Oh, I did a little stalking on Pippin last night. And although I've known him for a few years from WordCamp, he's a pretty humble guy and keeps kind of on the down low. He's a legend right in our own backyard almost now. He's moved all the way out to Hutchison. He owns and founded Sandhill Development. So how many people have used a Pippin's plug-in of some type? He's got a bunch of them out there. Easy digital downloads, affiliate WP, restrict content pro, sugar event calendars, Selberg, Pippin's plug-ins, and over 50 more free ones on the WordPress repository. His first plug-in was font uploader. What year was that? 2010. That's what I thought. I saw an interview with Syed about that. So without further ado, and he's going to clue us in on how hard it is to run and scale a business, I think, today, Pippin Williamson. Good morning. Welcome to work in Kin City. As Jim said, my name is Pippin Williamson. This morning, I want to talk to you about the ever-changing roles of founders, CEOs, and owners of bootstrapped businesses. This is something that's pretty personal to me, being the founder of a small bootstrapped business. And coming from the, 89 years ago, when I started building a company, I had no plans to build a company.  I had no plans to build products. I had no plans to do any of that. Yet today, I am now the CEO of Sandhills Development, which is a 20-person company that is distributed across four countries and a bunch of states in the US. And we primarily build e-commerce affiliate marketing and membership plug-ins for WordPress. This all kind of started back in my college dorm room as a hobby. I was building websites for clients, just anybody that would hire me. And I was at the university studying linguistics. I thought I wanted to go down into Central and South America to do language restoration for Indigenous languages, which today, frankly, I think is a whole lot more interesting than what I do day-to-day. But this is where I ended up. So I was doing freelance development on the side, just to make a little bit of extra to pay my rent. And I also worked as a stagehand at a theater, making $7.45 an hour. And today, it's a pretty different world. I have gone through the process of building products, hiring people, firing people, growing a team, figuring out what in the world I want to do, going from a developer to a marketer, to a designer, to an accountant, to a business owner, to considering selling my business, to starting another business, to every single role you can imagine within a company I've held. And the reason I've held that is because we run a bootstrapped company. And when you start something by yourself, it's you and yourself. Or as I'll say it, it's me, myself, and I. So regardless of the job that has to be done, guess who gets to do it? This guy. Or you, or whoever it is that's starting a business. You do everything. You take care of every single role. So for me, starting out, it was a hobby. I built some plugins for fun. I built some websites for fun. And occasionally, somebody would pay me a little bit of money to build a website. And that accidentally turned into a 20-person company that, well, looks very different than what it started with. So I want to share with you how roles kind of change for founders, CEOs, and business owners. I don't know how many of you here are one of those, or is aspiring, or thinks they might be, or is just interested in it. But I do hope that it's valuable to you. And to tell you about how the roles change, I mostly want to share some of my own personal experiences. Tell you a little bit of story of how the company came to be, what we do, and some of the things that have happened along the way, including some really big mistakes that I made. OK, let's look at where it started. I, in 2010, 2009, somewhere in that range, I was at the University of Kansas. I was studying linguistics. And I was building websites for people that would hire me on the side. It was my side gig. I would do it in the evenings, the weekends, et cetera. Over time, I just kept building more. And then that eventually led into me building a couple of WordPress plugins. I was pretty, I was building everything on top of WordPress already. And I was really enjoying it. And I started to learn some PHP development. And I was really interested at the time of becoming a PHP developer. That was kind of the identity that I had picked for myself once I decided that linguistics was not for me anymore. So I wanted to become a PHP developer. I was very lucky that my roommate at the time happened to be a really great PHP developer. His name was John Kerry. And he was very proud of the fact that he owned JohnCarrie.net during the political campaign of John Kerry. But anyway, I digress. I was very fortunate that he was my roommate because he taught me a lot about PHP and how to build stuff. So under his guidance, I started building a few plugins for WordPress. And I put them up, I put them up for sale on a marketplace called Codecanyon, expecting them to go nowhere. I didn't have, I had zero expectations. I didn't think they would do anything. Miraculously, somebody bought it the same day that I put it up. And that completely blew my mind. And so I took myself across campus and bought a latte that I couldn't afford because I was living on 7.45 an hour and broke college student. So I continued to build plugins. I built a few more just for fun. I was just having a great time at it. I was learning a lot about PHP and just kind of jumping in and becoming a developer. And I was living in a house at the time that had a lot of synergy. We had myself, my brother, a good friend and my roommate who we were all really interested in building things, just all sorts of different things. And so I just kept building, having fun, tinkering. And I launched a few more plugins and then I launched some more and I launched some more. And then kind of by accident, I realized all of a sudden, whoa, I have a business. This is kind of strange, how did this happen? But I realized that all of a sudden I had, I was making enough through plugin sales that all of a sudden I could actually support myself on it. And that was totally unexpected and not planned. It surprised me. But at the time I was getting ready to, I was engaged to my now wife and I decided to take a gamble. And I said, okay, I have just graduated college. My part-time student job that paid me 7.75 an hour is no longer an option because I'm not a student anymore. And I have to figure out something else to do. So I was pretty familiar with construction and plumbing and things like that. So I decided that my backup plan would be to go into the trades. But I was gonna take a gamble and over the summer I would see if I could manage to pay rent. And if I could pay rent, doing just this a little bit of freelance development and building plugins and selling plugins, that's what I would do. And it worked amazingly. And so for the next year or two, I kept doing that. During this process, I discovered that I was pretty good at it. Not, it surprised me, but it grew enough that a few things happened. First of all, I outgrew myself. I suddenly couldn't do everything. It took about six months, no, about a year before all of a sudden there was too much for me to do by myself. Now, keep in mind that I'm very much a do-it-myself kind of person. This is, I think sometimes it's pretty indicative of people that start businesses, especially people that start businesses by accident. If my plumbing breaks at my house, I fix it. If my windows break, I fix them. If my car breaks, I fix it. And that's just the way that I've always been. That's the way that I grew up. And that meant that when building a business, even though I wasn't intentionally building a business at the time, if I need somebody to handle customer support, I do it. If I need somebody to figure out the taxes for the company, I do it. If I need to figure out how to build a new product or how to fix this problem or how to restore a server after it crashed, I do it. And that's just the way that I was. And the good side of that means that I got a lot done. The bad side of that is there's a lot of things that I did that I should never have done because I'm just really terrible at it, frankly. So the first time that I learned that, there's a couple of them. The first one was when I realized that I had burnt myself out on customer support because I got to a point where I had enough customers that I was working 18 hours a day just to keep them all happy. And I refused. I didn't like the idea of hiring somebody because that meant that I was losing my control. I was losing the control of the experience. I was losing the ability to help the customers in the way that I wanted to. And so eventually I realized that I had to get over that. And so you have to hire somebody, you have to bring somebody else on. But before we go into that, I wanna tell you about one of the bigger screw ups that I made. And that is because I'm a do-it-myselfer, I decided to always file my own taxes. Taxes are hard. Let's be honest, unless you're a CPA or somebody that, well, in my mind as a masochist, taxes are hard. Well, when you make 7.75 or 7.45 at a part-time college job and they hand you a W-2 or a 10.99, that's it. Taxes are pretty easy.   Well, so that was my experience with taxes. And then I went, in the course of a year, to all of a sudden having a six-figure income business that I had no experience with. And I didn't know what I was doing. I had built products unexpectedly that started to do really well. And so I decided I'm still going to file my own taxes, I'm gonna take care of that myself. And it ended up being a mistake that just cost about $20,000 because I did it wrong. I didn't know that I did it wrong, but I did it wrong. So one of the first things that, one of the earlier things that I've learned is that we have to be willing, if we are a business owner, to let somebody else do it. We have to recognize when we are not the best person for this job. And taxes is one of those places where I'm definitely not the best person for the job. I actually like to joke with the team, or maybe my team now jokes with me. Sometimes in a good natured manner, sometimes in a very serious manner, I'm terrible at math, and I built an e-commerce plugin, which is an interesting combination. So when we run numbers for the team, they always verify my numbers because they end up inevitably being wrong, which is the same reason why I ended up with a $20,000 tax mistake. And then the next year ended up with a bigger mistake. Okay, so let's talk about hiring for a moment. When you do everything yourself, you tend to be opposed to hiring, not because you believe other people do a poor job, not because you don't want to hire somebody, not because you don't have the resources, but because you're just naturally built to do things yourself. Instead of, your first instinct is to just, well, okay, we have a problem. Let's jump in and we'll fix the problem. We have something that's done, we'll jump in and we'll do the job. That's pretty easy. It's just natural for us. Well, I had burnt myself out because I was working 18-hour days and I was done. It was putting a strain on me, putting a strain on my marriage and it needed to change. So I got over myself and I started looking for help. I started looking at how to hire people and I hired a couple of part-time people to help with customer support. What I didn't know at the time is that I had no idea how to hire anybody and I had no idea how to delegate. I had no idea how to manage. I had no idea how to talk to somebody about this new job that I was paying them to do. The process, and now this is actually still not too different from today, but the process then for me hiring somebody was literally a tweet that, hey, you want to do support for me? I'll pay you this in an hour. See you tomorrow. That was it. Pretty informal and we're still pretty informal, but that also meant that when they came to work that next day when I found a couple of people to accept a part-time job from me is I basically said, here's the support system. Here's your login. Yeah, good luck. There's no management, there's no direction, there's no guidance. I didn't know how to hire somebody. I didn't know how people worked for me because I had done every role myself, always. The role that I had never done, however, was learning how to hire somebody. So those first people that we hired didn't work out. And they honestly didn't work out because of me because my own failing and my lack of understanding of how to actually bring somebody on and help them do the job that I paid them to do. I knew how to give them access to a system and I knew how to pay them and that was about it. So those first ones really didn't work out. We kind of muscled our way through. And now, if we fast-forward to about 2013, I am still a solo freelancer. I have hired a couple people part-time, they have not worked out, and I'm solo again. I'm solo again with a line of products making about $350,000 a year and having no freaking clue what to do because number one, I can't manage it. It's too big for me. So I started to get paranoid. I started to think, hmm, what if I get sued? This is a problem. I build an e-commerce plug-in, a membership plug-in and a few other things that have a lot to do with people's businesses.  