What is good, Marvel Squad? And welcome back to our channel. So this is another Raw Uncut video. So the last video that we took, we did not know what was gonna happen to our house during Hurricane Ian. If you did not know, there was a category, I'm just gonna call it a category five. It was. Because it was two miles an hour away from being a category five hurricane, which means the wind speeds reached up to 160 miles an hour almost. By our house, in our neighborhood, in our town. And this is gonna be the after hurricane update, and it was devastating. First and foremost, I just wanna say, we are so very blessed that we were safe and sound during this hurricane, and the damage that we did get was so minor. We'll show you a couple pictures too, right now, of like the actual damage. Compared to what has happened in our literal home town. Literally like everywhere, like where we go, where we eat, all of our places, like so many things terrible have happened. Like these minor damages can be replaced, but the lives that were taken cannot, and it's honestly so devastating to hear the hundreds and hundreds of people that passed during the storm. Like this is how, it was really bad, you guys. Like, I don't think you guys realized if you haven't looked at it, how bad it really was. So the last update we did, we only did after we knew about our fence. Yeah. The hurricane wasn't over yet, right? No, that was when it was first starting. So the hurricane was just starting in our last video. If you did not see that, make sure to go watch that as well because that gives you some insight before the hurricane got bad. We didn't know what to expect. We obviously, we came down to Florida a little bit early because we heard the storm, there was a storm coming. So we came a little earlier and where do we start? I don't even know where we start. I think we should start by showing you guys the pictures of our house. So, you know, I don't know if you knew, but our cameras went out at like 11.30 a.m. and that was right when it was starting to get bad. We had no eyes on our house until this hurricane was over, until our neighbors were taking pictures and videos and everything. It's crazy. Don't say devastating. Like I know we have minor, it's still sad to see like all this stuff being ripped up, but like at the same time, it's like I am so thankful this is all that has happened. But this is the damage that was our house was thankfully it wasn't that bad, was we just had a broken fence. Our whole fence is absolutely destroyed as you can see in this picture. It's everywhere. Like all the like the fence stuff is everywhere. And then if you look a little closer, you can see our pool cage is actually ripped in half. Our pool cage, yeah. Actually ripped in half as well. Literally like all the stuff, all like the screen of stuff is in the pool. Our pool is green. Our pool is green, like almost brown is so bad. Yeah, it's so disgusting. But like, luckily, you know, we didn't get it the worst. My mom and dad's house did flood a little bit and some of our other good friends, they lost their like basically. Their house. Like it's not gone, but all their belongings. And that's why I'm saying we're so thankful that we did not get any more damage because the damage that was done to our house, I'm honestly shocked that nothing flew into our windows. We were very lucky. I need to show you guys this video too. This is after the hurricane. This is when the water started coming. This video is taken literally right in my neighborhood. Down the road, you can see the waters are, or the roads literally water. Yeah. Look at that. That is literally down my neighborhood road. The whole ocean. My house is almost a mile away from that. And it's just crazy. It's insane. This is not even like close to the water. It's so scary guys. And I've honestly been really sad. I actually started crying yesterday but you weren't home when you were out. I was actually crying because I was seeing just like, it's just like hitting real. It didn't feel real. Honestly, these videos and pictures that I'm seeing honestly feel like this happened like years ago and it finally hit me that this is real. Like this stuff that's damaged is real. It doesn't feel real. Like you always hear like natural disasters and this and that, but until you live in an area that has actually happened, you don't know how it feels. And we weren't even there for it. But we see that all of a good, like Fort Myers Beach is flat. Like- You guys, I'm gonna cry right now. They were buildings. They were like hundreds of buildings that are literally all is left as the cement. And like it's crazy. Everything was like just ripped away from everyone. Boats, you know, houses, everything. Cars, everything floating down the road. Like- The Cape Coral Beach totally ripped up too. Oh, both of our piers. Cape Coral Beach Pier and Fort Myers Beach Pier totally gone. The piers are not even there. The docks are not even resistant. I don't even know when they're gonna be back. It's crazy. It's actually insane. It's so devastating.  Don't feel sad for us because we had it very lucky. We were able to get out. We were able to evacuate. We had the minimal damage. I don't have words for what people have gone through. Also, if my voice sounds weird, I lost my voice. I was talking. I was yelling yesterday. He was up till 6 a.m. Yeah. The music was really loud. And I was yelling over that. But anyways, besides that- Don't feel bad for us. Yeah, literally like we had it really easy. I wish I could be there right now. To help clean. But every single flight is taken.  So we're going home soon. We got people looking over our house. So, you know, we'll know everything going on if anything else happens.  A little bit of water damage, too, on the inside. But, and also, Sanibel Bridge. I don't know if you guys saw that. Sanibel Bridge is ripped away. I don't even know how it is possible. The wind ripped away a concrete bridge. Like how, how is that even possible? I don't, guys, it's like so- That's how bad it was. Like, that's why I'm surprised that our house, and everyone's house withheld, and some buildings in Sanibel. But like, the bridge is made out of concrete and it's still fluid. We'll show them the first show on the Fort Myers Beach. I wanna show you guys, if you guys know Fort Myers Beach, like, that is a place where we take people for like vacations, and it was just such a like, oldie kind of vibe, like a beach vibe. It was a beach, oldie beach vibe. Wasn't touristy kind of. Oh my God, looking at it makes me so sad. So, this is the before. Bill was here. Bill was literally- I was here five days earlier. Five days earlier. And I wish I went. And I wish I went, because I would have appreciated it more. Yeah, this is, this is how it looks before, and this is how it looks after. So, I'll show you again. You guys, look at the pier and everything. Look at the pier. Look at the blue building. Ready? After. Oh my God, that's so devastating. All of those buildings, restaurants, are just flat and the pier's gone, everything's gone. The people that were there, I don't even know how, how some, like some of them made it, like, God bless, because a lot of them, a lot of them made it through. Cover your ears if this is gonna be too sensitive. No, don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. No, don't say that. There's just a lot of, you know, like natural disasters, like things happen, people in the wrong place at the wrong time, and there's a lot, a lot of stuff. And on top of that, On top of that, the stores are closed, the gas stations are closed, nobody can get food, all the food's gone bad, so it's literally just like, it's crazy, like the only food they can get and gas is by people bringing it in, and we're gonna be bringing some this week, we're gonna be down there, we're gonna be bringing a truck load after we land, we're actually flying to Orlando, and then going to our house. Yeah, cause all the flights in Fort Myers are booked, not booked, they're canceled. They're not flying in or out, which is crazy, and what's really sweet is the airlines are actually wavering the pet fees, arriving back home, which I'm really thankful for that, cause the flight home is actually pretty expensive, because you're flying to Orlando. A concrete structure, this is a bridge, look at this thing. But you should see it's, multiple parts of the bridge. You see that? Multiple parts of the bridge are just destroyed. And that's not even it, like that was a roadway, that was a bridge leading to the island, there's the road, there's the road, and it's all washed. Like, I don't know how, like you just have to see that is a terrible storm to be able to like rip apart everything. And we were seeing also pictures of like, where we live and like the streets and the boats and just everything, and they're just ripped. Everything is just destroyed. And honestly, it's gonna be a really sad day when we go home this week and seeing where we have lived, not even really look the same. It's honestly doesn't even feel real, and it's gonna feel really real. I feel like that's why we're not like, crying. I feel like we should be crying right now. I was crying, but. I am, I know you were. But I literally like, you can't like, how could something be this devastating, this real? Like, once I see it, once I literally go down there and see it, like I feel like I'm like a seer to believer. I know it happened, but like once I actually am in it, and my how, like we don't have power in this and that, I'm gonna be like, holy crap. You're saying our pool cages, everything like. This is not even bad, and we got it decently bad for a house. You guys, I just wanna say our hearts to literally go out to all the people who were severely affected for this hurricane. It's honestly really sad that, you know, the week before, we didn't even know what it was gonna be. It was only gonna be a category two. I feel like the news downplayed it. They did.  The news, I feel like downplayed it. Usually the news makes it seem worse than it is. The news didn't even talk about anything. Like they didn't even tell anyone to evacuate until the day of, until the hurricane was hitting. They did not tell people to evacuate. And I know I'm not blaming anyone, but I really, really wish people just evacuated more. I just want to get more serious. Like I feel like Florida people are like, oh, it changes directions, but like look what happened. And I think it also has to do with the last hurricane that was in Florida guys. It was like, it was gonna hit really bad and then it didn't. And people evacuated, but they didn't need to. So I feel like this time, they were like, you know what, it wasn't even bad last time. I'm gonna stay.  