Are you an every-way woman? All right, so coming up, Heather is going to be talking to us about body blueprint. I have no idea what that is. Do you? Find out right here at Every-Way Woman. When you start working with a personal trainer, they need to do a whole body assessment. Our fitness expert, Heather Benz, is here to tell us about her body blueprint that she does with all her clients. What is a body blueprint? Well, for me, it's the term that I give to the complete fitness assessment that I do with my clientele. So, for example, not only does it involve a body fat assessment and a strength assessment, which is common for most trainers, but in addition, I do a cardiovascular assessment, a flexibility assessment, a physical and balance assessment, and a functional movement screen to really make sure I can make the perfect program for each and every client. So is that like day one? They need to do this with you? Yes, it's the first appointment. Okay, and so what kinds of things do they need to do for you to assess all these items? First, show up. Just comfortably. That's the key. And then it's nothing to be afraid of. It's nothing scary, and it's nothing that it requires a lot of work and causes any pain or anything. It's just me putting them through a series of movements so I can see how their body moves, what's happening in each joint area, so I can not only get them to their goal, whether it may be fat loss or building muscle or training for a race, but at the same time, helping prevent injury in the future because I'm correcting those dysfunctional movement patterns and the imbalances that we have from everyday life. Absolutely. So I don't need to like cram on push-ups if I'm meeting you for the first time? Well, not cram on push-ups, but you may do some.  Are those things that you can tell? Yes, exactly. Based on when we do the screening and how your body moves and the certain movements that I have you go through, it's going to tell me what muscles are underactive or overactive. And basically what that means is which muscles are firing all the time and other muscles are hardly firing at all, so that we can create more of a balance in that muscular system in your body so that we can put you back in one piece so you're moving properly and you're not causing any pain and hopefully no longer feeling the pain that you were before. How much do your shoes matter in, you know, your gait and all that? Well, in regards to running, it's extremely important to have the right running shoes for running because you have to get a gait analysis and that's exactly the word to use. I'm surprised not everyone knows that. Well, you know, because I have my knee problem, so I wonder about that. So when you're doing the assessment, do you say, okay, you run a certain way, you need to get a different shoe before I can even start working with you? Well, that's more on the running side. In the side of doing the body blueprint and everything, that's more when I'm having a client come to me for whatever it may be, strength training. Sometimes it is range training, but then I send them to a running specialist that can actually do the gait analysis on them. I can see the precursors of it, but I actually let someone else do that who specializes in running shoes. I don't specialize in running shoes, but I get them there. But so that's not important with strength training to have? Well, you do want the right shoe, but it's not necessarily one that you have to have your whole gait analyzed. You just want a shoe that's stable. So for example, a lot of times I recommend a cross training shoe. So not only is it stable in a forward and backward motion, but also side to side. And then that's pretty much what you need in the gym. And how much do you work with people as far as what they're eating and their nutrition? All the time. Nutrition is a huge part of getting to any goal, whatever it may be. So I always give nutrition guidance to my clients because that's, to be honest, a majority of it sometimes. Because, you know, I know a lot of people who are like, okay, I'm working out so I can eat whatever I want, like me and chocolate is what I want. Is there truth to that? Yeah, that's true. There are people that do that. And to be honest, when someone does start working out, yes, you can splurge a little bit. And that's part of life.  I mean, we all have something. Thank you. We can work together then. Right, exactly. Perfect.  It's just about definitely using moderation. But if you don't have your diet on track, can you get the results you want still? You can. I like it. I've never heard that. It's just going to take a lot more hard work on the other aspect, but nutrition is still a part of it. Okay. Because that's what I think about. I'm like, well, it's going to be, you know, like 20 more reps that I'd have to do to work out that little brownie bite. I mean, is that how it plays out, basically? Not necessarily, no. It's different with every client. It depends on what your goal is. It's kind of hard to say in the general terms, but nutrition is a huge part of it. But you still can get away with eating some of the good stuff. Okay. And when you have someone, how long does it take when you do the blueprint to get them on track to like where they can actually do the routine you want them to do? Okay. Well, the blueprint itself usually takes at least an hour, sometimes a little bit more, because I'm really going into the history of the client in regards to medical history, surgeries, physical fitness history, because between all of that and the results that I find, then I'm also finding out what is their goal, because the goal is to get them to where they want to get as quickly as possible. But at the same time, I'm kind of help fixing, correct at the same time. And then we go into a strength program, but the assessment itself is about an hour or so. Okay. So you see, you do it in conjunction. You like fix them and they don't even know it. Sometimes that's the case. All right. Well, I like that. I like your style. Good. So when you're thinking about working with a personal trainer, you really want someone who is going to do a full assessment on you. So whether they call it a body blueprint or whatever, you know, a bit full analysis, they need to make sure they're customizing their workout plan for you. We'll be back with more Every Way Woman. Come with Every Way Woman.


Hi, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. I am a DevOps engineer at Zerodha. I'm primarily interested in monitoring and observability systems, like using Periscope, sorry, using Prometheus and Grafana. I blog where I share interesting things about monitoring and just Networks in Sindel at mrcannon.dev. And I also happen to have my own self hosted stack of applications that I use. So this blog, this monitoring thing is also inspired from the same set of principles where I host a lot of applications. So I need to monitor them. So I thought, why not monitor my network as well? So we are in the lockdown since like seven, eight months at the moment. And ISPs of all the things have taken a huge hit because everyone's been working from home. And as you know that retail network lines, they are not really meant for such high load at a very sudden spike. Like the moment the lockdown has been started, there have been some of the other ISP problems which keep on happening. And people in various groups keep on reporting. So what I wanted to see was what kind of problems is my ISP giving me. And a lot of times it happens that sometimes your friend thinks you that he checked xyz.com is up or not. And your internet, it might be fine, but his internet, there might be issues. And it happens even with the same internet provider. So I used to have a lot of these conversations in my company group. So I thought why not just kind of get an overview of how the network is basically performing. So that was the whole idea behind monitoring my ISP. So before diving in the final solution, I had a couple of alternatives which I'd like to discuss here. One of them was smoke pink. So smoke pink is a very old monitoring solution for network basically where it's a PHP application and it gives you a lot of interesting information about your network using ICMP probes. So but the problem with this is that it comes with its own graphs, its own monitoring and alerting system. And I was already running Grafana in my own digital solution VPS. So I didn't want to add another monitoring service just for this one service. So that's that's the only reason I decided against smoking. The other was a speed test CLI exporter. I actually ran this for a week or something, but then I realized every, every speed test you do, it costs you around 50, 70 MB of your bandwidth and running this frequently every five minutes or something. It's not really recommended if you are on a internet plan, which has FEPs, which is basically almost every plan, a detailed plan. So that was one reason I didn't go ahead with speed test other than that. Another reason is that a lot of ISPs appear into the upstreams which speed test site uses. So you might get a flawed information that your internet is working fine and fast, but it can happen that a lot of regions are very slow for your internet and that happens in the, and that doesn't assimilate the real life browsing experience. Just like comparing just benchmarks versus real life experience. So that's why I thought of a speed test is not a great idea. Then before I, I mean I interacted with Gaurav as he said on the forum, I was almost tempted to go ahead with my own simple solution, which was just to ping a couple of sites in a shell script and output them to a SQLite DB and I have written a program goal and program which converts the DB data to Prometheus output format, Prometheus wire format. So I was almost tempted to go ahead with this, but then when I interacted with Gaurav and I found his solution is much more superior and does basically the same thing. So I thought I should not rather reinvent the wheel and check out telegraph. So telegraph is basically, it's also a go program and it basically has this concept of plugins. So plugins are just agents where you can give input, output and filter plugins to do a lot of custom monitoring stuff for the infrastructure. So I was particularly interested in the ping plugin, which basically uses glinted ping, which is a Golang dependency. It also comes with a native mode where it just runs a ping executable available on an operating system. So you can specify whatever mode you want to run it with. I chose the Golang mode because it's more consistent across OSS. And I was rather very confused about this fact. I mean, I had a wrong assumption about telegraph that it only works with influx DB, but that's not true. I was looking around the documentation and it actually supports an output plugin to Prometheus. So that was perfect for me. I mean, I really just wanted the Prometheus format for my existing monitoring solution. And it's not just ping plugin. You can even run DNS plugin, which I'm running because I have my own DNS server on Pyhole, which I wanted to monitor as well. And you can even run HTTP plugins, which can monitor the layer 7 upstreams BCP. Telegraph configuration is very simple. I'll share a sample configuration after this session is over. But the basic idea is, like I said, you just have plugins. So input plugin, you define, it's in the Tamil format. And honestly, it's very refreshing to see a Tamil over YAML in any of the ops tool these days.  