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Well, it's a beautiful morning and it's very great to be back on your screen. It's time for us to look through the papers this morning. We'll call it off the press. Ezekal Yaituk is on standby. He joins us via Zoom. Ezekal is good to have you join us once again. Always a pleasure and a delight. Thanks for having me. Alright, then let's start off with the leadership newspaper. It's been made available by our paper vendor. On the leadership in final outing, President Mohamed Buhari, 6th pardon for Nigerian pledges credible elections in 2023. You also find courts cannot force lecturers to work as students following, you know, the ASUS strike and all of the court injunctions. However, another headist is Supreme Court short of Eight Justice. That's what the CGN is quoted to say. And that's it this morning on the leadership newspaper. In tow from the leadership moving on to the punch this morning. Of course, a big picture right there, Nigerian leader, President Mohamed Buhari addressing the United Nations General Assembly. It's a long text of his speech made available by the State House. Interesting to see. Read story. IU must go PDP calls emergency meeting over Governors, others gung up. And wiki's camp or his gang is getting wider. It's getting wider. Right as to that, as we came back in the fire shade George, others pull out of presidential campaign. Southern PDP block says Artico failed to honor London agreement with the ravers governance camp. I cannot decide IU's fate. Vice President replies a grieved campaign council member saying probably he cannot just tell IU to step aside. It's not within his powers as a candidate to do so. More from the punch UNGA. Buhari promises credible polls seeks debt forgiveness. I think that's an interesting one. Also picture of Joe Biden addressing the United Nations General Assembly. A Pangasin Fingers military in 600,000 barrel daily stolen crude. Pangasin Fingers military in 600,000 barrel daily stolen crude. Quite interesting. Asu to appeal ruling, parents won't strike ended. Senate confirms a Rwola new CJN gets agenda. Court sets aside $47 million Paris Club or Paris Club payment judgment. Let's picture the Minister of Finance and Budget rightly so. Northern Christians will mobilize against Muslim Muslim ticket lower. Northern Christians will mobilize against Muslim Muslim ticket hoodlums.  We'll come out of that investigation. We hope something will come out. No post-conviction bill for Babayyesha caught rules and forces hack bank transfer. Transfer rather 523 million there to 225 accounts. So you have to check your balance to see if you're affected. So what I'll say to you. All right then. Let's quickly turn our attention to the Daily Trust newspaper. It talks about the saga that's going on with the PDP right here. Article to weakest camp. We trace your steps. That's what is boldly written on the Daily Trust. We won't participate in campaign under you. Reverse governance camp is quoted to say I mean what is in the camp. Does it also translate to mean that you know yes some week is speaking at the end of the day. A solution coming at the BOT chair is quoted to say in crisis will benefit APC others. That's what analysts are quoted to say. That's the obvious. As to reject court orders for resumption vows to appeal ruling. And that's another. Chakaral remains NMPP's candidate for Canada's central INEC is quoted. Buhari at the UN and leaving legacy of credible elections in Nigeria. That's okay. Just before we move away from that. That you have for excursity bank suspend international transaction on narrow debit cards. That's a lot. I mean what happens to a lot of persons? Kofi are you on this table? Those who like to shop. I'm not on the table are you? Well a little bit. And I know what I mean. Okay. It's really going to be very you know very very strange. The floor destroys 14,496 families in five Canon local government. According to NEMA. That's never. Are you all I confirm the chief justice? Chief George says Supreme Court's short of eight justices. Chief George. Now 29 dies as a dough records 225 lesser fever cases. That's the much on the daily trust. All right. The last paper for this segment. We have the nation PDP quakes as we case group ups out of articles campaign. And they predict that they would give prominence to that. Indeed. They've done that PDP quakes as we case group kicks ups out of articles campaign. Compensate IU must quit. Chairman would be forced out says a Tico. 95.4 million liters of crude oil stolen daily says government. Nigeria, US, Germany, others seal packed on food security. Senator confirms everyone last chief justice of Nigeria. Dignity is grit remittable at 62. Court order won't stop negotiation with our success in Gigi. In other words they can still have something out of court. I think the more you talk about the situation in the people's overcrowding party. Shackle dow notify Senate of defection to PDP hoodlums. So those are the headlines on the nation from the nation. Let's bring it as equally I took is a very well poised and placed position to talk about this situation the people's overcrowding party. What are your thoughts? I think we're seeing my hands are tight. My hands are tight. Hakkot at Wike's estate last night. So what are your thoughts on this, sir? Can you hear us architect Ezekiel and Gaito please? All right, well, Welsh would try to re-establish connection with him, of course, network issues, normal, you know, in these circumstances sometimes. And mercy, it's quite interesting what's going on in people's democratic party. You know, well, the nation in Separat day stepped it down a bit, moved the coverage to the smaller headlines, you know. But I just sort of predicted today they're going to come back to make it big. And the nation has not disappointed in front. So they're very predictable. In your face. But I don't blame, I don't blame that paper. This is the editorial direction. And every New Separat has a choice to decide what editorial direction they want to go in. Why not? They're not breaking any law, you know. But it's quite interesting. I keep saying Wike's camp is growing, you know, because I haven't seen but a judge in the Port Hakkot since this current you know, situation started. It's always been, I mean, Donald Duke should basically move his, yeah, I'm sure he should move his family to Port Hakkot for now because he's been there always. You know, but this is politics. I'm sure the gentlemen know what it takes. It takes a lot of personal sacrifice to get some political decisions go away. All right, is it clear? Can you hear us? I get it that you're back with us. Yes, I can hear you loud and clear. All right, all right. So yes, it seems Wike's pool is growing larger, wider. We know less a person than Bodegio joining in. He read the statement after the meeting, marathon meeting that stretched into dawn. But I think we're saying my hands are tied. I can't simply tell you to resign. I don't have that power. What are your thoughts on the current situation? Yeah, you know, that of the PDP is a little curious in the sense that the PDP largely wanted article. There's always a gap between election time and non-election time. Election time, there's attention focused on the candidates that they are selling, particularly the presidential. But you see, after election, which is a few months, then there is still party left for you to run. So having to manage the interest between party and election is something that most people don't understand how it works. And I've been a national chairman of the party and I've also been a candidate so I can feel the two sides of the divide. Now, right, right now, article is in a fix because he is not party. He is a candidate. But at the same time, this is not party time. This is candidate time. And what some people have done in the past, like President Goodlaw Jonathan, was when he was having a problem with the party, he decided to set up a parallel body to run his campaign, which was time. And when you are running your campaign, it's not mandatory, not obligatory for you to run within the party system or structure. That's why you are asked to set up your campaign council. Now, right now, article has its campaign council set up, but the demand of wiki is on party. So on one hand, article does not have control over party, but that is storytelling. The fact is that in a curious way, I do not know why article that I've known is being a deft political maneuverer. The day I've said this, and I say it again, the day that article calls IU to his house and says, my guy, please, I beg you, this thing is getting out of hand. I'm going to win this election. I'll give you this. Can you just do me the favor? The way that the BOT chairman resigned, IU can also resign. The constitution says that after you resign, the guy that is the deputy chairman takes over from you is also from the north, is a simple thing. He also resigns. When they both resign, they can now put in somebody there, after which the party can now appeal to the second person that resigned and say, please, can you come back? And the party's constitution can allow you to come back. So it's an in-house arrangement. I've said this time and time again, but there's something that calls article back and I really don't understand. And I think the worst mistake it would make, it's already a dent, a damage, because people are starting with this new wave of person not party. A lot of party lawyer lists seeing what is going on are starting to say, okay, maybe for presidency, I'll go this way. For governorship, I'll go this way. People are starting to, and there are three boxes that I've checked, and we need to understand. Box one is cash. People who just don't care, just pay me. But there's a box two, which is conscience, and then there's a box three, which is intellect. Between box two and box three, there are people who are starting to think those two boxes didn't use to really take part in election before. And they form about 70% of voters. That's why we always have below 30% turnout. But these people are being activated right now because of the confidence they have in the beavers and also other players coming in and becoming relevant. For the first time, we are now talking about a three-horse race, a four-horse race. In states, you can actually have a five-horse race. Do you understand me? So people are starting to pick and choose. So the issue of my party, my party is not as binding as it used to be. So within that context, I don't think that articles should take the risk of saying, well, if you like, if you don't like, I think they should just find a way of getting in-house. If they hire me as their consultant, I'll tell you, this problem will be resolved in less than three days. It's a simple thing. Bring down egos. Get down into the room, guys are beg. Let's get this. Somebody needs to play the fall guy. Somebody needs to stoop to conquer. And that person that needs to stoop to conquer is Mr. Artiku. And the earlier he takes this statement serious, the better for him. All right. