So, this is not how this is more about what. So, what is getting done and why it is getting done and why we have not reached where we want to be and what are those challenges we are facing on the ground. So, always it is important to really reflect on multiple views probably this could be a reflection point for you. So, before starting I cook you know today, today whomever you talk whether it is banks or insurance companies or retailers one thing which is very common they all talk about transformation. So, transformation is a fad right it is a it is been over beaten it is been beaten to death. So, I do not know what is that we need to do around transformation because this is been I am hearing this from at least last 5-6 years transformation right especially from an IT perspective it is quite interesting there are roles I have met CIOs who are responsible for transformation department for transformation there are people designated as transformation directors quite interesting so all are required right. So, I have been associated with agile India from way back in 2007 so it has been quite interesting journey for me. So, what I do at this point in time I am an interesting junction I am in at the intersection of the discipline of enterprise as well as with the passion of start-up part of the start-up community I have moved to London so lot of excitement lot of uncertainty it is a big leap of faith. So, that is where you know giving us kick right we are quick selling of what we do so I need to justify my travel bill right so what we do we do three things we do one is we are into currency trading technology which is there in the market for quite some time whenever you have exchanged any currency note in life you are using our platform this is the platform which takes care and their supply chain of that. So, we are experimenting the new ways of doing it by avoiding intermediaries we are running experiments on block chain there we have another product called stress rep this is an interesting one which is specifically focusing on regulatory reporting because banks and financial institutions need to report to regulations very frequently this takes out lot of risk analysis on what how can we provide report without really spending more clerical work and administration work. The third one is the quite passionate one for me because that is what I have started with so that is a insurance digital platform this is to create a customer buying experience in insurance and we do believe we as a customer need a Amazon kind of buying experience for insurance products. So, we are in a mission of that running lot of experiments working with very old legacy organizations like Royal Post the British Post. So, it is very interesting journey so far. So, I am not going to talk any of these today so do not worry again I keep boasting of ourselves right we are working with almost every financial institutions wherever the bank note trading you know this is not our new platform wherever we use bank note trading we have a presence over there and that is that is one of the things which we try to leverage and this is where the transformation story I can reflect on right wherever we go and good part is we are always connected with the business side of banks not with IT side of the bank. But, off late we realized if we have to be successful we need to have right empathy with IT otherwise our solutions cannot get into their firewalls our solution will not you know get into their respective servers. So, it is important for us to have an empathy with IT. So, we have attempted certain things and I want to be really honest whatever that I am going to discuss here some of things I have done as part of my previous role in Infosys right. So, I want to give you credit to my role back in Infosys when through Infosys I have we have done certain things we have attempted certain things and today it is a more of a reflection on what did really go well and what are things which could be could do better right. So, this is a this is a classic thing right if you talk to any IT organization today they all want to be like this. No CIO will say no I do not want to do any of these because today most of the large enterprises they they want to treat themselves as a technology company not as a business operation company they want to be at a space where they not only finding they are not only executing business models, but they want to find business models for their business. So, they all want to be like this there is no doubt on it right and some of them are reaching there some of them are reaching there and it is it is really tough difficult journey right especially if you take I know I do not know how many are from banking industry here pretty lot I expected that. So, so so most of the front end right most of the front end is pretty much in this space right there is no doubt on it right because all investment happened in last few decades last few few years. So, more on the front end the front end technologies have really changed and many of the front end teams are in this particular you know position today why many of you from banks are attending this really you know takes the first part out right it is a high caliber multi skilled IT is what a bank needs. So, that is why you are here and of course always most of the banks which we work today or what what you have seen these are there from ages. In fact, when you talk about Barclays or Lloyds or ANVs or you know they are from quite quite some time right they are they are not born with technology they are not you know born with mobile apps. So, it is been there quite some time. So, the ability to do both new and renew is very critical of course the dynamic business needs is today. So, I do not want to go through any of these you all agree with this right right. So, with this all mission of course this investment bank the story which I am going to tell this investment bank also got into this journey yes there is a need to transform everyone is doing it we also should do right. So, they started but it is important to have a vision. So, they had a great vision right. So, this is very critical right because they they want to really have a purpose they want to have a meaningful connection with everyone in the organization. So, they know that we are in a mission of change. So, it is a very important some of the words I need to highlight because it speaks by itself you think about it right compete with other forward thinking organization right. So, it is a very important thing what does it mean right. So, in fact this investment bank I do not want to take the name. So, I did not get any permission to take the name. So, I do not want to take the name. So, will you believe it they want to compete with not with another bank they want to compete with Google. So, their competition is Google. So, that is how it is been portrayed. So, they do not want to compete with another bank they want to compete with Google. So, they want to have everything possible in their organization which they can compete with those kind of company. And of course, the last part is also very critical empowering our people are we doing it end of the day, but what is it in for each one of us who works in those organization empowering to take end to end ownership. But at least in the vision it is there, but actually whether it is on the ground I will get there in few minutes. And of course, there is a plan it is very important thing. So, it is not just about a vision there is some plan yes of course, this plan looks so great right design goals and enablers yeah it is great right we need to understand the overall design of how we are going with this what kind of each because you know most of the banks are quite decentralized. So, they got different products and different function in that way tribalizer service lines that is why you know they want to tribalize many of those the way instead of disjoint teams like business development testing operation security tribalize those. So, some of these some of these have been done it is not that we were not successful in any of those. And of course, you know rolling out a big plan a grand plan right you could say this is a typical slide you might have seen in most of the banks and insurance companies today right it is all about transformation and at least every month there will be an all hand meets around these right fine. So, what is been the journey so far right say if you look at the journey so far it is not completely you know you cannot say that nothing has happened right there are there are changes there are some changes there are some eventually some is happening there are some significant effort money is been spent the people are getting excited on certain aspects of