Amir. Awesome all right so let me do a quick introduction and then we'll go ahead and start okay. Sure thing, sure thing. All right hi everybody welcome welcome for everyone who's joining us today my name's Habiba from the trekking pals and today I'm joined by Fahad Fouad an influencer from Tanzania and the wildlife photographer and the last few weeks I've been doing live streams on my Instagram after my one month long trip in Tanzania and I've been bringing people to share their experience about traveling in East Africa in general and traveling in Tanzania in particular and so today Fahad is going to be sharing his experience as a local in Tanzania and he's going to be sharing with us some tips about traveling to Tanzania. Fahad why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself what are some of the things that you do take it from there. Thank you basically my name is Fahad Fahad Fouad and I'm a Tanzanian travel influencer but also travel photographer and wildlife photographer but also among the directors in a platform called Anzip Tanzania which focuses more in promoting domestic tourism in Tanzania as we all know after COVID and even before COVID people never actually kind of valued traveling within you know their countries and what Anzip did was try to create the beauty of actually exploring how beautiful our country is in Tanzania and we've done it for four years and we're continuing to give experiences for Tanzanians within Tanzania but also now we have grown to apply to a point that we are also hosting foreigners to actually come and explore how beautiful and gorgeous Tanzania is and apart from that I'm really excited to be part of this live with you Habiba and I hope that we are gonna get to know a little bit about Tanzania but also get to connect and get to see how you know maybe if people have questions and if people have questions about Tanzania they should drop them over and we'll definitely answer and get back to everyone who will be inquiring awesome you know Fahad this is very exciting for me because I think Tanzania is now one of my favorite countries in Africa and just being able to talk about it brings a lot of beautiful memories so so that's exciting memories brilliant brilliant Fahad how did your love of you know just being outside and traveling and doing what you're doing where did it start okay so basically I have a background in the media industry whereby I started off as a photographer for corporate events and just just like any other photographer but then it turned out that I realized that most of what the western media was showing about my country wasn't really not really my country but generally in Africa was not what Africa really presented itself out there and also I figured that as a photographer I had a big role to play rather than just you know creating memories for people but also create awareness about how beautiful my country is and I got a privilege and a chance to actually got to explore a little bit a small part of Tanzania and I realized okay this is where my heart is and this is where I'll start my journey and my journey started by just trying to travel and capture a beautiful sunrise and beautiful sunset and a beautiful forest and a beautiful lake and it turned out to be a career and here we are now four years starting five years you know exploring how beautiful and truly unforgettable as you're saying you have so many beautiful memories about Tanzania and it's because of how unforgettable experiences that you get once you're in Tanzania and who am I you know just like you you know you you you you traveled in Tanzania you fell in love with it now you can imagine me living in it living in Tanzania how beautiful it is and being privileged to actually be be a content creator that means I have a huge responsibility to actually showcase to the world of how beautiful my country is so basically that's how we started and we continue showing you guys and I'm glad that we definitely connected out of the content that we get to share on the Instagram is probably that what caught your attention to actually follow me and probably even get to know a little bit more about Tanzania maybe beyond what you knew when you came to visit in Tanzania and I'm glad we we got into this call today absolutely I think this is fine and I've been watching some of your wildlife photography it's it's pretty impressive because I think there are a lot of things that you can do in Tanzania as a first time visitor but nothing beats experiencing and seeing the wildlife up close in in some of the not true true so it's very rich it's very rich in wildlife here yeah so let's so let's say um if I had someone who's coming to Tanzania for the first time maybe also it's their first time in Africa or East Africa what are some of the places that you highly recommend to to visit okay so Tanzania can be actually very vast and very broad it's a very huge country and it being a huge country obviously offers a lot of things to see and most of the people would think maybe if you talk about Tanzania you only talk about Kilimanjaro mountain which I believe you have tracked it um Serengeti being the largest national park one among the the large national parks in Tanzania but also the world but also the Zanzibar the blue and white Zanzibar but really Tanzania is not only about those three things and that's the reason we started a platform calling it unzipped Tanzania meaning that opening up to Tanzania and showcasing more beautiful places and hidden gems of Tanzania so that people can actually get to see beyond the Kilimanjaro Zanzibar and Serengeti so if ever a person asks me what they really should come to to see in Tanzania I will definitely first want to question about their interest you know in travel because if it's if you're an adventurous person then we have adventurous things if you're a beach kind of person then we have the beaches if you love to trek and hiking and that means Kilimanjaro or Dono Lingai, Mount Meru these places and these mountains and if it's a person who loves afar we have over I think over 18 different beautiful national parks with different scenic environments that offers different you know experiences so I will definitely first want to know on what is the first thing but I obviously I have some of my favorite places that I would I'd wake up in any day I would pack my bags and go there but definitely because it's not about me it's about the person that wants to come and experience so I'll definitely want to know what they want to experience but also take them through a little bit more about the other destinations and things that they can experience in Tanzania rather than just the normal ones that are known from the international medias you know and what are some of your favorite places in Tanzania that you would go to maybe some off the okay so I'll start with the big ones the commonly known ones and then I'll try and express the diverse of why I love them and the first one obviously is Serengeti National Park with Serengeti means the endless plains this place from the sunrise when it rises out of the horizon and you overlook at how beautiful the sunrise is and you get to see the hot air balloons flying above the sky to when the sun sets and you start seeing the big hippos coming out of the hippo pools and going out to to graze throughout the whole night it's just mind-blowing it's like you're watching a Marvel movie throughout the whole day you know and being a content creator and and an artist we have this look out of things and we get probably to to just to just to see more beauty than a normal person so I truly love if anybody ever actually where I would rather be at any given time definitely Serengeti is going to be one among the places and the reason Serengeti is because it being a national park has a lot of diverse from the things from from the biodiversity that is found within the national park that means we have the big five within the national park obviously you know it will take you more than a couple of days to actually see the big five but it's one among the places whereby in Africa and probably the world with the for instance in among Africa and probably the world we have the highest number of lions you know so if you're looking forward to get to see the old big five because obviously right now I think this year they announced the new big five so if you're into seeing the big five meaning the rhino the elephants the buffalo the leopard and what else what else did I leave and there's one more remaining the rhino rhino elephant leopard buffalos what else so yes okay so there's a leopard there's a lion there's a rhino and there's a buffalo and what else got it the elephant the elephant the elephant's done the elephant's done I see people are only commenting no giraffe is not on the big five giraffe is actually a national animal symbol in Tanzania oh it's just giving my one too no not the hippo I want I want I want people to actually guess right now so obviously yeah sorry I was saying when I was in when I was in Tanzania we spent eight days on the safari and I was really trying to see all of the big fives but we didn't get to see the rhino it was really across any rhino which places did you visit we covered the the north serengeti central the Gorongoro and what else uh how and here it's around here beautiful places that you visited and then this is the other thing about you know planning your safari at least you have to know in the back of your head what you want to expect to see so if you want to see the big five then there are parts you don't obviously see them easily once you're in serengeti the places that you could also see the rest of other big five for instance for the rhinos which you missed out after staying for eight days safari you could have gone to a national park that is called the Komaze national park then you could easily see the rhinos you know every single day you would see a rhino in there in that national park so I feel like more information has to be out there so that people can actually get access to it and get to see and hear about this these uh these animals and obviously people have already answered we were correct it was a lion leopard a zebra rhino and a buffalo there's no giraffe guys yeah so if another place that I really love is um I love the mountains and obviously when you speak of the mountains there are two things there's either for the adrenaline junky people who are by the very feet and they can conquer big mountains like Mount Kilimanjaro but obviously there are other parts you know they're hidden beautiful parts of the mountains that obviously are not given the media attention but also they're not really well known you know it's actually for the people that usually go off track you know to actually look for these places and then that's when you come to discover the hidden gems you know that I found in Tanzania and one of the places that I really found my soul because for me traveling is connecting to myself and every time I travel I get to have this peace of mind that you know it's out of this world you know it's like you're in a movie you