Hey, it's Brigitte. Welcome to above-life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope today I want to do a topic video. I got to check in with you. Now as soon as I say that the rain starts. So I'm going to try to continue this video while it is raining behind us. Hopefully it won't get too windy and we'll be able to continue our conversation but I think I need to talk to you and recording this video at the end of April 2020 and I have been in the whole stay-at-home mode quarantine type situation for about six weeks now with my family four kids four dogs and a husband working from home. Lucky for me I get to work from home. I'm very very very fortunate that way so as my husband he works from home too but there's also this little thing called homeschooling and I have kids at three different schools four different grades yeah Yeah doing that with work. Oh my goodness. Oh those teachers. I'm telling you and so I wanted to talk about I just wanted to do a check-in and share with you a little bit how I'm handling this whole experience that's going on in the outside world of being home and being home with everybody else in my family because they're all kind of it's like all the sudden I got all these co-workers but they're not helpful. They're not helping me with my business they're just all there all the time. That's serious. So lucky for me I've made I've carved out some little nooks in my house where I can you know get on my laptop and get on my iPhone and do recordings and things like that so that's been okay but the depth of the recording that I've been able to do has been challenging for me because of the focus when I'm doing deeper channeling with new people afterlife celebrity guests for example or influential people that I've never met before in the afterlife and I don't really even have a connection to it all it is super challenging to try to get in and build a rapport in a relationship while the dog's barking down the hall my son's hollering for help with his geometry another kid is you know making pizza rolls in the microwave and I mean there's just the mom mom I mean there's a lot going on you know and it's understandable and usually during times when my kids are like on spring break or they have like Christmas break off of school or they have like a weekend like a long weekend you know Friday Monday off kind of of school I have always worked around that I've never really worked on those days and that's why I also haven't ever done sessions that often in my entire 15-year career in the evenings because they're home and it's distracting you know and so having session one-on-one is different than actually trying to channel and let me tell you how that is because when I'm working with you one-on-one I can really connect and really focus on you and our energy can connect and it just is this awesome bridge of light and it's easy and if I'm working in a small group or doing a like something you know for an hour or two hours online with just you know four six eight twelve people that kind of a thing it's fine it's totally fine I'm in the zone I'm with you it's no big deal and I go to great lengths prior to that to make sure nobody interrupts me or bothers me and I have like a noise machine and a fan in the hallway and nobody can come down and put a block up like a dog gate up at the end of the hallway so nobody even walks near there the dogs are kenneled I mean there are signs up in the house you know be quiet mom's recording do not disturb you know that kind of a thing and so I go to great lengths to make sure that space is really protected from disruption and distraction so I can focus so it works that way but to do a channeling it's different because I'm going in and connecting in completely unfamiliar territory channeling one afterlife celebrity is totally different like think about it so channeling Prince it's totally different totally different than channeling like Doris Day or you know Amelia Earhart or Christine McCullough that kind of thing like it's the energies are just different you know and and different's fine it's just for me a new person is somebody I've just and and somebody I'm not interested all that interested in and not really feeling drawn to learn more about it's really tough to do those kind of channels which sometimes it's a general channel isn't a big deal but right now it's just it's tough to get in there and kind of do that so you may see where I channel other people again so I do repeat channeling because there's always more we can learn from people that I like to learn and can I like to learn from like Louise Hey Wayne Dyer people that I connect to frequently more frequently than than others like Freddie Mercury Marilyn Monroe David Bowie Robin Williams is another one that I really like you'll see that I do channel people more more than just once more than just once George Michael for example and so that's what that's what creates playlists too for fans so that fans like during times like this you guys can go to the playlist on above life channel and find the people that you love and you're drawn to there's a variety there so you can find people you are drawn to and you can just devour those playlists so you see it's kind of a win win for everybody and I really felt like I needed to make this video to share that because I've gotten some feedback recently that I'm channeling prints too much for example but the