it. So, it is been it is not a flat or a redundant boring journey it is been a good journey. So, the methods and practice perspective this is one of significant investment they have done they have created you know something called what you can call it as you know stellar teams right a set of that most of them were from outside right they could really attract good talents from start up kind of ecosystem where they could bring those the newer way of working the newer approach and your way of thinking. So, established practice teams who practice teams were people from those kind of organizations, but they are quite acquainted with the agile continuous integration automated testing and so on so forth. So, it is important to parachute these teams into the larger teams so that there is a dissemination and percolation of the culture in those teams. So, this is the this this happened whether it happened for everyone no it is it is happening as we speak right and the part based team composition those those one of the one of the key achievement right it go it went through a huge organizational change. So, way the team got structured was around how do we create a team can take an into and responsibility of delivering, but all the teams are like this no right at least at least in certain significant part of the bank it been getting done. Of course, in a integrated delivery methodology so at least there is a there is a sense of need and understanding that they need to have multiple ways of working we cannot have one you know hammer fit for all the nail. So, there is a realization there could be small initiative there could be a large long initiative there are products initiative. So, I am in fact the the the hope you have listened to the morning's keynote right embracing heterogeneity is the critical aspect right and and another important thing which I could really resonate well with is we are in journey of for example, adapting say for the containerization all of a sudden some new you know brain will come and say oh no containerization is done you know why why are you spending time in this right why do not you look at schedulers now already lot of investment have it is not easy to pivot in a larger setup right because there are a lot of other aspects come into picture. So, that is an a an important critical aspects when we talk about building integrated delivery methodology. Operating model it requires significant changes still many part of the organization for example, procurement right if you have to really get a right talent in the organization it is not possible to get a procurement you know come in the come in this game right and even still business is a spectator business is not you know we are trying to push business from side because since we are connected through business we are trying to put push business into the game no more a spectator right. So, the change is happening and it is it is creating both good and bad there are certain roles getting antagonized there are certain departments getting powerless those all creating lot of you know emotional and a perspective in the organization.  So, being and having a safe environment for people to come and explore and work sometimes you know it missed it you know that is where it is fundamentally as an individual you know I am feeling is it good for me right things which are good for an organization may not be really good for the individuals right, but to have a larger realization on if if if things happen good for an organization eventually it will happen good for the people. So, that kind of thinking it is it is required, but it is happening very slowly in pockets tools of course you know it is a it is a no brainer today because there are availability of tools and there are availability of open source tools and stuff like that. Pretty much I can say this this part is not a big challenge other than the newer things coming into picture not able to getting standardized people do not have skills all these issues are there in bank you cannot expect people to have skill on puppet and chef you do not get people who expert in there for example Ansible it is very difficult to get from whether from vendors or suppliers so those all challenges are there. So, that is where I know I really like the morning keynote on one particular aspect because most of the time in the tool the focus was on how right so it is not about the what right. So, people are quite well about start building the how-how and that where you know it got into a place where we kills shortages a huge challenge in that particular area. So, no wonder we have you know more than 1500 participants in this conference they are all potentially a great market place. Training and development this is also happening in parallel. So, lot of up skilling is happening into the way agile is working. So, you could see you know if you can reflect in your organizations I think similar things is happening. So, it is not that only it is happening at one place it is happening everywhere and you are also in the same place where most of us are. And it need great will I don't know how many of you listen to Don yesterday from ING we need leaders like him right. Who can walk the top can demonstrate can put his foot down and say that this is what need to be done because the buck stop at him right. So, what are challenges we think there are many challenges I just I want to put the top five challenges right which is been part of this journey and most of the challenges are aware people know about these challenges but I want to re-trade those. This is an a fundamental problem which this transformation have because everything is been equated to savings. That's the most dangerous situation we are in savings cannot be your outcome that should not be the way you should you should do this transformation exercise it should be a better workplace it should be a you know better engineering cultured place and by the way saving is in a byproduct of it right. It is not the main outcome which you are trying to drive and in fact you know we got few guys from Infosys I know others I saw somewhere people have spent time in creating business cases and business cases again and again with every different service lines in saying okay I am going to give you experts and of your test case automated so how many people you can get rid of from your team. That's the wrong conversation but it's happening over there. Alignment with multiple and diverse stakeholders and this you I don't want to spend time because it's in every bank if you if you want a trader to come and participate in your retrospections you never get a trader's time but I'll tell you I walked into traders floor and he got surprised saying that nobody comes here why are you here right so they were trying to build a new stuff and he said that right we don't need that who's asking us to build this right so somebody has given some requirement book of work previous here so think about it bank is spending money and effort in building something they don't need right so it's what it's involving these people this is a big challenge it's challenge over there lack of leadership alignment and leaders believe the transformation is only for the people who write code if you write better code we are getting transformed it is an absolutely sad situation where leaders don't come forward and do the walk the talk that's an a today as we speak the senior leadership they get to an extent the middle and senior leadership they are little threatened saying that whether they will lose their control right if things become quite transparent things become quite open and and if that visibility comes high do what is that they need to do but there are many things which they need to really do but they're not doing it instead of the spending time they're spending time on saying that how can they protect themselves how can they create their empire more and more powerful so that's an a key key kind of business of course involving this and the funniest part is in this whole transformation exercise business was never in the game out of so many teams you know which has been getting discussed about these transformation initiatives maybe one or two teams have their business counterparts recognizing a need of doing this if business is not in the game there's no point in you doing this duality I don't want to express on it because always there's a legacy in modern and and and of course we all we can't escape from mainframe right as 400 and those all systems will be there and the vendors so many vendor products right that's where some of the pure agilist and thinkers right why why I've been participating last ten years is you know we get great you know people who write books you know in fact I do I