know in a big screen and it's just you and the reality over there so one of the places that I really truly love is called Mgeta it's a hidden place within the Morogoro region and I would say any day any time this place is out of this world out of its beauty but another thing if it's a person who loves the beaches then obviously the beach destination I wouldn't recommend the Zanzibar I would recommend mafia island and I have couple mafia island yes and I have couple of reasons to why I would recommend mafia and not Zanzibar so reason number one for for those people who really love the beach and they love the beach with the silence obviously Tanzania has a as a diverse of cultural backgrounds which we have over 124 different cultural backgrounds and being in the coastal region itself we have the cost of people that their culture and their tradition is kind of the same from Zanzibar, Kiloa, Intwara and mafia island but each destination offers a different variety of you know energy and adventure and beauty of how things are and mafia being one of them is is very is a small island it's not as populated as Zanzibar its beaches obviously are not so touristic as the Zanzibar beaches the way they are obviously if you have been to Zanzibar you will know and you'll notice a lot of people by the beach exploring the beach and having fun about the beach and there's nothing wrong with that but then again for some people then especially for the introverts they are not into going to places that they have so much you know crowd of people and I would highly recommend mafia for those people who want but obviously for the things that you can do in mafia number one is you are going to swim with big whale sharks which are found only in mafia within within the east african coast I believe within Tanzania lists you cannot spot them in Zanzibar but you cannot spot them in Kiloa, Intwara or Bagamoya or Tanga but you can only spot them in mafia island and these are seasonal whale sharks which come to bless our country usually at the end till the beginning which starts their season starts from October until late January and then the whale shark season is over so mafia could be my third destination and obviously I think these are my three big destinations obviously I would I would definitely say Arusha Arusha and the reason Arusha is my hometown this is where I grew up I started my I didn't start my travel career in Arusha I started over in Dar es Salaam city but I feel like Arusha has got more to offer it is a city whereby it's very close to all these beautiful destinations that means you can go to Kilo Manjaro within 30 minutes you can go to Serangeti within six hours maybe um no no you can go to Kilo Manjaro within two hours you can go to Serangeti within five to six hours and you're blessed with so much within the city meaning that from the vegetation the mountains the people and the people have different cultural backgrounds from the Maasai from the Meru people from the Chaga people the Nyaturu people um the people from Mulu so Arusha itself being a city gives a lot of diverse and makes me love it and makes it a travel destination for everybody who loves it that's awesome Fahad some of these destinations I haven't even heard of like Mafia Island and Mugeta yeah um we have a bunch of comments here we have a comment from our friend here saying Mafia is great just swimmed with the whale shark today such a lifetime experience to me those who want to visit Mafia for whale shark is until March is that a is that a true fact Fahad yes it is a true fact but and and I said the end of January meaning that the heises they usually stay till probably late March you know okay yeah well hello everyone thanks for everyone who's joining us today I am joined today by Fahad Fouad travel influencer and wildlife photographer from Tanzania and we're talking about the beautiful country of Tanzania he's sharing some of his travel stories and great places in Tanzania all right so what else Fahad um so let's talk about uh maybe we can talk about safaris in Tanzania and okay what are some of the tips that you have for someone going for a first time safari how to go about planning uh you kind of broke I can't really hear you yeah let me know if you guys can still hear me um I was saying uh maybe we can talk about safaris in Tanzania and how to go about planning a safari for the first time uh let's say you are limited by time you have four days five days what are some of the national parks that are worth visiting are you guys still hearing us okay oops I think I just lost Fahad all right we'll give it a couple of minutes until he joins back and uh you if you guys have any questions feel free to share them here and we can tackle them in a little bit here oh network problem hakuna matata all right there he is hello hello hi I think we had some network problem can you hear me Fahad yeah network problems yes I can definitely hear you loud and clear okay perfect um so let's talk a little bit about safaris and the wildlife we talked about some of the national parks how do you go about planning and preparing for a safari and what are some of the tips that you have to share with you know with tourists coming for the first time just to make sure that they are well prepared for an adventure like this okay um for an international person or any person any day any time that they want to plan for a safari a list first of all you should you should have it in your mind that you need more than a day to actually do a safari yes you can do a safari in one day that to actually have a beautiful experience for a safari can actually even take two weeks or it can take a month but then again a list highly I would recommend highly highly if you are to do a safari a list do it for five days average five days five days you get to see a lot you'll get to experience a lot sometimes yes you will get to see everything in one day if you're lucky because again it's what mother nature blesses you to see so if you're only coming to see you can have a day and you can see a zebra you can see a gazelle you can see a lion if you're lucky you can see an elephant you can see anything in a day but if you're coming for a true african wildlife safari you know it's just beyond saying you know you can look at it on the tv but experiencing different moments being in different landscapes and in different places it's what makes that safari a unique thing and for me I would recommend five days and within five days as you're planning your safari a list get to know what is it that you're you really want to see okay again we're not going to speak about culture we're not going to speak about the landscape we're always going to speak about safari because it has a lot of things to experience and to explore and you know different activities and different destinations within Tanzania so if you're coming for safari I would recommend five days and then within those five days what you could actually do you could be you'll be able to actually go to different national parks so usually our safaris start from Arusha city the city of Arusha which is in the northern side of Tanzania but then again I'm saying all this in referral to if a person is only going for safari and safari in Tanzania is divided into multiple boundaries or destinations for instance we have the nothing circuit whereby in nothing circuit you'll find the Tarangera national park you'll find the manyara national park you'll find them Gorongoro crater you'll find them due to conservation area and you'll find the mighty Serengeti within the the northern circuit and then we also have the southern circuit whereby on the southern circuit you get to experience the Seleuze game reserve the Nyerere national park the Kumi national park you get to experience Ruaha national park and then there are other national parks like Mahale where they're popular for chimpanzees and we have a national park that is a flower or a floral national park which is called Ketulo national park this is called the aka for Ketulo national park is called the heavens garden this place is so beautiful it's like the Serengeti of flowers you know you go on a landscape it's a flat landscape with full of natural flowers growing over through March and blossoming and bringing different diverse and colors into you know into the landscape so saying all this now gives you an opportunity to at least know that now where do I start with being in a in a country where it has so much diverse right um and coming from Tanzania I would definitely obviously you have to know are you only going to be doing safari or you're going to be doing Kilimanjaro the mountains and safari or you're going to be doing beach and safari so once you know excuse me so once you know if you're going to be doing the safari and the beach then obviously I would recommend you being in the south and south and circuit whereby you will find the Ruaha national park the Mikumi national park the Seleuze game reserve and the Nyerere national park but also at the same time if you're going to if you're going to to experience the Kilimanjaro and the mountains meaning that the mountains are more located within the northern circuit that means after you summit the Mount Kilimanjaro the tallest freestanding mountain in the world then it's only fair if you also do national parks that are within the northern circuit that makes it you will start with the Arusha national park Terangiri national park um Manjaro national park Gorongoro crater due to conservation area and Serengeti so within the five days for instance if you're now doing the mountain which I believed you do you did the mountain Mount Kilimanjaro right yeah yeah we did climb Kilimanjaro so yes so obviously if you have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro that means you're within the northern circuit where you're within the premises of Kilimanjaro region Arusha region and you know the leg zone area whereby we get to share the ecosystem and the biodiversity of the national park within the Serengeti and uh and somebody else here reminded me in Komarzi national park for rhinos as I mentioned earlier there's a national park whereby you can sport rhinos very easily every single day you can be lucky enough to get to see rhinos it's called in Komarzi national park so now how do you plan your itinerary or your your days for safari is now depending again how many days you I think we're cutting off again all right guys can you can you still hear me okay I think I lost Fahed one more time I'm just going through the comments here man I'm local and never enjoy the mother nature tourism talk like this one absolutely Fahed has a lot of knowledge to share it's amazing I was just telling him that when we were in Tanzania I wanted to see all of the big five but we were having a hard time to find a rhino but if I knew about Komarzi national park I would have gone but it's sometimes you get a different perspective from locals two times in a year because as a tourist you only think about the the main attractions that are popular all right so let's see if we can get him back we lost you truly sorry my