timing of that's a little unique because it was just the anniversary of the four years of his crossing over into the afterlife and Prince is the reason why above life channel exists he was the one that really inspired and encouraged me to channel other celebrities as well and so that's why we have above life channel otherwise we wouldn't have it so of course I'm going to give honoring and gratitude and recognition to him and to his fan fan base especially during this time and so I'm showing a whole lot of content on an alternate website that I have the purple medium for people who are Prince fans the purple medium.com is a website for Prince fans and there's a series that I recorded a few years ago with content from 2017-2018 that I'm opening up usually I charge for that connection experience every spring and instead this year it really felt like I needed to just open it up so people can pay what they want and what they can and if you can't you can't but you can still access it and so it just it's a it's something that I can give and that feels really good to do that and honor the memory and the legacy and the legend of Prince not just from him as a musician or as a person but from him as a spiritual supporter as a spiritual energy that has inspired the work that I'm doing here so I appreciate that and so that's why I'm sharing a lot of prints so that that answers that question it's funny because you always get the gamut you know when you're on YouTube you get a wide variety of comments and I like to read them you know that I can't always respond to them but I like to read them I try to when I can at least give a little heart or a thumbs up so that you know that I'm reading them if I can reply I will but oftentimes it's just a thumbs up or a heart but it runs the wide range like from people who just love you so much and sometimes people comment like on my hair or my makeup or my clothes or my jewelry I think and other people that which is fine I don't that's fine with me um but then I also get people that will um really want me to channel one person or people that say no don't channel this person and so it's like what what channel them no don't channel them channel them no don't channel them no you know that kind of thing so it it's kind of a whole you get you get a wide variety which is I guess is good right because then you end up where somewhere in between right so you can't make all the people happy all the time and so I'm just going to do the best I can from where I'm at and you know that in order for me to channel someone I have to feel it if I don't feel it I'm not going to fake it this is not that kind of a channel I'm not a drive through psychic connection medium you know I really want an authentic connection and communication and I want you to be able to feel it feel the energy through the experiences that we share here on above light channel and I feel like we share that so let me share with you this if you're interested in actually watching some casual videos kind of like this with me check out my fairy grasshopper channel I have a channel where I just do vlog stuff about my psychic life topic based stuff I do card readings I do all sorts of kind of psychic and bridge it like stuff over there so you can get to know me and hang out with me at fairy grasshopper that's my first youtube channel anyway that I've had so if you're interested go ahead and check that out otherwise hang in there we're going to get through this unique time we certainly will and every week on Mondays I'm going to consistently post on Mondays I have been posting Mondays and Wednesdays but moving forward I'm just giving myself that permission since this is my space anyway and I'm like my own boss although I do need to give myself a raise I'm my own volunteer and best volunteer and I can decide what is going to be in the best interest of all of us you know so I want to provide quality connection and content so for sure on Mondays and sometimes you're going to see some stuff on Wednesdays sometimes you might not but keep an eye out because they will also connect with you on the community tab I have the opportunity to do that so be sure to subscribe to above life channel so you know if I decide to just happen to want to do a live stream that you don't miss it or if I'm offering a small group service where you can participate in just a small group with me I will announce that on on that community tab so check it out check it out and also I have a Facebook page I have two of them one above life channel on Facebook pretty pretty easy to find that also I have one Bridget inspired on Facebook and Bridget inspired on Instagram so I have a lot of different ways that we can connect if you're interested in that but if you're only here for celebrity channeling check out the playlists and take a look on Mondays and then otherwise if you just want that you know what anything else I would recommend then taking a look at some of the other channeling psychics and mediums that are out there there are some very qualified very very caring psychics and mediums are also some that are a little bit different than that but like I said we it runs the gamut and you got to find something in between so get some more supplements okay if you need that you go ahead and do it you know I'm certainly not the only one doing this kind of work make sure you find someone though that you feel an alignment with an integrity with and come back here every Monday on above life channel so you never miss a channeling video remember the purpose here at above life channel is to inspire your spirit so when mine is inspired that's when I know I know I can give you the best connection opportunity and the best connection experience it's also my goal to fill you with hope with these channeling sessions and to inspire you to live your life because it is your life after all that's the point it's your life so live it just live it thank you so much for being here I appreciate each and every one of you I appreciate the views and the comments the likes and the shares thanks for being here