do I do talk long with the Jess and narration others it's important that there is a little a different dimension the problem on the ground right which is much more complex than what we really think from a pureistic form of it so the legacy why modern is very critical of course adoption of new technology and then the heterogeneity and tooling landscape ever ever changing tooling landscape and and everyone is talking about microservices the API economy and so and so forth all these are around the corner and it is very difficult to really embrace all of these together and there's no plan to do that you know in fact I know there is a separate initiative running for this and which they don't understand this whole transformation at all they call future state architecture initiative and and that's this is the I think you can add many different challenges to it but this is what for me according to me the top five so if you look at right if you want to reflect how could we make this more effective right if you want to make it more effective some of the areas right this is not the exclusive list of the areas where we could make effective right according to me one big thing which we could do is bring all the initiatives which has got a transformation packed together because if you look into organization today there is a there is a team who's working on database singles gold and source database transformation that's a different transformation they don't have any views on what others are doing there's a future state architecture you allied architects sitting in those you know golden rooms which are without doing what people on the ground are doing is trying to make how the bank architect the architect look like in future without talking to people on the ground and of course infrastructure team have their own transformation plan right everyone is transfer because the CIO's and the CEO's like transformation right they like word transformation what are you doing I'm spending on transformation right so everyone is love loving to do transformation and associating themselves towards closer to the transformation initiative and that's a danger for me they're all running independently there is no way they're coming together and saying that why are we doing this what is it in for business what are we going to achieve there is no common view around it and and in fact there used to be something called an agile transformation separately DevOps transformation separately infrastructure I don't understand so that's the first thing and of course the business and leadership involvement it's a no brainer we need them to be part of it so when do they come and participate and it's not just about right you you tell business come and participate you spend you know because one is they're not clear what are you trying to do right you're not bringing a visibility to it right if you if you look at systems in any large complex enterprise you're not giving a visibility okay this is how the system looks like here this is this is how the complex larger architectural picture view look like if you don't do something we're going to crash so that kind of larger picture visibility view people don't have so once you communicate this I'm sure I have seen business where they understand what is been getting done and why it is been getting done and what is it in for them if they get convinced and they will definitely they will come and they'll be part of it here of course a big picture of information strategy of transformation so this is this this typically only few people have maybe if you talk about the CIO of a particular group he has some information on what's happening beyond him or benefit him nobody knows what other transformation initiative what they're trying to achieve think about a situation where I am changing the way I deploy and I don't know what infrastructure teams are trying to do in their transformation I don't know I'm building taking a huge leap of faith on betting on let us say in a creating a soap you I test framework I don't know what my architecture teams are going to do with my future state architecture so it's all it's all you know it's a very hazy situation right and what information is need this is again in I believe to really go and make these three guys come come into in this game we need this information and and we are never asked what is the overall business architecture view corresponding to tech landscape because some of those in a systems are for improving effectiveness of IT right and which business don't understand what is that means business don't know those systems right and so it's important to get the business architecture getting business into the room getting the business architecture perspective of it and trying to bring the technical architecture marry to that those exercise were done before it is it is to be done very frequently it's not that we have done once and then we do after ten years we don't have a leverage to do that now of course a prioritized we have critical service and platform because the big challenge is it's like a big bang you know everyone is getting everyone want to be in the game of transformation so it's happening everywhere every you know there is there is no looking at which are most suitable ones which I need to look at which makes sense to me which has got high desirability which has got high in a feasibility to do initiative and targeted intervention heat map so this all information which will make others to come and contribute and participate so it's important to get these information which will help others to come along with us in the journey and risk and block of you right because it's very important what are the risk and blockers that you have why why you are not able to do this why can't you do continuous delivery why are we not able to do this and everyone say we can't do continuous delivery why and that because it is because of this again why it is because maybe the five wise at least every team if they do five wives of their respective areas that's how you bring a visibility then say that it's because you the infrastructure guy is not providing me a server when I need I need something on demand but I am requesting you and getting the server after three months because of that I'm not able to do continuous delivery and the security guy is taking two and a half months to really help me with what he need from his perspective that is the blocker of course impact and outcome view right so it's an important to really look at the impact and outcome right not from savings or or benefits okay so I just a quick summary of it right this is this is what I strongly believe we need to understand our landscape in the way business can understand if you can do that I'm telling you we will have a meaning full transformation if business don't understand the way they can understand what transformation you're talking about you can't talk about hey I'm doing a containerization for them hell they don't bother whether you containerization whether you do you know your scheduler or you do manually you're not bothered but you have to bring that level of simplicity in the way you explain your initiatives of transformation right so you can't talk about right I'm working on Docker or Kubernetes and I need so much of dollars to do by Kubernetes I'm just giving a hypothetical example it's open source I believe is it that really open source it is so business will not understand all this right you should not tell all these things we should tell in a way which they understand that's very important thing and we need to give different lenses to be information so it's just it's important that you need to broaden and you need to have different lenses to view different things we can't just have one technical landscape view should look at the business architecture landscape view your deployment views your people view team companies so there should be multiple lenses so that people understand people can participate in a conversation today people are not participating in a conversation because they don't have right information and right lens bringing that is critical and and this is a classic example which you have to understand the value stream of your system maybe multiple systems come together and provide a value stream to the business if you don't do any of your transformation in this context in nothing is going to change you may do continuous integration you have your DevOps architects you've got agile coach you got name any anyone right you get the most expert guy in your team you're not going to achieve anything unless and until you create any impact on your value stream or a service at that particular level view and there should be that should be used for an operating