phone really gets busy sometimes I'm I'm sorry yes where were we you are telling us about your experience in Tanzania when I finish up yeah I was filling the gap waiting for you to join but talking about Komarzi I was saying that you know these are some of the parks that you don't pay attention to because most of people like you said they think about the plains of the Serengeti and that's the most popular national park and that's where all of the attention is so it's good to hear about these places that are not as popular yes and and that's basically what me together with my team and probably the rest of you know the ministry and other parts of you know of the Tanzania national park authority they're also trying to promote tourism of not only the Serengeti but also the other but obviously being in the Serengeti sometimes you can understand why people makes it more of a big deal and it's because of the ecosystem and the biodiversity that is found within the national park and I totally understand why everyone who comes to Tanzania they will live with an unforgettable memory and experience from Serengeti obviously they'll have beautiful experiences in other part of the national parks the Serengeti is what really truly wins people's heart most of the time yeah the the Serengeti is just incredible when I got back home sometimes I have to pinch myself and say was that even real it doesn't yeah I was going to ask you so obviously all of these national parks and conservation area they are bio diverse the government is probably putting some some work to make sure that they are maintained what are some of the things that we can do as tourists to make sure that we are responsible and we are being respectful to the land okay so rule number one trashy and trash out right so obviously once you enter the national parks or being even outside your home or even when you're inside your home it's just good to to protect your environment and keep your environment clean because once it is clean once it is protected that means it's also going to protect you in return and that goes now beyond when tourist visits visits our national parks in Tanzania and any other part of the world is to actually do not trash or litter once you're within the national park you know but then again there there has been more of now travelers who would travel with blows to speakers and I don't know why you'll be in mother nature and still have your bust music you know either in your car or have earphones you know sometimes it's very respectable to respect the environment or that you're within if you can just keep it quiet and keep it low you know and and to protect the animals is and the environment that they within the the animals is always to try and do not interfere with their well-being do not interfere with with the peaceful environment that they have that means if you go there and you start driving fast rushing from one point to another that means you're creating chaos within mother nature and once you create chaos within mother nature that means you're not respecting it and if you do not respect mother nature a lot of things can come out of it you know so obviously do not trash you will see a lot of tourists would eat will drink and throw outside their safari cars and I believe most of the tourist companies obviously try and and educate on how it is important to preserve and take care of the environment and but some people they're always just the old ones and they'll continue doing such things you know sure and also keeping your distance from wildlife usually if you are going in a vehicle with a guide I think that they do a pretty good job just telling you the do's and dance so what it's like I mean I know from from my experience would be in a vehicle with a guide and we will be basically just spending the whole time inside of the vehicle um yeah if I had can you switch on other types of safaris that include walking in the plains maybe with the park rangers or things like that what are the types of safaris that are available okay so obviously there's blue safari whereby it happens mostly in the Zanzibar and the coastal side whereby there you could be doing diving and get to see how beautiful the underwater world is and obviously there's walking safari that is found within the national parks and where by within the walking safaris mostly what you get to experience is it's just magical you know escaping the same sport where the king of the jungle is actually stepping it's different from actually the feeling and that's why I say once you do safari is not about seeing it's about experiencing so you can imagine for instance for those who are doing camping maybe you would camp and you could definitely hear animals passing outside your tent that's like you're in a very direct interactions with this while wilderness once you're doing your safari but obviously while doing walking safari you have your park ranger you have your guide and obviously you as a tourist you'll probably be in between these guys and while doing the safari obviously people think that safari vehicle but obviously once doing walking safari is a different safari experience that a person can actually embark to for instance they're kind of vegetation insects prints could be poop or feasts you know from animals you know that you cannot probably see and witness once you're in a big safari gym but once you're doing walking safari this is where you get back to experience you know for instance you would see probably a giraffe eating from an acacia tree but once you're within the car you can only be within the road you cannot step outside and even fill the acacia and as we all know the acacia trees have big thorns but the same time the giraffe can still eat from the acacia tree so you being able to do a walking safari that means you can actually go closer and get to see how the acacia tree can protect itself from you know other animals but also other vegetation and probably sometimes if you're lucky enough you could see prints from animals sometimes yes you can see an antelope you can see a lion but seeing a footprint and you walking through that footprint it's just you know it's like being in a Jurassic Park that's how a walking safari feels like all the time that's awesome that's really cool to do walking safari gives you a chance to see the inseam absolutely absolutely true true awesome so have you ever done walking safari before no i have not i've only done the jeep safari if you were asking me i thought you're yeah okay got you no but but walking obviously yeah go ahead no i was saying that a walking safari would be would be a great way to to explore because from the jeep you you only get to see that far and you can probably rely on your zoom lens but it's not as as exactly in close to the wildlife as being on the same for instance and then another thing about fascinating about walking safari is also getting to to learn the survival skills as we all know most of the people that are traveling probably are coming from the cities but now being in the wilderness that brings you and it takes you back to a memory lane whereby probably how our ancestors used to live in harmony with the wilderness until and and and how lucky we and privileged we are until today that we can still get to to witness how beautiful the wilderness is is because that obviously these guys were also doing a walking safari every day and i feel like the maasai people does walking safari every day because for instance we we didn't borrow borrow conservation area that is one among UNESCO world record heritage places and what makes it special and unique is the the living in harmony between the wilderness and the human and they get to interact you find a maasai man grazing his cattle and at the same time there's zebras and there's giraffes within cows and gods and ships and they live in peace and and and and just being them and sometimes witnessing that makes you feel like you would wish to be a maasai you know absolutely so talking talking about the the the maasai i know that there are a lot of tribes in Tanzania and as as a shuri for first time visitors you get to experience some some of that culture i know that there are some tours where you can hang out with with the maasai the toga hadzabi different tribes so tell us a little bit more true true true um so obviously as i said and mentioned Tanzania has a great diversity in culture and obviously as i mentioned the number over 124 different cultural diverse groups you can imagine now all of this or most of this very few of them still hold into their cultural ethics and still practice you know their cultural backgrounds is still dressed like how they're meant to dress and not dressing in t-shirts and stuff like that so one among or few among these cultural tribes are the maasai the hadzabi and there's one um in bulu my friend comes from that tribe um and and very few you know like who still practice in dresses up and they still use their language and they're kind of ignoring the globalization that is happening within the world you know and it's very beautiful also to get to see the diverse obviously coming from an international for instance for international tourists coming to get to see people that they still live in the wilderness and still dressing yes the da toga thank you mazige for for sharing and then the sundae there's so many other other cultural uh groups that still practice so obviously when tourists come to to visit Tanzania they get to witness this and apart from just the the tribes that are still wearing and dressing the same like how they used to wear uh 20 50 years ago but obviously without forgetting the swahili coastal people most of the people when they go to zanzibar they find like the swahili people or the people in zanzibar they could be you know intercultural people living in zanzibar but it's very unique from and very diverse coming from maybe Dar es Salaam or coming from Arusha after your safari and getting to see the lifestyle of the maasai and the colors these maasai dresses too and their homes and the the landscape that they live in and flying or driving or going all the way to the coastal side of zanzibar and getting to see people living in an old building it's like you're living in the centuries whereby buildings are very old you know people are still wearing white and you know african truans meaning the kanga and the muslims you know it's it's like you're living in a different country but still you're in tanzania and you get to experience a huge diverse you know from the maasai or the hadzabe and all the way to the swahili culture you know so i feel like if any person ever tries or ever plans to come and visit tanzania then one among the best to witness the cultural backgrounds and the cultural differences that are found in tanzania awesome i mean i know that zanzibar is a great place to go because like you said it's not just the beaches although that's what the majority of people go to zanzibar for but it's very rich you get to to learn about the the arab influence in the area and then the the people who live in it nice yes awesome yes and we have