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper. The president, President Mohammed Buhari seeks debt pardon for Nigeria and pledges credible elections in 2023, looking at the statistics that were released by the DMO. Debt profile is standing at 42.3 trillion naira. And that's a lot. Do you think that this is really a great move of the president right now in New York? Asking that our debts should be canceled. What do you make of this?  Really? Absolutely, yes. You see, the way you treat Nigerians should not be the way you think you can treat the international community. These are people who think, these are people who are on your case on a constant basis. You are telling me that you can't account for 400, 4,000 barrels of oil per day. You can't account for it. It just shows that you have no knowledge of accountability or you are so wasteful and you are asking me to forgive your debt. Number two, the lifestyle that you live, those people can tell you the number of people that have come with you on the trip. They can tell you the amount of money you have spent on the trip. They can tell you. If you think Nigerians don't know, people know. They can tell you how you've run your budget over the years. They can tell you what your priorities are. They can tell you that you that comes to say that education is the barometer for measuring the future or in fact, the campus that takes any society to the next level and then your children are out of school for the past seven months and what are they asking for? This will listen to you and when you come to international arena and you start to say these things, these guys just say, does this guy taking us for a fool? Do they think that we are Nigerians? So they are saying things that children say, but that's the way you put your house in order and when you go back there, you say education is such an important thing to us and we are so, we've done the best we can but because of this debt stuff, we cannot get much more. Please, can you just allow us, give up a phase, a kind of structuring where we can deploy the debt that we pay you to fix in the education sector or the power sector. We want to get the country going. There is an argument you put forward based on your antecedents that will get the good-minded people thinking. Please let them go back and see how we got the debt forgiveness under President, former President Obasanjo and my, my, my, my, my, it's very, very respected senior sister, Konjoy Wehala.  You would have started putting your house in order and by the time you reach there, they'll say this to be done. You say check, this one, okay, because we don't have this, that is the way that international community... A bit of a conversation here. You say that the international community is a brotherhood. I mean, if we have 195 countries thereabout, and so you have 183 who are members of the United Nation, you want to say 184 thereabout, then it's a community. I mean, it's like the brother's family, the world come together. And if you have a problem, there's nothing wrong sharing with a brother.  And so is there anything bad if the president is asking, you know, that debt cancellation should be considered, especially... You are taking me back two, three steps. I've said this before. The international community, they have the money that worked for money. But I'm saying that it's a brotherhood. That's my point. I mean, when countries come together. Let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, if you have two siblings, a brother and a sister, and this sister is very serious, takes academics really serious and everything. And then this brother doesn't want to go to school, is very recalcitrant, is very responsible and everything. And you have some money to send one of them to school. It's a brotherhood, it's a family.  And you tell your brother, if you just behave yourself and you show some level of interest in education, maybe next session, I can think about you. All right. We have to go home. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry to interrupt you, sir. But we're out of time. We should talk some more about some other issues. But we'll have you again soon. Thank you so much for your time and have a fantastic day. Always a pleasure. Have a lovely day, both of you. All right. We have a look at what happened today in history. We'll take that and when we come back, we dive straight into our first major conversation. Stay with us.


Hi, welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger and I'm so thrilled that you're At this podcast today and I'm interviewing somebody rather Extraordinary today whose name is Grandmother Floor de Mayo and I'm very honored that she is here with us Just to give you a preface the show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here and access consciousness You can find them at access consciousness calm I run a media visibility hub meaning that I help you with visibility I help you to write a highly engaging book either through group sessions or through private sessions I also run a program that guarantees your book becomes an international bestseller. I do all the work for you I help you to produce anthology books once you pick the theme and bring the folks on board to each write a chapter I do everything start to finish for your anthology and ensure its success And then I teach you how to be interviewed on radio and podcast so you get massive results I've got a free gift for you and if you'll go to Debbie daschinger comm slash gift You can get your templates and videos and all the how-to Do these visibility pieces? I'm talking about so you can start doing this right away for your business You're being and your message and get the visibility you deserve Debbie daschinger D e b b i d a c h i n g e r comm slash gift So this episode is about a healer and a Mayan priestess My guest is grandma the floor the mile. She's a curandera espiritu Which means healer by divine spirit and a Mayan priestess And she's one of the 13 granddaughters of the international council of 13 indigenous grandmothers A global alliance that teaches ancestral ways of prayer education and healing She was the youngest of 15 children and floor the mile was born in the big highlands of Central America on the Nicaragua Honduras border. She grew up in a family of traditional healers When she was four years old. She began learning the art of coranderismo in the traditional way taught From mother to daughter generation to generation Florida mayo is president of the confederation of indigenous peoples of the americas an organization That carries the wisdoms of traditional native people to global audiences She's a featured speaker on coranderismo at international conferences about traditional medicines She's also worked with native american and alternative western healers and her knowledge and healing skills are recognized By medical doctors nurses and medical institutions. You can learn more about her at Grandmother floor the mayo.com. It's grandmother f l o r d e m a y o dot com And we'll be talking about clearing our hearts for the new earth on dear to dream today And just a little heads up before we get started We had a computer snafu during this interview and a crash that actually lost the first 20 minutes of The interview so the sad thing is lost and with every great effort has not been able to be recouped But it gives me great pleasure to tell you that the final 40 minutes are completely intact And I will tell you this woman is brilliant and the work. She does very powerful So you will get to see the best of the best and I have retained that for you And uh in this just you know some of the things that we discussed about in the very beginning She opened with a prayer to the goddess ish and i'm sorry you'll miss that but she will close with another prayer You will learn What you would have learned in the first 20 minutes was that she's born under the sign of the seed in mayan astrology And that she is known for her work as being a care taker of the seeds And that came about from a vision that she received during the dialogue with the beloved mother And that the seeds need protecting and part of how she does that is put them in bundles and reaches out to newborn babies And uh she runs an organization called the path which is dedicated to the conservation And preservation of heirloom and heritage seeds the path prepared seed bundles to be given to the parents of babies being born And she's deeply connected to the divine feminine and uh florida myle uh obviously has its origins and in an idea about uh flowers and And nature so she was truly born with that name and it is so perfect So with that I wish you to have the most enjoyment Out of these next 40 minutes and enjoy this brilliant woman Grandmother florida myle. I'm debbie dashinger and as always. I thank you so much for tuning in staying with us Remember subscribe like leave a comment. I read all of them and bless you on your path So I just want to be absolutely sure to let everybody know that I I can't say that I'm Out there working in the field. I cannot say that I have studied. I've gone to school and have a degree and in in any of this but Ever since I was little We did have our own little gardens as children And I did grow as a child but As an adult what my job has become is to pray Because I hold the seeds in ceremony Can you explain what that means holding the seeds in ceremony? Well, I literally mean that I hold the seeds in my hands. I pray with them I do fire ceremony. I do water ceremony. I I You know build like little earth mounds and put them And hold them in ceremony. It's it's it's the way that We express ourselves um But that's that's what I do. I I pray with them and I listen I listen to messages that they might have And it's this incredible Beautiful world out there When I was little I remember Because I come from such a large family.  And so I brought my my hands out and my mother Puts in my hand this huge huge avocado pit And the avocado was like this big. I remember looking at it like like, you know, like for the first time And my mom said to me this is a baby a baby tree Hmm Wow, and I just I just fell in love With the magic of possibility that here I was holding An unborn tree And so I said to my mom, what do I need? For my baby tree So she said to me you need to find a place In the yard That it can get full sun You need to find that it has good soil And you need to uh not be too far away from the water That you're going to bring to it every day So my beautiful my beautiful beautiful beautiful avocado avocado tree Is still living it must be like 40 feet Big And it feeds Everybody including Animals And so she is just full of Full of fruit all the time and in Central America we have Four growing seasons Which is a huge blessing. Yes. I've always felt that way about pine cones. I've always had a place in my heart With pine cones because it has the seeds of all new beginnings It's actually this beautiful creature, right? The design is just spectacular as it is almost in Form and then to know how many seeds exist within it that can start to populate and create new trees Is I have always found that very moving Yeah, yeah and so It it opens It opens us as humans into this incredible wonder And magic that is happening right before our eyes And um And so my mom introduced it to me as a baby A baby tree and it was the sweetest thing It was so absolutely sweet It was one of the sweetest gifts that my mom gave me yeah And also I know that you are called a priestess. So I have a lot of fascination about that What is your role as priestess and tale and mean? I would love to know It's uh, it's a lot of work It's it's uh, you know just becoming that and being recognized Um, I wish I could share the list of things that has to be accomplished Yeah, and you have to pass pass these um tests Yeah, how difficult are the tests? The tests are pretty difficult.   