What advice would you give others if you're a product manager at Amazon? How would you design your career path if you can start over? In this video, I'm going to interview the Amazon product manager and share with you how to design your career path so that you will never regret. This is Dr. NCD, a director product from drncd.com. And today we have a special guest, John Marty. He's going to share with you guys what career path to choose. And he's also someone who used to work for Amazon. He's also a dad with a boy and also doing some financial real estate stuff. He has so much life experience to share with you guys. All right. So John, do you want a quick intro of yourself besides my quick intro? Yeah, no problem. You did a great job. Thanks, Dr. Nancy. Appreciate you having me on. And yeah, I've been at Amazon doing product management for the past four years, taking a little break right now. And I've been doing a lot of user experience related projects for amazon.com. There's a lot of different divisions within Amazon. I think a lot of people don't realize that Amazon has like a million different little startups. It's not just .com. There's so many things going on. And the whole company doesn't operate like this monolithic thing from Jeff Bezos down.  And so millions of little interesting projects that are all kind of in this ecosystem. But I'm going to draw from my wisdom and share on your channel. Awesome. I love this. And we have lots of people on my channel and some of my students aiming to join Amazon. And I believe there's a golden nugget in what you're going to share with us. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. So John, let's do this. Let's start our main topic about what Korea has to choose. I think that's a step one for everybody thinking about do I join Google, Amazon, or do I, well, just enjoy life, you know, or achieve natural freedom, right? So what's your take on step one, what Korea has to choose? Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing is you have to identify what your core values are. And if you don't, sometimes it's hard to kind of even frame like, well, what are the core values that I'm even interested in? And there's a lot of different ways to do it. But like the most scrappy way to do it is just to get a piece of paper or a notepad on your computer and just type in, what are core values? And you can just see a list of, you know, a laundry list of core values. One of them might be humor. One of them might be equality for you or family. It's like, well, if your number one core value is family and you want to spend time with your family more than maybe you're trying to achieve a sense of financial freedom, maybe your core value is getting in, getting money, and getting out as soon as possible. Maybe your core value is staying and retiring until staying in the workforce for 35 years and retiring and trying to find some kind of passion project within corporate America. To be honest with you, I find it very difficult to find passion or dream jobs in corporate. You and I have been in the arena for a while. And if you speak to people in Serena, they tell you about, like, I mean, I have a lot of gray hair in my beard for a reason because there's a lot of stresses, a lot of things you can't control. The only thing you can control is the values that you're striving towards. And so I would say, look at the top five values that are interesting to you. If you're looking for the ability to be ultra creative and unconstrained, put that on the top and kind of shuffle them around. And you don't have to have them be set in stone. You can just be like, right now, in this point in my life, I feel like my top five values are this in this order.  Or maybe it's higher than the other one. But at least you have it in the forefront of your mind because what a lot of people are not doing is they're not consciously aware of their core values and they're letting the corporate system kind of steer them into just, you know, a rudderless ship kind of navigating through corporate. And they end up in a career path that maybe they're not ultimately satisfied in or in a just a general path of life that they're not satisfied in. So very important to list those out. Yeah. So I do echo with what you said. And I do things come with experience. And I do think it depends on the stage of your career. If you're really younger, you might want, I want to get a fan. Fancy, make lots of money. Yeah. And then later on in your life, as you experience more things, the different period of your life had different kind of core value. And then you reprioritize later on. And actually there's a very interesting like story actually happened yesterday. One of my students, she is also in our age and she got offered from Amazon. She also got another offer in a startup and she wanted to turn down the offer from Amazon. I think is she must align her core value. I had a long conversation with her to figure out what's the best for her. And you're right. It's just different stage of your life. Your values will change as long as align with the values. There's no good or bad choice is your own perfect choice. Yeah. And you know, I'll add to that one thing as far as the values go, values that you have don't be mistaken that the values are corporate wide. Right. Oh, my values are aligned with the company's values. That is a trap that a lot of young individuals, even mid career, late career individuals get into. Values are team specific. Every team operates like its own microorganism, its own microclimate of culture. And it's very important for you to not pay attention to like the corporate glam of the puppy dogs running around, you know, the break room and ping-pong tables and stuff like that. It's important for you to say, is my value stream aligned specifically to my manager and my manager's manager and the people that I'm going to be directly reporting to on a day-to-day basis?  I agree. Yeah. And also sounds a little bit scary. It is. It is. Personal value to align their value. That's right. That's right. So step one is a value. I think we tell them more than they need to know. We tell them more than they need to know, yeah. Okay. So besides the value, what else do you think they need to know to choose their career path? Yeah. Second one is you really want to peer into the future. We have these kind of sexy ideas about certain career paths and it's very important for you to identify people on LinkedIn who are in those career paths, who have been in them for a really long time and for you to reach out to them and say, you know, hey, like I'm a young individual. I'm looking for to get into this world and I want to peer into the future. I want to see what it's like, what you've gone through. What are the great parts you love? What are the parts you hate about this? How long does it take to get promoted? All of these different things uncover the ants under the rug so you can make the most informative decision for you. There are people who go into software engineering school. I did a talk at USC more recently and these students were like, yeah, I just got into engineering for the money. And it's like, okay, well, that's a decision you have based on maybe a value stream that you have. Or some people think it's sexy and then they really get into coding and go, not liking this or not liking the idea of the promotion path that people are telling me about. So really important to peer into the future, leverage the individuals who have been in the game for a long time and see what they say. So let me ask you this question. I think it makes so much sense, but people still just go into coding for the near term financial success. I think there's nothing wrong for near term financial success. By the way, I do think we need to help them think about what's long term. So let's say if for family reason or any other reason, so you decide to join the software engineering space for short term financial success. How long do you suggest and to rethink what's the next step to get out or to realign what your true value besides money? Yeah, yeah. So I think it's important to focus on there's two buckets. There's things we can control and there's things that we can't control. We have to focus on what we can control. The problem that we often get into with these ideas of like dream jobs or dream career paths or what have you is that there are too many uncontrollable factors like a bad boss, like a bad corporate culture. Any number of scenarios will completely derail you. You could think and we were talking about this offline, you could think that like working at Google is going to be like the absolute mega dream for you. But really at the end of the day, you might just be dealing with a lot of politics to move a single button around or you're like, man, this is just not what I thought it would be. So I think in the corporate sphere, you have to do what you can to align your interest as much as possible. But you also have to realize that like corporate is corporate. And when you in point number two peer into the future, you're going to really get the perspective of like the pain in the industry that we all face. It's a slog. It is work. And one thing that somebody told me, he's like a foremost performance coach. And he told me that we often think that we tend to think about passion in corporate America, like passion and romantic love from the ages of 18 to 25. And so we think that we're going to get a job that makes us feel this like constant state of elation. And it's not that way. I mean, it's 10 hours a day working all the time, doing a lot of things that we really don't like doing a large part of the time. So for me personally, I optimize in corporate for money. And I back burner the interest side of things towards my values. So I want to make as much money as possible because my value is time freedom. And so I'm trying to use that money in corporate to one day build a bridge to my exit. I'm not trying to stay until I'm 65 and everybody's different. I agree. Yeah, I like the strategy using the money you can accumulate in the corporate America and lead to financial freedom. And I think we have lost in common regarding our common interest in financial freedom and retire as well. Yes, but with your own passion. Awesome. Yeah. So what do you think besides those two, what are the things people need to talk about or think about when they choose their career path? Yeah. So number three, I would say maintain a sense of perspective. And what I mean by that is we are faced with the paradox of choice. We can be literally anything we want and it causes a great deal of anxiety for young individuals because they say I could be anything. And so the choice that I made is always a stressful choice because I think there could be something on the horizon that could be better. And so it's important for you to realize like what your values are and peering into the future, stacking those two things together, give you a foundation to have some perspective of what you're actually getting into. And it also feeds into how you can reevaluate your core values after you have those conversations because if you ground your sense of perspective, you're going to really quickly realize after you have these conversations with people, every industry has ants under the rug. Every industry. It doesn't matter if you're in engineering or you're in product or this or that. You might be in one company where you're working for a year and you're like having the best time of your life and all of a sudden there's a corporate reshuffle, people get fired and then you have a terrible loss and you're like, oh my God, I'm on an island now and my life is totally different. So things are constantly changing. You can never, but that's every industry. And I think it's important for you to kind of say no matter what I do, there's going to be struggles. Even if I'm an entrepreneur, there's going to be struggles. So maintaining the perspective of just saying, okay, like I know what I'm getting into. I'm not going to use this word like passion to kind of be this like myth that I hold onto. I'm going to find interest. I'm going to work hard. And I think if you say those things and you realize every industry has its things, then it sets you more at ease of thinking that like you're missing out or that you didn't follow the right path. Yeah, I do like how you bring this up regarding the perspective because as you mentioned, like each industry has ends on the rugs and it actually happened to one of my students. He's crazy. So he has been working for the company for eight years and all of a sudden everybody got laid off during COVID. And he was taught performer like multiple years and all of a sudden everybody's gone including himself. And he hadn't like trying to get a job for eight years and suddenly realized, oh actually I was underpaid the whole time. He was able to actually, I believe roughly the numbers, I could potentially double his market value. And it's just crazy. And the people didn't realize this. And now when corporate America suddenly to a shift, how would you see it in different perspectives?  