And these are all the standard ping arguments that you give. And you just specify the output plugin right now, which I already told it's Prometheus for me. And you just get these metrics in the Prometheus format. So these are the type of metrics that it exposes for the ICMP monitoring. And you can basically get a lot of data with just three or four metrics by writing queries using the promql, which is the Prometheus query language and visualize this in Grafana. So if you see, this is the basic dashboard where I have a list of upstreams, which I've defined in my configuration. And I use Grafana to basically visualize all the metrics which are flowing in. So I'll just go through a couple of patterns that you can gauge through all these, all the metrics which are exposed by a telegraph to sort of fit in your use case about how you're monitoring or whatever the use case you are looking for, you're able to do it yourself basically. So one of them, it's a packet loss. Packet loss issue keeps on happening almost like fairly frequently because let's say you are in Delhi right now and upstream in Singapore is failing due to ISP routing issues. So these are very frequent, but packet loss beyond a certain percentage, that's when it kind of impacts a real browsing experience. So in my particular use case, what happens is if I see a lot of packet loss, I tend to reboot the router and that kind of fixes my problem. If you notice that on 1050, I just lost my internet and before that I was getting some packet loss. So what I do is I can basically, I can plug these from Ethis Alerts to Alert Manager which allows me to define a webhook endpoint, HTTP webhook endpoint. And there I can write all my custom scripts like if I get a packet loss alert, I can just do a reboot. So I'm running this on my Raspberry Pi and I just have all of this is localized. So I just have all the shell script and all the very basic HTTP endpoints written over there. Secondly, this one pattern where basically I had a downtime during the night because some ISP maintenance work was happening or something like that. And before that also you can see the ping time had spiked up.  But sadly in India or I guess anywhere you can't really enforce these SLAs or at least on the retail connections. If you're on corporate lines then it's a different thing. But yeah, if you're on corporate lines then this can be useful because you can have your own uptime metric and you can give them a report that if your SLAs beached. But interestingly, and this happened just yesterday as I'm giving my talk on my mobile internet and this talk about monitoring your home internet. So what happened was, so I have ATIL in my hometown and ATIL just started randomly digging in just front of my house in the name of just putting in the fiber cables. So I'm not having internet since like last 30 hours right now and this is the uptime metric I've captured and this is 24 hours of time metric which was taken in the afternoon. So I still don't have an internet but at least I have my graphs to see that I don't have internet. So this one is also interesting. So there's a metric called ping result code in telegraph which gives you one or zero value. Zero means it's successful. One means that the host is not found and actually it returns two also two means some other LL. So one means a host not found that means it's a DNS problem like all the other things it's always DNS. So you can see the both the time frame actually match with some issues in my DNS server. So this is the graph of the DNS query time where the DNS query time just on an average it just spiked during 242 3 p.m. And that's the same time where my ping result code was also showing some DNS related issues. So that could possibly mean that either my piehole or the way I connect through my DNS server which is still scale which is a my guard mesh network either of these were having issues and if I want to dig in I can basically get some more information from this graph and I can dig through the problem. And yeah this is again a packet loss metric where I can see if packet losses more than x percentage 40% this is really noticeable if you're browsing any any site because like in your TCP packet has to go back and forth if such high packet losses there. So you can see which particular upstream you get this packet loss a very high packet loss for basically. So it usually happens for the sites in US East one or similar area areas where the ISP routing is not really efficient or or in the cases where the CDNs are hosted not in the country but in places where your network your ISP operator doesn't have a proper pairing to it. So you can you can see that as well.


and welcome another episode of The Nonprofit Show. Today is day three of Nonprofit Power Week with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Today we have with us Jill Krumbacher. Jill joins us and serves as the Senior Vice President, Marketing and Development at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.  I'm excited for this conversation. I knew that this was day three of our Nonprofit Power Week, but it's a fantastic conversation for us to have. And I'm really looking forward to having this with you, Jill. But before we jump into our conversation, we want to remind our viewers and our listeners who we are. So hello to Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I'm Jared Ransom, your non-profit nerd, CEO of the Raven Group. And again, we are honored to have the ongoing support from our very amazing presenting sponsors that include Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption for this week's Power Week, Fundraising Academy at National University, Bee Generous, your part-time controller, staffing boutique, non-profit thought leader, and the non-profit nerd. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to these companies. And we encourage you to check them out because their mission is your mission. So do check them out. They're here to help you elevate your programs or awareness, your mission across your community. And again, if you missed any of our almost 700 episodes, you can find us on Roku, YouTube, Amazon, Fire TV, Bimeo, as well as podcasts. So listen to the non-profit show wherever you stream your podcast as well. And again, today, we are so thrilled, Jill. Welcome back, my friend. Again, for those of you watching and listening, Jill Krumbacher, Senior VP, Marketing and Development at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. So thrilled to have you. It's great to be here again. You ladies are always fun to talk to and we've got a great topic today. Well, thank you. And again, for those of you watching and listening, you know, Jill really comes to us, comes to us with so much insight personally and professionally.  Is that correct, Jill? I am. I have one biological daughter, an adopted son and an adopted daughter. So yes, one adoption from foster care as a teen and one adoption internationally. So fans got them all covered. Yeah. Love it. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for that.  And yet maybe we really haven't been there. Maybe we haven't, we really don't know the path. And yet we have to stand up and we have to, you know, champion that mission. And so I always love it when we can find somebody in leadership that knows this path because it just, I think, makes it more authentic and genuine and accurate. And so super cool. I think when we first met you, we didn't know that we just thought you were a hired gun that had, you know, background and marketing and PR and development.  But this is a really cool and sacred thing for anybody in the nonprofit sector. I think it is amazing. So we have a lot to talk about. So we're going to jump right in. And we're going to ask you is how do you choose your speakers and storytellers for something that is such a profound topic and very emotional? Right, right. So speakers are one thing and storytellers are another because, you know, in our world, speakers are often talking about the mission of the organization.  But a storyteller for us is usually coming out of the community that we serve. And so when we are looking for the storytellers, we're looking for a couple of things. Number one, we are looking for people that we've served. It could be a youth that's been adopted often or family that has adopted. But we're looking for that youth in particular who is not currently in their trauma, if you would. So for us, our trauma topic, there are a lot of trauma topics is not having family, you know, and and living in that foster care situation and not having a permanent family. And so we look for the storyteller who has, in our instance, always been adopted, now has been adopted and can look back and reflect on. And there's a number of reasons for that. And we'll talk more about that as we go. But we are looking for someone who is out of it looking back. And we're looking for someone who can, you know, really share from the heart, open up a little bit. But we're talking about youth in a lot of cases. And so sometimes that's hard to judge. But, you know, we're looking for family members and youth who can reflect back, who can share more of the emotion behind our story, how we feel about things. But always from an after point kind of looking back is what we hope to find from storyteller. Now, let me ask you another question, because as we have an aging society or population that is further removed from your founder story, the Wendy's Connection, Dave Thomas, do you spend time sharing that origination story as much? Or are you more into what the current market, and I'm going to use the word marketplace, but the current service market is? I mean, how do you navigate those two things? We do, of course, talk about our founder and that origin story, more so on things like our website, more so on things like annual report, you know, he will always be brought here because of his vision and how he set up this organization. None of us would be here. None of this would get done without him having done. So we don't want to lose it. But typically in the marketing and fundraising work that we do, we don't have much time. Right. And if you've got to pick one topic, whether it's an ad that's popping up on the internet, or, you know, it's a PSA video, you don't have much time radio ad, you get straight to the issue at hand. So typically, because of the length of time that we have, we can't make that connection. And we go straight to the cause, straight to the problem. Interesting. Thank you. Thank you. Because I love what you said. I totally see that. And I think that's really smart. And that's a really smart way to go. You really, really do. Well, and I love the delineation of speakers versus storytellers. And I always love when agencies, you know, use their client to tell the story and how you shared the difference there.  