You are a healer And the first night I was negotiating because I said I don't really understand what that means I may have people like that on my show. I may know people like that in my life were highly gifted but And they would not let up. Um, it really got so extreme Asking me to ask the shaman for a blessing and I finally would acquiesce and do what they asked and the shamans were just beautiful about it And when I came back From that experience, I I thought I don't know what to do with this information This is profound information, but I don't know where to go with it And I know people are highly highly gifted and they were so kind to say, you know, let us gift you with some experiences And let's see what comes out of this. So I'd really never successfully done past life regressions or anything like that and it wasn't exactly my thing although I fully believe in it And we had amazing success and I was able to see In one lifetime myself as a male I know exactly what I look like and where I lived out in the plains And I know the animals that were close by and what I lived in and what was in this structure that was made out of animal hide and twigs and things and It was very not twigs, but you know really strong branches and it was very profound It was very beautiful And then I saw another And another time when they worked with me I saw another lifetime that really surprised me As a Mayan priestess and she was extremely tall And very very very different than me Of course in looks but definitely in energy and personality And she was so powerful And during one of our conversations. I was making an assumption about her and How she came from here in this culture and working with the divine and She made it her name was Nedra and she made it very clear to me She was not from this planet that she came from somewhere else some other planet system to live Here and become this Mayan priestess And so I'm bringing this around because I still even with that profundity that information I never knew what to do with it except to say in whatever ways I am here to be a healer I I accept, you know, just show me Um, I was shown in another ceremony You know that I left music behind many years ago when I got into radio that I had been a professional singer And they said sing again sing play And so I am now in a band called the lions of lira And we do we play for all sorts of healing events and ceremonies and so forth We do medicine music I sing in Spanish and English and Lakota and Some of my words are curandera and a spiritu so I know these words And so I thought well, maybe that is my path of the shaman priestess healer. I accept whatever that is I didn't even know you were a Mayan priestess when I asked you to come on the show until I read your bio and there was something in me that said this It's not exactly full circle But this is a piece of the puzzle somehow to be talking to you about this Because I don't fully understand what it is for me But I know that to be with you and know that you already hold this high honor And it just feels like it's very meaningful to the story that I shared Absolutely I I would like to Just make a a small short comment about this To become a priestess it has to be written in the stars To become a priestess you have to do the work You have to walk with an elder. They have to recognize what you do and have done And the last The last how should I say a tangible Project that I did that I was guided by the holy ones Is the seed temple and the temples for humanity here on the land So we are called to to do things and to follow and To become to become dreamers to to to become the warriors of the light To be able to to go into the edge of the universe to Grab the vision the dream embrace it in your heart Come down into the physical world and manifest it into reality It takes all of that Being a good listener But it's all about recognition, you know, it's all about, you know, how the teacher recognizes you All right. Do you still know your teacher and work with your teacher? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. My my teacher is in his mid 90s And he's still physically here with us and I and I do You know, I still work with him. Yes, and the the the way that the teachings are in Central America is that once you have Become one with your teacher. There is no separation whether he leaves his physical body first or you do. There is always that interaction Even if not in the physical form, they will still come back. Right. Absolutely. Yes Do you have quite a team that is unseen but that you see and interact with? Absolutely. Yeah, so what I wanted to share with you about these experiences that You've had, you know through The medicine And What they have how you were honored Debbie We as humans I I'm convinced from Just experiencing a lot of things throughout my life that we don't have the capacity As humans to see The beings that we are outside of this physical body And so when the holy ones are honoring you and acknowledging you it's because that's how you are seen to them Where as you see me here as a grandmother With my shawl my glasses My multicolored outfit I don't look like that If you are to see me in spirit And I'll tell you what I look like Yeah, I'm absolutely Made of a luminous color Everything about me is luminous My skin my body my hair My eyes But I still look human. I don't have the same face But I am a humanoid But I'm luminous As in light body That's a good question. I cannot answer that Yeah And you see this in your dreams or you see this when you're awake or both It was an awakened experience. I had a luminous being Stand next to me. I was actually with my teacher in his home and I turned around To my left And I said to this being I said, who are you? And the being said to me flor de mayo I am you and you Are me and we are one and the same Smile that me Entered my body and I looked at myself Through my physical eyes and I was this luminous being And I hear you saying that I was being honored And being presented Like you alluded to in the beginning were so much More than what we see or know Oh, absolutely. Yeah, what we see this physical body this air this Everything it's not it's not who we are It's not who we truly truly are and it's not how the holy ones see us The invisible beings the beloved mother It's not that's not who they see what they see And if they called upon you by certain names then that's Who you are and you should you should how should I say accept it like I accept this luminous being Thank you so much for that. That's very very helpful really is And for you is a curandera a spirit to a divine healer of the spirit What's the importance for you of prayer and what's the importance of becoming one? The importance of prayers and the importance of becoming One talk about curandera a spirit to and how that manifests how you work with that Well, I have been a curandera a spirit to by birth I have recollections From the time that I was very very little And I share with people that I'm here in this physical body But I have one foot in The world of spirit and so When I pray I go in that place When I listen to people I go in that place when I do heal things I go in that place. I am always in and out of that place So a spirit means that you work with the divine and are guided by the divine And people come to you for healings and what kind of things do you work with them on? Um too numerous to mention um I have not had any too many people come to me physically in the last couple of years because of What being we've been going through with the cove it um, but um I am also able to communicate and dialogue through the computer and so I do healings You know Like like this. Yeah Right. So through zoom or skype or one of the right, right? Yeah, beautiful Okay And You've said this is a quote from you florida mayo You've said in this time of movement where celestial doors have opened We must do what we have been asked to do We are standing in the movement and the vibration of a sacred prophecy The prophecy tells us that consciousness is preparing the spirit of the feminine The spirit of the grandmother's it is in the prophecy that we shall walk into the light United from the four directions Sacred prophecy and its vibration standing in the movement. Can you talk a little bit about what that is? I've had many many visions in which We have uh, I've been shown For example, humanity being at a crossroads I have had visions where I have been taken into another dimension and I have been praised for praying Not only myself, but many many people So we were called to this place a group of people hundreds of people maybe more And these holy beings Said you know, we brought you here to say thank you Because your prayers are helping humanity You've also said quote my connection is not stronger than yours. We all just need to have a clear heart to hear the guidance For folks who maybe feel like I was not born exactly with those powers That grandmother florida mayo is describing But I would like also to be able to be functional in this area How can we clear our hearts so we can have connection and guidance If we want more of that, please Well, um, let's say for example today on the day of ish this day is an incredible day in which We clear anything All internal conflicts We put them aside. We ask for forgiveness And put it aside and start clearing our hearts. It's it's work It's work if we want to Do this We have to be Responsible for putting the work To walk you talk basically um Constantly clearing Your physical body To allow the light to Move through you and to receive the messages clearing your heart specialists Especially so that we can hear You know that that beautiful truth through the heart Are there any rituals or practices that would create that that would facilitate Clearing out our emotional physical All the vibrations of who we be so that we can really be clean and clear to receive guidance Uh, sure sure we can do that. Um debbie. Yes So, um in the beginning in my prayers, I call upon