Welcome, dear viewers. Welcome and join us as we take you through the eighth lesson of the Cornerstone Connection of the First Quarter 2024. My name is Michael Flex, and on the panel, we have John Nelson, Biaki, and our wonderful teens' teachers. On the sign language, we have Joyce, and on the orchestra, we have Subira and Shema. Thank you. Hello. My name is Amy, and I will be taking you guys through this week's mission story, Papaya Prescription. Joy Lien was seven years old playing blocks with her father in the living room of their home in India. She liked using the yellow, blue, green, and red blocks to build tall towers, and then hitting the towers and watching them fall down. As Joy Lien and father played with the blocks, he told stories about when he was a little boy.  It was fun playing with father, but Joy Lien didn't feel quite well. She felt a little warm like she had a slight fever. She also felt tired, but she didn't want to go to bed. It was fun playing with father. Then father's phone rang. He listened to it for a moment. He listened to it for a moment, and it got serious. He turned to Joy Lien. We have to go to the hospital, he said. She didn't realize how serious it was. A doctor had called from the hospital and said that she needed to be hospitalized immediately. She had dengue fever. Dengue fever is an illness that comes from mosquito bites. It isn't difficult to treat the illness if caught early, but the doctor had not noticed Joy Lien had dengue fever. And now it was important to treat the illness quickly. Father called mother for help, and she packed a suitcase with clothes, medicine, kiwi, papaya, and raw beets. Joy Lien didn't like papaya.  She also thought that red beets tasted disgusting, but she liked sweet kiwis. Mother packed papaya, kiwi, and raw beets because the doctor said they were good medicine for Joy Lien. Then Joy Lien, father, and mother got into the car and left for the hospital. Joy Lien felt uneasy when she arrived at the hospital. She was surrounded by people she did not know. She did not like the smell of hospital air. Someone put an IV drop into her arm and it hurt. Then a nurse took her to bed in the hospital ward. Joy Lien looked around. She couldn't understand why she was there as there were children who looked sicker than she was. Mother saw that Joy Lien looked confused and tried to encourage her. You are strong, she said. For the next six weeks, Joy Lien stayed at the hospital. Mother gave her lots of papaya and beets. She did not want to eat the papaya, but she had to. She wrinkled her nose and swallowed them, hoping that she would not be able to taste them as it went down. She also ate lots of kiwi. She enjoyed eating the kiwi much more. Mother and aunt took turns staying with Joy Lien. Many people from church visited and prayed with her. Sometime passed and eventually she was allowed to go home. She was happy. She was tired of lying in the same bed for so long. She was happy to return home. When she arrived home, a teenage cousin was visiting to welcome her with a gift of delicious red pomegranates. Joy Lien was happy that it wasn't papaya. She loved pomegranates. Today, Joy Lien is 14, and she still does not like papaya, even though it helped her get better when she was sick. She said it was God who completely healed her. God healed me, she said. I was too young at the time to realize who had healed me, but I grew up and came to know God more. I realized that he was the one who healed me. He is a mighty healer. Parts of this Quarters 13 Sabbath offering will help construct a church near Joy Lien School in Bengaluru, India. Joy Lien School is on the same campus as Laurie Adventist College and several other Adventist school. Thank you for planning a generous offering. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Happy New Year from wherever you are. Karibu Sana, welcome, our dear viewer to our teen cornerstone lesson. And boy, do we have a lesson for you today. All about Good King Asa. But before we start, I'll just invite the rest of our panelists here to introduce themselves. And then at the end, John could pray for us. Go ahead. Yeah, my name is Nelson Yanumba. I'm John Mungai. Hi, I'm Biaki Kibwage. All right, John, say a prayer, my good sir. That's bow heads for a world of prayer.  We ask you to grace us with your presence and to help us to learn more about you and to get a closer and deeper connection with you. His name I pray, amen. Amen, amen, amen. Welcome once again. So the title of our lesson today is Crossroads. Crossroads. And as alluded to earlier, we'll be talking about the Good King Asa and the challenges that he faced as he was reigning in Judah. And all the problems that were there at that time. So just to start us off, we'll just go in quickly into the interactive session and just ask, what do you think? What do you think with John? And John, maybe perhaps you can just take us through that. So the What Do You Think section asks, rank the following spiritual battles from the easiest to the hardest. I believe that believing in God through hard times is very important. And through our tribulations and our problems, for example, examinations, and whatever is going on at home, it's very important to remember God during these hard times. Setting appropriate relationship boundaries. It can be a relationship with your parents. You set certain boundaries that you can't cross. The particular ways that you talk to your parents. These are boundaries that you can't cross. Helping the undeserving. Looking at how Jesus, God sent his son to die on the cross for us. God helped us the undeserving. So I think that it's very valuable for us to help the undeserving as well. Alaskan Elton, what do you think? I think, well, I'm seeing something here saying it was also rank from the easiest to the hardest. I would say the hardest here would be believing in God through hard times.  So I think that could be the hardest. Yeah. Biyaki, what do you think? I think, personally, some of my hardest is refraining from gossip. Like how I grew up, my friends, some of my aunties, my mom. Gossip is very common. It's very, very common. It's something I've grown up with a lot. Refraining from it is hard. And I would say also spending adequate time with God. So for me, those are my two hardest. And my easiest would be refraining from drinking alcohol. So personally, I think maybe managing anger would be something that is a bit hard for me personally. Because when I was younger, I used to have anger issues. But through Christ and growing my relationship with Him, I think it's really helped. And something that's easy is also refraining from drinking alcohol. Yeah, you don't drink. But there are people who genuinely struggle with that almost their whole lives. No, yes. So John, thank you so much for taking us through the what do you think section. These are spiritual challenges that are there that we face in our day-to-day lives. And just as you'll see from into the story, there were other challenges that even from the story that we're going to read today about King Asa, there were challenges that he faced from all over. And it's hard to work out these challenges. It's hard to keep your faith in these challenges. So perhaps maybe I just want to invite Biyaki just to take us into the story and give us some insight on these challenges that King Asa was facing. OK, so I'll just read the story. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord, his God. He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands. The spirit of God came on Azariah, son of Oded. He went out to meet Asa and said to him, listen to me. Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, the Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will forsake you. For a long time, Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. But in their distress, they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him. And he was found by them. Asa then took the silver and gold out of the treasuries of the Lord's temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben Haddad, king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus. Let there be a treaty between me and you, he said, as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Bashar, king of Israel, so he will withdraw from me. Ben Haddad agreed with king Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. When Bashar heard of this, he stopped building drama and abandoned his work. At the time, Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah and said to him, because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing. And from now on, you will be at war. Asa was angry with the seer because of this. He was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time, Asa brutally oppressed some of the people. Ahab, son of Omdri, did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. There was never anyone like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel, his wife. Now this story comes from second chronicles, chapter 14, and also first kings, chapter 16. And he just talks about Asa and how he chose to lose faith in God and put his trust instead in man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Just perhaps me to give some backstory. Asa at the time was facing two wars, basically. The king of Israel was on his back, Ben Haddad. So, and he was in Ramah, which is right at the border. And so at the time, he's in a war, he's in a war. So you find that he's looking at what can he do, what can he do? And he says, you know, that this guy, king of Ramah, why don't I send him some money and try and see if he can help me on this other side. And so he does that, you know?  But, Biaki, I just wanted to ask, there's some questions here, perhaps. That perhaps maybe you can just help us to enlighten. By Asa giving money to Ben Haddad, did it show that he was fully devoted to God?  And he was just trying to sort him the best way he knows how. What do you think? Okay, he was in a tough position, yeah? Yeah. And I think at the time, he was trying his best to win the war, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, so for him, he saw, let me just do this. This is a way out of my problems. So that's why he decided to do that. But I think he also forgot about God. He forgot who God is and what he can do. And what he can do for him. Yeah, no, that's very true, that's very true. And just even going back to the, what do you think, Lekshon and John? You know, with all those challenges that we were talking about, that we face, is it possible that sometimes we are like King Asa where we say, you know, just let me try and sort it out myself. And what perhaps would you tell somebody with the perspective of King Asa's story, you know, in trying to live it all to God? What would you tell them in facing those challenges in the, what do you think, Lekshon? Omia, it's understandable to get overwhelmed by the challenges that you're going through. Yeah. Not too facing, but I think it's very important to remember that God who lives as a plan. Yeah.  No, that's very true, that's very true. And I think that's brought out very well in our key text, which perhaps maybe you can read it for us, the key text. So the key text today comes from the book of Second Chronicles, chapter 16, verse nine. Second Chronicles, chapter 16, verse nine. And it says, for the eyes of the Lord, range throughout the earth, to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on, you will be at war. Yeah, yeah, those are some tough words from the Prophet, you know, you can imagine it.   You can say it, you can say it, you know. But, you know, those were the words of the Prophet. And I particularly like the first part, and now I just want to turn to Nelson, perhaps.  And also, if you might read for us the flash, you know, just linking that with the key text and the flash. Yeah, let me just read the flashlight first. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, alas, how are the glory of Israel departed? Never before had the chosen people of God fallen so low in apostasy. Of the prophets of Baal, there were 450. Besides 400 prophets of the Groves, we see this in Fast Kings, chapter 18. Nothing short of miracle, working power of God could preserve the nation from utter destruction. Wow, you know, Israel had voluntarily separated herself from the rover. Yet the Lord in compassion still learned after those who had been led into sin. And he was about to send them, one of the mightiest of his prophets, though who many were led, many were to be led back to allegiance, to allegiance to the God of their fathers. Yeah, I think, see, the Israelites were at one point with God and now they choose to turn away. Yeah. So bad things happen, you know? Without God, you can't really do anything. Yeah. But then now you see in the flashlight, we see a promise again from God. Like the first one where he says, if we trust in him, he'll lift us. Now we see God promising to bring them back. You know, he's showing his mercy to the Israelites. He doesn't want them to perish, but now he's going to send his mightiest prophet to come and save them. Yeah. You know, it's a really good thing. And I want to maybe highlight this part where it says, nothing short of the miracle working power of God could preserve the nation from utter destruction. Yeah. You know, these guys were lost. Yeah. It's just God's mercy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's a very important point. And I like how you bring the fact that Israel were lost and that they were lost out of their own doing.  And now it's only a miracle from God. The verse that you've just emphasized or rather the sentence that you've just emphasized from, you know, the spirit of prophecy, you know, that it was nothing short, but a miracle that could bring them back. Nothing short, but a miracle.  We mess up every single day. We've seen every single day. It is nothing short, but a miracle from God that can really bring us out, you know, that can really bring us out. I like the key text that says, you know, that the eyes of God, does it say that? It says that.  And that's a powerful promise. Go ahead. I wanted to relate this verse from Second Chronicles, the key text to a verse that I read yesterday in Isaiah chapter 56. In Isaiah chapter 56, it says, this is what the Lord says, maintain justice and do what is right. My salvation is closer turned and my righteousness will soon be revealed. Blessed is the one who does this, the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it and keeps their hands from doing any evil. Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, the Lord will surely exclude me from his people. Amen. And let no eunuch complain, I am only a dry tree. This is what the Lord says. Yeah. Wow, that's a powerful verse by the Edron that you've just read there, you know, and it's God really repeating that promise, just repeating that promise once again. Yeah. Biaki, there are other verses in the punchline that maybe perhaps you can take us through and tell us which is your favorite. Okay, I'll read some in my friends that will help me. So the first one is from Matthew chapter 16, verse 24. Then Jesus said to his disciples, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. The second is from John chapter 15, verse eight. This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be my disciples. John, you want to read the next? Yeah, sure. The next comes from the book of Acts chapter two, verse 40. And it says with many words, with many other words, he warned them and he pleaded with them, save yourself from this corrupt generation. Next verse comes from the book of Psalms, chapter 14, verse one. And it says, the fool says in his heart, there is no God, they are corrupt, they are deeds of vile, there is no one who does good. Can allow Nelson to read the last one. Yeah. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever, Hebrews 13, verse eight. So I would say my favorite is the last one. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. I think from what I've been through, I've realized every human being needs a constant in their life, something that doesn't change whatsoever. And that is only God, everything else changes. So for me, Hebrews, amen, amen, amen. Those are very powerful verses, by the way that we have just read. And they are repeating the promise of God that he will be with us forever. And perhaps maybe if we can just read a few more, I've seen there in the lesson, if you can just read Biachi, Matthew chapter seven, verse 13 and 14. John, if you could read Matthew chapter seven, verse 24 to 27. And then Nelson, 30, 28 to 30. Okay, Matthew chapter seven, verse 13 and 14. Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction. And many enter through it, but small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life. And only a few find it. And only a few find it. And really this is an admonition by Christ. We have been told there, you look at the verses that Biachi had just taken us through. Jesus says in Matthew chapter 16, verse 24, for example, where he says to disciples, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up the cross and follow me. And in Matthew chapter seven, Jesus is saying that narrow is the gate. Showing that there is only one way that you can come to him. And that indeed you must deny yourself the pleasures of the flesh and follow him up. John, go ahead, please read for us Matthew chapter seven, verse 24 to 27. It says, therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice, like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against the house. Yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice, it's like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against the house and it fell with a great crash. And it fell with a great crash. This is a parable that Jesus is talking about. And you can even relate it, mind you, dear viewer, to the story of King Arthur. He tried to go ahead and make his political machinations, pay, I don't know this guy, to that guy, to be able to quell the war. But then you look at the cast that came upon him after that, that now, he'll always have war, he'll always have war. And really that's the same admonition that we're being given here, to build our house on the rock. That's that when the storm would come, then it would withstand. And this is really just us to trust in God. Ask you 11 verses, 11, 28, and go until 30. And it says, Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart. And you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Even when sometimes it doesn't make sense, and he even talking about the aspects, what did you think in the section? When we think that really we're up against the wall, Jesus tells us to come and that he will give us rest. All right, well, having said that, now we want to go into the third day part and just talk about briefly, this warning that King Arthur was given, it's a terrible warning. You can imagine, he was a man of God, it's a terrible warning. You can imagine, he was even angry. He was terribly angry and understandably so.  This is the most foolish thing that you've done. You can imagine telling your father that. Now imagine telling it to a king. And I just wanted to invite Nelson. Maybe perhaps just, you can read it again from into the story. And I think it's almost the last paragraph, the third last paragraph. And then tell us what you think about, the warning that King Arthur was given, how receptive he was, how did he react to it? I know he throws somebody in prison, I think. What happened? And what lessons can we learn from that as well? Go ahead. Yeah, he's just saying, in the into the story part, Arthur was angry with this year because of this. He was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time, Arthur brutally oppressed some of the people. Ahab's son of Omri, that's a bit later. But yeah, we see Arthur, he's so, I don't know. He's enraged. Even angry isn't even enough. Yeah. You know? He actually throws someone in prison, which is serious. A prophet. A prophet. A man of God. A man of God, yeah. Chosen. You know? Great. It's serious here, you know? Yeah. Because even if, let's say for example, an older brother is told off by his younger sibling, you know? Even him, he gets angry. Now imagine this. You're the king. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It's something serious. But yeah, what I would say from this encounter that Arthur had, he overreacts. It's quite obvious that he overreacts, you know? This is, he's a messenger of God telling him this. He should take it, you know? He should take it better than this. Even though he's angry, he should learn how to control it. But I think this teaches us that we should think, we should think a lot before we react on others. Yeah. No, very true, very true. And you know, it's incredible, by the way, you know? Because it's so understandable, you know? It's almost human for you to react like that. You know, you can imagine you're the king, you're ruling over everything. And here comes this guy, you know? And he's undermining you. In front of, you can imagine the court of King Arthur. You know, you can imagine all the generals are there. What I usually like doing, it can say it maybe perhaps, it's like Jamhurideh, you know? It's Jamhurideh, you've just inspected your guard of honor.  And it's tremendous, it's tremendous. And King Arthur reacts the way he does. But I just wanted us to read another story from another king who was also told off and perhaps just see how he reacted. And this is the story of King David. And it's found in the book of Second Samuel chapter 12 and Biaki, I see you have your Bible already opened. Now, if you can just read for us, and you can just go to verse six, I'm gonna read from verse seven and then just go to verse 14. Second Samuel chapter 12. Chapter 12, go from verse seven and go all the way until verse 17, yeah. Okay. So then Nathan said to David, you are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. I anointed you, King of Israel and I delivered you from the hand of soul. I gave your master's house to you and your master's wives into your arms. I give you all Israel and Judah. And if this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes?    This is what the Lord says. Out of your own household, I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes, I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel. Now 13, and this is the reaction of David. Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. Nathan replied, the Lord has taken away your sin.  Yeah, and so you can see there, somebody who had done, perhaps even in my view, a bigger sin. You know, and you can see how he reacts. You know, he doesn't put Nathan in prison, you know, and he has this sort of humbling reaction. I don't know what you think about that. He was quite humble. He was quite humble. Yeah, as compared to King Asa. Yeah, actually, I think about two lessons ago, we learned about Jeroboam. And the only reason God has mercy on him is because he's humble. Yeah, he turns back to God. He accepts that he's done bad. Yeah, well, you know, that's actually an interesting aspect about God, you know.  He sort of doesn't punish you as much, right? Which is an interesting case. And so I think it's a lesson for us even as we are here that even when we sin, you know, how do we react? How do we act even after we've sinned? Even after we've done wrong, you know, we have slighted God, we have rebelled. How do we react, you know? Are we the type that says, ah, you know what? I had a reason. I had a reason, you know. What was the reason I had a reason, you know? Or are we the type that says, ah, I have sinned. You know, God, please, created me a new heart. You know that I might not sin anymore. Which is an interesting aspect. Now coming to the final part of our lesson and this really the Friday part and it's really a question for introspection, you know. It's really asking us to look at ourselves, you know, with this whole story for King Asa. You know, King Asa find hard challenges as we all do in this world, you know. Fine, he was fighting, he had a war going on. But unfortunately, we doubt or rather the Bible casts a shadow of doubt on his commitment to God. And indeed his actions, as it were, show that, you know, his commitment to God was not a hundred. You know, it was not at a hundred percent. And that's why we see him doing the deals, you know, with Ben Haddad, you know. That's why we also see that even though his heart, the Bible says that, you know, he was, his heart was committed to God in some way. He never cleared all the places of idol worship, you know. And so really the Friday part is a question for us to introspect, you know. For us to look at ourselves and to really understand, are we committed to God? Even in our daily lives, you know. Are we involved? Are we 100 percent committed, you know? Do we, would we totally, you know, totally say that we are 100 percent ready to give everything that we have to God? Are we, are we really, you know? Can our commitment be described as radical? You know, these are questions that you have to ask yourself, you know.  And you really have to ask yourself, you know, what's going on? Am I really committed to God? It's a tough question to ask. It's a tough question to ask. I know a lot of the time we might find ourselves in a position where, you know, that commitment is called into question. But then we have to answer that question. Eat an every day of our lives. All right, having said that, if we can read, perhaps John, you can read for us the Father Insight that is there just to conclude the Father Insight. The Father Insight comes from prophets and kings. And it says, the true Christian will make God fast and last and the best in everything. No ambitious motives will chill his love for God. Steadyly, perseveringly, will he cause honor to be downed to his heavenly Father. The true Christian, the true Christian.  