Hey everybody, welcome, welcome. This is JSA's Fast Forward, where we broadcast live on LinkedIn. I'm your host, Jamie Scott-Ukataya, CEO of JSA. And joining me is my fabulous co-host, the right, the talented, the amazing, Dean Green, Brian, Executive Vice President of JSA. Jamie, you forgot to mention how handsome I am in the intro. Yeah, next time. Definitely, I'm gonna work it in. If we can work in, then I'm a very good dancer as well. That would be awesome. Yeah, I'd be pushing it. I think I've seen your dance moves, Dean, sorry. Yeah, okay, let's go ahead and get to the news. If we have to, Jamie and I have been sifting through the headlines for the last month, and here are, and here we are to bring you the stories from the world of tech, telecom, and data center. We sure are. And we should say there is so much going on in the industry these days. We are back guys. It is the event season that we've been waiting for, ITW just around the corner, Data Cloud Global Congress wrapping up as we talk. Yep, so just make sure that you are checking out JSA TV for the latest news and interviews from all of the big events. Yeah, and you know what? One big piece of news coming out of Data Cloud in Monaco, as we speak, amazing stuff there. Prime data centers taking home the Data Cloud Global Award for excellence in data centers. Ah, Data Cloud separates the nominations into different geographical areas and Prime to Come Award for all of North and South America, huge award. Absolutely, and Zenlayer won the Data Cloud Global Award for edge enablement. That's just two of the 16 companies recognized at the awards ceremony. So lots of great awards given out to a lot of well-deserving companies. A great night recognizing many of JSA's clients to be very honest with you. And industry innovators and leaders. So congratulations everybody. And I'm so proud to say JSA was there in the audience at that awards ceremony. Thank you to our team, Barb, Amy, who traveled so far to get there and be with our clients, taking those photos, sharing the wins on social as they happened live and getting our clients news also reported on JSA TV video interviews. And they were looking great doing so. I know some of those photos that are coming in from Monaco, Amy and Barb look absolutely stunning and are getting some great, great video while on site. But aside from Monaco, don't forget Channel Partners in Las Vegas, which took place just before that. I wasn't at Channel Partners this time, but I know that there were a number of JSA's that were and they were all keeping very, very busy while on the floor there at Channel Partners. They certainly were. Many of you guys know Buffy and Candice from JSA, our team rocking it out in Vegas of course, just one week, two weeks ago, ah, crazy busy month. And all those Channel Partners headlines happening from the floor, we got them guys. Those interviews, those video interviews are just now being released on JSA TV. So if you wanna learn more, go ahead and check out JSA TV. It's funny when you say Buffy and Candice in the same sentence, I think powerhouse immediately. The two of them are absolutely powerhouses here at JSA. I also know our friends from American Tower were at the Channel Partner event in a big way with their partner company CoreSight. We've all heard of CoreSight with boots and taking part in a speaking panel. So their participation at Channel Partners pretty significant. Yeah, you know, and I love to see more of our clients both from telecom and data center companies combined, getting really more active in the channel. That's a trend we've been seeing for several years now and Channel Partners was, that was on display for sure. And by the way guys, to keep track of all this crazy breaking news, we also are posting things on our TNN blog. That's like CNN, but telecom infrastructure industry. So TNN, yeah. Just as important as CNN, maybe more important. At least in our industry. CNN even went above and beyond the usual news of the month with a couple of think pieces, which I near and dear to my heart. I love these kind of think pieces that we put out on TNN now. So yeah. Yeah, I was reading them too, Dean, particularly of interest, a couple of notable pieces from 1623 Farnum. Love those guys. One discussing the present and future of 5G and how readers can really prepare for this 5G era. Absolutely, and we are gonna hear a lot more about the 5G era as the year progresses. There was also a very interesting survey about what peering clients are looking for when choosing an interconnection site. So it's kind of an inside tip on what the peering clients are actually looking for with regard to interconnection sites. So check that out as well. Buyer's Guide, I love that. Another great article on TNN this month, an interview with Light Path CTO, Phil Oliveiro. We love Phil. He's spoken at so many of our roundtables over the years. But Phil is talking about meeting the industry's need to connect terrestrial networks with subsea cables. So important and really great read. Yep, and speaking of Light Path, it's been a big month for them as they announced the completion of a 300-mile route between Ashburn, Virginia. We've all heard of Ashburn and New York City. We've all heard of New York City as well, adding some diversity to their 19,000-mile network across the eastern, eastern seaboard. Yeah, they're really taking over. And I love this, Manhattan down to Ashburn. Of course, that area, like you mentioned, so critical in our industry. Yeah, they don't call it data center alley for nothing. Unlike the Midwest where I live, where they call it tornado alley. So I think I would prefer that data center alley. I think it's something like 70% of all internet traffic goes through data center alley. They're in that corridor every single day. So that's a pretty thing. Craziness. Plus, we should say it's a former home state of JSA. We moved to Nevada, but we love Virginia always. Also, the home of Virginia Ham. Virginia Ham. Have you, is that as good as people say? Yeah, I have no idea. I just really like saying Virginia Ham. Yeah. Okay. Well, as you ham it