the heart of the heavens And the heart of the earth, okay And uh, we are told that we are children Of the heart of the heavens and the heart of the earth So if we imagine That the energy of the heart of the of the Heavens is above us And the heart of the earth is underneath our feet Okay What we do is that simultaneously we call upon The light of the heart of the heavens to come and enter Our our beings through our heads and at the same time we call upon The heart of the earth To move up our body from the from the earth And we allowed both of these energies to come and enter into the heart To clear the heart when the heart is clear then we can send this energy Out into the four directions And it is something that it it is um Very beautifully done and it does work Hmm beautiful, okay And I know that your knowledge your healing skills have been recognized by western medicine And doctors and nurses and so forth Or is there a story you can tell? Tell me more. I want to know in what ways have your healing skills been witnessed or revealed that they've seen and acknowledged That's um, that's a interesting um question So, um, I'm I'm just going to let's say for example one time. Okay I am on stage In this very very large Conference and I was guided to Ask for a volunteer and somebody came And I said to the person, you know, please You know lay here where the person could be seen and then I started to talk to the person and Mentioning to her that I was standing at her feet Okay And that I was going to start to move My energy so that I can do a diagnostic About her And so I am standing at her feet And at that moment I had like a clear picture of what was going on with her And I remember that I had like this mic on me And so did the person And so I said to her I want you to tell me Everything that you feel and everything that you see And so I was only there at her feet Okay And perhaps maybe you know with my hands like this I was very close to the soul of of her feet And then I was told To encourage her To talk to the audience on what was going on Okay And then I was instructed to move away from the the stage And basically what they said to me Was two things you can sit in the audience so you can go behind the curtain And so I made a choice of sitting in the audience because this way People saw that I was sitting down in the audience. Okay And the girl continued continued and she talked about her healing and she talked about Me doing this and doing that and able to go through um her body and concentrate in an area Where she was having a lot of discomfort Okay and in the discomfort I was able to relieve it release it And transmute it and turn it into light And so the girl Mentioned all of this And I am sitting in the audience And at towards the end I started I was instructed to go back, you know to um Uh on the stage and at this time I was like on One side of the stage whether it was the right or the left. I don't remember And so I stood there And um I gradually Started to speak to her very softly and uh saying to her that On the count of three. I wanted her to open her eyes And um after a while she kind of sat, you know, she was On the floor like on a mat or something and she sat down and she said to me for tomorrow. Thank you so much She said the pain is gone Okay And so there was this uh dialogue amongst the people sitting And the girl on stage Because I had nothing to do with anything And so it was just like this beautiful experience Not only for me To realize that we're not You know the healers were the the conduit of energy Connecting her to the to the universe And then you know, they said to me just move on go sit down somewhere, you know And so uh Be an obedient and doing what you're doing Are told, you know, I mean you just don't have second thoughts, you know You're out there in public not only that but it was being televised, you know So I don't know how many other people saw that And so the conversation was uh very intriguing because Later on I came back and I said hey The truth of the matter is That it's up to the divine, you know and our Connection With the higher source And this is how the healings are done Well, it sounds really really powerful for the audience to watch something like that being facilitated and to come through you and To create change in real time and certainly For the both of you that were engaged with that that's What a skill that is And I understand you have knowledge About crystal skulls. Is this true? I I'm I'm smiling and giggling You know, everybody has knowledge Everybody everybody the thing is You know for us to understand that the skulls does not translate to That it represents death okay, the The crystal skulls It is something that is taught in the beginning in maya creation story There was a grandmother who created everything For the for the mayan children the mayan people and when she was creating that there was nothing else but This the mayan World And so the grandmother is in the midst of creating and she had created everything including the children but At this moment she then called upon the lords of the four directions and And the lords are androgynous beings. They have both male and female names, but The lord of the west is known as lord kime And lord kime Is in the shape of a skull Okay, and how he became the lord became a skull Is when the grandmother called it became Down from the heavens as a shaft of light And this shaft of light Started to talk to the children and to teach the children The light gave the children the wisdom It counseled the kids the children And as the time passed this light solidified into crystal and at the top of the crystal there became a skull And so the skull was speaking And you could see the mouth like moving. Okay Now one of the children said to the skull The child said, um lord kime Why is it That You look like this premium And the lord kime said Uh-huh It's to remind you that here in this cranium Is The brain and the intelligence of your humanity But when you see it in a crystal cranium The crystal holds The knowledge of the stars When you as a human walk with a crystal skull You become a celestial Human a carrier of the celestial knowledge and also a carrier of The terrestrial knowledge And that is like the beginning of this whole thing But the skulls Hold this incredible What I would say the word magical energy And it takes me into incredible incredible places and I have to say to everybody I do not do plant medicine I understand Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was I have been born like this. It's been my life and And I you know, I I have experiences that are absolutely Undescribable And I just hold them in my heart So would you say based on the explanation you just gave That crystal skulls are actually a vessel of consciousness and knowledge of the past present and future Celestial as well as terrestrial Yo, absolutely. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Okay And this is an interesting question because you know, we started out talking about You were given visions of a planet that was very difficult to look at That was a possible outcome for this planet and Obviously, we can weigh in and say I don't know that we are doing that well at this time and we certainly can make better choices Where we are right now grandmother. Is it possible to birth a new humanity? What are the realistic possibilities? You know, it's very very possible And I have been shown I've been speaking about this for many many years Humanity is like this at a crossroads. We have walked up to this peak and Some are going here and some of going here Which side is going to be? The successful side That is part of the great mystery So are you saying that what the world is going through right now is actually a part of a new birthing? We are in the midst of that. Yes, we are Very difficult birth. I would say absolutely very very difficult We need a lot of your seed bundles. I think Yeah, seed bundles for the babies and see seed bundles for the Possible we hope healthy baby. We are here to birth right now Yeah, absolutely And to remember that You know holding seeds in your hands We are holding living breathing children And they need care Yes, absolutely. Yeah And we're fragile like that as well right now the planet itself It's condition everything is very fragile right now. Yeah So florida mayo, this is dear to dream. What are you next dear to dream? What are your future dreams and hopes? Well, that's a really interesting question the way that I run my life And this is like for real. Okay um I'm trying to walk my talk. I'm a human being um but I take a moment at a time and I am always in the moment and I I dream That the children of the future In my heart, I dream that they will see and be In this, you know, beautiful paradise as I did when I was a child That everything is going to get resolved here on the earth That we are going through these Reality changes That we have no place to go but to move forward and do the right thing And for folks who want to find you they can go to your website, which is grandmother florida mayo Dot com it's grandmother f-l-o-r-d-e m-a-y-o dot com Anything you'd like to say here at the end to the listeners and the viewers I'd like to um To be able to close with a short prayer I want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart All of my brothers and sisters children of the beloved goddess Beloved beauty Beloved sacred light Beloved spirit of the goddess ish Thank you Thank you beloved creator as you remind us constantly That we as humans both male and female must Walk in balance with nature We do it for the future generations And we do it because we are the seed carriers of the future generations In the name of all that is sacred beloved creator I thank you on this sacred day And I thank each and every one of you in the four directions. I bow to you I thank you much love and light Grandmother florida mayo, thank you so much for coming on the show. You did not disappoint and I'm just so honored to have this connection with you now Thank you, sweetie. Thank you so much. Have a blessed rest of your day Yes And I end today's show with this quote from grandmother florida mayo It has been prophesized that the women Will have the power to move and to be leaders and to bring people into the light You can subscribe to the dare to dream podcast to hear this weekly number one transformation conversation My guest next week is vivian chavette a galactic healer She's a multi-dimensional channel and ambassador who assists humanities transition Towards multi-dimensional consciousness vivian is internationally recognized For her inspirational life journey as an advanced octurion hybrid And if you're listening to the podcast and you would like to see us Go to youtube youtube.com slash debbie dashinger And subscribe there We love to have you join and like and watch this amazing series with these amazing guests And do not just dare to dream. I think today grandmother gave us A much bigger dream and for all of us who are here and listening to this the light workers the warriors of light As she called them it truly is our mission It's part of our job of why we came here So go do the work go be who you came here to be that big luminous self Thanks for joining us today