All right, we want to conclude our lesson. I just want to give our panelists just two minutes each, two minutes each, or even less, just to give their parting short, what they learned from this lesson, any insights that they'd have for our dear viewer as we conclude. We'll start at our very right over there. Yeah, I'd just like to say, from this lesson, what I take from it is that we need to have a changing of the heart, you know? We need to turn back to God fully, fully commit to His will. And from there, I think life will be good, you know? We just wait for the second coming. Yeah, amen, amen. For me, I'd say we can look at the way Arthur reacted. We can read actually Revelation, no, Philippians. Mm-hmm, Philippians. Chapter four, from verse four. Philippians, chapter four, from verse four. Amen, it says, rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again, rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near, not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and position, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. See, this verse just tells us that if we commit ourselves to God completely, that peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard our hearts and our minds to Christ Jesus. Amen, nice one, very good, very good. I think what I've learned from this story is that in our human lives, trouble is going to come. Some must, it has to be there. And so in knowing that, we have to prepare for it. By preparing, we can do that with God, yeah? We have to learn to trust in Him. And everyone has different experiences in life, and it can teach you not to trust, not to have faith in other people. But with God, He's not going to do that. He's not going to do you wrong the way humans have, yeah? And it says here, if you seek God, He will be found by you. Amen, amen, yeah. Oh, what more can I add to that? That those are insightful, those are robust, and those are thoughts, ladies and gentlemen, that really represent the heart of God, you know? That's really what God wants for us. He wants to lead us in every single thing that we are doing, you know?  He probably was working a master plan for us, you know?  He was, he probably had, you know, a plan that was 10 times better that would have brought peace and prosperity to the region like never before, you know? And all he asked really is that we trust Him, right? And that we commit ourselves to Him, and that we do everything as He has prescribed for us. All right, well, thank you so much again for joining us. It's been wonderful sharing the lesson with you. This week, we can't wait for next week again for you to join us together. And so we can study again. Perhaps now let me just ask Biaki over here to pray for us as we conclude. Okay, let's pray. Dear Lord, we come before you today with thanks for allowing us to come here and do what we do to further the gospel. I ask that with all that we've learned from each other and from your word, we are able to apply it in our lives. Lord, and let us see fruit. Please be with us and guide us and protect us on our ways. Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen, amen. Goodbye, happy Sabbath.


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This is the hot sauce, all right? If you're still talking about Sriracha in 2019, get fucked. Bravo. Aquamathletics. I was just thinking in the car. Sometimes it's good to be self aware of what you're good at, what you're bad at. We can go into another video of what I'm bad at. I have a long laundry list of things. But kind of building a community, building a team. And I think because of my cool mentors, my first strength coach, Dean Durham, my high school basketball coach, Dean Stark, my father, among other things, being a captain of the basketball team for three years. Things like that, I think. I have some leadership in me. I'm running a couple of companies, et cetera, et cetera. It's just things that I'm good at because I've had a lot of practice with coaching, training, that's a form of leadership, whether you're doing classes, teams, online, et cetera. And so it's cool to kind of see the evolution even over what four weeks training with Ben. Day one, it's me, Ben and Connor. Day 10, it's me, Ben, Connor and Alan. Day 20, it's me, Ben, Connor, Alan, our buddy Jason. Day 25, it's me, Ben, Alan, Connor, Jason, our boy Ryan, who's in town and the one and only Filipino Thunder. So today we really got after it and I was gonna go for a PR. I did go for a PR in the squat. I hit 518, which is 235 kilos and it felt really, really good. Didn't feel heavy on my back and I didn't, I lost some speed but I didn't like grind it. So that's pretty, feels pretty good going into vacation. I'm gonna try to get two days of training but leaving on that note is really good. It's supposed to clean 135 and I whiffed it. Elbow is a little weird. Wrist is a little weird from the cleans on Monday and I think mentally I just got ahead of myself and honestly I'm enjoying weightlifting because I'm a beginner and because I'm a little nervous, a little scared getting to the weights and I feel a little defeated. To be honest, I've lifted heavy weights and powerlifting, not the best in the world, not even close. I've played high level basketball and some really good players and I don't care the same about powerlifting. I don't care the same about weightlifting but there's something about weightlifting that feels a little competitive to me because I wanna prove that I can lift mediocre weight, at least average weight, something to raise an eyebrow at. I wanna prove that to the world because everyone's known me as the slow, fat, powerlifter. People don't know me as the basketball player or the athlete that I used to be and although I'm past my athletic prime arguably, I know that I can clean something that's pretty, I don't know what the word is. Respectful. Respectful, at least something to put it out there and make kind of a statement like, dang, Mike probably was an athlete. So it feels a little defeated to miss 135. Down but not out. Shout out to my Call of Duty fam, everybody on Twitch. So not exactly what I wanted. I missed it twice, first time I missed it just because I think I was overthinking the pain in my wrist and the weight on the bar and then second time I just overthought everything. Shot my, shooted my shot too early but it is what it is. Fun training with the guys, hopefully we can get them together more often. Hopefully we keep building community, not only here online with all you guys but the guys I train with weekend and week out. So it's a lot of fun. I'm heading on vacation, we're gonna take ride to the airport. I gotta pack up, I gotta shower up, I'm an absolute mess. Videos coming every Monday, Thursday, Saturday. Check out 50% FACTS on iTunes, Spotify, everywhere you wanna learn about more fitness, life and health and I'll be back on Twitch in about two weeks. So follow me there, sign up Mike, we have a lot of fun building the community there. I appreciate you guys. We'll catch you in the next time, I'm outta here. I'm gonna work up to my opening front squat. I'm competing this weekend in a front squat contest. I'll hit my opener with knee wraps or I'm sorry, knee sleeves and belt. Everybody else will be doing a heavy back squat up to a single and then we'll be working heavy cleans off the blocks. I'll be doing some snatches, probably some lighter power snatches off the blocks. You guys go. Is there?  Yeah. I would take like a 515 for like a mini. I only know kilos, I don't know pounds. So I think I did 220? All right. Was my heaviest? I don't know, I'll do the math. Nice dude. I need help getting in so I don't crush my hands. Now I'm gonna need some, hey, kid rock, maybe Beach Boys. I was scared. It is, dude. Think about what I built by myself.  This is the hot sauce, all right? If you're still talking about Sriracha in 2019, get fucked, okay? This is the sauce, all right? Second of all, limp biscuits. Yeah, yeah, let's look at you going, you know? 250 back squat from Marcus.  I'm not seeing one bigger than me, except for him. One day I'll fight him. It's called Hits fan. It's called Hits fan. Let's go. Yeah, but what's that?