And you do the short-term thing, but please make sure you align this with your long-term goal. Your long-term could be financial independence, could be a personal interest or whatever you want to achieve. My personal is like I really want to build a nonprofit or at least helping out with certain nonprofit is what I'm doing right now, align with that. And thus the hours I put into corporate America usually justify my long-term goal or not. If not, please change your perspective. You understand what you put in, what you plan to get out. Yeah, yeah, I completely agree. It's really important for you to kind of just look at the goals that you have and don't follow kind of like the societal narrative of goals. I think that's so important. Like the societal narrative of goals is get into corporate, get a great job, get paid really well, keep climbing the ladder, keep climbing the ladder. But instead of that, say to yourself like, what do I want? Unconstrained. What do I want? What values do I really have? Not to like these subconscious societal values that are kind of like pulling the strings from above that I'm not even aware of. Like, do I just want to be an artist? Okay, awesome. Like be an artist. Be a solo artist. Like if that is your primary value, then do that. You know, if you want to be a gardener, then just do that. Or get into a point where you're running corporate. And you're pursuing some passion projects on the side. Like Dr. Nancy has her YouTube channel. I have my YouTube channel. We are doing a lot of passion projects on the side, the nonprofits, what have you. Our corporate jobs are feeding some of our passions, right? So you don't have to be following just one path. You can be following numerous paths. Not saying that that's easy, but it allows you the freedom to make those explorational bets as you are navigating corporate as well. Awesome. And actually really resonate with me regarding doing some side passion project that has something to do with YouTube. It's crazy. Somebody, I have several mentors really push my life to a different direction. Actually come from the YouTube story. One of the time I did my talk to my mentors, I really want to start a YouTube channel. I was actually, I wanted and I really want to teach and share my experience with the world. It's crazy. I just want to share. I don't care. I want to say something. And then I was like, but I'm not making money from YouTube. I was like, but it's just like, I'm not like someone selling like beauty products. Lots of women sell beauty products. I'm selling like career advice, but all the but and my mentor at the time was like, Nancy, come to my office. I need sit down with you, have hard, hard conversation. What if I give you 48 hours? Do anything you want to do. What would you do? I was like, YouTube videos, go do it. Don't expect getting any money from it. Just just go do it and see how it goes. And that kind of push helps me to continue my YouTube journey and help my business or like the YouTube channel. Actually more than YouTube channels continue to grow. It's my 80, 20 rules and you never know. You spend like 20% of the time, maybe 10%, maybe 5% of the time building a YouTube channel, or you never know where it leads to, but it will feed lots of satisfaction, personal satisfaction that you've made for a long time. I totally agree. That's what's interesting too.  Most people don't know exactly what they want to do, right? And you think about what career path to choose. That's one kind of linear vein of what we can do. Ideally what we want to do is and it feeds the utility of getting paid and feeding us, right? There's a utility involved in being in corporate America and we may not choose the right path at first and there's nothing wrong with that because we can always pivot. I made a pivot in 2014. I was working at Best Buy for $12 an hour. So my life is very, very different right now than it was back then. We can always pivot and make changes at any age, but I think it's really important for us to explore our passions that are unconstrained by financial gain. I'm interested in a YouTube channel. I started it four years ago. I wasn't into it for the money. I just wanted to share my thoughts with the world. I just wanted to do something unconstrained by monetary value or a trading of money. And it has led me to so many interesting opportunities that I would have never imagined and it was all because I just started. And sometimes the path is not defined for you. You're just like, I'm following this thing over here, following this thing over here, and I don't know where I'm going, but I have this goal over here. So yeah, do that. Do what Nancy and I are doing. Yeah, start a YouTube channel. What is my influencer? What is TikTok? Yeah, Instagram or TikTok or whatever. Use these platforms to share your passion projects with the world. Build a community for what you love. And once you do that, you find yourself not being constrained by like, oh, I want to get promoted, right? Because that has a lever. It's like one person is determining your fate. I'm not okay with this kind of like one path, someone else determining my entire fate scenario, which is why I have numerous buckets. Exactly. Thank you for sharing with us. So you saw today, and I believe all my audience will be like, yes, we've grown so much today. Thank you so much, John. And at the same time, also encourage everybody to check out John's YouTube channel. I'm going to link it in the description down below. Thank you very much for joining us. Do you want any last minute comment? Yeah, so thanks for having me, Dr. Nancy. I appreciate you. If you want to learn more about me, I have my YouTube channel. Just look up John Marty, M-A-R-T-Y. Marty McFly. Back to the future. Some people call me McFly. Some people just call me Marty. Whatever you want to call me is fine. And I'm on LinkedIn as well. I post daily on LinkedIn there, and I'm very easily accessible. I answer every DM on LinkedIn as well. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much, John, for sharing with us. Okay, great. I'm going to see you guys next time, and also see you, John. Thank you for joining us today. All right, see you guys. Bye.


encing something that's been in place and kind of coming at us for quite some time. And so it's a massive policy question. It's a massive policy puzzle to solve. And I appreciate all the people on the cash who put their time into this. I think the cash was especially different than what we've tried before in that we intentionally involved medical folks on this committee. We intentionally involved people who were either living or had experienced homelessness. We involve communications people, different people who brought different skill sets. And I know government interaction is frustrating and that it is so rigorous and so confined in terms of how you present and how you get to have discussions. But I'm just very pleased with the work. I'm very supportive of the recommendations and I just wanna thank you all for all that time and energy. I think you were meeting weekly for a whole year and that's an extensive committee commitment. And so, and I think we've also just been able to gather more voices in this community to solving these.  And I'm just very thankful for that. I was lucky last summer to be able to go to the National Conference to End Homelessness actually with some leaders from Housing Matters. And it's an excellent conference, it's five days. And over that period of time, I've talked to many, many, many communities who had been where we were and are in different places today. And there is a systems approach that can be followed that helps these individuals in our community to become successful in their lives again. And there's also a clinical approach and there's a way on how you provide services and how you prioritize care for this community. So I think we can do it. I'm very optimistic. We're gonna need the state's help and we're gonna need our whole community's help. Our whole county will need to pitch in on this, but I'm confident that there's a road we can follow. And I think you got really important priorities for us as a community. So thanks for your work. I don't know how else to say, just my utmost appreciation and sincere gratitude to every one of you for all your dedication and work. I was on the council when you decided to jump into this position. And it was a very difficult time for our community and it was a very contentious time for our community. And you went into it and you led with your values and you found common ground around compassionate solutions to homelessness and homelessness in our community.  I don't know how else to say that. I would give you a trophy if I could. I know it was a lot of just countless hours on behalf of the staff as well as just your volunteer time. And I too am just so supportive of the work you accomplished. I was having a conversation with a colleague recently and we were talking about homelessness everything at this moment, it's lack of affordable housing, it's mental health issues, it's racism, it's long-term poverty, this long-term crisis crisis that we've seen coming. And I know the vice mayor just mentioned some of those. It's so many things and it's sometimes overwhelming and it has been paralyzing to a certain extent in our community. And we need tangible solutions but we also need to seek this moment for transformation in my opinion. And how can we rebuild in a way that's really prioritizing affordable housing and well-being for all and interrupting some of these cycles, if you will, of poverty and really getting the resources to those that need it in a way that will get them out of homelessness and to a successful lives independently. And I know that's not for all and we have to recognize that too. But at the end of the day it requires our community coming together and your ability as a committee to go through some of these very difficult conversations with a number of criticisms I know and come up with these recommendations almost unanimously with absent with you. I mean, it's just remarkable about what can be done. So I just wanna kind of highlight that because I think that's really core and critical to what took place here. And so I'll leave that because we were going over in the Harvey West area and when we were actually on site for work, I would see parents and mothers with their strollers walking down Coral Street and the conditions were not conducive to families. And I think we need to remember those very different populations of homelessness in our community. And I just wonder as you discussed the Coral Street vision, if there was consideration of having a different location for families as part of that discussion or if that didn't come up at all. But kind of observing it, it didn't feel like the right place to have parents with children as it was or as it has been in the past. Yeah, I can follow up on that. Council member Watkins. So the question about the best way of experiencing homelessness in our community all in one area, certainly has come up not so much within the context of the catch deliberations. However, the work with Nielsen Studios is also hovering around assistance