up, I'll get us back on track here. Light and Playpath wasn't the only company rolling out new network this month. Dean, do you want to talk us through some other deployment and construction news? I do, and there's some, again, that are near and dear to my heart. There are a few new facility announcements to make this month, but for starters, I am critical and veiled plans for an energy efficient high performance computing. We're gonna hear a lot more about HPC as the year goes continues on as well. A modular data center campus in, you guessed it, Pittsburgh. And what's really notable, easy for me to say, about this specific deployment is that it is a modular design, right? So for quick scalability and edge and also sustainability, sustainability, sustainability, we're gonna hear so much about that as we move through this year and hopefully for many years to come. Hell yeah. And the proven team at IM, we should say, they really do have a really great team. So no question, they have the expertise to get it done. Also, we should talk about Precision OT, another organization looking at a new type of facility as they move their regional headquarters into the UK. Yep, as a producer of optical transceivers, Precision OT's move will help them keep up with demand as the new facility doubles their footprint and workforce in the region. So we're creating jobs here in the industry too, aren't we? Yeah, absolutely. Amazing, amazing growth, growth, growth. That's certainly the underlying theme here. And notably, we need to talk Data Bank, always on the move, always growing. Now they are expanding, they are adding another 24,000 square feet and four megawatts of power to their SNA2 data center in Irvine, California. Data Bank says that they are excited to be part of Irvine's big five-year strategic technology plan. I love that, I love that. And of course, you can't grow effectively without harnessing the power of your team, something we know quite well here at GSA. Yes, we do. And so many companies, they're adding great people as well as square feet. That's right, Jamie, exactly. In Ohio, Horizon has appointed their first ever Chief People Officer, that's Chief People Officer in Susan Hoffer. Susan's first big challenge on the job will be adding an additional 30% to the company's workforce to handle the company's big upcoming projects. Again, more people, this is great news for the industry. And 30% more, that's incredible growth right there. We should also mention Vavacity Infrastructure Group. Also, a new face in the boardroom there, as they name Lynn Riefer, their new president and CEO. Gosh, I remember Lynn way back when he was CEO of Looking Glass Networks, I don't know, the turn of the century. Does that make me sound really old, like 2000 to 2006-ish? He was a client of mine back at Telex, back in the day. And Looking Glass was an innovative company way back then. So this is big news. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Lynn. Lynn has a track record of leadership in our industry, of course, and he will be in charge of all of the Vavacities. I'm saying that right, correct, Vavacity. Vavacity. Vavacity, operational groups, EX Square Technology, Terra Consulting Group, and Vavacities and Vavacity Networks. And Vavacities Networks. Vavacity, Vavacity. Yeah, well, you know what? Also, we have to mention too, another Rockstar announcement, Dave Ryan, you may remember his strategic ops technical management from, you know, logos like AWS and CBRE, some big logos there. Well, he's been named Site Operations Manager for T5 data centers. So Dave will work in Ireland, actually, to establish the company's campus and network there, really with plans to create a presence in the EU and the European Union. Jay, it sounds like a great time to grow. Yeah, definitely. And PS, don't tell my daughter that, Dean, because, oh my gosh, Eva Capri is almost two, sorry, side note, but I can't even get her up anymore. She's so big and tall and amazing. I guess I need to use more of my stroller. You know, the last time we were on the big group family call here at JSA and you showed Eva, I could not believe what a hybrid she was of you and Rory. I've never seen a kid that looked that much like their mom and their dad. Oh, thanks. We look at her sometimes and we're like, where did she come from? She's pure magic and kids, you know, like, but she's incredible, she really is. And gosh, I guess in no time at all, she'll be reaching for those car keys. Yeah, don't say that. My daughter just started driving last year. Oh, Grace, Grace. Yeah, right. So anyway, let's stick with the growing theme, Jamie, you and I can get on some tangents, can't we? Let's talk business partnerships. One partnership that has gotten even stronger recently is the one between Cologix and Erelian. I think that's a different Erelian. I was about to use that one, because I wasn't sure. Thank you, Brett, we know who you are. That's it. So Cologix and Erelian, as they collaborated on a new point of presence in Columbus, Ohio in the Midwest, go Midwest. One's an Edge Data Center and one's an IP backbone. It's a match made in Network Heaven. Aw, a match made in Network Heaven. Yay, couldn't have said it better myself, Dean. Another match was made in Ohio as consolidated cooperative and their 18,000 locations joined Horizon. 450 route miles will now be added to Horizon's network as the two companies work to integrate over the coming months. And another interesting acquisition took place this month when Light River joined Gain Management, a private investment firm exclusively focused on broadband technology and global communications. Light River says the move will enable them to expand their solution portfolio and customer base. More growth, more expansion, that's awesome. And with good people, we love our Light River family. We do love them. Another big partnership agreement near and dear to my heart, right here at JSA. We are welcoming Myriad360 as our newest client. They are a full service IT solution provider and we can't tell you, wait to tell you all their news as the future brings it. So welcome aboard Myriad360. We can't wait to get started. All right, when I was reading, when I was reading kind of our format of today's fast forward, I knew we were going to get to a point where you were going to get very, very jazzed up, Jamie. Another topic that I know to be near and dear to your heart is that of Earth Day. And there were a few Earth Day related events across the industry this year. In fact, very, very recently. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay guys, it's our Earth Day news section. Cue the music. This is live. By the way guys, we're needed. Ooh, there it is, the music. Nice, all right, yeah. Okay, all right guys, we're excited. We're so legit now, Jamie. I know, I love our channel, okay. There was a big Earth Day release that I am dying to talk about. Well, was it the big day for Data Bank as they joined the Arbor Day Foundation as part of the Foundation's Time for Trees initiative? Is that the one you mean, Jamie? That is such a great, great headline. I loved it, but... So you must be talking then about the I-Mason's Climate Accord news, right? Yes, I do, Dino, I love this one. This is a biggie. Yeah, it is a biggie. The I-Mason's announced a collaboration of over 70 companies to reduce carbon in digital infrastructure, materials, products, and power. This is huge. Yes, yes, it's called the I-Mason's Climate Accord, ICA. And the big aim is to report on and reduce carbon consumption in the data center industry. Our friends at T5 are part of it, becoming one of the founding members on the Accord in an effort to reduce the industry's carbon footprint. And speaking of those new I-Mason's Climate Accord members, this is literally hot off the press. We got this news just this morning. Courtney, thank you very much for handing that over to us. Software developer Kato has joined as well. Kato is the founding member of the client Accord and joins T5 as we noted above. AWS, we've all heard of those. Google, Meta, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, and dozens of other global companies, including, I think us, right, Jay? Yes, of course, absolutely. I signed up JSA as a company and myself as an individual as soon as they released that link. I was all on it.  This is amazing, perfect timing, amazing initiative. And really a headline that goes hand-in-hand with another Earth Day launch story. Hey, Jamie, deep breath, it's time to let it out. I know that you can contain yourself no longer. So what is it that you really want to say about Earth Day? I'm dying to tell you all about greener data. I know, so exciting. All right, this is JSA's very first published book. It was released Earth Day already in Amazon Bestseller. It is a multi-author book from 24 industry leaders around the world. And I should say, many of us are also I-Mason's members, such as Kato and Edge Connects and I-Mason's is in there too. But I'm so, so thrilled. And really the focus is to give us real life example. An innovative, actionable way. We as an industry right now can make the industry more sustainable and make the world a greener place.  You know that's not true. But can you remind me exactly where to get a copy of greener data? Sure, it's this little book shop that I think is what they call Amazon. But I should say it is available in digital as well as soft cover, paperback. But more guys, it's not just a book. It's beyond a book. It's a movement, just like the I-Mason's Climate Accord. We are really gathering the folks in our industry who are committed to driving real climate change. And at greenerdata.net, we will only be promoting our industry's success stories and sustainability. So we can inspire one another, share with one another, begin to really turn the tide quickly and collectively, reducing our carbon emissions, increasing our biodiversity, leveraging new measurements, new transparency, new tools, new technologies to get greener, together and fast. So please go ahead and make sure you check out greenerdata.net. We just launched this on Earth Day, Friday. And it's really gonna be a collection of all those great innovative success stories that can inspire us to really grow together. Let us know if you have a sustainability story too. We wanna hear from you and we're gonna post it on greenerdata.net. So please send it our way. Also, join us as we celebrate the greenerdata movement launch live at ITW coming up quickly, Monday, May 9th from four to 6 p.m. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I am so excited. Actually, it'll be the first time I will be in person. So many of you guys really excited to see all faces again. And ITW celebrating 15 years this year, real great.  We are proud to be their media partner of ITW and cannot think of a better time and place to launch our greenerdata movement. And I should mention, there is a max room capacity due to COVID restrictions, 200 people. So please come early as only the first 200 people are allowed in the room. And I don't wanna see my friends outside the door. So get there early and join us. And as an ITW media partner, JSA TV will be rolling every 30 minutes throughout the event. Jamie, how are you gonna get JSA TV done in between all of those hugging of all of the friends, right? Something a little two-year-old at home, not vaccinated. But yes, we're gonna be there. Boot 1300 on the exhibit hall. That's right, you can't miss the fancy cameras and the lighting and the whole TV studio setup and all that good stuff. And there are a few more spots available if you want to get your news featured on JSA TV while at ITW. So email us at my favorite URL. Say hi at jsa.net. Say hi. My little Elvis. Hi. All right, absolutely. See you guys there. See you soon, hopefully at ITW in person. If not, next month right here, virtually on LinkedIn Live for more JSA Fast Forward. Our headlines from the world of telecom and data centers. As always guys, stay safe, think green and happy networking. Happy networking.