I see now from this day forward, anything that there's gonna be a hurricane, I'm bordering my shift. I'm bordering the house and I'm leaving because like I don't think it's worth even riding it out. It would be cool to experience and ride it out if it was not bad. But like, I'm not gonna chance something coming through the window and then me getting hit with something or like, and I'm not hating on the people that left because I know it's just a messed up situation. You can't know how it is. I just really, really feel for everyone that was affected. Like, I don't know. We need to go down and just start helping and seeing. If you guys have any like, if you guys don't need like donations that we can donate, we really wanna like donate and give our like, of course to these people. Do they have anything set up there? I don't know, I wanna know. They have to. They have to. So if you guys comment down below anything that you guys know, cause I wanna donate and give our money to people that are in need because honestly, we are very lucky. Like I said, that we did not get anything more severe and we were here, we were safe and sound and you know, all people's houses that flooded, people's houses that were destroyed, they have no home to go home to. Like, it's honestly just so sad and I just wish I could be there right now. I wanna be there and help. There's so much to talk about. So many people were just saying how it's just so much destruction. So many emotions. So we're really sorry you guys. We really are our hearts are for you guys. We tried updating you guys as much as we could on TikTok and stuff during the hurricane. And it's, yeah. And seeing it now is just like, what the heck? We did not think it would be good. It's gonna feel real when we go home. It's gonna feel real. And we're gonna see it all. We don't even know if we're gonna have power. We don't even know what's happening. I just wanna tell everyone that, like we see all your comments. Like everyone that is commenting, pray for you guys, pray for everyone now. Thank you. Like thank you. We appreciate your comments so much. Like pray for the people in Florida. Pray that everyone makes it out okay or as many as people as can. Like people in hospitals, they make it out okay.  And I know for a lot of people that are in Florida, even in the comments, I'm sure a lot of them are in Florida. It feels really good knowing we had a really good support. So some during this time, cause the time when we did not know what was going on, it was the worst day ever. It felt, I was so like distraught. My stomach was in the mouth the whole time. Yes, all day I was scared for his sisters that were down there during this. His family, just like so many things were running through our heads and you know. But luckily like my family is all safe. My family and friends, everyone that I've talked to is all safe. They're just been trying to get by and you know, they've been living out without power for almost a week now. Yeah. Not almost a week, like four days. Four days, yeah. They've been out without power. It's like 90 degrees there. So imagine and it's humid. So we just wanted to give you guys a quick little update. Also anyone in our comments or anyone watching our videos like we love all you guys. But everyone that was affected from this like Florida, Orlando, Tampa, wherever you are. Or even North Carolina, Georgia got it. South Carolina, like literally like our hearts go out to you. I hope everyone is okay. And like share your experiences down here in the comments if you were affected by it.  And you know, people that are affected definitely, like we love reading them. We're safe, we're blessed, we're thankful and. And we're going home soon to, I keep squeaking. And we're going home soon to help clean up, bring supplies and just start rebuilding. Start helping and rebuilding. So I don't know, we'll hit you back with another update. I think we should do a vlog. Comment down below should we do a vlog once we get home to show you around the area? I think if you guys want it you know, give this video a thumbs up. We'll be home soon but we'll give you guys an update on when that will be.  I want to show you the town, I want to show you everything. I want to, I'll do a whole bunch. Like Cape Town Beach, Fort Myers, it's. We can try. I don't know if people even let a lot on there. Well, we'll try as much as we can because we'll literally be your inside scoop for what's going on there. So we appreciate all of you guys for watching this video. I know it was super uncut, super raw but we just have to you know, spill out a little update after the hurricane, how we are and. We're okay. We're still, we're very sad and we're very sad. It's definitely hard for me. It's only up from here you know, we'll learn from this and. Be safe. Next time around I hope a lot of people take this more seriously even if, like I know a lot of people did, but like even if they don't think it's bad because I know I will be. Oh, I will be. This changes our life forever. It does. It showed us that we need to take stuff like this more serious. I mean, it's, we're living in a state that has hurricanes. So we need to make sure we're prepared. We got to be ready. All right. Well, we love you guys and we'll see you in the next video. Thank you for all your support but until then. Peace. Love you guys.


Hi everyone, so glad you could join us for another episode of Most Powerful Woman in Sports for the world's greatest marketers, media pros, athletes and coaches share their remarkable journeys and how they achieve peak performance. Today we'll be speaking with NHL Chief Marketing Officer Heidi Browning. We'll talk to Heidi about leadership lessons learned from different stops along the way and the power of positivity, humor and humility. But first some background on Heidi. Heidi joined the NHL in 2016 as CMO after leading digital marketing strategies for companies such as Pandora, MySpace and AgencyUM. Based in San Francisco, Heidi is responsible for executing the NHL's growth marketing strategy and for deepening fan engagement across digital and traditional channels. Heidi, welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us. All the way from San Francisco. There you are. All right, hi. Hey, hey. So thanks for joining us. I wanted to dive right in and, you know, in preparing for this for our chat today, I went to your LinkedIn bio and it says you're dedicated and I love this to peace, love and ROI. Now, how did you come up with that?  How did that come to be? Well, I mean, this is all about bringing both your heart and your head to business. And I firmly believe that it is possible to be both an effective leader who delivers results while also being kind and caring human being. And that's what I try to bring to my work life, my home life, etc. From the, you know, standpoint of the greatest lessons, I think that we've learned from the pandemic, the role empathy plays in both the workplace as well as at home has grown and we've seen it to become even more important in our world and I do think it's going to take, make a critical path in the future of work, this role of empathy and that's really again what all it is what it's all about combining that heart and head. And then from the ROI perspective, I've kind of been obsessed with our way all my life. Even when I was a little kid, we go to the mountain and we'd ski and try to get our cost per rundown each weekend. So, you know, that was a natural segue into working into digital media and now marketing so peace, love and ROI all the way baby. I love it. I love it. And where did, where did you grow up? I grew up in Montana, in a town called Great Falls, Montana, which was one of the bigger cities and it was a wonderful way to, you know, wonderful childhood. And I still have family there I don't get back as often as my parents would like me to but it's a lovely place. Yeah. And were you a big sports fan or an athlete or both back then. Let's say I was more of a mathlete than an athlete so I'd say I skewed more nerd than athlete but I did love to ski and have fun. And then, you know, as I went on to college, that's where I started to, you know, kind of join the bandwagon if you will have because we had professional teams and you could you know enjoy and all the fun and the fandom across multiple sports. And that's when you grow up in a state where you don't have a professional sports team to, you know, you kind of find strange alignments and reasons to like teams, you know, for example we love the 49ers because of Joe Montana, just because of the name Montana. That's really funny. So, when you got the job at the NHL and we'll talk about your some of your other roles that led to that job. What did you know about hockey, if anything. Well, I didn't know much about hockey I was like the most bandwagon fan meaning I would go to Stanley Cup parties because they're fun and social and fabulous, but I was not a dedicated hockey fan by any means. You know, when I was interviewing with the commissioner, he was so wonderful and, you know, made it really clear that I didn't have to be a hockey fan to work there he said you know we have a whole company filled with hockey fans and sometimes you can't see what you can't see. You know that's a really gracious way to bring me into the organization because it helped me, you know turn what I perceived as my weakness, not knowing the game into a strength and as we look to grow our fan base beyond the avid hockey fans and pull in and expand to casual fans. This became a definite you know opportunity for me to bring my perspective to the table. Like any other world you know when you're in an agency world which I spent many years on the agency side. When you win a piece of business, you all of a sudden get your PhD in that industry right you study the business products the people and you go from there and so what I was able to bring to the league was my years of experience and digital and social and mobile and data, and then learn the business of hockey, and now I love it and I'm a huge hockey fan.  