So I appreciate how you share, you know, choosing your speaker and choosing your storyteller and how, how you go about doing that. Right. Yeah. Yes. So I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, no, go ahead. I along those lines of what you just said. And Jared, you framed this up beautifully because you have to deal with a really tough, tough story. So how are you mindful of this storytelling? How are you keeping your folks, you know, the stories private where they need to and the traumatic aspect of this? Those are a lot of balls to juggle in the media air. They certainly are. And so I think this is a challenge that's so unique to human services, the ones, you know, those of us that are working in the nonprofits that are dealing with human beings, you know, certainly there's ethical issues around animals and, and, you know, and around some other things and the environment. But with human beings, we have souls that feel that trauma. And we can bring back to mind things that maybe those, those human beings have wrestled with for many, many years. And so that is what we're trying to keep in mind when we're looking at our storytellers. We want to be sure that they are ready and that they are willing to share their story. But even when they are ready and they're willing, sometimes after they do it, they still feel the effects of that, even though I'm willing, even though I know this important is the story is important to tell. And I'm game, I might not see what's going to come at me the next day or the next week when I've just sort of relived those moments in my head. And so those are kind of conversations that we often have with the families as they are thinking about telling their story and having their youth involved telling their story. And we need them to tell their story, right? So we want them to, but we want to be really careful that we let them know what might come, you know, that that this can bring back memories that they hadn't thought about a while, or they hadn't voiced in a while. And that, you know, scheduling an appointment with a counselor, you know, shortly after might be a great idea, right? And just to think about that and expect that, you know, a little bit is those conversations we like to have with the parents. What about Jill? Nowadays, you know, we all have access to recording devices and whether the event is intended to be recorded or that story is intended to be recorded. I think we have to show up with the assumption that at any given point, anything we say or do could be recorded. How do you address that when it comes to ethical storytelling from the storyteller's point of view? Right, right. So, you know, a lot of the storytelling that we do is controlled by us in the sense that we are heavy video takers.  We are in control of where we share it. And we take extra steps, for instance, to make sure that when they are giving us permission to share their stories, like we just changed our form, where they're giving us legal forms, where they're giving us permission to spell out in detail for them. It's not just all mass media, because you think, okay, well, what does that mean? But this could be a billboard, like you could be driving down the road and you might see your face on a billboard. This could mean, you know, an ad on the internet as you're browsing. This could mean so that they can sort of get an idea around what it is they're agreeing to, because all of those things don't necessarily come into mind. What you're talking about is iPhones and all of that is at events. And that is less so frequent for us and often very corporate audiences who tend to respect that a little bit more. But we do ask audiences to not, you know, air any of that stuff, you know, because again, we're dealing with children. And usually when you're dealing with youth, people can usually behave a little bit more and think about that. So we've not had a huge problem with that. Thankfully, we try to control but really be as clear as we can be with the families as they're considering all the ways that this might show up for them so they can think through it. That makes sense. The one thing I think of often, and we refer to this, Julia, is that Benavon model, right? The breakfast event, that it's a free event and agencies pull in storytellers to share their story. But I often worry, Jill, that so many agencies are also not considering the trauma that this could incite for that individual. So thank you truthfully. Thank you and genuinely for how you do approach this and being mindful of the privacy and trauma. Now, you shared with us, you know, behind the scenes in our green room chatter, that safety over success kind of mantra that the foundation holds. Tell us a little bit about this. Sure. So we are definitely dedicated when we have to make a choice between the emotional health and safety, psychological health and safety of the people that we serve, of our youth and families, over the success of whatever it is that we're trying to achieve, often awareness, many times fundraising, that we always choose the safety of the youth and the family over our success. And that comes out in a number of ways. For instance, it would probably be a lot more successful for us in our fundraising acts if we show to youth in the middle of their crisis, in the middle of their breakdown, that youth that has not yet found an adoptive family. And there are many groups that take that route and they do that. But for us, we choose not to do that. It would, we would probably raise more money by zooming in on that pain. And you're still going to see pain after it's over as you're reflecting back. But for us, we don't want to zoom in on that pain. We don't want to have youth have to ask for an adoptive family and then not find one. And then what does that say about me? Right. So we're very committed to that idea of letting them look back and reflect versus taking that moment, which may bring in a more dollars when they're sort of in the middle of that very real and raw pain. But also, you know, we, since we do a lot of storytelling and a lot of video, we're sending people on flights, we invest a lot of money in going all across the country and to Canada to film these stories of youth and their families. And we will absolutely trash that video and throw it away when anything comes from that family where they don't want that story told for any reason afterwards. It's gone. It's shredded. It's no more. And so, and we've had to make, you know, we've made those decisions. We have gone out and just filmed a family and just paid for all the editing and just on all the stuff. And something changes within that family structure where they no longer feel comfortable. They've already signed the forms. It doesn't matter. It's gone. It's gone. Right. And so we will, that's what we mean by that. Their safety over our success every time without a doubt in all the ways that that could show up. You know, I appreciate that because I think that that needed to be said, that needs to be communicated as to all the different types of people that watch the nonprofit show is that sometimes you can make these investments and ultimately you got to end them because they're not appropriate. They're not ethical. They're not ultimately going to help anybody that they're intended to help. But I'm very curious about it seems to me having followed you now for quite a while. It seems to me that you are moving towards and I would call this like a more joyful approach, like demonstrating and this is such a drilled down word but happiness like the joyful aspect of a new family commitment. Is that true or is that just really what's happening? It is true and it is what's happening. You know, we do know though that we can't focus only on happy. So we are telling those happy endings because if people don't understand the sad side of the story and almost get angry about the sad side of the story, they are not going to take action. So it's a balance. So we make a financial choice not to zoom into that, to really make use of that and build up that anger, right? And to get people, you know, get people to give or whatever it is that we want them to do, we have to find a way to do that on the other side when there is a happy ending and when the youth is looking back. But that's why we often ask the youth to describe how did it, how did it feel, you know, when you didn't have a family? How did it feel when you didn't have a safe place to live? How did it feel to move from house to house to house to house? Because if we just told the happy story all the time, we found that, well, that's great. They've got it covered. Great. They don't need our help, right? We don't, I don't need to get involved. And no, we do need everybody to get involved. And we need people to understand that without this work that's happening, that wouldn't have changed and there wouldn't have been a happy ending. So it's a balance of the two. Definitely telling the happy story about we would be remiss if we left out the heartbreak that initially happened because that's what moves people to act. We just don't want to abuse that side of it in order to get, you know, larger financial returns. Yeah. And I think we all know, I mean, let's be honest, we can all think to like those billboards that definitely focus on the crisis.  Like though that it clearly works, right? Like it clearly works because it's being done. But how else might we shift and shape the landscape to truly honor that privacy as well as the potential trauma that it could evoke? This is all so fantastic. Let's move into honoring the heroes. Let's tell us about this because I love the safety of our success.  But, you know, how do you also honor the true heroes in your storytelling? I think it's really easy when your storytelling or when you're working for a nonprofit to make yourself the hero in a tragic situation. Yeah. And that gets a lot of, listen, it can get a lot of airplay and get a lot of notice from donors who want to come in. But the truth is we may come along and assist and help, but the true hero in our case, and I think in every case, if you stop to think about it again in human services is the youth that we're serving and the family that has stepped up. Those two are the heroes. They have their own strength that has seen them through what they've lived through. They have found their own inspiration to walk into a youth's life and to be that change. They are the heroes. We may come in and have a peace that is super important even, but we are not the hero. They are. And so I think having that mindset when you step in to do this work will help you create the story that is ethical, if you can keep that in mind. Five years from now, when they look back and they watch this video of their start, are they going to feel proud of themselves? Are they going to feel like, look at me and look what I've come through and look what I've become?  