So I started to get paranoid. So I decide, okay, well, here's a role that I should jump into, legal expert, obviously. So I'm gonna figure out how to not get sued. I am not a legal person. This is not my forte at all. But I decide that after a little bit of Google research, I find that one of the ways to help protect you from getting sued is you form an LLC. I didn't know what that meant at the time. I had no idea. But I knew that supposedly, forming an LLC was an insulation against, is protecting myself. It's basically like, hey, here's a business and here's me, sue the business for everything the business has, but don't touch me. It's basically, that was my understanding of an LLC. Whether that's accurate or not, doesn't really matter. At the point, at the time, that's all I knew. I also knew how to Google. And so like any self-respecting developer at the time, I do five minutes of Google research and find a company that can form an LLC for me. And sure enough, 20 minutes later, I own Pippin's Pages LLC. I have no idea what that means. But that's what I did. Three or four days later, this fancy booklet shows up in the mail. It's leather-bound, it's shiny, it's got gold lettering on it, and it says Pippin's Pages LLC. I'm like, this is awesome. I am official, like I own a business now. I don't know what this means. What are minutes? What's a shareholder median? Like, I don't know, this is weird to me. That was something that I started to learn over time just by doing, by building a company out of a hobby, without any anticipation of building a company. In 2013, when I formed the company, I still had no intention of it being a company. I had no intention of hiring people still or like a dedicated company, having a team, having payroll, having insurance, having benefits, unemployment tax, withholding tax. What is all of this? What is workers comp?  Like, why do I need workers comp? Well, welcome to the nature of building a real business. So I formed an LLC and I had no idea what to do with it, but I had one. And I decided that shortly after that, it was time to actually hire a real person and to hire a real employee. So I reached out to a few people that had been helping out in my support forums, just kind of volunteering. And again, it was pretty informal. Hey, Sean, you're gonna come work for me full time. Like, just do what you're doing now. Work for me full time. And amazingly, he accepted and became my first full-time employee. Thank, and I'm thrilled to say that he's still here today. But I have to remember that I didn't know how to pay him. I didn't know how to do payroll. I didn't know how to do anything. Basically, I said, hey, Sean, take this amount of money per year and come work for me. And I'm gonna figure out how to do all of the other things, like to make sure you actually get paid. I'll figure it out afterwards. And that's just kind of what you do. You jump into that role. You jump into things as they happen. You fix problem as they happen. And that's what founders and CEOs and owners do. So from mid-2013 to today, we grew in three months to three people. Then to five people. Then to eight people. Then to 10, 15, 16. And today, we are 16 full-time employees with about four contractors that work with us. It's still a very small company, as companies go. But it's also wildly different than what it started as. It is, I never thought that I would spend my day figuring out unemployment taxes. But that's the thing that happens. So during that process, there's a lot of things that I've learned and I would like to share a few of them with you. So first of all, is that we have to be willing to do anything and do any job within the company. So I think there's four main things that I want to share with you. Number one, and to me, these are four ways that we can help ensure that owners, founders, CEOs, or anybody that is aspiring, or anybody that is just interested, or anybody maybe that has a friend or a family member they would like to help out. I think there's four things that we have to do. So number one, is we have to be willing to do any job within the company. Doesn't matter what it is. Most bootstrapped businesses start with their founders doing everything. So I told you that I was the developer. I was the marketer. I was the support person. I was the designer. I was the accountant. I was every single role within the company and it changed all the time because as things happen, as we built a product, launch the product. Somebody bought the product. That person comes in and asks a question. I had no intention of people actually buying this product, but guess what? If you put something up for sale and somebody buys it and they ask a question, you kind of have to answer them. And oops, well, so that grows. And then you become HR.   You become the manager. You become a boss. You then figure out whether or not that's going to work for you and then you figure out how to replace you with somebody else because you don't want to be a manager or because you're terrible at it. You jump through all of these roles. So a founder or a CEO or a business owner or boss or whatever title you want to give them has to be willing to do any job within the company. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter how glamorous or not glamorous it is. Unfortunately, I think a lot of businesses, a lot of CEOs, if you will, have this idea of I sit upon my throne and I watch my minions work. Fun. No, that's ridiculous. We start with building and doing everything. And so that means we have to be willing to do everything. Number one, because typically the people that start a company have to know how or the knowledge or the experience to do every job within the company. And when they can't do it, such as me doing taxes, we know how to find somebody that can, whether that's hiring the right CPA or going through the process of hiring the wrong CPA that then costs you 100 grand and then figure out how to replace that CPA with somebody that actually knows what they're doing. Or so we either know how to do every job or we know how to find the person to do every job. But what if you get into a situation where all of a sudden this role that you filled with somebody, maybe they leave unexpectedly, either because they choose to move on, they have an accident, they are unable to work, or whoever knows what. You have to be able to fill that role. And sometimes that means you literally walking in and filling that role with your own shoes. Sometimes it means figuring out how to get that role filled. So we have to be willing to do every single job in the company, even if it's the role of janitor.  Number two is number three. And number two. Number two is that we have to be willing to recognize when we are not the best person for a role, when somebody else can do it better than us. I am not a marketer at all. But starting out, I did all the marketing because it was me, myself, and I. There is no marketing unless I do it. So that's what happens. You take on every single role. But you have to be willing to recognize when somebody else is better than you, or when you're just not qualified for it. And just because somebody else is better than you, that's not an insult against you. It's a compliment to them. And it's honestly more costly for you to do a job poorly than to pay someone well to do the job really well. So we have to be willing to recognize that. And we have to pay attention to it. Pay attention when a developer that I've hired is suddenly 10 times the developer that I am. Or when my marketing skills are far surpassed by somebody else. Or when mine is more beneficial than them, take care of it. Number three is we have to be willing to adapt to changes because our roles constantly change. Our roles change because our roles within the company change. And sometimes the people that work with change, hopefully slowly, but sometimes quickly, depending on whether you're growing or changing facts, if you have a high-term overall or a low-term overall, we have to be willing to adapt to changes in people. And changes in jobs and changes in roles. I started this being a PHP developer, just having a lot of fun in my college dorm room. And today I write very little code because that's just the way the company has changed. And we have to be willing to adapt to that change as it happens. Our roles will change every single day, every single week. And if you don't adapt to them, you might find yourself in a position you don't want to be in. I actually had an interesting experience last year because I had started to recognize the second point that I told you about recognize when someone else is able to do a job better than you. So I had started hiring really, really good people. And I had been building this team of people that had really excellent skills. And I realized at one point that I had hired myself out of a job. I had replaced every single role that I held within the company. Developer, support, marketing, design, administration, finances, I had replaced myself out of every single role. And that was awesome. Honestly, that is one of the greatest things that I've ever succeeded in. And it destroyed my motivation. I literally felt like I walked into a brick wall because suddenly I wasn't needed. I didn't need to be there. We tend to as founders and CEOs and owners, we kind of operate on this by need basis. Oh, that thing needs to get done? Okay, I'll fix it, no problem. There's a hole that needs patched? No problem, I will patch it. We have to hire somebody? No problem, we'll take care of it. We have to take care of this other problem or that problem or this task or that task. It doesn't matter. We operate on needs. I need to do this or this needs to be done and I will do it. I am really good at doing things that need to be done even if I don't like them. At the moment that I am not needed, I don't know what to do with myself anymore. And that was really strange. I did not expect that to happen and it completely surprised me. But that's a change. That's a change that we have to be willing to adapt to. We have to recognize it and we have to move past it and we have to figure out how to address it. Number three. I told you number three, I think. So number three is, oh, number three is we have to be willing, number four, sorry, is we need to be willing to address needs. What