Hi guys, welcome back to this channel. This is Meeks from the Meeks creation. Accidents are reported among delivery riders almost dead. According to the latest updates, coming from the Ministry of Interior, the Traffic Department or the Directorate of Traffic that accidents reported among delivery riders almost every day. This proposes the Council of Ministers, including the Directorate of the Minister of Traffic to convey and have a workshop and get to plan a bit and find out ways of how to get to combat this kind of accidents that are happening every day among what you call the delivery riders. Remember that it is due to what you call the unprecedented rise in motorcycle accidents, serious injuries at the result of accidents, the given Directorate of what you call the Traffic Organize what you call the workshop of different concerning parties to see how better they can get to have solutions to deal out of these kind of accidents that are causing a lot of serious injuries on what you call the delivery bike riders on what you call the delivery boys using what you call the bias of one or the other. Remember when we are talking about delivery, delivery bikers or deliveries we have those people at delivery using what you call special cars using delivery cars and those that are using what we call the bias mostly which is very common and when you look at those ones we can't be able to make sure what you call the delivery companies we have for example Sonong, we have Tarabak, we have Refik, we have Fodab, the different delivery bike riders. However, as to the latest information that we have from the time of the COVID-19 pandemics where delivery became the only services to deliver people to their homes or to their order to have essentials because of the restrictions where people were to place a lot of opportunities we are being created for what you call a lot of what is grown up what you call the delivery or delivery people or delivery workers and very many people are recruited in that kind of case to take up the opportunities. However, when from the time the pandemic until now at least almost every day but the reports coming from the directorate coming from the directorate of traffic that at least every day they are accidents that have occurred or accidents that are received from what you call the delivery of the bike riders and mostly this of course what you call serious injuries to the bike riders including some of them losing their lives or some of them losing their parts of the body and some of the notifications or something that has been notified that mostly of these people most of these bike riders they have been getting these accidents maybe because of being so much focused on mobile because remember it's the mobile that has to give the directive at the end of it all they find themselves being knocked out by the speeding cars on the highways or being speed cars at one way or finding them making what you call making mistakes on the road which leads to them losing their lives or getting what you call serious injuries so this prompted the directorate the traffic to organize a workshop including all the consult parties on the road and the delivery pipe of it all to see how better they can combat the accident how they can try to deal situations in their own capacities or try to educate the people such that you do not have the serious casualties or have serious serious illnesses being done one over the other so that is the latest update that we have around the group and if you are doing what you call delivery work or you doing delivery work still also it is a responsibility of you to take care of yourself and to know that as you try to ride going fast in any world then know that even know that you are the only person that knows that road that anyone else that is riding on that road to make sure that you can take care of yourself because we all need life and we all came here to earn a living for our families and the rest have to see how better we can improve ourselves so it is also very good for you if you bike rider and if you deliver rider using a bike also to take care of yourself and to know that anything can happen on the road but how to high take those precautionary measures to see that I move safe, I deliver safe and I have been there for my family in the same world thanks so much for coming back this year by the way it makes and if it is your first time to come across this channel please consider supporting this channel by subscribing and don't forget to click the notification because it is very important for you to get up this year after the video thank you so much see you again in the next video


to the presentation on taking Drupal commerce to market.  Well, I never really understood, like, if the pig was going to market to be slaughtered or to buy groceries, do we? We'll pretend that's not a metaphor for anything. I'm Ryan Zarama, the CEO of Centaro and creator of Drupal commerce on Drupal 7. Before that, I was working on Uber cart at a restaurant equipment sales company in Louisville, Kentucky. And out of that grew, you know, what we have today as Centaro, formerly known as Commerce Guys, as Drupal commerce led by Boyan Javanovich, the new platform lead and maintainer of Drupal commerce on Drupal 8. And as we've matured as a company and as a project, one of the next things we've had to consider is what does it mean to give voice to our work in a very crowded, well-funded, competitive marketplace where we think that what the Drupal community has to offer is at least as good, if not better, than what the competition has to offer. So that's what this session will be focused on. It'll be equal parts road map, business strategy, and then just a little bit of forecasting where we think Drupal commerce has a future that will provide long-term sustainability for the project. One of the things that we can ask a lot at DrupalCon Amsterdam before this in Seattle is why did you change your name? What's the deal? Why was Commerce Guys bad? You know, it has really good name brand recognition in the marketplace and all these things that I'm very, very well familiar with because we do have to make money to live and all those contact form submissions, like they don't know who Centaro is whenever I email them back from a Commerce Guys contact. But we thought it was very important once we separated from platform.sh to reset our posture toward our project because if you think about going out and buying software, you don't go to a software vendor or a small team of freelancers or whatever and ask them to give you what they have to offer. They say, well, it's called something else and it's part of something else. And by the way, if you do business with us, we have a different legal entity and we have this, that and the other three websites that you should go to learn what it is that we have to offer you. Instead, everywhere else in the e-commerce ecosystem, you go to a vendor to learn about a project and find somebody to help you build it. And it's a very clear story. Somebody is giving an authoritative voice to a software project or application that they're then selling or implementing on behalf of a merchant. And so this shift from Commerce Guys to Centaur for us is mostly about resetting our relationship toward our project to be its open-source software vendor, which is very common in other areas, right? We've all maybe bought a GitLab license or a MongoDB license or whatever it is that you may be out there purchasing. It's a very familiar story. And what we're trying to do is basically bring support, planning, and elevating partners that merchants are actually looking for so that they give us, you know, a glance when they go to a big trade show or an analyst and try to find out what they should be using to drive their commerce strategy forward. And whenever I say, well, we want to take this project to market, you might respond, well, isn't it already there? Aren't there already people today building big, amazing sites, small, niche sites, all using Drupal Commerce? And the answer is undeniably yes. Almost 60,000 merchants are using Drupal Commerce. So that does prove that it is in the market. I think the question is just what do people in the market think of it? Is it just a project for hobbyists? Is it just a WooCommerce style thing that you add on to a Drupal if you already have a site like you would add a WooCommerce on to a WordPress? Like how do people think about us is important? And I will say that Commerce 2.x has been growing well. Boyan recently updated the stats for me because I think my last slide until last night said this was around 8,000 sites, but in the last month and a half since I've used these, we've added another 1,500 sites. So we're now up to 9,500 stores running Drupal Commerce on Drupal 8 for about 50,000 stores total according to Drupal.org, processing probably over at this point $2 billion annually through Drupal-powered online stores, which is really cool. There aren't that many projects in the world that achieve that kind of scale. So I think that what the Drupal community has done and what we've been able to accomplish just through this small piece of what makes Drupal Commerce, Drupal Commerce is really incredible. And other people think so as well. PayPal often will reiterate to us that they process a tremendous amount of transactions through Drupal Commerce-powered websites and they ask us what they can do to help us make the platform even better, which is why they exhibited with us at DrupalCon Seattle and have been really great partners to help us continue growing Drupal Commerce. And please don't read this slide. This is such a conference faux pas. I have half a book up on the screen, but this will be in the slides so you can review later on or use it yourself when you're trying to explain what is Drupal Commerce to prospects or merchants that it is a complete framework. And this is important because I was speaking to the CEO of another Drupal company recently who was fairly new to the community, had been brought in to help a company grow. And in his mind, the commerce modules were like maybe a shopping cart in a checkout form, not an actual holistic e-commerce framework that provides everything from product catalog management through to shopping cart and checkout management and fulfillment order management and on and on. So the fact that we do offer a complete framework is very important to point out because I think that we need at least out of the box to be as good as Shopify out of the box. And what makes Shopify really special is their massive app store and their million merchants and their $100 billion in transaction volume that drives continued investment in their platform. They're huge, but the core Shopify