I may not. That's not real. It's not true. And you never want to have that effect on a youth. So understanding and building up their strength, what they've done to keep going and what the families have done to wrap around is always here. And we've got to keep that in the right balance as a nonprofit. Again, working in human services, you've got to get that right. You know, I'm fascinated by so many of these things.  When you talk about this process that you're doing, I'd like to drill down a little bit and ask you some mechanical things. Like how many families or children are you filming a year? And if you're doing video, are you also taking still photography at that same time? Can you walk us through what that might look like? We don't have a lot of time left, but it's such, I think, a really interesting aspect to get your hands around. Yeah. We are filming between six to 10 families a year probably. And so all across the country and in Canada, it's a scheduling thing to make that all happen. And we do also take still shots on most of those. And then out of those videos will come out of each family will come 10 to 12 videos, at least, right? Of different lengths or different focuses. So we might be focusing on the parent side of the story or the child side of the story. Or in our case, we have adoption recruiters that work with these families. So we might really zoom in on those. So as time has gone by, we're doing more and more. So we're closer probably to 8 to 10, but lots and a lot of video content is coming out of that. And then we turn a lot of that into blog and written storytelling as well that you can read more about on the website. And then a lot of quotes that we pull out of it to use in visual communication. So lots of mining of information out of those 8 to 10 family videos shoots. And then that how long does that content last for you? Like how long do you as an organization actually keep using that content? Yeah, we use it for a couple of years, probably we're heavy in the first year. We'll use some different cuts of it into the second year. Occasionally, we will choose a family where we filmed them five years ago and we want to do a where are you now? And so we might pull sort of that here's where they were. And now let's check in and see what's happening. Oh, this youth is in college. This family's adopted two more. Oh my goodness, right. And so we'll we'll do it that way. But we do we are constantly creating new content and building a library for us since we're a national organization, making sure we have stories in as many states as we can have. Diversity is important. And so we want to make sure that people can see themselves reflected in the content that we're putting out. And so that's important. And so that that those things leave us with creating a lot of video and a lot of content and using it for a couple of years. Well, and when you can repurpose and repackage in so many ways and to really maximize and leverage the time of the family and the story, what a fantastic opportunity to really, again, just maximize, you know, that impact. And as you said, in other states across the nation, even Canada, right, like, having the access to this, one of the things that I've learned, you know, in marketing, and it's really funny. And maybe some people don't think of it, you know, I reside in Arizona. Well, if you give me a skyline of another city, I'm going to know that that's not my skyline. So having those little tweaks for your, your community and in the geography in which you reside, I think, again, it just, it resonates, right? It helps to tell the story in a humanistic, relatable manner. Right. Absolutely. Well, this has been great. I mean, we are, we're very interested in you Jill specifically, because you're one of the rare leaders in the nonprofit sector that manages not only your marketing, but also the development. And we've had you want to talk about this. We're going to actually have you back on later in the week. It's such an interesting, interesting structure that the Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption has taken. And it seems to have been very successful. And Jared and I have talked about this off and on. How in the heck do you do it? We have no idea, because it's such great stuff, great stuff. But it's great leadership, because it's such a stunning concept to take these two major pieces and put them together. And so very interesting. And so for those of you watching or listening to the nonprofit show today, that's really where a lot of Jill Krombacker's genius comes from is understanding and straddling, you know, the marketing communications along with the development. And so it's a very, very interesting thing. For those of you not familiar with the Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption, or even if you are, I really encourage you to go on and look at their website. It is masterfully done, well branded. It's on message. It's extremely organized and a real achievement, I think, and something to look at. No matter the size of your nonprofit, there are just gems in there that you can pick out. So check out DaveThomasFoundation.org and watch for more of Jill Krombacker, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Development for the Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption. What an amazing, amazing storyteller you are for your organization. Thank you. Thank you, Julie and Jared. It's been a pleasure. Always. And I just want to put it out there. Maybe next year for our nonprofit Power Week, maybe we can join you in your office. I think that would be great to broadcast from there and to see some of the staff in action because as you just referenced as every good leader would your staff, right? So thank you for that. Yeah. Yeah, it's really been amazing. Just to remind everybody, this is one of those unique things that Jared and I only do a couple of times a year. It's been nonprofit Power Week. We pick one organization, a topic, and then we drill down for five days with that group. And it's very arduous for both sides, for both teams, but it's really where we get a lot of amazing insight that really digs deep into how to be more successful with our missions. Again, I'm Julia Patrick. I've been joined by the nonprofit nerd herself, Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group. Again, we want to thank all of our partners that have allowed us to have this incredibly meaningful and robust conversation for nonprofit Power Week, American Nonprofit Academy, Blumerang, Dave Thomas Foundation, Fundraising Academy at National University, Be Generous, your part-time controller, nonprofit nerd, nonprofit thought leader, and staffing boutique. These are the folks that are with us day in, day out. Jared, what did you say the number was for the episode? Gosh, of course you're going to ask me to do that. I think you're like six, seven, two or something like that. Yeah, but we're coming up on 700 right around Christmas. Yeah, amazing. Well, Jill, thank you so much for what you do within your organization, within our communities.  And I think Jared and I always feel really excited when we can learn from another leader on how to do it right and how that makes the mission more successful. It's been really an honor to spend this time with you. So thank you. Yeah, thank you, race. Hey, we like to end every episode. We want to remind ourselves, our viewers, our listeners, our guests to stay well so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone. Thanks so much, ladies.


From New York City, it's theCUBE covering New Relic Future Stack 2019. Brought to you by New Relic. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and this is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of New Relic's Future Stack 2019 here in New York City. Seventh year of the show, our first year here, about 600 or so in attendance and really excited because we've had some of the users here to help kick off our coverage and joining us, first time guest on the program, Josh Bigley, he's a senior engineer of enterprise modeling with Cartner Health, coming to us from a little bit further north and east than I do, Prince Edward Island. Thanks so much for coming here to New York City and joining me on the program. Yeah, thanks for having me, Stu. I'm excited to be here. I haven't been in New York. It's probably been more than two decades. So it's a nice to be back in a big city. I live in a very small place. Yeah, so if you go to Times Square, it's now Disneyland is what we call it. It's not the 42nd Street that it might have been a couple of decades ago. I grew up about 45 minutes from here, so it's gone through a lot. Love the city, especially gorgeous weather we're having here in the fall. I'm excited for it. All right, so Josh, Cartner Health, Health is in the name, so we think we understand a little bit about it, but tell us a little bit about the organization itself and how it's going through changes these days. Sure, so Cartner Health is a global healthcare solutions provider. We are essential to care, which means we deliver the products and solutions that your healthcare providers need to literally cure disease, keep people healthy. So we're in 85% of the hospitals in the United States, 26,000 pharmacies, about 3 million different home healthcare users receive products from us. Again, we're global, so we're based in Dublin, Ohio, just outside of Columbus, but obviously I live in Canada, so I work for the Cartner Health Canada Division. We've got acquisitions around the world, so yeah, it's an exciting company. We've recently gone through a transformation, not only as a company, but from a technology side, where we've shifted one of our data centers entirely into the cloud. All right, and Josh, your role inside the company tells us a little bit about kind of, you said it's global, what's under your purview? Yeah, so my team is responsible for enterprise monitoring, and that means that we develop, deploy, support, and integrate solutions for monitoring both infrastructure applications and digital experience for our customers. We have a number of tools, including New Relic that we use, but it's a broad scope for a small team. Okay, and you talked about that transformation, walk us through a little bit about that, what led to, as you said, some big moves into public cloud? Yeah, our team is part of an overall effort to allow Cartner Health to be more adaptive, to be more agile. The move to cloud allows teams that are developing applications and platforms to make a decision how to respond to the needs of their customers more rapidly.  