is a good founder? What is a good CEO? What is a good owner really good at doing? It's addressing needs. It's taking care of the things that need to be done. I found that all of a sudden when I wasn't able to address needs that I had problems. I didn't know what to do anymore because I didn't have needs to address. But the entire role that we play is addressing needs. Early on, it's knowing what to build or figuring out something to build and then it's addressing the needs of your customers because they have a problem, they have a support ticket that they need help with. They're experiencing a bug or a pain point or a lack of something and they need that fixed. And then it becomes your own needs of, okay, now you have to figure out how to turn this thing that is consuming 18 hours your life into a profitable business so that you can survive, so you can pay your bills. And then it becomes you have a need of maintaining that and sustaining it. And then you have a need of all of a sudden there's so much work to do that you can't do it yourself and so you need to hire people. You need people. Well, guess what? What you have when you have people. Now they have needs and all of a sudden your job changes from addressing the needs, bringing them on to address your needs and now you get to address their needs. And so you kind of flip flop. And that's not a bad thing. It's a great thing. But that's the role. So we address needs. We address, sometimes your teammates need resources. Sometimes they need more help. Sometimes they need feedback. Sometimes they just need a friend. Sometimes they need a raise. Sometimes they need a day off. Whatever it is, your entire job as a founder or a CEO or a business owner is to address needs. And if you want to be a good one, that's the entire purpose of your role and you get really good at addressing needs because it doesn't really matter what the role is. Even if it's the role of janitor, it's still a job that needs done. And so you get to take care of it and you address those needs and you'll be okay. I think that's probably the most important thing that I've learned as my roles have changed from being a developer to being a CEO. Today I don't get to play in the code all day. Like maybe sometimes I would like. I don't just build new products for fun. Sometimes I still do. But mostly I address needs. And actually I think that's a really, really great thing because that means I can solve real problems every day. How much time do we have? We have about 20 minutes. 20 minutes max if we stay on schedule. 10 or 15, I would like to answer questions. We, I'm pretty much an open book. You can ask me anything you want and I will probably give you an answer. Might not be a good answer, but I would do the best that I can. And I will also be around all day if you want to ask any questions later on. If you're shy or you think of something later, come find me. I'll probably post up out there. I see a question right here. What do you got?  Well, so it depends. Partners exist in a number of ways. So early on you can bring on partners because you don't have the resources to pay them. It's a pretty common way of kind of saying, I want you to help me and I can't pay you, but if we succeed in building this thing, then you'll get paid basically. I think that that can work really well, but it can also be very dangerous. Hiring the wrong person can also be dangerous, but you need to be careful with partners because let's just say that you have a 50-50 partnership with someone and you decide a year later that you don't like them or they don't like you, you have to somehow figure out how to address that. It's not necessarily always going to happen, but it is a real concern. And so you should be careful with who you decide to partner up with and don't do it just on a whim. For sure. Who's next? How do you learn that there are certain things you do? You learned that there were certain things that you weren't the best equipped to do, but I'm curious about your evolution of something you were doing to fund, to actually making lots of money at it, to seeing you had a business, to what extent did you feel possessive of it and the idea of power? Because before you incorporated, it wasn't even in black and white lead leads, but once you're in LLC, you have power when you manage it. And as you're giving it around, was that difficult for you or is that just not in your nature? I'd say it's not in my nature. I don't know if this will answer your question or not, but I will do my best. At no point did we, did this start with the intention of building a company because it elevates you in a financial or a social or an economical status type of position. Like I said, there's no golden throne that we're sitting on over here, like just watching people work from a position of power. That's never happened. It's not something I've ever been interested in. I think it's, for me, building a company ended up being a passion and it was a passion of bringing people together. I didn't realize that at first, but once we started building a team and getting really good people in, to me what I recognized as being the most valuable was the people that I worked with. That is another question since I get that sense that it's not about power in the company, so the company is there. You see your role as actually being the major HR support for all of the people on your team, but what about in the cutthroat world of business, once a company gets bigger and bigger, it becomes harder and harder to maintain it. What about the management functions of company control since someone has to define the mission of where it's going and predicting the future for the company? Do you outsource that or do you consider that part of your role as CEO? So I would, I definitely do consider that part of my role. I've always been pretty, I keep everything, I keep things pretty close to me in terms of making decisions. Six months ago, I gave away 25% of my company and I gave it away because I wanted these people involved and I gave it away because I felt that they had earned it and I felt that I wanted them to have a voice. I knew that technically I had the ability to guide the company wherever I wanted, whether it was as a tyrannical dictator or benevolent dictator or anything, or it could be as a backseat driver, it doesn't matter, but technically I had that ability. It wasn't until about maybe two months ago that I would ever use the words, the phrase CEO, to describe my position. I still hate it and frankly use it only because it does describe what I do and sometimes I've had a hard time telling people what I do so now I just default to I run a software company because it's simpler. I struggled with a long time with building, I really love the idea of a flat structure for companies. There are no managers, there are no bosses, technically anybody that works for me, I am your boss but I was actually very conscious early on, once I first decided I wanted to hire people of don't come work for me, come work with me because I think that's a very important distinction. As we've grown, we found that the flat structure does tend to break down a little bit. For us it happened at about 15 people, I know another company that it happened to them at 50 people, I know another company that happened maybe around 30 people but eventually it does break down simply because when you have enough people that work freely with their own direction, eventually you end up with too many spider webs and you have to kind of bring them back in and you have to focus them a little bit better. And so the roles of managers are not to be bosses, the roles of managers are to provide direction and make sure that things stay on track. So for me, my position is not to be that my team's boss, it is to help guide the direction and then anybody that does get given a role of manager it's to help implement that direction. I hope that kind of answered your question. So with having 18 employees now, do you outsource any patient or do you have a bomb house? We have outsourced work and every now and then we do still have outside contractors that we work with. We do very little of it now though because we've found that the ultimate experience that we have is less if we outsource it. And it's not because the people that we outsource to do poor work or anything like that, it's just that if we outsource it, it doesn't end up the way that we tend to quite want it. It maybe doesn't quite fit the image that we had in mind. From whichever perspective it is, sometimes it's from a coding perspective, sometimes it's a design perspective, sometimes it's just the way the project works. And so we like to keep it in-house because we want all of our experiences for our products to be consistent. And if we outsource it, we tend to lose some of that consistency. I would rather find a developer or a designer or whatever project that we're working on, find somebody that I would outsource to them and then decide, you know what, this is actually somebody that we want to work with consistently and I'd rather just hire them. What about like having a 70 or 80? So accounting and legal, they are technically outsourced, but they are outsourced to very specific people that have always done it for us. They've done it both of them now for about five years. And as long as they will allow me to continue to pay them, they can continue doing their job because they know it really well. They know us very well and we would consider them a team member, aside from the fact that they don't really interact with the rest of the team. You've been doing this for a while. Have you established relationships with employees so well that they just trust you to lead them right and in the right direction and they never want to compete with you? Or do you, like, do you establish non-compete agreements as you hire? Cause, you know. So I would say in general, we have established a level of trust. I don't hire anybody that I would not trust with my life. I don't hire anybody.  That's just be honest.  But as far as trust goes, to me, that's very important. Our contracts at some point, this will probably bite me, but our contracts are super simple and we do not establish non-competes. We have a few set requirements and it's basically that if you work for us, you do have a voice that represents the company and that is to be, you need to be mindful of that and that's about it. That's about as far as our contracts go. I'm not interested in non-competes. If you start going off on the side and building side projects, that's awesome. Side projects are where we get really good at things. Side projects are passion projects. Side projects help us get better. Side projects motivate us. So I think that's really important.  Is that two minutes or two questions? Two minutes, all right, go. Thank you, Pepin. If you could go back in time, back to those college dorm, the college room that first year, so what would you change or what advice would you give somebody that's in that position today, that you know what, if I would have just done this, I would be so much more better positioned today? I think I want to preface this by saying that today we are so much further than I ever thought that I would be. So I don't look at it from the perspective of, dang, if I'd only done this, I would be so much better off or I would be so much further along. But to still answer your question is to not assume that I have to do everything. Get better at trusting people earlier. Get better at hiring people to do the job that I hire them for and trust them to do it. That took me three to four years to really learn the value of. So I would hire sooner, but not just hire sooner, I would trust sooner and trust people to do their jobs really well. All right, I think that pretty much wraps up my time. Thank you very much for listening to me.


