Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Elliott. Today I'm here with my man Shauna. This is crazy. This dude has one lung What's even crazier? See they say you need two. You don't need two You just need one and this dude has climbed every mountain almost in the world Mount Everest whole bunch of other ones What's he's gonna tell us about but anytime that you guys think that you know life is Is limited it's really limitless and a lot of you you have so much more inside of you You have more than you need and I think once I once you got to where you had one lung You went really did some stuff. You didn't do when you had two lungs. Am I right? Absolutely So this is an opportunity for you guys that are ready to push to a new level to get inspired and understand how this man did Check it out.  I'll be swinging on till it you want to talk about one percenter How about a one of a kind one at eight billion? Sean Swarner is here with us He is the only person to have done two different things Survived two different types of cancer one of them incredibly rare and the second to climb the seven highest peaks on seven different continents do a Iron man in hawaii and go to the north and south pole Yes, except I didn't climb the seven highest peaks on all seven continents just the highest peak on each continent Okay, it does sound like the seven seven seven seven. Yeah, but no the highest mountain on every continent the seven summits And then if you include the north and south poles, that's called the explorers grand slam or the adventure grand slam I think it sounds like a denny's breakfast platter, but I didn't name it but then you add in the hawaii iron man championship and there's one person in history who's ever done it Amazing take me to the top of Everest because this was your first challenge So you are diagnosed with cancer twice when you're a teenager you're told you're gonna die Twice as a teenager Including the second one with the rare type 14 days like I can't even imagine that So from that point you're on the top of Everest What is it like being up there? What did that sense of accomplishment feel like?  I'm impressed with that That's amazing Ever I mean Everest you you really can't Put it into words you know, it's it's Pretend you're in a plane And the captain comes over the announcement system and says, you know, we've reached our cruising altitude of 29,000 feet You look out the window and up 35 more feet You know, that's the height of Everest Everest is at an altitude where jumbo jets level off and fly Mm-hmm, and I was up there with one lung But the biggest thing that it meant to me was the entire time I was climbing I was on the mountain for about a month and a half when I reached the summit I pulled out a flag that had names of people touched by cancer It was always next to my my heart In my chest pocket as a constant reminder of why I was going for that that goal And when I pulled that flag out wrapped it around the top of the world It wasn't just me being the first cancer survivor up there It was everybody who's ever been touched by cancer in the world at the same time Sharing that success together. So did that keep you going that? Why that purpose because 29,000 feet you mentioned you have one lung So it's hard enough to do with two lungs let alone half the lung capacity when the air gets really thin When you said you're there for a month and a half and you spent 20 minutes on the summit So how is that time equate because you there's a great quote that I saw that you said I have to find it here the outcome is worth the trouble. Did you think that in your 20 minutes at the top? you know What went through my mind when I got up there I I fell to my hands and knees I wept like a baby Because I I climbed Throughout the entire night We woke up at say 10 p.m. Summated at 9 32 in the morning the next day So we're climbing throughout the night headlamps on and there's so many other climbers up there as well It's like a string of white Christmas lights. I mean it's beautiful and When I got up there again, it It made me realize that Reaching the summit reaching the end goal You learn more about yourself In the journey up there because we talked earlier. I was on the summit for 20 minutes It took me a month and a half to reach the top So I I had to learn and force myself to appreciate The journey even though it was miserable. Sometimes we were at 20 21,000 feet camp two Two days two nights. I was in my tent holding up the frame my tent with hurricane force winds Now That's not exactly exactly enjoyable But it makes the struggle worth the destination And to do it with the other cancer survivors and people that have been touched by cancer in mind So while you're sitting there holding the tent up, right because now is this the third time you face death? Because if you count the cancers, you count this this Mount Everest, you know hanging on like, uh It's a hurricane up here and 21,000 feet up Yeah, I mean, we're not going to talk about the car accidents. I've been, you know, yeah So maybe the fourth or fifth time that yeah Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy a lot of you leave comments Tell me that you need help do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me Shoot me a text message right now 918 210 254 918 210 254 I'll help you with whatever you need.   I know the grim reaper very very closely, but I'm also pretty close to the big guy upstairs There was one story you told in your book being unstoppable that I got a chance to read a clip of Where at one point when you were going through cancer, you had 108 degree fever And you had this out-of-body experience What did that mean to you as you became an adult as you became a cancer survivor And as you start climbing Everest did did all that come into play to to showcase the strength that you have I think you can get strength From any source that means A lot to you, you know, it can be spiritual. It can be religious. It could be nature. It could be Whatever for me It definitely was going back to that experience 108 degrees. I remember Literally floating out of my body turning around and seeing my body laying in bed And then all of a sudden I I felt this this hard push in my back And all of a sudden I opened my eyes, you know laying back in bed and I've always had a different look Different perspective on religion and God and stuff like that And we're not going to get too deep into that that hole But I've always found that as a source of power and energy to continue pushing me forward because I was on a flight not too long ago. I was discussing religion with somebody and I was like, well, have you fulfilled your life's purpose? He sat there for a while and I was like, are you still alive? He's like, yeah, I was like, well, then you haven't fulfilled it So I feel that same way about myself where I haven't fulfilled my life's purpose I think when when your time's up your time's up, you know, I always read my last rites with the Second cancer.  I'm not dead yet But I've used that to push myself further and further and further because I don't want to say I'm not afraid of dying. I am I don't want to no one wants to but When your time's up your time's up. Mm-hmm so month and a half on Everest after you Visit with the grim reaper you somehow get to this point where You're climbing Mount Everest for a month and a half. What about leading up to the month and a half? The preparation that you had to go through how did you Sean Let me back it up even further because Where did the idea to climb Mount Everest come from?  That's a good idea. Yeah Actually, I remember my mom and my dad when we were leaving um Just near near florida I was driving out to colorado to train because there are no mountains in florida This was 320 degree or 320 elevation or something Well, the highest point in florida is the top of the four seasons hotel in miami Right. So I'm sure the owner wouldn't appreciate me going up and down the stairwell So I remember hugging my dad And my Honda Civic was packed up, you know, everything I owned at that point fit in a Honda Civic So I drove out and I remember him hugging me and he whispers in my ear We didn't get you through two cancers to go kill yourself on a hunk of rock and ice But my parents have always been there to support me They're always honest with me telling me, hey, what you're doing is just absolutely ludicrous However, we support you. Mm-hmm So it's it's been it's been interesting. Um When I was in florida, like I said, I realized I I had something else that was pulling me to do something bigger And I did some research and found no cancer survivor had climbed out ever before I was like if a survivor's gonna do it Why not me and why not do it for the right reasons? Not for selfish reasons but to give back and give other people hope because there's so many people out there who They need to see something's possible And then believe they can do it where I'm a huge believer in the mind-body connection vivid visualization I see it in my mind's eye first and then I know I can do it Power visual visualization. Absolutely. And you did this when you were a kid as well When you got back in the swimming pool after the first cancer from not mistaken So you learned that at 13 14 years old And the power of visual visualization. I don't know why I can't say that Is What helped you? Progress So you take this skill that you start developing at 13 How often did you practice visualization and how did it come into play as you packed up your civic and and drove from florida to colorado You know, it's it's it's interesting because Do you know who kavelin hobs are like the the the comic book? Or not comic book the comic Bill waterson was the the the the writer And he had How many different Characters in his head right one of them was spaceman spiff Right, so when I was 13 the visualization started then I remember laying in the hospital bed Getting my treatment and I remember being like in a microscopic spaceship In the chemo drip bag and dripping into that clear plastic tube and I remember Visualizing and seeing my body laying in the hospital bed the hospital door over here the television Up here the window out to a courtyard and either my mom or my dad sitting next to me in one of those lazy boy chairs And I also remember Seeing myself going into my body through the ivy And all these little microscopic spaceships were collected in the heart that was a grand central station, right? And then I could I would literally visualize the the valves of my heart beating And I remember then it was my turn to go So I was shot out of the heart and I was going left right left right, you know going through the these veins Following on the dashboard like, you know turn here go there go straight whatever the directions And I would sneak up on a cancer cell in my mind And I would shoot it with and keep in mind i'm 13 years old There's a little out there But I would sneak up on this this cancer cell and I would shoot lasers and missiles and bombs and everything But they'd be laden with chemotherapy. So I would essentially be destroying the cancer from inside out Going through that the chemo. It's not easy. You gained a lot of weight. You lost your hair 6070 pounds every now which is usually the opposite of of what we hear like people that are undergoing cancer They get real thin They put me on prednisone, which is a steroid So I didn't gain the weight because of the treatment I gained the weight because of the the steroid they put me on prednisone Which has made me balloon up 60 70 pounds and you're an athlete prior to that So you you face this challenge. You're putting your body through Really what turns out to be an amazing feat like anybody goes through cancer and chemo What your body goes through and especially if you you survive it Did it show you what your body's capable of and what your mind is capable?   