Can you give me some examples of how those roles, you were able to apply the skills and tools for enriching the NHL brand. So those are two of my favorite experiences of my career and I always refer to my space is the business school of life. I mean it really was it was the most interesting and exciting and challenging role and it was absolutely a privilege to be part of that era. Because when you think about it, my space was the beginning of social media and that has changed marketing forever. So, you know, I joined back when it was the cultural zeitgeist we were breaking double click every day because of the rapid rapid exponential growth that the audience was having. And you think about it, it was a time in society where for the first time ever consumers had technology in their hands they had iPhones and flip video cameras if you remember those. And then so they could create, but they also had the opportunity to distribute content to audiences at scale via my space. So creators were now also distributors and that was game changing and I think the birth of our creator culture that we are living in today. The second thing that I think was transformational at that time and having a seat at the table was was extraordinary, which is the power and the relationship the social contract between consumers and brands. For the first time ever consumers had a voice they had a platform and they use their voice to tell brands what they thought about them right and the smart brands were leaning in and listening early and now listening is part of every marketers toolkit as an important touch point with your fans and your customers so creator culture and listening came right out of my space. I also had the opportunity to work at hand or I joined shortly before we went public and help scale that business into a billion dollar business and that was also an incredible experience because we're redefining the audio landscape. We were, you know, it was all about the power of personalization to deliver, you know, a sublime listening experience and discover new artists and all of that was driven by incredible amounts of data and mobile. Pandora was a mobile first company and that's where that scaled and grew and so all the clever tricks that we learned in the digital world and the web world didn't work in mobile so this was an extraordinary opportunity for us to learn how to grow and business and monetize in mobile while at the same time delivering this extraordinarily personalized experience. So, you know, to sum up the, these, you know, kind of trends that I bring with me to everything I do at the NHL and beyond it's the power of listening. It's the power of personalization and the power of people to create. Wow. So you really I mean you really are people shouldn't think that because they didn't start let's say at the bottom of the rung and make work their way up to some job and marketing at a sports league or a team that that's it there's no career. This is definitely a way to go bring bring your other school skills in and adapt. That's that's a really great way of looking at it. When you started was it did you find it hard. You started when did you, you, you started in 2016, 2016. Yeah, and that was a really important year because that was, we were celebrating our 100th year as a brand, and you know joint the ability and opportunity and the privilege to join the company at a time where we could celebrate 100 years of our legacy and then usher in the next 100 years and ensure that our brand is relevant for the next generation of fan is super exciting. So let's talk about the next generation of fans. So how are you, how are you who are you reaching out to as that generation, looking at diversity, diversifying the fan base and the players and maybe even the front office, bringing in more women like to give us sort of a lay of the land. Well, all of those are part of our key priorities at the league, the growth of our fan base, especially among younger and more diverse audiences is number one. And mirroring that it is our mission at the league to ensure that you know our front office looks like our fan base and looks like the rest of you know society and so making sure that we are a place that's welcoming and inclusive for all. I'm really proud to be at the NHL where we have so many women leaders across both US and Canada they're in the league office, their club owners their presidents and a growing number of women in hockey operations, as well as a broadcast. So we've got a lot of momentum going and it's continuing to build. One of my, my favorite, you know, moments or people I should say it's not a moment it's an ongoing relationship is the ability or the opportunity work with my partner and colleague and friend in the C suite, Kim Davis. We joined the league a year after I did and boy, having her come into the league and join the rest of us at the executive table has made an amazing impact on our business and she has you know years and years of experience, leading initiatives, but she's also helped us accelerate the work that we've been doing so we have hockey is for everyone is our North Star. It's our vision and our version of the highest version of our sport. We have a lot of work to do to truly make hockey is for everyone and we are committed to doing so for decades. We've been investing in youth programs all across North America, especially in underserved communities. We have learned to play programs we have stem programs, we have equipment sharing, we even have these really cool innovative technology pieces that were testing out in Canada, they're called NHL street nets and I think of it like a transformer. It's, we put it into, you know, like a, an urban area and it can transform it from a hockey net into a basketball hoop so it can be used for multi purposes. And that's like another just like innovative way we're trying to make our game accessible to everyone you don't have to step on the ice to become a you know to become a hockey fan there are many many paths to fandom. Yeah, when you think about it from a marketing perspective, you know, we're constantly listening to our fans, you know, talking to our fans and waiting maybe fans who are not fans quite yet might be multicultural fans or young fans and learning about what are the, you know, what are their perceptions and barriers, and what can we do to help make the game more welcoming to them. And we're implementing, you know, marketing and in arena policies to ensure that we live up to our highest form of hockey. And do you have something called power players still? Is that still active? Oh boy, you just asked me about my favorite topic we said. Yeah, let's do it. So the power players. So when I first joined the league, I did an interview. And, you know, I talked about how joining the league with 100 year anniversary and ushering the next generation of fan and being focused on these younger fans. There's a physical letter in the mail from this young lady named Sabrina Solomon. She was an 11 year old who was, you know, letting me know that she read the article. She had a bunch of ideas for us and in fact she was off for the summer because school was out and she could come work for free, which of course we couldn't hire her but we invited her and her mom and, you know, we assembled a little crew of, you know, different people across the league thinking she might want to you know, aspirationally have a job in the league and in some, you know, different categories. Well, she comes in, she brings a whole PowerPoint filled with ideas, and she presents them in the boardroom to everybody with, you know, great poise. And it was a real aha moment for us because we recognize like some of the ideas, all of the ideas she had were great. Some of the ideas we were already doing. And if she was not recognizing or seeing or knowing that we were doing these ideas, then we had a problem that meant that we weren't connecting with her and her generation. And so from there that birthed our NHL power players youth advisory board. It's comprised this year we're just we just announced our new board this year it's got 2713 to 17 year olds. They're across North America, about 60% of them are women and a third of them are multicultural. And we assemble them meet with them twice a month, and they advise us on everything we talk about sports, obviously hockey, but culture and media and music and content and intersectionality of all of this and each of them, you know, had to go through a pretty rigorous application process and inner free view process to get on our board and we want to make sure not only the we committed with ideas. This wasn't just a resume builder right that this was like something that they would actually want to participate on in, but they also get to learn about our business and have sort of a behind the scenes view of how the NHL works and we, we cherish all the insights that we learn from them. We've, you know, picked up a pattern over the course of the last three years of sort of the key themes that are important and resonate and which by the way, have also been validated in other research so we know it's not just this focus group of fans but it's, you know, it's bigger than that. And we use their insights to either validate the direction we're going or, you know, slightly change some of the work that we're doing or inspire new ideas together but they've been extraordinarily helpful to us and especially, you know, when you think about the importance of DEI and the importance of growth and making our sport available and inclusive to all this is a passion point for each and every one of them. And that's where they're here to help us think about what are the programs and the ways that we can communicate and connect with their peer group to bring them into the world of hockey. Fantastic. Are there any insights or surprises that you learn from the power players that you actually applied or stopped doing? Oh, all this. Yeah, all the day. There are really like four key pillars.  The ones around the world are following athletes first, then club teams and then leagues, and they're following athletes of sports they don't even watch just because they're interesting humans. And so this is all about that power of personal. They want to have a one to one connection with the athletes that they admire so much they want to know how they became goats. They want to know what they do in their, you know, spare time with families like this has been an important pillar in our storytelling, both on our social medias and across all of our channels. The other key insight is around inclusivity which we've already talked about about how important it is and, you know, I am grateful that we have this group of power players that is, you know, happy to share with us their ideas, but also to let us know like where we need to, you know, be thinking of how we can change and evolve and as a brand and I applaud them for being very, you know, brave and straightforward with us on that. And then the third area is really around gamification of everything which I you know is not a surprise. There's eSports but it's generation every single thing you do right you know you just want to take it a poll. Okay, did I win did I lose how did I benchmark. That's really important. And then the last one is this idea around see me is how we call it, which is this idea of putting our fans at the center of our marketing so this goes all the way back to creator culture from my space. But it you know it's pulled through into this generation today and we, you know, have known have seen when we have fan centric content where it's featuring our fans and Jesus generated content or creator content. It's some of our highest performing content on our channel so it's an important part of our content pie. That's great. Now, what would be the hardest part of being the CMO the NHL and what would be the most rewarding. I think that the answer to this is the same. It's about being the voice of the fan is the CMO you are the voice of the fan right I feel great responsibility for our fan base. And especially with my team on the front lines of social media, we are the frontline for the voice of the fan as well as the voice of the league and we work really really hard to have healthy and vibrant community on social media and you know as well as I do there's also a dark side you know you've got people who hide behind keyboards and feel like they can say whatever and so we do our best to stand up to that kind of behavior we don't have it a lot but when we do we stand up to it but you know it's hard it's hard on the social media team who's managing it it's hard on the fans who didn't ask for that so that's the hardest part but the best part about it is that is the fans themselves right. Having these personal connections I love to go to games and sit in the stands with the fans and just talk with them about their experience.  