Loosman says, I have created a new team and added few users and everything is working fine. All right, what's the problem, Loosman? Now I created a new dynamic Office 365 group for another department. When I go to add members section and search for that group, I am unable to find that group or add that group. I am following Microsoft article where it's clearly mentioned that members can be single user, security group, or Microsoft Office 365 groups. I'm not sure what I am missing. So the keyword that I picked up on here is that he created a new dynamic group, which dynamic groups you cannot display in a group. So if he would have created just a regular, another regular security group and not made it dynamic, he would have found his group. That's what I picked up off of it. We got lots of head nods. Yes. That's exactly what it is. And the funny thing is, is like, so when you go in, it'll say add group and it will tell you you can, but it won't find it because it doesn't also tell you, oh, by the way, dynamic groups don't work here. Yeah. And the article that he's referring to, I know exactly which one it is, and it does say it, but it's using it as a descriptive word, not as a literal word. And I think that's the confusion. So there we go. It becomes a problem when the thing that you're doing is a noun and a verb. So naming of products and features matters, Microsoft. Creating a team's team, for example. A group's group. Group's group. But is it an Office 365 group or is it an M365 group? Because if you create an Office 365 group, you know, that might not work at all anymore. Just don't blow my brain out. I mean, like, it's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. Terms, lots of terms, repeats. If I wasn't so heavily medicated, I'd probably care more. Somebody needs to create a dictionary for Microsoft. But then it'll change tomorrow. It'll be outdated. It'll be dynamic. That's why it should be an app. So it's constantly refreshed. It's evergreen. It's in the cloud. Yeah. But if it's a book, you can sell another one, an updated version every day. Presenting 742 of 2023. Oh, okay. I literally tell everybody, I was like, are there any books out there for managed metadata? I was like, hey, I wrote one for 2010 and 2013. Just reuse that because they're all the same. Just, you know, don't look at the configuration stuff because it's on-prem. Other than that, all still works the same.


Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable, in part because they're low production costs, creating perverse incentives for industries to market and sell more junk. Coca-Cola's net profit margins, for example, are about a quarter of the retail price, making soft drink production, alongside tobacco production, among the most profitable industrial activities in the world. And one of the reasons production costs are so low is that we tax payers subsidize it. For more than a century, Western governments have invested heavily in lowering the cost of animal products in some basic cash crops, such as sugar. Accordingly, Western diets have shifted over the past century, especially after World War II, to include more animal-sourced foods, meat, poultry, dairy, seafood, and eggs, as well as more sugar and corn syrup. During the same period, however, we have begun to realize that a healthy diet actually requires fewer animal products and empty calories, and more vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains. Though redressing this balance is a complex task, requiring not only a shift in agriculture, investment, and policy, but also changes in social preferences that have developed over decades, in part due to dollar menu meat. Why is chicken so cheap, for example? In the nine years that followed the passage of the 96th Farm Bill, one in soy was subsidized below the cost of production to make cheap animal feed. So U.S. taxpayers effectively handed the chicken and pork industry around $10 billion each of taxpayer money. What if we instead subsidized healthy foods, or taxed harmful ones? Every dollar spent, taxing processed foods or taxing milk, would net $2 in health care cost savings, and every dollar spent making vegetables cheaper would net $3, and subsidizing whole grains could offer like a thousand percent return on our investment, with all the money we would save on paying for Medicare and Medicaid costs. Unfortunately, we can't count on Big Broccoli. The produce sector lacks the extensive funding that went to create the National Dairy Council, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, and the American Egg Board. But even if we remove the hundreds of billions of dollars in annual subsidies for animal products, it might not be sufficient to tip the balance in favor of healthier diets. We have created societies in the West that value and consume meat, dairy, poultry, fish, seafood. Over several generations, a particular way of life has been promoted. This has shifted expectations about diet to include large amounts of animal-sourced foods, the concept that a meal centers around some kind of hunk of meat. The idea that animal products should form the basis of our diet has been scientifically debunked, but remains the social aspiration of billions of people around the globe. As we in the West slowly come to accept that our diets and eating habits are not healthy, it is to be hoped that this will change policies not only here, but throughout the world.


So, we're going to slice our way through the earth. We're going to drive off of Baja California down under sea and across and out in the mill we find this big bridge and then sitting out there is sort of dead valley. And then we're going to come on across and back up onto the coast of Mexico. And just to make sure it's clear, this is all under water, so here's the waves of Baja if you're really keen about scuba diving, this is a good place to go and there's birds flying over the top and there's little boats that are floating in the water so you can see what the thing is. Now, if you were to measure the motion of this stuff, we're going to find that it's doing what we've seen elsewhere, which is there's a motion going away from this ridge. If we could look very carefully, we would find that there is a volcano underneath this and so material is leaking up into the cracks and making little volcanoes and as it comes up in the cracks here it hardens. Looking at what's under sea, you find that there are lots of rocks that are hardened in the cracks and so the whole sea floor is sort of made of these rocks that are hardened in the cracks and the oldest ones are farthest away from the center so they get older if you go out on either side. If you were interested in fish poop and wind blown dust and things of that sort, you'd find there's almost none of them on the sea floor very close to the center and then as you go away they become more and more common and that's because there's been more time for them to pile up and very close to the center of the ridge, they just have not had very much time to pile up at all. Now, you might imagine that this is related to other things and you remember that way down in the earth one finds convection cells and so you get the convection cells coming up and then spreading aside and a little bit of leakage is coming up into the crack that it makes and making sea floor and all of the world's sea floors are made in this way.


