and you set that up perfectly like, you know, kind of the stereotype that most trainers go for is like the really, really hardcore workouts and they make you feel it like in the next morning or whatever. Or, you know, we want to get these results like I want to lose X amount of pounds and however many weeks or months or whatever. And for me, I I really I have a fundamental belief for pretty much everybody that has ever tried to lose weight, that is kind of always on or off the diets or on and off these programs is that they're trying to do much too quickly. And I just have a hunch that if we started with the really basic stuff from a foundational level and did that consistently, that the vast majority of people that have not been able to be consistent and have been able to get the results that they're looking for would be successful. So for me, I'm I'm the foundations guy. Now I have the time that when I work with clients, either if I'm doing a coaching call where we're just kind of talking about goals and execution and how that's going or if I'm doing a what's well now a virtual training session, you know, that's my one on one time. But what really always kind of hurt to me, but when I was training at the studio and even when I worked at the gym in college, I was just a staff member. They're not really a trainer is like you would see these trainers that you'd see your clients maybe a couple hours a week. And now and that was it. I mean, you might like email them every so often and then later you might text them.  I mean, I'll get somebody, you know, one of the coolest things when you are like a trainer and you're known for being in the fitness space, I'll get questions from people like random DMs on Instagram and somebody will be like, what do you think about intermittent fasting? So what I'll do is I'll go into my podcast archive and I'll just type everyone to Spotify type my name and fasting and like three episodes come up and I'll be like, here, listen to this, this and this. And so then you have somebody that really doesn't even know you except for this one question they asked and you just gave them like 60 to 90 minutes of content that they can just like listen to and hopefully find the answer that they're looking for. So, so yeah, it's yeah. So, but that's, that's what sets me different is I'm the foundational guy and when we have a topic, I can be, I can be with you almost 24 seven and the most non creepy way possible. Well, you bring up an excellent point because the foundation, foundation, it is important just with anything in life and people nowadays, especially they just want a quick fix. And when it comes to losing weight really with anything in life, there really aren't any quick fixes. Otherwise, if there were quick fixes, we all would have what we want in in the snap of a finger. Well, and so that's a, and this is a question I have for you because I think now being patient and really being able to work through the process of something to me is almost like, like it's a desirable skill that most people don't have.  I mean, do you think like kind of on the scale of patients? Like we've kind of gone the other way where everything is immediate and like most people aren't patient about anything. Yes, I do. I mean, actually that's one of the things that sets me apart because I don't quit. Yeah. You know, most people, they try something once, they try it twice. It's too hard. They don't know how to do it. They don't, they quit. And if you're going to achieve anything, you have to have longevity and there's nothing wrong with quitting. If you, you know, sometimes you have a passion or you have an interest in something and you try it and maybe then you realize, well, I don't like this. It's not making me happy or, you know, whatever you wanted to get from it, I'm all for that.  But for the purposes of what you do, which, which I need you to coach me, you know, building a brand and all that. I mean, I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't even know, you know, how I've lasted, but it's because I have a lot of perseverance. It's, so two things that, that you made me think of right there that I think are huge, which is one, you know, and when CP, most of us have a routine that we have to go through in the morning just to be able to move around. Like otherwise we're going to be really stiff. We're going to be really sore by just trying to go throughout the day. So like we get used to just having to do this mundane thing over and over every day, because if we don't do it, we're not going to be as mobile as we would be otherwise. And I think, you know, what I figured out as far as like building a brand, you're, you're absolutely right. Like you just, you stick, you stick with a big picture thing, which is I have this, I have this, this, this name and this idea that I really want to build and you get super clear on what you want your brand to be. And you stick to that. Now, all the stuff that's going to lead you to get to where you think you want to go with that, that stuff you got to be flexible with.  Because like, I mean, it just doesn't make sense. If so, like I start, I, I incorporate your level of fitness in 2014. I had an idea on what I wanted to do, but like the things that I was trying to do 2017, 2018, a lot of those had nothing to do with what I wanted to do back in 2014. So like, you know, if I was to get upset, which we all do when we first start something, because something doesn't work out the way that we think it should, even though we've never done it before. Like it just doesn't make a lot of sense. But if you're able to just kind of like hang in there and like just test things and figure it out, you know, I think anybody that's ever found something that's worked for them, there have been, you'll find people that have maybe had one or two successes. They've had like a ton of other things that they've tried. Most of them are not abysmal failures. I think the only time somebody really truly fails is if they physically are unable for whatever reason to get up and do what it is they're trying to do. Otherwise, like you really are just kind of learning from something, but you just you have to be able to separate what the outside world might think of you versus how you view yourself, which can be really tough. But I mean, I think the group of folks that you and I are associated with and like kind of what having CP does to you when you're because you have to adapt and conquer everything in life. Like I think it sets you up because like by the time you become an adult, you're like, OK, so I can do something. It may not work out the way that I want it to. But like what's the risk? I mean, I've had people looking at me and making assumptions my entire life. Like what does this matter if this doesn't go right?  And I think one thing for me and this is anybody that's listening, you know, we talked about podcasting and I had the idea to do a podcast. I was just going to use the anchor app, the whole thing on your phone, where you basically recording voice memos. And like I got in my head for for at least six months and I just didn't do anything. And then I put out one episode. I had this perfect format that I wanted. I'm going to do content every day. It's just some quick tips. And then for six weeks in my head, nothing was good enough to do a second episode.  