I meet fans all over the place on social media, and you know and have developed long lasting relationships with really amazing people, just because I'm open to learning about them and their fandom so fans are the best they're they're fuel in the life but of our business and we are here to serve them in every way possible. Okay, so I got one last question for you. We'll end it on what's the best piece of advice you give to women who want to enter or move up in the NHL or maybe any sport. I'd say this is our time right now, we've got incredible momentum and with more and more women in leadership positions across all aspects of the league, the clubs, the teams, then hockey ops. And so I'd say you know the hockey world is yours just go for it. Okay. All right, well, we're just out of time but we have just enough time for some takeaways. So I'm going to let you throw to your, your key takeaways and we'll go from there. Thanks that was quick Lisa. It was, I know. I you said it was going to be quick. So from the takeaway perspective, you know, this is really again about that heart in the head leading with passion, listening with empathy and learning with everyone we all have things to learn every single day. And not about just about the business. The second key takeaway is learning about yourself and you can learn a lot about yourself not just through the successes that you have but through the failures and ask yourself what did you learn from each of these moments because they always make you stronger. And then the last but not least is deliver business results. It's important, no matter who you are or where you are in business that you're thinking about the business first and driving the business. You can do it with heart and with passion, but always put the numbers on the board. Excellent. These are really great. Thank you so much for sharing them. Just say go Rangers actually I should say go senators from Ottawa.  Anyway, thank you so much. I know I can't allow that except when they play each other. But thank you so much. I hope that we'll be speaking again very soon. Perhaps next time in real life. Thank you. Thank you. We'll, we'll talk soon. So next woman up will be Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky, and we'll see you back here on November 17 live at our annual brand week sports marketing summit live but virtual that is, and registration is free so come on come on down and register at at week.com. Thank you all and we'll see you soon.


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That's what you did. I'm sorry. Are you busy? Of course I'm busy. Can't you see that I'm writing? Yeah, I didn't mean to interrupt. I'll come again later. Now, you stay right here. I'm glad to see you, Jerry. What's on your mind? Well, things are sure happening to me pretty fast. I might have to go into business. What? You go into business? I'm not sure. Why not? Well, what kind of business? Well, you see, it's like this. You know that property out in Montana that Dad left me? Yes. I remember hearing about that. Well, we got a registered letter from the Montana railroad lines asking about who owned that property and talking about a deal. They seem to be in an awful hurry about finding out about it. Oh, that's splendid, Jerry. I certainly wish some of my relatives had left me something.  I'll say. Uh, but didn't you ever have any relatives who might have left you something and, you know, that you didn't even know about? No.  And, well, I guess we'll never know where all his money went. Your grandfather? Yes, sir. And let me tell you, Jerry, there never was a tighter man that lived than Grandpa Gustav. They called him Gustav the Miser. Oh, was he rich? Well, everybody thought he was. But he never spent a cent. He didn't have to. He wore the meanest clothes. And when we were children, we never wanted to go and see him because he was so stingy. He never gave us pennies or candy like most grandparents do. Oh, what did he do with all of his money? Well, that's just it. No one knows. No one ever found out. Maybe he wasn't rich after all. Well, yes, he was. He owned lots of property in Parker City just before the town began to grow. And then he sold it all before he died for cash. See, that's something. Yeah? And then he sold it all. Yeah? And then he changed it all into gold. Jiminy Willikers, this is a real mystery. Hey, Mike, get the flag up. Get the flag up, Jake. Jiminy, it's time to eat. And now, look, here you got me to talking and I haven't written this letter to Common. Oh, gee, I'm sorry, Major. Well, never mind, Jerry. I'll come back here to my tent after the show tonight and do it. We're not moving tonight, so there'll be no rush. I can come back here when it's all quiet on this circus lot and really concentrate on this letter. Without having a fella come in and gab and talk. Well, that's all right, Jerry. I'm glad you came.  It'll take me a second or so to get ready. But come and visit me again soon, Jerry. Sure thing. Be seeing you, Major. Oh, hello, Mike.  No, but well, there's nothing else to do so I might as well go along and pass the time. You don't say. How do you like that, Pete? The boys are comedians. Yeah. Hey, have you seen Speed? He was supposed to be waiting around here. Who's he? He's the new fella. Who does the race with the horse? Oh, the guy that can walk faster than we can run. Yeah. Uh, wonder where he's got to. Hey, Jerry. Jerry, not so fast. Oh, there he is now. Hey, where are you, Speed? Right behind you. What's your hurry? Why, the flag's up. That's always Jerry's hurry. Oh, I get it. Well, Jerry, what'd you pick up? Calm down. I sure played in luck. The Major told me all about his granddad and, oh boy, what a story. I'm good for you, what is it? Well, give me time first. But the first thing to do, well, we might play the joke on him tonight. I don't see why not. Why, any special reason? Well, yeah. He'll be in a stand after the show tonight. He's got an important letter to write, and he's planning to do it after everything's quieted down in the lodge. What a setup for a ghost. Now, listen here, Jerry. We'll do it, and we'll put on an act that he'll never forget. Let me hear news of you and your brothers. My regards to them, and, of course, you know how I feel about you. Whoa. It's getting chilly. Now I'd better sign this, and that's funny. It sounds like a novel. It's me. What is that? When I died, my grandfather was foxy. No one knew. No, indeed. You will. You want to tell me? In good time. In good time. You remember our hometown well? Yes. Remember where the old car tracks ended on Market Street? Yes. And of those tracks, there was an empty field belonging to Olaf Spencer? Yes, grandfather. I had buried my pot of gold in the northwest corner. Big down six feet on the south side of the tree. And there I had to tell you, because soon tomorrow, tomorrow the gold... Parker City. Well, maybe you're right, but maybe you're wrong, too, Major. You know, we can imagine things. Not me. No, sir, I could hear just as plain. And don't you suppose I know my own grandfather's voice? Well, yes, yes, but... Oh, now, listen, Major, I'm going to be very busy. I've just sent for Jerry. Jerry? Yes, I've just had a wire that involves him, and we have to get an answer off tonight. It can't be delayed. Yes, but this trip cannot be delayed either, Mr. Randall. You can't leave the circus, Major. I have a contract with you till the end of the season. But I could fly, and only miss one day. Only once. Major, how do you know you could find that tree? Well, I guess I spent my entire childhood there. I guess I know that place as well as... Major, how long since you've been in Parker City? About 20 years. Have you stopped to think that the city has grown up and the car tracks may have even disappeared by now? Oh, oh, of course. I forgot my goodness, but the voice, Mr. Randall... You say there was quite a wind blowing, and you could hardly hear. You might have been mistaken. I know what I'll do. I'll go to Rosa. She can tell me this time. I'm sure she can tell me. Mr. Randall, Mr. Randall, did you... Yes, Jerry. Just a minute. Sit down. Yeah, that's the ticket. I'll see Rosa. She will be able to help me, I'm sure. Goodbye, Mr. Randall. All right, Major. Boy, he didn't even see me. No, he seems to have other things on his mind. Doesn't he, Jerry? What kind of things, Mr. Randall? Jerry, do you know anything about a voice that the Major might have heard in his tent? Well, gee, well... Jerry, think twice before you answer that one. Yeah, I guess I do, Mr. Randall, but gee, speed and I... Oh, gee, I told on speed. That's all right. I'll have a talk with speed later, but as far as you're concerned, Jerry, I'm a little surprised, yeah? Quite a bit surprised that you take advantage of any peculiarity of a fellow performer. Well, the Major has his whims and fancy sun, just as I have. Maybe you have a few yourself, hmm? I... well, I suppose I have a... I don't know of any, but... All right, then, uh... Suppose Major might hid rags overnight in one of the wagons or cages, and made you think he'd seen rags running after some strange man off the lot. What would you do? Oh, gee, gosh, I... I'd just about go crazy, I guess. Who bet you would? Well, rags is one of your whims, isn't he? Sure, yeah, he is. And that's the way the Major thought this so-called ghost that you and Speed cooked up. A practical joke, Jerry. A practical joke's all right, just as long as it doesn't do anyone any harm. But just a minute, a joke hurts anyone, well, then it becomes unkind, cruel. I'm awful sorry, Mr. Andalonist, I am. I'll go right out and find the Major and tell him I'm sorry. Yeah, that'll boy. And then we won't say anything more about it. Oh, but, uh, before you go, we've got something quite important to do. What? See? I haven't heard yet from the M.O. Railroad. That's just what I have. The wire came an hour ago. We have to send a night letter off tonight, so it'll reach them in the morning. Oh, gee. All right, here's the wire. I'll let you read it yourself.