inherited a lot of of traditional backgrounds from the indians the the arab and the islam you know way of life in zanzibar but then again as i said if you travel all the way to arusha or to the to the wildest part of gorongoro conservation area and get to see the the way the maasai live in their lifestyle it's outstanding and mind-blowing to get to see the difference you know in lifestyle even not only in the lifestyle but also even the architecture you know from how the maasai people built their houses and homes and how you know the the swahili zanzibari people build up their homes awesome very cool this is this is really fun and exciting so i i know you've been going for 46 minutes but do you have anything else that you'd like to to share with our folks here maybe if anyone has a question they could ask us and i would definitely get to to answer them but all you know all is that i feel like 2022 if you are planning your bucket list obviously while ignoring our covids you know if you're we're planning our covids our bucket list then i feel like Tanzania should be on top of your list and and the reason is that once you you come to Tanzania you get to experience a huge diverse of experiences meaning from waterfalls lakes culture safari beach you know and you know some very beautiful um animals and biodiversity that they very rarely get to be seen and you can actually get to see them within Tanzania for instance the chimps that are found in Mahale National Park and the Gombe National Park this is a national park filled up with chimpanzees where else can you find chimpanzees yes you can find them in other countries but where else has all the diverse and still has the chimpanzees and still has the whale sharks and beautiful Christ of clear sand beaches in Zanzibar and mafia you know and just we have zipline also in in um they have a zipline um adventurous place where you could go and experience on a day um also it's really nice um right now during the pandemic i know a lot of countries have a lot of restrictions but Tanzania has been pretty open for a very long time at first there are some in place you need you will have to do your your test and make sure that you are protected but they've been pretty open to to tourists which is really nice for people who are comfortable to travel now yes and obviously whatever the world is going through and everyone else is going through travel is part of the medication i'm using the medication because again everything if everything is in chaos once you travel that's where you find peace and obviously traveling to Tanzania that's where peace is absolutely Tanzania is a great country i highly highly recommend it i have a question here do you plan to bring with you more tourists to Tanzania and experience the nature while Sahed has given you only one percent of it absolutely the goal of these live streams is to encourage people to travel to Tanzania some people you know they have never traveled to Africa before so we want to encourage people to go and explore Africa and explore Tanzania in particular that's the goal here already Rubon do a national park has chimpanzee and that's also in Tanzania yes as i said Tanzania has a huge diverse just in national parks itself and the things that are found within the ecosystem awesome so i absolutely recommend that you guys if you are not already following uh Sahed you should because he's showing parts of Tanzania that i personally have never seen before and if you plan on traveling to Tanzania that's the right place to be you will find a lot of good recommendation from from his page of course and you have another page for wildlife right yes it's called wild by Farhad for and the reason i've decided to is because i feel like the beauty of the wilderness is so beautiful to actually mix it with other travel content that's why i had to open another page that is strictly just for wildlife just to praise how beautiful and magical the wilderness is awesome all right so we have a few questions rolling in where can you stay when you visit mafia i mean a place with a friendly budget um so mafia has a huge um variety of places from camping to high resorts you know and um i would recommend butiama mafia lodge obviously because they roasted me and because i've also get to experience their their service and they're also budget friendly and then they also have different parts and then of lodges and hotels within the mafia and mafia being it's just like zanzibai it's divided like how lung we paje is the same way in mafia also it has its divisions and parts whereby if you have a hotel in such an area then it's it's it's beautiful but also there's um there's a lodge that is found within one among the islands that are found in mafia but obviously just please send me a dm and i will try and uh recommend and obviously once one day very soon probably i will share recommendations for mafia because obviously as we all have seen that most people do not really know of how beautiful mafia is and where to start when they want to travel to mafia awesome uh the next question is halal food accessible yes um obviously tanzania has a huge population of muslims uh obviously all other in respect to all other religions and um most of the places they they sell and provide halal food so whenever you're coming and planning to travel in tanzania each and every store has a halal food for for you awesome this is pretty diverse when it comes to uh religion in tanzania right i think is it 50 percent christiansi 50 percent muslims what is that is that a fair number um yes but still in respect to also other religions like the hindu's and and other other religion religious backgrounds yeah so it's it's it's really diverse and the i think like yes it's really diverse it's it's interesting when you move from from the mainland to to zanzibar and then to zanzibar the all the diverse yes yes so if you're going to zanzibar then there you're gonna go and interact with more of the islamic muslim community that obviously if you're an international traveler then you obviously have to kind of align and abide to the cultural um system of of zanzibar whereby the if you dress in a respectful manner that means once you respect someone's culture then you make the host very easy to host you you know awesome all right so there's one more question uh i'm planning a safari and zanzibar trip really looking forward to it which month do you recommend to visit can you also recommend places to visit within mafia island all right so let's uh oh no no sorry guys whoops okay i think we just lost fahad if you want to try to join again and i accepted the wrong person all right so we'll try to get these questions answered then if you have any other questions feel free to share them here as well already there we go and i apologize guys for the network issues show you once again i'm back no worries okay um we were trying to answer this question there's a person who's planning a safari and a trip to zanzibar and they want to know what's the best month of the year to to visit oh that's a very very beautiful question um so in in Tanzania specific and specifically for safari any time of the year is beautiful to actually explore the wilderness and the reason why is because for instance the term that we use in serengeti serengeti shall never die that means the wilderness is still going to be there but now for instance if we look at the northern circuit whereby we have the big great migration of the wildebeest and the zebras to cross from serengeti national park to the masai mara in kenya if you try and follow throughout the whole journey that means each and every month it's very beautiful to actually come and witness for instance right now from now till march we might start getting a rain season in tanzania and obviously some people will tell you the best time to do safari is during a dry season but in reality even in the rainy season there's more blessings coming with it what blessings so in the wilderness during the rainy season which is within the january till march this is the season we call the dropping season the dropping season is a term that safari guides use whereby they mean is the time where the wildebeests and the zebras give birth so after the whole migration they do from july august september and all the way back to october to the central serengeti when they do the migration they the wildebeest come back pregnant for some reason so they they start giving birth during the the the the january february and march and they give birth in a special place called due to conservation area so if you are planning to do safari it's very good to know which time are you are going but also what is the action that is happening during that time now in due to conservation area is very popular for the wildebeest and the and the the wildebeest and the zebras because the then due to conservation area is very the soil is very feta with with what do they call with very nutritious grass so the the wildebeest and the zebras will travel all the way uh from the central serengeti to the due to conservation area in search of these um nutritious you know grasses because again they will be breastfeeding but also as we know the wildebeest and the zebras as soon as they give birth the babies have to stand up and start walking in the next maybe three minutes so so that means the mothers have to feed in with a lot of greens that have the best nutrients and where the best nutrients found they're found in due to conservation area when do the wildebeest migrate to the due to conservation area they can uh they migrate during the the rainy season in tanzania which is from january to march so if you are lucky enough to travel within this period of time even for those people who have traveled within serengeti within the past few weeks they will say that the migration is moving towards ngorongoro the migration of the animals is leaving serengeti going towards ngorongoro and now the fascinating part about this is that when the migration moves the wildebeest and the zebras move that means even the big cats also move the lions also move to find food you know uh the hyenas also move the scavengers also move and yes obviously serengeti will not be empty but the big wilderness experience and the game watching will be now available in the due to conservation area and this is the beginning of the year from january to march and then obviously from that period of time obviously now the migration will start going back to the central with the with the small baby zebras and small wildebeest and again they will set in the central serengeti and when it reaches july they start now crossing again you know and and it's just fascinating knowing where to see them so there's a time where there will be in seri central serengeti there's a part where there will be in koga tender which is where the migration usually happened koga tender is the part of serengeti which is uh there's a separation between the the serengeti and the masai mara where it's divided with by the masai mara river so this the tanzanian side is called koga tender and serengeti happens within the koga tender