u know what I'm saying super rare Get the nuggets They're grilled nugget dude. I don't eat grilled stuff Usually is it actually good? What do you eat it? What sauce do you do with?  We're on like 3% battery by the way Do you do you ever sell the extra cards? You don't want me. I sell lots of cards. Yeah tgg player eBay my website all that stuff chicken express.  It's pretty good We got a super rare nice It's right blues have been pulled not that many. It's like five. I think still no dp. No no dp yet Bro, you live for a year and haven't tried zaxby's.  I do like the sauce That sounds pretty good. Actually, maybe I'll try that next time Maybe I'll try the grilled nuggets next time I'll give him a shot I'll give him a shot Because chelsea has to go there every single day. So maybe at some point We dropped it. Does that mean there's the uh starlight in here if it goes out when we pull the starlight dp I'm gonna be upset We technically have an older phone that we can use probably if it runs out We gotta we gotta switch it up. Where is that? Wait, let me charge this one. It's probably dead right now. It is Both are dead. Oh no We gotta fix it Maybe this one will come back on by the time this one dies We got that one charging right now We got it charging anybody notice how Um, okay, I'm gonna jinx it now, but I haven't caught in a while It's feeling better now. Just saying Why is dpe so desired?   So One of the cooler starlights they've made in a while, I would say Daxby's is the go man. I love it Oh, I could go for some saxby's right now. Chels will not be happy with me though Not like this not running out of battery Let's go We'll open the dpe and then the camera dies immediately. That's what's gonna happen It's up ritual Yeah, you definitely need to try it out, man. It's great A lot of great options there Okay, we got the punk jam very nice Very sick very awesome We've got exo sister returnia The little nibblers nibblers are good. Yeah, I like those Oh another seek a rare. Okay Where's the dpe man? Where's eight starlight literally? We've been rough right now. It's been rough Do do do Do do do Daxby's is great, man. I love it. I love it. I wish we had a uh Slims and a canes as well though. I'd go there too sonic dude.  I love sonic Sonic's so good Okay, have you had the grilled cheeseburger though? It's pretty nice. Have you pulled one yet wishing you the best from ontario cana not yet McSavage Thanks for the tin. We're still looking for that dpe all right Uh, dude Do you sell any spare sr ur card? Yeah tcg player as well be selling my stuff. Yeah So you can wear it nice Chipotle kudobar, I don't really like burrito places that much. I a lot of people love them. I'm not really a fan I don't really like them that much All right Ultimate slayer. Let's freaking go. We got another one. Okay. That's three in this case beautiful Beautiful, let's go We have a super rare. Where are the starlights? My tcg player is ruxin Just ruxin. There's no 34 because you you have to do like a like a name and it's like I would have to put the 34 Is like my last name which didn't really work. So I just did ruxin Oh a secret rare. Okay. Nice. We'll take that We're getting close to the end of the third case And we have only we have not pulled a starlight since like the beginning of the first case Which is insane if you think about it Taco Bell is good low-key A lot of people like it. I'm not a huge fan All right. Oh, I'm about to disappear. Hopefully not. Hopefully not Y'all like nashville hot chicken. Yeah, it's pretty good Thanks for the two There was a lot of nashville hot chicken stuff around here How many starlights now? Uh one still one Checkers, I've never actually okay. I think I've been to a checkers, but it's been a long time But I heard the fries are great maren brown. Thanks for the 15. I appreciate it How many packs have you opened already? This is almost three Um, I have not been to that place in nashville. That's pretty cool Sounds like a fun place to go Kfc nashville hot chicken dude kfc. I can't go to kfc our kfc here is bad It's bad. Are we gonna superhero nice? What's up, brice? New avian pizza when you're in connecticut. I don't did we get pizza? I don't think we ate any pizza. We ate sushi and I don't remember. What else what else do we eat? I think we ate a chipotle once or something like that Uh, we were like so busy the whole time. We didn't really like I guess sushi was the nice It wasn't we took it out though. We didn't like go there All right, we got a super nice All right, are we gonna run out? Are we gonna run out of battery? That's the question Can the phone hang on for a little bit longer? It's probably like 1% now, right? It's probably getting close. Is there gonna be a dpe? We're racing