We want to allow people to provision on demand.  He does not say fail often, although sometimes I do that, but that's okay. As long as you recognize that you're failing and can roll that back, redeploy. It's been really transformative for my team in particular, who was very infrastructure focused when I started with the company five years ago. All right, and can you bring us inside from your application portfolio? Was it a set of applications? Was it an entire data center? What moved over? How long did it take? And can you share what cloud you're using? Sure, so it's been about a two-year journey. We're actually a multi-cloud company. We've got a small footprint in Azure, small footprint in AWS, but we're primarily in Google Cloud. We are shutting down one data center. We are minimizing another data center. And we've moved everything. We've moved everything from small bespoke applications that are targeted on a team to entire e-commerce platforms. And we've done everything from lift and shift, which I know you don't like to hear, but we've done lift and shift. We've done re-hosting. We've done refactoring. And we've re-architected entire platforms. Yeah, so if you could expand a little bit, when we say lift and shift, I'm fine with lift and shift as long as there's another word or plan after that, which I'm expecting you do have. Yeah, absolutely. So the lift and shift was, hey, let's move from our data centers into GCP. Let's give teams the visibility, the observability that they need so that they can make the decisions on what they need to do best. In a lot of cases, in fact, in 15% of the 6,500 servers that we touched, we actually full out decom the instance. Teams had them, they were running in our data centers, but they weren't actually providing any value to the company. So you said your team before was mostly concerned about infrastructure. And a lot of what you did is now on GCP.  Absolutely not. The principles of enterprise monitoring as a practice still apply in the cloud. We are at heart data geeks and I would fair say that we're actually data storytellers. Our job is to give tools and methodologies to application teams who know what the data means in context, but we give the tools to provide that data to them. All right, I love that. I believe I've actually seen data geek shirts at the New Relic shows itself, but data storytellers, that was the kind of thing that you heard. I have a data scientist that's going to help us to do this.  So that is the unique part. Data storytelling is not a data science. I wish that I could be a data scientist. I like math, but I'm not nearly that good at it. A data storyteller takes data and the narrative of the business and weaves them together. I mean, when you tell someone here's some data, they will look at it and they will develop their own narrative around it. But as a storyteller, you help craft that narrative for them. They're going to look at that data and they're going to feel it. They're going to understand it and it's going to motivate them to act in a way that is aligned with what the business objectives are. So data storytellers come in all forms. They come as monitoring engineers, they are app engineers, but they're also people who are facing the customer. They're business leaders. They're people in our distribution centers who are trying to understand the impacts of orders in their order flow, in their personnel that they have. It is a discipline that anyone can engage in if we're willing to give them the right tools. All right, so Josh, you got rid of a data center. You're not using a data center. You're shifting to cloud. You're making a lot of changes and now being able to tell data stories. Can you tell us organizationally, everything goes smoothly? Are there any things that you learned along the way that maybe you could share with your peers to kind of help them along that journey and any kind of rough spots with hindsight being what it is that you might be able to learn from? Yeah, so hindsight, definitely 2020. The one thing that I would say to folks is get your data right. Metadata, trusting your data is key. It's absolutely vital. We talk a lot about automation and automation is one of those things that the cloud enables very nicely.  That was one of our struggles and I think that every organization struggles with data fidelity, but teams need to spend more time in making sure that their data, specifically the metadata around, hey, is this prod, is it non-prod? You know, what stack is this running? Who built it? Those things definitely need to be sorted out. Okay, talk about kind of observability and the monitoring that you do. How long have you been using New Relic and what products and tell us a little bit about that journey? Sure, so we've been using New Relic for about two years.  We are a multi-tool company, so we have a number of tools. Some of them are focused primarily on our network infrastructure, our on-prem storage. Although Cardinal has moved predominantly to the cloud, we have distribution centers, nuclear pharmacies all around the world, and those facilities have not gone into the cloud. So you've got network connectivity. New Relic for us has filled our cloud niche and observability, as Lou announced, is going to give us context to things that we're after, right? You hear the term dark data. We call them ops logs. It's data that we want to have, we only need it for a very short period of time to help us do post-op or RCAs, as well as to look at overall in our organization the performance of the applications. For us, New Relic is going to give us an option to put data for observability. I mean, observability is really about high-fidelity data. In its world of cloud, everyone wants everything right now, and they also want it down to the millisecond. A platform that can pull that off, that's a remarkable thing. Yeah, Verucasalt had it right. I want it now. So are you using New Relic One yet? We have been using New Relic One for, I mean, at least a couple of months, going back into March this year. It's exciting. We're one of those companies that Lou talked about in his keynote. We have hundreds of sub-accounts, and we did so very intentfully, but it was a bit of a nightmare before we got to New Relic One. That ability to see, for a platform team, to see across multiple sub-accounts is really powerful. Okay, so you saw a lot of announcements this morning. Anything particular that jumped out you or you're excited because, Lou kept saying over and over, and if you're using New Relic One, this is free, this is free, this is free. That platform where it's all available for you now. I think the programmability is one of the things that really got me excited. I mean, one of the engineers on my team had a chance to go and sit with Lou and team two weeks ago, and was part of that initial hackathon, made some really interesting things. That's exciting, so shout out to Zach and the work that he did. Logging, for me, is something that is huge. I know we've got data that we should have in context, so that Lou announced five terabytes of ingestion for free. All I could do was clap my fingers together and think, oh, okay, you're asking for it, Lou, challenge accepted. That's exciting, right? So you feel that you're going to be building apps that sounds like already at the future hack that you're starting to move down that path. Definitely. I'm really excited, not to necessarily give it to my team. I mean, we build the patterns for teams that need patterns, but there are so many talented individuals at Cardinal Health who, if we give them the patterns to follow, they're just going to go execute. Open sourcing that is a brilliant idea. Really crowd sourcing development is the way to go. Yeah, I think you bring up a really interesting point. So even though your team might be the one that provides the platform, you're giving that programmability and sensibility to a broader audience inside the team and democratizing the data that you have in there. Yes, you keyed in on one of the things I love to talk about, which is that democratized access to data. Over and over again, you'll hear me preach that. I know what I know, but I also know what I don't know. And more particular, I don't know what I don't know. I need other people to help me recognize that. Well, and we've really talked about, that buzzword out there about digital transformation, when it is actually being happened, it goes from, oh, well, somebody had an opinion to, wait, I actually now can actually get to the data and show you the data and leverage the data to be able to take good actions on that. That's right, yeah, data-driven decision making is not just an idiom. It's not something that is a buzzword. It is a practice that we all need to follow. All right, so, Josh, you're speaking here at the show. Give our audience a quick taste, if you will, about what you're going to be sharing with your peers here at the show. I mean, we've actually talked about it a lot of already, so I hope that people are not going to watch this session before my session later, but it really is around the power of digital transformation, the power of observability, what happens when you do things right, and the way that cloud makes teams more nimble. I won't give you at all, because then, people won't watch my session on replay, but yeah, it'll be good. Yeah, well, definitely they should check that out. I'm hoping New Relic has that available on replay. Give you the final word here. What you're really hoping to kind of come out of this week sounds like your team's deeply engaged. You've done the hackathon. You're working with the executive team, so Future Stack 2019, what are you hoping to walk away with? For me, it's about developing patterns. My team, in addition to our enterprise architecture team, is responsible for mapping out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. Teams want to go fast, and if we're not going to lay down the foundation for them to move quickly, especially in the realm of enterprise monitoring, they're going to try to do it themselves, which may or may not work. I mean, we don't want to turn teams away from using specific tools if it fits, but if there's a platform that will allow them to execute and to keep all that data centralized, I mean, that is really the key to observability. Having that high-fidelity data, but then being able to ask questions, not just of the data that you put in, but the data that was put in maybe by a platform team or by a team that supported Kubernetes or PCF. All right, well, Josh Bigley, thank you so much for sharing all that you've been going through in Cardinal Health transformations. It's great to talk to you. Thanks so much, Stu. All right, lots more here at New Relics Future Stack 2019. I'm Stu Miniman, as always. Thank you for watching theCUBE.