and consulting work with master planning. And we had kickstarted a master planning process last year with Ron Prince kind of leading the charge on that and had begun to work with an architect to go, this is the City of County and COVID happened. And so in returning with the design of Coral Street, obviously the programmatic needs between the agencies that are cited at Coral Street have come up. And that is in addition to the business owners and the neighbors as well. And I will reiterate as well that folks into the managed camp on Coral Street, we had a father with a six year old daughter come out of Rebly Shelter and say that they had never walked on the sidewalk before that day out of fear and really quite frankly, concern for their safety. So I will, you know, obviously support that reaction and also know that it's really important to ensure safe accessibility for everybody. And that will be certainly be part of the design and master planning process moving forward. Nick, one last comment and just sort of a quick shout out to Duane Tate who is now in New Zealand, who's a colleague of mine at the County Office of Education, tireless advocate for homelessness and homeless families and partnerships and a collaborative person and his character and he had a really incredible foundation already. But I know he would be here in fear then. He would be all right if I spent a few moments now just trying to distill the perspective that I can share from here of the Safe Sleep Subcommittee. For the course of a number of public meetings, it's an opportunity to hear from a wide range of members of the public and receiving correspondence from the public about various potential types of programs from people experiencing homelessness to be afforded a legal place to sleep. It was even efforts that amongst the, there's a preference for options there for 24-hour indoor shelters, tiny home villages and things of that nature. And at the same time, many people experiencing homelessness stated a preference for the autonomy of being allowed to camp outdoors independently or in self-managed camps. While recognizing the general preference, many people in our community have to see people experiencing homelessness shelter indoors, in practice it does not seem likely that the City of Santa Cruz will ever have adequate capacity in its indoor shelter system to meet the needs of 100% of the people who sleep outside. For this reason, we need to continue to develop city policies such as revised ordinance that does not generally criminalize the act of sleeping outside and that designates places where people are allowed to camp. We must continue efforts to create additional capacity for managed indoor shelters such as navigation centers, tiny home villages and temporary indoor shelters while continuing to reflect policing practices. Moving to an outreach force model of enforcement where people sleeping outside and designating lawful areas for people to sleep will result in better outcomes, is more cost effective and will allow police officers to spend more time dealing with serious threats to public health and safety instead of essentially continuing to harm people experiencing homelessness sleep outside from one area of the city to another. Everything that I've mentioned thus far has already been recommended by the cash to the council, but the council has yet taken any substantial action to move these recommendations forward. By my count, only seven of the 22 recommendations made by the cash at our last presentation to council for the outreach force model recommendations regarding the developing safe sleeping sites beyond the temporary nature of the COVID-19 relief funded programs, developing additional long term indoor shelter capacity, several recommendations regarding the modifications to the camping ordinance that reflect the values of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Martin B. Boyzie ruling. And with that, decriminalizing sleeping, creating safe sleep zones for folks to legally have a place to go. The Benz Lens right now, which is a site that I think we all think is a good program model, has approximately 100 residents, but it's at capacity. And it's also set to close in the middle of October because of flooding concerns. So the question becomes, what happens to the people who are staying in that location now? Where does that site move? Is it gonna be more than one location? There are a lot of questions that are up in the air right now around that site. So identifying locations for these safe sleep zones or other programs, that's a really critical aspect of the city's responsibility for managing outdoor camping and people experiencing homelessness who are unsheltered. McKesson ever did make specific recommendations about sites for outdoor safe sleep programs. This was probably the most controversial topic we were asked to look at and the most challenging. However, the safe sleep committee was in the midst of developing a rubric for citing criteria that the city could use in selecting a site that we felt was an improvement over the criteria when the city was poised to choose between sites like the Wolf Corporation Yard, the North Depot Park parking lot, the city-owned space on High Street, Lot 17, et cetera. That work was ultimately not completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But we felt adapting the city's existing scoring systems used by the planning department to weigh the citing criteria, which we listed in our interim recommendations. In that report, that would be a critical and a crucial goal in producing a fair, balanced citing recommendation that follows the objective criteria and reduces neighborhood political influence and site selection. I also just wanted to mention quickly and finally that the safe sleep subcommittee had put forth recommendation for developing a strategic action plan on homelessness for the city with 11 specified elements. Unfortunately, just the nature of the catch meetings made it challenging for us to turn that the subcommittee of the recommendation into a formal recommendation that the catch could bring forward. There just wasn't enough time in our meetings to get the word smithing right of that recommendation. We just didn't have enough time to move that forward. But I would hope that the catch would have been supportive of that recommendation that came from the safe sleep subcommittee. And in addition to that, there was another policy suggestion which is mentioned in our interim report, which is to take that strategic action plan and the idea of the outreach force model enforcement and make those two things the highest homelessness-related priorities for the city. And with that, I'll send it back to the mayor. I would just ask a question and maybe if you could share some of those. Just kind of given the parking programs, the multiple meetings, the outreach that's been happening. I think we're up to maybe seven or 12 now. Drop the county. We have the youth, the homeless youth program with the Senate in Venice. So the county's really stepped up. So I was wondering if maybe you could speak to, I know that six months, quiet supervisors are just gonna approve there's any long-term planning on focus strategies. And so I was wondering if maybe you could speak to the council and the public a little bit about that, because I think that some of what the work of the catch has been doing and in addition to that, some of the comments that were made by the students of the community captured it, the role moving forward that the county's gonna be taking as it relates to all of this. Yeah, definitely, Mayor. Thanks for the opportunity to provide some additional input on that. So as the two by two members know that Vice Mayor Myers and Mayor Cummings, we have been working very closely with the county on all things systems planning for quite some time. Focus strategies is a nationally recognized consulting firm that was hired by the county to do a deep dive into how the system responds around homelessness in our region and across the county is performing. And that process has been bifurcated in a few different reports. One is the baseline report that really looks at the system analyzes data and looks at those gaps in service. And they were poised to provide their final report to the Board of Supervisors. At this time during the year and of course by virtue of the pandemic were pushed off. But the first side of that which was captured a little bit in the report is that pandemic has created a truly tremendous opportunity for increased coordination across the region. And this is between the city and county jurisdictions as well as with our nonprofit and faith based and private partners. As the Mayor mentioned, the county is moving forward with a six month work plan which develops a bridge between COVID response and ultimately the sustainable approach to systems response and governance with regard to homelessness. The six month work plan which the CAO's Office and the Human Services Department brought to the Board of Supervisors at the previous meeting, not the one today, really does capture the momentum that was created during COVID. And as the Mayor talked about we have vastly increased our shelter capacity that is in hotel rooms for isolated and quarantine and vulnerable individuals. So those are folks that have either been tested COVID positive or are vulnerable particularly to the illness created by the virus to congregate shelter programs at both the Santa Cruz Vets and Lawsonville Vets Hall to of course what you see at the bench lands that started a few weeks ago and at the Coal Street Shelter Program that supported folks to transition from the un-sanctioned encampments on Coal Street. In addition, there is an entirely coordinated outreach model now that is being led by the homeless person's health project across probably two dozen service providers that have never worked together before. It's been a tremendous thing to watch from the city's perspective how much case coordination can happen when folks work together on those meeting those needs to the county just launched a Housing Center case management program within the current shelter programs. And so really putting an emphasis on the case management aspect that Council Member Byers was talking about which is critical for people to assist people to exit shelter into housing and to stay in housing. So that six month work plan I know Mayor Cummings, Lisa Benson, the Assistant CAO is certainly willing to come and talk to the city council about that process as well as the process for which the three year work plan is being created. The one main point that I think is really pivotal for the council to be intimately involved in is the new system of governance that will be part of that focus strategies work which will be replacing the HAP, the Homeless Action Partnership which is our region's arm of the Continuum of Care, the COC. And right now we are working through the focus strategy advisory team to develop essentially a county commission for which elected officials from the local jurisdictions as well as the county would sit on in addition to folks with lived experiences as well as other critical members in the community that are involved in homelessness response. So that government process is really important for the council to weigh in on in that essentially it is expected that this new commission will be making those funding and fiscal decisions as well as policy decisions to improve the lives of folks on shelter as well as our house neighbors. So I'm happy to work with the county CEO's office and HSD and bring more information to the city in a lot of future meetings if that is desired. Great, thank you, Susan, for that update and quickly from that six month plan is just mentioned on creating a homeless services division in the hiring process director at the World Over Counties, is that correct? Yeah, so the CEO's office has been housing no pun intended, the homelessness response for the county. That is in October moving over to the Human Services Department under the leadership of the new HSD director, Randy Morris. I believe that they are in the process of recruitment