the packs we're racing on for Not just packs but time as well Yeah, the place was nasty the last time I went there We ordered it on the app so I went in and picked it up and like the floor was was nasty like you could see it Like that's how bad it was Yeah, I went to the the the wilma one. It was disgusting New avian connecticut pizza is different. Well, I've seen all the videos from what's his name that does those uh pizza videos And it's always in connecticut for some reason feel like but I've heard the pizza there's great Super come on come on. Give us the super It's literally charging. I I say this all the time It's plugged in but it has to be plugged into the computer so you guys can actually see And the charge is not we is not strong enough so it dies. Oh no there it goes There it goes. What's in here? Okay, there it goes the phone Let's see if this thing's alive Okay, this phone is working. It's on 4% All right We have a dead phone Let's see if this will work if we change this real quick Charge it up. We've got a 4% on this this thing's gonna die now Okay, let's see. I haven't used this phone in so long Um, we gotta save we gotta save this Wait, where is it? Where's the app? Here it is. Oh my gosh. This one looks so much worse It's a much older phone. So it makes sense, but Oh, this is garbage. Maybe we should just wait for the other one All right, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's see if I can do this Um, do we have one? Oh We're back baby. All right. We got the other phone charging We got this one going All right, is it working for you guys? It should be soon. I think Wait, is it it's a black screen. Oh, there it is. Let's go We're back a little bit of weirder quality, but we can do we're gonna have to handle what we can Phone died I'd like to see the mess from the open packs. I've actually been using a trash can the exit the whole time. So We're doing pretty good Out of the opening goal. We've only pulled one starlight. So not great Not great so far We're still working on it. We've got uh Three cases in one starlight Yeah, yeah, it's different. It's a little it's a little darker for some reason. Okay ultra rare I probably have some settings I need to mess with on this one, but I this is my old phone.  We'll have to swap back again Okay, we've got a super rare I pulled a starless dragon starlight with only two blisters and my reaction was meh Wow, that is that is impressively wild Thanks for the five. You didn't realize what it was. I guess at that point Ultimate slayer out two boxes.  I don't like these pull rates though. They're not very good for this set So we're about to open two cases with no starlight. It seems like unless there's one at the Unless there's one at the very end Kurokari Deepam. God, what day? Why is this a starlight? Is this card good? Okay, so we got a starlight. Um not a dpe though Literally as I said unless there's a stuff And there it was Starlight at the very end our second starlight of the opening two starlights Um four blues two three Four five six ultimate slayers No five blues six ultimate slayers and the least are this we have four of those Okay, we'll take it Which Marvel product you most excited for it? Definitely Morbius 200. Thanks for the tan We're looking forward to Morbius two. It's gonna be a great movie. I'm sure everyone will go to the theaters and watch it It'll be great It'll be awesome Okay, we've got four packs to go in this one I think that I think that the play here is we finish this case And tomorrow we open the other three if we don't get it we have to get more cases Because obviously we got to pull it at some point, but I have three more So right now we have not pulled it. I think that we Delay continue the livestream, but tomorrow Like at 12 or so maybe 11 maybe an earlier than that And then open the rest of what we got This guy's like I know a bunch of y'all are overseas. So you got to go to bed anyway So it might work out better for you guys. There's an array of avarice. Okay What is what time's 8 20? It's been three hours. Yeah, so tomorrow we could do like three hours What you guys think about that plus I ran like a battery So I'll also charge my battery tomorrow because I forgot to charge it before we started. It was only like 50% But I think tomorrow we continue the livestream We pull the dpe I like it. That's what we're gonna do and also i'm really hungry. It's another thing We're not stopping. We're delaying it. This is the delay because we're not gonna stop opening I'm not talking about this specific live stream. We're not we're not gonna stop Tomorrow we're gonna do it All right, tomorrow we continue this live stream. This live stream is not over by the way. Keep that in mind Tomorrow we continue it and then if we don't pull it there.  That's what we're gonna do So, uh, we had to do this with stardust dragon too except we opened a lot. So We will continue it tomorrow Um, if you guys are able to hear it be here tomorrow come check it out It'll be lit. It'll be fun because tomorrow is the day we're getting it We're gonna continue it tomorrow. So jeff the ref. Thanks for the 499. Thank you guys everyone for being here donating Enjoying it tomorrow We're continuing. We're gonna open it up tomorrow and get it. So thank you guys I'm gonna charge my camera tomorrow by the way. So we're not gonna run out, but Uh, we have not pulled the ultimate slayer starlight yet But I'll see you guys tomorrow for the continued live stream. It's the same live stream. Keep that in mind Keep in mind the same live stream peace