okay so for anyone that tanzania tanzania can host you any time of the year but you just have to know on on what you want to experience and when is that thing that you want to experience available within the year that's awesome that was a great question and that was an even greater answer and really thank you go to tanzania or for stafari any time of the year you are going to have a unique experience which is amazing true and obviously within forgetting about just not leaving not just talking about the national park but also the flower national park remember i told you about a beautiful place called kitulo national park where it's the heavens garden that's where now also the flowers now start to blossom and all the beauty from that national park starts showing off during the rainy season i can't believe that one hour went by so fast i know there's a lot to to talk about and to experience in tanzania and you cannot finish you know it was very great to to be part of this yeah i really i really found it to be helpful you share a lot of places i've been taken down notes because someplace i've never heard about so that's great um so i don't want to take much of your time but uh so give us a quick crash course on some words that you should know when you travel to tanzania in swahili so the first word you should know is say jambo jambo is like saying hi or saying habari jambo or habari is like these are the easiest words you can you can greet a person and you can say hello to a person but also you should be nice to people and when people say caribou when they welcome you to tanzania you should know how to say thank you and the way you say thank you you say asante so jambo asante which means jambo means hello caribou means welcome and asante means thank you and i would like to say asante habiba for hosting me and it has beautiful it has been a beautiful experience and talking about how my country is beautiful and i would like to welcome every person who is watching and who has not traveled with me or with tanzania or with trekking powers then we'll definitely want to say caribou sana and obviously my sister polin has also reminded me of one last word which means quahiri which means goodbye well i i'm gonna close this out and i'm gonna tell you also asante san up ahead for for your time and asante san thank you so much thank you thank you everyone who joined us today we love tanzania i can't wait to go back one more time and if you haven't made it to tanzania i highly encourage that you go and explore this beautiful country asante sana habiba and until next time bye bye


What's up everybody? I am Scott Bayer, Atlanta Falcons.com digital managing editor and across from me head coach Arthur Smith Who's sitting down for the very first time ever in our brand-new ticket master studios and Arthur? It's been a while since you and I have have had a chance to catch up You have hired a defensive coordinator in Ryan Nielsen since then What really sold you on him during the interview process and why was he the right fit for this team? Yeah, we had a very long and thorough process. It was great We got to talk to a lot of different candidates a lot of really good candidates and You know for us, it's all about fit right? There's a great coaches in this league and guys go with other teams But Ryan fit us fit our culture and really it was his vision and how you wanted to implement that going forward And you know you can get a lot into schemes There's a lot of talks and a lot of people and they get in these interviews They give you these grand plan grand plans, and they really don't have a great implementation you know to follow that up and a Very impressive Ryan, you know talked to him, you know few times as we're going through this and And he's at the ground running and you know there's some things we want to do And it's not necessarily gonna be copy and print from what they did in New Orleans. I think that's the key I would hope you know if you've seen what we've done here certainly go back to offensively We don't look the same Offensively that we did in 19 and 20 in Tennessee and we don't we didn't look the same last year as we did in 1921 you know playing our strengths and whatnot. So very excited about Ryan Love his background. He's another big-picture thinker guy that was a former defensive lineman Love his vision that you know to develop players and really schematically about where this is going How we want to defend certain things first second down kind of the trends going around the league He has a long track record of being an excellent defensive line coach Would you anticipate him working with the defensive front here as well? Absolutely? You'll see strategically how we set up the staff and you know every year is gonna be a little bit different based on what your needs are There's a natural evolution that goes on. There are a lot of things behind the scenes that People you know, it's kind of boring if you really want to talk about yeah, you know the game plan and responsibilities I think you know as a As you get these hiring processes, you know where titles get thrown around and you know whether that's agent or Media manipulation you want to put it doesn't really give context of what's really going on behind the scenes And so Ryan will oversee the front, you know linear will be working with them So will Dave Huxville and we're really fired up to have had that group here and where we're going with the front And you and Ryan wasn't the only big name defensive coach that you added You also added somebody that you have a long history with Jerry Gray who's been in DC at a couple different spots I think he's been coaching about as long as you've been alive. Maybe why was it important to add him to this staff?  He's learned along the way Really fits into our culture. We're really excited to have Jerry here too. He'll be overseeing the back end And and you also have Steven Jackson moving from the offensive side to the to the defensive backfielder as well Yeah, when you can add quality coaches, that's another thing too, you know as you're putting staff together It was a great for it Steve's professional development He came over here and spent a year on the offense was very beneficial to Dave and I and a lot of things We did behind the scenes Steve's been played a long time in this league and he's coached the back end Him and Jerry and I all worked together in Washington as well the same defensive staff really liked the chemistry Jerry you have and really their development plan as well Where we need to go with the secondary and some of our young players and what we'll continue to add as I'm looking over this Over this entire staff. You see a lot of new faces. You don't see any new Quarterbacks coach now that Charles London is in Tennessee. What is the plan for the quarterback spot? Yeah, so Dave we're going obviously being our coordinator. He'll also Overseeing me working with the quarterbacks. There's a lot of things that Charles did behind the scenes And you know I'll go back to my experiences whether I was the tight end coach or whatever my title was It can change year to year. Those are what I'm talking about context and kind of the mundane of really what goes on in coaching Well, there's a lot of mythology out there You know as you see these snapshots and you know sometimes guys get too much credit or they don't get enough credit depending on You know how you shape your staff and and the work that goes on behind the scenes And so there's a lot of things that Charles did that we believe in developing our own guys here, too We're you know Mike Petrie and TJ. They'll take all more responsibility along with coaching the wide outs and the running backs We have some great young coaches that have been in our program that deserve a shot. You know Steve King will move over to offense Patrick Kramer and those guys deserve shots. So we'll distribute different responsibilities You know how we came plan and you know our logistics that go into practice planning that we're really excited Those guys as they continue to work the way up also Move Nick Perry over to offense which would be good for his development and vice versa We did with Mario Gabriel. So he'll be working with defense and I think that's important as you're leaning and developing your own guys we bought guys in from the outside, but we also have a talent, you know talented group of young coaches that are that are working their craft that can really help us and We're really fired up about this group. You've been really busy obviously hiring a lot of these new coaches But there's but there's no break.  Is this a really exciting time of the off-season for you as you look to upgrade this roster? Absolutely, you know, it's certainly it's got a different field than we've had the first two years You get here. You're doing the job. There's a lot of things going on, you know, some of the obstacles that You're trying to work through in terms of roster building Yeah, when we do it's Obviously, it's not breaking news anybody. We do have a lot of cap space and we're excited You know what about our plan going into free agency and certainly with this class? We need another good draft class as well This is a good Important part of the process as you get to Indianapolis, you know, you got everybody in there these interviews really looking forward to those and Listen to our scouts these guys have been working on this class for several years and it's important It's and you've said several times that it's not just about finding the best 53 It's about finding the right guys How important is culture fit when you're looking at signing new free agents or adding new pieces to your next draft class? Yeah, it's really important to us, you know, the easiest thing is to evaluate. Well, this guy can run You can see all that stuff on tape The guy's big you can run, you know the minimum job requirements at certain positions. Yeah, but it's about You know the mental makeup What they're about their habits all these things you're digging into and And getting those guys and again you There gonna be a lot of guys here that we we want to coach that will never get the opportunity Some of it the way it falls in the draft some of it's luck and then you know the order where you select it But I think our staff has done a really good job. You know our first two years Getting the character right You know and that that gets on out It's a big term, but it's really about the mental makeup their habits things we're looking for with these guys and you know growth potential and development You were talking Right after the this last season about trying to get better With with with the defensive pass rush and becoming more explosive on the offensive side of that ball Do you look at free agency as a chance to upgrade those two areas? Yeah, I think you use every Broster mechanism available. You know the thing is that happen You're going through you know not skipping any steps as you're saying hey look if we can add this player You know we may have you know may take touches from this guy You know we may have to you know move them over