Hey guys, welcome to our training reviews. So today I have the iPhone XS Max 64 gigabytes in what I think is the best color Which is space great. Let's go ahead give it an unboxing and get straight into it Okay, so let's go ahead and unbox this that's the space crazy I think this is probably one of the best colors From the lineup that iPhone have been releasing So it comes with the plug You have the air pods which are the wired versions now It's a bit of a shame depending on the price that you're paying I think it would have been a good gesture to at least have the wireless air pods in there But nonetheless now this iPhone does come with fast charging again an issue with this is that they don't provide the fast charger And you have to buy it separately But unless you have the iPhone charging cable there as well and that's all you get in the box So this phone is 1100 pounds and for that price. It's the most expensive phone that I've ever bought I would have expected a little bit more than just these items here But obviously Apple wanted to go through a different strategy, which is one of the reasons why they're a trillion dollar company So let's go ahead Take this off All right on all right guys. So there you have it. That's the quick unboxing I'm gonna give you a full review of this phone very soon. So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that one I've just set up face unlock. So I'm gonna see how quickly it will unlock the phone for me Now when I use face unlock the padlock icon will unlock detecting my face Now it's recognized I can just swipe up to unlock the phone Now I'm gonna give you a comparison of the camera quality compared with the iPhone 10s Max with my Samsung S9 plus So that's another video coming out very soon. So make sure you subscribe as well So you won't miss that one I'm gonna go and give you a full review of all the features that come with this 10s max I went for the max because I think I just preferred a little bit more of the battery life I'm used to phones with a larger screen such as my S9 plus So I'm gonna be using this giving you a full review Hopefully in within the next week, you will see that on my channel also check out my Instagram at trending reviews I'm gonna take some pictures using the iPhone 10s max and give you some examples of portrait mode some video qualities and so on Hopefully test out some of the slow motion on this as well with some good shots outside So keep an eye out for that if you have any questions drop them down below If you want me to review anything particular with the 10s max then do let me know in the comments below as well I'll try to do that for you guys other than that. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time


Of course you can, I mean... Oh, hello! Okay, can we play next game, one game? Okay guys, there's two brackets here, this one that is good, it's warm, it's pretty well, and there's one that is terrible, right here. You know what? I'm gonna be happy with the battle. A few moments later... We are here live with Ali Al-Gashami, who just got smacked in table tennis. Me? Ali Al-Gashami, a few questions here. First of all, you've obviously been retired, looks like maybe about 15, 20 years now. Obviously your muscles, legs don't work the same way they do. Is there, is that the reason for your loss in table tennis today? Well, I have to say that I kind of lost confidence, you know, the last couple of games, it's been tough on me.  So you don't credit any of the game to have his talent and have his extreme ability at table tennis? To be completely honest, Couch Bautista is a terrible trainer. I mean, he hasn't brought anything to the table. This is when you know you've been retired for a long time and you've just given up on life. That is great. Ice cream. No shame, no shame. Quick fact, did you know, this guy right here, this guy right there, was in FIFA. You can actually play with him in FIFA, what was it, FIFA 1995 or 1995? FIFA 2010. FIFA 2010, so if you have a copy of FIFA 2010, IK Stark, in the top division in Norway. In the top division in Norway. And just let me know when you make it a FIFA game and when you do that, we'll have a conversation, alright? Can't connect the 10 yard pass though, but he gets in FIFA. Can't connect the 10 yard pass. This is the idea though, like, that passing lane is perfect. See? There's so much space. Someone else needs to be under, Christina, you're the first center mid coming to check into the ball, right? So you don't get the ball, but you get wide and you create that passing lane for first. So you wouldn't, realistically, you're not going to be able to get underneath within time. So she might be able to get underneath and furgs. So, next part of Coach Javi's busy day. Some individual sessions with a few of our players, and I'll wear the GoPro, and in this video I'll put in some of the coaching points, so you can see what I tell them during the individual sessions. That's one of the girls. And so I want to, I want to continue doing the individual training videos and all that. So I know I've been doing a lot of videos on other stuff, vlogs and all that, but rest assured, Coach Javi will not get away from his roots. So got four girls coming out, so it should be a good session. Oh, and by the way, the boots, mate. Everyone asked me, what type of boots are the ones that you use in your Sunday League? These were $20 at the flea market. Yep. Coach Javi paid 20 bucks for these bad boys. They're the Tiempo's, they're the black and teal ones. But I just sharpie the teal logo to make them all black. Yep. There you go. Alright, off to this session.  As soon as this happens, and I noticed this, she plays the ball.  See what I'm saying? But you guys get the idea. So take a little bit of a risk. I'd rather you do that and the ball goes far than too soft in the middle and then it gets intercepted and now we're trying to prevent a counter attack. Okay. Alright, off we go. And again, this is what it would look like. I'm away, I'm away. She plays it back. She's facing. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Nope. Play there. Good. Now I pop it underneath and now I'm here. Get what I'm saying? So we get away. We check to, to create that space, drag the defender with us. And then when she plays this ball, then you pop it underneath. Okay. What a legend. Whoa. Look at that legend right there. Who's that guy? There's the other legend right there. Sam. Hook. The one and only. Where are you guys headed this weekend? Cincinnati. First game of the season. Norway. Norway. Norway. Chile. Norway. Chile. Norway. Norway. Norway. Norway. Norway. Norway. Poland. I mean Germany. Norway. Canada. Canada. Canada. America, baby. America, baby. They put all the Americans in the back. Is that what it's come to? They put all the Americans in the back now. All right, boys. Good luck at Cincinnati. Good easy boys. All right. So the women play against Maryland at home. So while they're off going to Ohio, we'll be here playing against Maryland. So that's why I can't go to that game. But hopefully they get the three points. And hopefully we get the three points as well. Two big games this weekend. So earlier you guys saw a time lapse of the film and how we watched film. Stina's here. Legend. And we're actually going to break it down and show you guys basically how we use it to prepare for the upcoming match. So this is what we do. We have a website called Right Play. And what we do is we code the film for every single position. So if you can see there, we have forward opportunities, defensive situations, goals, goals against, defensive corners, all that stuff. And then the numbers are the position. So the number three is our left back, number four is our left center back. And we code it so that every time they're involved, we mark it down. So for example, Stina or the attacking mid. So we code her as zero. We code it for her. And then all we have to do is just play it and it'll give us just the clips in which Stina was involved. Every time she was involved in the play, Stina will pop up there. So that's how we code it. And then when she comes in, all I have to do is play her part or if she wants to watch certain other parts of it, we can watch those as well. So yeah, it's pretty crazy. Look at all that coding that we have to do. And that's something we do for every single game. That was good because I'm fine with a few quick little passes like that as long as we realize when we have to switch intervention. Look, even if you look at Callista's movement here, she gets away because she knows it. She gets away, she gets away, she gets away.  And now there's a huge passing lane there for Callista. Boom.  So Callista does well to recognize that. I'm fine if we connect a few passes on the same side as long as eventually we realize we have to switch it. There's no patience. We got very impatient. We got very impatient and we stopped trying to play. We just think that the faster we can get it forward, the more chances we have and in reality the faster we go forward sometimes, it causes us to just keep losing the ball over and over. And if there's never any flow, if we can never get anything going, then it's just going to be pointless because then it's just boot ball. So it's like, especially in a game like this, how hot was it, like 95? Something like that? Especially in a game like this where it's going to be extremely hot, we need to let the ball move. We need to get our energy when we're on the ball. If we just keep playing boot ball, we're just going to be chasing. We need to get a lot more tired than if we just try and keep it. Just keep it, keep it, keep it. And even from certain situations, you can tell those spaces will open up. If we move the ball, those spaces will open up. We're just impatient. We're just impatient when we want to go forward right away. And it's just boot ball.