model so there should be because that's where you know the organizations are good at right once it you create an operating model around these fundamental you know that the three four things then we can look at how can we take this into other teams and create those multiplier effects then you start you know percolating and bring all these change trying to bring change everywhere in the beginning and this is an important thing of the business perspective right a CFO is going to ask I'm going I'm spending X million for my transformation what is the return on investment if you if you can't do a prioritized way in which you do this I'm looking at from a desirability feasibility and viability view you can't provide you know that answer this is a critical thing an application service prioritization which we talked about it there are a lot of choices and everyone's application is important for everyone right if you talk to any application owner if you talk to any service owner everyone will think their application service is the center of the universe we all believe like that and we want to be you know believing like that and of course then make an informed decision were to focus on so then focusing on everything right so this is a quick summary and and you all know this retreating on what are we doing it and I don't believe we get an answer for all these in these conferences it's all about getting right kind of pointers to explore thing experiment so that you can make some difference in what we do in our organization thank you so much and I am around here we can discuss thank you


Welcome back to Geeks are sexy. I'm Jason Laduke from evil genius leadership consultants. We have another guest Who's a great business owner from the Las Vegas area? We try to bring you their great stories and lessons They've learned to help you with your business or even just to be successful in your personal life by learning from some of The greats here in Las Vegas our next guest or our current guests sitting here with me Sean willish is an accomplished senior executive entrepreneur and board member with nearly 30 years of success in marketing and business development as CEO and senior VP of business development for 5 a.m. Global Sean leads a team to create and execute branding sales promotional digital events and social media Strategies we talked about strategy in our last segment how important it is Strategies to help maximize profitability for B2B and B2C corporations Sean Welcome and thank you for being here today. It's so great. This is really special Sean is only the second person. We've ever come back as a repeat guest So this is a this is a huge deal that we brought her back today and you'll find out exactly why we brought her back So this is really special. You were here about a year ago with a different company Yes, but now you have a new business and that's what you're here to tell us about today So tell us all about it. Well, and it is a new company. We went through we went through what we call executive transitions I had a separation with my business partners. Some of our philosophies just grew just grew differently and that is not uncommon and Great experience. We have nothing but positive things to say because with with each ending There is usually a great beginning. We hope we hope and that's also if you do accept that if you accept the fact that Things are not always permanent and change is good changes really good So you take a moment you learn you can you are able to assess the situations You're also learn also able to take, you know hold some things accountable Adapt and then you move on you move onward and I always say you move on or positively and productively We we had a company before and it's the same industry I'm still in marketing that has been my background for 30 years So marketing we had a full-service marketing company and a publication The only difference now is we don't have a publication. So we are still full-service marketing I put a lot of concentration on people Process presentation for profit and we again is the same thing. I have a lot of my same team members, which I'm very proud of It's been a great trend. It's been a great challenge But part of that challenge is get to getting to know and accepting those challenges and working through them That's great. So the same team you've all come to know and love if you know Sean for the most part But it's a new name 5 a.m. 5 a.m. Global and it is a brand new company. It's not just the old company rebranded It's a brand new company. I want to make sure I don't want to confuse the issue by what I just said So but you ended your business and you started a new one and that was a little bit of a stressful experience for you And I'll tell you what I'm gonna correct the word stressful Okay, it can be stressful, but I think we did a good job Because we were honest with ourselves and I did a wise move You and I talked about this before but a lot of times a consultant a mentor needs a consultant and a mentor And then one of the biggest things that I did do was I started talking to other business leaders and individuals and other Executives who had also gone through a transition who'd also had a loss a close of a business and and in realizing Wow, it is not uncommon. It's not a bad thing. It is a process for growth Yeah, and learning that I had a lot of business owners who are extremely successful right now and Before that success they had a lot of challenges and a lot of business closings and a lot of what we like to call business divorces Yeah, no, absolutely It's it's more common than most people think and I'm I'm looking at you business owners out there in the audience Especially things are going really well for you right now. There are two types of business owners There are the business owners who have gone through a major transition like this having to close a company having to split a company up Sometimes even worse and then there are those who will so Unless unless you are the the percent of a percent of a percent who have everything fired on all cylinders all the time There are those of us who've been through it and there are those of us who will so and that's common That's exactly what these business leaders, you know, who I spoke with they said great Congratulations. Yeah, you have now been promoted to the great life of business So now I don't go through that again, and you just keep moving forward. Yeah, absolutely So tell us a little about what you learned. I mean you've told us a little bit about what you've learned But tell us what are some of the other lessons you learned about going through such a Let's be honest a major life transition. That's exactly what it is So it could have been stressful, but it was a major life transition And one of the things that I learned is to stop take a moment Most important thing to do when you go through any transition when you have a challenge is to stop and breathe Absolutely, so one of the I call wise business people who I went to I talked to you I talked to a lot of others, but I did speak to a person who had said to me Let the cake bake so when you're going through those life Transitions you want things to happen now you want the change you want you wanted to just be over So you can move on work and that was where I was struggled with I it wasn't stressful Because I saw the positive outcome But it was hard because I wanted it to end so I can move on where and I had a wise person say let the cake bake and that made Me take some Interpection and say wow just breathe and out of that Came something that we're working on Breeze 2019, which is 2019 a big event You have coming up in just a few weeks. Yes, so tell us about Breeze 2019. You told us a little about 5 a.m. Global 5 a.m. Global you told us a little about Breeze 2019 coming out of this let the cake break and cake bake let the cake having a rough day Let the cake bake and and that need to breathe which we all need every now and then in fact should probably do a lot more often but tell us about tell us about why Why also this particular event to help reinforce that lesson when you are a busy leader executive Business owner and you do take that moment to just breathe Then you are able to reflect and when you can reflect, right? You you can take in some of the positive things and you really pay attention to what you learn and you value your strengths One of the things that I feel very confident about is that we did build a company culture on healthy work life balance That's during the time of talking to other executives and realizing that is a big challenge Your business leaders do not usually have worker work life balance for themselves Therefore, they cannot promote or help support that within their own teams So