here So there's a lot of strategy involved in that and again what we can control guys will target And then some of it will be out of our control if somebody resigns with their you know their own team before they hit the market, but We've got a pretty good feel and this will be a big week for that as well As you as you kind of move forward here the Atlanta Falcons were a very good running team last year Do you how important is it to maintain that efficiency? Running and could we see some new faces may be involved with the run game? well certainly, I mean I think the one thing that You can go back and look that we're willing to do here You know it's easy to use buzzwords and coach speak about it. You know being adapt and we'll you know change You know year to year a week to week whatever we got to do to win it, but you know we've proven that you know You go back to 21 We certainly picked the ball up more and leaning that certainly Matt strengths were and what we felt the strengths of the team Or as we're you know building Culture out and then you know going in the last year, you know Without having Matt we obviously signed Marcus and end up drafting Dez There's some things that we knew we needed to get better out on the flip side from 21 Well sure rushing attack and as we leaned into that we were a lot different than we were in 21 Go back and look at our 22 season You know it wasn't just your traditional running game that you saw we were in the pistol more We used a lot of his own read which we felt played to the strengths and doing everything we could to win Win those games as we built it. We made the transition to Dez And you'll see it hopefully be more balanced because you do want want to get more explosive Whether that comes from the run, you know in the passing game There will be more of a balance that that is certainly Be our intent going into the 23 season. Yeah, and here comes some quarterback questions Desmond Ritter How do you think he did over his Four starts to wrap up 2022. Well, I think Dez in the four game sample size Improved a lot. I think the other things that I thought he did well He didn't repeat a lot of the same mistakes, you know, there's a lot of things that go on, you know Playing late in the season like that going on the road I thought he did a nice job handling those critical downs third down fourth down Getting a situational football two-minute certainly week after week improved a lot There's a lot of improvement he made from the time he got here why we're excited to work with him So I do think Dez's future is bright. Is he your starting quarterback in 2023? We're not damning any right now. Yeah, there's a lot of things that that can happen You know very very excited about Dez no different than we're excited about Tyler out jeer and Drake London And the improvements they've made and guys that are currently on our roster, you know As always all options on the table anything we can do to improve this team to help us win and ultimately the one championships That's what that's what we're looking for you were saying that that that that 2022 seven and ten record was different than 2021 can you expand upon that like why do you think that that is? well Different reasons, you know, you go back and look at those one possession games, you know, they don't necessarily tell the story They're not all the same. It's like when you're sitting here You're looking at some of these titles that get thrown around the staff and nobody really knows what they do unless you're behind the scenes to get contacts Then I look, you know on the surface. So yeah, the record was the same record one possession games were different Different situations came up at a different team where I thought We were a little, you know, we obviously veteran Heavy on the offense and that was led by Matt right and some of the receivers we count on early and Kyle You know, obviously he got going the passing game That's a different team and those games got You know the way they played out were different and I think it certainly helped Think Matt was pretty damn good in two-minute football, you know, we got the ball There was a couple games we had had the lead where we lost lead then we were able to come back Yeah, it finished a win This was a much younger team The way we played was a little bit different those one possession games There's a few of them that you know, we we got down early and we clawed back Just the way we played what happened in those games You know how we won some of those games that we lost them every year is a different story, but this team was younger I think that those experiences certainly will pay off. Yeah, we were in a lot of pressure situations For a lot of young players and you're coming from college football and you're asking me big programs You're not in a lot of tight games, right? They're not and that's the beauty of the NFL You know, you get down with the critical every snap matters, you know, that's cliche, but it's true And in every phase too, you know, we were able I thought we improved in In the special teams area Certainly made some game-changing plays for us as the roster got younger some of these young guys the D. Angelo owns of Troy Anderson's Lorenzo Carter Cadero Hodge Richie Grant Avery Williams, they made some enormous plays in the kicking game Obviously Cordell Patterson was able to break the record and there were some great blocks on that play You know going back top my head Troy Essentially blocked two guys, you know that that's exciting. You know the way I thought defensively we improved certainly we want to get into some You know more long yard of situation to be able to pin our ears back go get the quarterback That's certainly a point of emphasis, you know the fast rush and becoming more explosive and often when When you look back at this last draft class, you got some big-time contributions from Drake from Troy all the way down the line Stacking draft classes is always key when it comes to having good roster depth What what do you think that you got from this most recent group? And are you really excited to see guys like Drake guys like Troy continue to to Progress throughout their yeah, absolutely, you know that's the hardest thing about this This league is a consistency. It's about any industry life is to improve and year after year We've seen a lot of guys they come out strong as a rookie and you never hear from right here for guys that People may consider a bus for the first two years and then it clicks for them And so there's a fine line in there as you're developing and guys as you're trying to push them guys that were even part of that 21 class or guys that maybe are on the roster here before guys. We've gotten Through college free agency at post draft or guys. We put on one-year deals that You know that was the only way we could sign them and you know, we hope to get them get them back and improve everybody But certainly you were excited about the way You know last year's draft class was rookies as they finished, you know I thought certainly thought Drake and Tyler play their best football down the stretch I thought Troy did as well AK all these guys, but the hardest thing for them will be they'll be in the whole new class coming in When you're adding free agents as well as that competition is real players and coaches And that's that's a beauty of this league when you step in there You've got to prove it every year and so that'll be our challenge One more football games and we want to be playing, you know late January and early February and one more thing here And you talk a lot about short-term plan long-term vision and often that is in reference to a You know like one player, but overall for this organization You have short-term plan long-term vision Where are you in terms of executing that long-term vision? And this must be a really exciting time as you kind of continue to execute that long-term plan Absolutely, I mean you've got to be willing to adapt to and there's things that with the roster things have come up that We've had to to move on from things are out of our control and that certainly you got to be able to pivot any good organization You better go to pivot, you know, it's not going to go exactly the plan. And so our what's your contingency? I think we've proven that we've been aggressive in some of the deals we made and then certainly when we've options will come up to be able to adapt and they're different than changing quarterbacks late in a year You know, we're in a tight playoff race and certainly weren't out of it But we thought the best thing going forward for short-term was to play Des and certainly for the long term See where we are right now Going forward of that at that spot so a lot of things but here three the way it where we're at now Certainly our caps clear allows to do some more things to become more aggressive and player acquisitions and Like as always we put high expectations on us. We've never shot away from that 21 we certainly didn't shy away from the 22, but we feel really good about what we're going right now in 23 Arthur Smith, thank you so much for stopping by Ticketmaster Studios and we will talk to you again really soon. I appreciate it Scott. Thank you


I want to book more commercial auditions. So I hired a commercial acting coach and I happened to have a friend who is a commercial acting coach and he has booked a bunch of stuff. He used to teach at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco at the Studio ACT. I've been trying to book this character for a while and what it is is the deadpan character in a lot of commercials. And I wanted to tell you guys about my first experience with an acting coach during an audition because this is the first time I've ever done it. I'm going to tell you the cost, like how much it would cost you if you wanted to hire Timothy. He's also doing a commercial acting class and just tell you my experience in general. And I just did the audition so I don't know if I booked it. So I will let you guys know in a future video if I did. Regardless I learned a lot from coaching with Timothy. I can start with the pricing and like who I would advise get this in my personal experience. I am not an acting coach. I'm an actress who likes to share my experiences and just tell you about how it went for me and you can see if things are a better fit for you. Like I have done a lot of reviews on casting websites. I've used my paper backdrops and told you guys about it. My tripods, my lights, different things like that. So take this as if we're friends and I'm telling you about my experiences. Timothy Holes is $75 an hour if you want to hire him privately to help you with your commercial auditions, which I would advise you to do if you are somebody who's like intermediate or to advance acting and you've seen that maybe you keep getting called for the specific type of commercial audition and you aren't quite sure what you're doing wrong. I would suggest hiring him or taking his commercial acting class or any other coach that you trust. I'm just telling you he's a good option because I know him and I have experienced working with him as a student. So yeah $75 an hour and then he's doing a commercial acting class starting August 30th that is just under $600. You can choose for your situation what's best if you want to do private coaching or if you want to do a group class. In my experience both are really helpful. A one-on-one coaching through an audition is going to help you in an actual audition. So he might help you book an audition like help you you know actually put a great audition in or you can take an acting course with him and also learn from watching other people and get feedback but that's that's one of the most important things especially if you are a new actor to make sure to get acting experience where you're getting some feedback because you can learn a lot from reading and watching YouTube videos but doing all of these exercises on your own versus doing it in front of somebody who's going to help you improve is just really different. I have now done both getting private acting coaching and been in a group setting and you can learn different things from both and I have been acting for I want to say almost 14-ish years and I still learn stuff because it does take a lot of knowledge and work to really get in a place where you're you're set sometimes roles come to me really easy sometimes they're more hard.  