and looks that way. Now, resets and throws for Ridley. Take some hill, dropping back. Each of us strong, do what they can. That's Tion Jones in the 45 yard lead. Cateus is there, and it's caught. And Hayden Hurst will walk into the in-zone for the Atlanta touchdown. Caught gay, deal.


today was our first day of events. It was so much fun. We started off the day at 10 a.m. going to our big, large groups. Oh, we met for large groups and small groups and they went through the capstone creed and we basically liked the study to see what it's about and how we can impact it in our lives. Then we came out here at eight and had a good time, got free stuff, met new people. I'm really excited to meet new people and get prepared for my life and like your career path and like stuff like that. Like the open schedule and like all the fun stuff going on. You know, I really just want to give it all I have with my classes. I really want to take advantage of all the student resources we have here on campus, all the tutoring and advisors and everything like that. I think it'll really contribute to my success here.


This year, Girls in ICT Day will be celebrated on the 23rd of April. Celebrating our annual Girls in ICT Day is always one of the top events on my calendar. But right now, we face an unprecedented challenge. The COVID-19 global health emergency has turned our world upside down. And limiting the spread of this highly infectious virus demands radical changes in the way that we work. So this year, we strongly encourage you to focus your Girls in ICT Day around social media and virtual events. Let's turn this challenge into an opportunity that really demonstrates the power of technology to change our lives. Let's get creative on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. And if we can, let's take advantage of video conferencing to connect remotely for dialogues and debates on more effective strategies to bridge the digital gender divide. At the ITU, we're turning our own on-site celebrations in Samoa into what I think is going to be a fun and inspiring virtual event. And to support your activities, we've developed a special social media package that you can download from our website. Our Girls in ICT portal will continue to be the hub for sharing your activities with the global community. We'll also still be mapping our virtual celebrations, so please don't forget to tell us about what you're doing, about the unique ways that you're adapting to Girls in ICT Day for maximum outreach and effect. I wish you all an engaging, exciting and inspiring Girls in ICT Day 2020 and of course above all, stay safe and stay healthy.


Good morning, everybody. JR Fisher here. Welcome to Monday morning. Wow This month is flying by this year is flying by. What am I talking about? This whole year is flying by. Hope everybody's doing good today Make sure you use that chat box put in there any comments questions suggestions If you just want to say hi and tell me about your weather you can do that I will tell you today. We are really overcast here in Texas Georgetown, Texas. We're just north of Austin and Weather's a little down today, but I'm not I'm excited. I'm glad to be here I hope you are too and we're going to talk about Communicating with your customers today and guys this is so very important and some of these statistics I'm going to give you is going to shock you. You're not going to believe what you're hearing It's probably going to change the way you're doing business So make sure you stick to the very end. Don't forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button down there turn it from red To gray. Don't forget to ring the bell turn all bell notifications So you're notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video We got we got videos coming out this week Monday Wednesday Friday Plus I'm doing lives today and Wednesday Friday, I will not be here unfortunately. Well fortunately for me. I'm going to New Orleans You're gonna hang out for Easter in New Orleans So I'll be down there, but I'll be thinking about you guys and maybe I'll shoot some videos down there Kind of show you what's going on in New Orleans So let's get right into this guys. This is so important this communication with your customers I'm going to also give you a link where you can get some software to help you do all this And there is a trial for $1. So you're gonna want to check that out But make sure you use that chat box talk to me ask me questions in there do whatever you need to do to get Involved you want to get involved guys You know today's customers are really different than they used to be and I think a lot of it has changed Because of what we've been through and because of what we're going through They they expect more than just a good price on the product nowadays They expect to access comprehensive information about your product or your service they're purchasing they don't they don't want any friction when they're buying something And customer service guys customer service is a major major part of that customers expect a business to you know Answer all their questions and concerns no matter what time of day it is okay They want this answer 24 hours a day. It's an increasingly competitive retail environment You know all these brands that are out here now They've got to really strive to meet those expectations or risk losing sales Which you will lose sales now you can't always be a hundred percent all the time I totally get that but in this training today I want to show you how to really improve what you're doing and why you should do it I mean why is the important thing right? We don't just do stuff. We want to know why we should do it as These customers expectations evolve, you know all retailers and brands have to invest in building stronger relationships with them This relationship between the brand and the customer must go far beyond the Actual transactions to create the trust and loyalty that you want to create You need to do extra things. Okay, you've got to enhance the customer service by using conversational Commerce and that's what I'm going to talk about today are conversational e-commerce according to Square future of commerce report 41% of Retailers say they currently are planned to implement selling via text or chat So that's changed a lot And it's really important that we're using this conversational commerce it's a new form of online interaction between brands and Consumers and allows both of us to communicate directly through text or chat boxes or messaging or ticket systems And in all these things that I'm talking about right now can be done through a program called Kartra Hey ART or a matter of fact, I want you to let me put this in here Check in the description to get a $1 trial of Kartra with my affiliate link alright Now I did talk to text And let's see what other trial of this is heartthrob. That's not right. Okay. It gave me the wrong thing here Let me put in here what it should be Kartra With my affiliate link In the description this is right now It's so funny when you do this talk to text It just doesn't always put what you want Okay, there we go There we go. Okay, so I got that the chat box there. That's there And you want to use that that's super important guys that that is just so helpful So this conversational commerce you can use things like push notifications Which allow businesses to tell their customers about a product launch or sale while chat box make it easier for the consumers to ask question 24-7 I have mixed feelings about chat box or chat box You know, they they kind of work that kind of don't sometimes they can be irritating, you know Conversational commerce allows brands to really respond directly with consumers, which is critical in one survey alone Check this out guys 69% of consumers said they would like to be able to message a brand and it made them feel more Confident about that brand just just being allowed to send a message to a brand It made them feel more confident and understand the more confident they feel the more likely they are to you know buy your services or whatever In that same survey the same survey found that 70% of businesses responded to chats within five minutes We're more likely to lead to conversations with the consumer So if you can do it quickly all the better We have a messaging ticket system on our site And you can get it to through cartridge that link I told you about in the chat box there You can actually get that software for only $1. It's not always easy to