product is actually achievable with Drupal and Drupal modules out of the box, but we're not quite there yet. For example, our reporting system still needs to be improved. Or if you think about the shipping module, we're able to partner with the Danish Agency ADAPT to develop improved shipping module over commerce 1.x that included things like packages and multiple shipments per order and that kind of stuff. But we didn't actually have the bandwidth at the time to really drive it through to completion. And so we hang it around Boyan's neck like a badge of shame. Just kidding Boyan. So we have things like the shipping module, the recurring framework. We're there, we were able to invest a lot by partnering with Torchbox and we got a really great API for managing recurring subscriptions and maybe not a really great user interface. So it's obvious that there are things that need to be on a roadmap that we need to be planning for, collaborating with more partners and more agencies to produce. But the target in mind is just like base level out of the box, Drupal commerce ought to be able to provide the same base and core feature set as a Shopify. All right, fair enough. Now one of the ways that we get there is by also seeking out technology partners who will invest in the platform because that's happening on these other platforms. So for example, I'm not sure who is familiar with Shopify's business model. They're a traditional software as a service. They obviously charge a monthly fee for their core platform. Then they charge an exorbitant fee for every plugin you want to add to it. And then they keep whatever 30% just like Apple of whatever that app store sale is. And that's how they grow their app store revenue. But they also white label stripe and take a cut of every transaction. And if you don't use Shopify's payment gateway, well then you have to just give them an additional percent or something of every transaction that comes through your store. So it's complicated, right? Because you may not even know how much you're going to have to give or pay Shopify for the pleasure of using their service when you first start your company. And they want that amount to grow over time, even if the core value they provide the business doesn't actually increase. But what makes that happen is the help of their friends, right? If they didn't have the stripe partnership, that revenue opportunity wouldn't even be available to them. And so it's harder for us as an open source community to kind of get on their radar to start to help them understand how big we are, how distributed we are. In fact, one of the first things that PayPal asked me when we started talking about partnering to improve our European feature set, right? So think 3D secure 2 and strong customer authentication. They often say, well, can you give us a list of merchants and what country are they in? And I say, cool, well, there's about 50,000 online stores using Drupal commerce. And I think I know about 50 of them. Will that be enough? Because of course it's open source software and there is no email wall or paywall that you have to pass through to start building with Drupal commerce. You just compose or install and go. You're done. So reaching out to them and getting them involved and helping us grow and contribute to the success of Drupal commerce has been huge. If it weren't for that, if it weren't for PayPal and authorize.net and Avalara, like whenever we separated from platform.sh, it just wouldn't have worked. We needed their support. They gave it to us. And now we've been continuing to find new and more partners to expand our reach, expand our audience. And it's fun to see what happens there. Additionally, the pace of core development isn't slowing down. So thanks to those partners, thanks to our own professional services, Boyan is able to work full time on Drupal commerce and then the rest of the team contributes as well. Maybe about the equivalent of another full time person just working on the core commerce framework in major contributed modules. So if you think about recent changes in core, commerce 2.14 was released with a full address book feature set both on the checkout form and user account interface, but also on the admin interface. And this is something that we never even had before in commerce 1.x. So it's really cool and you should check it out. And the next thing to come to bear there will be the whole like profile copying. So my shipping is the same as my building or vice versa, which is complicated stuff. So it's, it's, it seems like a simple feature on a slide. Like, oh yeah, we added address book support. How long could that have possibly taken? Does anybody want to hazard a guess? No, no brave souls. How many weeks do we think it would take to add an address book to core? All right. One. I would love that. Yeah. No, it, it took us months because when you think about what does it mean to have a core address book feature, when you have to think about, well, what is my data model for customer profiles? What's an optimal user experience that will be rational for most users of the software? How do we roll out an upgrade path that doesn't suddenly completely change the checkout form for 9,500 people? What happens when you can no longer uninstall a module because of a Drupal core bug? Like you start to hit all these things. And I think when it was all said and done, I don't, I don't want to speak for, for boy, and he knows the real numbers, but it took us some months of development. And it's not that we regret it, but that means that while we were investing in retooling and rewriting certain parts of our core framework to add what seems like a simple feature, we also did a lot of, you know, housekeeping and refactoring that was essential to now continue to build on that success. And so that's, that's why like sometimes it doesn't seem like things are happening, but really a lot is going on under the hood. And you can just read the commit log and see all that's changing. Additionally, Commerce 2.15 will come out in the near future and include full core VAT number collection and validation against the EU's web service for validating VAT numbers. It's really cool. We already have full VAT support in the core framework thanks to our tax library, which is a standalone PHP component that we use in the tax module to calculate and assign VAT to orders. Now, you also can support the B2B requirements of tax exemptions. And this was thanks to the sponsorship of our friends at Factorial who sponsored that work along with the development of the Commerce Invoice module, which Jonathan has been working on for the last couple of months. So these features are continuing to make Drupal Commerce more capable in more markets, right?  And so that's important to start to expand our reach into more markets, but also just to continue to improve the core feature set as well. Other things that are happening are all of our core maintained payment and gateways from technology partners like Authorize.net and Stripe and PayPal. They all had to be updated to support strong customer authentication, which I'm sure if you've been managing e-commerce sites in Europe, you're probably well aware of the pain of having to make sure everything is up to date for 3D Secure 2 and nothing goes down, whatever the switch flips and the site stays online. Finally, we're partnering with other agencies like New Media who want to kind of take on ownership of the Commerce Reports module so it's more capable out of the box. The best we were able to accomplish with the time that we had was introducing what we would call like a denormalization engine into the module that lets you take a transaction and create one big record of everything about that transaction so you can create better database queries to generate reports. Because our experience in the past was using views to do all of that on the site would just tank a site as soon as you had any sort of appreciable scale on the website. That was just an unusable solution. So we got Commerce Reports again to the API completion phase and now New Media is partnering with us to bring the user interface to bear. All right, so lots of things are still happening and I'm sure I'm missing things but you can come by the booth and Boyan can fill you in. So it's not slowing down and one of the things that's very exciting to us is that thanks to the Drupal 9 strategy which you've heard Dries talk about, you've read about on Drupal Planet, you've seen in the documentation Drupal 9 will just be Drupal 8 minus deprecated APIs and features. So the leap from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 is not significant. In fact Drupal Commerce is today Drupal 9 ready. We don't use deprecated functions. Boyan is very good about chasing updates to core to make sure that our framework is always getting rid of those deprecation notices as soon as possible and I think was it Mike Lutz who contributed a significant amount of his own time to also help make sure that the module package was ready for Drupal 9. What this means is that we don't have to pause everything we're doing for another three years to rewrite it all again. So from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce on Drupal 7 was a complete rewrite. It took years to accomplish and then Drupal 8 comes out and guess what? We had to put all of our forward progress on hold again for another three years to rewrite everything an object-oriented PHP for Drupal 8 and so we started that initiative I think it was in 2014 we had a sprint in our office in Paris and then it was at DrupalCon not Dublin at Dublin we had a beta and then at Vienna we finally had the full release so it took us a full three years where all of our competitors were continuing to actually expand their feature set grow their partnerships present a better marketing message to the market and so like for me that's like just super exciting that that as a company we actually can continue to think about forward progress and new development and new features and new partnerships and not have to go back and think okay well how would I rebuild all of this again with a different paradigm and that's I mean that's soul-crushing work Boyan used to be six feet tall he used to just get all right so yes Drupal commerce is in the market but it's complicated right so we are there we have a great story we have had great success but it's complicated because if you go to an analyst if you go to a trade show that's just not in the Drupal community and start talking about Drupal commerce I think we've been asked before is that like is Drupal like a is that a medication are you are you are you building websites for for medicines and for other random things you're saying no no this is this is the e-commerce software well it's just not even part of the conversation or people think oh I used Drupal before for a blog or I had a horrible experience with Drupal before on Drupal 5 whatever and so so they don't even they don't even like they're compelled