What it's yourself And then how often is that talk negative? 80 percent of the time Like would you want to be friends with someone who is that negative to you? Like why do you do it to yourself? But the the problem is we've been doing that for how many years all the all the seemingly mundane decisions that you've ever made Or i've ever made my entire life brought me to where i am now right here exactly this moment Most of those people most people don't pay attention to how they talk to themselves from the moment their eyes open They probably think Ah man, what do I have to do today? And it starts off with God you know another day i'm like oh god another day You know completely different, but if you don't pay attention to that internal dialogue it'll either beat you down or build you up So where did you learn that because it's always the how My first personal development conference i went to i left and i was like Oh, this is going to be easy. I've figured it out But they don't tell you oh no you got to do the work every day You got to have these daily habits daily practices In order to make big leaps and the big leaks always come when you least expect it And you've been kind of grinding away for 30 days 60 days or years or whatever And then you finally have this break and you're like oh, that's why I did the work every day So take me back to going back to from florida to colorado you have this goal this mission This purpose to climb Everest to be the first cancer survivor to do it all with one lung And you're going to train How does that The internal conversation push you to help you physically train to be able to handle whatever it's going to give to you Knowing everything that i've already been through Will be more more difficult than anything that i'm about to go through And also knowing that look looking at how I got through the cancers It was a little bit of chemo a little bit of chemo a little bit of chemo Obviously eating healthy exercising everything else But knowing that consistency was more important than intensity Pushing myself a little bit today a little bit tomorrow a little bit the next day and more today than I did yesterday more tomorrow than I did today And it was the same thing with with training for Everest When I moved to colorado I moved to a place called estus park beautiful place And in my backyard was literally rocky mountain national park and the biggest mountain there was longspeak 18 miles round trip 14 256 feet And I slowly worked my way up to carrying Once a week 100 pounds of rocks in my backpack to the summit back But it wasn't just hey, it's it's like when you go to evers you don't show up at base camp and all of a sudden You know you make it to the top ready to go it's slowly Moving but knowing that again what that destination meant to me and why I was doing it All those little pieces add up. Yes, the the the negative thoughts are there But you have to realize the thought One two three negative thoughts don't determine who you are as a person. It doesn't define who you are It's a temporary state not facts. Yeah, exactly. Mm-hmm. I coach clients To better to speak better publicly Because a lot of what we see when it comes to that is people get on stage and they get nervous But that's when the prep kicks in so if you've prepped enough You can manage the nerves or the negative thoughts or if you just don't care at all Yeah, or just like whatever i'm just gonna wing it But you know you knew so i'm gonna i'm guessing so you get to evers And you've done all your prep and you've done your daily task and you've managed your mind You're carrying the 100 pounds of rocks up a 14 000 foot peak Did you get to evers feeling confident?  Yeah, that's probably what I did I mean when you get to base camp it's 17 600 feet.  Yeah, but at the same time What am I going to do today? You know, that's a long distant goal What am I going to do today to help me get there and it takes a month and a half? Exactly. So you know go all right. I'm going to do this in a month and a half Did you have like a strategy of okay day one? I'm gonna try to get to here or is it just I know I got this time allocated I'm gonna do whatever it takes and I have a plan and a strategy, but you know like battle plans They go great until the first bullet is fired Got to base camp and The the crazy thing about when you get there So the locals believe the mountain is a goddess Right they call it chumulungma or sagamaratha, which means mother goddess of the universe And you can't climb up the mountain Until you have a llama which would kind of be the equivalent of a bishop in Catholicism So you have a llama who does a ceremony to ask permission from the mountain to go And I had done all my research I got my body shape got my mind in shape and when we got to base camp That was the first time I ever heard of that so I leaned over to my other my sherpa friend and I was like, you know What if the what if the mountain says no, right? Rejected. Yeah, it's like no Sean. Sorry denied You wanted to be the first not today, but tough luck And he goes well it happens all the time But what happens after that is you get a new llama You have a new ceremony and you pay that llama more money And we're talking like an extra five or ten bucks, right? So after that happened after we got permission from the mountain Then we had a schedule in place. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy A lot of you leave comments. Tell me that you need help Do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now<PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER> I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video We went from base camp to camp one We would go up with a full backpack come back down with an empty backpack Shuttling things up the mountain, right? Always coming down with an empty backpack taking more stuff up So it did two things it would help us establish different camps up the mountain, but it would also Help our bodies acclimatize. So going into altitude there's less oxygen. So Because of that the body adapts by developing and growing more hemoglobin and red blood cells It's phenomenal how the body can adapt So we knew that we would do this and then we come back down and then we would rest It could be a day two days three days. It's It's very similar to when my body was going through The treatments for for the cancers, you know, I couldn't go back into the hospital day after day after day after day because the medicine would kill me If I continued up higher and higher and higher in the altitude it would kill me So we would come back and rest it could be a day two days three days However, our bodies adapted then we would go up a little bit higher and then come back down So that was a schedule until we were at camp three.  Absolutely. Yeah, you can't be a type a personality and be like, I'm going to control the weather It doesn't work that way Unfortunately, no, some of us do like oh, come on. I just want some sunshine today But you have also, you know, you're talking about going in the high altitudes You know knowing that your capacity to to take in air is not The same as to say mine with two functional lungs that I haven't even rune with smoking So you what kind of challenge did you know in your head like, all right, I'm going to have to do this knowing that I have what some might call limitations, but as Andy said in the intro That's not really how you approach life. You don't approach life as and I'm limited because I have one lung I'm still going to go do this at Everest it goes back to What I learned with with the chemotherapy, you know going through the treatments People often say when you ask them, hey, how you doing? I'm having a bad day, right? In my mind I'm like I'm having a less than ideal day You know, I never put things in a neg I try to never put things in such a negative light You know, I try to spin a positive version of whatever's happening to me Where did the idea to keep going after Everest come from because you get to Everest? How old are you when you when you reach the summit 27? So you're 27 years old? It's like three years ago.  There are six more continents with highest peaks on each of those continents. Let's go do those I think A few months after coming back from Everest, I forgot about all the shitty things that happened how horrible and miserable it really was And I remembered all the good stuff. I was like, let's do it again There there are two types of fun. I think there's like type a Where you're on a roller coaster like, whoa, this is great.  This is miserable But then you get home. You're like, hey, that's kind of fun So I think I afterwards I I forgot all the the bad stuff all the how frigidly cold I was You know, I couldn't feel from my knees to my toes going up for the summit push Couldn't breathe All the bad stuff that happened I forgot about But then I also heard of this thing called the seven summits seven peaks seven continents and because I had a flag of The head names of people touched by cancer on Everest I'm like, well, why don't we continue that and literally wrap the world in hope And you kept adding names so new names that were added to each flag, right? Different flags so different flags and different names So what it did Everest how did Everest prepare you to do the other ones? Because obviously you think of Everest you think that's the hardest thing Oh, the rest were downhill This is not nearly as bad so but still you still have to travel you still have to stay in shape You have to keep your mind sharp Walk us through that because I think that that Sean is one of the most difficult parts is you achieve a goal And oftentimes like what do I do now? Right And you got to keep challenging yourself and keep pushing yourself and if you start at Everest You have to figure it. Okay. I was able to do that Now what else can I accomplish because I I think that oftentimes going back to that the personal development space is They tell you about the end and you've been named one of the most eight inspirational humans on the planet Which is pretty awesome. Yeah, my mom voted on that. Well, that's good. She knows she's just like give me the website I'll just click it a hundred times. I got this But how do you compel people that you work with? That the end goal is there But it's the things that you do in between that gets you there that really matter because that's that grind that I don't think most people are prepared for and I don't think most people want to do What is what is the ultimate end goal for every human being? We all have an end. Mm-hmm. Who's in a rush to get there? Not me Shouldn't we all slow down and enjoy what we have. Mm-hmm, and I don't know anybody who's in a hurry Minus some other people who really don't value life as much as we do, but I don't know anyone who's in a hurry To get to the grave Which is a good thing because absolutely I've as I got an older I hit 45 this year Then I started to think of time differently over the last few years because if I'm lucky I've lived half a life already. Yeah, if I get to 90 that's exceeding the average. That's pretty good So maybe I have 30 35. Maybe I have 45 summers left What I want to do with those summers what I want to do with those years left And I find that Sean slowing down And taking things in and just enjoying even challenges that pop up and I say I get frustrated I'm like, why is this happening? And I'm like, why wait, wait? Why don't you just enjoy this chill out? It's not going to be easy But you're alive.  