respond that fast Let's face it, but customers say they're willing to wait an average of just this six minutes Wow, they're willing to wait six minutes the actual average wait time is 17 minutes across the board Okay, which is pretty darn fast. I can't even say that we're always at that And when customers feel they had a bad experience, they are not shy about expressing it online I mean people will bash you online nowadays guys if they've had a bad experience with you They will tear you up You know, we're having a rash of a problem now because people are counterfeiting our website They're they're putting up fake websites that look like us and they're selling products that are ours or other people's And they're just keeping people's money and then they're just shutting down the site So they're just total scam sites now the problem with this for us is they contact us and they say have place in order with you guys And it's been a month that we never got our order and we look and we see that you know They never bought from us or go forward the receipt and it's not a receipt from us is from some other email address That's nothing to do with us and I'm not talking this happened once or twice. This happened several times a day So a lot of people are really getting ripped off. So this is my opportunity also to tell you be careful where you buy online There are a lot of scam sites We've traced most of these down to Iceland of all places and there's some in Russia. There's some in China But they're just totally scam sites and they almost always use PayPal. They don't use credit card processing So, you know, if you're paying through PayPal you have some protections, but just be careful, you know When you see an email address that does not match the website That's a big red flag guys and almost all of these people that you know contacted us You know bought from a site that you know that didn't match the email Businesses are faced with heightened consumer expectations and increased competition guys. It's you just got to get better every day I mean you got to resign yourself to that that in a lot of times.  Yeah, you've got to if you want to make it online The payoff is that you'll make a lot of money this morning I looked at my watch and it was before 9 a.m. And I had orders coming in from I don't know 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning going up And we had done thousands and thousands of dollars worth of business before 9 a.m. Before 9 a.m. So it does pay off And I want to talk about five ways conversational commerce Strengthens your customer relationships because I think this stuff's important. I really do And we're experiencing some of it, too the first way and certainly not the only way but the first way It supports customers questions and any issues that may arise. Okay, they're they're always gonna have questions about your product That's just the way it is even when brands have live customer service centers. Many aren't available 24-7 I know ours is not Yet when a prospective customer has a question or current one has a concern they want to answer They will actually want that answer immediately So insisting a customer wait until business hours may lead to a lost customer or lost sales So you can offer conversational commerce which gives customers the assurance that they'll make progress when they're issued Even if it occurs during the holidays or overnight hours So we're using this ticketing system where they can you know The first thing is they click on if they have a question and it's a box pops up And they can type in what their question is and when they do that these frequently asked questions will populate below that So they can see if that answers any of their questions If it does not they can initiate a ticketing system that ticketing system goes to us Which comes to me and my employees and we see that there's a ticket it sends us an email and lets me know Hey, you've got a ticket this consumer is asking you something and we can jump in there and we can answer it now If we've got a concern that happens time and time and time again, we can use a templated email or not really email It's a templated message in that messaging system And I've got some set up for those fake websites those scam websites I just told you about that answers that stuff for people because they want to know You know where's my order what's going on and we have to explain to them that if you know if the order number doesn't match And their email is not in our system that they probably got scammed and we tell them what to do about it this past Was it Saturday? Yeah, I had a lady contact me and she says hey We I ordered from you and I never got my order and I was like gosh You know I'm really sorry, but you know we checked and you didn't order from us And I looked at the receipt you sent and it didn't come from us However, here is a coupon that's going to give you a discount that you can use within the next 72 hours Within an hour and a half that woman had gone to our website and placed a $1,200 order Wow all because I gave her a coupon and she was ripped off She was ripped off and she came back to us and Spent $1,200 all because I was very responsive and I gave her a coupon for a discount So a lot of times it helps like when somebody's upset or they have a problem Do something for them do something special for them help them out with something Okay, and giving them a discount is a great way to help people out Number two It helps businesses be responsive without getting overwhelmed now. I know if I sit there and I just told told you about this template Message I can send back to people if we get a whole lot of tickets coming in And we have some templates which we have a lot of templates like that because a lot of people ask some of the same questions That can really help and you can do that in kartra Look in the description after this is Not live anymore. Okay right now it's live right now or if you're listening to it later, it wouldn't be but you get the drift okay, and You you can get a get that link to kartra. You can watch a video You can see how it works and you can try it out for $1. See if you like it. I think you will It can be impossible to respond to every customer inquiry and still ensure the brand or business moves forward Using automated tools and messaging like if you want to use a chat box Helps address basic customer questions and allows brands time to provide great customer service Especially on more complicated issues customers may have okay, so Having these automations in there are really helpful And if you don't have and I just mentioned it a couple minutes ago Frequently asked questions on your websites and where you're missing out. We have that at survival k food We also have that in our ticketing system and it pops up and populates in our ticketing system Uh, but having that frequently asked question and there's really helpful Even if somebody emails me a lot of times I'll send them a link to that answer on our frequently asked questions So they can go to that read it because it's already been written out And the way you go about that guys and by the way, this can be done on your website Um, in most cases, whether it's wordpress or magenta. We have magenta in wordpress But you can have it there. So we've done it there and we've also done it inside car for where we have our ticketing system But having it there is is really helpful And all you got to do is sit down one day and start writing out all the questions that people have asked you And then write an answer to it and put that in your frequently asked questions guys This is immensely helpful. It really really is you need to do this. You need to have this on your website It's going to help you so much number three applicable across Business sizes, okay, so think about this whether a brand is a one person shop Okay, which I was in the beginning, you know, it was just me in the beginning or if it's a global entity now We have manufacturing at one state. We have A shipping in another state. I'm in another state. We have people in India. We have people in Mexico We have people in the Philippines. So we've grown a lot, but Being able to con to converse with these customers has been invaluable for us So being able to scale responsiveness ensures brands can maintain strong customer relationships as they grow If we didn't have these automations and I didn't have these tools like kartra I couldn't have grown the business to where it is today. I couldn't be making the money I