I'm going to do one episode a day for a month and see what happens. And at the time, the app would only record three minute segments at a time. And you'd have to string everything together. So my whole thing was I didn't want to string anything together. So I'm just going to do like a three minute podcast episode. Super short. Some of them wanted to be in my closer to five or six, but most of them were pretty short. And I got to like day 27 and then I took a break. But I didn't get down on myself because I was like, well, I've gone through this whole thing and I started to get into the habit of doing a podcast. That's what I wanted to do. So I took like a day or two off and then I put three episodes out in one day. So I'm like, OK, this taught me what it needed to teach me. And from that point forward with content creation, like I just I basically just I pay attention to my audience. And I know kind of like because because I'm paying attention and because I'm listening to them like I have an idea of what kind of messages that they're going to relate to, but like I'm always getting feedback from them. There's things that I think is would be helpful or hilarious or whatever. And they're kind of like, yeah, no. And there's other things I'm like, I don't know about this, but let's just put it out and it really resonates with people. So like I think for all of this, it's just really getting comfortable with putting yourself out there and realize like, you know, you're not feeling yours trying stuff out. Yeah, I love that. I really do because even though when I have an idea or something that I want to do, if you know me a little bit so you know that nothing really stops me, but I did want to start a podcast like four years ago and I couldn't figure out like some of the software and I got I bought a microphone and I really did try, but I was like, you know what? I am not you need to have I really was. I was confused for that part. So I didn't I didn't want to because I didn't have anybody to go to. And then my mother passed away. And so, you know, I put it on the back burner so I could relate when you say, you know, you had all these ideas and then time went by because make fear of whatever got into your mindset and podcasting podcasting is an interesting one because there's so much out there about like the top 10 pieces of equipment you need and like here's what you need to get started. And then there's this there's this little app that's owned by Spotify that is how I mean anchors how I record everything. And it's just like you record and you put it out and it's it's complete because I did that that was part of the reason I didn't get a podcast started this because I'm like, OK, I'm going to need this kind of mic.  Why do I need one?  I don't say, yeah. And they'll they'll tell them they'll start talking podcast jargon. And I'm like, that's not me. Like, what kind of podcaster are you? And I'll be like, well, I've put out this many episodes since I had about like 1200 episodes since January. Oh, that's like, yeah, congratulations. Well, and see that's when did you start it? When did you start it? January 4th, 2018. And what's the what's the focus of it? So it so the focus initially was I'm just going to do short, practical, fitness related things and motivational things every day. And the idea was off the start was that I wanted people to be able to just kind of passively listen to me again. Like they'll be able to hear from me when I'm not around. So that so that was kind of the idea from the start. It was originally called the almost daily podcast. And then I started doing those. And then I was like, well, what if I want to talk about other things besides fitness and mindset, what if I want to start talking about marketing a little bit? Because at the time I was I was doing some marketing consulting.  And it was funny because I would go to these networking events. And this is this is where it really clicked with me that, you know, because you whenever you do something at first, you're kind of like, OK, well, you know, what's going to be the barometer of me being a success and like being somebody that actually knows this. And I remember I was at a DNI meeting and they're like, so what what makes you think you can talk about podcasts? And I said that I had done so many episodes and X amount of time. And like some people were kind of looked at that like, well, you know, you don't have any production behind it. But other people are like, holy crap, how do you do that? So I mean, from that, that's kind of been my whole thing with podcasting. But I started with those solo episodes. And at first I didn't want to do interviews because like, you know, how especially the first time you talk to somebody and if you're not doing it on video, you can't pick up on the cues. And I was so afraid that I was going to like interrupt people and talk over them and all that. But like what happened is I just told my friend, I was like, hey, you know, I'd like to try and interview like, let's see how it goes. So she and I did one, went OK. And then the second one I did was another friend of mine.  But like your intent has to be it can't always be like what's in it for me. And I was connected with his with actually his trainer at the time on Instagram and he was putting something up like it's like, hey. Who is Gary Vaynerchuk for the people listening? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, Gary Vaynerchuk. If you're Gary V is somebody that is a he he runs a marketing agency. He's been putting content out on the internet forever. So if you're if you're into like social media marketing, he's he's actually a really, really good one to follow. He has a podcast where he puts all these keynotes out. He has some books. His books were actually very influential in me switching from what I was in before with sales to like actually finally getting into marketing and making some traction with it.  Like if you want to come on to the podcast and talk about that would be awesome. And he's like, he responds back like within 10 minutes. He's like, yeah, man, I'd love to come on. He's like, can we just talk about whatever you want? And it's like, it's stop stop. Yeah. Gary Vaynerchuk. Not not. But Gary, but his trainer, his trainer. OK, I want to make sure everybody understood that I was like, I'm sorry. Let's clarify there. But yeah. Oh, yeah. So like so anyway. So this guy, so Jordan Syed, he was like, yeah, man, he's like, I would love to come on. And we just talked about anything. But that's still awesome. But I literally because at this time, I'm like, I don't know about these interviews and I remember I put my phone down and I'm like, OK, this is about to get really serious. I better like, you know, figure out what it is I'm going to do. And I remember again, like the nerves don't really go away. But I interviewed him. It was it was a it was a nice chat. It was I was nervous pretty much the entire time. But like after that. Well, that puts an end, this puts an end to this edition of Able Than An Air. We would like to thank our sponsor, Green Mountain Support Services and Washington County Mental Health for Green Mountain Support Services, especially for letting us show CP conversations. For more information on CP conversations, the podcast, you can go to www. GMSSI.org or you can learn more of CP Compositions podcast at Cerebral Palsy. That's that's C-E-R-E-B-R-A-L-P-A-L-S-Y conference.org. So that's CerebralPalsyConference.org. And the host's name is Nicole Luongo. She's an advocate with Cerebral Palsy. And she helps out Green Mountain Support Services. So for more information on Green Mountain Support Services as well, you can go to www.gmssi.org. This puts an end to this edition of Able Than An Air. I am Lauren Seiler. He's not here today, but see you next time. Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, ala Israel. Major media sponsors for Able Than An Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisabronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor FL and Spotify.