Okay, I think we are live on both YouTube and LinkedIn. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee. If you see me live, please comment on the chat. What's your name? Where are you from? And what should go for 2022? So comment on the chat to say hi there. What's your name? Where are you from? And or comment something very funny. When was the last time you worked out? Comment on the chat. What's your name? Where are you from? When was the last time you worked out? Okay, now we have one minute to get started with our training today. And so let me play one minute countdown music. Hello, hello. Hi, George. Rashavi, how's it going? Awesome. Okay. Hi guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee. You are live with me. Okay. Awesome. Thank you for joining me. If you're joining me right now, please introduce yourself in the chat. What's your name? Where are you from? And when was the last time you worked out? Okay. So comment on the chat. I'd love to learn more about you guys. And also tell me more about your goals. If your goal is regarding product management or any questions regarding product management or learning a job as a product manager, comment on the chat as well. I'd love to learn more about you guys. Quick introduction about myself. And I am Dr. Nancy Lee. And I help people to do the works they love and increase the income by becoming a product manager. In the past, I've helped 100 people land their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. And I want all of you guys continue to achieve your career success as well. So that's why we are giving lots of free training. And if you want to learn more about my program regarding PM, et cetera, you can go to this website, to learn more about our PM, et cetera program. So inside of PM, et cetera, we have lots of different tiers of packages from free to paid options. And go to this website to learn more. And today we have lots of free training. So today's specific talk is regarding the essential skills you need to master as a product manager. And now for people who join us, please comment on the chat. What do you think are the essential skills for product managers or what are your questions regarding product management? And this specific event is a pre-event training to our upcoming free masterclass. We are gonna teach you how are you able to land and keep your dream product manager job offer during a hiring freeze and layoffs. Also going to give you lots of market update today regarding like latest layoff information is like lots of crazy stuff going on within the market. Also tell you what kind of companies they're still hiring today. So again, this is a pre-event training. If you're interested in joining our free training regarding PM et cetera and also we're interested in learning more about our paid training inside of PM et cetera, you should go to the description of this webinar, description of this video right now. And there's a link for you to join our free masterclass. As the end of the masterclass, I'm going to share with you regarding different packages inside of PM et cetera. So you can make your own choice regarding you want to join us for free on YouTube and LinkedIn like this or you want to join small group training with me through our coaches from fan companies and unicorn startup as well. Okay, great, cool. All right, so now let's get into the main topic regarding essential skills as a product manager. Let's also see who else is with us who already comment on the chat regarding when was the last time you work out? And comment in the chat, what's your name? Where are you from? Okay, so let's see who else is here with us. Vashnavi said from San Jose State University and working towards learning a PM job. Welcome, welcome. And we do have lots of students actually currently inside of PM et cetera and learning what's the best way to learn their dream PM job. And we also have a lot of students in California area as well. So right now it's very critical time for all of you guys because there are lots of companies they reduce headcount but some companies still hiring, okay? So I do want you guys to use the best strategy to learn their dream PM position. And also see George from New York or Jorge. George or Jorge, come on the channel. I want to make sure I pronounce it correctly. Olga, is it Olga? They pronounce correct. Or Lega from Germany. How are you? How are you? My German friends, I have a student's murder currently is in Germany as well. Katan, he tan or Katan. How are you? Hello, hello. And Joe's or Jose or Joe's from India. How are you? Katan, your total eight years experiencing operations and analytics you're seeking for PM career. Any paths I can follow? Yes, I can help you to give you specific tips as well. I'm glad you already have eight years experience. Awesome, okay. So it's George, not Jorge, George. All right, you, thank you for helping out to pronounce your name. Welcome, awesome. Okay, so nobody answered me question regarding when was the last time you work out? Well, it's okay. So let me just, let me answer the question. Last time work out I think was crazy. I think it was a week ago, last Monday. I'm very ashamed of that today. I need to go to the gym myself. Okay, cool. All right, so now we already did our warm introduction. Lena from London, how are you? How are you, Lena? Yeah, please come on the chat. I'd love to learn from you guys. What's your name? Where you from? And when was the last time you did work out? Caroline said you did work out this morning. Amazing. I'm thinking of skipping today's workout again. No, I felt I need to go because everybody is doing very well. Yeah, today I need to go work out because last time was a week ago. Last Monday, crazy. Currently Paul said currently working out right now. Oh, very good. Are you guys on the trap now? But she knows when for hike yesterday. Good for you guys. Not feel ashamed. Okay, today I'll hold my carnival to work out. It's crazy. So let me see who else is here. At the bank from Nigeria looking forward to learn your first PM role. You really can remember what's not a time workout. Having a toddler is enough exercise. I agree. I agree. Popped it myself as well. And yes, at company gym. Oh, amazing. So you are actually on your trap now watching our LinkedIn and YouTube live. This is very efficient. Okay, now, all right. By the way, efficiency is also one of the important things essential skills at the corner manager, which I'm going to cover today. Okay, so now today as I said is a pre-event training to our masterclass. Our masterclass is tomorrow and Wednesday. So check it out, register if you haven't. It's a must to attend. And also if you're interested in PMX surgery stay until the end of masterclass to learn about different kind of options that's available, most suitable for you. Okay, so now today, this is, what we call the pre-event training is that before masterclass I want you guys to understand the basics. The basics, the essential skills required for pre-manager. And also, I'm also going to break it down for different levels of pre-manager. If you're looking for direct levels of requirements like your skills are needed is very different from entry level PM. Now, let me break it down regarding essential skills for pre-manager who are more entry level or media level, which is basically pre-manager. Not like group manager, not leaders or not level, which is a pre-manager but the important skills you need to master and also use those important skills to help you to understand what your transferable skills you have to become pre-manager, okay? For example, K-10 said currently you are in operations analytics, right? So we have different title but you might already perform pre-manager functions. You also may already have the transfer skills to become pre-manager. So therefore let me share with you the different skills you need to master as a pre-manager. The number one skills pre-manager need to master is lead without authority, okay? So comment on the chat if you, what are the skills you think pre-managers need to master? Now, let me share with you what I believe is number one thing, okay? So myself having a direct product for a couple of years and I became a direct product within four years. So I know the process become entry level PM, senior PM, group pre-manager, direct product, what different skills that are different was in different stages of the career, okay? So now specifically let's talk about those intro pre-manager or just like people just break into pre-management what the skills you need as a pre-manager. The number one skills essential skills to become a great pre-manager is that lead without authorities as critical, okay? So what do I mean by lead without authorities means that lots of pre-managers we are not the people manager. We don't have direct reports but you need to lead other team members who are sales, engineering team or could also be designers, could also be legal team like so many different cross-functional teams you need to work with to make them assist you to achieve the product vision you have set up for them, okay? So therefore it's critical for product managers who be able to lead without authority. Now let me define lead without authority which means that people do not report you you do not write their performance review at all so it's thought line reporting relationship, okay? But as a product manager it's very critical you need to incentivize, you need to motivate you also need to be able to provide feedback to other people in your team so that they together will be very efficient and achieving the vision you just line up. Number one skills which are also the most important skills as a product manager. The number two essential skills what a product manager need to master is being able to really have those kind of end-to-end product vision, okay? So product vision is something in, you know have a vision like sounds very strategic vision but it's very different from the like McKenzie management consultant a very different kind of vision we're talking about here. So at here as a product manager regarding product vision having product vision is critical is it's defined as you are able to define what's the most important features what's important directions what the product needs to build the product needs to grow, okay? So in order to master product vision there's a very different ways to make it happen. Number one, you need to understand the competitive landscape you also need to understand the customer empathy you also need to be able to have those intuition and understand the role play based on all those data competitors what customer wants in order to be successful we need to go this direction. So that's where the product vision are also very critical for product managers, okay? So number three essential skills for product managers are someone who is able to master the agile product management process, okay? So the understanding and experience working