breathe take a moment to breathe for clarity. Hey health wise. There's a lot of situations But the question is why can't we have work life balance? What are the challenges? What are the restrictions and usually it's something to do with health or its wealth whether it's our ambition or our strive our greatest goal for Financial gain or if there's a health problem or issues or concerns usually we struggle with work life balance So this is breathe health and wealth summit in expo. We are Dedicated to help Share stories and have share the secrets of successful work life balance for our business leaders So those leaders can also develop that within their team and their company culture So that's what breathe health and wealth summit is about so it's an event focused on business owners business leaders on helping them Develop that work life balance so they can help Mentor and guide their team to have that because I saw that a ton in the Air Force of Leaders who would say you have to take care of yourself You have to have a work life balance you have to take care of your family spend some time with your family But they wouldn't do it and that sends a subliminal message that if the boss is there till midnight and not spending time with With your family that there's kind of an unspoken expectation. That's what the boss expects from you Whether they really mean that or not so We're tackling the problem by hitting the leaders with it and giving them good skills and practices and techniques Yes, yes because it's an ongoing challenge. It doesn't just because you learned it today. You may need reinforcement So what do they say? There's a saying that says the cobbler goes without shoes So normally those who push and those those who help design it don't do the same things for themselves So we want to make sure that yes the business owners business leaders C-suite executives make sure that those people with high Could be stressful positions who are in charge and who have the responsibility of a team Make sure that they do stop and and take that moment for themselves and if they do lead with that So for example, we are honoring we so we have a full-day summit It's from 830 to 530 on February 20th at UNLV and we have a preceding VIP reception During that reception we are honoring Mary Beth Seawalt She is the CEO and president of Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce now We are honoring her 2019 leadership award because first of all she does great with balancing work life balance And she is wonderful to her service professionally and also in the philanthropic world She does lead a team with positive work life. She has a big team she has a big team too And they work effectively efficiently and productively because of this And the other thing is we asked her honoree to declare her favorite charity and she did declare the Nevada military support alliance And that being her favorite charity We are making sure that all of the proceeds from the VIP reception are Donated to this charity. So we're connecting the dots. Most of our business leaders are Philanthropic business leaders have relationships challenge relationship challenges a lot of times personally and professionally So we're showing the ways that it does work Awesome. Yeah, awesome. And you have a monster speaker lineup for for this event So tell us some of the speakers. You're just a couple of speakers. You're gonna have a couple. Can I give you more? You can tell me as many as you want No problem. So first of all Steve shore who is amazing. He he's I've worked with him before and Steve shore is One great in this community. He is our moderator for this for this event And and like I said, he is amazing Steve shore is the moderator for the summit. So we have a full day speaker presentations panel discussion We have Kerry booballs who is the CEO and President of Vegas nights. So he's one of our speakers Brett Lashbrook Amazing again, he he was very supportive from the beginning He is our owner of the Las Vegas lights our new soccer team.  It's so much You've got your homework But I want to tell you to we have drae Gardner drae Gardner is is an amazing yoga instructor with a Great story. I've met him three years ago. And I said I hope to one day do something with you So when this event came out, he was a perfect person to engage and and he's very excited about being a part We have Shane Jasmine young Oh, she's been on this show she has yes, well, she's great now from a marketing perspective I admire her because I can't even give her any advice or any consulting on her branding is amazing But she's a lawyer in town and she focuses a lot on Estate planning and and she's great. She's one of our speakers and panelists along with that We have Dave Levine who's coming out for from California. He's been a long time. It's a long time entrepreneur He was one of the first people before you ever heard about Amazon before there was Uber and and and the companies who are doing very great Without having the inventory. He was the first one who started the internet company based on affiliates and growing Not only his market but growing revenue without maintaining inventory just with relationships and marketing So I call him a Marketing whiz so he is actually one of our speakers then we have got leads Ventura Rosen an amazing author speaker and and just one a community She's she's a big part of our community and and a Fantastic speaker and I cannot I have to go more because I have to I have to give you Christoph Wyman Christoph Wyman is a five-star customer service Specialist and he does corporate speaking on that and he's actually our business development partner So he is one of our speakers great great great fantastic That is a lineup and we have 18 we have That's just scratching the surface and that is that is a lineup that you will Almost never find all the same event on the same stage in the same day So if you're interested in any or all of those speakers Where do they go? Okay? So let's go to www.breathe-summit.com There is a breathe summit.com and I'm gonna share this with you because yes It's a great lineup and all of these busy Professionals busy individuals One are making time to be a part of the summit. That's one great thing But they have also been able to master work life balance So if they can do it, I really do urge all of our other leaders one come out not only to to to Support the event but come out to learn you you will get valuable information that that one could only add to your productivity It's been proven. There's so many studies that show how much happiness and healthy You know healthiness between your company's team adds to profitability and let's be honest whether your profit or nonprofit Business you need revenue. You need you need money So let's bring you out. Okay, so it's www.breathe-summit.com dot-com You can get your tickets to the main event which is which day? It's Wednesday, February 20th, and then the VIP Reception is the night before night before and you can also get your tickets to that. Yes at the same place Yes, and how do they reach 5 a.m. Global if they're interested in Getting help from marketing just like you've done a great job marketing this event you're doing How can they reach you for a 5 a.m. Global? Thank you. So you can reach out to Sean sh a w n Sean at the number 5 a.m. Like the morning 5 a m global calm and I share one more thing with you Global consider because we are an international business. There is a famous quote that says Legends Five at 5 a.m. Sorry 5 a.m. Legends are either waking up or going to bed at that time. I haven't heard that Yeah, it's a great great inspiration. All right. Well. Thank you so much for being here.  We're gonna bring Sarah and Lindsay back We're gonna talk about professionalism and what it means to these women and how we address that in our business lives So stay right here Jason Laduke. This is Geeks are sexy. We'll be right back