After months of preparations, the 108 Nigerian Baptist Convention commenced on Saturday, 24 April 2021, with members and attenders across the country. The convention, which took place for the first time in newly-built 37,000 auditorium at the campsite along Legosi Badun Espresway, was dedicated by the church leadership. It is good to us to give all the place and power to bring the completion of this auditorium to this stage. We stand in this holy place and before its presence to dedicate this building to Him, to the glory of God our Father, from whom comes every good and perfect grip. To the honor of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, our Redeemer and our King. To the praise of the Holy Spirit, our source of light and light. The Lord is strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your hands so you get. Be lifted up all ancient doors. Who is He, the King of Glory? Therefore, in conjunction with the Chamber of the Convention and our wives, on the very flag of the dedication of these Baptists International Auditorium are the Baptists International Convention Center. Today, 24 April 2021, in the presence of the Congregation of God's people In the name of God, the Father, Amen. Vice President in charge of finance could not hide his excitement on the stage the campsite has gotten to just like the president also narrated the orders his administration had crossed to be quit this legacy. This is only one God, only one God who is able to do all things. For him alone be all the glory. I did a privilege to serve the people of God. I came here by divine revelation and by divine heart and I serve at his bidding. So his presence in everything has made the difficult job easy. I give him the glory, no challenging womanly speaking, but made easy by the power of his presence and by his wisdom. Here we see that we have not finished completely, but we have reached over 75 percent completion of the auditorium. We we we trust the Lord that has taken this work this far to help us complete it. Some of the women leaders shared their thoughts on the role Christian women play in shaping the nation. We will not stop as parents to pray for them as parents to continue to encourage them to to cancel them to not give up on them who will not give up. We continue to show them by example, we continue to plead with them onto the sea that the way they are living is not proper. We will not abandon them. We visit them not only when they are in nursery school but even when they are in the university. We pay them visit when they don't know we are coming and we ensure that they follow the moral values that they have been taught at home. Women wing has been on for the past 102 years ago. Two, three days ago we celebrated our 102nd annual conversion at Shepardin Baptist Church and the Baptist woman has always been there. It is also the conversion Herodine, a new president that would take over from Reverend Dr Ola Shu Mo Ayokule, who also doubles as president of Christian Association of Nigeria. It is day two. Against the expectation of having vice president on the final day, Professor Yemio Shibajo, out of his tight schedule, decided to grace the occasion. Typical of Reverend Dr Sam Sin Ayokule, where he always speaks truth to power, chose not to spare his guest but assured him of moral and spiritual support. We know that you have on your shoulders very intimidating assignments and at this time, I have never seen a time most trying in deletion than this one. Even men are just rising everywhere. Up to now we don't know who really offended them but they are just rising with the spirit of wickedness, killing, maiming, vandalizing, troubling the entire nation. He lost book to me and said that they are the Egyptians of our time. Are the Egyptians buried in the sea for stubbornness? The stubborn one among them who will not repent will drown in the ocean of God's wrath in the name of Jesus. He is living with his reputation omblemished. He is living at a point where he is also one of the most respected leaders of the Christian faith in Nigeria and there are more victories ahead. So I join the members of the Baptist family in Nigeria and worldwide and all the children of God to congratulate this man of exceptional character, a man of great wisdom, great achievements. There is a promise of God that this nation, this nation Nigeria will prosper, that this nation will be the epicenter of the outstanding economic and scientific developments of the 21st century that we will create here in this country an oasis of peace, prosperity and security, such as has never been seen before on this continent and beyond. Another major event was a valedictory and commendation service for the retiring president Reverend Samson Ayokuli. The atmosphere was ecstatic as the clergyman thanked God for the leadership achievements recorded and leaving office a fulfilled man. During the course of the valedictory service was the arrival of some prominent Nigerian top political office holders, including former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Ulusegu Obasanjo, Yogun State Governor Dabo Abiodun, Oyo State Governor Shayimaki Nde, the senator representing Adamawa North Unitarian District Senator Ishaku Abo, some top clergymen and traditional rulers who have gathered to celebrate the outgoing president on his 10 years of excellent service to the Baptist Convention. Dr. Reverend, we thank God for your life. You have come, you have seen, and you have planted and the plant and what you have planted is growing in your own eyes. I and my brothers felicitate with you and your dear family and we wish you well. My prayer is that God will give you a new energy because you are at the end of one assignment and at the beginning of another. I'm particularly happy about the progress that the Baptist Convention is making in Nigeria. 1964, when we celebrated 50th anniversary of the Baptist Convention, it was a big thing. Then we celebrated the centenary, a bigger thing. Today, we are celebrating 108th, it's yet a bigger thing. And I will say to all family, to all Baptist family, Baptist Convention family that we should work as hard as cooperatively with the incoming president, Reverend Dr. Kangee. Dr.  You just appointed an ambassador for gender justice. That speaks volumes. You are indeed, you are indeed a shining example of a shepherd of God. I want to once again congratulate you and I want by the same being congratulate the incoming president, Reverend Dr. Israel Kangee. I pray that the God Almighty will grant him the wisdom and all that we're with all for a successful tenure. Once again, I want to congratulate the entire Nigerian Baptist family on the successful hosting of this 108th session of the Nigerian Baptist Convention. After serving as the president of the Nigerian Baptist Convention for 10 years, well, you know, for us politicians, you can only have four staff and then second town, totally eight years and then you have to go. But for him, he served for 10 years. So excellence is closely related to completeness and this is linked to that number 10. Reverend Iokule has rendered excellent service to the Baptist Convention. So I want to congratulate you on the achievement and I do this on behalf of myself, my family, the government and the good people of your state. Well, just as you have achieved excellence in service here and I can see that you're not tired and you're returning back to Ibadah shortly, we want you to continue to be of service to our country and to our state. They also spoke on the roles of the church in tackling the challenges the country is faced with. The role of the church is simple, the Lord is our shepherd, we shall know one, the book of Psalm 23 will continue to pray and then we'll continue to be careful. Somebody was making a statement, he said whatever thing you see mentioned, don't keep quiet if you suspect anything, let people in the authority know and then we'll continue to pray. In the contemporary Nigeria of today, the church, more especially the Baptist and indeed the church generally has a big role to play, number one in speaking the truth in love to people in authority. Nigeria is facing its worst security and indeed economic crisis since the Nigerian civil war.  The church have to pray, support the leaders and at the same time speak to leaders and I am calling one day the church to call leaders to action. I think the leadership in the country have to wake up. There were series of other celebration activities, prison worship, testimonies, seed offering, scripture reading and message, administrations. The last day of the convention as early as 7 a.m. on Thursday April 29, 2021 started off with the Royal Ambassador's Century Parade as part of the activities to end the convention and the pulling out of the outgoing president. As our special squad are planning to form up their vows for this centenary celebration, we are giving best to and it is a great honor to see them celebrate this centenary celebration. Reverend Ayo Kuli received the parades in warm appreciation. We celebrate you, we honor your seal, your passion for the kingdom of Christ and we pray that you will continue to build it in the midst of the challenges that we are having in the name of the law we declare by the authority of the recent Christ that the church will prevail against insurgency, against mandatory, against kidnapping and all forms of insecurity that we have today. We are going to prevail in the name of the law. After the parade, it's back to the convention hall where the day sessions kicked off with hesitation and administrations with Reverend Dr. Paul Genfa giving a charge on faith practicing. Possessing your possessions by faiths. Those who are too faiths. Number three, possessing your possession through positive confession. God don't think you should be saying that about your life. Don't say it again. Say something positive. There were also activities like discussion of all reports, resolutions and communicate and words and recognition. Towards the evening section was the entrance of the new president, Reverend Dr. Isru Adelani Akonji, who was received by the Overjoyed Congregation. While at the altar with his new team of administration, the ex-president gave his admonitions and prayers. Beloved, do