Aloha and welcome to the Creative Life brought to you by the American Creativity Association in collaboration with Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Darlene Boyd and I'll be hosting today and our co-host Phyllis Please is with us. Phyllis joins me in welcoming our guest Noelle Mecca-Linden. Noelle is joining us from Northern Ireland. To date the Creative Life has taken our viewers on conversational interviews of renowned sought after researchers practitioners and consultants today we shall dig deeper into the heart of creativity as we discuss how the arts may contribute in meeting the social emotional needs of creative individuals and in particular the creative artist. Let's get started Noelle by asking you to talk about the uniqueness of the social emotional needs of creative producers and why you often refer to yourself as a creative catalyst and compassion advocate. Noelle. Thank you very much Darlene, it's lovely to be here. I suppose as an artist and a creative advisor and mentor to many other artists I feel really strongly that we need to really delve deep and support our own creativity and often we can burn out or simply self-destructive. We don't invest in our own creativity so for me as a practicing artist as an arts activist I know it's really really important to be in the company of creative people to inform myself about creativity but also in order to sustain and nurse me I need to take time to be creative and self-expressed and particularly during this pandemic if you like I felt it's really really necessary to invest in that and because of that I've become much more aware of the need to be self-compassionate before I could be compassionate to others. Noelle let me just begin and ask you to clarify and help me with something and then I'll ask Phyllis to chime in and talking with you. I know sometimes we often confuse the concept of compassion with sympathy and empathy they're all often tossed in with each other could you help us clarify the difference I have some suspicions but let's see I'd like to hear what you how you would differentiate those three for us. Well I suppose I'm a huge fan of Brené Brown and her conversations around the whole area of vulnerability and for me just to share and show vulnerability is a sign of strength. I think in terms of being compassionate and having empathy for others it's very very different from having sympathy. Empathy suggests a sense of connection a sense of real understanding. Sympathy implies that you are not necessarily on the same level or indeed seen as an equal but rather someone who is making a judgment that perhaps you are stronger rather than vulnerable so I think this idea of being compassionate and having empathy is something that we need to nourish and instill you know from a very very early age and continue to actually invest in that and invest in opportunities to show our vulnerability in safe places and I feel the arts have a huge role to play there you know in business and economics and cultural tourism and simply living and living a fulfilled life. I think that what really helps clarify as we move to empathy I know scientists will tell us that if you were truly empathetic we almost mirror the neurons if in fact you slam your hand in a car door you know if we're being empathetic we'll feel that pain but then compassion really bumps us into a higher level and I know that as we talk about your personal challenges that we'll be dealing with compassion so I really appreciate that you took the clarity of your definition is and enhancing the concept of vulnerability is really important to me and I know to Phyllis to Phyllis. Yes thank you Noel and Darlene and I'm thinking about the title of today's show how creativity is a healing art and as we talk about compassion and empathy we I know we're going to be talking about how you use creativity to transform however the pain is showing up into something that shifts us to healing and even flourishing and that creativity is a medium by which we can move from the despair to the divine and I wondered if you could share with us your personal story around that and then of course your craft how art was your creative medium if you would. Okay well I have been very very fortunate to be to have been involved in arts for almost 38 years. I trained as an art design teacher I have taught in schools colleges universities and in the prison sector so I know firsthand how important creativity is and to me it's almost like a muscle it's not necessarily exclusively a tool it's a way of being and I'm a huge huge follower of Sir Ken Robinson and was privileged to be awarded an individual award for my services to creativity from the work that Sir Ken Robinson did in Northern Ireland so this idea of unlocking creativity and sharing creativity and nurturing creativity is really really important and I am the house of seven children and I have been very much immersed in the in the arts and the cultural life for many many years not just in my working life but also in my voluntary work and also in my community and commitment as well and that's something that I've learned at Ada was a child and as a member of a very loving family. Unfortunately like many families we have been brave by suicide and I lost my first sister 22 years ago at Rushing and it was just it was a just a horrendous experience to lose a sibling at any stage in life is very very difficult but to lose a sister and through sudden death is really really really just hard to comprehend and the weight of grief and the void that's left behind is is unimaginable. I suppose my first role was to as the eldest child was to continue to support my parents and the rest of my family but I also realized I needed to nurture myself and because of that experience and being truly vulnerable and truly you know not in control of what the circumstances were I had to seek support and also to invest in my own in my own self and that wasn't about being selfish it was about being self-compassionate and I think it's only when we invest in self we be compassionate towards others otherwise we're we're we're pouring from an empty cup for me my my creatively was really tested and and and obviously my my ability to function as a as an adult my work became became so so important to me because it was