for that position, they are gonna be hiring a new division director of which the staff from the CEO's office is gonna be moving over and then HSD staff that works on SmartPath and other housing section is gonna be sitting. Most of that work is gonna be moving over to HSD come October of this year. Susan? Yeah. Hi, this is Markeene, I just wanted to add actually I'm actually serving on the interview panel for the new director tomorrow, actually all day today, so I'll be tomorrow. So then moving forward with that position. Great, so I think it's just great that the amount of work that's gone into homeless services and how we're almost during COVID is really developing into something much bigger at the county level, it's gonna be addressing this issue and so at the time where we're gonna be at the county, you know, the unifying to really address this issue head on and so just gotta be good for councilmen who may not be aware of the planning that's coming forward around homelessness at the county level, but from Matthews and what we can then open up to public comment and come back to get action on this item. I just was wanting to bring to everyone's attention according to the report, there's 77% of the people who suffer from substance abuse or electric condition. Sometimes people don't want help even if you bring them to a navigation center and so one question I have is what recommendations you have for people who are treatment resistant and then another thing I don't want us to lose sight of is that we talk a lot about the homeless, the homeless individuals and that they are the most vulnerable members of our community and some of them are, but I also don't want us to forget that the children under the age of 18 in our community are really vulnerable members of our community and prevention is something that we have to keep up before front of our minds and not just look at the here and now, but look really long term and I know Santa Cruz City Schools has been doing a good job of focusing on mental health and keeping sure that mental health and we've got full-time counselors at the elementary level, we've got social emotional curriculum and it's just as important as the academic curriculum starting in kindergarten. That being said, where I think Santa Cruz City Schools and I'm probably guessing schools across the city, state and county fall short is with any education around addiction and drugs quite frankly. I know like my high school junior has had one week of health education about drugs in probably his whole school career a couple of days in ninth grade health, a couple of days in seventh grade and a day or two in fifth grade and then we have hours of the day. And so if we're not focusing on the youth and we're not educating people about ways to not fall into this trap, then it's gonna be just a snowball effect and we're really never gonna get out of it. So while I agree that I think we need to focus on the folks that are suffering here and now, we can't decide that we need to put some money and some resources wherever it can come from and to making sure that this is prevented in the long term as well. Mayor, can I provide one little piece of feedback on that for Council Member Golder? So when I have yet to sit down with you and talk about core investments and that is being extended a year by virtue of COVID but gets to much of the upstream prevention investments that the city makes along with the county that we are moving forward with developing a new RFP in the coming months along with the county. And what you have raised in terms of the need to, and I know Council Member Rock and we'll agree with you on this along with many other other colleagues that the school system into prevention with regard to behavioral health disorders is a critical investment of that upstream collective impact. This is an issue that we will be bringing to the Community Programs Committee as we continue to think about how best to invest. So that is gonna be a significant priority for the city council in this coming year and thinking about what that investment should look like moving forward. And I can't remember if you're on the Community Programs Committee or not, I think you might be. So if you are, I'd really be happy. Thanks, Izzy. Okay, thank you, Council Member Matthews. I will briefly second everyone's comments extending thanks to the entire CASH team, convener, chairs, committee members and staff. It was just a heroic amount of work over time. I do want to second, I think, Catherine's observation. It's been a long time dealing with all those reports and recommendations and so forth. I'm honestly frustrating, frustrating for advocates, for providers, for the community. And I think as several have mentioned, certainly the mayor and city, the combination of the county's re-looking truth-of-focus strategies study and report about how they can do it better and the urgency of COVID in forcing a more engaged partnership between the city and the county has gotten a further than years of asking, quite honestly. And if there's anything I feel emphatic about it's that the burden, the expectation for this should not continue to rest on city Santa Cruz. I think that's probably, I feel a lot of nodding heads on that. So that's the momentum for us and for advocates and providers all to carry forth with. I'm encouraged to hear about some of the things, certainly the re-envisioning of Coral Street. I agree with Council Member Watkins' statements. That's not a therapeutic environment for families. Let's not kid ourselves. So there's so much to look at that can get us to the kind of results that we want. And I am hoping that as we move forward trying to implement the study, the county study, the cooperation and staffing and the government that collectively in the sense of urgency that we feel now with the sheer numbers and COVID that we can start to begin to feel that we're making progress on getting people to better places. And that can take a whole lot of different forms. But I think there definitely has an a sense of frustration, fatigue, settling upon the city. And I hope that the work at CASH and the focus strategy and a new partnership can get us to decent progress. And no further comments from Council Members. I will turn it over to the community who would like to comment on the report. It's being brought forward by the Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness. Now's the time to call the numbers on your screen. Once you have called in, please press them. You will be given two minutes. I do believe there was one member of the public that we had called and who was asked to go to the members of the public to open up for public comment. Real housing consisting of family-like support group homes run by professionals trained in health and safety rules. More than all by voluntary mutual agreement and enforced. This targets the neediest cases unlike the house this is paid for, who runs it is another matter, but the city should not be the primary driver of these programs. It would be cheaper than constructing new shelters where ordinary housing is involved and target the neediest unlike Section 8 subsidy solutions or the indifference of mass shelter and cabin solutions. It's time to try something different. Now back to what I've always said for two years. Number one, the population density of homeless and Santa Cruz is much higher than the state average, higher than any city I know of. It's almost 2% where the state is more like 0.35%. This means far too many homeless and Santa Cruz and we are in danger of becoming an exceptional cesspool of government subsidy reasons why this is. And identifying this problem requires acknowledging that dimension. The question is why this extraordinary density is just here. You really, really, really need to answer that question and admit reducing the number of homeless here. It should be a major necessary rational goal and a measure of success before committing one dime to do anything. As is, I only see the extraordinary cesspool of government dependence growing. I suspect it is the militant homeless advocates and a militant non-profit base that feeds off the homeless even as they support, attract, and maintain them even as law and order looks the other way. Those are high on the list of reasons for these numbers. I desire to hear your Santa Cruz specific explanation as to these large numbers. I expect to hear crickets. Number two, crime. The homeless population as considerably the police action crime and blight, something the greater public does not deserve. Some of these people should be locked up and not catch or release. I have more, but that's all for now. Bye. My name's Serge Cagno. I'm a member of the catch. I'd like to reiterate what everybody said. Thank you. There's been so much work and so much sincere effort trying to solve our city's issues on this and trying to help the people on the streets. I was on contact with the county to help design and set up the vet hall programs. I do a lot of collaborating with case managers and without root staff. And I think that no matter which side of these issues are on, I think we all want effectiveness. We want to have a change in the status quo. And as we're trying to decide what is our next step, I think it's all about, we would like an effective response to be able to change what everybody is, what our community is challenged with. COVID was a chance where the city collaborated with the county and that didn't need COVID. And I want to really be clear on the collaboration with the county can, I hope continues post COVID without this always challenging of the county should take care of it, the county should pay for it. So part of what the county did and what we designed for the vet hall shelters is we designed it as low barrier programs. And that means not having unnecessary stigmatizing curfews or demanding abstinence from residents in the midst of their addiction. Using low barrier, you can still absolutely demand safety and you accept people for where they're at. We engaged many, many clients who have never been in the system before, never accepted services from anybody. And we used HMIS, the homeless management information which is online case management pretty much.  So it's this idea of accepting people for where they're at and making sure that you have safety but being flexible about everything else, treating them with respect, gets them engaged in the system. We had services in the shelter. Suzie mentioned one of them talking about case management, trying to get people into housing after the shelters. But we also had social work with behavioral health and mental health and substance use services. And we had county staff coming in and doing hours and meeting with people. And that compassionate face to face time is hand down the most effective way to engage people into services. The status quo pre COVID in the city of Santa Cruz is a law enforcement response and a city manager response of trying to deal with encampments.  