You're like, I am going to kick this day's ass Let's go back to the second cancer When I was given 14 days to live Night after night after night after night I was terrified to close my eyes because I didn't know if they were going to open the next morning Now let's say that goes on for a year Every single day your eyes open You're like, this is the best day ever I got another one. Yeah So even now I go in once a year for checkup because no one's ever had Hodgkins in askin sarcoma before I get my blood work done You know sometimes a cat scan maybe just cbc plate. Let's blood count stuff like that Um And it always comes back good. I see does another year to live Day by day month by month year by year You know and and one of the things that really helped me put that in perspective on if you want to grab a sheet of paper Draw a horizontal line across it a vertical line here vertical line here Write down the four digit year you were born Add roughly 80 to that And put that number there figure out where you are on that line And now you have a visual representation of your life You're like, what have I done in the past? Nothing you can do about that. Mm-hmm. How can you change the past? How can you adjust to make the most of your future? And this great advice for someone that might be 23 that's watching you Someone that's 45 like me or someone at 65 Because it's about the time you have left That matters. So how do you coach people? that maybe are middle aged And aren't Happy with where they're at. How do you say? Okay, draw that line Now focus on where the dot is now versus that 80 or you're gonna be How do you get them to change habits beliefs? So that they can like you understand what's possible I'm glad you asked that question Because we will talk about this later.  It starts off with a root assessment because you need to know where you are before you need to know before you know where you're gonna go and There are a lot of core value Assess assessments out there. You know, I've seen stacks of cards where you pick out your top five whatever That's great.  That's where it usually stops I couldn't find what I was looking for. So I created it myself. I took out 60 of the top Core values that I could find that I thought would help other people And what I do is I have people pick out the top 10 And then they write them down and this is where it gets really cool in eye opening on the next page You rate how you're actually living that personal core value And now you have a visual representation of the top 10 things that mean the most to you And if you're honest with yourself, you can see where you're lacking where you're where you're succeeding And where you want to put your energy and attention to build yourself stronger day by day And that's a great point because like for most of my life, I I've been diagnosed with depression twice. I battled that demon for Until I was you know in my late 30s I just couldn't shake it because I didn't have the skills or the tools or the techniques But what really changed is when I was finally honest with myself Because I use that as an excuse. Of course you made that decision.  Oh, okay I can do something about this. So you say on your book Sean conquering your Everest for me That was mine my mental Everest was overcoming that but it came down to being honest with myself Fully completely and just taking ownership of that and saying It doesn't matter what you did because you already did it and as you just pointed out you can't undo it It's about where you're going to go now and how you're going to learn from that So you don't do it again And maybe you can teach others as well, which is which is what you're doing So let's let's just talk about a couple of these words here. So communication is one that stood out to me That for myself and others because that's that most important thing we talked about so when you're climbing mountains or carrying a 150 pound sled on the north and south pole which you dragged I saw a video of you dragging a jeep also you had a rope around your waist you're like out there training It was in neutral Yes, but you're still dragging a jeep man. Come on So let's go through your mind and which one of these values relates to to pushing yourself In that capacity which most people don't like, you know, I'm going to carry this sled So I got to go run down the street with a jeep on my back That's that's a great question. I don't see crazy on here as a value Well, there you go. You can add that one For the next printing of the big hill challenge. I would honestly say personal growth. Mm You know one of the things that my parents taught me when I was uh, and I think it's in the book We talked about swimming the 25 meter breaststroke eventually a 50 meter breaststroke But when I first started swimming I would swim across and I would touch the wall Mom or dad will pull me out of the water and they would ask me one of two questions Did you have fun? And did you do your best not? Hey, why didn't you beat jimmy? Why didn't you beat scott? It was did you do your best? And if I could answer those two questions, did I have fun? Did I do my best? Absolutely? Okay, great be happy about it But going back to personal growth the next weekend when I was swimming the 25 meter breaststroke I would do everything I could to beat my time from last weekend So I never had to be the best. I had to be my best Competing with yourself exactly. So also in that same video There's probably you probably saw you saw me dragging tires I started off with two tires and then three tires, you know, and then four tires going up Everest You start here. You slowly go up building yourself up to it and people who want to go from here to here It doesn't work. It's like a house of cards.  Well, and that's you keep doing these things where The the face of death is really there like you're in temperatures 80 below 80 below zero So what does that feel like when you're 80 below zero and you're like I got my skis on I'm carrying the sled behind me What's going through your head there? What personal growth are you doing? Not much your brain starts freezing at that point. I think it turns into a slushy You know, honestly, it's I mean this in the best possible way 90 degree north Looks very similar to 89 degree north Right a hundred some miles away, right? It all looks the same You know, it's boring Mount nearing is boring.  That's my excuse. Yeah I don't want to do it because it takes so long.  There's nothing romantic about spending a month and a half in a tent not showering You know, I I hugged my mom when when I was coming off of Denali, which was The last of the seven summits. ESPN was there there doing a thing And I remember hugging my mom and she goes I could smell you before I saw you There comes Sean. I'm not gonna ask that b. Oh anywhere. No, it's my baby. Yeah, but What goes through my mind literally for the north pole about three miles out I was counting my steps and I kind of went inside and it was almost meditative You know meditating on it.  I like death at least to stare at it and wave at it. I pretend So how do you You use that In your everyday life and physical fitness obviously is incredibly important because you can't do any of these tasks Without it. So obviously at the elate army fitness division. That's what we believe is that When you take care of your body, your body will take care of you and you've proven that Numerous times whether it be the iron man the north pole the south pole the seven summits Your daily life you're going on a hundred mile bike ride just for fun You know well like it's no big deal. I wouldn't define it as fun. But yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. You're definitely crazy. No, so you Talk to me about that and how that the physical fitness aspect of it and how your daily approach to that is really what pays off that allows you Despite what some would see as limits again going back to to one long But that physical fitness helps you carry through so how important is it So if i'm trying to become a one percenter or a one in eight billion like you twice How much physical fitness how much should I pay attention to my physical fitness? For me it depends on what i'm training for So for example, if I am training for kilomajar take a group up there every year as a fundraiser I've been up kilomajar now 24 times And I know how to train for it. I'm not going to hop in the pool and swim laps until my arms fall off If you're training for the new york city marathon, you're not going to go Hop on a stationary bike and ride into your legs fall off You're going to train specifically for what you're trying to do At the end goal. So mountaineering i'm going to go hike up some mountains, which is why I left florida to move to colorado But i'm not always that Laser focused. I mean i'll sit down on saturday afternoon watch college football and all of a sudden a bag of potato chips disappear I don't know how it happens. They're just gone. It's like poof disappear But for the most part Again, I I eat I try to eat healthy wake up to yoga every day have a 30 minute yoga thing My wife and I wake up and we do together If i'm training for something then yes, i'm focused if i'm not training for something I kind of Gained some weight. Let's put it that way natural right that happens all but that's interesting because one of the posts you have on instagram is Really like a five-step process to be able to complete a task One is set goals that motivate you So talk to me about that How do you motivate yourself to keep going after all that you've accomplished? Again knowing it's it's not about the destination. You know, it's enjoying the process. I love working out I love the endorphins that kick in I love how I feel when i'm working out even if I feel miserable I know i'm doing something good, but going back to Kilimanjaro I I know I can make it you know this this july with my 25th trip up the mountain and It's no longer about The challenge it's about sharing that with other people. So it's very similar for me. It's very similar to Say christmas, you know, I don't need anything. I don't I don't want any gifts. I i'm fine. You know, I appreciate it You know, thank you so much. It's it's amazing But I love seeing my nephews and my nieces eyes light up when they open a present You know giving them something it's awesome. I love it It's very similar to taking someone up Kilimanjaro where they step out of the hotel They look up and they see the glacier on top of the peak and we're 200 miles south of the equator And they're like are those clouds?   