in agile product management experience or process is very critical because for majority of product managers if you do those traditional product management they're just managing something but they're not using the latest the big tech companies like fan companies or Google or fan company, man company those kind of companies are working on as a product manager. So therefore essential skill for the modern product managers really understand the agile software development process so that's the essential skills you need to use and you need to master to lead and grow your team to create the product using the most efficient methodology to impact your customers. The number four skills for a manager you need to master is customer empathy. Okay, this sounds really simple and also very vague for all of you guys to be frank this is lots of product managers are missing lots of people just felt like oh, I believe the certain feature need to work this way certain things just work this way. Lots of people failed as a product manager which means once they launch a product nobody use their product which means you wasted lots of resources and opportunities within the company. Okay, if you do not know these like key like the needs from customers you're just thinking about what could be done you're wasting the resources which also means that as we all know like this double recession is coming and since they're getting very tight lots of company just announced layoff as well and then what it means is you immediately potentially will get impacted if your product your launch is not able to create positive impact for your employers for your company. So therefore having customer empathy is very critical which means you know and understand and fail the pain point of customers so that your product is going to be the number one product going to address the pain point for your customer and then they are more likely to purchase and use your product so that's very critical. Okay, now number five which is also some of you guys comment on the chat I was like this is really good comment and regarding the productivity and efficiency which is about time management. Time management skills is extremely critical for product managers. Once you become a product manager you will realize that oh my goodness all of a sudden I need to handle so many like meetings and there's so much work I need to write requirement I need to customer interview I need to set up the vision and same time I need to like really manage all my stakeholders. So those is going to make you super, super busy and also friendly very stressed out and maybe burn down your new job if you don't know how to do time management very well. Okay, so time management is essential skill for any product manager to survive. Okay, not to say kept promoted you need to survive so that you know how to manage your time very well and then put your time into something is going to make a positive impact to organization to a product which is putting more time as I said into product vision, product strategy and also the customer empathy, customer research. Okay, those are critical and number six transferable skills for the managers are communication skills. Now, people talk about communication skills let me define what do I mean by outstanding communication skills? Communication skills are defined as someone who is able to tell stories to inspire other people. Communication skills also means that someone is able to present the outcome of the product to internal stakeholders and also to external customers. Communication skills also means someone who is able to clearly communicate what's the important outcome what you want other people to do. So which means the deliveries of the information you want to hand over to other people. So three things goes into communication skills. Okay, so lots of people just not as I'm a good talker no, there's the other two things storytelling and also like inspire other people are very critical as part of the communication skills. Okay, and also giving presentations regarding your impact, your outcome is critical presentation skills for product managers. You know why? Because as we know the double recessions coming and later on I'm gonna show you all the like different kind of layoff, latest market update later on. Okay, so now if you don't know how to present the impact you have to the business the companies are going into layoff certain amount of people in the upcoming months. The product manager who doesn't know how to quantify and how to present the impact is gonna get cut first, which means yourself your engineering team, other people doing operations functions such as data analytics someone doing design work for your product or other like engineering team whatever support you or customer success team for support you will also get impacted. So knowing what the best way to present the outcome of your product it is very, very, very important. Okay, so those are six important skills you need to master as a product manager. So let me know if any questions, comment down below. Let me get some water. Or you have any questions regarding whether what you did in the past is transferable or not feel free to comment on the chat. So it's too critical you guys understand that's what's required as a product manager. Okay, now let's also talk about what if you're trying to advance a career into the next level, which is let's say become senior product manager or you become a director of product. So let's talk about director level. Some of you guys were thinking well, once I become product manager I need to design my career path. What's the next level for me? For me, okay?  Coaching is something what the leader needs to do and those are important skills and leader need to master even if lots of time on your performance review. Coaching is not part of the thing that it's going to your manager is going to score you are you good at coaching are the people younger than you or not? Usually it's not on your performance review but it is requirement as a company as a whole to hold you accountable because if you don't know how to recruit how to coach how to manage people working under you you're not going to be a good director of product. So those are essential skills for director level to understand you need to coach people. And now there is the third important skills for director level which is you really need to know how to manage up manage down and manage across. This is extremely important for the director level because there will be lots of politics in your company there will be a lot of different teams within the company that is going to impact your line of work as a director on the director there's so many different managers so you're managing a portfolio together as a director. So being able to manage up manage across manage down is important skills for a director level. Okay, so and anybody is looking for director PM and if not for direct level I can more talk about more entry level or someone who want to break into product management. Okay, so let me now let me answer some questions here. Venisha we said can product marketer transition in product manager? Yes, you can for sure. Yes, you can. And actually we have a student, Marta someone from Germany I think one of us George was a George from Germany, right? So another student of mine in Germany. So Marta, so her background was doing branding. She was not even like product marketing. She was doing branding. She was doing like packaging and branding for like consumer brands such as like I think some shampoo brand. One of those shampoo brand I forgot a PNG. PNG like sells many consumer product like shampoo stuff. So she's doing marketing for those kind of companies but she was able to success for transition become product manager and became a senior PM. Okay, she's not only in the PM she's a senior product manager. The first PM title she received is a senior product manager position in a rental car company. Okay, so that's what she does as a product manager. So yes, the answer is yes, it's more about how the strategy is the best way to package yourself to get into the position is very important. The niche machine we said also two years experience software engineering is more relevant for the transition. Okay, so product management is an end to end experience. The best is have a combo of both. So you were a software engineer before and you also know marketing and then you're in the perfect position to transition into product management. Okay, it's combination of both is the best. Okay, and I personally believe that product management can come from any different background. That's all called transition into product management. You just need to know what's the required skills and experience to become product manager. That's the six essential skills I just described earlier. And then how much your past experience is able to help you, for example, design the product vision, being able to work in the agile environment. So which means if you're a software engineer, so you know the agile environment, right? The agile methodology, which is number two skills I just mentioned. And now if you're also product marketing manager, so you also know how to bring the product to the hands of customers. So that's also very readable. So initially I think you have really good experience of definitely if you can break into product management. Katen said, any tips on entry-level PM interview? Okay, great question. So let me, maybe I should film a YouTube video. Let me remind myself. Film a YouTube video about entry-level PM interview. So now for entry-level PM interview, first of all, let's define entry-level, entry-level the APM associate product manager or just say product manager title. Okay, those are both entry-level. And some companies, they don't even give you APM title. Just say everyone entry-level is just a product manager. Okay, so tips for entry-level PM interview is very essential that once you go into those entry-level PM interview, you need to describe how much what you've done in the past is relevant product management immediately because product management is experience-based position. Okay, and also like ironically, nobody had PM experience before they become product manager. So you have to have zero experience then become one year experience. Now the best way for people to verify, are you able to work on this product management job very well is in your past experience, how much you had is transferable skills as relevant product management. That's what I highlight again, the six essential skills. I hope you guys take notes, okay? Whoever took notes, six essential skills posted in the description down below. Okay, so everyone can learn about six essential skills. Okay, they're basically they're verified on. So this past experience is entry-level. This is entry-level person already had experience understanding the customers, understanding customer empathy. Oh, you had it. Okay, great, that's