But I definitely thank you for your comments and appreciate the hard work that you're doing with getting services and getting people connected to services in our community. Okay, is there any, so there's any other number of people who would like to speak to us on this item? Now is the time to call in. And once you've called in please press do comment on this item. Okay, I'm prepared to make a motion and not just because it's a school night. I am also, and I can't even say this again, agreeing with Jeff Phillips and Matt, I do think people would be, it'd be awesome to see people in non-traditional homeless type shelters like we're in co-housing situations. And I would love to see further collaboration between our city and the county moving forward. And I agree with Surgeon that it shouldn't have taken a global pandemic to bring all the players to the table. And I really hope that this two by two committee can be able to do it two by five. I mean, I think if I can't do all the board of supervisors, but you know what I'm saying, bring more voices to the table and really move things forward. So that being said, receive the community advisory on homelessness, recommendation, and accept the final cash report and direct the city manager to implement council accepted cash, final policy recommendations as identified during council deliberations. And I would just like to add one more thing. If there's any money in that CARES Act that we could put towards this, then I'm open to whatever people in council think about that. That's, I'm gonna leave it at that. But also I think that it should not be comfortable to meet it. I'm overwhelmed. I wanna support the motion, but I wanna try to clarify and follow up on council member Golder's proposal to direct potential CARES Act funding to the, I think in particular, the Coral Street project. I think that's something that we could make a meaningful contribution to and with the help of the county, given the relationship that's, what I'm hearing about the county's willingness to participate in that as well. I feel like it's a good incentive to really get that going. So if we could just like, I mean, I would say yes, I support council member Golder's proposal. And if we could sort of figure out, could we find $100,000? That's how council members feel about that from the CARES Act funding that I believe we should have available to us for these kind of, this kind of purpose. Is that a friendly amendment or could you say? Yes, a friendly amendment to contribution from the city's CARES Act fund to move the work at Coral Street forward. Is that, if that's accepted by the maker of the motion? Yes, it's been a friendly amendment by council member Brown. Council member Golder. I understand the interest, if I could, but I wanna remind us that we're going into a budget some week and there are gonna be so many claims, even on CARES Act. And I'm very reluctant right now with this as the one thing provided to specifically designate any amount of money. Obviously it's a candidate, but I would just prefer that a specific designation not be explicit. A budget. There are a whole lot of things that are in the cash recommendations. They're all gonna be buying for resources. So that would just be a big suggestion. Even consider CARES, but not to designate or say a priority or an amount. I can interject and maybe ask Susie as well. I don't think maybe you're a managed away because I've never, you know, the conversations that we've had with through the two by two and just kind of understanding the funding. Currently, you know, as we're standing up all these different products on these probably unversible, I was wondering if you could maybe speak to how this is going to go. One thing that I wanted to mention, thanks, thanks, mayor. And I'm sure Martine will elaborate on this as well, is that the funds that have been used to stand up the vast majority of the programs have been provided during COVID response, have been provided by the county. However, under the continuum of care. So some of these funds were originally programmed through the homeless action partnership of which the city sits on the governance as well as the advisory board for the HAP. Some of those funds to the tune of $1.4 million were heat funds that were feeberg and by virtue of those negotiations falling through, those funds still fit in the HAP jurisdiction for allocation. That is one source of funds that could be used to help support the work of the catch and these recommendations. Further, you know, I know that during your budget hearings and the study session that begins next week, as Cynthia mentioned, there will be a lot of challenging discussions around cuts, et cetera. The care funding in addition to CDBG and other funds that may come from the state and the feds moving forward could be used for some of these priorities. And I think the biggest consideration that we need to make is what is eligible for female reimbursement and for the care funding in particular in things as the county. And so I know Martine mentioned in the letter from the mayor to the board earlier during his city manager's report, there is a request to look deeper at the care funding portfolio at the county level as well. And I think, you know, I'm hearing Sandy's family amendment, it might make sense to at least while not putting in a specific number to make a consideration around that negotiation with the county with regard to the care funding portfolio and then include some of those considerations in your budget discussions next week. Yeah, let me elaborate. There's a variety of funding sources. There's really two buckets. One is specifically to COVID. And some will be covered through by the nature of this being a declared emergency. And so we're tracking those and we'll be submitting for reimbursements. And so there's a number of expenses that we'll be looking to get the inverse for. And those includes homelessness related expenses in the sanitation facility, things like that. And the county is as well with some of the things that they've set up. And then in addition, there's the care funding which is funding that was allocated to the first stimulus package, the federal stimulus package. There was some money given directly to large cities, half a million or more. And then the rest was given to the states to distribute to counties and cities that were smaller populations. And so then what the state did was to give a direct allocation to cities of 300,000. There was a pretty significant, they gave a pretty significant allocation to counties. Really minuscule allocations to small cities. So what we received was minuscule by comparison. And really what, it's not even gonna cover our expenses that are not eligible. So for example, we're receiving $780,000 which might seem like a lot but it really isn't in the context of what we've been spending. The county by comparison received 27 million of care funding. So that's so far, what we're looking at with respect to our care funding is just trying to cover the expenses that we've had that aren't gonna be covered by FEMA and to just be able to, and as you know with our budget situation and the huge deficit that we're facing, we're just trying to make sure that we're able to pay the bills and cover COVID related expenses. It has to be for COVID related expenses. So deal with respect to the small allocation that the city received the care funding. Then the other part of funds that's out there is really from the state. And Susie mentioned some of the allocations, the heat allocations that have come in the last couple of years that have been used. And then there's additional funding in the current state budget also. And so the state, and then there's some additional state funding for mental health services as well. Much of that funding, again, has gone to the county. And so the county has really large line share of overall funding for homeless services that's been allocated through the state budget as well as the federal CARES funding. And then of course we also have allocated funding through our general fund. So we have some approximately a million dollars in general fund allocations and then we also allocate some through CDBG and other sources, federal sources where it tells them all. So that's kind of the status of our funding. But the honest truth is that we just do not have additional funds at this point to allocate for additional programs that are sustained. The county has been allocated a significant amount of funding for that purpose. And that regards since they were allocated the bulk of the funding for that purpose purposes. Mike, if I can just follow up, if I remember correctly, I think there was some mention about the... Yes, it was deposition, the search capacity, RV capacity, those are some of the areas that we've asked for some assistance in doing that. Now of course we also have invested in some of those areas through CDBG. We'll continue to do that and through the general fund. And but I think with respect to the CARES funding, I think that was part of the question, you know, our focus when you was trying to address the anticipated, unanticipated expenses that we had as a result of COVID. And of course we're also trying to deal with the huge budget deficit as a result of COVID. So it's sort of part of that mix as far as how to be able to use those funds. But really not extra funds that we have to spend at this point. I'll follow around, I know that you had your job. Yeah, I have several comments and a follow-up question that I suggested CARES Act funding is because I feel like that's a place where we can make a strategic investment now. It is one time funding and my understanding is that it would help motivate the county to invest as well. And so I'm a little concerned about like reverting back to this, well, it's the county's job and we're not really equipped to deal with this. And if we've already expended all of those funds, is it possible for us to get an accounting of what that money was spent for? Because I don't recall seeing anything like that. Yeah, you'll be getting that. It's part of the budget process. What it does is allocating their COVID funding for related expenses, IT expenses, PVP expenses that they've acquired, for example. Again, they've got $27 million that they're allocating. So what it does for us is it just simply makes our deficit bigger. So that's the way I sort of look at it from the budgetary perspective. It's obviously up to the council, the budget will be for you and you'll make that decision. But from a purely financial perspective, the way we looked at it was, we've got expenses that we haven't, we don't have the money to cover and there's expenses that we have now and we have a deficit. And so we're trying to cover those expenses. So yeah, so we'll get a specifically where that $780 million, $8,000, what that has been spent for, committed to. That's what the county's doing too. Yeah, I'm aware of what the county's doing. So I guess going back then to the, so council member Golder, did you want to just withdraw the idea of during Alex's money at this point? Okay. Yeah, I think that's a good question. I'll give him a comment here. Okay. Thank you. My only question at this point was what's the motion? So it sounds like it's a. I'm sorry, I'm really complete with that. There's an opportunity to work with the county and partner on a project that, I think that might be worth considering, but we should be sort of flexible with how we fund that. So I think I just want to make sure that we have retained flexibility to do that. And so there's a variety of funding sources that potentially we could take advantage of if there's an opportunity to partner or something. So I don't want to say that we shouldn't be partnering and potentially investing in things. So I think we will have to make some investments. I'm just saying that we just want to have flexibility with respect to how we fund that, depending on our budget situation and what's available. And it'll all come back to council in any case. So just to be clear. I would invite any of the council members to participate in the hearing tomorrow so you can support the county city partnership. The letter that was sent by the mayor and myself did specifically include a request for support for Coral Street. For the last several months, I've been working with at least two of the supervisors to keep them updated on Coral Street and trying to understand the needs and sort of the longer vision there. As Susie mentioned with her work, we've been doing a lot of communication in terms of Coral Street information. I think we've talked about CARES Act, we've talked about other funding. So to Martín's point, I think we don't necessarily need to call that out in this motion, but I just want to assure you that the conversations happen literally almost every other day in terms of trying to figure out how to support these different efforts. So I just want to compliment, especially Ryan Coonerty and Supervisor McPherson because we really do communicate almost every other day. I really do feel like the partnership has grown substantially. And I want to compliment the county staff. I don't think by any means it's an impossible process request. I think there's a lot of money that needs to be sorted amongst a lot of existing expenses that need to be covered and