Good morning from Truth or Consequence. Consequences.  We're at the River Bend Hot Springs. We went for a morning soak. Now I've been idling the bus a little bit, trying to figure out our next move. I ran out of socks. So I got my sandals on. Claire needs to do laundry also. So at some point today we're going to do laundry. And we need to go get some food, but not too much food because we're going to go for a burger and hatch. Right? Is it a burger? Sparkies? I don't know, it's called sparkies maybe or something. We're going to hatch. She's in love with hatch chilies. And she's just hatching with excitement. So we resupplied. However, the hair is getting a little long. She said I look like a what this morning. Caveman. Yeah. So let's stop and get a haircut at a local place. Got a nice haircut thanks to a sugar mama. Feels a lot lighter with a lot less hair on my head.  So definitely could use a shower again. Claire, you got some burrs? I know I track some in here so don't walk barefoot. Okay. Just to show you guys how many burrs you can get by walking in the grass. There's quite a few on the bottom of my sandal. It all go heads. Thanks for the haircut, Ricky. It's been the past couple hours, which for me is a really good thing because number one you can appeal the demonetization thing. So that's how I make a little bit of money very little. And then the other is that I can be I can schedule it and I can be out playing in middle of nowhere with no service and not have to worry about it. So it was long story short. The video I edited right now was Big Bend and I was very, very excited for that day. That was one of the fun to save so far the bus. So we'll have seen it a week ago because watching also I have more giveaways, little things like that. And I think that's a thing that will continue to do. It's pretty cost effective for me and I feel like it's a pretty unique bonus for you guys. So make sure you are subscribed and if you do want one of these little giveaways make sure you get that little bell icon. After you are subscribed you can hit it. That way once I have another giveaway you can be on it. And also we're going to Hatch if I didn't already mention that. Claire is a big fan of Hatch Chili's. And Amber is hatching with excitement because she loves Hatch Chili's like I said. We have just stumbled upon a giant antique sale over here kind of across the street from the world famous Sparky's. Which we were told to go to next to the dude right there. So I was told it's the same owner of that place. There's a lot of things I just noticed that were on Roadside America. The giant pig right there, that dude right there. He's got a chili sticking out. I bet if you took a picture from that side we'll do that in a little bit. They were going back there with a guy holding a school bus. Did you see it? What? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. I'm sorry. Don't mention this to me. Who are you? Do you not realize what you're driving around in Claire? My goodness. Oh and it was on American Pickers. Okay. The Buy RV's, Travel Trailer's, 5th Wheels, Motorhomes. And apparently it's closed. Or am I just not strong? Is there another door? We don't know. It is the day after Christmas so we might just have a peek here. Mary had a little lamb. Well shoot. Unfortunately I think it's closed. So right across the street from Sparky's, we have a couple things over here. Giant piggy, Robin Hood, Yogi the Bear, a two chilies on top of a KFC bucket. Well, let's go inside Sparky's and see what's the rave. All right, no dice. The close for the holidays. Which is totally okay. You guys make great burgers, great food.  So also, here's the chili man from the other side. Looks like he's a little bit happy to be in Hatch, New Mexico. So, we found ourselves in a little dilemma. Hatch is not ready to hatch today. It's so sad. All the good spots are closed, as well as a lot of them close at 3 p.m. and it's a little bit after 3 p.m. 18, 322. On December 26th. So anyways, there is a little town here, so we're just gonna drive through and if something looks cool, we'll pull over. All right, so we've been trying to figure out what to do. Today's a sad day. We just booked a return one-way bus pass for Claire. She's gonna take the Greyhound bus back to Texas where her car has been in the Walmart parking lot for how long? Hopefully it'll still be there. But it's like a whole little center and I don't know, we call the Greyhound people and we're like, where should we park? And they're like, Walmart? But I'm not really sure that was the best idea. No, he didn't really seem very sure about it. He's like, Walmart? I have no question about it. So yeah, so we have 24 hours left-ish. So we figured we'd go down towards White Sands and along the way maybe stop by a rest area for the night. We'll see. We do have some food in here and stuff. We're kind of like Ofer too today, but that's just kind of what happens on the bus. The best thing is just to appreciate what you already have, like great company. And yeah, just not every day is like full-on non-stop excitement and all that stuff. But yeah, every day has its own, you know, blessings and experiences. And it's also helpful to have someone who is so pleasant to be around, like Clare D'Actil.  You have a little Clare Bear on your back. Also, have you ever had these mini bananas before? Well, I think they're the original banana, just like the original tomatoes don't look like what they sell in the store today.  They're fantastic. I highly recommend it. You want a little banana? Well, I cut them so that you can open them easier. Let me help. Here, let me help.  You wanna share why it is such a monumental night? Besides the fact that it is our last night together. I ran out of lentils. I realize it, but I'm all out of lentils. Those 96 cans. You barely have your vegetables, Clare. Argana was promising Clare the best meal she's ever had. And here I am, a man with no lentils. Who am I? So... A liar? Man, I'm a heartbreaker. Well, maybe a stomachbreaker. Looks like, oh, anyways, this is what tonight's dinner is. Just some frozen vegetables. I do have some rice. Let me see where it, there we go. Tucked away in this little protein powder container. Yeah, so, oh, by the way, we're in a place called Alamagorda, Alamagordam, New Mexico. We're about white sands. We're gonna hit that tomorrow. Possibly somewhere else. And shoot, we're parked at this really nice truck stop. And when I say really nice, I just mean, like, available parking. There's also another school bus on the other side of this truck. But, didn't really want to disturb them. And, yeah. So, maybe we'll meet them tomorrow, who knows? Maybe they're going to the school bus roundup that I'm going to. I really don't know. But, wow, what a shocker. What a twist to today's adventure and out of lentils. The face says it all. Pure disappointment. You liked them, didn't you? Yeah. That's a yeah.


This 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon is stock number 12466Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used Jeep and Jeep Wrangler headquarters. This 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited is Sting Gray in color, one of the most popular colors on the Wranglers. It has the 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 engine in it. This Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. Like I said, Sting Gray is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet, smartphone or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition and options of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do stuff here at Summit Auto in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every day that I do videos here at Summit Auto. Comes with the painted and polished aluminum rims on here. These are BF Goodrich all-terrain TAK02 tires. These are LT28570R17s and they have just about all the tread left, only 2000 some miles on this Wrangler. Sting Gray is a really good looking color. I have found it to be one of the most popular colors on the Wranglers just from a sales perspective and what I've seen on YouTube for people watching our videos. This one has the LED fog lamps. Front bumper is absolutely perfect. It does have the metal bumpers. It comes with a worn VR EVO 10 winch. We do have the controller for that and you can see that that is in really nice shape. The LED headlamps, the LED running lights and the LED running lights and the fenders. The hood is in excellent shape. You get the heat extraction system on there. Passenger side fender is in nice shape. No scuffs or scrapes on the passenger side rim. The door hinges on the Wrangler on this door look all really good, has the sandals right there. The Jeep climbing up the side, you get some LED highlights on there and those all work really nicely. You can see it has the rock rails and as you go down this side of the Jeep take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the Jeep, hear the Jeep and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. This back rim is in excellent shape as well and the back tires have just as much tried as the front tires. Frame and underbody as you'd expect on a 2021 is like new and those rock rails are in excellent condition as well. Hard top is in nice shape and if this video helps you make a buying decision let your salesman know that you saw the video that it helped you out and that Brett sent you. This back bumper is metal as well. You do get the LED tail lamps, matching spare tire and rim. Back storage area is very nice and clean this is your case for your hard top