great. That's amazing. Oh, you had experience, understand the product vision, what kind of product you need to build from the company's and customer's perspective. Oh, that's great. So entry-level PM position is important to describe your transferable skills in the past as relevant product management. Okay, so, but there is important distinction between having transferable skills and being able to show off your transferable skills as relevant to PM. Okay, so that's why we teach how to build a product portfolio inside a PM accelerator. You can go to this website and learn more regarding how we teach our students through the PM accelerator by mastering the fan-level PM skills. Okay, so once you put your transferable skills into a product portfolio, you're able to tell them, oh, see, I did product marketing. I was software engineer, but when I was software engineer, I was able to see things this way, this way, this way. Those are all the skills that are so relevant to product management that show off on your product portfolio. So that's very critical. Okay, so that's why when you go out for interview for entry-level position, it's critical to identify your past experience and turn it into product management language and show them your transfer skills through a product portfolio. Okay, this is the number one most important thing. And now for other PM interviews, we'll also ask you like basic questions regarding all product design, design and app for museum, those kinds of questions. They will also ask you tell me experience, your product management experience when you turn on product from concept to execution. Right, so how do you do customer interviews? How do you prioritize product roadmap? Those are typical interview questions for entry-level PM position. For sure, they definitely ask you. So how do you turn product from concept to execution and you need to answer the question very well. So in my YouTube channel, I have free training regarding how to answer those kinds of questions. Let me show you guys where to find those. Now, let me do this. Let me share my screen and you have some point answers from me as well. Is this here, here, here? I believe I'm sharing my screen. So come here, okay. Now, when you come to my YouTube blog, by the way, we have another resume workshop coming up. You should also watch this video which is published today regarding someone broke into product management from Wall Street, right? So she was an investment banker on Wall Street. You should watch this video yourself right here. Okay, now let me show you the, I'll give a sum up, okay? And let me show you the playlist of sample answers for entry-level PM interview. Sample answers are here. Free training, yes. Those are the sample answer teach you how to pass the PM interview and how to turn a product from concept to execution is a mass-ass interview question right here. So make sure you answer this. And now I also wrote down everything you need to say in your interview. So make sure you give us like, oh my goodness, 237 likes already. So make sure you give it, make it 1,000 likes. Okay, so go to this free training and you'll know how to answer those questions. And now let me go back to the question, how do we get the questions? Okay, so let's see what are the questions we have. For the Lina said, how would data product owner transfer into digital UX product manager? Okay, so if you want to transition from like data from owner into like digital UX product manager, it's important that you understand your transfer skills, right? So when you are data product manager, product owner before, the transfer skills you had was that in the past, you probably already know, as I said, the agile development process, you also know how to do customer empathy, customer interview. But now for the UX product manager, it's critical they will require more relationship with customers. So understand what the customer journey map was required for customers, how to identify their pain point and all of this. So I want you to study the customer journey map, how to do very comprehensive customer interview. Those are very critical for the US digital UX product manager. I also need to learn how to do AB testing. Okay, so learn those upfront and also try to create a portfolio to show off you already at least learned. And hopefully is you already being able to master those skills by creating a product portfolio. Okay, so that's the key, how you transition from data product owner into digital UX product manager. Okay, very cool. And actually inside PMX editor right here, we teach about how to build product portfolio and also how to do AB testing. We have like three different people, you know, program taught AB testing in the past. We have people who are X, someone currently working for Meta and running AB testing to the pro in AB testing, teaching our alumni how to do AB testing as well. So in our program we covered lots of this and should also go to our YouTube channel for lots of free training as well. So let me see another question. Hold on, I have lots of questions. Paul said, I myself is hardware engineer at EV company. It is required to have engineering background on coding skills to become product manager. No, the answer is no, except you want to work for Google. Okay, so Google really like engineering background. It's just Google, you don't need to code but at least you need to know the software architecture within Google. They really make the interview very challenging if you do not have an engineering background. Okay, that's for Google. However, for other companies, for example, Meta, they don't require coding background at all. So for example, our student David recently joined Meta and also our student Haoning. So Henry, he also recently joined Meta as well. Both of them work in Meta on the ads team. Okay, they design ads. So they were hit by all the ads by Meta or Instagram. So they work on ads that has nothing to do with coding and they will not ask any coding questions when the interview is Meta at all. Okay, so both of them joined Meta during hiring freeze. Okay, it's crazy. I think both of them joined in like July around July timeframe. Okay, so like you can still break into Meta with no coding experience at all. Okay, because they work on the product that's more revenue driven for the company. You don't need to know how to code. Of course, for Google, they're more selective and in general they prefer people who knows how to code. Okay, all have very strong engineering background. I will also have a student Manas. So he is PhD student in electrical engineering. So he was able to become a product manager in Google. Okay, so in his case, he wasn't doing coding but he has deep understanding of how the software system architecture work so that he was able to pass interview with Google. Okay, so I hope those are inspirations Paul for you to decide what's required for what type of roles. But in general, in high level, it's not required and depends on the company. And if die hard for Google, you better learn something about software engineering. So that's or go for Meta or other related companies and you need to play with the strengths. That's important, okay. Manish, thank you for answering. Thank you, thank you for your questions. And so if software engineering skills are highly valuable for someone with no coding experience with technical skills topic of best to understand all George, thank you for this question. So they, software engineering skills are valuable but it's not required. There's a huge differences. Actually majority of our students inside PMX 30 70% of them do not know how to code at all. Okay, 70% of people inside of PMX 30 do not know how to code at all and they all become part of managers. So therefore it's important to learn systems engineering systems design. Okay, so what technical skills topic best to understand is the systems design. I have a free video and we are talk about different kind of recommended like systems courses was a cloud architecture system engineering system design. Those are very like highly recommended courses I want all of you guys to take inside of PMX 30 we teach people system design as well which is going to achieve two purposes. And number one, you're able to help you to pass the system design interview and number two, you're able to be able to communicate with the software engineer once you start your new job. So you're able to have more control and being able to influence with authorities and also had less stress when you communicate with them. So you can become a better part manager. So that's in a high level regarding what we want people to take. Oh, let me show you the courses I recommended. Let me... Is it here, here, here, here. Hold on, I don't know what tab. I'm not, hold on. What tab do I have? Oh, okay, is this tab? Where is my, okay. Now, different kind of classes. Recommended are here. Coding. You, on my YouTube channel, just search coding. Do you need Commitment Science degree, a coding background to become a manager? Right here. There's lots of free resources down below. And let me see. Hold on, one sec, it's not here. Not this video, is this one, one sec. Ah, this one. Top 20 Facebook interview questions database. You can come here and make sure to give likes. We have 100, 111 likes already. Okay, so in the description of this video, there are recommended classes. Hold on, where is my, ah, right here. Software Architecture classes and like Cloud Computing Architecture to a tutorial, Software Architecture basis. And those are recommended Software Architecture classes for all of you guys to take. And those are free YouTube videos. I also have top 10 classes you need to take as well. You can directly go to the description of this video. So go to this top 20 Facebook manager interview questions that help you learn job offer in 60 days and those study those questions. Okay, actually we should change Facebook meta for my YouTube description. Okay, let me do this. Now let me answer other questions. And we already have six essential skills. Awesome, awesome. So someone posts in the description six essential skills, that's amazing. Thank you for taking lots of notes. That's important. James, Emposys, who's James? You're facing. Anyway, so Emposys, yes. Emposys skills to understand the user pain points. Customer Emposys, do we miss customer Emposys? Yeah, customer Emposys, Cloud Computing, customer Emposys. Yeah, that's one of the skills we need to master. As a product manager, awesome. Cool, cool, awesome. Define, should I define it as required to have software engineer background and thanks for the answering. No, it's not required. As I said earlier, it's not required to have a software engineering background. And it's required that you understand how systems work. It's very critical. You really need to take the classes. I recommend it in the video to show your early years to take those classes and understand how things work in those big tech companies so that you know how to communicate with engineers.  