then the future. So I think we're in good shape just being able to report out as a two by two member that way. So hope that helps. Yeah, one traveling amendment that I was wondering if we could make to this motion. The first part of it when I was wondering if we could also direct the report to the county supervisors, given that those expenses part was done, I think that it would be good to this report to not only really counting, but then also in the direction of city managed office that they work with the county on implementing council accepted cash file policy recommendation as identified there in health information that's come through this group. It'd be really good if the county has these recommendations as well. We really try to work with the county and the conversations right now. You can as we talk about funding, if we're able to work with the county and kind of see the county as the leaders with us. So what our needs are, I think that that would really be helpful in continuing to maintain this collaboration. I will gladly accept that family amendment. I think it's brilliant. Thank you. I'm happy to wrap the evening up. It was mentioned that it would be good to have someone represent the city at the budget areas tomorrow. That was mentioned earlier today. Also, is anyone planning to do that? You are. Okay. What time is it at the meeting tomorrow? Do you have a time certain for that or a window? Yeah, I was, I believe Susie mentioned that I think the meeting starts at nine. It's hard to know exactly, but maybe somewhere try to tune in by Spanish. That makes sense. I don't know if you were watching that closer than I was, but I think to the extent that we can advocate, let's please anyone that can join in. I've got a little time between a meeting at work, but if there's more people that can join, it'd be great. I'll try to be on time. That's all Zoom too. So it's just a matter of pulling in. Is that correct? Yeah, so I sent an email to the man vice mayor about the timing of it. I'm Council Member Matthews, and I think that the meeting starts at nine, but there is public comment before that, and there have been a fairly long line of public comment in recent meetings, and I don't know if the budget hearings will be an exception. And then they are going to do the consent agenda before they move into the CAO's office budget. And that, so my expectation is anywhere between nine 30 and 10 30 is when public comment would be happening on that particular element of the agenda. So it is the first general business agenda item. Yeah, okay, I can do that. I can group text you guys if you guys are interested and I can send the column information as well for everybody if that would be helpful. Yeah, and then my thought is also if you're going to send gig copy to the supervisors, it's just a little bit more effort, but also share it with our state elected and Jimmy Panetta. I mean, these are all money sources. So let them know we have made a big investment of money, time, et cetera, effort in this cash project. And so let others see what we've come up with, what we hope to achieve and let them be part of that. Yeah, I'll just reiterate my disappointment that given all the talk about partnership and wanting the county to move in this direction, working on the Coral Street project, et cetera, that we can't come up with a way to make a small modest contribution to demonstrate that we really want to partner on a project like this. So I'll just say that and leave it there so the budget conversation may come up again. The city manager's office will put the county on implementing counter-accepted cash file policy recommendations that's seconded by Councilmember Wacken if there's no further questions or comments. I'll turn it over to the city. May I make a quick request for staff clarification? And I know that this might be helpful for the clerk as well. The motion was written in a way to allow for you to identify specific recommendations from the final recommendations to move forward. I'm assuming that you mean all four recommendations. I just want to make that clarification so everybody's on the same page. I'll make a motion that's the case. Okay, yeah, thank you. Thank you. Okay, yes, we'll move on to all our recommendations. Councilmember Fierce? Matthew? Bye. Bye. Boulder? Bye. Bye. And Mayor Cummings? Aye. That's the dean out on his way. We'll send to all the cash members and to all the people who are engaged and involved and move forward before we forward with our work we can have to really test we can with the resources that we have to address homelessness in our community.


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Trini girl natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. Today I'm excited to be reviewing this on tannicurls. I can't believe it's not honey here caramel. So when I first saw this on instagram I was like oh because you know my hair loves humectants. So it just sounded like all my favorite things so I couldn't wait to try it. So here it is. And these are the ingredients. So as you can see there are a lot of humectants. Agame nectar which is a humectant is the first ingredient and then there's some oils and then more humectants. So humectants are really good for low porosity here because it really penetrates the strand. So I was really excited to try this and see what would happen but there is no fatty alcohol, no btms, no butters and so on. It's like a mixture of agave and probably everything else in here. So like a fruity, molasses agave. I want to tell you about the texture but it was hard to tell because even though I shake it up well okay I didn't shake it the first time I'll be honest but I shake it up and then I use sometimes it came out kind of like a thickish syrup and sometimes it came out like a liquid syrup. So I didn't know which one it was supposed to be or if it was supposed to be something in between. Both were easy to spread. The thicker version was somewhat easier to handle. I get onto the hair. The more liquidy version you had to just kind of hurry up and get it onto the hair. So I guess I'll show you what I mean. I'll just show you the demo and then I'll come back and talk about it some more. So I started off by shampooing just to make sure that there was no bill up or anything to prevent this moisture one that I was supposed to into. So this is my hair after shampooing and then I sectioned as they wanted us to and applied the syrup. So as you can see sometimes when I pour the syrup like it was thick and then sometimes it was runny so I don't know. It went on okay. You can see that there was some slip but there was some struggle. But overall it was okay. It wasn't horrible in terms of slip. After I applied it to the section I just redid the section by twisting it up and clipping it again. So I didn't want to use the shower cap I wanted to see but it was just too drippy. This is my hair after being under the dryer for half an hour and letting it sit for another hour. My hair seemed pretty much dry after that. Not dry as in lacking moisture but dry as in it actually dried. And this is my hair after rinsing the final result. You can see that there is some shine, some moisture but still the slip wasn't perfect and stuff like that. So I had mixed feelings. It was okay. Good things, bad things and let me discuss it more now. I went into the scalp but I'm not loving anything onto my scalp after I shampooed. I love my scalp. I love my sebum so I'm not messing with that. It's time to leave it on for one to two hours. I left it on for an hour and a half. I usually steam my hair when I deep condition and I was using this as a deep conditioner but it was so drippy. The drip won. I had to bow. There was no way I could steam with that. I would just be a puddle. Even with the shower cap it was still pretty drippy. It was drippy and sticky which was even worse. I mean it's just syrup you know. It's just syrup. And it's wet. The slip is decent. Dry that long.  Body parts sticking together. Warning. Sticky, messy, drippy. But how does it just really get wet? So there isn't that much water. That's probably why it became almost completely dry. Actually it can trap more water there and I think just trapping more water with the heat would probably allow more on social media and I can kind of see where the mixed reviews came from. It was hydrated but most of it is wiry. Just is very bottomless silky. Dr. The Touch. So I really need something on it to also smoothen it and soften it. And this is supposed to be hair softening. It says in bed serious moisture softens and hydrates. It embedded decent moisture did not soften. My hair was soft enough like how I like it. So if you look at my old videos and I love a new conditioner I'm just running my hands through afterwards and you may have seen me try to run my hands through and it was like especially since I had shampooed before I used it. It just after rinsing did not bangle but the slip wasn't there so my fans were getting caught in my hair on the way down. We use these things because I do a DIY version that's pretty similar. I use a DIY honey, molasses, glycerin, oils and stuff but I usually pour it into an existing deep conditioner or like I said stuff said alcohol. So I would either include that into a deep conditioner or make this and then mix it with a regular deep conditioner but I wouldn't use this alone to deep condition. So I didn't hit it. I just think the suggested use doesn't really work for my hair. That's really a lie saver I would say mixed into deep conditioner because really well I'm up to a deep conditioner I believe. My DIY version does but I wouldn't be purchasing just because I already make it myself. So if you don't make it yourself and you have dry hair this would be a good thing for your purchase and just squirt a little bit into your deep conditioner every week. I do think you'll definitely see a difference. So I wouldn't be purchasing but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't purchase it if you have a need for more hydration and more moisture because this is all moisture. I just need some softening as well and conditioning as well. So when I rinse it I want to feel some slip and some conditioning and some still there. If my hair was silky everywhere it would still feel soft to the touch regardless. So maybe that's how you put silk. Your hair loves it more and people would like rougher textures but for my texture it didn't do everything I needed a deep conditioner to do. But you can see my hair didn't look shiny. My hair was moisturized and everything so it's like but not quite for me. Easily tangling I would say no because it was just enough slip going on I think to scream about and after rinsing the slip was gone. So easily tangling no. Something you would know. So happy suddenly well but the other half it doesn't do what I needed to do everything it says. I love the afrotastical elastic so I'm definitely going to be sticking with that as my sultana girl's deep conditioner. Some people didn't like it would say that it made their hair really hard and really like proteinable or something kind of feeling. So definitely didn't do all that for me. My hair was still decent. I used to sometimes winter green supreme for my leaving and with this putting this on everything was back to normal because it added all the softening I needed. So between the two of these it worked really well. So I don't know if you want to try something like this with this over it or something but as a combo it worked really well. So that was that. Let me know if you were curious about the hair caramel. Let me know if you bought it and what you thought of it. So I'm a sultana girl's fan and I know that I have a lot of sultana girl fans in my subbies so let's dish with you. Also PJ and your sultana girls PJ and your proud hair caramel works for you and let me know what your favorite sultana girl's deep conditioner is. That's it for this video. I'll see you in the next one. Be sure to subscribe for more content and click the notification bell so you can see when I upload new videos which I try to do every Friday. Thanks so much for watching guys. See you in the next one. Bye!