pieces. This hard top does come off. You have three bolts on the side, two on the top. We actually did a video on how to remove your hard top on a JL if you wanna check out that video in the upper right hand part of the screen. You can see how to take off your JL hard top. This one comes with the premium sound system with the alpine subwoofer and then you do get storage underneath here. Here's your tools to get that hard top and your doors off and then there's a storage area under here, you have spots for your door hinge and roof bolts and your jack tools are underneath there. You get the JL badge right there, that's pretty cool and these doors shut a lot nicer than the old JKs. Going down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no dense or dings on this side. Rims are in excellent shape, no scuffs or scrapes. This hard top piece is in excellent condition as well and the driver's side doors are all very, very nice. I didn't see any dense or dings in there. Those come with the power heated mirrors inside. This one has the leather group, black leather interior, red stitching. You get the Rubicon stitched into the backrest. No rips or tears on the seats. Has the driver's side seat height adjuster and you do get side airbags on these seats now. It comes with the topographical all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, power locks, power mirrors and this is how you turn on those highlights. You can kind of see the reflection up there that they work good but we'll turn those on at the end of the video so that you can see all the lights on. Take a look inside. This one only has 2,431 miles on it. You get the digital speedometer, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You get the compass display, the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, red stitching on there, cruise controls, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back. This one has the 8.44C radio, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. It does have the factory navigation system on it. There is your Sirius XM. We don't get service inside of here, inside the picture studio but you get Sirius XM radio capabilities. You have your heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons. You can check out your backup camera at just about any time and that backup camera is crystal clear. They've made them HD now so it's really nice that they did that. Those grid lines are dynamic. You can see as I turn the steering wheel they move as well and then you have all your different climate controls here, including your dual climate controls where it's blowing, all that good stuff. You can do your climate controls up there or you can do them down here. You can also do volume and tune controls. You have your start, stop capabilities, stability control and downhill assist control.  This is what really makes a Rubicon a Rubicon package. 4x4 shifter on the floor, eight speed automatic transmission. Has the keyless entry with the remote start with the flipper key. Definitely a bulky key. You always know which key you have in your pocket. I always like those.  You also have projection manager. We can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. We actually did a demo on an 8.4 in a Wrangler of Android Auto if you wanna check that out. That video's in the upper right hand part of screen but you can project your own navigation system on there. All that good stuff. Then it does have the off road pages. They take a second to load. So while they're loading, I will point out the nice red dash trim and that's in excellent shape. Smells very clean inside this vehicle. Maybe lost but never stuck in a Wrangler. You get your steering angle. Watch as I turn the steering wheel. You can see that that turns. And then you have your four wheel drive system information. Swaybar connected, front axle unlocked, rear axle unlocked. And as you change those, they do change as well as the transfer case. Notice you have your latitude and longitude and altitude. You have your accessory gauges right there. And then your pitch and roll which is pretty cool if you're doing a lot of off road stuff. Anyways, passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears on there. The hard top pieces come off really easy. Remember we did that video on the hard top removal if you wanna check that out. There's another link in the upper right hand part of screen. Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, SOS and assist buttons up there. And then you do get an auto dimming review mirror. We will take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood, start it up.  No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system. Hard top is in nice shape back here. No rips or tears. You get the top of graphical floor mat back here as well. Back here you get two USBs, two USB C's and then 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. These seats do fold down for extra storage and they go almost completely flat. Which is very nice. The other thing I like about the new Wranglers is that the headrests, they stay down. So for better visibility when nobody's riding back here and that's a nice feature. Then they can just go up like so and you can put those down with the single lever right there. So that's pretty cool too. Child safety locks on the back doors. We'll start it up. Take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this vehicle inside and out to make a smart buying decision. I just wanted to show you those highlights on there. The LED fog lamps, running lights and headlights all very bright. And under the hood, we have the 3.6 liter V6 Pentastar engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. And once again, this Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this one is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this Wrangler from a quality and condition standpoint. And if I had room in my garage, I'd probably make it mine. But to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it. We got to go to that website right there, www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications, you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Automotive. In fact, in a second, we will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to more Wrangler videos like this one, the upper link to this vehicle on our website and the lower left. And a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those, check us out. And we're super excited to help you with this Ultra Clean 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon in Sting Gray clear coat. Thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe and share.


I have a few questions here today for the llamas. First off, Como te llamas? Okay, great. Hi, my name is Samantha Cox-Para and I'm here with CalTV on Memorial Glade to interview Gio and his llamas. So Gio, how long have you been bringing these llamas to campus? Well, we started bringing llamas here last year and we were here for the finals week in December and then spring and now again this year. So about the llamas you brought on campus, would you say they all have their own personalities? Llamas are just like people. So they all have their own personalities and the more you get them out and do things with them you determine, you find out what those personalities are. Wairu here is is really steady, really kind-hearted and pretty smart and he can put up with just about anything so he's usually very tolerant of this and llamas are telepathic so he's all the time getting signals back and forth to the other guys as long as he's cool, everybody's cool. Oh great, okay well thank you so much for everything you've done and bringing these llamas on to campus for some nice stress relief for our students this year. I love doing it and the llamas sure find this interesting much better than spending the day in the past year. I'm here with Vicente Ramon from the AAVP. They put on this event today so can you tell us why you brought some llamas to campus today? Yeah, so bringing llamas on campus today is part of Bearable Finals Week which is supposed to tackle stress relieving because a lot of students are stressed right before finals so we want to have different options for students every day of the week in terms of mental health resources because we do know sometimes the university doesn't adequately give us those resources and mental health is more than just stress. It encompasses a lot of different things so having events like these really do promote that. All of your fans are here today so has the fame gotten to your head? It seems like he doesn't want to talk today. Do you feel like you've been contributing a lot to the stress relief here on campus today? Okay, great. Thank you and that's all from Cal TV.