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First and foremost congratulations Karim Lee on 30 days of sobriety but in this video we're going to be asking is Karim Lee an alcoholic? What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being or maybe help someone you know so if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and before we jump into the topic two quick announcements this video is posted at 7 a.m. saturday february 23rd and at 10 a.m. pacific standard time I will be doing my charity livestream to help support project beauty share which is what that Tayla is doing her 15 days of foundation on so come join the livestream I will be doing makeup answering questions and all money that we raise will be going straight to project beauty share and it's going to be wonderful but the second thing is since we're going to be talking about addiction alcoholism and all that stuff don't forget over on my website the science of addiction course is now 100% free go check it out learn educate yourself more about the disease of addiction whether you're somebody in active addiction in recovery you have a loved one or just simply share it and help educate more people about addiction so we can help in the stigma and help even more people all right but anyways so yeah Karin Lee she just uploaded a video about how she was sober for 30 days now I was unfamiliar with Threadbanger and Karin and all that stuff my beautiful girlfriend Tristan recently introduced me to their channel absolutely love it but my twitter started blowing up and people were asking about you know Karin Lee hey you should make a video on this so Tristan and I you know we're just chilling on a Friday night and we decided to watch it so I checked it out and I just want to you know kind of break uh break it down a little bit and I want to talk about different parts so in some parts I might be talking to Karin if you ever watch this girl I'm gonna be talking to you or I'm gonna be talking to you the audience if you can relate to Karin or I'm gonna be talking to you the audience if you know somebody who is like Karin all right so let's get started probably doesn't sound like a lot to most of you but I think the longest I've gone without drinking since high school was maybe two weeks and that's not a long time I'll be 38 years old at the end of January and I feel like I really need to get my s*** together all right so first and foremost like yeah she talks about drinking as well as smoking for years right and later on in the video she talks about how I think it was around day 12 that's you know she's only been sober that long you know like two or three times in her entire life and girl I can definitely relate to that and by the way if I forgot to mention it earlier I am a drug addict and alcoholic in recovery I've been clean since my 27th birthday in June of 2012 all right but yeah there are different reasons why people decide to sober up and by the end of this video I'll be talking about how addiction is kind of like on a spectrum okay but you know the new year is always a great time to start and when I first saw her start to you know do this I'm like girl you got a journey ahead of you because you talked about some of the things you know you know birthday concert all sorts of stuff and it's like that's a lot to stay sober through and I've dabbled throughout the years with meditation and trying to start a regular practice but never fully committed myself and I'm thinking this would be a good time to maybe try to do that oh I can't even tell you how excited I got when Corinne said she was gonna start meditating and and I'm gonna be completely honest I mean girl I thought you were gonna be like yeah audible you know that's the only reason why you plugged it but at this part right here so there's a theme that keeps presenting itself to me over and over and over again and that is the theme of meditation now I learned about meditation many many years ago from a Buddhist monk named Tana Heng definitely saying his name wrong and I apologize for that I believe it's pronounced tick not hon all right and I'm so glad she mentioned him he is one of my favorite favorite favorite meditation teachers he has so many books that are just amazing some of them are not you know on audible and you can only get the regular copy like the the paper copy or the the kindle copy and yeah I absolutely love it like I think the first book I read of his a short one was called the miracle of mindfulness I highly recommend that one I know that one's on audible but like he covers so many different topics you saw Corinne kind of scrolling through it everything from fear to anger you know to all sorts of things and I absolutely love this dude one of my favorite books if any of you are like trying to diet or lose weight like I am when I started my weight loss journey about a year ago or so maybe a little longer there's a book that he wrote with a doctor and it's called savor so there's a lot of science in there as well as different mindfulness techniques for losing weight so I highly recommend that book savor as well I'll link down below some of these books by him absolutely phenomenal I'm so glad that Corinne decided to start meditating and she actually surprised me a little bit later in this video so I picked up the camera right now because I'm experiencing a little anxiety Rob went to the store to pick up some things for a project that he's doing and it just like freaks me out gonna make me cry I'm just always so afraid that something bad's gonna happen so I try to prepare myself for the worst and it really sucks to live like that I'm hoping I can find some coping mechanisms so I don't have those negative thoughts all the time because right now I'm just afraid Rob is never gonna come home are these normal feelings that people have I don't know why does my mind always go to the dark side I'm gonna try not to think about negative things I'm gonna go work out do some yoga and meditation and hopefully that makes me feel better all right so right there right there so when she was talking about like the anxiety around Rob never coming home this is this is very common okay like Corinne was talking about her anxiety forming after her mother unfortunately passed away and this is something that can happen it can trigger anxiety like some like even though Corinne later talks about her trauma and I'm gonna touch on that in a second like trauma is different for everybody and especially when it comes to grief like losing someone like that close to you especially like you know your mother like this can cause a trauma and trauma triggers anxiety all right so like her fear of Rob not coming home like it's very very you know realistic for anybody who struggles with anxiety now as she was talking about that and she was like normal people think this and these thoughts and blah blah blah and I was like girl you better start meditating and then she said she's like she's gonna go do some yoga and go meditate yes yes yes yes so meditation is not about stopping your thoughts it's about noticing your thoughts it's about noticing the wacky places that our brain goes and catching it and with meditation depending on what type you're doing you have an anchor by the way all of you need to go like if you want to get into mindfulness meditation just start doing yoga yoga is like moving meditation and by the way the channel that Corinne mentioned yoga with Adrienne uh that's the channel I actually was doing yoga with I did like a month or two of yoga and I might get back into it I should get back into it like there was a lot of stuff that I could do like I was afraid to do yoga as a heavyweight guy but like there was actually a ton of stuff that I could do and there was like a bunch of different positions all that but anyways get into yoga why don't I do more videos on yoga you need to remind me to do more videos on yoga not you Corinne but my audience y'all need to remind me to do some more videos on yoga the point is is that prior to today I probably would not watch this arch heli documentary because I myself experienced sexual abuse in high school at the hands of someone I trusted a relative and I really believe that was the catalyst for me to take on drinking as an almost everyday hobby that right there is something so so so relatable to so so many people okay so Corinne was talking about the abuse she suffered from as a teenager and this is what started to lead to self-medication all right and the reason this can develop into an addiction is because we're trying to get rid of those feelings there's three reasons people drink or use drugs okay just three we think there's a million but there's just three to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape so like right there it could have been a combination of the two if I were to guess like to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape and what happens is we start rewiring our brain so whenever we have those thoughts those memories those feelings whatever they are and we turn to substances our brain immediately connects that it grooves into our neural pathways and it's like okay anytime you're feeling like that turn to alcohol or drugs and the longer you do this more consistently that you do this it turns into an autopilot like for many people who struggle with addiction of drugs or alcohol they they don't even think about it like a lot of people like like I know me personally like I didn't want to drink I didn't want to use it wasn't even like having the same effect on me but I just kept doing it anyways because it was just so habitual I trained my brain to turn to substances for a wide range of triggers it's the first time in a really long time that I haven't been self-medicating all day with marijuana the alcohol really seems like it was the easier of the two to stop doing daily boom right there okay so those of you who know my channel I am pro weed okay if you want to smoke weed do your thing baby like even though I don't smoke and you know I'm 100 sober no no alcohol no drugs or anything I'm pro marijuana like I voted to have it passed for recreational use here in the state of Nevada and like you know it's great for medicinal reasons and you know it's it's actually less harmful than alcohol but I do want to point out that it is addictive so what Corinna is talking about is that she's recognizing that it was it's harder to live without weed than it is to live without alcohol okay it's a psychological addiction okay so like although like weed can be very beneficial to people for medical reasons or you just want to chill relax or whatever say for that alcohol but you can develop a psychological addiction okay like some people like ooh it's not a drug it's a plant like listen very carefully if you can come become addicted to gambling food shopping like you can become addicted to weed okay so on day 13 like Corinne is seeing the psychological dependence and where those cravings are coming from because she's so used to smoking just shake the rump hmm well I'm starting to lose track of how many days it's been so I feel like that's a good sign so on day 17 Corinne is like oh I don't even like what day is it well stop all of you stop right there doesn't matter what you're doing whether you're trying to quit alcohol drugs uh a poor habit or whatever take out your phone okay I'm not gonna tell you which one there's a million of them just go to your app store or the google play store whatever the heck your phone uses and just type in sobriety counter or clean time counter or whatever it is there are a million of them so I actually use one on my phone um it's part of a 12 step program but anyways anyways I have 6.66 years sober 79.96 months 2,436 days which equates to 58,461 hours sober all right you can get it on your freaking phone okay this way you never lose track just put it on your phone okay this is actually a very special day because it is the start of aquaria season there is a full blood wolf moon tonight and we're going to a concert which will definitely test our resolve for staying sober I think I've been to maybe one concert where I didn't drink alcohol yeah oh I got nervous right there Corinne I got nervous for you right there like going to a concert like sober and staying sober congratulations that is a huge one all right and I think there's two takeaways we could take from