Narcissists are inauthentic people hey survivors please like the video share your thoughts in the comments if you haven't subscribed yet please click the subscribe button in the bottom right corner of the video or the subscribe button underneath the video and please share this video with anyone who Narcissists are inauthentic they are not real people they are whatever they think you want to see they will mirror you and appeal to your own ideals they will tell you whatever they think you want to hear they will show you whatever they think you want to see although everything they tell you or show you isn't what they are about most often it can be about it can be the exact opposite of what they are about here is an example in the love-bombing phase the narcissist may have told you that they are loyal honest or trustworthy later into the relationship you discovered that they had been lying or cheating on you this is a perfect example where the narcissist has been inauthentic they have proven through their actions that they do not honor the values they originally claimed to have people who are authentic are going to be loyal honest and trustworthy they are not going to cheat on you they are not going to lie or hide anything from you people who are authentic will be loyal to you they will be honest and they will not hide anything from you they will not be indirect or passive they will not need to sugarcoat anything or beat around the bush people who are authentic will lay it all on the line of course this is something a narcissist cannot do narcissists are incapable of being authentic or real the whole personality and character of the narcissist is designed to hide their true nature and to deceive you if the narcissist was to be authentic or real with you they would be exposing themselves they would be exposing themselves for who they really are and then you wouldn't want anything to do with them narcissists are aware of this which is why they will do everything they can to mask their true nature their true character and personality their true morals their true beliefs values and principles they know all too well that they are full of shit they know that they do not honor the beliefs or values that they claim to have they know that they have created a false character and personality designed to lure you in and they know that it is only a matter of time until you figure them out which is why they usually won't stick around for long periods of time narcissists are fake people they are not genuine they are inauthentic towards the end of the relationship they may reveal who they really are this is usually when they are planning to discard you or if they believe that you are going to discard them once you have seen their true selves you may want nothing to do with them or you may reminisce on the false character they displayed to you during the love bombing phase you need to understand that person was nothing more than a false character an illusion which they created to lure you in you need to forget about everything they told you or showed you back then you need to forget about everything they claim to be about understand that these people are fake and inauthentic they had no choice but to act this way towards you if they chose to be real and authentic with you you wouldn't want anything to do with them so they had to create this false character just to keep you around just to secure you as a source of supply they never cared about you they never appreciated you they never loved you they just wanted your attention validation and admiration of them they wanted your time and energy they wanted to control you and possibly isolate you to do this they had to make you believe that they were everything you could ever want if they had told you straight up what they were really about and displayed their true selves to you you wouldn't have entertained even a second of their time narcissists cannot sustain a relationship or secure a source of supply without being fake and inauthentic they have to make us believe that they are everything we have been looking for their true selves are everything we do not want in our lives narcissists have no emotional depth they lack empathy they are emotionally mature they hate themselves they are full of hate anger envy and jealousy they are pathological liars and cheaters they can never be satisfied or fulfilled with anything in their lives which is why they are always so miserable they cannot emotionally connect to you or be emotionally vulnerable they are self-absorbed and only care about themselves and their own needs they cannot put themselves in your shoes so they will never be a mutual understanding these are just a few of the long list of traits and characteristics characteristics which these individuals have so you can see why someone like this would need to create a false character if they were real and upfront with you from the beginning you wouldn't want anything to do with them most of the things they told you were most likely a lie they were not about any of that they use tactics like denial blame-shifting projection and gas lighting to make you believe that they are real and authentic and there is something wrong with you you are the crazy person for even doubting their own their authenticity but this is not true you are the authentic person narcissists are extremely minute manipulative they are pathological liars and cheaters they are everything that you do not want in your life although they will try to manipulate you and to believe in that they are what you what you were looking for you may have tried to talk to them you may have tried to understand why they are so abusive and manipulative towards you you may have tried to find common ground or reach a mutual understanding but this is something you will never achieve with a narcissist a mutual understanding or a resolution requires that both parties be honest and truthful with each other this is something a narcissist cannot do a narcissist cannot be real or authentic with you because then they will be exposing themselves narcissists are already shameful of their abusive and manipulative ways their sadistic and predatory nature they do not want to acknowledge their dysfunctional thoughts or bizarre behaviors they want to project all of their faults and mistakes on to you narcissists do not want to take responsibility or accountability for any of their faults or mistakes they do not want to self-reflect or look within themselves it's too painful for them to acknowledge all of the negative emotions they have to experience every day and this is why those negative emotions never go away this is why they can never drown out the voice of their inner critic this is why the abuse and manipulation will never end and you will never find common ground or reach a resolution because the first step to finding common ground or reaching a resolution is to be authentic and real with each other you have to acknowledge your faults and mistakes you have to take responsibility and accountability for what you have done before you can pick apart someone else's faults and mistakes of course the narcissist is in such deep denial and trying to protect their fragile egos their narcissism is a coping mechanism and a defense mechanism it is designed to protect them from how they really see themselves how they really feel about themselves that is why they are going to hold on to it with their lives and do whatever they can to project their faults and mistakes under you and make you believe that you are the problem I hope this video has given you further knowledge and understanding of the narcissist understand that they are not real or authentic people although they will do or say whatever they can to make you believe that they are they will try whatever they can to make you doubt your intuition because they know that your intuition is potentially something that will detect and reveal what they are really about please like the video share your thoughts in the comments I will talk to you in another video very soon


Welcome back. So today I am getting ready to head out for a Costco trip. I've taken you all with me before. This time though this trip is gonna be a little different. I kind of have two different kinds of Costco trips. It's usually whenever I need toilet paper and other types of paper products, ziploc bags, things like that. But today I'm going solely for grocery purposes. So food and more grocery items instead of paper goods because that is one big reason I shop at Costco is for toilet paper, ziploc bags, those sorts of things. I don't think this video needs all that much introduction other than we are gonna go to Costco.  We're gonna come back and we're going to really put away everything. I'm gonna show you a few things I do with a few bulk items that I like to kind of store. I have been shopping once a month and if you've been around for a while that might be a little bit of a new thing for you. It's a new thing for me. It's a goal that I've had for a long time to grocery shop once a month and I have been working my way there and also working at learning how to store produce and other things properly so that it lasts for more than a week and I'm putting together a video very soon where I'm going to basically show you how I shop once a month, how I keep produce for a really long time and some of you may be really shocked at how long you can keep produce if you store it properly. So be on the lookout for that. Before we get going though I feel like I'm gonna get so many questions about this mug and I thrifted it. I can't link it and it actually is a really old piece. It looks like it could potentially be something that was meant to look old but it is actually a really old mug and I love it a lot so it's thrifted. I can't share a link for it but I'm gonna finish drinking my tea and we're gonna head out to Costco. Our nearest Costco is a little over an hour away so it's not a trip I make every single month. I do like to make it frequently enough that it's worth my membership and we do really enjoy a lot of the products from Costco but I like to make my trips a little more few far in between and then get a nice bulk pile of stuff whenever I go. One thing we really love is the dried mangoes from Costco. I've never tried the organic ones but the ones that aren't organic that you saw in those yellow bags are so delicious. I think the first time we got those we ate the bag within a couple of days. They are just almost down the line of candy or like a fruit leather just really really yummy but one thing I do like to check when it comes to dried fruits is sometimes they will sneak in some vegetable oil or canola oil or just odd oils that don't necessarily need to be in them so in those dried blueberries you just saw there was an added oil and you can definitely dry fruit. I actually have a dehydrator that I need to get using a bit more often but you can definitely dry fruit without having to add any extra oil. If you're looking to switch to more organic grains which is kind of where I'm at in my health cooking journey this is a great place to check for them. I felt like this was a pretty good price for brown rice and a nice big bag of it so that we won't have to purchase it again for a while. I make homemade mac and cheese or sometimes we make mac and cheese style cauliflower. If you've never tried it definitely give it a try it's really good you can make a nice cheesy sauce and put it over the cauliflower and mix it all together but they do have organic mac and cheese at Costco if that's something you're interested in and here was hemp hearts and chia seeds both of those things I like to keep in my kitchen as a staple. I love making chia seed pudding and also putting it in smoothies as well. Something I actually grabbed the last time I was at Costco and I really think I'm gonna try to keep it around we still have a good amount left is this rice ramen now this does not have the flavor packet with it so you would need to add your own flavors which is just fine with me I'm happy using my homemade bone broths with this and my daughters really love and enjoy these noodles. Oils is something I really do like to get at Costco especially when they go on sale here they have a coconut oil but I've also got an avocado oil and they have a large variety of different olive oils as well. I recently started making our own mayo at home and found a recipe I really enjoy but before that I would occasionally purchase this avocado mayo and this time it was actually on sale I just like to get this instead of the conventional mayo just with a vegetable oil or another seed oil in it I do pick it up for my husband every once in a while because he prefers that but for myself and our kids I do like to get the avocado oil mayo or make my own so here is more oils like I mentioned they have a lot of different ones they even have some in glass I just decided to go ahead and get this one I know it's in plastic but it was a really good deal and we needed an extra bottle to put in our seller so I just grabbed this instead of getting the glass bottled one these artichoke hearts are to die for they are so good I am not even a huge