by Drupal commerce in the same way that a lifelong Drupal developer would be I think wow this is great I I have a complete framework to do build any kind of e-commerce site I want with Drupal because I already love Drupal and it's been my entire career but for people that aren't there with us it's not even a part of the conversation so providing e-commerce for Drupal users right if that's the goal that's that's still a niche that's that's a very small chunk of the market again I talked about the numbers that Shopify has recent or earlier over a million stores over $100 billion in annual transactions passing through their system and they actually know them all right because you have to give them a credit card and an email address and so they're able to continue to grow their platform solicit feedback from their users understand how to improve their features that provide great support all these things that were handicapped at additionally software strategies just how do you do e-commerce continue to multiply so Rich Jones's session yesterday from and Vika was all about evaluating the ways that just one company implements e-commerce and they had like five different strategies that they use whether it's just a full-stack Drupal or a full-stack Magento whether it's pairing up Drupal with Magento or Drupal plus big commerce whether it's using a different technology entirely I think they have one or two silliest projects in their portfolio like like these things like all the strategies are multiplying based on merchant requirements and so on and we we do want to understand and communicate where is Drupal best used and we want to actually get that message out to a market where proprietary vendors and big SaaS vendors dominate the press so we went to to IRCE the last couple of years this is the internet retailer convention and expo in Chicago Illinois and it's a massive massive trade show like like it's just it's hard to even communicate like just hundreds of vendors in this massive city block wide convention hall and we had like our 10 feet behind this really big pillar that completely obscured us from view I felt really good about that sponsorship but but being there it's just incredible to see just how well other companies are able to execute their marketing message because they have a single authoritative voice focused on pushing that forward so it's about it's about road map it's about use cases it's about strategies and that's something that that we know that we have to be able to provide better for Drupal commerce ideally so that then Drupal agencies have that kind of authoritative voice behind them that helps them go and convince merchants then to trust them not just with their e-commerce software but also with their digital strategy centered around that e-commerce software and everything else that you do to help make an e-commerce company a success finally I'll just point out that headless commerce which of course is a big part of our road map and and I think a lot of Drupal's strategy is a trending but still a far from settled market so some of these companies on the screen like they won't even be here in five years some of them just raised a hundred fifty million dollars to continue pursuing a headless commerce strategy you know so what we have to think about is what is it that privileges Drupal commerce over against an elastic path is it flexibility is it license and community what is it that privileges us over e-commerce tools is the fact that we are tied into a CMS and can warehouse both content and product data in the same back end what is it exactly that that gives us that that leg up on the competition we're thinking about these things and we have a plan to get where we want to be so of course we know that the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time or please don't eat elephants in real life if we want to get down a long road and reach a long destination then we have to just think one step at a time what is it that's going to get us where we want to be obviously we have to continue to close gaps with our nearest competitors I already mentioned that it's what I call like the Shopify baseline or you might consider if you're just working content editing initiatives we often refer back to the WordPress baseline we have to be able to offer at least a media library out of the box right if we want to compete with WordPress for the content editing experience well same again for the commerce experience we have to be at least do what they might be able to offer on the checkout form or on the product page or whatever so we're focused on closing gaps and the main way that we've been able to do that as a company is through customer funded development and so we actually put Matt Smart into the Splash Awards this year because they're a great case study of a company that not only adopted Drupal commerce in-house and built what they built themselves but then they grew it to a massive scale that we rarely hear of in Drupal commerce right over tens of millions of dollars in annual online sales small dollar value transactions right you don't you don't buy a thousand dollars of groceries at a time most people unless you're buying just a tremendous amount of bacon I suppose so they have they have thousands of orders an hour perhaps that are coming through this system Drupal commerce handles it all but the way that it handles by going fully headless and getting Drupal's rendering API and forms API and the bloated form cache out of the conversation right we started to create for them direct javascript components that plugged into Drupal commerce resources on the back end and now that they've they've arrived where they are and continue to think about opening in new markets increasing their sales volume in their existing markets one of the things that they're very happy to do is generously give back to the Drupal community because they know they've got so much from Drupal they want to be sharing back with the rest of us and with the rest of you their API resources or you know the rest resources that power their back end API their improvements to the clona checkout integration their improvements to bringing store overrides to the framework this is a recent feature where if you have a multi store site you can actually override individual product or product variation fields on a poor per store basis right so on my finished site versus my Swedish site maybe it's a different image or a different price or whatever that's that's that's a new feature that we've just developed all of this they're giving back and so that that lets us put multiple people from our core team on improving the feature set and closing those gaps so we really value people like Matt Smart were very appreciative of their contribution to Drupal and they were recognized by the splash awards you know as a model worth following and we want to see more Matt Smarts right so very very appreciative of them and then the next step was to bring you know close those feature gaps and then just help people find the answers they need when they have questions because one of the things that's that's almost distressing for us as core maintainers of the module is to hear that a large user has stopped using Drupal commerce because they couldn't make it scale they couldn't get a feature to work or whatever and we know that if they just talked to us we could have solved their problem in 15 minutes or less and that's not even an exaggeration I have specific use cases in mind where we came in after the decision was already made to re-platform I will go Drupal 8 and Magento because that's what you know a consultant told me to do and and we say well you know you didn't have to do that at all if you would have just changed one setting in your MySQL database all of your lock weight timeout errors would have gone away right so not to be too specific into not like it hangs over my head like the one that got away so we don't want that story to happen again right and we also don't want people to be afraid to touch Drupal commerce because they're concerned they may not be able to find support like we're there but sometimes a slack channel isn't enough also a slack channel disappears every week so there is no history there's no benefit from long-term you know question and answer generation and so that's of course the message at the booth for this show which was the launch of Centaur support but it's not just enough to talk about support we also have to be talking about roadmap if you're in the process of trying to convince somebody to use Drupal commerce you have to be able to tell them what's coming next or if they need a feature you have to be able to tell them when they can expect that to arrive if it's in development or if they're going to have to expect to invest in developing it if it doesn't exist yet and so we know that roadmap is not a dirty word but it's not something that's that's easy in an open source environment to develop and project and commit to and attain and so on and so forth so to date we've had an issue in the issue queue that Boyan keeps up to date with initiatives and with things that are coming down the pipe but but we have to do better than this because that's not something you can ever show to a potential customer you can't say oh yeah there's a great roadmap here look it's in this issue queue on drupal dot no that's d r u p okay and you know what let's not talk about um so we know we have to do better than this but in order to do that uh one we have to actually have time to step back and plan and then we have to have somebody whose job it is just to make sure that this is being coordinated so that when new media or drop solid or factorial or 1x internet or whomever it is comes to the table to join us in advance in the project they know how to get plugged in and so that's why we've been working closely with our friends at Circle Web Foundry over the course of the last year and I now arrived at a point will they be joining us into Centaur to help drive forward things like roadmaps so Minya from their team will become the product manager for Drupal Commerce helping Boyan prioritize and deliver various features according to a schedule in a way that we haven't been able to in the past Ivan from their team is a great front-end developer and is responsible for the Belgrade theme so we'll continue to improve the Belgrade theme that we use as our well I thought I had it that's uh not get too far ahead of myself that we use as the current Drupal Commerce demo so being able to produce things that make it easier for you to show off what Drupal can do just with a quick demo site or for merchants that want to start themselves and grow like a MatSmart to have a better starting point is very important to the success and growth of the project additionally um as a company we're not stepping back from any sort of free support channel we still are very active in Drupal Slack but again very sad to see that every time a question gets answered as soon as Drupal