am today without being able to do that. So it's really important that you use some of these tools Having them out there and not using them is just like not having them. So it's super super important that you do that Also, number four uses automated tools Such as what I told you with kartra just now so that customers can make and confirm Let's say appointments or services or orders, you know, when somebody places an order at survival pay food They're going to get an email. It's going to confirm their order. It's going to show them what they purchased And it's going to tell them, you know, when we ship this item, you know, you're going to get another email And in that email, it's going to have a tracking number and our system automatically does that when we ship it out So this will free a business from the busy work all the little tiny minutia things because it's all automated And it makes it simpler for customers to center change their schedules To, you know, know when a product's coming and it decreases the chances of them not being home when the product shows up Or if you're doing appointments Appointments of having no shows. Okay. No shows are terrible. We don't like no shows. No shows are no good So The next thing i'm going to tell you number five Is it stores all of your customer conversations in one place? So now when we go into kartra I can go in there and I can look at all the different tickets Not only that it attaches itself to the customer file So when I have a customer in there and I've been talking to them for a little bit It's going to see all the conversations we've had back and forth. It's going to show how much money they've spent It's going to show the value of that customer. It's going to show what emails they've gotten It's going to show what emails they open. It's going to show them where they clicked Kartra is an amazing software. You got to get it. You got to get it In the description below grab you some kartra. It's good stuff. I'm telling you And if you have questions about this as we're going guys, please post those Please please please be involved even if you're not watching this live right now Make use of that comment section below this video. All you got to do is put a comment in there I come back. I answer those things. I will talk to you and it's me. It's not somebody on the staff It's actually me answering you so make sure you make use of that comment section I I've met a lot of really cool people in that comment section guys. I'd love to meet you be one of those people in there Okay, I want to see that So if you have any uh suggestions on subjects, you want to see me talk about, you know, this is also me communicating with you guys It's not just my physical products. It's my training also I do want to communicate with you guys so that I can help you out so you can grow your business But anyhow having these All this information in one place it helps you see the journey of the customer and it makes it easier to communicate with customers more effectively Notifications and chats can be attached In uh card for all these things can be attached in there or to shipping data so that the customers have a history of their transactions And they can see it too This process makes it a whole lot easier to reference and address any customer service issues You know as customers as brands We look for more ways to connect with our customers conversational commerce helps manage customer interactions at scale Okay, so that we can handle it even if business just blows up This ensures customers get assistance whenever they need it and it builds a stronger customer relationship Which is what we want to do the stronger the relationship The more they're going to be likely to continue to do business with you to spend more money with you You know, that's what you want. You went this relationship building, right? That's what we're doing with this conversational commerce So I don't have a whole lot more today on wednesday guys. I have not picked my subject for wednesday So if you have some ideas about subjects for wednesday put it in the description Excuse me description put it in the comment section put it in the chat section if you're watching this live And remember even if you're not watching this live right now, okay, you're not watching it live Don't forget to subscribe. You know it's subscribe button down there Don't forget to ring the bell turn all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I do go live Utilize this stuff guys And use use use use that comment section. I really want to talk to you guys and I want to get to know you So I hope this helped you out some today. I hope this conversational thing Is something that you understand and it really will build your business guys. I've made so much money It's like the story. I just related to you. I answered that lady's ticket really fast I gave her a discount coupon code and she went right to our site and spent 1200 bucks And it took me what three minutes to respond to her and I made 1200 dollars in three minutes That's pretty darn cool But see I do that all day long every day So I ended up with thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars of sales Which is what I want to do and it allows me the freedom Right the freedom right when you have a good income coming in It allows you the freedom to go do what you want. I leave What is it on Friday and I come back Tuesday? I'm gonna hang out in New Orleans with a best friend of mine from high school We've been friends since they were like 14 15 years old. I guess something like that We're both in our 60s now But we we both have that freedom. He's he's a builder. He builds neighborhoods He builds like hundreds of houses at that time And we would school together and we're you know, I've got time to actually go see him I mean, what could be better? Then they have a friendship that many years first off and then have the freedom to be able to go meet somebody And then us both like the same town and some of the same things too But you know, if we didn't both have businesses, we couldn't do that You know, we wouldn't be able to take off anytime we want or do what we want So I think that's very very cool and I feel very fortunate But you can do the same thing and you can do it Through these automations i'm telling you about through all this training I'm telling you about on this channel. This channel is all about you. It's not about me You know, I've made money and I can pay my bills But this channel is about helping you guys out and helping you move forward about starting running and growing your online business That's all this channel is about So if you have any input about questions or things you want to see answered Put it in these Chat box put it in the comment sections Send me messages if you go to my about section on this channel You'll find my email address you can email me and I will answer you no matter what it is I'm going to answer you and I'm going to do my best to help you out So that's about all I got today. We're finished a little bit early. What is about 10 21 right now? We normally finish after about 30 minutes. I got to get to the bank I got to get a little bit of cash because I don't really normally have cash But I got to get some to tip people along the way and go into the airport You got to have a little bit of cash and all that and it's a good idea to have some cash So I'm gonna do that But that's what I got for you today guys. I really appreciate you being here I love each and every one of you And you guys have a great day and I'm going to see you on Wednesday. Remember, I won't be here Friday or Monday Following because I will be out of town, but I will do some videos when I'm down in New Orleans And I'm gonna share that with you on this channel. Okay, I'll share with you on this Maybe I can go live down there Maybe I can go live in New Orleans guys if you want me to go live in New Orleans and film some stuff down there Put that in the chat section. Put it in the comment section Let me know if you want to see some stuff in New Orleans. Some of you may have never been to New Orleans You don't realize what a great food town and it is and how exciting that town is. I love the place It's a really nice place. My wife and I went there on a regular basis before the world illness But we're gonna get back to it and starting this coming weekend. We're gonna be there Thanks so much for being here guys. I really appreciate it. Love each and every one of you and I'll talk to you real soon So long