I as a friend I would suggest if you're a beginner to go into a group setting something that's a little bit more affordable versus getting one-on-one coaching because one-on-one coaching is of course more expensive. In this situation with me and Timothy I wanted help with coaching for this specific type of commercial a deadpan character for a commercial audition so we worked on it quite a bit and now I'm going to be sharing some clips. I did record our session and he did allow me to share some of these so I'm going to be sharing some clips throughout me talking to you about this experience. First Timothy and I went over the sides the script. Let's just read through it together. I'll read the screen directions or and the breakdowns and then you can read the the dialogue and don't worry about we're just going to read through to read through it.  I told him a little bit about it and he asked me questions about the character like what do we know about it because a lot of the time in commercial auditions they just give you like one sheet. Here's the thing about commercial copy which is not always that it's not always that friendly it's not always like telling you who you're saying it to it's kind of which is kind of frustrating right unless so you just have to like collect data and get the clues on make these assumptions. After Timothy helped me warm up then we actually started doing some of the lines like I started recording myself so I had my computer on the side so he could see me and then I was filming on my phone and something that I found really helpful that I feel like I used to do I don't know was that he was giving me feeding me some lines I want to make sure it's conversational and it feels like that one felt good but also like I'll just I'll just feed you some lines yeah that's a good idea so let's move on to the third stage of this meeting okay okay Erin so we're in stage four of the conversation uh yeah good even more it's coming through you don't want the smile to be coming through but it's coming through hold it back all right so Erin now to stage five of the conversation good now it's full sarcastic okay oh that's good uh hey Erin uh we're gonna move on we're gonna talk more about the venue okay yeah that's good even if I wasn't here like you could totally do this on your own right but you would need to get to that point of of focus and connection that does not that does not necessarily need another person like I you know I we need to be so good that we could like literally fall in love with the doorknob and on camera they'd be like oh I didn't realize there was a person there something my commercial acting coach Timothy Holes also helped me realize is that I don't put nearly as much work into my commercial auditions than I do into my theatrical auditions uh I I'm gonna be honest with you I don't think I've ever taken this much time for a commercial audition I I would take this much time I mean you know rehearsing it and such for a theatrical one where I have this character that I'm thinking all of these things about but when it comes to commercials I know that I tend to be like oh I know what they're looking for and like what type of character they're looking for instead of like the actual person what person are they looking for right exactly yeah like I appreciate being so like coachable and wanting to make the adjustments and like of course thank you I think we were coaching for around an hour and a half and I was like I I don't remember the last time I took this much time for a commercial audition unless it was a really long script but usually I just jump right into it because I'm like oh okay I get it I get it I get what kind of character you know what what I need to portray in this so I need to start taking more time I need to slow down maybe if I have eight auditions in one day you know say no to some so that I can really focus or I need to stop obsessing with getting it in immediately because that's not sustainable that day that I had eight auditions well some of them weren't due to like that Monday but I wanted to be one of the first people to send it an audition and now I really have to sit and think about when my audition have been so much better if I just slowed down and turned it in on Monday instead of like Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon um so I need to find that balance but also don't procrastinate if you're interested in coaching with Timothy or any other acting coach I highly suggest doing more research and for Timothy he is having a commercial acting class our August 30th 2021 but I'm sure he'll do more in the future so if you just want to like follow him on Instagram and see when his next one is um I know he has a YouTube channel as well where you can check out different stuff that he has been in but um yeah thank you Timothy so much I learned so much from this one-on-one acting coaching session and I definitely want to do it again in the future when my budget allows because acting is expensive you have to pay for so many different things and to pay for a coach and classes it's just a lot so I have to like spread out you know whenever I do acting classes and coaching and such so I would love to do it again later on because I I know that I still need more work on that deadpan persona but thank you so much for watching and let me know if you have worked with any other acting coaches in the past if you're an acting coach and um maybe I will coach with other people too just so I can you know venture in other different and other techniques because there's so many different acting techniques and so many different coaches that approach it different ways um in different classes so yeah thank you so much for watching and at the end of every video I feature another channel I'm going to feature Timothy here and so you guys can go check him out and if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment tell me something what do you post about on your channel


My name is Sillimul Hakka. I'm director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development based in Dhaka and also a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development based in London. I'm going to talk about the status of the issue of adaptation in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and particularly what the issues are going into the Paris Agreement. Just to give a little bit of a background, adaptation has now been very well recognized in the UNFCC process. It took some time for that to happen, but in the last few years since the Marrakesh Accords at COP7 in 2001 it has been accepted and in Cancun at COP16 we have agreed something called the Cancun Adaptation Framework which provides quite an elaborate program of actions on adaptation. It's set up an adaptation committee to oversee these actions and a lot has been done since then. For example, these developed countries have been supported to do the NAPPAs, National Adaptation Programs of Action. They are now being supported to do NAPPS, National Adaptation Plans which are not just for the least developed countries but other developing countries and indeed for the developed countries as well. And so a lot is happening on adaptation. There's also something called the Nairobi Work Program on adaptation that brings together non-governmental partners together to share knowledge and experience on this. So as I said, quite a lot happening on adaptation on the ground and in the UNSCC process. With regard to Paris, the issue that is coming up is a demand put forward by the African Negotiators Group for an adaptation goal very similar to the mitigation goal. And this has caused a little bit of a controversy because while a mitigation goal is something that is fairly well understood in terms of a temperature target or in terms of reduction of emissions, an adaptation goal is not clear as to exactly what that would entail globally. Adaptation takes place at the local level, at the national level and so agreeing a global goal is somewhat difficult. So there are three ways in which this can be addressed. Firstly, the easiest goal to adopt for adaptation would be simply funding adaptation. So we could say, for example, there should be $50 billion a year to fund adaptation starting from 2020. Developed countries have agreed to $100 billion, they have not agreed to how that $100 billion would be divided between mitigation and adaptation. So an agreement could look like $50 billion a year, half of that would go for adaptation. Another type of adaptation goal could be a capacity building goal. So we could have a goal that all countries are capacitated within a certain time frame, say five to ten years, to be able to develop their own adaptation strategies and plans and to start implementing those adaptation strategies and plans. That might be one way to do it. And finally, one way of looking at it would be to reframe adaptation in other terms. For example, in terms of vulnerability, so we could have a vulnerability reduction target. Vulnerability is somewhat easier to measure. We know the parameters of vulnerability both the physical as well as the economic ones. We can look at them, develop indicators and measure reduction in vulnerability and set a goal for reducing them. And the final way in which one might do it is to use the term resilience rather than adaptation and enhancing resilience as a resilience goal. And this is something that some people, particularly the UN Secretary General, is interested in exploring further how we might have a resilience goal coming out at the end in Paris. But these are all still up for discussion and I will be reporting on them as we go towards Paris. And in Paris, I'll be reporting every day on the negotiations and hopefully we'll have a good conclusion on the 11th of December in Paris.