So that's a purpose for people to understand do you need technical background or not. Okay, very cool. And by the way, we do teach systems engineer inside PMX, I would like to come to this website, darknancy.com, and learn more. And also for people, by the way, I forgot to say this, for people who are interested in PMX, you should go to this website, darknancy.com, slash masterclass. And also in the description of this video, you'll also have descriptions regarding the link to join the product manager, accelerator, you need to go to darknancy.com, slash masterclass at step one, for you to learn about different packages most suitable for you. So inside PMX, our guarantee is that we guarantee if you're not able to plan a job was in 90 days, putting our strategies in practice, you're going to get unlimited coaching until you make it happen. Okay, so there's no need to stress because the system has been tested out by hundreds of product managers, we're here to hold your hands to make sure it is going to, you're going to become one of the success stories we have as well. Okay, so, who asks this question? Who asks this question? Janish Gaming, wow. You're really playing lots of games. So I've got my APM phone interview tomorrow. Any tips? Okay, so the tips to provide APM phone interview for tomorrow is that immediately for the APM phone interview, they will ask you a question. So tell me a past experience where like turning a platform concept to execution. They're going to ask you this question for sure. And go to the video I just showed you earlier. We have a sample answers. Tell me about yourself. Turn about, turn your past experience from concept to execution. It's very, very critical for you guys to study this interview answers ahead of time. Definitely for sure. And also number one thing, and number one two thing is that you need to be ready to prepare to talk about your past experience from the angle product management.  For example, one of my students, Sam, actually today I had a mock interview with our student Sam and he already received an offer from Microsoft. He's currently still in school right now. He's graduating in class of 2024. So he has two more years to go, but this summer he already received an offer from Microsoft as a PM intern. Okay, now on Thursday, he's having a final round interview with Google for PM intern as well. Okay, so, and also entry level PM position. And the number one thing is that for example, Sam was a data analyst in the past. When he talked about he ran data modeling, he had a hypothesis, putting all the data together, running some modeling, everything he said in the past has little to do with product management mindset. Okay, so the best way for you, I know majority of you guys, especially APM from interview, you have very limited experience or you have experience has nothing to do with product management, right? So for example, if you're also data scientist, it's very critical to think about what your past experiences can be translated into product management. For example, for data scientists, if you have done data analytics or the better way for product managers to describe how we use data is that we ran AB testing to understand what features are more liked by the customers. We also ran data analytics to understand the insight of the customers, of the product. We also have KPI, we will also run data analytics to measure the product metrics. So the way we run analytics, running data, analyzing data and from product managers perspective is very different from other time of domain. So therefore, if you're interviewing for APM tomorrow, you need to shift completely how you describe your past experience from the angle of product manager. Okay, so how to do that? We have some free training on my YouTube channel to go there, there's a playlist. Go here, there's a playlist. Let me show you. Where's my video? Where's my video? I believe there is a playlist right here. How to become product manager with no experience. So go to this playlist and study the examples of how other people did it and also understand how exactly the different experiences in the past, how people talk about the past experience, how you're able to use the same methodology to about your past experience as well. Okay, so critical, you start watching the videos here and also study the portfolio video. It's very critical. You need to start to use the methodology immediately. Okay, so that's right here. Let me see any of the questions we have. Do data analytics, no data analytics experience, but teaching computer science and depth and startup as well as computer science at university. Okay, great. So same thing, same framework applicable to computer science, right? If you have been teaching computer science while doing development work at a startup, so it's important to talk about that your knowledge of agile development.  It's also important for you to talk about how you're able to understand the embassy of customers. So did you talk to customers? Did you read any report about customers? How would you understand the product you built, product you coded using software is able to solve a problem for customers? So those kind of experience you had, you need to describe it in those interview. Even if you're a software engineer, you should say things from the angle of managers so that it's able to hit all those six skills. The hiring manager looking for those of his six skills I just mentioned earlier. So follow what you said earlier. If you missed what I described the presentation I did earlier, go back out and study those six different kinds of skills that you need to master to become a partner manager. So it's gonna test all those skills tomorrow immediately, okay? And also get ready. Sometimes the recruiter will ask you a question for product design questions. This happened to our students before even the first one interview recruiter will ask you a question. So tell me how would you design a coffee machine, right? They'll ask you questions like that. So get ready for your upcoming interview. And we have free training regarding how to answer those product design questions. Come here, come here. Do I have it here? Product design questions, Uber app, for blind people right here. My second watched YouTube video. Best product manager case interview sample answers. Watch this one, okay? Well, if you can answer the same level of concise and the scope of thinking as I had you are definitely going to pass interview. Okay, watch and study this ASAP. Cool, okay, now let me see any questions we have. Cool, okay, great. Looks like answered all the questions. Best of luck with everybody. 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Good afternoon and welcome to town meeting television. It's our favorite time of the year. It's town meeting 2021 and today we are having a look at Burlington ballot question number six authorizing retail cannabis sales. The city of Burlington permit the operation of cannabis retailers that are licensed by the state of Vermont beginning in October 2022. And we have gotten a request to talk about this from the con standpoint. Dr Catherine Antley is very well known to us here at town meeting television she produces a series of programs on prevention and the benefits or the non benefits of marijuana, and she is the leader of physicians families and friends for a better Vermont welcome Dr Catherine Antley. And Jim Dumont is a lawyer with that. We've got coalitions here at town meeting television. And Mariah Flynn Sanderson is the director of the Burlington partnership for healthy communities. Welcome Mariah so glad you could be with us. Thanks for having me. So, Jim, why don't you give us the legal view on your opinion about whether Burlington voters should support ballot item number six authorizing retail cannabis sales. The message is not yet. It's too soon. Let me tell you why marijuana sales have only recently been legalized in a few other states. The medical evidence on the effects of marijuana sales in those states is just now beginning to come in. There's a lot we're learning. The general United States has issued a warning that marijuana use during pregnancy can harm the developing fetus, including harm to the fetal brain. And that smoking or eating marijuana with higher levels of THC causes increased incidence of anxiety paranoia and psychosis among adults, but there's a lot we don't know because legalization is so new. Unfortunately, the new Vermont law has a major glitch in it. Under that new Vermont law, once a community votes yes. And a marijuana retailer sets up shop that retailer can continue to sell marijuana in your community forever. Let me explain that. The evidence that if the community finds this was a bad decision, because of the public health effects in that city or town, or because of medical evidence from other states. The community can vote to change its mind, but not for any retailer already in business under the new statute, the community is locked in forever that marijuana retailer. If the marijuana retailer breaks the law in any way, that would be different. But so long as the marijuana retailer follows the law, even if the town or city votes to repeal its approval of marijuana sales, that retailer can sell marijuana in your city or town forever. The legislature, the legislature needs to change the statute. We've written to the governor we've written to leaders of both houses, asking them to make that change. Until that happens, voters should be cautious about committing their communities to marijuana sales in perpetuity. So can I just ask just a couple follow up questions. Do cities, does the city of Burlington have to make a zoning change in order to permit. I mean in terms of the follow up to this. Does the city have to create some permitted areas for these these people to operate cannabis retailers or no. No, I just was looking at the Burlington zoning a few minutes ago. Marijuana sales would be considered retail. And so it's already permitted by local zoning. That doesn't mean the zoning should stay the way it is. That's another reason it would make sense to wait. If you, as a land use attorneys done a lot of zoning cases probably too many zoning cases. You should have the zoning in place first before people set up shop, because if you don't want, if you want marijuana sales but you don't want them in certain locations. You've got to decide that before people get their license from the state and set up shop, because once they set up shop in a location the city says is not a good idea. Right. The horses are out of the barn you can't force them to move. And then my, my second question has to do with this perpetual condition that your, that your license. Is it that your state license could go on forever there's no end to it and is that the same thing as say retailers who sell liquor in the state of Vermont is that is, is that where they took the