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is that you started a new idea to go ahead with the product development. Initially for your survival, who is supporting? Like there is a initial money is required. You work as a promoter or you work as an employee of the incubator.  So in my case, you know, before we got the seed funding, I put in my own money and you know, started the this thing. But when we got the DFJ seed funding that helped and later on when Rakesh Mathur came in as a investor again, that was a so there were three levels of funding, first personal, then DFJ and Nadathur and then Rakesh Mathur. I was a student, so my family really. And actually, I think that's the right thing to do is put some more skin in the game because no matter how good the idea, no matter how talented the person is commitment is very, very important at the early stage. And I think that if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is, then that's that's something that's required, I think for us.  I would say the total expense would have been about 50,000 rupees that we incurred before, you know, we actually raised capital. So that was primarily, you know, local conveyance in Bombay to go and meet people and things like that, which basically we funded from our pocket money as students and ours and I had worked during my practical training and I'd saved up quite a bit because I worked overseas. Then, of course, it was we raised capital, myself and my co founder took a salary of about 10,000 rupees a month. And then we use the rest of the capital to pay salaries to the employees. We took 10,000 rupees a month. You became an employee. No, I don't think these were these were the times when most of my batch when they were graduating, we're getting about four lakhs in random. We took, we very studiously took a salary of 10,000 rupees, which we didn't change for three years, you know, which in my opinion is fair salary. I mean, it's good.  How was it happening? You can, you can sustain yourself in multiple ways. I think that most businesses today is the business, the focus of the business is sustenance. No.  He doesn't have a family, a wife, a kid, et cetera. So his expenses are really, he should be working 18 hours a day. And then he's got, you know, Maggie Noodles and XYZ as his expenses for the first one year of his life while he does this.  No, no, no, it's not, you know, but, but we did raise professional capital. So we raised money from, from external investors. Yeah, but only one point. That's what yesterday in the discussion, he said word of caution, like word of caution. See that money which you got from loan was spent for, I mean, not you in the sense of those incubators. There is a possibility of using it for personal use rather than for the company. I think that happens when you are funding people who have worked in the real world. I don't think that happens when you're funding students because the students are still not touched by the bad real world, you know, where they end up realizing that, no, why don't I take one lack out of the loan and put it in my house? Or let me buy a Maruti 800 or whatever it is that the real world is going to do. I'm a mentor right now in the I Accelerator, so I can tell you a little bit of what I do. So in the, in the first step, the, the, the first thing that I did was, was helping with the screening of talking to the companies. As soon as students came in and we'd accepted teams, a lot of what I did was, was helping take what had been fairly broad ideas when they got sort of accepted into the program and, and helped sort of like break that down into something that was actually like immediately achievable. Like we, we, we needed to sort of get past the big idea phase and get down into something that people could work on. On an ongoing basis, I helped them with technical questions and, and then I also do these, these sort of weekly sort of, sort of light project management. Like I'm, I'm not, I'm not the boss. I'm not trying to be the boss, but I'm trying to give them some sort of supervision. Other things that IIM does is that IIM also brings in other sort of kind of mentors, other sort of entrepreneurs, successful business people from the community and sort of brings them in to talk about their experience and then also to give sort of like more, more sort of like one-time advice. And so, so then each of the incubators will have a conversation with this, you know, this sort of high profile person where, you know, he'll talk and that's, and so they line up a bunch of things on, of one on, one on one, but a one-time basis, whereas my relationship has been ongoing. I think at SINE also, we keep having a lot of high profile visitors and they give lectures or have one on one sessions, et cetera, but there is no ongoing activity where, you know, there is a specific mentor and, you know, a company. I think that is also being explored if, sir, Amarnath can talk about that. At SINE, we have three professionals who are already resident, well, I would say they are more like the general practitioner. You know, Pani is a company secretary and she was a vice president at ICICI. Shushanto also worked in some of the top consulting companies. Krishwani came from an SBI background where she