I'm keeping an eye on what you're doing is no way I can do that Yeah, it's like well you're training for you.    You're pushing people up there. You do it together I have never made it to any significant peak by myself the cancer the the mountains anything that's important to note because we Have a support system Need a support system And I was just listening Arnold Schwarzenegger's got a new book out called be useful and he's talking about one point People describing him as a self-made man. He goes Well, yeah, maybe but along the way I've had helped this person helped me hear the fact that I moved to America was big I couldn't do what I did in any other country So it's having that recognition that As accomplished as you are as accomplished as I am Yeah, this person gave me a break here and hired me when they I wasn't nobody 25 year old or you know, this person Reached out to me after I was fired and said, yeah, well, we'll work something out here So you had that second life and sometimes I think our ego gets in the way. It's like I'm great. I'm like, no, no, no. Yeah, maybe maybe so But these other people were there too. Yeah, so when when you're thinking about Showing cancer survivors. What is possible? Is that tying into A goal that motivates you so if you're saying look look what's happened to me And I'm just going to go test myself To show other people That they can do the same thing. It doesn't have to be the same climb. I'm not Everest, but whatever your Everest is So going back. What was the what was the question in there? Yeah, it's about using Yourself as a cancer survivor to show others what's possible So when you are in those moments where you're like, oh my god, why am I doing this? Do you think about that? To keep you going that next step to get you out of that rut absolutely When I do visit hospitals and I talk to the survivors or or the patients I'm getting some some inspiration from them because they're literally tooth and nail fighting for their lives And when I'm climbing the mountain or I'm going to the north pole south pole, whatever I can always pick up the satellite phone. You know, I have travel and rescue insurance I can say hey, I'm done.  They can't pick up the cell phone and say, yeah, you know, I'm not feeling it today They don't have that option So I hope that by me climbing They're getting some inspiration from that because I'm sure getting some some inspiration from them So maybe there's a circle of hope and the circle of inspiration with this this reciprocity of of Encouraging each other What is that Meant to you to be able to encourage someone else To keep fighting something as awful as cancer or to keep climbing something as awful as Everest It's it's meant That's a great question It's meant that I've been giving people hope I think because the human I've Been thinking this for a long time the human body can live for roughly 30 days without food The human roughly the human condition can sustain itself for about three days without water But no human alive can live for more than 30 seconds without hope So if I'm giving hope to somebody else, it's it's all worth it How do we take that hope and apply it to our lives no matter where we're at because I imagine for you Sean you have a structure you have an approach to your day, which you mentioned You have an approach to your physical Your mental to be able to accomplish those things And that's what I find in studying successful people and people that do crazy things like you the one in eight billion that are able to accomplish these great things they have A system of living I guess I'd call it That they go back to day after day after day after day that allows those big breakthroughs Every three weeks Personal core values every three weeks every three it's it's it's in here every three weeks And also what is amazing is how many people when they wake up in the morning Grab their phone. They turn on the news. They get inundated with this negativity. Mm-hmm when they go to bed They're on their phone.  Let's say dirty water represents negative thoughts clean water represents positive thoughts Let's say you have a glass of dirty water. You hold it underneath a spigot and you constantly flush in clean water What's going to happen? positive thoughts right clean clean glass of water so You start your day with an affirmation that goes back to one of your personal core values So now you're starting your day off with an intention of doing something to support what matters most to you And then at the end of the day what I always do is if even if I don't write it down My wife and I will share them with each other Write down as opposed to being negative. Oh my god. I have to do this tomorrow I have to do that tomorrow if you went to bed with an attitude of gratitude You would sleep through the night like a baby and I don't mean like waking up every hour crying So write down five things you're grateful for right you know that happened that day So, you know, you're already grateful for your health your your family stuff like that That's a given but write down five things that happened specifically that day And then journal about one of them I'm most grateful for blank because blank and that connecting word because helps it link it Helps you link it back to your personal core values So now you're going to bed with an attitude of gratitude You're thankful for everything you have as opposed to looking at all the things you don't have wishing you could be different You're going to bed with knowing what you have attitude of gratitude And you're waking up in the morning with an intention and an affirmation to start your day The book ended right? Absolutely. Like you said, so how do I sign up for the big hill challenge? We're we're gonna go to get more information on that. That's easy. What's it called the big hill challenge dot com Big hill challenge dot com. So it's a great way to start because again oftentimes this is not where we're taught in school We're not taught about core values or how our minds work and how are I like to say our minds play tricks on us It's always trying to talk you into doing bad stuff or believe in that you're not good enough for whatever So that brings up another question.  So you have this this competition Facing all the things that you have Sean, how do you manage fear? How do you manage your fear voice? How do you manage that fear feeling? That's interesting because I I call it the gremlin Feed it after midnight. You never know what happens. It's a great example. I don't want to get them wet either The gremlin's over here chirping.  You're not strong enough You're not whatever. You don't have the education.  Mm-hmm. They're trying to protect you But now that you're older, you still have that gremlin chirping in your ear Don't do that. You're not smart enough. You're not strong enough So what I did was and again this goes back to the vivid visualization and picturing things Again, this is gonna sound crazy. I named my gremlin He's cooper Sounds so nice, right? That's my friend cooper.  I'm like cooper cut it out, man Like look, we both want what's best for me. Let's work together to make it happen You know, I know in this I don't do this all the time But once you realize that gremlin whatever you want to call him Was there to protect you at some point because he loved you or she loved you, whoever Yeah, he was your parent They still do. Mm-hmm and they still want the best for you. Why are you holding me back from getting it? Can you use that energy to help motivate you? I'll use tim grover as an example michael jord and kobe bryance coach He talks about using the darkness and how he really worked with kobe was You know kobe obviously got in some trouble when he was younger Well, this is take that energy and use it towards becoming a better basketball player Can you use cooper and say all right koop? We're gonna work together like you said and i'm gonna use that energy that comes into my body To fuel me to take that next step. Absolutely When you get anxious when they and I mean like the You um When the human body gets anxious What happens physiologically? You start breathing through your upper chest you start Shallow breaths your hands start to sweat your temperature rises. You might have some ringing in your ears. Your ears get red Your pulse rate starts to go up your beats per minute now. What happens physiologically when you get excited Your respiratory rate goes up your pulse goes up your hands start to it's the exact same thing physiologically So if I feel that and it's happening to me and I'm going for a summoner. I'm scared about something I'm like again paying attention to the internal dialogue.  I'm not scared. I'm excited And I will flip the script on it I love that because That's going back to that internal communication that dialogue that drives all of our decisions and our beliefs So that's what I want to ask you about too is is your beliefs? So the cancer seemed to almost Shred limited beliefs for you because all right. I survived it once I survived it second and in this book being unstoppable You you talk a little bit about the internal dialogue that started like why am I going through this cancer? And then the second time what god, why are you doing this to me? How did you start to turn that around? To be able to apply it in this way in that this tim grover coby bryant into this Sean way You know I I think I sat there for such a long time Why me why me why me? You know and then why again why again my god like what didn't I learn the first time that you're sending me through this again? And then I realized there's nothing I can do about the fact that I had cancer That was a fact nothing I could do about that. I couldn't do anything about the situation I couldn't change it nothing that was out of my control What was in my control was how I reacted to it? And I told myself look there's nothing I can do about it Except to change and control how I react because you can control You have a choice in every situation you're in To choose how you want to react So you can have the flight or fight you can do whatever you want to but you can always choose in every situation You have a choice in how you want to react And I decided that I wanted to choose one that Was more positive more of an outlook of of growth more of an outlook of living You know, I mean for crown out lot. I was 13 the first time 15 16 17 18 19 years Like I wanted to live all I wanted to do at that time was be normal They I was probably the only kid who wanted who wanted to be in school at that time You know, so all I wanted to do was be normal and I wanted to just flip it around and do To focus on what I could do as opposed to focusing on what I couldn't do So flipping that script and realizing hey, this is exactly I'm going kind of going off subject here, but I wanted to That's good But I think that what you're getting at is in order to become, you know, a one percenter These are the exercises you have to do and you you mentioned basically you can't do it like every other day It has to be every day. Exactly right. So one of the things I work on is communication So I work on that every day every interaction that I have I'm like, did I say it the right way? Could I have said it a little bit more clearly even if I'm interacting with someone at a store like a clerk or a cashier I'm always trying to think of what's a funky question.  