as you can see as soon as I turn the key on the camera did not come on let's figure out what's going on to do a little troubleshooting with this so this lights on that means it's getting power right so why is this not kicking on when you turn the key on now this light that just means it's getting power but how much power is it getting well I've already checked check that see this is 12 volt I've checked that it's only getting like 11 volts out of it should be getting upwards around 12 to 13 minimum when it's running it may jump up to about 14 but I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with this because I've had this problem before I had to deal with on a Toyota Corolla I think it was or maybe a Camry that it was putting out juice but just not enough so I'm gonna leave that key on I'll show you where to check this that all right so out here on these Toyota Tacomas I think it's what from 90 98 to 2004 I know that'll work it's pretty much the same but these Toyota Tacomas it's the 2.4 4 cylinder right under here if you look this is your distribution box is what it's called it's also another see it says power outlet 15 amp right here okay so that would be it should be that one there so let me turn this key off I'm guessing this fuse right here is blown that looks like that looks like one of them light up fuses I don't know why it's not lit up but if I plug something in it may let's see here let's go ahead and plug this back in the key is on okay no I don't see it lit up okay let me grab I got my needle nose here yeah okay yeah it is lit up can you see that it's lit up that means it's blown guys now not all fuses do that but these expensive ones do so let me see I got one up here because I do have some fuses there it's a 15 amp and already had them out because I know what it's supposed to take and besides the ceiling fuses I've got now let's stick this in there okay the camera did kick on and it is recording because off now that light will come on that light will come on or the camera will come on so that was the issue it just wouldn't put enough up through now the top one I think the fuse if I remember right over here now if we pulled out of the top one put it in here nothing okay so what we're gonna do is let's check check this fuse panel here so if I can get you get you guys back here a little farther down there we go there we go alright so it doesn't say it in here on this like this but it does have a power for 30 amp now up here it says power 30 amp but as you can see it doesn't have one up there which is weird okay so this this one here the top one is for the ECU this one's for the horn and hazard lights okay there's your stop lights this your STA so it's got all four of those but it don't have a power one on top okay so I'm not sure what's going on with that but over here in the middle one it's supposed to have ACC it's supposed to be 15 amp I see there's a 30 in there let me grab my pliers and I'm gonna pull this 30 amp out and see what what that's okay the 30 amp is blown so I'll bet you that's for that top power or cigarette lighter okay it is calling for a 15 amp so we have those have another one right here let's stick this in here and we might be able to get all three of them working because I think it was yesterday she's seen a car almost flip over and it almost hit a pedestrian of course she didn't have the dash cam because it wasn't working so now let's turn the top or turn the key on see if that top one kicks on and it didn't so that wasn't it so let's check further so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get my test light and I'll show you how to check each each one of these real easy if you don't have a multimeter but you have a test light so hang on let me grab my test light okay my test light here all right now this is pretty cool it will make a noise that comes with different tips this just unscrews out of here where you out of here just like that okay it's got one tip that I like that is for like if I got to check one of them wires there that's me I'm smoking let's say I got to check one of them wires and you guys know how many times you prick your finger well it's got a thing it goes around the wire and you just push it up and it pierces it that way you don't pierce your finger okay so let's get this turned on again okay we've got the key on now I got to find the ground hook my ground up let's find a good ground here I'm not sure if this is a ground but let's check okay so I'm gonna do that to every one of these fuses let's make sure the 15 didn't pop again okay I know it wouldn't be a 7 amp 15 now I'm pretty sure these are all good cuz horn works and slicers work now sometimes if you get one that don't work at all don't be alarmed it could only work when you have something turned on okay so that'll work except this one let's see I don't know what that's for let's put a fuse in there and see what's going on with that which one was it this one let's get a fuse in here yeah this see this is one of them light up fuses if you look in there I don't know if you cameras picking it up see out white spot in the center that's an LED that way if it blows out light will kick on so you see that light on they're good to have their pricey but they are good to have okay now let's check this okay still nothing on the top so let's nothing in that one okay there's supposed to be something in here but there's not so let's put another fuse in that which is weird because the top one always did work for a while and I didn't take any fuse out for any reason so okay still nothing on the top one check this bottom here nothing well something on this side but not this side so let's take this top one out I got more fuses but I don't want to use them all if they're not being used in the truck that could be for four-wheel drive though see we're yet right there see that top one says it's not being used it could be for for four-wheel drive okay nothing on the and take it out then there's nothing on the top so what we're going to do is I really want to get this top one working in order to do that we got pull this bezel off okay okay and we're going to check this okay and make sure see if that's working okay could have come unplugged I don't know but let's go ahead and pull this bezel off of here okay guys to take this bezel off it goes all the way up there there's two screws there's one right here one right here that will have to come out I think there's more down below so we're going to have to take this this piece off here which it just got these little inserts in there so let me let me grab a screwdriver and let's see if we can get those out of there I got a little straight screwdriver okay broke but that's you know that's what happens to these things so let's do the other one I might be able to get in from behind that's no big deal you can get those and I think I may even have some and push it but see I'm not strong enough with my fingers because it's real pointy it's not working I may have to break this one out just put a couple bolts in it here well I guess it pushes in that one's a little different okay so let's see what else is holding it up here there we go it just pops out I'll show you the clips right there one on over here there's the bottom one's there I'm gonna try to see any more yeah see there's a screw then the two up on top so let me get you set up over here so you guys can maybe see a little bit kind of hard to do inside this truck like this but I'm gonna try it try to film what I can for you I'm sure you you get the idea so I'm gonna take this bottom screw out here it looks like this should pop out of here but I don't know but let's see here let's get these screws out there's one I'm gonna have to use my stubby where's my stubby there he is this side and I can't get someone's gonna give me a problem so I'm gonna have let me get this thing out of the way a little screwdriver okay I want to show you guys something this thing you know you got to have the key on right get this thing pull it down here out of your way right but if I do that I can't get the key out okay let me show you something if you guys your batteries ever dead and it won't read your stir register that you got your foot on a break or anything like that on these Tacomas there's a little button right here okay well first I'm gonna pull the handbrake a little button there you push that button up here and set you down here okay all you do is you push that button you don't have to have your foot on break and that releases it okay I still haven't got that screw out so I'm gonna have to figure out something to get that screw out there to try to get this bezel off so I can get this out of here okay so let me go see what I got to try to get up in there vice groups I don't think is going to do it so let me do some checking and see what kind of tool I got to get up in there okay guys that screw does not have to come out apparently so this should just clip in here on the sides and up on top yeah okay let me check do some more checking on this it should just be clipped in like the bottom was I don't think there's any screws in here but we're gonna check let me check this before I break it okay I got some of our stuff out of her way I took the knobs off you seen that okay so this is going to have to come off and I'm betting their screws under there okay it just pops off just like that okay yes there's a screw right there couple over here so let's take some of them out and get you set up here you guys see let's take some of them out I know this one's open because I can see it about that later so looking like maybe this one we're just changing name cigarette left okay so okay I see that screw this is the switch for your airbag down here with the damn airbag switches the light for the cigarette or the ashtray so let me they should just twist and turn out okay well I'm not gonna mess with that switch up up there okay I do want to get this out of here and then I can pull this around and unplug this and we'll see what we're working with okay well I'm gonna plug it right here I just like to have more room to do things you know should just plug so what we're gonna do is we're gonna check this and see if we've got any juice to it it's got these little windows here you pop them open whoops you pop these little windows open right here and that's how you can tell you know to put your your tester in there so let me do that real quick okay guys I got them open I only need to check one one's a ground but you can check to just in case it's a bad ground but first I got the key on I'm gonna stick my whole my test light in this one white with the black line in it that's a ground so we need to check that too just in case so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clip this this in here I'll show you here I got sweat lies angle just like this and my screwdriver I'm gonna put that into the ground I'm gonna put this one in here good okay so now I'm guessing there's a problem with this cigarette lighter here okay so I'm not sure how these come out and I really need to get this light out of here supposed to twist you're supposed to just be able to give them a twist and pull them out but apparently this one's not wanting to play nice so just gonna pry it out there there it is now it's just a clip in Jesus