was a professional officer rose to fairly high level. So these three, these three together, they concern a lot of our companies. Many of our companies come to us for advice. As he said, you know, the very initial stages, they don't even know what the user, how to address their business. They say, the product should meet a user, usually the product tends to meet your requirement and not the user requirement. All these problems are to be sorted out. Now you may say they don't know much about technology. How do they do that? I can't do it. My role is to act as an intermediary between IIT and them. And also when a student or faculty member walks in, he finds it comforting to see a familiar figure, you know, a professor whom he has known for a long time. So I don't intrude into the business area at all. I just do not intrude because I know that it is something which they understand. They three have been handling these things for a long, long time and they understand. So one of the most important thing is to have a person like that running your incubator, not a professor. Let me again say, we are not equipped to deal with the integrity of business. You should have a competent person in place who will run the show. And remember, running an incubator is not rent collection. It should not reduce down to collecting rent. You'll have a person like this. And as he just pointed out when the young people come in, he takes them through. Run it like a business. You have the competent person in place to manage the whole show. And he should give competent advice because whether you think succeeds or fails depends on that. And when the VC comes, you don't have a client sitting there. Not a new talk. Because we don't understand the client. They've taken me three years. Now maybe I might be able to just utter a couple of words. But I wouldn't venture. Thank you. About the mentorship, I've tried to dabble in it. I mean, as an angel investor in some companies and things like that. I think there are a dime or dozen of mentors who will point out flaws in the business plan and tell the guys that, you know, you shouldn't be doing this. You should be doing that. And this is what the competition is doing and things like that. What I would rather, I think there are very few mentors who actually say that, you know, stick with your business plan. There is a certain amount of time before when you write the business plan, you execute it in the market and for that to translate into dollars, you know. So you need to have a mentor who is one who is slightly thinking long term, you know, who is not going to, you know, in the board meeting focus on the day-to-day collections, receivables, etc. Because obviously the guy already knows it. The CEO of the company or the head of the sales already knows that, yeah, revenues have not been collected. What I projected as $1 million has become $100,000. You know, the question is to have a mentor who can support and continue to be the stabilizing influence because at times like this, when things are going downwards, there is a great deal of instability. So the mentor is supposed to be the one who brings that stability, especially to a young team, you know. So I think that's the most important role is not when things are going well, but you know, when things are not going well to be that stabilizing force and to tell them that nothing has changed between yesterday and today, you know, between three months ago when you decided to start the business and today when you know, when you're realizing that companies in the space are all going bankrupt and no one has decided to fund you. Nothing has really changed. Continue to focus on your plan. If there are minor tweaks, etc., do it, etc., or if you feel as a major strategic change, bounce it off me, but continue to do it for it to generate dollars, you know. Couple of points. I think great points made. So I think to me a mentor, a good mentor is one who makes you ask the right questions. If you're looking for answers from the mentor, if you're looking for decisions from the mentor, there is a flaw in the business or there's a flaw in the management. So and also mentors who insist on answering questions or making decisions, I think are not good mentors. So I think a mentor who can force you to ask the right questions and then accept your answers and well, ask you more questions is a good mentor. And secondly, I think a mentor, I would expect him to introduce me to opportunities which I would otherwise not be exposed to. So I would definitely look for, you know, besides being that conscience asking questions, somebody who can open doors for me which otherwise I have no way of getting to. One more thing is a mentor can bring in a lot of contacts. So that is another very important. So if you have some challenges and one of the challenges, how to reach out to a certain type of customer or certain type of, you know, when you are trying to recruit or something, a mentor may help you on that front as well. You should tell your companies, you go to the mentor. Mentor won't come. Many companies expect the mentor to come to them. It doesn't happen. You have to go. The companies have to go. The incubator manager must ensure that the company, he shows them the mentors and tries to link the two up. That's it. Beyond that it is up to the company. So we have noticed this happening. That's why I thought I should mention this.