not take this grace in vain. Do not take any actions without where consulting go. What God has used to help me is not about what I have taught myself, but what I will take to this throne room. I say, God deliver me from error. Thank you for counting this one's worthy. Be glorified, eternal father, in the name of Jesus Christ. We are glad that they are workers with you. That assures us that you will not abandon them. You will not leave them alone at the assignment. Therefore, living father, I pray, as you cast your spirit to enter us all, immediately it was anointed king. Let your spirit overwhelmingly come upon these ones in the name of Jesus. After the admonition comes the new president's acceptance speech. Continuity. As a people who have been on ground for over a century, almost two centuries, so much ground has been captured for the kingdom of God. I am not called to be a founder of a denomination, but to lead a family-founded one to higher grounds for God's great glory. For this reason, there will be a lot of things that must continue. In fact, there are some things which might need to be revived in order to continue them. In view of this, I hereby accept the call of God to serve as the president of our great Nigerian Baptist Convention in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Towards the ending of the convention, some of the parishioners and senior pastors spoke on their take-home messages about the success of the convention, what they wish for the former president and the advice for the new administration. As we are rejoicing and celebrating for the first time here, indeed it is very marvelous and we thank God for that. The lessons we have learned is one, to be focused in anything we are doing, then to work towards it assiduously, and to know that the eternal home is what we should aspire to get to. As we are serving God and running the race, at the same time there is another joy over there, even after the race. We have heard the message that when you come in to move forward, we have a race and the race is to make it happen. That is the ultimate. I wish the outgoing president, in person of Reverend Dr. Samson Ola Shukuadinii Ayokule, the best in life. He should know that though his living office, he carries the anointing that has not expired, so he should continue doing the work of ministry. My advice for the man whom the Lord has chosen for us this time, Dr. Israel Adilaniakonji, is for him to be focused, to know who has brought him into this office and to face him squarely, and to remember he will give account to him. This is the first time in the history of the Najaba's conversion that we have in a national annual conversion session in a property that we hold ourselves called a camp. This is the first time. It is a success because we were able to get the structure ready before the session. The delegates arrived here safely. We were thinking we would not be able to register up to 5000 delegates. We have more than 5000 delegates, about 5000 delegates registered, and we have more than 5000 people gathered here. As the new era of leadership begins for Baptist family, it is hoped that maximum cooperation will be given, especially as a conversion goes through another phase of development.


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I knuckles the echidna, but you can call me knuckles. I have a single opening called a cloaca. Eggman is after the master emerald. I excrete both feces and urine out of my cloaca, which is my single opening. I broke the master emerald into pieces to stop Eggman from taking it. Cloacas are more common than you think. All amphibians, reptiles, and birds have them. People ask where I keep the shards of the master emerald. I keep them in my cloaca.


Five What's up money geeks? It's a V here. Welcome to another video guys So today's video we are going to talk about five stocks that I'm gonna be watching this week So kind of look at it and see what opportunities we have for this particular stocks And somebody stocks are stocks that I own long term and some I just want to trade it for the week Just gives this an opportunity. So that's what I wanted to cover into this video But before we get started guys feel new to the channel We took about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell So you don't miss out on new content again guys the stocks that I'm going to show you guys It's just stuff that I'm going to be trading or I hold some in the ones that I have in my portfolio I definitely going to call them out and the ones that I'm going to be trading if the opportunity arises I'm going to call them out as well So let's just come right in here take a look and see some of the stocks that I really care about The first one here is Pinterest as you guys already know, I'm a huge Pinterest fan I currently own Pinterest in my portfolio And so I'm trading this one this week in particular because of their earnings coming up on Thursday So I want to keep my eye after hours on Thursday. They're gonna report their earnings I think Amazon and Twilo are also on that list to report on Thursday But I'm specifically looking at Pinterest because the the last four quarters Except for the this the last quarter Pinterest has been doing excellent. They've done some really good Reporting their numbers are crazy. But last quarter they just kind of missed their user Growth and so it pulled the stock back a little bit, but I don't anticipate that happening this time around I think they're gonna bid that user growth and I think that revenue is gonna be even better So I'm anticipating that this is gonna move up. So I'm gonna trade this again specifically just for trading It's not buying to hold long-term So I'm gonna trade the earnings and take my profit and get out. So that's my game plan For Pinterest as was doing this video here. You can see Pinterest is currently trading at about 76 dollars and 91 cents So I we go back six months here if I can click here, you see Pinterest is gone as high as 89 So what I'm anticipating is that this particular bounce here what are your reported earnings Pinterest is gonna go some way to around 83-84 that's maybe about a six or seven dollars spread So then I'm as soon as I get that I'm gonna check my profit and I'm gonna get out And then hopefully it stays up there But otherwise I have it long-term. So I don't I don't know what about the long-term part This is just for trading the second stock on my list here is riot But before we talk about riot, I want to talk about Bitcoin as you guys can see Bitcoin actually hit 39,000 So Bitcoin is trending to the upside. So what does that mean for mining stocks? It means all these mining stocks are gonna see a bounce So that's why I have riot as the second one on my list and again riot as a company that Does mine Bitcoin? So again add this to your portfolio to your watch list and this is where a closed last Friday at $28 and 10 cents. So I'm definitely watching that one this week. The next one again This is another mining stock is a marathon. So this one is matter tickets about M. A. R. A So definitely keep an eye on this one close last Friday at about 24 dollars and 64 cents. So that's no one then the next one that I have again. So this would be The fourth one. This is SOS. This is another mining stock So if you see where the closed last Friday at $2. I'm 46 and 48 cents And so I'm gonna be watching this one But I want you to be very very cautious with this one because this is a Chinese based stock We can see here and pointing here as a Chinese based stock and China has been cracking down on a lot of the different industries So I want you to be aware of that make sure that if you're doing this one is just a quick trade Don't anticipate buying and holding because I'm not comfortable with what China is doing to Most of the companies the different sectors in China from e-commerce to EV across the board to mining stocks China is cracking down So be careful with this one and last but not the least is FT FT again This is another mining stock that I want you to watch for this week and just put it in your watch list again This one close last Friday at two thousand for the three cents and just keep it another Chinese company So as you are trading this make sure that if there's any profit take that profit and secure it Don't sit there because China can make some noise tomorrow and these things will come crashing if you guys just watch Recently in the news we've had Just the Chinese education system has just gone through this massive crackdown By the Chinese government and so you see the stocks tumbling and then we've said they've done it with e-commerce stocks Like Alibaba. I mean China is just a healing heart. They've done it with their fintech So if you look at it, it's like what is going on? So from that perspective if you're trading in the stock that is China based today If it's not a long-term stock that has some reputation because I mean I currently own Neil Which is a Chinese based stock. I bought it really cheap So I'm still hanging on to that one But am I gonna go jump on to some other stocks right now and and try to buy them No, because I'm worried about what can potentially happen. So SOS and FT FT those are the ones to really worry about but if you want to play in the Bitcoin mining space riot and Mara are definitely my top favorite So again this week I have Pinterest as my number one because of the earnings I've made good money trading Pinterest earning. So Except for the last earning calls, but this one I'm definitely looking for positive numbers, which is going to drive the price of the stock up So that's what I have for you in this particular video game Let me know in the comment section what stocks are you watching this week and why are you watching them? If you're new to the channel, we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and any notification build So you don't miss out on your content also guys If you are new to the channel and you want to sign up for Weeble I have the links in my description if you click that link sign up and deposit $5 You get two free stocks It used to be a hundred bucks now if you deposit just $5 you get two free stocks I know cost you links again in the description and as always guys do your due diligence.