language from. It's a great question. I'm pretty sure that language is unique to this statute, this statute is long, complicated, and unique in many ways. And I've never seen anything before which says the town votes to our city votes to prove of a certain use, and then they changed their mind. They continue that use forever. So you mentioned zoning in zoning that's not true in zoning there's grandfathering, but under state law grandfathering is not forever grandfathering means under our state law, unlike other states but in Vermont. If you're a grandfather or grandmother use. You can continue but not indefinitely. The city or town has the right to force you to phase out your use. It's not true under the new statute. Thank you. Dr Catherine antley. I know you have some very deep and informed views on this question. Please tell us if you would support or oppose this ballot question. It's important for Vermonters to know can you hear me okay. Yes, loud and clear. I think it's, I think it's important for Vermonters to know that their pediatrician their child's pediatrician would advise them to vote no on this ballot question. There are a number of applicable reasons for that. A number of medical societies also in the United States have, you know, past resolutions in the same saying the same thing, or similar from a similar standpoint, and I think there are a number of reasons for that. One thing before we delve into the medical side of it. So, getting back to sort of the specifics of the law. So the law also says this Vermont law that first first people in line are going to be the medical marijuana shops, and the medical marijuana shops are vertically oriented integrated rather, which is more likely to be able to be monopolistic and control the market. And so, and in Vermont, I think it's important for Vermonters and Berlin Tonians to know that those shops right now, the majority of those shops in other words I just heard four out of six are owned by large, very large out of state companies. So that sort of sets you up for a situation where a large out of state for profit corporation would be moving in and possibly could move into Burlington and set up shops that then we we were out of control we could bring them back again. So there are a number of reasons why we couldn't bring them back one is the law, which says they're in perpetuity. But the other problem is, you know, there's there's right and then there's might and and if they have unlimited funds to fight in court. That's also a problem. And these are huge huge corporations will why you know why does that matter. Marijuana is an addictive substance we all know that marijuana is harmful. We all know that we heard the Surgeon General's warning it's associated with problems during pregnancy but also psychosis anxiety. Poor concentration IQ there are lots of harmful issues associated with marijuana use. So what happens when it's commercialized when it's commercialized these companies are interested in creating addiction and we've talked about this so often on this on this on this channel. They do not make $1 profit unless they create addiction in your community how do they create addiction and the reason for that is, is that 80% of the product or more see what we're seeing in in the marijuana sector of the economy is that even more than 80% of the product is consumed by less than 20% of the consumers of the users. So the bottom line is that we're seeing over and over again, is they don't make $1 profit not $1 profit until they are able to create addiction how do they create addiction. Well, we know completely how we create addiction. They get them while they're young they appeal to children with sugary candies that the gummy bears and whatnot. And then the other thing they do is they they produce really concentrated THC. So we saw this, you know, we saw this with the candy cigarettes with the taking tobacco one spraying it with free race nicotine. We have extremely high concentrations of THC that are getting in the hands of the children. I have, we have a website that we set up to put some of these articles these articles up for people to look on their own, but there are a couple of new ones that have just come out. One says that in the commercialized states. The kids are getting are getting this high potency THC more much more than kids in non non commercialized states. And they're getting it even more than their parents. So it's so they're getting it illegally because nowhere is it legal for kids to get it, even in commercialized states, and they're getting the super high concentrated stuff which is particularly dangerous for the psychosis anxiety depression suicidality all the really scary mental health issues that we're seeing, you know more of anyway. The other thing that there's another study that came out that goes along with that that shows that the more marijuana shops in your neighborhood the more likely your child is to use, and to become addicted so the perception of harm goes and availability is there so they, they're more likely, they're more likely to use the last study I wanted to talk about is the one out of Ireland so in Ireland, a few years ago they closed the shops, they closed head shops, and the admission rate for psychosis into the ERs marijuana associates say goes down by 20%. So, so that's a really clear study if we if we allow shops in Burlington, these are out of state shops they're going to have a lot of money to advertise in the newspapers to, and what we've seen in places where they've tried to put limits on advertising is that they they publish their own magazines. So it's going to, they're going to want to sell their product, and the way they're going to do it is to create is to increase addiction. So, so I just wanted to be really clear. The message that the messaging is has not been very good in Vermont. You know, we've, the medical community, some psycho child psychiatrists have called healthcare reporters in our area, explain to them that there's risks of anxiety, suicidality, mental illness and this is really settled science, you know, coming. And they, you know, we're not, we're not seeing those reported when in the newspaper and it's outrageous it's really outrageous because people are not that creates this huge gap between what, what, what the science is and what people's perception of harm of this drug is. The last thing that I just, well there's two other things I guess one is, there's a poll that was done in Vermont about a year ago, and it gave the Vermonters four questions for choices. Medical marijuana legal, illegal, and as it is in other words commercial or as it is only 30% of Vermonters said they wanted pot shops. And so, so it's not, you know something inevitable, and a lot of people if you talk to them they're not, they're not interested in having a commercial, giving corporate personhood to a corporation that's out of state that has this monopolistic organization. And that now somehow has gotten written into the law that they're going to be first in line and if they get a license they won't be able to be pushed out. I have a lot more to say, but maybe, you know, we can put up the website and people can. Yeah I think we'll put up the website and why don't we let Mariah chime in and then if we have a little time we could wrap up with you again doctor. Thank you Mariah Anderson of Burlington partnership for healthy communities. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me so I run the substance misuse prevention coalition that serves Burlington. So our organ here representing the organization and the partners that are involved in that and we aren't taking a position on the ballot item in specifically. But one of the things that's kind of my job is to do what kept Dr. Antley was talking about which is the science around cannabis and marijuana at this point has come a long way we know a lot more than we did even when I started this job about 10 years ago. Where I started 13 years ago but about in the last 10 years we've learned a lot of information, but the public understanding of this substance hasn't really caught up with the science and the research yet. So my job is to help people to lessen that gap and to help it be more understandable and people in Burlington kind of know what they're voting on understand I think one of the challenges that I see with even just the ballot item is using the word cannabis a lot of people still don't really know what that means what's the difference between cannabis and marijuana what's the difference between these words we keep throwing around it's very confusing. When I talk with my community members here in Burlington, people are still just don't, they, when we ask, you know, are you for retail cannabis they think we already have that because they make that they confuse it with CBD. I think that's the challenge as a community to understand what it is that you're voting on and if you don't feel like you have a clear understanding that maybe now is not the right time. And, and one of the things that I kind of wanted to hone in again on that Dr. Antley was talking about and that what you're doing what kind of alluded to is this idea that there's still so much about this law that's very confusing. And I think we'll get worked out in Vermont in the courts or I think there's just at this point we don't communities don't really know what they're voting on when they're voting for this. And one of the things that we talk about a lot in my work is what can local communities do with policy to help protect health, help support a healthy vibrant community. I, we, I think we all want that we all want a healthy community we all want it to be easy for people to make healthy choices and large corporations for whom addiction is their bottom line for where they're trying to get people to use substances. We need to focus on vulnerable populations are disadvantaged communities are youth, because that's where they make the most profit. And so as a community we need to think about how are we protecting our youth how are we protecting our poor lower income areas which right now have most of our tobacco retailers are in our poor areas of Burlington, they're close to the school. So, these are things to think about do we need to do some additional work around policy to ensure that we're creating a space that can help everybody thrive. Thank you, Mariah. Dr. Anthony, you have a minute closing comment, would you like to use that up. Let's have your mute unmute yourself. Yeah, the classics pandemic age. Yeah, just, I just, I think it's important to reiterate that physicians are concerned.  