something that it was very driven about and it was a way to function but I wasn't you know I wasn't truly I suppose in touch with my feelings and what I've learned in reflection is really the importance of being still and being present to those feelings of loss and sadness and grief and using the arts whether it's music or dance or the visual or performing arts they are really I suppose access to a way of being that recognizes and celebrates life as well as as those that we've lost and for me I've given many many talks and many I've had many opportunities to share I suppose the learning for me and what I choose to do is celebrate life rather than focus on the ending life I think if we can encourage young people older people all generations to invest in celebrating life you know as opposed to ending it using the arts is a really really important way of doing that the painting behind me is a painting called Little Blue and I know that Eric has a slide and this is the painting that I painted one year on after we lost our first sister Rosy. No I'll hold if I may ask how old was your sister when this occurred 36 years old and her twin brother obviously we all were devastated but her twin brother wife gave birth to a baby then three days later so this painting represents for me I suppose the birth and the the loss and the love between a mother and a child because the grief that my mother felt as you can imagine was just heartbreaking to witness to have lost a child you know an adult a child nonetheless at whatever age is heartbreaking for parents that's not the way or the logic of life but for my parents to watch them grieve it was just heartbreaking and yet three days later the birth of our my nephew and my mother and father's grandchild was a very very bittersweet experience as you can imagine but because I come from a family that has huge faith and I suppose investment in in in ourselves as a family we managed to get through that but with a huge amount of personal family support and so for me this particular painting represents and symbolizes not just the importance of acknowledging love lost but birth and rebirth and a sense of connection and for me that the complementary colors the oranges and the blues and the tones are very important I come from a tiny little village on the shores of Loch Ness I live in a skillen now which is the only island town in the island of Ireland so the waterways are very important and hence the reference to the mermaid so this this theme has been carried with me for many many years and many of my exhibitions so so this idea of precious cargo the cargo we carry inside us the losses and the gains the opportunities and the mist I suppose lives lost for me can be represented in very very creative and beautiful ways and while that was a heartbreaking time 22 years ago when I have the exhibition I called it out of the blue and I wanted to play on words play on the words of you know the the colors and not through sadness but through joy and celebrating new life and my parents joined me for the exhibition up at Emma skillen which was one year later after we lost Roshi and the birth of Nile the little boy and that's that painting was one of the paintings in the exhibition and it was the first night our parents were up in a public event it was the first time there were huge tears of joy and laughter and it was very special very very special you know well thank you for that story and your journey and doing the painting at that time tell us about the process that that you were doing that changed the process that you were being like was were you did you feel was a healing process in your body as you were creating the artwork and then how did you feel when you completed it did it take you through your own journey and by the time you were done with the art did you feel that you had had a nice kind of a cycle of completion of fulfilling your your angst around the grief did you have some transformative feelings at the end of the art or has it been every time you show the art or look at it yourself and those of us in the audience maybe you aren't artists maybe you're talking about using colors to represent how you feel and is that you know give us some guidance about how your process might be one we could adopt and well if I could just ask didn't you share with me that you had a cancer diagnosis at this time you were yes well actually what I what I haven't said was that we lost our sister 22 years ago Roshan when I painted this painting and then four years ago or five years ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had cervical cancer which is ironic and that I would be a mother hen I have no children and but I would be very maternal and to lose as opposed to the your being or the center of creativity in terms of what is perceived as a woman and my own creativity I've focused on nurturing that so I was very lucky and very fortunate I had a hysterectomy loss I had my my womb obviously and my ovaries removed and but then shortly eight weeks later then we lost the second sister to suicide while she was in the hospital and that was just unimaginable so for me and Phyllis and darling the whole idea of art both both the points that you made about my own personal creativity the source of my creativity the potential of being a mother and losing that potential has been really really important to me and the point that you made Phyllis as well about the making of the art when I when I was making that art I probably was in the saddest time of my life and it was a very very sad time I was returning to my own home here which was about roughly two hours away from my parents after being with them for a number of weeks after we lost her sister the funeral the weapon all of that and then to return back to my own home and my marriage ended around that time as well so it was a really a period of great great sadness and yet in that sadness and in that stillness what I have created is a is a thing of beauty of a thing that gives me great solace to this day actually throughout lockdown the conversations that I've had particularly to do with sudden death I