Hi guys, it's Esme with CalTV Entertainment and I'm here on Sprout today to find out some of the craziest things UC Berkeley students have done. Craziest thing you've done in college? I once didn't go to class for seven weeks straight and I ended up getting an A. Wow, I have one follow-up question for you. Are you an enrolled UC Berkeley student? Honestly, I don't even know at this point. When I was a junior, my floor mates threw me a funeral. Why did they do that? Because I was moving out and I think they were going to miss me. They played like the Sarah McLaughlin and the arms of an angel and everybody dressed in black. It was really intense. Sounds like a fun experience but I'm glad you're still alive. I'm not. I mean, personally, I'm not a crazy person but I can tell you, I guess, a crazy thing that's happened to me which has been meeting my boyfriend. How long have you guys been dating? We've been dating for five months. And what was the first date like? Our first date was going to dinner at Joshua's and just having dinner and having a chill night afterwards which is ironic compared to when we met which was meeting at a frat party. So what's the craziest thing you've done in college? A couple of years ago I was a minor and I ran into a cop while I was holding a ball of vodka. I was for a friend, of course, and I cried myself out of a ticket. Wow, and would you recommend anyone else doing that? No. No, I don't recommend it. And what did you learn from that experience? Always, always carry back with you and, you know, don't hold it for any of your friends. From meeting your significant other to a run in with a cop, you can really do anything at Berkeley. Once again, I'm Esme with CalTV Entertainment and be sure to check us out next time.


Friends, a great mercy and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with your spirit as we begin our Lenten journey, believe. Lent is my favorite season of the Christian year because it invites us to pay attention again to the centrality of the Gospels and our faith, the Lord's passion and resurrection. Lent also invites us to pay attention to all that is happening in us and around us through self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, worship, and meditating on God's Word. Personally speaking, one of the things I most appreciate about the Lenten season as a spiritually formative opportunity is that I'm not distracted by the commercialism and social activities that parallels and at times often overwhelms the advent message of Christ's incarnation. One of my permanent Lenten objectives is to pilgrimage to Lent and come away from it more mature in faith, more committed to Christ, and in my vocation as a Christ follower. This Lent I'm working through what it means to believe, as understood by John the Evangelist. John in his Gospel states in chapter 20 that the purpose for the writing of the Gospel was so that people who read his account of the ministry of Jesus would come to believe that Jesus is a Messiah, the Son of God, and through believing have life in his name. I begin my Lenten Reflections this as Wednesday and offer new video recorded reflection that will post on the mornings of the 6 Sundays in Lent to my bishops and conference Facebook pages. For Holy Week, Dr. Stan Copeland, Senior Pastor of Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, invited me to be the guest speaker for the Owen Lenten Lecture Series. The three-part lecture series will be live streamed for viewing in real time or later. I'll post a video recorded reflection on Good Friday and a brief 10-minute video recorded message that will post Easter morning. To be honest with you, I never quite know what I will learn about myself, my faith, and the new ways I will better practice my discipleship both personally and in community because of my yearly Lenten Pilgrimages. But I do know that each Lenten pilgrimage has clarified and strengthened my love for Christ and Christ's reconciling mission and vision for a more loving, just, and peaceable humanity and world. My prayer for you is that your Lenten spiritual pilgrimage does the same for your faith and vocation as a Christ follower. Let us observe a holy Lent as we begin this Ash Wednesday. Listen to the story of Jesus' first disciples as given to us by John 1.35-42 using the message Bible translation. The next day John was back at his post with two disciples who were watching. He looked up, saw Jesus walking nearby and said, Here he is, God's Passover Lamb. The two disciples heard him and went after Jesus. Jesus looked over his shoulder and said to them, What are you after? They said, Rabbi, which means teacher, Where are you staying? He replied, Come along and see for yourself. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading and hearing of the gospel. Everyone has beliefs of one kind or another. Beliefs about who we are, where we come from, where we're going, what we value, and many other matters. As United Methodists, our beliefs are formed over time by a serious reflection of Scripture, church teachings, reason, and human experience with Scripture as our primary source. Our beliefs serve to help us more fully participate in God's work in the world in a way that is clear, convincing, and effective. John in his gospel claims that belief in Christ begins not by seeing, but by hearing about Jesus. Hearing leads to belief not in Jesus as an objective figure, but believing Jesus, the person, the eternal Word of God, his claims, and his promises. You see for John, it's not necessary that one sees signs or have rational proof to believe Jesus. Jesus' words are enough. Hearing about Jesus initiates a process of belief that opens spiritual insight and readies more and more awareness and receptivity to God's saving work in the world. Believing Jesus engenders, with the help of the Holy Spirit, a compelling desire in each believer and the church to participate in God's saving work that conquers sin, darkness, falsehood, and death in whatever forms they present themselves. In today's scripture, two of John's disciples leave him to follow Jesus after John points his disciples to Jesus and says, here he is, God's Passover lamb. The disciples leave John to follow Jesus because they heard about Jesus from John. The two disciples were set on pilgrimage to believe in Jesus because they acted on what they heard about him, but they needed to hear more from Jesus before they committed themselves to him. The disciples spent a few hours with Jesus at the place where he was staying. We're not told what Jesus spoke with them about, but we do know that it was enough to convince one of the two, Andrew, that Jesus was a Messiah. Andrew leaves a place where Jesus was staying and goes to find his brother, Simon, and says to Simon, we found the Messiah, the Christ, and immediately he leads Simon to Jesus. Simon follows his brother, Andrew, to where Jesus is staying because of what he heard his brother Andrew say about Jesus. Jesus is a Messiah, the Christ. So Jesus receives Simon and changes his name almost immediately to Peter or the rock. With that name changed, Peter was given a new identity. He was born again. He's a new person with a new purpose in life that he will discover as time goes on. You see, the more we hear about Jesus and the more time we spend with him and encounter him in scripture and prayer, the more we come to recognize who he is, understand the life-changing meaning of his message, and engage in the grand scope of his saving mission in and to the world. That is that no one should perish but have abundant and eternal life in his name. This Lent, Jesus asks us, what are you after? May our answer be, I want to hear more about Jesus so I may believe more fully and follow more nearly. Let us pray. Lord, as we enter this Lenten season, be near to us. Help us by your Holy Spirit to believe that you are who you say you are, the one who takes away the sin of the world, the bread of life, the light of the world, the door to God, our good shepherd, the resurrection and the way and the truth and the life and the vine, the source of our spiritual life in God. And help us to be witnesses of your abundant and eternal life everywhere we go. Amen. Let us observe a Holy Lent. See you soon. Peace.