It's just okay. You got to commit to doing it every day And there's no real shortcut to that. There's no way around that So how do you coach people to go through that to be able to maintain the practice? Again, it goes back to your personal core values. Why are you doing it? If you have a deeper seated reason for doing what you're doing, you're gonna Not feel like you have to do something you do it because you want to do something So if you have that underlying meaning and the reason behind it, you're gonna have a deeper purpose So what's next for you, Sean?   Where are you going from here? Well, I've recently gotten married. I've heard that's pretty difficult I can't be Doesn't always have to be yeah, it's it's great. I love julieza and we've we've been together now for five years So things have been going great. Um, obviously that was a joke. I know I'm as a married guy. I know okay good Like yeah, we've only been married for five years feels like too underwater Um Biggest challenge of life, but worse than no more challenging than ever is more challenging killman jarrow 25 times 100 mile bike ride this weekend. Uh, I'm looking at doing a Ride across america. It's called the ram which is race across america Bike race across america doing that and maybe june next year 2025 Potentially going back and trying everest again without supplemental oxygen You know, but the the biggest thing now is using The information and knowledge that I've gained from the cancers from doing what no one's ever done before to help other people You know, I want to pull other people up and help them believe in themselves You know, I I can see what people are Are capable of doing and maybe they don't see it themselves They just need that little boost of confidence or maybe a swift kick in the butt, you know one of the two Yeah, when I just got back I told you from a month long journey in europe and i'm looking at these sculptures and these paintings and these buildings And it reminds me of what a human can do and to go back to your team Like you look at something like the duomo and florence which took like 500 years to build but the Detail is immaculate. It is so spectacular That can be anyone's life The difference between say a michael angelo or the people that built the duomo is they just did it, right? They paid attention to the details. They fine-tuned everything to me. That's what it sounds like you do shan you agree I am very detail oriented But I also see the entire forest Because of everything that I've been through I'm very fortunate to be able to see different perspectives I've been to 70 countries, you know, I've Been adopted into a local tribe in africa I've been adopted into a tribe in or not a tribe, but a group of individuals in napal the sherpas So they call me da wa dorji sherpa in africa. They call me mezung guccia. So Yeah, what does it mean to you to be able to accomplish all of these things and inspire other people even myself Well, I appreciate that It means my life's not done yet You know, like I said, I haven't fulfilled my life's purpose. Well, my time's up my time's up And I'm going to continue living everything Every day to the fullest until my time is over until my until I finally hit my expiration date And I want to encourage people to take advantage of the the dash that we talked about before Take advantage of that lifeline and you can get started But the big hill challenge It's proverbial.  Thanks so much for being here and sharing all this knowledge with us Hey guys, I just want to tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video Do me a favor share it with the friend that wants to go to another level Make sure you like the video comment below so I know who you are Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon


As we have seen last week when speaking about the right to invoke the responsibility of a state for the alleged breach of a Nerga-Homne's obligation, invoking the responsibility of a state and being actually able to bring a claim before an international court or tribunal are two different things. And the latter is only possible if consent to the jurisdiction exists. According to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, that is, accepting that the court entertains the dispute and takes a binding decision about it, that is, the second and ratione materiez condition that must be met for the court to have jurisdiction. And compared to many other international court and tribunals, the specificity of the jurisdiction ratione materiez of the ICJ is that it is not specialized in any field or subfield of international law. The court has a general jurisdiction and provided that the parties to the dispute have accepted that it be settled by the court, the court will have jurisdiction to adjudicate upon it whatever the subject matter or the subfield of international law relevant. Therefore, the dispute can be about, for instance, the use of force or territorial or maritime borders, environmental protection, human rights, investment, etc. But because consent to the ICJ jurisdiction is often phrased in such a way that it is conditioned upon the unavailability of any other dispute settlement mechanism, because of that, if other specialized courts or tribunals are available, the court's jurisdiction will not be established. And there is no exception to the requirement that both parties must have consented to the jurisdiction of the court, and even the character of the norm allegedly breached does not exempt from such fundamental requirement. And as the court stressed in 2006, in a case between the DRC and Rwanda, the fact that a dispute relates to compliance with a peremptory norm of general international law, that is a norm of use corgents, like the prohibition of genocide, this fact, I quote, cannot of itself provide a basis for the jurisdiction of the court to entertain that dispute under the court's statute that jurisdiction is always based on the consent of the parties, end of quote. How do states express their consent to the jurisdiction of the court? Well, there are four different means available to states in order to accept the jurisdiction of the ICJ, and you are already familiar with two of those means, as they are common to arbitration and to ICJ proceedings. Those are special agreements and compromising clauses that are also called jurisdictional clauses. The two other ways to express consent are forum prorogatum and the optional clause, which is specific to the ICJ. And let me say a few words about each of those means to accept the jurisdiction of the court and start in this video with special agreements and forum prorogatum. Both are ways to express consent to the ICJ jurisdiction after a dispute has already arisen and exists. As recalled in the section about arbitration, states are sometimes unable or even unwilling to accommodate their respective claims and positions. They cannot reach a compromise. They cannot find a negotiated settlement. However, disputing states may agree that because they disagree on substance, they nevertheless agree to submit their dispute to the ICJ. Article 36 paragraph 1 of the statute of the court states that, I quote, the jurisdiction of the court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it, and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the UN are in treaties and convention in force and I'll come back to that. Parties to a dispute are indeed always free to refer their dispute to the court for adjudication, provided, of course, that those parties have access to the court under de ratione personnée requirement. And when states decide to refer an existing dispute to the court, they draft the terms of what is called a special agreement in which the subject matter of the dispute and the identity of the parties to it are indicated. The special agreement is then notified to the court and the jurisdiction of the court will be limited to what has been agreed by the parties in the special agreement and it is easy to spot if a case has been submitted to the court by special agreement because the case will not be referred as state A versus state B, where V stands for versus, but it will be referred to as state A slash state B. And there is a graphic difference between cases submitted by special agreement slash or by unilateral application V, as if cases brought by special agreements were somehow less contentious than cases brought by applications. Sometimes the very existence of a special agreement is disputed and the case is for that reason noted as a really contentious case, V. In the agency continental shelf case, Greece argued that Turkey had consented to submit their dispute to the ICJ by a joint communique following a meeting between the two prime ministers in Brussels in May 1975. And the court said that there was no specific form for a special agreement to exist and that a joint communique could indeed incorporate a special agreement, but that in light of the terms and the circumstances surrounding the joint communique, the Brussels communique, I quote, was not intended to and did not constitute an immediate commitment by the Greek and Turkish prime ministers on behalf of their respective governments to accept unconditionally the unilateral submission of the dispute to the court. And of course, this is a judgment of 1978. In a case between Qatar and Bahrain, the court considered that the exchange of letters between the king of Saudi Arabia and the two emirs of both countries in 1897, together with the minutes signed in Doha by the foreign affairs ministers of the three countries about three years later, that all those documents constituted international agreements, created rights and obligations for the parties under which they had undertaken to submit to the court, the whole dispute between them relating to the maritime delimitation and some territorial questions. And this is a judgment of 1994. Sometimes, or rather quite often, it is not the existence of the special agreement that is disputed, but the meaning of its terms. The court is then called to interpret a special agreement, which is very much like a bilateral treaty with a specific object and purpose. And this happened already in the very first case submitted to the court in 1949, the Corfu