would be an arts activist and I'm also a hope ambassador in terms of supporting opportunities for people who have faced adversity in the most challenging of times and I've used this painting and so many more of my paintings to bring joy and to bring support and also to acknowledge you know the stillness and the sadness because you have to be with both you know you have to you have to know what darkness is like what darkness is like before you can experience the light you need to know what gray is like before you can experience the color and you need to know what sadness is before you can experience the joy so I consider myself very blessed and very very fortunate that I am living a creative life but I have access to the tools to the experiences so to the losses and the gains but most of all the precious cargo that can be translated in the sadness and in the joy and what what I think is really important is that artists who inspired me and teachers and my parents and all of the guardians that I have been fortunate to have met have been a crucial part in this journey and I remember one of the artists that I had as a as a lecturer at college EP Flanagan he told me that a piece of art is never fully experienced until it's shown to someone else so the artist as a creator is really really important whether it's poetry song or dance but when they're shared with an audience there is a different dialogue there is a new synergy there's a new experience that can be enjoyed time and time and time again so that period of my life while it's been it's been very very sad and to create work in the stillness and the silence and the emptiness of my space provided me with the necessary I suppose ecosystem to start to build to grow and develop and to nurture and I suppose that's that's when I became I suppose really aware of the importance of being self-compassionate first and then compassionate for others that's very touching Noel as we listen to you and also as we we look on the screen certainly when we first looked at your painting little blue it's it's absolutely beautiful and I'm looking at it above your head now and I'm looking at it on the slide to the side her face is just lovely and the child but as you continue to speak that painting I think those would agree speaks to us more almost second by second it should go through your story and I believe that's what you're trying to bring forth to us and to the viewers and I'm still looking I'm still enchanted by her I'm still getting quite attached how much you feel as I am I am and what I'm really interested in for the audience and for ourselves is this creative process so you you could have read somebody else's work and poetry you could have listened to somebody else but what this art is and we I suppose we could do it with finger painting or our own mandalas or you know use a medium that we don't have to be great at but you created something out of nothing and that that manifestation of that new medium that new artwork and I or it could be it could be a flower garden but I've never thought before of how creating something so there's your creativity is a ray of of taking the old and making processing your feelings and making something new and that journey is is very thoughtful and impactful for thousands of people don't need anything special to use something to transform their own grief into healing and it comes to this to this door of creativity so have you walked other people through this process of transformation if you have you kind of taught this journey of creative healing yes I think I think I have and I wouldn't have I wouldn't have thought so until particularly I've got quite a bit of feedback and opportunities to speak and ironically a lot of it has been through this last you know the pandemic I mean I've spent 30 years invested in arts and creatively and culture and I would have I would have continued to mentor artists and educators and you know students and teachers the old student that I had was an 83 year old ex-Japanese prisoner of war who could see for himself the opportunities in creating and making I used to be a lecturer in one of the local colleges here and I ran a lot of evening classes as well as during the day and what I found were lots of people who at the time in my naivety I was about 20 at 29 I thought they were old but really I mean I would be 60 in December so I'm only still a young thing and the reality is that there were people who are coming to the the the classes the recreational art classes for the shared joy of reconnecting with people and this idea of being part of something being part of a community being part of something that that they could return to and this particular gentleman Harry was just a lovely example of somebody who flourished and grew into a completely different evolved human being that was loving and compassionate but most of all compassionate towards himself he had lost his wife as well she had died sadly and so the companionship was very important as well and arts and creativity is one of those things it is contagious the joy that we feel and I I'm on I'm on a mission to make creativity the antidote to covid I'm on a mission to encourage people to really embrace their own creativity whether it's music or dance or gardening or just reading or or or poetry or spoken word there is such potential and I think all too often many many adults have been scarred because of the the poor experience that they've had in school many of us had great great experience but not everybody we can remember those champions that we have had in the school context or in the playground or in school but we can also remember those that have been maybe not so kind or not so compassionate so I think we have to we have to look differently at our educators they're not confined within school settings they're they're lifelong learners and I think we have to embrace that and I know for one that I continue to learn I continue to embrace opportunities to be creative and I know for a fact that I if I hadn't access to you know creatively or to those that are creative around me if I would find it very very