all right now let's get this out here where we can work on it a little bit okay I'm gonna shut the key off that's what we're looking at and you know what I'm gonna do guys I'm gonna go ahead and unplug that and then we're gonna take this put it on tailgate so we can work on a hang tight okay guys here's the cigarette lighter and you see on each side of here there's a clip like this that you got to pull out and that'll unlock it now on this side as you can see it's kind of hard to get to so if I'm sure this to you about getting in your way too much I got a little screwdriver that will go back to this other side to pop it like that and then now get this side pull it out there's that okay now let's see what else is holding this thing in here I'm on one keys out here these tabs here on the side I'm gonna have to try to figure out a way to squeeze them in or something to try to get this off hang on let me let me research this and I'll be back with you so it turns out I didn't have to research anything just push it down out of there so then I think we turn it turn it to that tab that tab and that slot line okay looks a little rusty inside there I don't know still what the issue is why it would stop working there's not much to them but worst comes to worst I will fabricate this one out of the Chrysler this is not a cigarette lighter it's just the outlet this is actually for a cigarette lighter so say it clips it in this is just an AC outlet or power outlet not AC okay so I'm thinking I might be able to clean these tabs up and then we'll go from there let me get them cleaned up and see if it's going to work okay so what I did was I plugged this back in and I grounded it out here and check the power and the power did work when I switched around the other way it didn't so it's telling me the ground part the casing is grounding like it should so there needs to be a say that you're 12 volt there at your power so there needs to there there has to be something inside of here that's not working right and I'm betting looks to me like that wire right there so it looks like that's burnt you know right here that's supposed to be connected what causes that a lot of times people plugging in things that don't work or holding the lighter in too long it makes them weak so I guess and that's what the issue is here it burnt in half so if that's what happened kind of works like a little fuse so yeah that's that's the issue right there sit there's two need to be touching they're not that just look like a bunch of solder so what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to run something across here and then see if it works and if it does then I'll try to find a wire I don't want to get too thick I want it to be able to burn in half if it has to I may say that you know solder a fuse in there that would be a good idea so let's let me see what I got to fix this with okay I've got the key on I want to show you how I'm gonna test that I got the camera plugged in here okay now I'm gonna take and I'm gonna just short across here and I've seen something happening there it is it's kicking on see it okay so that's the issue so let's solder something in between there okay guys this is what I done I bridged that with a piece of bread tie okay it's doubled okay so what I did was I ran a test to see when that would burn okay this wire will burn in half at 20 amps alright which is good because a fuse pops at 15 since there's another fuse in it at 15 if for some reason it wouldn't pop if this gets gets to where it gets more than 20 amps this will burn in half you know it'll pop in half just like a few so it's it's essentially double fused just the single was 10 amp okay if I just ran it single cross it was 10 amp it would burn it half when I doubled it at 20 amps it started to get hot and then just bump burnt right off so that's what I did that's where the rest of the thing went that's how I checked it I think I've got a remnant of it right here I don't think it's gonna focus in on it but that's what I was testing with so yes this is perfectly perfectly safe I mean think about it this one don't even have one in it you know it just straight to power now it does have a few elsewhere but so this is I could have just ran anything across there but like I said I'd rather have it kind of like a fuse and that's like 20 amp it takes 15 to run this so we're good there so let's take it in and see if it works now it should because when I hooked this up to my jumpers on my battery it was working when I plugged something in here so let's make sure it didn't do anything to the inside when we was testing it before so let's go inside plug it in and check it out okay I've got the I've got the key turned on I'm plugging this in just like that now let's plug our camera in yeah like him oh yeah cameras on it's actually recording now let's shut the key off there we go all right let's get this thing put back together shall we let's go do this the while this is out I'm gonna go ahead and take that screw out of there and put it back in just in case I have to take this out for some reason who knows you know but just in case I'm talking about future references I'm going to go ahead and take that screw out of there and I'll probably have to use a small straight screwdriver which I can't do but let me grab some okay since I've got this out I can really get a bind on it hopefully let's try to take this screw out now well that's pretty tight okay that's all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna loosen it tighten it back up now let's get this back in here remember it's got this like tab here it's got to go into this slot and it just pushes in just like that okay now we're in there okay now we're just gonna give it a little twist so that way it locks itself in and it can't come clear out okay so that's good to go I am gonna pull bend these out just a little bit kind of help hold it in there now time to go put it back together guys oh wait this has got to go on I still don't know what this deal is for here so this got to go on oh it holds that one just like that okay so it does right now let's go back in the truck okay guys while it was out I went ahead and put the other screw back in here now we're gonna I'm gonna go ahead and pull this back down out of our way now I'm gonna plug the cigarette lighter back in I can wait on those ones I'm gonna go ahead and plug the the light it just snaps in apparently they used used to twist out but I never had one of these apart this far before so right now we're gonna plug the one I'm plugging the bag switch back in as you can see we got it turned off because I don't want that airbag blowing up my damn face you know what I mean if you ever had an airbag go off you'll know what I'm talking about them things deploy they deployed bad sometimes it does more damage than the actual accident so but I'm speaking from experience I've had to blow up on me a couple times not working on them but in actual you know hitting something or somebody hitting me or whatnot that just snaps in just like that there's only one screw down there the bottom that holds that damn thing it's in there get that screw in see much but it's down remember I got to use it I got to put a tab I think I'm just gonna get a tab for that because because I don't like the look of a bolt in there it's not supposed to be in there so that's no big deal I may have one in there I didn't know that one's pushed in but I do remember now some vehicles that I had to put I was working at fruit and pork trailers go check him out if you're in the area and you need a trailer when I was working there I remember now a couple of the newer cars they had to take these out of the the fascia down underneath to to take it off and whatnot and inside fender wells but usually they pop out instead of pushing in but apparently pop out you got reach your hand back in there they're ashtray and I do use it sometimes check the top one again I'm gonna have a whole bunch of crap on here because it starts recording as soon as you turn the camera on then once it's charged it'll it'll record 15 minutes after shut it off I also got it set to where like it's motion like if it's sitting still and somebody backs into her it'll it'll catch it okay let's turn this on yep I see lit up there it is okay now let's check the bottom ones and nothing pulled out you see that let's check the bottom ones okay so they all work great I need to check something else too I want to check this inverter okay the lights on I want to check and see if it's going to charge my phone it's charging my phone so the inverter is working I don't know if you can see that up there so yeah it's charging so that's good there's one more thing I want to check here I want to check this thing so no why is that like that oh I got to push them tabs out never mind okay I know why okay see that's lit up so let's see first my phone was that but that's a fast charger it charged my phone from completely dead to a hundred percent like an hour yes it's charging see right up there in the corner it's charging see which one unplug it so that's working so good monkey can can charge her phone still have the dash cam on I just had this stuff up in there here after a bit I'm not gonna bore you with it let's uh charging I just want to make sure me go close the hood whoops okay alright get adjusted a little bit for about right there this down back in here but this back oh I gotta put those screws back in up there I think has a couple LEDs well they're not LEDs they're a little tiny lights that are burnt out I think there's one here they're supposed to pull out I may have pulled this out and twisted out of the back I want to do that right now so that's all working that's too bad I was gonna put it in upside down one one is different from the other now what the hell I see that little metal ring that goes inside of here it stayed on the knob so or not the knob but no it didn't it may have fell down might be on the seat alright let me look for that can't have gone far and that's what it is that little metal see this has got see these got those that little metal ring inside there inside the D this one's missing so I've apparently dropped it down here somewhere I want to find that and I'll be right back with you guys hi guys so back together and I should still be working on that's lit up of course that's working so we're good to go guys okay guys pretty hot out here I'm gonna get some things done tonight I don't know if you'll see this before after but we're going to one have a campfire out back and do a live stream possibly sleep in the tent I'm gonna cook something I'm actually gonna do it in the stove my homemade stove I made out of the propane tank so we're gonna do that and so but right now I'm gonna go in get cooled off get something cold to drink and try to get this uploaded before you have another one stay tuned I don't know if I'll be able to get to it today or not but just stay tuned for it and I guess that's it enjoy the rest of your weekend appreciate you guys watching thanks remember Shaber the myth man legend I'm gone for now don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and click the bell notification icon so you can get more get notified of more videos like this so thanks for watching guys I'll see you soon bye bye