Channel case. The case was first submitted by an application of the United Kingdom and later then by a special agreement between the UK and Albania. Albania contested that the court could decide on the amount of compensation it had to pay for the damages caused to the British Navy ships, because the special agreement only mentioned the issue of deciding on the responsibility for the naval incident that occurred in the Corfu Channel. However, taking argument of the principle of effet utile in the interpretation of international agreements that you may remember, the court said that because it found Albania responsible for the incident, it also had jurisdiction to assess the damage. A special agreement allows the parties to confer jurisdiction to the court and they may define rather freely the limits of such jurisdiction. However, a special agreement cannot allow the parties to the dispute, to alter the court's judicial function. And this is because the limits of the judicial functions of the court are defined by the statute itself. Therefore, the judicial functions of the court is not at the disposal of the parties, not even by agreement between them. And as the court stressed in 2013 in the Burkina Faso Niger case, the limits to the judicial functions are mandatory for the parties just as for the court itself. One essential element in that regard is that the court has been instituted to resolve existing disputes between states, so that the existence of a dispute is, as the court put it in the nuclear test case, is the primary condition for the court to exercise its judicial function. If there is no dispute between the parties about a point of fact or a factor or a point of law, the court has no jurisdiction over it, and the parties cannot confer such power of jurisdiction to the court by agreement between them. Therefore, as the court said in the Burkina Faso Niger case, a party may not request from the court, on the basis of the special agreement, that the court includes in the operative part of its judgment an agreement that exists between the parties. The purpose of such inclusion would be to give the force of a court's judgment to the agreement of the parties. But because the operative parts of the judgments of the court contained the decisions of the court over existing disputes, it would be contrary to the court's function to do so, because as a result of the parties' agreement, no decision of the court over a dispute is needed. So far on special agreement. Let me turn to Foran Prorogatum, which is also a way to consent to the jurisdiction of the court when a dispute already exists. Special agreements must, as a matter of principle, be concluded prior to the moment the court is seized of a particular existing dispute. It is, however, possible that one state submits a dispute to the court in the absence of any basis of jurisdiction before the potential respondent state has agreed to the jurisdiction of the court. And the court will not have jurisdiction to hear the case on that moment. But the registry will, according to article 38 paragraph 5 of the rules, the registry transmits the application to the state against which it is made. And it is then up to that state to consent or not to the jurisdiction of the court for the purpose of that case. And pending such consent, the case is not put on the general list of the court. When a state against which the application was made consents to the court jurisdiction, it becomes respondent in the case. And the court jurisdiction extends to its consent. And usually such consent is explicit. But one can, for instance, imagine that it could result from the filing of a written pleading or from willingly taking part in the procedure. And this way of accepting the court's jurisdiction is called forum prorogatum. And it has been successfully used in two cases, initiated by respectively Djibouti and Congo against France, the later case being discontinued at the request of the Congo. Let us turn now to compromise reclause or jurisdictional clauses as a way to express consent to the jurisdiction of the court.


time here for more systems and we're gonna go through how to set up a privacy vpn with pf sense and then do selective policy routing for different devices that are behind there to send them out different vpn and then put a kill switch and that way if the vpn goes down it doesn't lead to something such as one of those devices just going out your van so we'll be covering all that everything's time index down below we're going to be using open vpn with pia this is not a specific endorsement of pa i trust zero of these different privacy vpn companies matter of fact a lot of people seem to have been oversold them because it's an easy thing to sell on the internet so you'll see so many different youtube channels and podcasts over hyping vpns and they are well not quite the security but they're more about privacy if you would like to hide your traffic from your isp or you would like to hide your public ip from a website or some web application you're using that's generally what these are used for as i said i trust none of these companies it's not an endorsement for pa but if you're gonna sign up for one i do have an affiliate link down below and that's as much advertising as i have for this video this was not sponsored or endorsed but hey if you're gonna use one i said why not sign up an affiliate link because i have been using privacy internet access for quite a while i like the fact that a while back they donated money to audit between vpn and open source products and i thought that was cool that they helped pay for the code audit but i don't really have any good reason to use them or not to use them here as i just want to reiterate one more time i don't know the best company for this i don't have any endorsements recommendations or sponsors on this particular video all right there'll be another company forum post down below and there's one last piece of advertising if you want to learn more about me and my company head over to learn systems.com feel like to hireshore project there's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel always there's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel and yes there's an affiliate link for piavpn now let's first start with this diagram specifically i use diagrams.net i've reviewed this tool before on my channel for doing drawings and i want to explain how the privacy vpns work so we have our lab pf sense and we have two different linux systems behind here on two separate subnets i just wanted to have a couple different subnets to expand out the way this works so you can repeat it if you do have as many people do multiple networks now with the lab pf sense the blue lines represent your normal path so it goes here to the pf sense from the pf sense we are all doing this in a lab so it has a private ip address but normally you would have your wan with a public ip address that's assigned to you by your isp and when you go to some online services the online services will see your public ip address now with a privacy vpn we take a little bit of a different approach because we use open vpn to create an encrypted tunnel the isp sees the encrypted tunnel and sees that you're using a privacy vpn but because you're encapsulating all the data within an encryption tunnel the only thing they know is that you went to the privacy vpn and then the online services don't see your public ip address they see whatever ip address was provided by the privacy vpn now of note in here we will talk about how to avoid dns leaks that's pretty simple to avoid in here but that is one more aspect where if you don't set this up properly even though your encrypted tunnel traffic goes over here your dns queries can still go out over the public internet so we will be covering that as well and the kill switch is so if for some reason this connection goes down and you have one of these devices routing through the privacy vpn it doesn't automatically start routing back out through your normal lan that can obviously cause some problems if you're trying to remain private and anonymous here but of note if you say i don't trust my isp and you've chosen to pay a privacy vpn to obscure you that means you have to trust these vpns and this is one of the reasons i said i don't have any particular recommendation or any specific one that i say i trust so heartily because all's it really takes is the privacy vpn company to work with your isp to tell whatever online service you connected to where this connection came from because the privacy vpn company knows your public ip address and the online services know the private ip address provided or public ip address provided by the privacy vpn therefore in coordination if these companies although they swear to never have any logs if they are subpoenaed or hijacked that is something that they would be able to provide so just a heads up on that i just want to make sure that part's really clear on what this actually does all right now to get into this setup on here now i downloaded the pia switch linn ovpn file this is something you can download right right from privacy internet's website i'll leave a link to there right up and i have all the download links in there to make it easy so you don't have to search your site for it but the first thing we need to do is put in a certificate open vpn does use certificates to build trust in order to have that trust we're just pulling this out you can also just download the dot crt file from there this is actually the whole open vpn file but you can simply do it right here and we want to go from begin certificate to end certificate and we're going to do a copy we go over here to our pf sense now this is version 2.5 to release this is set up in my lab and by the way this system is not running pf sense plus but it would be the same if i was using a decade to buy some pf sense plus there's really no difference if you use pf sense or pf sense plus for all the settings i'm going to be covering in this video i'm going to go to cert manager ca's and we're going to go here and add descriptive name pia we're not going to get too creative here call it whatever you want i'm just going to call it pa then we're just going to paste that in over here and hit save and if it doesn't give an error it should work look name private internet access and now we have the cert installed for pa now we can simply go over to the open vpn by going over here and going over to open vpn and we're creating a client now this is the part you have to really make sure you get right and so i said i'll be documenting some of this in a forum post but follow along here and this is where people screw up the most is when they're going through and getting all these settings now i'll be pulling all the settings right from here so this is going to be the swiss privacy network on port 1198 you can actually create more than one of these and maybe create one for swiss one for another location there's you can just keep duplicating this and it will keep working that way but we're just going to be creating one for simplicity sake but you can