artichoke fan but whatever marinade they put on these is so delicious I didn't pick them up this day but I still have one extra jar in my seller that I'm gonna break out one of these days and just eat for a snack that's how good they are you can eat them right out of the jar okay so we love the kinders spices their spice blends are pretty much a staple in our house at this point I think in almost every single meal prep I pull out the buttery steakhouse and they have this new one the caramelized onion butter that one is so yummy I've been putting that in to chicken noodle soup and I've noticed that Costco has had these vanilla beans for quite a long time I used them last year as well in my vanilla and they're a fairly good price for vanilla beans another thing I always like to check out if I have enough time when I met Costco is their book section being a homeschool mom I've been able to find resources here and I also wanted to check over this because I figured I probably will make one more trip before Christmas so I was kind of peeking around for some possible Christmas gifts they have some really cool kits that remind me a lot of like a unit study whether it would be on a certain dinosaur or how different vehicles work and they even have a model that you can build with them which I thought was really really neat and would be super hands-on for science if your children are in the preschool and kindergarten age group they have so many resources here I have found some very large thick workbooks for that age group in the years past for my daughters and it's just usually eight or nine dollars for that book and you can really make use of it through an entire school year I noticed this space kind of unit study type book and it had a model that you could build with it as well I'm really keeping these in mind for Christmas because my daughters saw them and they thought they were really neat and they got really excited about them so it's definitely something I want to keep in mind so these chips kind of going back to the groceries these chips are my personal favorite chips they're grain-free so if you need a grain-free option they are so good another thing that I often keep my eye out for at Costco is cheese they don't have a whole lot of organic varieties of cheese however they do have a lot of cheese a lot of large variety different types and kinds and you can buy them in big blocks for a very good price and so I like to kind of check it out see if anything peaks my interest or sounds good for that month something I've been getting from Costco for a long time is the Amy Lou I think I'm saying that right the Amy Lou brand of sausages they have dinner sausages and breakfast sausages they're fairly clean ingredients and they honestly just taste so delicious I really love the way they taste they make a super fast dinner lunch breakfast anytime type food if you're in a hurry and you need to whip something up fast I feel like at this point cucumbers are a staple in our house my daughters can each eat their own cucumber very nice size cucumber just plain without dip I do give them ranch once in a while but they really do enjoy eating cucumbers and I think I've mentioned it a couple of times before then they had this huge pack of these organic mushrooms I thought I'd make some stuffed mushrooms this coming week and something else that I've gotten before are these really huge bags of Brussels sprouts I think they're usually $3.99 I think that's what the sign said there and this time around they didn't look as good as they often do so I didn't get a bag of them but the last time I was at Costco I did and it's such a good price for Brussels sprouts again if you are looking for organic fruits and vegetables that are frozen Costco is your place to do that I mean they have these massive bags of frozen fruits and veggies for a very low price and I actually prefer buying a lot of fruits and veggies frozen because I know that they were frozen right after they were picked so a lot of times they are actually fresher than something that is not frozen so keep that in mind when you are shopping for your fruits and vegetables something else that's a great price at Costco is their almond flour I didn't need any this time around but if you are gluten-free like some of our household is that's a staple as well another great price I have found at Costco is their grass-fed butter and I love grass-fed butter it's so yellow and creamy and just has such a great flavor and so I stocked up on that this time around as well and this was a quick little treat for my daughters they were eyeing up these fuzzy blankets and they just really needed a nice soft warm fuzzy blanket with the cooler weather coming on so I got two of my daughters each one of these and they were thrilled with them all right so I tried to get everything set up so that you could see it all I talked to you at the same time so I am really happy with what I found I've really been trying to switch to a lot of organic things just because of some health issues with family members and so of course with that you're always looking for the best deal just because organic is often priced a little higher than something that is not organic so I'm just gonna go ahead and go through what I have here and then we're gonna get putting everything away I think I'm gonna start back here so I did get a box of almond milk we do drink almond milk mostly in our house although I do get some local milk to make like yogurt and things like that but for drinking or for granola those sorts of things we use almond milk underneath I've got over here I have two cases of waterloo this is kind of like my treat item my eating and what I can eat because of health issues is very limited and so having a like flavored seltzer club soda drink is something that I count as like a treat for me and this is our new favorite brand I actually got these last month when I went to Costco they are just so delicious the flavoring is really really good in them so here I've got some bulk items some things that are in really big bags like you would expect from Costco so I have some organic brown rice I do have other brown rice but like I said I'm trying to kind of like swap out some of our staples for organic items especially grains because I know that they are more heavily sprayed and things like that then a lot of other things and then next to that I've got broccoli and string beans and both of those things are a really really good price if you're looking for organic at Costco so I grabbed some of those the broccoli is actually already in smaller bags inside of the big bag the green beans aren't and I'm not totally sure what I'm gonna do I feel like I probably should put them into a better freezer bag situation but we'll see about that this over here I am so excited about these are the organic dark sweet cherries and I've seen these before but I never really investigated to see what was in them and they have nothing in them they are complete they're pitted they're frozen they don't have any added sugars or anything like that I have a couple different projects planned for that so stay tuned for that over here I've grass-fed butter another thing I'm trying to swap out is our regular butter for grass-fed butter just because it is tastes so much better first of all and of course it's just so much better for you over here I have a bag of hemp hearts and that's something that for myself I don't eat much grains at all with my health diet I have to really stay away from a lot of grains so I will take that and I'll make sort of like a hot cereal with it a little bit like oatmeal put a little bit of fruit in with it and it's so delicious we are a half and half gluten-free family so I do sour dough and other things but for the most part I am picking gluten free options because two family members in the household have gluten sensitivity and absolutely cannot eat gluten it's not an allergy so we can have gluten in the house but if any of you have gluten sensitivities you understand that whole thing so these outer aisle cauliflower sandwich rounds are amazing for like a grilled sandwich almost like a panini and I've gotten them before they also freeze well so I probably will freeze half of them if they're still in two different packages it's been a while since I've gotten them I got a bunch of bananas and they are pretty green so I'll probably leave them out and let them ripen up and then whatever doesn't get eaten until they're to their fully ripe state I do freeze whatever's left and I got some romaine lettuce they did not have organic in the romaine and romaine is super hardy in the refrigerator as far as how long it lasts so that is always my choice of lettuce I have some cucumbers here my daughters love cucumbers they eat them sliced all the time also celery sticks and then I got some organic raisins these come in two different bags which I really love and their expiration date is like two years from now so I know that they will be good for a nice long time and I think they were on sale I'm sure you guys noticed in the footage from the store and then here is my choice of tortilla chips these are actually made with avocado oil and that's something else that I'm very sensitive and picky about is what things have oils in them I know sometimes you can't really get away from it but for the most part if I can find an option that has a better oil I will do that speaking of oil here is some organic extra virgin olive oil we do mostly use avocado oil in our house and I actually buy it in gallon jugs on Amazon so one of the best prices I found I'll leave it linked below I know that occasionally I talk about it and you all ask for that link so I will leave that linked below I love buying it that way it comes right to my door I don't have to worry about it they also had these organic mushrooms on sale and so I got a big pack of those and I figured I'll do like stuffed mushrooms or something this week they don't last very long so it's usually a matter of me using it up kind of quickly and I got some more of the Madagascar vanilla beans I use that to make my vanilla last year and I did actually reuse my vanilla beans if you guys did not watch my extract video from last year I'll link it below I know I talked about it in my last video as well but you can actually reuse vanilla beans but the problem is is we use so much vanilla in our house that I need to get another batch started so I went ahead and grabbed another pack of the beans and I got a couple of things that are kind of what I would consider non-essentials a little bit of grab-and-go type food we don't have a lot of options for that in our house just because of the way that we eat so whenever I can find something that's okay enough for everyone in the household that can be a quick snack so I got some dried pineapple and the only ingredient on these is just pineapple so and it is organic so I thought that would be a great thing to try out with the girls we got a pack of chomps I feel like every time I go to Costco I get a pack of some kind of meat sticks because they're an easy quick protein there's something that we can grab and take with us and or I can keep it in my purse or in the car and it's something that if we're in a pinch that we have a snack on hand that nobody's gonna get sick on because that's part of our problem in our house is we just can't eat certain things and especially when it comes to eating out and restaurants and things like that so I also like the Archer brand that Costco carries I did get a bag of those last month I think we have a few floating around here but I thought to change it up I would do the chomps we like this brand as well along with the snacky stuff the stuff that wasn't really not essential the girls did so well I was kind of a last-minute Costco run and I told them I wanted to get them a little treat so I grabbed them some of these organic fruit bars again the ingredients were very clean with these and I thought it would be kind of a nice little candy for them I got a tub of sour cream now I normally buy cultured sour cream but this month because of where I was going and stuff I did not I was not able to get it and so I just grabbed a big tub of the daisy and then another dairy product we needed some parm and I really like this brand from Costco it's like the Kirkland brand and we use this to make Alfredo sauce and then when we were shopping I showed you all and talked about this amalou I think that's how you say it amalou sausages these come in a bunch of different flavors or at times I've seen different flavors I really like their garlic something I can't remember I'm sure you guys saw it in the footage from the store but this one I've never tried but it's like very clean meat clean sausages now something that we really love is their breakfast sausages from this brand and the thing that I love about this is it's actually in three packs in there so what I do is open this up I cut the three packs apart and I just put them in the freezer they have the date along the edge so I'm able to keep track of that and then we get them out we can actually put them in the frying pan frozen and they fry up just fine again one of our