So I think we didn't touch on the fact that there's people do say that this is going to regulate it. We haven't seen regulation work in any, any town or rather any state where it's been in Oregon only 3% of the material that's not for sale and there was a study not too long ago in Denver, 70 some percent of the marijuana there had mold in it, even in Vermont, our medical marijuana had a scandal where they discovered a lot of mold and the employees were not allowed to talk about it. And then that article which was in the digger, they found an authority who said, you know, 20 to 30% of the, of the marijuana that sold has, has mold in it so this is the black market hasn't gone away I just saw a statistic where you know 60% of the marijuana in in California, a significant percentage is still sold in the black market. We've, we've seen Colorado has seen a jump in organized crime from 31 cases to 119 cases between 2012 and 2017. You know the organized crime is dangerous it's very powerful Vermont is little, and we don't have you know the wherewithal to fight to fight these or to, to keep all these issues in line. And it's, you know, I would urge a no vote. It's, I think it's, it's clear. Anybody is concerned about their community, about the vulnerable sectors of the community about their own children. Now is the time to, to vote no. Thank you very much. Catherine Antley, who is the leader of physicians families and friends for better Vermont and do not who is a, an Esquire or legal advisor to that group and Mariah Flynn Sanderson of the Burlington partnership for healthy communities. Thank you so much we've been talking about Burlington ballot question number six, authorizing retail cannabis sales, which is also on the ballot in winters key and enrichment in our viewing area. Thank you so much for joining us we really appreciate your time. And thanks for watching town meeting town meeting television. 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Okay, good morning everyone and I'm so sorry for the delay. We were actually we entered into ministers foundation for the last semester course. I mean that happened last fall. We were wondering why things were not working and then we suddenly realized that we've entered into the fall, the last year's fall semester ministers foundation and so everything was just not working and anyway we finally figured it out. So we're so sorry for the delay. We'll begin class and just give me a minute. Okay, so welcome all our in-person students and our online students as well. I think there's Surya and Prabhu, Viku, Krisha, Gautami, so welcome and welcome to our in-person students as well. Okay, and we're going to be looking at BC 101 ministers foundation. Okay in this ministers foundation we're going to be looking at three APC publication, three APC publication books. The first one is fulfilling God's purpose for your life. The second one we look at God's guidance and the third one we'll be looking at is code of honor. We actually stopped publishing our APC publications but we will be soon resuming that. So all of you in-person students will receive a copy of it but then you can are you have access to the Google classroom? No? Okay then you can go to www.apcwo.org on your mobiles and you can look at the publications there and then you can open to fulfilling God's purpose for your life. Anyone needs help with that? To open it online? For those of you attending in the online classes in the Google classroom on the stream page I've already in the course material I have given you a PDF copy. I've already sent you a PDF copy last week of this book fulfilling God's purpose for your life. So it'll be nice if all of you could open your PDF copy and it would be nice if you could follow it. Okay, everyone's been able to access? Okay, do you need a phone? Okay, one minute. We'll share. Okay, thank you. Okay so before we begin can we just pause for a word of prayer? Let's pray. Heavenly Father we thank you God for another new day. We thank you for the good dreams that we've been able to enjoy these last few weeks and months. We thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness O God in our lives. We thank you that we can awaken, refreshing and strengthen to face another new day.   We thank you for the opportunity that we have to learn from your word. We thank you for all our online students and our in-person students. We thank you for each one of them. We bless each one of them in your name, God even as they have pursued their calling in their life and they are here to equip themselves God for ministry. We pray that you would spirit of God, that you would minister to them, you would quicken their hearts, you would stir their hearts up, your word will come up, will fall upon their hearts and their minds in a very fresh way. They will receive fresh new revelations of your word. They will be equipped so that they can go out and preach and teach and minister your word effectively God. We thank you that you're a God who has a purpose and a plan for each one of us and your purposes and your plan for us are good and pleasing and perfect and we thank you for that God. We thank you that you reveal your plan and your purpose for us and even as we align ourselves, our wills, our heart to you God.  We thank you for hearing our prayer, we commit the rest of this time and this day into your hands in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Okay, online students if you are not able to follow me or you have any questions please feel free to you know type in in the chat section and I will answer your questions, your queries. If I'm too fast, if I'm too slow you can also you know put that in the chat section and if you did not understand anything please you know you can always ask me and I will you know explain that again. And for our in-person classes students please raise up your hand if you have any queries, any questions, if I'm too fast and you're not following you can you know raise your hand up and I can help okay. So let's look at fulfilling God's purpose for our life. Now from this heading fulfilling God's purpose for your life, what comes to your mind? What do you understand? Or what are your thoughts about what we'll be looking at in this book? Any thoughts you can type it in the chat section for those of you here you can answer. What is your expectation from this course Minister's Foundation? What comes to your mind when you look at this course Minister's Foundation? Finding out God's word for your life will for your life okay okay. What comes to your mind when you think of Minister's Foundation? There's Asha and okay yes. What comes to your mind when you when you when you saw the subject or when you now think of the subject Minister's Foundation? Laying basic biblical foundations and be strong in that so who's laying the biblical foundations? Okay we're learning from this book so who's going to be laying the foundation? The Holy Spirit okay and for whom? For us okay for each one of us thank you okay anyone else? What is your expectation from this course? It's always good to have some expectation you know otherwise just coming and sitting and maybe we'll kind of get very boring for you knowing more about God's truth you said yes okay okay one of our online students says learning how to be a good servant of God and recognizing and fulfilling God's calling on our life thank you Krisha. Surya says we can monitor everything in ministry and we can lead ministry in a great way yes thank you. Actually what is the basics for the Minister's Foundation? We all struggle with that finding God's will right you've come to Bible College now you've enrolled into this course or you're doing your Bible College course and you're wondering what next right which field or area God wants me to minister and sometimes we can go through this whole three years but we can come to the end of the three years and still wonder where is God leading me what is he wanting me to do that's a big question mark right but we just hope and pray that you know as we go through this course rather than just looking at these publications which is a course that you just have to go through maybe you can spend time asking God God reveal what is the next season or what is the next step in my life where are you leading me what do you want me to do do you want me to do first year only second year third year what is your plan and purpose and God does reveal his plan and purpose for our life Prabhu says knowing God's will thank you okay so let's look at this first book fulfilling God's purpose for our life okay now God is a God of plan purpose and he's a God of design he's a God of objectives okay God does not do anything randomly or arbitrarily that means he does not just think one day okay let me just do this okay or let me bring about this okay it's not that God is a God of plan he's a God of order he's a God who has planned everything even before the foundations of the world okay he's a God of purpose he's a God of design and he's a God of objectives okay God's plan is so profound that even before the foundations of the world you know he already had in mind or you know the word of God says that the Lamb of God was slain even before the foundations of the world which means that when God created everything perfect and when Adam and Eve sinned he did not say oh what do we do what is plan B right but the plan of redemption was already a plan a done completed accomplished thing in the heart and the mind of God that means even before God created the world even before Adam and Eve sinned the plan of redemption was already completed done thing in the mind of God because the Lamb of God was already slain even before the foundations of the world and so we know that our God is a God of order a God of purpose design plan he doesn't do anything arbitrarily okay how do we know this from God's word or if you look around in creation how do we know that God is a God of plan design God of purpose how do we know yes looking at the universe looking at the world looking at creation right there is order after the you know we have summer we have spring we have summer and then we have the monsoons and then we have winter and then back again so God doesn't say okay now you know too much of rains let me just bring about some you know some let me bring about winter no there is a particular sequence a particular order we know that the the sun comes out in the morning and it sets and then we have the moon and the stars so there is order and design in in creation as well so if you look at Psalms chapter 33 verse 11 can somebody read that yes yes yes he did yes he already knew that he's going they're going to do it God already knows who is you know if you look at the book of Romans if you read the book of Romans we see there that you know we kind of think that this whole theory of predestination God already knows or God chooses who will choose him it's not that it's not God is not a partial God okay he already knew before even you were formed in your mother's womb even before you came into this world he already knew what are the choices you're going to make see and so he already knew that Adam and Eve are going to sin and so he already had in mind the plan of redemption how he's going to bring it about and he already saw his son dying on the