actually have more than one on a pf sense system it was on port 1198 very important to make sure you get the port right there we go don't typo it like i just did so these are the really detail go through each one of these steps and make sure you have everything in here that you need put the username i have a pa username here and throw in my password and i guess i should probably give it a name here let's call this pa vpn swiss so we know which one in case you i create another one later so we've got the username the password we'll scroll down and we do not want to use the tls key so we're going to uncheck that we can leave all of this the same except for this right here peer certificate authority needs to be pa we'll leave all these the same all right let's scroll down a little bit further and this is a really important box to check or you'll be scratching your head for a little while don't pull routes by default and this is specifically a pa but i mentioned lots of other vpn companies do this they are trying to be helpful and if they pull routes they will take and say update the routing table inside of whatever device is connecting in this case pf sense and it will change all your routing so everything from your pf sense goes out the vpn maybe that's a solution you're looking for and that's fine but you'll find quickly that if you try to squeeze everything over vpn you'll not necessarily have the fastest internet you may be adding a lot of latency that's why this is about policy routing and only the things we want going out over the privacy vpn so don't pull routes because we're going to design our own routes later in the video that's just an important aspect that you really want to have in here now all this can be left the same there's really not much to do here until we get to custom option options and i'll have these so you can easily paste them in or you can just put them in persistent key persistent on remote cert dash tls server regen second and auth retry interact this is just awesome settings in case it goes down so it should hopefully connect faster for disruption to the connection uh so these are the couple custom options that they say to put in over from pia i put them in didn't really have any problems with them uh go ahead and put ipv4 then we're going to click save right now that we save that the next step is did it work and quickest easiest way to tell you can read through the logs and scratch your head a little bit i can see bytes sent bytes received i see an ip address assigned and it's working and if you want it to reconnect again i could just hit this right here and it would re-establish a connection or i can stop the particular open vpn service we want to running if you wanted to disable the vpn you can actually go back over here open vpn client edit and disable this client but for now we want it enabled the next step is in order to use this as a gateway we need to add it as a gateway and pretty simple here we're going to go to interface assignments and right there open vpn swiss click add click on it we'll call it pa swiss we're going to enable the interface that's it just like this no other settings really need to be set in here just leave it alone and hit apply and this will give it another interface actually i called it swick like better enough i was going to change it without reassigning it it's enabled but you may have noticed this says pending when you add an interface we're going to go here to open vpn look at the status and we're going to go ahead and just reload it and what this does is re-establish open vpn and now it will automatically get that ip address assigned there when you add it and that you don't restart the open vpn service you'll end up with a conflict so i just want to make note to make sure you do that so when we get back to this page here which is going to think for a minute we'll get back to the page and you'll see the open vpn established working and the ip address assigned to it and there we go we've got this internal ip address assigned to it uh it just connected so it's going to show a little bit of packet loss that's going to happen sometimes you can also choose in different gateways to monitor whether or not it goes down we're going to go over here to routing we're going to go ahead and set this so we always know that the default gateway is going to be the way in dhcp or whatever your gateway is the default gateway not this one here they're going to go and just edit and you can change whatever the monitor ip is we'll actually just choose <IP_ADDRESS> which is just quad 9s dns hit save apply that way it understands whether or not this gateway is down or up and what it's going to monitor but it's going to see rtt and rttsd is there so it's online it's working all right now for the next steps we go to firewall nat this is where we create our outbound nat rules first make sure this is selected with hybrid nat outbound nat rule generation automatic plus rules these are the automatic rules down here at the bottom and we're going to add another rule interface pia swiss we only really need ipv4 for this and for each subnet you have of which we have two on this system you create the rule like so so the first one was 22.0 save and we can actually just duplicate the rule and the other one is 40.0 and repeat this if you have more networks than this and it's only relevant to what networks you're going to be creating rules on so if you only are ever going to create rules on that subnet you only really need one rule but that's just where that's created so go ahead and hit apply changes now that those are created now comes the firewall alias and i like to do this as an alias because it simplifies things a bit we have over here a computer at 192 168 22.100 and the goal is going to be to take it from where it shows in auburn hills or if we put country and this is just ifconfig.co if you curl it and put this command it'll tell you what country it thinks your ip address is if you omit country or city it just gives you the ip address so we have auburn hills here in united states so that's where it thinks i am technically i'm in south gate michigan but we'll call it close enough we're gonna go ahead and add an alias and route out over pia sounds like a good name and these are simply devices that route over vpn and we type in the ip address of each of those now doing this as an alias means it's really simple actually it's uh 22.100 is the first one some linux machine and we hit save you could add as many hosts as you want and go down here this is gonna be a convenience factor if you want to dynamically move things in and out without having to edit the rules but just change the aliases you could throw something on there and right away it goes out over the vpn or delete it off there hit refresh on the rules and it goes away so this is just a convenience factor so you don't have to put this ip address in more than one time aliases are really convenient when you're building firewall rules now let's go build the rules now 22.100 was land two so you'll see it like right here so 22.1 that's our land two so firewall rules and land two firewalls rules are processed in pf sense from the top down so we haven't allowed all rule down here and we need to create a rule above that to be processed before that other rule so we're going to hit add and hit the little up one so it goes there pass land two ipv4 change this to any lot of mistakes are made when you use just tcp because well anything udp or icmp etc will not work so make sure that's switched over to any source network is going to be single host or alias and we're going to use that alias that says route over paa destination any that's perfectly fine and this is ip to be routed over paa display advanced and this is where we got to do some really specific things in here including the beginning of our kill switch we're grabbing this data and packets that come that match the ones that we want routed and we want to add a tag to those packets this tag is just used internally by pf sense doesn't do anything to the functioning of the tcpi p stack it's not actually changing the packet but it's adding a tag while the packet traverses the rules within pf sense so we'll say private vpn only now i'm going to go ahead and copy this and actually i'm going to spell it right and then copy it so private vpn only we're going to copy this tag because it unlike the ali says they don't autocomplete when you do the tags in here so private vpn only we'll get to why we did that in a second then we're going to choose gateway we don't want to go out the default gateway we specifically want to go out the paa swiss vpn interface so we're going to choose that and hit save so this is how the rule looks this rule grabs it and sends it out ip to be routed over paa now the reason for adding the tag is because we're going to create a floating rule that is the kill switch now i've seen some debates on the internet of different ways of doing it the reason for doing it this way is because if you were to simply say i'm going to route it and then put a block under it for going out the other gateway the problem can be where pf sense will if you disable the vpn or something happens a service stops and it loses the gateway things and start routing back out the default gateway so now we're going to create a floating rule to grab that tag traffic so this always tags the traffic and when it goes over here to floating and we're going to hit add and we're going to create block rule and we're going to say block when any protocol any not just tcp display advanced and then instead of the tag we're going to paste in the tag name so matching tagged private vpn only block if it makes an attempt to escape from the wan address it's really that simple you're just saying don't let it escape the wan address here so i actually go ahead and save us here with the rule looks like save apply so if matches when it's going to drop it and we should probably give it a name i do highly encourage everything get a description block the alias or vpn going out of well over when there we go just so you know what it's doing when we do this so we hit save and now you get an idea what that rule does is it apply so if that sees a packet coming and it tries to go out it's going to grab it and just stop it and throw it away of note if you have more than one when you may want to repeat this rule for each when you have or gateway group however you may have configured it this lab setup only has a single wan therefore we only create a single rule with just the wan listed in here now the next question might be does it work and let's test it so we're just going to hit an up arrow here girl i have config country and it thinks we're in switzerland awesome that's where it should think we are and i'll show now because i can show the ip address whatever ip address signed it's<PHONE_NUMBER>2 now what happens and let's go ahead and forcibly fail open vpn so we're going to go over here to open vpn and we'll go to the client and we'll just go ahead and disable it so disable this client straw all the way down to the bottom here hit save