this right one of the biggest fears that people have when getting sober is like it's not gonna be fun I can't do anything fun like you're crazy I do everything that I used to do you know I I love going to shows in a month or two I'm gonna go see uh taking back Sunday with some of my buddies and things like that I live in Las Vegas okay like I do a ton a ton of fun things while being 100 sober took me a while to learn how to do that but I did okay so first thing huge myth is that you can't have fun sober Corinne is living proof I'm living proof millions of other people are living proof the second thing is it is difficult especially in early sobriety I think I went to my first concert when I had about four months sober I came back to Las Vegas real quick story time I came back to Las Vegas to visit my son and there was actually a show I think it was yeah it was Newfound Glory and me and my buddy were gonna go one of my best friends I grew up with and right before the concert which was at a bar we were playing some video poker and I won a thousand dollars okay so I was in Las Vegas, Nevada where all my dealers are there's alcohol everywhere right and I won a thousand dollars and then we were going to a concert at a bar and oh my god it was just the most difficult thing right and it was because I was still early in sobriety now it's like you know that doesn't really matter to me but anyways like some people say you gotta stay sober a day at a time like that night I was staying sober like one minute at a time all right I was just like okay Chris just pay attention to the band pay attention to the band just pay attention to the band all right so it was very difficult it was a test that I passed what I ended up doing to get rid of that money so I quit getting crazy thoughts was it was in like November so I ended up just buying my son a bunch of Christmas presents there was a moment when I was at the retreat I was back in my hotel room and I was putting moisturizer on my face and looking in the mirror and I realized how much I look like my mom I had this feeling that she would be proud of me and it made me smile and it made me happy instead of sad which is usually how I feel when I think about her and it felt like a breakthrough I love I love and Karen if you're watching this I love how you touched on that right there and part of that process of dealing with grief and like she was saying like we never 100% get over lost like I have lost so so so so many people in my life but Karen had some clarity because she wasn't you know using substances to cope and she was thinking about how proud her mother would be and absolutely that is something that that just brings joy to my life on a daily basis especially when I start to get down and I think people who I've lost I've lost one of my best friends I've lost other friends I've lost you know clients I've lost people in recovery I've lost so many people right and when I look and like you guys know so those of you who follow my channel my channel's been going through some here's what I'm going through some stuff lately and I remember driving home the other night and I was just thinking about how you know one of my best friends who passed away I'm like you know she would be really proud of what I'm doing right now right and that's a great way to reframe your grief but not only that but it's also a great way to kind of like live on the right track like you know um something that I do like my grandma like I she was the most important person in my life and she passed away a few years ago and something that I asked myself is like would I be honoring her memory if I took this action you know what I mean like what would she want me to do in this situation so there's a lot of ways that we can honor somebody's memory and also you know ask yourself would they be proud of what I'm doing and who I've become you know what I mean and it kind of keeps us on the right track that is just one of the ways that I deal with grief personally so again Corinne super super super proud of you for 30 days sober and at the end of the video Corinne asked like if we have any questions or anything like that my question is did you stay sober did you stay stopped drinking smoking weed like I was surprised so I was like wait you're not even gonna like what that's what we all want to know because you like uploaded it like 23 days after you know the 30 days or whatever so Corinne if you see that video or this video that's my question for you now lastly the question the title of this video is Corinne an alcoholic or an addict I don't know I don't freaking know what do you think I am what do you think I do here on the reward so you think I'm over here diagnosing people you must be crazy um but anyways what I would say is addiction is on a spectrum you know what I mean so like I don't know like I was uh just you know just my observations you know and assumptions it didn't look like Corinne was like experiencing withdrawal or she didn't really talk about it like alcohol can have some pretty wicked withdrawal symptoms and like she was pretty cheery you know like during that first week there could be a lot like I've made videos about my alcohol withdrawal not only like the aches and pains and the puking and stuff but like I had hallucinations and you could have seizures if you're not uh you know going through like a medical detox and stuff like that but anyways there is a spectrum of addiction there's like severe moderate like you know and then there's just like kind of like you're in the abuse territory so I don't know you know but that's something for her to find out the last thing I will say Corinne if you are watching this video and if sobriety is still your thing and anybody out there who's into meditation sobriety and all that I cannot recommend enough an alternative to 12-step programs it's called Refuge Recovery and it's based around Buddhist philosophy not Buddhist religion Buddhist philosophy so rather than 12 steps they follow the eight-fold path in the Four Noble Truths absolutely phenomenal meetings typically start with a meditation and there is a book too called Refuge Recovery um you could download it you could buy it you can get it on you know audible all that stuff so go check that out if that's something you're interested in working with a lot of clients who are resistant to 12-step programs but they're kind of like interested in meditation or even like Buddhist philosophy and stuff like I am I'm a big nerd about that stuff like Refuge Recovery is an excellent excellent excellent option all right but anyways if any of you have been sober for 30 days ever in your life let me know down in the comments how'd you do it how did you do it let's share that with some other people so maybe they can do it too all right don't forget charity live stream 10 a.m. two day February 23rd 10 a.m. PST all right and I will be doing my makeup answering questions and we're going to be raising money for project beauty share all right but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you're all amazing and if you would like to become a patron and get some 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Almost a year and a half ago we sold our church to the college and we're able to rent these two suites and have assumed the overhead for the pantry. What has happened at the pantry is that we've almost tripled the number of families that come. In May, for example, we served 158 children in the 211 families. 75% of our folks who get food every month are over 65, they're women. They of course all have to meet the requirements. What they do is they furnish us with proof of residency and proof of income a month. So that might be disability, it might be social security. They come in, pick a number, the number is called out, they're registered, they get their food according to the number in the family. Our major funder is the FEMA and FEMA up to this point has given us $3,000 a year. The money from FEMA requires you to spend 98% on food and 2% on overhead. The trouble there is the amount that comes into the county is determined by the number of people who are receiving unemployment benefits. Eight pantries received half of what they normally get. We have to make up that other half as well as because the church can no longer carry the overhead, the pantry is going to have to pay half of the overhead which is electric utilities, pest control, insurance. Today we spent $63 for small cans of corn. We're working on our Facebook page to put a donor button that they can tap. But they can also send it to our address here which is 214 South Central Avenue, Preston Sperk, Kentucky 41653.


שוב, אני אורי וזה בע Kenneth ואיפטח היטנר וכוביני סין על הרי מקורדת ובשפל מודל ובסלב, אנחנו נשאר על השפל מודל בקלטים של פריוון. אז first let me start with the definition of differential privacy. So it's a mathematical definition for privacy saying the following. Let's think about a database that contains the information of individuals. So every row in this database contains the information of one individual and we have an algorithm A that we want to apply to this database. So now let's think about the following mental experiment where we modify our database to what we call a neighboring database. And what it means is that all of the rows remain exactly the same, except that one of the rows in the database, let's say my row, we replace it with something completely different. So we have these two neighboring databases. Now we run the algorithm and what we require is that the outcome distribution of the algorithm remains roughly the same between whether we run it on the first or on the second database. Formally, an algorithm is differentially private if for every two neighboring databases S1 and S2 and for any possible event H, this event occurs with roughly the same probability between whether you run your algorithm on the first or on the second database and this similarity between the probabilities is quantified using these parameters epsilon and delta. So that's the definition of differential privacy. So we like it. So the reason is that it has a like a very intuitive interpretation for privacy specifically, let's consider an adversary that knows all of the rows in the database, except for my role. And now we take this database and we run our algorithm on it, we get an outcome, and we give this outcome to the adversary. Now this adversary from his point of view, he cannot learn basically anything about my role in the database because from his point of view, no matter what was my role in the database, he would have seen a sample from roughly the same distribution. So that's the intuitive explanation of differential privacy and also this definition satisfies several useful properties which I'm not going to get into now. Okay, so that's the definition. And what I'll show you in this slide is kind of different models using which we can apply differential privacy in different settings. So the first model is called the centralized model for differential privacy. This is like the standard model. It kind of fits the picture that I showed you in the previous slide. So we have a collection of any individuals, users, where each user has his own private data or input. Now, each of these users just gives their data, as is, to a data curator. So the data curator now has a database containing information from these individuals, and now the data curator aggregates this database using differential privacy. So it runs a differentially private algorithm onto this database obtains an outcome and publicly releases this obtained outcome. So by the definition we mentioned in the previous slide, we know that this outcome that the curator obtained here is really safe for publication in the sense that every attacker who would see, who would get to see this obtained outcome, would learn basically nothing about the data of every single individual from here. So that's great. But the downside is that, as you see, the data curator, he learns everything. All of the users give their data, as is, to the data curator. What happens in cases where we don't want the curator to learn all of our data? So the first model that was considered in this setting is called the local model of differential privacy. And in the local model of differential privacy, every user randomizes his data locally on his device using a differentially private