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat. I'm talking today with Dustin. Hello. Hello, Christian. How are you? I'm doing well, just surviving here with the hot weather. But Dustin, for folks that don't know you, who are you? Where are you? And what do you do? All right. Yeah. So I'm Dustin Wellard. I'm an MVP, obviously, or I wouldn't be on this in the M365 apps and services area. And I, I work for Slalom consulting. I am senior delivery principal in the solution area, the global lead for the East for, for Slalom. I mostly focus on these days, modern work and especially the areas of SharePoint teams, OneDrive, all the original OG, modern work stuff, but now I've really gotten into Microsoft syntax and Microsoft Viva. Interesting. So what, what are kind of the topics you, what are you writing about talking about these days? Those latest things or? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It's transitioned over that actually more Microsoft syntax than anything. We, for, for people at Slalom, including myself, we're writing the first Microsoft syntax book. We are a contract with a major publisher. We're about 50% of the way through working in collaboration with Microsoft on it. And that has been a whirlwind. And that's mostly what I've been going to talk about at various conferences and so on and at our user groups. Well, bless you for the good work of writing the books. Like I'm not looking to sign up for that process right now. It's amazing too. And you have the waves and new stuff. I get, you know, as an MVP, maybe a lot of us, you know, have this experience, but you get the various publishers that will reach out about being an author, a co-author, an editor of those. And I'm just, I'm just like, say no, I'm just like, I can't, I've just got so much going on. And somebody said to me that it is the least amount of money for the most amount of work you'll ever see in your life. That's right. And you're looking for that leaderboard of, of most amount of work, least amount of return on that work. Right. It's up there. Yeah. And especially with the shifting tides of how the syntax product is growing and now it's more of a family versus just like document processing and document and understanding and so on. It now is its own suite of products and we're like working on the market. There's always a shifting goal post. That's a, that's a real problem for your book content. I know there's still a lot of people to buy the books. There's some authors that have moved away from doing anything printed, maybe print on demand just towards the digital asset. And there's a couple of authors that I know that they regularly, I think quarterly push out updates because of so many changes and rebrandings and things around that. That's a good point about this book. We have the ability to do multiple editions and continue growing the content and it will be digital too. So with this publisher, so we, we actually do plan to do that because there are going to be new features like e-signatures that finally do roll out that we can add to the book and, and really show it. We could talk about it today, but showing it as believe, or seeing it as believing it, right? Well, Dylan, I always like to ask like, what was your origin story? Like I know you've been in the space for a long time and we've talked previously to this, this run. Like what, like what, what, how did it all come together? How'd you become the MVP? Yeah, it's crazy. Starting out my early career, I, it's a very unique story. I was planning to go to law school at a fluoride scholarship to law school. Went through that. My, I had family health issues, ended up leaving that, getting to work for a major pharmacy benefit manager called Express Scripts, which is in the Fortune 500. And I was, I took a really telemarketing style job, you know, just trying to move on, trying to figure out, well, my family was dealing with it. And I got a call from a patient saying that they were going to die in the hospital if they did not get this injection.  We're going to get sued. And so ultimately I built and designed a system after talking to my manager in leadership to, I seen this thing called SharePoint 2003. And I was like, I think I could probably build something. I'm pretty good with technology. I built a series of HTML pages, locked it under locking key with the permission structure and kind of used it more as a database structure so people at the HTML site. And what, from what I understand, still 800 people are using that to do their jobs today. I got a vacuum machine for doing all of that. And it was outside of my role. So, you know. I was going to point out just a saying too, as I often say, SharePoint is not a database. Right. Unless it is. Yep, it was. It was. But you're correct. It definitely was not. We weren't using it for metadata. We weren't using it for anything. But I thought I was the SharePoint expert, you know, like I know SharePoint because I built this. I had no idea and, you know, continue down that path that journey and started building my own farms and did that for a big company out of Chicago. Got into consulting and consulting became my passion. Actually working with people, building enterprise content management solutions, you know, I mean, I mean, all of us in this space can really agree. You could build this terrific IA, but then it always ended up failing around metadata because people get busy. They don't improve the metadata. It's or they don't have a CIO or somebody in leadership to say, yes, we're going to require this or you don't upload content. You never get that. Almost 80% of those implementations would fail. Now with the advent of Microsoft syntax, it's really what Jeff Keeper promised when he first rolled out SharePoint. You can now use AI to tag your content, have it searchable and findable and secured and have retention all with just with AI. And it's pretty amazing how that came to be. And so when I saw a tool like syntax because of my history building these really, really complex IA architectures, I was like, this is it. This is the moment. This is the time. And honestly, I believe this is the time for all people who are in information management, document management. Like this is our Nirvana time. This is the time where we're in a really shape organizations. Yeah, I have to say that, you know, so I started my career as a business analyst and, and then got an information management system, knowledge management systems, and then got in a project and portfolio management. Like those two sides, like you can build a career on becoming an expert in information architecture or the project management technology. Those two areas, there's so much room for people to come in to learn that, build solutions, become experts in that. And even feel like I'm sure you do, I do too, where sometimes I'm just scratching the surface on the surface and I'm writing about speaking about working on. There's just so much that's there. So there's a lot of room for people that are interested in getting into the space and certainly becoming MVP. What, but I mean, what was your, like, you know, so I know that there are solemn. There's other MVPs. Did you have friends in the local community? Like who actually submitted your name in the process? Steve Paselec, which is a global black belt for Microsoft. It's been helping contribute to our book. I have been, so since I started Islam, I really built a great relationship with the global black belts across the event syntax. And they became friends of mine. And I even bought one of them an actual black belt with, and then I got all of them little headbands that are ninja headbands. And like, we just all became friends really quick. And I was at the aim conference when I got to meet them. And it was right after post pandemic. I just, I guess it was, it was amazing conference actually. I got to meet everyone, build these fantastic relationships and bring them into slalom. And slalom didn't have a traditionally solid relationship with these product teams or, or, and GBBs. And so I was able to translate that into actual work for Microsoft, but also benefit for Microsoft. And it became a real symbiotic relationship between all of us. And then further, I became really close friends with a lot of people in the product teams, like, and product marketing teams, like Chris McNulty, who would meet with our team and with Erica Talley and, and even people on the Azure AI side. And we just built this camaraderie. And then I started going to all of these speaking spots and, and speaking like at aim, we were one of the keynotes this year, which was pretty awesome around syntax and got great feedback. So I would guess that was how that all came together. And then honestly, I'm, I, I want to say this for everyone else. There's a lot of, a lot of value in networking, networking, getting your name out there, going out, shaking people's hand and saying, hey, I'm Dustin, and I, I'm not an MVP, but I want to be an MVP. How do I do it? I've been doing this and letting people know your value and what you're contributing to the community is honestly, I'm going to say that's more what I did than, you know, like Todd Clint's old, or things about all the releases coming in the CUs and, and that whole page, like that was a lot of work. And something I really appreciated and valued, you know, back in those days and your work, but really getting out there in the community and evangelizing it has been my, my, my fourth day. Well, that's, that's so hard for so many people of, it's, it's kind of funny. I mean, I remember past job, you know, 15 plus years ago, having managers say like, you're doing all this great stuff. Like in, and the higher ups are not seeing it. And my response was who cares? You're my manager. You know what I'm doing and I'm doing the work that needs to be done. I don't care. And some people might be surprised to hear me say that. Like I, I wasn't out ringing my own bell about doing this stuff. I just was doing, doing the work. And, and the managers just like, there's like, no, we need to find a way to surface that to elevate that. So that because it, it, it makes a difference when it comes to, you know, the, the managers being able to defend raises for their teams and justify if nobody has any idea of what these, not that I'm classifying myself as a superhero, superhero employee, but I've had, but I did that. I fought those battles for my direct reports to get them, win them as many rewards as possible for their excellent work. And it was always easier when everybody was visible, what they did. So what do you do?  