and this will cause it to no longer have a vpn no vpn instance defined what happened to our lab system here if we'd curl i have config actually nothing it's just going to lock up because the packets have nowhere to go we're going back over here to firewall rules and we look at the floating we see 240 bytes because it sent some packets you know doing some requests and they have nowhere to go because this will grab them and said nope because this is what it would have tried to do is try to go out the wan so pretty simple one thing of note here if we go to our open vpn and clients and we're going to go ahead and re-enable this client hit save so the vpn should be established it establishes relatively quick there we go go back over here control c because i haven't timed out yet hey still not working wonder why what happens is because we completely disabled open vpn if you have this problem or you can go over here to status and we want to go to filter reload and we want to reprocess the rules all this is is going through and grabbing and refreshing all the rules because we disabled it and actually would have broken that interface because it was completely disabled that we assigned and we reassigned it it needs the rules to be reloaded in order to grab them put them all back in this is not something that happens if the vpn connection drops necessarily this won't cause an issue matter of fact let's just go and confirm it's working hey look we even got a different ip address now this time but for example if we go over to vpn open vpn status and we actually re-established the connection just by doing this it may get a different ip address again we'll find out here in a second oh we got the same ip address but without doing a rule refresh this should still work it's going to take a second to re-queue the states and there we go we're actually clear the screen do it again so you can see it's up and running and working I didn't have to reload the rules a second time and if we say country it still thinks I'm in Switzerland on this particular device it's only if the interface gets disabled reloading the filters just an FYI in case you do something like that now this is an optional thing you can do here is go to service watchdog this is a service you can install so it's one of the packages under package manager I've already installed it you go to service watchdog and you can add open vpn as a service when you add a new service you'll see all the different ones in here and what service watchdog does is watch open vpn or whatever you specify and actually it'll watch each client you set up and if it sees the service it stops not necessarily disconnect because it's set to auto reconnect if for some reason something happens or someone at paa reboots the server it'll auto re-establish connection but if the service itself for some reason goes down you can actually just tell service watchdog hey just restart that I haven't really seen this to be a huge issue it's more of a safety net just in case of those things keep on running in case the open vpn service for some unknown reason quits you can just tell it to do this I have on rare occasions seen it just get stuck but it's so infrequent where I don't know why it gets stuck that's basically I've seen it happen I've seen it happen once every few months maybe but not enough or I can really figure out the why but the service watchdog will restart the service and I've never happened on my computers it's just clients have told me they've seen this and comments I've seen in different forum posts so I would say this is optional but I usually if I see a service failing I want to first be notified of that service failing so I'll have it send me notifications so I can investigate usually a bigger why but I'll just mention that this is in here in case you're looking for something to restart the service now one quick and final note is we're going to go back over here to our firewall rules and I mentioned we did this on land 2 because that one device we have on here which we only had one right now was on land 2 but we also still have our regular land the quickest way to get this over it would be to hit the copy button on the rule change this to this one here scroll down the bottom hit save now we're over on land as I said the rules are processed top down so you want to make sure it catches this rule first so that IP address hits this and goes out that gateway hit apply actually you got to drag it save then apply right now I got the ruler right and that's it now I've added it to this other land if you had five other ones provided you also have an outbound net rule for each one of these that's how you would duplicate it that way all you have to do is go back over here to the aliases and if we want to add the other system we could just edit this alias add a host put in the IP address of each host we want in there and subsequently if you wanted to take that host out you would just delete it in this moment you hit save on this apply changes reloads the rules and now that one is processed as well on the vpn or off the vpn depending on however you want to set it up now hopefully this video gave you a better understanding of how policy routing works in pf sense how to use a privacy vpn as I said in the beginning I don't have any particular recommendations for one but if you want to sign up for one and help the channel out there is the affiliate link for pia down below I will have a forum link to have a more in-depth discussion on this particular 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Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday, so I am very nearly 40, which as it happens means that I'm almost exactly twice as old as the median vlogbrothers viewer. When I was their age half my life ago, I was a sophomore in college, I'd just fallen in love for the first time I was taking my first creative writing class, I looked approximately like this. Of course my life was very different then, and the world was different then too, specifically it was worse. That year, 1998, more than 10 million children under the age of five died. Over 50% of kids in low income countries weren't vaccinated, and 30% of all humans lived in absolute poverty, meaning that they survived on less than $2 a day in current US dollars. Today 80% of kids in low income countries are vaccinated, fewer than 10% of people on earth live in absolute poverty, and this year fewer than 6 million children will die. Child mortality isn't just falling, the rate at which it's falling has been accelerating for two decades. And after very slow progress for most of the 20th century, and for that matter all of human history, the cycle of poverty is suddenly breaking worldwide. How did that happen, and what's left to be done? Well every year Melinda and Bill Gates release their annual letter on those topics. And for me it's kind of required reading every year, because like the news can tell me what happened yesterday, but reading the Gates letter allows me to zoom out a little and think about what's happening in the larger human story over time. This year's letter is written to Warren Buffett, another billionaire who's pledged almost all of his wealth to charity, but it begins by pointing out that most funding for global health initiatives comes not from private individuals, but from governments. Here in the US about $32 billion went to foreign aid last year, which is less than 1% of the federal government's budget, but it still goes a long way. And I know foreign aid has a reputation for not working, but in fact it is extremely effective, and I also strongly believe it's in our national interest. Like poverty and poor health are associated with an increased risk for conflict, and also microbes are not aware of national borders, so better healthcare systems around the world mean less disease risk for all of us. Okay, so as brilliantly explained in this video by Inna Nutshell, we know that when child mortality goes down families choose to have fewer children, which ultimately slows population growth. It also means that kids on average will be healthier and more likely to go to school, and that their parents will be more likely to work because they won't have to be home with sick kids. So reducing child mortality has huge benefits, not just for individual families, but for entire social orders, as Bill says saving children's lives is the best deal in philanthropy. For one thing it's often quite inexpensive, like many vaccines cost less than a dollar, and vaccination is the number one reason child mortality has declined so much.  That is not acceptable, and also we don't have to accept it. We need to continue to close the gap between rich and poor countries when it comes to vaccination. We need to improve healthcare for infants. 45% of child mortality now occurs within the first month of life. And we need to improve nutrition, not just preventing starvation, but ensuring that kids get all the nutrients they need. That's a really big deal, as Bill puts it, malnutrition destroys the most human potential on the planet. Because malnutrition can stunt not just physical growth, but also cognitive development, which just compounds the disadvantages that the poorest kids in the world face. This year's Gates letter also focuses on access to contraception. Melinda writes, when women are able to time and space their pregnancies, they are more likely to advance their education and earn an income, and they're more likely to have healthy children. And this is another place where what's good for individual families can also have really positive impacts on the community. As Melinda points out, no country in the last 50 years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives. Hank, 20 years from now, when today's median vlogbrothers viewer is as old as I am now, it is genuinely possible that both absolute poverty and child mortality will be rare everywhere on earth. And I really believe that as a species, our success is best judged not by how the richest or the best connected among us live, but how the poor and the oppressed and the vulnerable live. And I know it may feel like absolute poverty and child mortality rates are beyond our control that only the Gates's and the Buffets of the world can move the needle. But in reality, it's up to all of us, like when my kids get through a diarrheal illness with just Pedialyte and Advil, it's up to me to remember and to prioritize the kids who die of the very same disease for want of rehydration solution. When we vote, when we talk to our friends about what matters to us, when we choose whose lives to pay attention to, we are deciding what our future will look like. Hank, you told me once that bad news usually happens all at once, while good news usually happens slowly, and that makes it hard to pay attention to the good news. But we still need the good news, maybe now more than ever. So I really hope you'll check out the Gates letter in the doobly-doo below. It's honest and level-headed while still being optimistic, which is what I want to be when I grow up. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.