absolute favorites it's so delicious and then last but not least I also get the tortillas from this brand and they are just a really clean brand they're not it's not organic but it honestly beats out some of the ingredients that are in some of the organic chips and tortillas and I just really like what they're made out of and we enjoy how they taste if you guys are totally new to my channel and haven't seen how I shop how we do a lot of food in our house I do a lot of home preservation and canning and things so you might be saying where is the meat or where is some other things that you would find as staples well if you guys want to go check out my food storage tour and how our cellar is laid out and stuff there are things that I buy in very very large bulk things like rolled oats and other things like that that I can during the canning season which is not right now we're going into late fall and into early winter and so that all fills in we also buy all or I should say most there are occasions where I do buy meat in store but we buy most of our meat local so we don't buy a whole lot of meat in store and like our beef is grass-fed our chicken that we buy locally is free range on occasion I do buy things like chicken breasts from the store because I can't get just the breast from our source with the free range chicken or some sausage or bacon those sorts of things I might buy from the store but otherwise I find local farmers I have been trying to get in the habit of putting away my groceries the correct way every time we come home from the store because I feel like everything lasts so much longer it is in a much fresher state whenever I put it away correctly so then everything is just more tasty and I have a longer shelf life in my refrigerator with it something that Costco is really good at is I feel like they have quite a few items that are already vacuum packed I know that they have chicken that's like that and other things like the sausages where it's so simple to freeze it it's already ready to go into your freezer and I appreciate that a lot I have like I mentioned been learning a lot more about how to store foods properly and I'm working on a video about how I am grocery shopping once a month how I'm keeping lettuce that is actually good for up to five weeks I know might sound a little crazy but I've been testing these things out that's why I haven't shared yet because I wanted a couple of months to test out some of these methods and to be able to tell you how long things have lasted in my refrigerator first hand not just reading it off of another blog or something like that so one way I like to store my celery and helps it last nice and long is to store it in water now you do need to make sure that it does get fresh water every once in a while but it helps it stay crunchy and fresh for much longer than if you were to just store it in the refrigerator I have been doing a lot of testing of recipes and methods of doing different food preps and things like that in the background and I have so much to share with you all over the next little while I've been doing a lot of homemade things from scratch and just really eliminating things that are pre-made in the store that way I know the ingredients that are in them and I can trust the sources of where they came from so stay tuned for all of that but I hope this video was inspiring to you if you like to shop at Costco and even if it wasn't and you were just here to hang out with me thanks a lot for hanging out with me if you're new here don't forget to hit that subscribe button I have lots of meal preps coming your way and leave me a comment below let me know what you're up to this week and if you're getting ready to do a Costco run yourself I'll see you all in the next one


What's good people, it is your boy Ty here with all the latest MTV news. Ariana Grande's new album, Sweet Night, was always going to be a personal one, and with the release this week she's opened up about new track, Get Well Soon, which is a tribute to the victims of the Manchester attack. Breaking down in tears as she spoke about the meaning of the track in a new interview with Ebro for Beats 1, Ariana explained that she wanted to pay tribute to those affected by saying, It's just about being there for each other and helping each other, through scary times and anxiety. The track also includes 40 seconds of silence on the song, taking the total length to 5 minutes and 22 seconds. The date the terror attack took place following her show at the Manchester arena. Going into more detail in a tweet she added, Fans responded in heartfelt messages displaying how Ariana has helped them. I'm so shocked because I go through the same thing, knowing you go through it too makes me feel less alone and much stronger. I love you. As someone who deals with anxiety, thank you for being brave enough to write about it. A tweet that perfectly summarises the problem and solution when it comes to anxiety. Being brave enough is one step just like Ariana has done to move forward positively. Demi Lovato's close friend and backup dancer, Danny Vitale, has denied accusations that she supplied the singer with drugs before her apparent overdose. The dancer wants to make it clear that she played no part in Demi's relapse and took to Instagram to post an essay-like response sharing just how much the false rumors circulating online have affected both her mental health and her career. Vitale wrote, She then went on to describe the effect it has taken on her personal life by saying, People that I thought loved me were nowhere to be found or heard from. Companies stopped replying. I wound up not leaving my house nor my bed for three weeks, ridden with severe depression, fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, disgust, numbness and many more adjectives that I've been feeling that I sadly can't even put into words. This untrue narrative is damaging innocent people's lives, mine included. We are so quick to point the finger with little to zero facts at all. After clearing up the false rumors, she concludes, Our words have meanings and consequences. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. Be warned, heartwarming teddy bear-based story lovers, if you're not ready to feel the feels, turn away now. Usually having things chucked onto a pitch at a football game is a cause for concern, but that's not the case this weekend. After fans were encouraged to bring soft toys to throw for sick young fans, before the kickoff, the fierce battle between Dutch teams Feyenoord and Excelsior cuddly toys rained down onto the field below, where children from Rotterdam's Erasmus-Sofia Hospital were walking on the pitch. The young Feyenoord fans in attendance for Sunday's game were also treated to a comprehensive victory by their team as they beat their rivals 3-0. This emotional gesture is not the first time this has happened in the Netherlands. A du den Haag did similar back in 2016, but regardless of how often it occurs, it's a leaf that football fans all over the world can take out of their book. This is what football is really about. Hello, I'm Sonia Taylor and welcome to another edition of MTV News. Does Ariana Grande need glasses? It looks like someone might need to book her in for an eye test after an investigation into why the singer always appears to be squinting into the distance. Buzzfeed refers to the point out this theory after noticing Ari having a squint on the audience cam several times during the MTV VMAs this week. It's not the first time this happened either, and on further investigation, fans found out this is a slightly reoccurring thing. Take the time Ariana appeared on the Dewey Fallon show. Well, every time in fact. But recently she headed down to take on the musical genre challenge and yep, you guessed it, she's caught on camera having trouble seeing who she's meant to be impersonating. Sometimes it's so bad that she even has to run up to the teleprompter. Fans have also started to notice too, with one tweeting, Ariana Grande is always squinting. Get yourself some glasses. Another added, can someone tell Ariana Grande to get her eyes checked to wear contacts please because she's squinting at everything always. The pine size pop princess is in on the action though, as she's well aware that she needs the head to spec savers. Last year she released her own emojis, which included one of her squinting and she's even done a video on Snapchat saying she needed to quit with the squinting. Ari babes, maybe it's time to get those eyes tested. Will Smith has been spotted in boots, working, not shopping. The Hollywood actress traded in the acting for retail, as he became a boot sales assistant for the day. Shoppers were stunned to find Will working at the Westfield London branch of boots, where he was even given his very own name badge. So if you happen to be in boots on your lunch break, Will just might have sold you your £3 meal deal. The star wasn't working there because he's low on cash and needed a few quid. It turns out that he was in fact there to help promote son Jaden's eco-friendly bottled water brand, Just Water. Ah, ever the doting father. Speaking on the brand, Will said, while Jaden was surfing as a young kid, some plastic water bottles floated by him, and he soon realized that they were dirtying our oceans and killing the environment. He was immediately motivated to do something to save our planet, our future, and with that wish, Just Water was born. Well done, Jaden. Very efficient work. Did you notice Harry Styles' cameo in the Netflix movie adaptation of To All The Boys I've Ever Loved Before? Yeah, the internet is already fully obsessed with the film that landed on Netflix over the weekend, but it just got even better. To be fair, you were probably a little distracted falling into the dreamy eyes of Peter Kavinsky on your first watch. But, keen-eyed fans have now noticed a blink-annual misappearance from the former One Direction singer. Unfortunately, Harry didn't quite have a chance to get his acting chops out of this cameo and instead appeared in the form of his album cover, which was cleverly put in shot in a scene in Lara Jean's bedroom. So yes guys, Harry wasn't technically there, but a picture of his face still counts, right? Of course it does. I don't exactly know how, but the fan managed to find the back of Hazard's debut album placed across the furniture in the room. I mean, it's not hard to miss a face so cute, right? Hey guys, it's Georgie, and this is MTV News. Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, Priyanka Choprin, Nick Jonas, Hayley Bourbon and Justin Bieber, every second person on your timeline, why is everyone getting married? Sorry, no answers to that, but we do have a wedding round up. Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson have set a date for their wedding, vaguely. In an interview with Good Morning America, Ariana said, it's not soon soon, it's going to be like next year. But I don't know, getting married only a year after you met still feels quite soon soon. When asked how she knew Pete was the one, she said, it was just like a feeling, you know? Before admitting, that's so cheesy.   Of course you know when you know, that's like saying, you drink when you drink. Yeah, no sh**. Anyway, another couple that knew when they knew is Priyanka Choprin and Nick Jonas, and now Priyanka's mum. In an interview with DNA India, Madhu Chopra was very gushy about her future son-in-law, saying, Nick is calm and mature. He's a wonderful person and everyone in the family just loves him. He's so polite and respectful towards elders. She adds, what more can a mother want?  Her kids to respond to the family WhatsApp. Equal pay. But that might take a while, so yeah, in the meantime, Nick Jonas will do. That's all from the World of Celebrity Weddings, but if you're watching this on Facebook, just keep scrolling for daily updates when your second cousin twice removes recent engagement. And now it's by a close-up of a blinked hand holding a glass of bubbly on a hill in the caption when you know you know. Big congratulations to Dua Lipa's mum for giving birth to her a whole 23 years ago. That's right, Dua Lipa's celebrated her birthday with a day of eating and drinking and popping bottles and a beater. Or hashtag Dua Be Fair, she's called it. The pop star started with a birthday brunch surrounded by lots of people and had a pool party surrounded by lots of people and had another party surrounded by lots of people dressed in white. And she got proof that hangovers get much worse with age. On Instagram after the pre-party, she said, 23 has me feeling fragile already. Thank you to everyone who has made my year so special. My fans, my family and my friends. I am so lucky to have the best people around me. I love you and thank you for the lovely messages. I'll reply soon, I just have to go lay in the sun while my brain melts from my hangover in preparation for tonight again. Happy birthday, Dua. Here's a quick birthday gift from MTV. Wash a couple of paracetamol down with some OJ and you'll be fine made. That's all from me. I'm just off to go and block everyone on my social media who's getting married in the next year.