algorithm, and only sends the data curator the outcome of this differentially private outcome, which is already safe for publication. So in this model, even the data curator basically learns nothing about the data of every single individual, because every single individual only sends the outcome of the differential privacy algorithm on his data. And then the data curator aggregates this noisy message as it gets from the users and computes whatever it wants to compute. So again, the data curator basically learns nothing about every single individual, which is great, but the downside is that because every user adds lots of noise to its input, then accuracy is generally significantly reduced compared to what we can achieve in the centralized model of differential privacy. So this motivated the shuffle model of differential privacy, in which we augment the local model of differential privacy with a special communication channel, we call it a shuffle channel, such that the following happens. In the shuffle model of differential privacy, like before, every user randomizes his input locally on his device and obtains a noisy message, and then all of the users submit their noisy messages to the shuffle channel. This channel randomly permutes all of the messages it gets from the users, and then gives the data curator these messages after the random permutation. So the hope is that this random permutation kinda disassociates the messages from the users who sent them. And then the hope is that, because we have that, every user can add less noise to his input before submitting it to the shuffle, and therefore, hopefully the database that the curator would get here at the end, we could get a lot more utility out of it than what we can do in the local model of differential privacy. Okay, so that's informally the shuffle model for differential privacy and the motivation for it, and here is the formal definition. So we consider protocols that proceeded in rounds, let's say other rounds, where in every round, every user submits L messages to the shuffle. So here in the picture every user submits only one message, but let's, but in general we allow users to submit more than one message. So we have N users, each of them submitting L messages in every round, so in every round we have overall N L messages, the shuffle randomly permutes all of these N L messages, and then everybody gets to see the outcome of the shuffle. And what we require is that, the view of every coalition of up to T parties is differentially private, in the sense that, even after it gets to see the outcome of the shuffle, it learns basically nothing about the input of every user outside of this coalition. Okay, that's the definition of the shuffle model. And recently there has been lots of works on the shuffle model in the context of differential privacy. First it was defined by these guys in 2019. And then for our papers show that in many cases we do really get significant utility improvements over what we can obtain in the shuffle model of differential privacy. Sometimes we can even match what we can get in the centralized model of differential privacy. For example, people considered problems like addition histograms and more, and also several papers showed impossibility results for one round shuffle model protocols. Actually, this model was already defined outside of the context of differential privacy in 2006 by Ishae et al. So they presented and they defined and consider the similar model and in particular they showed that every finite functionality can be securely computed in this model. So assuming an honest majority using a constant number of rounds. Okay. What we show in this work. So we studied the round complexity of protocols in the shuffle model of differential privacy, we are the first to formally or explicitly studied around complexity in the shuffle model. And specifically what we show is first we present a generic result showing that any functionality can be computed in two rounds, if you have an honest majority. And also we present separations between what can be done using one and two rounds in the shuffle model. In more details. We show both positive and negative results. First, we show a protocol for secure message transmission in one round in the shuffle model and I'll tell you more about this result in the next slides. And we use this result in order to show a generic construction. And that any finite functionality can be computed. If you have an honest majority using two rounds previously what was known using the results of Ishae et al was three rounds. And as a corollary. This means that we can implement using two rounds in the shuffle model, every centralized model DP functionality. So that's our generic construction and we also show separations between what can be done in one and two rounds and specifically to obtain our separate separations we consider these two problems. The first we call it the common element problem and the second we call it the nested common element problem. So for the common element problem, we show a lower bound on the message complexity of any one round protocol. Informally, it says that if you want to solve this problem, the common element problem using one round, using a one round protocol in the shuffle model, then basically your message complexity cannot be constant. In contrast, we show that there is a two round protocol for this problem in the shuffle model in which the message complexity is one. Okay. Our second result, our second lower bound is for the nested common element problem. And for that problem, we show that there is no one round protocol that solves this problem. Even if you assume that you have three quarters fraction of honest users. So this immediately implies a strong separation between one and two round protocols, because by our generic construction, every functionality and in particular the nested common element problem can be solved in two rounds, if you have an honest majority. Even for that specific problem, we design a specific protocol that obtains better guarantees than our generic construction, but even the generic construction immediately gives you a strong separation between one and two rounds. Okay, so that's our results. What I'll show you now is how do we construct a secure message transmission in one round. So, before I'll show you how do we construct it, let's do a quick recap and recall the definitions of key exchange and secure message transmission. Let's start with key exchange. Let's think about two users, user i and j, that first submit messages to the shuffle, and then everybody gets to see the shuffled messages. Then user i and user j agree on a key, but all other users, together even, they get no information on the key. So that's the definition of what we want from a key exchange protocol. The definition of secure message transmission is similar, but now user i, before we start, it has an input message m, then users i and j, each of them submit messages to the shuffle, then everybody gets to see the outcome of the shuffle. Then the requirement is that user j learns the message m, but all of the other users together, they get no information on the message m. Okay, so that's the definition of what we want from a secure message transmission protocol. And I'll just mention that Isha' et al, in their paper from 2006, they presented a key exchange protocol in the shuffle model that uses one round. And obviously if you have a protocol for key exchange in one round, then you can use it in order to construct a secure message transmission protocol in two rounds. Where in the first round, users i and j exchange a key, and then in the second round, user i sends the message to user j privately after encrypting it using the key. What we show is a protocol for secure message transmission in one round. So let's see the details. But before I'll show you the protocol for secure message transmission, let's first see an easy protocol for key exchange. So it's a variant of the protocol of Isha' et al. And here is the protocol. So users i and j, each of them chooses a random bit, user i chooses a random bit A, user j chooses a random bit B, and they both send it to the shuffle. Now, if A is different than B, then the common key is A. Otherwise, the protocol fails. So why should that work? So first, both users i and j, they know the key. Why is that? User i knows A, he chose it, and user j knows B, so once she sees the outcome of the shuffle, she learns A. All of the other users that see the outcome of the shuffle, with probability half, they see A, B, and with probability half, they see B, A, so they get no information on A, assuming that A and B are different. And so this means that users i and j, they agree on a key with probability half that nobody else knows. Great. So what do we do if we want to agree on a key of k bits? So we do something similar. But now, each of the two users, instead of choosing just one bit, they choose a random 3k random bits. So user i chooses random bits A1, A2, till A3k. So user j chooses random bits B1, B2, and so on. And they submit to the shuffle 1, A1, 2, A2, and so on. And user j submits to the shuffle 1, B1, 2, B2, and so on. So we expect that on half of the coordinates, we will get that ai is different than bi, and with high probability, we will have at least k such indices. So after seeing the outcome of the shuffle, we denote by i the first k indices such that ai is different than bi, and the common key is the ai's from this set of indices. Okay. So this is a simple protocol that allows these two users to agree on a secret key with high probability, and the key is of length k. Great. So once we have a protocol for key exchange, then Yishai et al observed that we can use it in order to implement secure computation in the shuffle model. So how we use, we use one extra round in order to use the key exchange protocol in order to exchange keys and therefore create private channels, and then we apply an existing MPC protocol after we have private channels. So a corollary of that, if you combine this idea with the secure two round protocol of apple bar metal, then what you get is a generic secure computation in the shuffle model that uses three rounds. Okay, so what I'll show you now is a different key exchange protocol in which one of the two parties knows the key in advance. So here's the protocol. Now, each of the two users chooses a collection of seven k random beats, so user i chooses a one a two and so on user j chooses b one b two and so on. And like before they submit to the shuffle one comma a one two comma a two and so on and likewise here. Now, for a hash function h that maps seven k beats to k beats, the common key is h applied to the collection of the random beats ai. So observe that user i knows the key in advance. So why should that work. So first user i knows the key and also user j after seeing the outcome of the shuffle. It learns the ai's and therefore learns the key, but all of the other users in places where ai is different than bi do not learn the ice bit of the key. So we expect them to learn half of the beats, so 3.5 k beats we expect them to learn and with high probability, all of the other users know less than 4k of the beats from the ai's. So by the leftover hash lemma, this means that h applied to the ai's remains close to uniform even when the other users know 4k of these beats ai. So this means that users i and j agree on a key, user i knew the key in advance, and all of the other users basically learn nothing about the key. So this means that we can implement general NPC in the shuffle model without increasing the round complexity. Specifically, using the upper bottom at all protocol, we can implement it in two rounds, because during the first round we both exchange keys and send the messages required, that we're required to send by the ABT protocol in the first round, and then for the second round, we have secure channels. So, to conclude, what we present is a generic NPC result showing that any finite functionality can be computed using two rounds, assuming an honest majority in the semi honest setting. In particular, this means that any centralized model. Dp functionality can be computed in the shuffle model using two rounds. And we present impossibility results for one round protocols that gives the operations between what can you do in one and in two rounds. And that's it.