Slack hits its 10,000 message limit that knowledge goes away forever um so we've been we've begun working with Stack Overflow to create a private Stack Overflow team where we can start to collect all of the Drupal Commerce related questions and put a financial model behind it so that we can afford to put people dedicated on answering questions in a guaranteed fashion right and you have to be able to take that to a merchant and say look if you do adopt this piece of software not only can I just go hop into an IRC room and find an answer maybe but I also can trust that the vendor if I'm unable to find the answer myself will directly give me that answer so this is the message we're trying to help people bring to the market and I'm hearing even from uh from agency owners here at DrupalCon that that's actually important to winning new business and the lack of that kind of uh infrastructure behind the project has been a liability so we're closing that gap as much as we are closing feature gaps finally we're focused on easing new user evaluation and onboarding excuse me has anybody tried to install Drupal Commerce for Drupal 8 has anybody failed at doing that yeah I have and you know I shouldn't but it's it's not uh it's uh it requires a different mindset right you have to start to learn a new set of tools you have to understand what it means to use composer and then you have to understand what it means to deploy a composer developed project into a web environment and manage it there it's a different paradigm there's a lot to learn and a lot of different moving pieces that sometimes I don't actually know what composers are doing on the command line and then I just get spit out an error message and I think oh that's that's cute um and so the the question is what can we do to ease new user evaluation in a new environment where the classic distribution model no longer applies people are building Drupal 8 distributions but our model for commerce kickstart 2.x isn't the right model for Drupal 8 a demo store that's somewhat inflexible and hard to work with in production that that's kind of a a waste of our resources and in fact I mean it took us at the time I mean almost a million dollars of investments in 2012 through 2014 to develop what became commerce kickstart and that was just a commerce guys project done to elevate the the presence of Drupal commerce in the market because it looks like an e-commerce application but at the end of the day it created liabilities it created technical debt and things that that didn't make it ideal but we've learned from and now used to improve the core of Drupal commerce itself on Drupal 8 and so with the new model we will actually to create a project template and composer so with one command line you can do composer create project and it's a Drupal commerce demo and it just installs and I mean if using something like ddev on your local in machine for development environments it's literally like two command line commands and you suddenly have your local machine turned into a full Drupal commerce demo that looks like Belgrade this is online at demo.commercekickstart.com right now but also if you just want to give it a whirl and have an actual admin login we've partnered with simply test.me the testing web interface for Drupal modules to get a little Drupal commerce demo button down there in the corner and with one click that will also install the entire Belgrade-based demo and give you a full admin login so you can actually go into a pitch and say hey let's you want to see what's behind the scenes in Drupal commerce cool let's let's check it out you click the button a minute later you have an environment that's hosted on tugboat thanks to lullabot that lets you log into it as an administrator and show them everything that Drupal commerce has to offer out of the box it's really cool and it really changes the game for for what it looks like to to begin to help people understand and evaluate Drupal commerce additionally we know that that not everybody out there wants to adopt Drupal commerce themselves right there's still plenty of people a whole unaddressed segment of the e-commerce industry that just want to pay somebody money to get the thing this is why people pay Shopify plus two thousand dollars a month just to get their foot in the door and then thousands of dollars more a month to load it down with apps that will make it do what they want it to do sorry and so our vision for where we see Centaur growing with Drupal commerce and bringing sustainable long-term revenues to the project so we continue to develop it and promote it and grow the project is to pursue this sort of idea of a managed headless commerce instance right so Drupal commerce as a service there's a few steps we have to take to get there first but the idea is that by starting with just continuing to develop Drupal commerce and adding a small support model around it we're able to monetize our expertise as module developers and our experience and to take that money to then just continue to reinvest in growing the platform for everybody that's great i mean just a small percentage of Drupal commerce users coming to us for commercial support completely changes the nature of our company it adds multiple boyans to the project and and what he's been able to accomplish alone is amazing but if we had five people like him working with a product manager like Minya behind them all uh the the scale of our development would be incredible and you've seen that happen in core initiatives like layout builder media library what it looks like when you get multiple people working on the same thing with some sort of sustainable financial model behind it bigger things can happen and that's what we wanted to do when we think about our technology partnerships and adding like a Centaur cloud for hosting Drupal commerce in a managed environment then we're talking about monetizing what merchants are already buying to build the product so in other words nobody has to pay paypal more to use the to use paypal on Drupal commerce but because those people are using paypal pay pals happy to invest in the continued growth of Drupal commerce so it doesn't cost the end user anymore it actually doesn't cost you as an agency anything to include something like that into a pitch but by virtue of using those tools or if we're able to create like a Centaur cloud with a hosting partner by virtue of using those things you pay no more but you are contributing financially to the continued development of the project and then finally our sort of holy grail when we think about reproducing mat smart case studies and having more managed headless commerce instances that drive development to the product that's kind of monetizing our vision which is thinking about what it looks like to have an actual open source software as a service headless commerce server in the market something that's still purchasable but also customizable something that's usable just as a REST API but also still Drupal behind the scenes if you need to add an additional repository to your instance one of the things that that that's uh oh shoot lost the thought never mind or say oh man it's gone oh I got it back one of the things that I often think about when we look at Drupal usage statistics is it's easy to look at the usage statistics and think wow there's still like 700,000 Drupal 7 sites and despite Drupal 8 being out for years now there's only half as many Drupal 8 sites and that causes some people concerned because they think that that Drupal whatever that is is shrinking when in reality what's happening is people that are on Drupal 7 and they're just running small sites blogs brochures whatever they don't have a reason to upgrade to Drupal 8 and if they do upgrade they're looking at it as a complete replatforming because Drupal 8 is completely different from Drupal 7 and at that point considering well should I just be on a hosted service should I be going to Squarespace or Wix or WordPress.com or whatever it is right so so those users probably aren't coming back okay we have to we have to acknowledge that and think about what it means to have higher value projects but fewer of them it's a different kind of community but one thing that I see happening is that future Drupal users will never touch Drupal at all right future Drupal users will interact with Drupal as an API server but there'll be JavaScript developers in front and developers who are used to just consuming REST APIs and don't really care what's under the hood but they'll be benefiting from what we're all doing as Drupal developers and the Drupal community and so that's who we're thinking of when we think about who's the person that's going to buy a fully managed headless commerce server well it's it's it's an organization that manages hundreds of websites and wants to put direct consumer e-commerce on each one of them but thinks it would be crazy to take a hundred Drupal sites and suddenly add an additional like highest security conscious set of modules to them and try to manage a hundred individual e-commerce websites instead they could have one headless centaur commerce server if you will and then connect each one of their existing Drupal sites or non-Drupal sites to it over an API and again this is the exact same model that MatSmart uses they use React on the front end it's a completely standalone React application powering MatSmart.se and MatSmart.fi and a React native app powering their mobile like that that's the model that we see really finding purchase you know in the market in the future and that's what we're pursuing and that we think will drive the you know the long-term sustainable development of the project forward so if you're interested in that vision contributing to it learning more about it please stop by the booth we'd love to talk to you about it or anything that we've talked about in this presentation and last but not least we'll just say but why why even talk about monetization because we're here to think about open source and code and so on and the simple answer is just that getting to market takes money and and we want the project to last for the long haul we want to be able to keep doing what we're doing because we enjoy our jobs and we enjoy one another and we enjoy the community but in order to keep doing that we do have to be thinking about this at least and it's not your job to solve that for us as a company there's a project but this is what we're thinking and we do think that there's opportunities in here to partner with all of you to make it happen and for all of us to benefit from the result and that's all I have to say about taking Drupal Commerce to Market thank you for joining us and I'm told by this monitor that we have a minute and a half I'm happy to field questions but they must be questions that are answerable in less than a minute and a half a little hot potato that's fine I've probably talked to a lot of you already in the booth we'll be happy to see you there thanks again for your time