difficult very very difficult so if I may just follow on what I've gotten now from that answer is that that there's three at least three stages to this process one is to just reach out and create something and then you talked about the magic of sharing it that it takes on a new life and that and I I'm not very artistic so I trust that what you're saying is that you said we you can't imagine how it feels to share your music or share your painting so there's a sharing of it and then you talked about this community so that it's a social thing so you talked about when you're going through grief you might be isolating but if you can get into the community that shares your joy of that particular art you're actually putting yourself into a non-isolating setting in the creating of it and the sharing of it so you've got the creating of it and sharing your art and then doing it with others so you know darling you may have other takeaways from what she's saying but I mean there are several stages there I think we can all learn from. I think that I think Noelle's reference to isolation is an important one for all of us and Noelle as you take us back to the months that we have spent I'm I doubt that there's anyone that hasn't experienced at least for some period of time that feeling of isolation isolation away from our families that we couldn't visit isolation from the colleagues that we have we compensate many ways by we're talking on Zoom but we compensated during COVID by actually getting our socialization and our support networks in different ways but I've been very impressed by your efforts Noelle as you say to be there for others in your community in the sense not just giving back because someone was there for you but having it truly in your heart to want to do good and with that in mind is as we're coming up almost on the conclusion of our conversation can may I just take you back to your award from Sir Ken Robinson because you you mentioned that that award was given to you because of your efforts in education so I think it would be interesting to hear what I mean we think we know what he saw on you but be nice to hear it from you as well and I mentioned to the viewers that Sir Ken has passed not too long ago so he's no longer with us so in a sense it would be somewhat of a tribute to bring our session to conclusion with you talking about that award what it meant to you absolutely darling it's easily the most important award I've ever won there is a connection there is a connection to this painting as well because I hear just around that time we lost our sister Roshan and my marriage it ended I was at a conference and I'd heard Ken Robinson speak I was totally blown away by him they had a document called All Our Futures that was really reevaluating the importance of creativity and education and for all our futures the economy for cultural tourism for our well-being for our mental health all of those areas and I then we had a very proactive permanent secretary for culture arts and letter who entered and he's a good friend of Susan McCammon's who is who's our mutual friends as well and the irony of the whole thing is that she then on the basis of the conversation that I have with her and the document that I that I gave her invited Sir Ken Robinson over Northern Ireland to help us with unlocking creativity agenda which was to unlock the potential of people in place across Northern Ireland the economic regeneration to support the political I suppose balance as well and bring you know the idea of supporting peacemaking here the reality was that there were many of the initiatives that came out of that strategy that Sir Ken Robinson supported including them subsequently then the opportunity for the Dairy London Dairy UK city of culture which I was part of but at the time that I met Sir Ken Robinson and that he came to Northern Ireland just a few minutes left Noel so yeah he was writing his book out of our minds and I had dedicated to them that I would do my exhibition out of the blue so the year that he did his his launched his book and I had my exhibition was the beginning I suppose of a decade if not more of developing the connections with Sir Ken Robinson and also that my investment in my own creativity and supporting the creativity of others and that has been a huge huge for me a huge opportunity that I'm indebted to the Robinson family for Noel thank you thank you for sharing that share thank you for being opening up your heart and soul to talk to us about how how we can be more compassionate to others and hopefully if we're ever in any close situation that we know that folks that we can turn to and I have to say Noel from our conversations offline I know that Phyllis and I if we know we can turn to you at times and we've just we've just met you so it's it's our pleasure we're very grateful to have had you with us today and with that I'll just let our viewers know you have been watching The Creative Life on Big Tech Hawaii with award-winning artist and compassionate advocate Noel McAllendon so please plan to join Phyllis please and myself in two weeks as we continue the journey of living the creative life and thank you both Phyllis and Noel and Aloha


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I look a little rough. I'm sorry y'all, but I had to make the video for you guys I am 24 hours Post I guess call in a sense. I just worked my first 24 hours shift ever And it was pretty interesting and so I was like let me talk to you guys about it and share this with you guys Because that's what these rotations and clinical rotations is all about though That's what we're gonna be talking about today But before we get to that if you haven't already done so go ahead and subscribe to my channel right now and follow me on Instagram at adana the PA so you guys 24 hours in the tram bay now Obviously, it's not like a full 24 hours in terms of I'm not sleeping at all for 24 hours No, there's a call room specifically for the PA students Which is really cool because you know, there's usually just one PA student working overnight at a time So that's really nice because you