cross and you know fulfilling the whole plan of redemption it was already completed done thing in the mind of God and that is why he's God so you're saying you're asking why did then God create Adam and Eve when he already knew that his plan is going to go haywire well he already had a plan of redemption he already knew how he's going to save mankind but he is a God who has given us the free will to choose and that's why I said yesterday in our afternoon session that when God created us he created us in his image which means when he created us in his image he's not a partial God to withhold some things and give us some things okay he gave us when he created us in his image and his likeness which means he created us just like him which means that God is without sin he created us without sin God is holy he created us holy God never dies he created us never to die God has a mind he gave us a mind okay and God has a will and he gave us a will free will to choose and that is why he does not treat you and me like puppets you know he already knows some of the the wrong choices I'm going to make but he does not treat me like a puppet he lets me choose but he guides me what to choose but the choice is mine if I choose the wrong thing I suffer and I can't blame God for that okay so let's look at Psalm 33 verse 11 can somebody read that please yeah so here we see that you know God's plan is is something that stands through all generation okay what he has planned even before the foundations of the world is something that he brings about in time in history in the fullness of time in time in history and he works out his plan and we see this in creation act chapter 15 verse 18 can somebody read that yeah so from eternity means eternity past eternity future God knows everything that he is going to be doing he knows ahead of time what he is going to be doing Isaiah 46 10 can somebody read that please yes so here we see that God knows the end from the beginning he knows your destination even before you begin your journey and he knows how you know you can get there okay so God has a purpose for your life and no there is no greater purpose okay there is no greater purpose than living out God's purpose for your life there is no greater satisfaction than fulfilling God's purpose for your life and there is no greater adventure than walking according to his purpose I'll repeat that this is not in your notes I said God has a plan and a purpose for our life there is no greater purpose than to live out God's purpose for our life there is no greater satisfaction than fulfilling God's purpose for our life and there is no greater adventure than to walk according to his purpose okay so if you want to be satisfied in life what do you do you want to be satisfied in life if you want to be happy in life what do you do you fulfill God's purpose for your life okay if you want life to be adventurous that means exciting not boring mundane the same thing day in and day out if you want life to be an adventure exciting breathtaking extra you know things that you can explore what do you do you walk according to God's purpose right if you want to see the beauty of creation okay you walk your journey you go you see and you just are all with God's creation it's like a wonderful adventure you just enjoy it the same way you want to enjoy life each and every day the best thing to do is to walk according to God's plan and his purpose for your life now God has a master plan or a general purpose for all of us okay he has a general purpose and he has a specific purpose for each one of us so general purpose or a master plan you know what is that general purpose means which is inclusive of all of us all of mankind so God has a master plan or a general purpose which is inclusive for for all the whole world and also he has a specific plan and a purpose for each one of us so what is God's general purpose or what is his master plan what do you think is God's plan and purpose for mankind to be holy okay to love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength to abide in him okay thank you for the answers to live for him forever krisha says thank you krisha to know him okay you're close to worship him okay close to partake in his nature okay to have a relationship with God close okay very good to know that he died on the cross okay thank you for all your answers Surya says to be his son and daughter okay God's general purpose or his master plan is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ okay so let's look at Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12 Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12 okay can somebody read that please okay thank you amen to that yes so there are a few things that we can important things that we can learn from this verse the first one is that God's will is not a God's will is not a mystery yes what's the meaning of mystery something that you have to find out something that is a mystery can also not just be something that you find out easily right it's a something that is very difficult and you'll have to follow through with clues and use your brain and and all of those things okay so God's will is not mysterious okay some people think that God does not reveal his will we don't know his will his will is mysterious no that's not right God's will is not mysterious he reveals his will okay and his will is according to his good pleasure okay that means God's will is good it is and happy will and it's something that he has purposed in himself he did not go and ask anyone else okay he purposed in himself what is the will that he wants to establish and that is one of the the natures of the or the attributes of God one of the natures of the attributes that makes God God is that he is sovereign okay that he has a will of course he's omnipotent what is omnipotent all powerful omniscient all knowing and omnipresent he's present everywhere but another characteristic that makes God God is that he is eternal and that he is sovereign sovereign means that he has a will and that he does what he has planned and purposed so he does not ask his plan and will to anyone else he does not go to anyone else but it is something that he purposes in his heart and it is something that God's will is something that he brings about in the fullness of time okay you can look at verse 10 it says he brings it about in the fullness of time fullness of time means what at the right time okay at the right time he brings it about and then we see that you know and he his plan is for everyone okay both which are in heaven and which are on earth that means his will his plan is for everyone and we also know from verse 11 that he has a purpose okay so God has a purpose so these are some of the few things that we can insights that we can gather from this verse and Ephesians chapter 3 verse 11 can somebody read that please thank you so God's plan and purpose is eternal what does it mean it's eternal everlasting and it's also it has no beginning has no end that means even before time began God already has had a plan and a purpose and he's unfolding his plan and purpose in history in time he's executing it here on earth okay so what is God's master plan or his general purpose 1st Timothy chapter 2 verses 3 and 4 can somebody read that please thank you so God's master plan or his general purpose is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth okay so that is God's general plan or his purpose or his master plan now God also has a specific plan and a specific purpose and that specific plan and purpose is for each one of us okay look at Psalm 139 verse 16 we can gather something from Psalm 139 verse 16 so can somebody read that from the NKJV version and the message bible so there are two versions given there in in the publication one is from the NKJV the other one is from the message bible so can somebody read that please okay thank you so what do we gather from this same can somebody read from the message bible it's there in your in the web in the publication PDF so what do we gather from this what do we learn from this verse okay God knew you even before you were formed in your mother's womb even before you were born in this world even before you even took the first breath God knows you okay what does he know also about you what has he planned about even before you were created in your mother's womb okay even before you were formed in your mother's womb even before you came into this world you took your first breath God had plans for you that means even before the foundations of the world was laid even before Adam and Eve were created even before he separated light and darkness he had a specific plan and purpose for each one of you and all your days of your life were already before him he's seen everything that he would be doing even before you lived out those days isn't that exciting is it that wonderful okay just to know that even before we were formed God already had a plan and purpose for our life even before we took our first breath God has a plan and purpose for our life so what does it tell us about God all knowing okay he has an order he has a plan he's got a purpose plan design order okay what else does it tell you about this God yes he loves us so much he's so involved in our lives and we are so precious to him we are the VVVVVVVIPs you can say of this most high God that he's even thought about us even before we are born in this world you know sometimes we think when we go through life situations when it's very very difficult very very challenging we think where is God right we wonder if God really cares if God really sees if God really knows if God really understands but we need to know that he's already seen us going through this he already knows we are going through this he's already watched it and he's not somebody who stands there and you know he's saying okay suffer because you've not chosen my will or plan or purpose but he cries along with us his heart breaks you know and if you look at the word of God we see that you know God's heart is green his heart is sorrowful his heart is broken when he sees man and he's if you look at in the Old Testament he was wooing business lights back to himself like a mad lover running behind these adulterous stiff-necked rebellious people and that is God's love so anytime you think that you know nobody loves you cares for you and what's happening in my life everything seems to be going haywire you need to know that God has seen everything and he loves you he cares for you so precious that he has plans for you plans to prosper you plans with a hope and a future you know something that's good but we need to align ourselves to God's will and to his plan and then we can just receive his blessing and everything that flows out of it okay so even before you took your very first bread God has a blueprint he has a blueprint for your life you know what's a blueprint copy of your original actually the blueprint is what it's kind of the original