Of course, the Miracles is a very powerful spiritual tool. It's one pathway among many, and it defines itself that way. It says it's one form of the universal curriculum in that there are many. It's a pathway of forgiveness in the deepest sense of the word. Like I know in the Bible, it says, forgive 70 times 7, but some of you maybe have tried that. That's only 490 times, and I tried that too. It didn't work. But it's a sense of many. Maybe 2,000 years ago, 490 was many times. Today, we know it's going to take a deep cleansing of our consciousness to come to a state of peace of mind. The song was talking about what the Bible was referred to by Jesus as the kingdom of heaven. In the East, it might be Nirvana, or just seen as bliss, pure love, oneness. So it's a curriculum that comes from Jesus Christ. It's very, very practical. It's almost like if you really read the Gospels and the teachings of Jesus from 2,000 years ago through the Gospels, you can see that there's a lot about forgiveness and love.  He really emphasized the first two commandments, of the 10 commandments. And if you can imagine 2,000 years have passed now, and we have some new words, new terminology, new fields of study. One of them is psychology. Back in 2,000 years ago, we didn't have Sigmund Freud. We didn't have all these teachings about the ego and defense mechanisms and unconscious guilt and so on and so forth. So it uses the teachings of psychology. It uses the teachings of education and the terminology of education, which is another major field that we have that's evolved since the time of Jesus. And it also uses Christian terminology. So we have a combination between the psychology, educational terms and Christian terminology. So we'll get things like psychology. It will talk a lot about denial, repression, projection, the dynamics of the ego that keep us trapped because we're still locked into attack and defense whenever we're using these mechanisms. And it talks about the ego in a way that a little bit beyond what Freud did. Freud saw the ego as having some kind of value, basically mediating between the superego, the morals and mores, and the id, which were all these unconscious impulses and urges. And so the ego has some kind of a value to kind of mediate so you could actually survive and live in between these conditioned morals and standards and these impulses. You might say the eros, the urges of the ego, and for the id, I should say. Now Jesus is saying basically in the Course that the ego is a mask that's been laid across the face of Christ. It's an attempt to have a false identity and to be disguised from who you really are, which is spirit. So the teachings of the Course in Miracles, it starts off with a text. It's got a workbook of daily lessons, 365 daily lessons, one lesson a day for every day of the year. It's very, very practical. And then it's got a manual for teachers at the back for those that really go into the curriculum as you might say a teacher of God or a miracle worker. And basically it's saying that that's our true profession, underneath all of our earthly professions, that everybody wants peace, everyone wants happiness and joy, and everyone needs a lot more training at letting miracles come through them. Kind of being conduits of instruments for miracles. Like St. Francis' prayer, make me an instrument. Lord, make me an instrument. Well, we've got a practical curriculum that literally has a text that sets forth the theology or the theory. It's got a workbook for kind of like when we were in high school, we had maybe like chemistry class, and then we would go into the lab to actually perform the experiments with the elements and everything to actually see how it works practically in our life. That's what the workbook's about. Of clearing away the ego debris from the mind and learning how to trust in the spirit and let go of judgment and criticism and condemnation. And then the manual for teachers just takes another step in terms of you find all kinds of subtleties of pride that come in as you go on the spiritual journey. The ego wants to go along on the spiritual journey. It wants to turn it into something prideful, have some kind of power, some kind of esteem that's built up on even the ideas of healing in which there seems to be some healers that have more ability and then there's those that have less or those that are in need and those that have the healing powers. And really this is a course that's teaching us our perfect equality. That everyone and everything is perfectly equal, which is a reflection of our divine oneness in heaven. And we need to be rinsed free of all these ego beliefs of superiority and inferiority, of having false senses of pride and then also senses of deep unworthiness and shame and inferiority. All of these are part of a mask that is being worn that's covering over our true Christ self. It's saying too that Christ is like an idea in the mind of God. So Christ is neither male nor female, nor masculine or feminine. It's literally a creation of perfect love. And it's saying that we are all children of God. We came from God and we forgot who we are. And we've fallen asleep and we're dreaming a dream in which we feel we're separate from everyone and everything. And we aren't going to wake up from that dream until we learn to forgive, until we learn to have a happy dream. We aren't going to wake up from a nightmare until we first learn to forgive and have a happy dream. Then we'll wake back up into reality. In the Bible, of course, most industrializations are very familiar with the Judeo-Christian language because it's so prevalent. Even though Islam is probably the largest religion in the world, for most of what we're familiar with is Judeo-Christian teachings and theologies. And it says in the Bible that Adam fell asleep. You go back to Genesis, but at no point in the Bible does it say that Adam woke up. And so in that sense, of course, the miracles is coming along using the Judeo-Christian language, but in a way that is designed to rapidly raise up consciousness, raise up awareness so that you can start to transcend all limiting ego beliefs and approach a very, very high state of mind, which is like the gateway back to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the Kingdom of Heaven is just an inward state, a state of mind. It's a state of attitude, the B attitudes in the Bible. And it's not a form.  The more you open your heart and you open your mind to a state of mind that Jesus calls the Kingdom of Heaven. And he says it's within you. It's not out somewhere. You don't have to reach for it out in the world or in the cosmos. Now, the teachings of the Course are what I would call non-dualistic teachings. So you can go back into ancient China, you can go back into India, some of you have heard of the data Vedanta, but the data really means not to. And that is a basic way of talking about. There's a oneness that we are that connects us. And even in quantum physics, they're now talking about the quantum field, the unified field, like movies like What the Bleep Do We Know and so forth. They're describing the same thing that Jesus is talking about, Buddha, a lot of the mystics and saints. It's a unified field of awareness where even within the perceptual world everything is completely connected. So every galaxy, every star, every atom, every molecule are really all connected even though the ego beliefs are of time and space and distance, which makes it seem like as a human being we're disconnected from a lot of other things. And we're very tiny in the perspective of the human perspective. Of course, miracles are saying no, actually you're vast and powerful beyond measure as your true identity is, but you do have to go through a system of training your mind to release the ego, to be continuously aware of that high state of mind. A lot of us get glimpses and we're so thankful for the glimpses. Thank God, hallelujah. Thank you for showing me that glimpse of who I really am and how it feels. But the struggle comes in when we seem to drift back into the human consciousness and awareness that is back into separation. So this is a very practical curriculum in training the mind to higher states of consciousness that basically pulls from three fields of studies, Christianity, psychology and education. And for some, like with Francis, she had a very large Course in Miracles meetup group. Some of you have heard of meetup over in Sydney and then started to go deeper when she met me and we started to go deeper into this experience. I would say the Course is truly aimed at the experience of peace of mind. It's not meant to be just another philosophy, another theology. It's actually aimed at having an experience, a sustained experience of peace of mind. That all the songs about peace and all the love songs, you know, they go into talking about something that has kind of been a goal of humankind for many, many centuries. And it's saying, oh, here's the practical steps you can go through to reach that goal. And to know yourself as you truly are has God created you instead of the way that the ego makes it seem. So personality, persona in Latin is mask. And the personality self of human beings is like a mask that has to be lifted so that we can find our true authentic self. So that's a little summary of what this Course in Miracles is. It's actually been translated into maybe 17 or 18 different languages.  It doesn't really have some kind of a system or hierarchy of teachers and leaders. There's no pope of, of course, the miracles and so forth. It's a self-study book. And you might say that there are lots of groups that practice it, including Tina has, you have two groups right here in Minneapolis. And that's actually the paperback version of the Course, with its text at the beginning and workbook in the middle and manual for teachers at the end and then a clarification of terms actually at the very back of the book that describes some of the basic concepts and ideas in a very, very helpful way. And I have been privileged to have been able to go to many countries and see, actually help in the Course getting published into some very, like down in South America where people really want the book but haven't been able to afford it. So there's been a lot of collaborations of getting it published in an inexpensive way on Bible paper for people that are really wanting it.