have like this little apartment to yourself with a little bed And you know you have a bathroom in there, so you don't have to leave your room really for anything So that was cool And you know if you're bored or something sure you can study mostly you just kind of want to sleep because your shift Starts from 7 a.m. The prior day, so I went in at 7 a.m. On Thursday, I came out 7 a.m. On well a little after 7 on Friday, and it was interesting Throughout the shift initially during my day shift. It wasn't like super busy We had some traumas come in early and then there was like a lull of traumas and then we had traumas again come in and You're only really in the trauma bait when there's trauma going on So initially all of your trauma patients that were in the bay and are now on the floor There's a floor trauma PA, and then there's the trauma Bay trauma PA who kind of triages the initial traumas that come in so if a trauma is called overhead like I have to go down with the trauma Bay PA and we Assess the patient you have to take everything off of them You have to like completely address these people to make sure that your assessment is done Well, like you're looking at every part of their body to see is there anything going on? Is are there any bruises or any hematomas forming because that could be an indication of you know Sometimes broken bone or injury so we do all of that and you know We try to ask them questions to kind of get the GCS to see where they're at and then immediately they get it You know an IV place we send labs off We take them to this cat scan and then we come oh and we get x-rays So we get x-rays first immediately as well And then you take them to casket and then you come back and that's when you can go through and like you know Clean up whatever needs to be cleaned up and suture whatever needs to be sutured, which is where I come in Because I suture up pretty much most of pretty much all of the traumas that have come in so far on my shift I've sutured them up, which I love because my next rotation is general surgery But that's just typically the day of Me as a trauma PA student the trauma PA kind of does the same thing of obviously they're putting in orders And they're doing a lot more they're consulting with different specialties and asking ortho to come down because a lot of our traumas are like motorcycle accidents or you know Motor vehicle accidents, so that's that's pretty much the day initially But as you're going to the night so after you've passed like those first I guess 16 or so hours. That's when it starts to go downhill So I had like a long break made like a couple hours of no trauma and then like boom traumas hit and It's not just one trauma. It's two traumas and it's not just level twos Which is you know your initial like serious traumas level one traumas Which are like there's something serious serious going on like you down up because you don't like there's so much blood Everywhere usually in a level one trauma, so those come through and you do what you needed to do So last night there was quite a few you well I mean on my so on my ship there was you know quite a few traumas It was pretty interesting because like just how these doctors and these PA work It's like amazing and then everybody else because it's really a team effort the nurses the radiologists You know even anesthesia comes down for level ones because you don't know if somebody might need Airway protection. So it's a pretty interesting rotation I went back up to my little apartment as I call it at around 10 and then two traumas came in Like maybe around 12 and then I finished up with them and went back up to the apartment around two No around 130 close to two but 130 and then I got to sleep for like two hours Three hours and then two more traumas came in to you know Like they were like stabbings or something like that And it was pretty interesting because like they both came in at the same time again, and so you're you're swamped so both PAs have to come down and Usually in the nighttime the PAs try to switch off so that one can get rest And then the other one you know can work and you switch off as the traumas are called But since there's only one of me and I'm trying to get the most of this experience I go down to all of them. So I'm really tired. I'm like extremely tired I just woke up like I came home. I was feeling really good Because you know, I got a little bit of rest I got a lot of stuff done initially and then close to like 1030. I would crashed I was so tired and I woke up maybe around 150 so your day is kind of shot depending on You know, how hard your night was but the beauty of it is that you don't have to work for another two three days because I don't have to go to work again until well Next week. I don't have to go to work again until Monday And then I won't have to go to work again until Thursday So it's really really a cool experience and I mean if any of you are interested in that rotation I like in terms of you know, experiencing that for yourselves. I definitely suggest you jump on it You initially hear like 24 hours and you're like, no, I don't want to do that Like I want my rest, but it's not 24 hours in the sense that you're not sleeping at all You just have to be on call and be ready and be prepared for anything So take every opportunity to get to experiences because you never know What you're going to like and you never know when you're gonna be able to experience it So note to self every opportunity that you get go for it. Okay. All right you guys, so I'm so tired I think I'm gonna go lay down a little bit more because I have like a slight headache now But I definitely wanted to share this with you guys if you have any questions about anything else with respect to my trauma rotation leave that in the comment section below and Talk to you guys next time that I really appreciate all that you guys are doing with supporting me in this channel and Please continue to follow me on Instagram at or down in the PA. All right You see that that wasn't even really like that. That was like a tired body guys. Okay, let's try that again. All right