it is the original like when you're building this building you know you have a blueprint where everything is shown there the windows will be the door will be the exit will be the stairs everything okay so it God has a blueprint for each one of your life and he has a dream for your life okay you might be having dreams for your life but this great wonderful God with millions of people living on this earth has a dream for your life I mean that really should blow your mind that should that you should really say an amen too right can you say amen to that amen okay so he created us for the purpose and he designed us to be able to fulfill not just our specific plan but through the specific plan that he has for each one of us God is actually accomplishing his master plan okay his greater purpose that he has which is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ let's read Philippians chapter 3 verse 12 can we read Philippians 3 verse 12 anyone who is writing this Paul and who is who is he referring to here to the okay he's writing the church at yeah Philippi but who is he actually referring to talking to about here he's talking about himself right he's saying not that I've already attained or already perfected okay so what does it tell us what does this verse tell us God is not finished with what he is okay you're not finished with God's will for your life okay what do we understand from this not that I've already attained or already perfected we don't have to be perfect to do God's will God is not looking for perfect vessels right he knows our weaknesses he knows our challenges okay so we don't say okay let me become perfect and then I'll do God's will no you can never come to perfection because none of us can be perfect but so Paul is saying not that I've already attained perfection or not that I've already been made perfect but he says I lay hold of that means I take hold of of what Jesus Christ has called me to what he has planned what he has purposed what he has willed in my life so that is what we need to do okay even as we're running our race on this earth we need to take hold of what Christ Jesus has taken hold of us that means we need to understand and know what his will is we need to take hold of that and we need to do that we continue running our race let's look at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 let's look at what we can learn from this verse can somebody read that please okay thank you so here we see that we are God's workmanship what is the meaning of that we are God's workmanship means what is creation okay is masterpiece okay that's a nice way of looking at it are we having only the ladies in the class or we having some I can see some gentlemen here as well can we hear some voices of the gentlemen please okay so what do we understand from this verse we are God's workmanship yes we are his hand work okay if you don't feel comfortable in speaking in here in English you can try Hindi and English I can understand both I can translate that for you workmanship means what God is still working on us we are not completed they're not perfected okay so we are God's workmanship that means that something God is doing he's still working out in our lives okay and what are we created to do to do good works and what are these when did God plan these good works beforehand even before the foundations of the world so God is saying okay man this plan A is not working for your name is Sri Radha yes God's my plan is not working for Sri Radha so let me go with some other plan let me think of an alternate plan no God does not do that you know his plans are perfect he does not change his plans he does not change his purposes then you can ask you know when we read in the Bible why does God change his his mind he why does he change his mind he really does not change his mind is and he does not change his purposes but he lets people do whatever they want they will then uh their choice okay but his plan and purpose is always according to what he has purposed and also according to what is written in his word okay so his plan for us is the good works which God has pre-planned even before the foundations of the earth so there are places God wants you to go okay there are lives of people that he wants you to touch there are lives that he wants you to impact there are things that he wants you to accomplish there are cities and nations that he wants you to transform and he wants you to shake the nations that is God's heart for you that is God's dream for you and that is God's plan for your life i'm going to say this again because God's plan and purpose for our life is something not small it's not something that is very little it's not something that is meager but it's something great and big okay so God's plan for us is that he wants us to go to places he wants people's lives to be touched through you okay he wants uh your life to impact the lives of thousands he wants things he wants to accomplish things through your life he wants to use you to transform cities and to shake nations can we see an amen to that amen so whenever you think about God's will and plan for my life you know go back to this these three lines and this is what God has for in store for you so living life is um is simple it's just finding out what God has planned for you and just doing it or just walking in his plan and in his purpose let's look at second Timothy chapter one verse nine can somebody read that please so here we amen yes thank you so here we see that you know God has called us according to his own purpose and it's not according to our works okay but it's according to his own plan and his purpose for our lives do we have uh dreams for our life yes do we have a plan and a purpose for our life some of us yes some of us no okay uh we just maybe we're just going through the uh the days okay but really doesn't matter you will soon find out your plan and purpose uh when you understand what's God's plan and purpose for your um life okay so we see that it's not something God's plan for our life is not that you will be born again that all men know him and be saved and receive salvation and just say you know hallelujah amen i'm going to heaven i have a seat book there a place book there i'm happy i just live my life here on earth it's not that life is simple okay but it's not as simple as this okay when uh we have a privilege of you know knowing Jesus Christ as our personal savior we have the privilege of receiving salvation but along with that privilege comes the responsibility okay so it's a privilege added with a responsibility and what is that responsibility is not just living our lives holy and pleasing but also working out God's specific plan for our life and also through that fulfilling God's greater plan and purpose for our um life okay so we are living not for our own purposes okay sometimes we have to do away with our own plan and our own purpose for our life and it's important to pursue God's plan and purpose for your life has there been a time in your life when you wanted to do something and you sense God is telling me to do something else anyone's like like to share okay yeah go ahead okay so she wanted to be a charted account in the CA and uh got called her to food time ministry to come to bible college and here she's pursuing God's call yes anyone else likes to share any other okay yes okay thank you uh any of our um uh online students would like to share um you know how you had a specific dream plan for your life and uh you know God revealed something else and you struggle through maybe you're not doing it you're doing it whatever anyone likes to share our online students you can unmute your mics and speak are you all there yeah I don't think anyone wants to share it okay I'll just share my life I mean um when I was in grade 12 our um uh Sunday school teachers taught us that you know uh whenever you're in a specific stage in your life you want to know what's next um ask God um you know um what is this plan for your life so I had this whole plan of being a cardiologist and not being a cardiologist and then um I put I took science in my 12th grade but I realized that um uh I will not be a good cardiologist I'll cut everyone's arteries and veins because uh every time we had our uh practicals you know when you're assigned students you have when your practicals they'll give you fish and cockroach and and all of those things to dissect I would mess up with everything and finally the lab attender will say sorry ma'am you use four or five specimens I cannot give you any more and then I realized that I'm not too good with my hands which I'm not too you know I can't even draw a straight line and so I was thinking whether I really should be a cardiologist and I spoke to a cardiologist who comes to our church and she was telling me all the things that a cardiologist should do and I was like no this is not uh where I should be or this is not uh this is not where I think I would fit in and I was praying and then God called me for full-time ministry and I was like no way God you know I don't fit up this role uh I don't see myself being in ministry uh I want to do something professional of course you know even in I'm in 12th grade I'm teaching in Sunday school I'll continue teaching in Sunday school and for one week every time I prayed God was you know his plan and his purpose he never changes right and he stuck to his and I stuck to mine and be kind of juggling between the two and finally at the end of it just to end the discussion or so-called argument with God I said okay God but it was not an okay in my mind person I knew I'm not going to do that I'm not going to go to Bible college and I completely forgot about it when I was in 12th grade I got my uh marks and I applied in this college where my sister's studying the best college in Bangor city and she's a topper she's an excellent student so everyone knows her and the first this came second third my name was not there anywhere on the list and then she said okay I won't speak to the principal because the principal knows her very well it's a very good student he said sorry it's too late and it was too late and my father tried all his influences he couldn't get me and they're all wondering why is it happening in my life and I remember going to the restroom closing the door and crying and said why God why are you doing this to uh to me and then God is saying remember you said you'll go to Bible college and I was way too shocked because I'd completely forgotten about it it was not in my mind it was not something I had I wanted to do and then I realized that it's no way running away from God's will and plan for purpose it was going to totally frustrate my life it's going to I'm going to be living in frustration uh and it's not going to help me so let me just do God's will and plan and I pursued that and I'm very happy doing that okay so we'll take a break now and sorry we'll take a break now and we'll come back after the break okay