What do you do to help surface? What did you change to help raise awareness and networking, talking to people? That's fantastic. How did you actually surface and share out what you're doing? That, that's, that's a great question. Honestly, my major thing has been speaking at, at conferences that that is something I've been regularly doing. Also helping rebuild with Jim Wilcox who's a current MVP, the granite user group here in New Hampshire. I presented a couple of times to that. Yep. Yeah. And so it's finally back. We're up and running. I did the first inaugural event and that went really well. We had like 30 some people in the tenants, which we were all surprised and that was amazing. And then just really, I've been going to every conference I can, and I've built a following for a group of close friends that have really, you know, championed me. I championed them and it's become a really, really solid way to get our names out, get talking to people. And the more conferences I've done, the more I've settled in, the more I've been able to drive attendance and ultimately getting keynotes and things like that has been tremendous. And what I play, you know, I, I think the book us actually writing that first book is really, you know, and that's going to help a lot.  And I know that like when I was, but when I did my first book, it was independent. I was working for a big company. I had my own, you know, software company startup that my co-founder and I wrote a book.  But my co-founder was doing independent consulting and I started doing that. It was a huge tool for consulting, going to write the books that the, you know, but just to, to get people to, I mean, it can be a struggle to write for different websites that are out there that you read a lot in these different portals. Like somebody just reaching out with an article idea, rarely turn gets that response like, Hey, we're interested in that. It's, it can be difficult to get started with them if they don't know who you are. So writing that book instantly gives you that expertise. And not that you have to go folks, write a book every time you can, you know, I tell people, there's so many opportunities to submit abstracts and ideas to speak at user groups all over the place to just record, create a webinar for yourself, like your own content. In fact, I always tell people like that are speaking regularly. You've got those presentations that you're giving it a bunch of, you know, collab days and community days, SharePoint Saturdays, sequel Saturday events, those kinds of stuff. When it's getting towards the end of that, when you've moved on to other topics, make sure that you go and do just a record and have it out on your YouTube page, your company's YouTube page. Like don't let that content just fade away, you know, create it and, and then do some marketing around that. It's another way to leverage that, all that hard work that you did. I totally agree with that 100%. I mean, the what, and honestly, just to take away from, for me is I always tell myself before I go to any event or anything, you've done all this, you've been successful, you have delivered probably, you know, hundreds and hundreds of projects successfully. You know this stuff. And a lot of people in our industry have imposter syndrome and they can't get over it. And I can think of some of the giants in the industry who still have imposter syndrome and you have to tell yourself that, yes, I'm going to go do this.  I'm not going to be, it's not going to be so fun. And then you find a way to make it fun, right? Like I'm not naturally a person who goes up and says, hi, I'm Dustin, the people and start building these things. I have to force myself. And I played the Eminem song, lose yourself before I go out every time, which is like you have one shot and one opportunity when you captured or let it slip. And me and other Microsoft folks were talking and they all have their song too. And it's funny how that works. And it's just, you got to make a decision. And I decided intentionally I wanted to be an MVP. I was going to be an MVP. And I just networked my way through and thank you. I'm very thankful for everyone who helped me along that way. That's great. Well, congratulations again on that.  It's, it's a, and one of the things I would say to folks out there is it just kind of follow on to your comment about imposter syndrome is, is that there are, there are some people almost look at it as, it's unhealthy to not have some degree of that when, when you have some people and we all know somebody that's like that, that has that level of arrogance that they know everything about it. Like that's when I'm telling you their, their community career is in decline. Once you, if you, if you were that, that way, you need to have some level of humility. Like I don't know everything about it. One of the things that I, it's one of the reasons why I love doing the AMA style panels, I bring in other experts and I know a little bit about something. I logically approach problem solving with community questions, but I learn stuff every single time. I do one of those recordings. And so you've got to humble yourself, add to what is already good that's out there, help surface and elevate the works. I mean, talk about networking. This is another strategy is, is promote the good work of other people. If you enjoy reading about something, make sure you're commenting on that, sharing in social, talking about how it helped you, what you liked about it, reach out and connect to those people. And I tell you, there's something that to be said about having, not just empty praise, like you just, you're the best, you know, and then nothing around those substance rather, but when somebody that you've read that you follow that you've seen MVP or not, you know, make sure that you make a point of reaching out, let them know how it helped and to thank them for that and keep in contact. That's a great networking skill. I try to do that. I try to practice that after it's not natural for me either. You know, we all have to work at doing that kind of stuff. Yeah, but I mean, if you seem value in it, you should do that. That's the right thing to do as a member of the community and as a person, like you would want the same feedback from others. If you delivered something great, or if, and you should do the same for others for sure. And then you build lifelong friends. I've actually made some lifelong friends just out of something similar to that. So it can happen. Yep. No, there's people that I talked to on a weekly basis that I became friends with through the community. Back in 2009. I don't talk with Todd Clint that often, but I consider him a good friend and love my interactions with them. They're always funny. Mostly when I make fun of his haircut. There's nothing wrong with his haircut people. It's just one of those things. I'm like that, you know, that older brother teasing, you know, the younger sibling, it's that kind of thing. But anyway, well, Dustin, really congratulations again on your MVP. Thanks so much for your time. And for folks that want to get in touch with you, weren't you most active in the social circles? Definitely on LinkedIn. My following, maybe that's part of it. I have 18,000 followers on LinkedIn growing, which is crazy. I don't know how that exactly happened, but it happened. And that's, that's really where I'm most active. I'm not the biggest social guy, but if you see me out, especially in the, in a social setting, a real social setting, I'll be more than happy to come talk to you, but definitely LinkedIn. I'll tell you how that happened, Dustin, is because you never turned down a connection request. Pretty much. It seems fake. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm, I'm very selective with that. If there's, if it doesn't look like, if they're not somebody that's actually within the community, it's just like the generic and somebody selling something. And I say no to the vast majority of those. Yeah, but I get a two week waiting period in most cases though. And if, if it's still sitting there after two weeks, Oh, then I'll look at them. But yeah, no, for sure. It's a good one. All right. Hey, Dustin, well, thanks so much for your time. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. And so humbled to be a part of the community.