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All right, Dark Crisis, this is your time. We have a Gaga Gigo, Fairy of the Springs, spell reproduction, battle scarred. We got the Acrobat Monkey, DD Trainer, Dark Scorpion, Chick the Yellow, Mephithian Furlgen, la-la-la-la. Man, I really messed that one up. And we have a secret rare in the final Dark Crisis bag.


The next category is in ICT applications and content for economic empowerment and poverty reduction. And it goes to iMARID technology services from India. To accept this award, on behalf of the 30,000 marginalized and minority young women and men of Anadeep iMARID, you have been skilled in ICT, in technologies and mainstreamed into internet and IT jobs and earning three to seven times their earlier family income. Our women at iMARID believe strongly, like I do, in market-based solutions. We do not wish to be long-term beneficiaries of the United Nations and large corporations. We want you to be our clients, like other corporations like Microsoft or other tech companies and internet companies are. We want you to be our clients so that we can deliver high-quality internet and IT project services to you and thereby earn revenues for both the organization and for the women. Our dream is for iMARID and others like us to become mini-Facebook or Alibaba's with our women as equal shareholders so they can participate like Silicon Valley does and other parts of the world like China and India does in the global internet economy. That is what we think of as mainstreaming. Thank you.


Hello everyone, my name is Loris Valenti and the vice president for the microcontroller and digital product groups in the Americas region I welcome you to this afternoon session and I hope You also have enjoyed our morning session. We have presented our offering in the sensors and This is an impressive offering all these sensors are able to capture data a little bit everywhere in the Environment surrounding us then we will have the problem to manage and control all this data So this is why we are here talking about embedded and connectivity technologies So let's see where you can find our products basically ST with its embedded Processor with our microcontroller family of products is present everywhere. There is a need of a performance connectivity or a security Here we have some example of the application that we are addressing today and as you know our world is changing very rapidly never like Today our life has seen a dramatic change and ST wants to be part of this change I still wants to be able to simplify our life. Thanks to our products Okay, so let's see So looks like most of you is coming from the is attending from the West Coast even if we have a Good participation a little bit everywhere and thanks to our colleagues in Europe. It's very late for you. Thank you very much for participating so Our world is changing very very Rapidly and the complexity of our world is increasing so we can measure the complexity by this simply by looking at the Amount of functions the object that we use today are performing So this is also reflected as you see in this chart But in the in the trend for the embedded processing market trends So you see that the forecast is showing that in the next three years this market will grow eight percent actually the microcontroller will grow a little bit lower than six percent and Puse will grow about thirteen percent This is a clearing the clay indication of the needs to have a more computing power more processing capabilities at the base of these needs there is a application like 5g with the IOT per vision. There is a new application enabled by security and of course artificial intelligence on the edge How is ST? Play playing in this field, of course, this is a very important field for ST So we have we have grown Incredibly in the last 12 years we moved from position number 11 to position number two Worldwide with our microcontroller family of products and all this has been done organically So with no acquisition our at the end 32 family of product is made of more than 1,600 part numbers we have today a customer base which is above 60,000 customers worldwide and we ship more for them for billion units We have recently last year actually Enter the empty arena with our STM 32 and P1. We are addressing the needs of a higher performances of Linux operating systems So when we talk about at the end 32 basically we talk as I said about a wide very wide family of products ranging from value line single core no power devices to very high performance devices with Multiple memory interfaces and different memory sizes There is a common denominator in our family of product, which is that we want to address More security more intelligence and more connectivity and you will see in the in the presentation today how we are doing this we also Provide with our products also complete solution addressing what we call verticals applications like graphics connectivity security wireless motor control digital power and audio these are The initial start for our support to Full system solution, but of course we are growing this continuously Now in this context We started last year an expansion a dramatic expansion of our family of product addressing The key areas I was mentioning so when we talk about the more performances We basically introduce the MP1 family of product our first NPU And also the H7 as the answer to H7 is a dual core or microcontroller with embedded flash That can provide a significant performances. We have then entered in the wireless connectivity Area, this is done with the WB product over that support the Bluetooth connectivity It is a single core single die dual core with embedded radio And then we also started addressing the need for security with our L5 family of product that is Certified with the most stringent standards Now this was last year this year we further expanded the family of products So for the MP1 we increased performances for the wireless connectivity We introduced the WL, which is a single die product for the Laura connectivity And then we also introduced Security software packages. We announced our ecosystem to support better support artificial intelligent development and also graphic development So in our wide ecosystem we also offer hardware solutions. So we we have Bored available already available that can Support you in the evaluation of the products in the development of your application and even the prototyping All this is supported by the by a wide network of field application engineers And also distributors and partners We also have an extensive offering in terms of training material on our website and more than ever We are announcing this with the videos and with presentation that will help you Get started on our problems. So here we have another poll So we would like to hear from you. It's very important for us to understand. What is the key elements when you? have to choose your next generation of MC and see you and then pews so This would be very useful for us to to understand how to better address your needs so We were talking about connectivity so connectivity is a big part of our offering and So in the Bluetooth area, as I said, we have the WB product that is supporting multiple protocols including Tredex and the ZigBee and then we have the Laura offering with the WL So In terms of Bluetooth, we support the traditional application where you have a host connected to multiple devices Or we can support mesh Networks where multiple devices are connected together. This is typical in automation or Smart home We have also Support for sorry We also have support for Applications that have a need for a longer distance in this case We have the Laura for lower bandwidth Laura is addressing application in the industrial field agriculture lightning smart metering or we can also support Higher bandwidth with the LTE cut them and be IOT and 5g certified solutions so We don't have to forget that in our What is connectivity offerings? We also have the ST 25 family of product. This is a very interesting family of product addressing NFC and More recently we have certified this family for Automotive so that you can develop applications like doors lock and lock or console pairing Okay, so let's see the results of the polls so looks like the why majority of you is Looking at the ecosystem when choosing The next generation of MCU and pu this is not coming as a surprise and in fact You will see in our presentation our ecosystem offering is very wide and It's basically a comprehensive system that will enable you to address all the needs within the same tools Now it's time to to repel for me and then leave the world to my colleagues And so we have seen that all the sensors that that we have all the need to capture data from our surrounding world requires Management of this data and We need to connect this data. So this is why with our microcontroller family We want to offer you more computing power. This is done through our NPU or do I core microcontroller? We want to offer you more intelligence. Thanks to our QBI solution that will enable you to develop artificial intelligent products more connectivity wireless connectivity with WB supporting Bluetooth WL supporting Laura or more performing solution with the LD and and be a you and be a your T or Cut them a solution. We also have more security with our L5 family of product And all these as I was mentioning is supported by the common ecosystem So you don't have to to worry about moving from one family of product to the other the ecosystem And the tools are all the same We also have a broader support Wide support thanks to our field application engineers and and partner So I will leave you now to the afternoon session with more detailed presentation from my colleagues talking about the main areas of our focus artificial intelligence on the ad on the edge developing GUIs with our products and micros having a secure connection and exploring more wireless connectivity and in both in the area of Sub-geekers 2.4 gigahertz and also NFC. So I would hand over to Boona for The continuation of the day and thank you very much for joining Great. Thank you, Laura's. Thanks for the great overview and it's clear that ST have been investing and is investing in the Right products and technology for the growing market trends and that will segment us into the next First session for the afternoon, which is bringing AI to the edge. But before that while Marcus gets ready I want to Mention this is the the virtual page that I talked about earlier Here you can see the the address here is st.com slash July 14 virtual There is a QR code here for a quick scan to get to the page On this page you will find the presentation that will be used today as well as the product information page and also the bottom will be some for the demos itself and So you'll you'll have this will have this post throughout the the presentation so with that I'm going to pass