Three years ago, I posted on social media that I believe all content should be free, you know If content were all free instead of locked away and paid webinars and paid expensive training courses Then humanity would grow faster You would be able to track your ideal audience more because of your free content And you would actually be more creative because of the how prolific you are and putting the content out Well now that it's been three years and I've been putting out a lot of free content In 2015, I made over a hundred videos like this in 2016 I think I also made about a hundred and 2017. I'm continuing three three videos a week I've my thoughts about that have have continued to mature and I'll tell you where I where I stand now with it I believe that free content needs to be easy to consume easy for the viewer or the reader to consume And hopefully also easy for the creator to just create and put out there When people are consuming something for free by and large they're not ready to put a lot of effort and time and thought into implementing this particular idea or you know Applying this framework to their life, right? They just want something that's kind of quick and easy tips to to to make some kind of benefit or to be entertained in some Way, okay, and then so now I recommend that your free content to put out the stuff That's again easy easy and hopefully entertaining for the person to consume and hopefully easy for you and casual to make Like the videos I'm making like this and Then you're more in-depth content the stuff that takes Students more thoughtful implementation to to apply to their lives make that a paid thing It's either a paid workshop a paid e-book or something like that because when they when people pay for something They're much more energetically willing to invest the thought and effort it takes to make that thing apply to their lives So for example with free webinars the attendance rate for free webinars or somewhere between 15 and 35 percent Whereas my paid workshops get a 92 percent on average attendance rate, even if it's just $25 so One more thing I'll say is that I do also believe that over the course of your life make an effort to Turn all of your even your in-depth stuff Into bite-sized pieces that are easy to consume that you could eventually give give it all away for free throughout the rest of Your life, but for now just give away the stuff that's easy to consume and then sell the stuff That's more in-depth and takes thoughtful implementation So and oh one more thing I'll say is I said three years ago that I don't believe in copyrights and Honestly, I still don't even my paid stuff. I don't have a copyright and like I'm I'm not afraid of people Sharing it except for the privacy nature of my online workshops Don't share my online workshop videos because there are other people who are part of the workshops and that's not fair to them But just in terms of the ideas themselves, I don't copyright my stuff I invite people to share it if they want to attribute it to me wonderful I'm grateful, but even if they forget to or whatever it's no big deal I do want humanity to evolve more quickly by having ideas available out there And so that's still my belief I think the the effort of protecting our content is actually a lot of effort goes into that and honestly I think a lot of effort is wasted because oftentimes it's useless anyway to try to protect it because people will find ways to Share it and when I did when you don't try to protect it you free up your energy for creativity instead So anyway, I still believe that I hope this is interesting helpful until the next video I'm George cow always open to your questions and comments, and I wish you Free and casual content that brings you your ideal audience and uplifts humanity be well


Hello, everyone. We still have some people joining, so we're going to go ahead and wait a couple minutes and then get started here shortly. Hi, everyone. It looks like there's still people joining, so we're going to wait another minute or so before we get started. But if you could do me a favor, and there is a questions box on your GoToWebinar module. If you could just let me know that you can hear me, maybe let me know your favorite flavor of ice cream or what you guys did this past weekend for the fourth, that would be awesome. Okay, it looks like everyone can hear me. It looks like we've got the majority of attendees on, so I think we're going to go ahead and get started. First welcome, everyone, to the 2020 Rock Family of Companies Community Challenge Training webinar. My name is Dawn, and I'll be leading you through today's presentation. I have a few housekeeping items to note before jumping in. First, the webinar is going to be recorded today. It will be posted in the upcoming toolkit on the Community Challenge site under the Resources tab. And then, as many of you just did, you can use the GoToWebinar chat module to send across any questions, and we'll get to as many as we can after the webinar. So, I also have Danine on the webinar with me from the Quick and Lones Community Fund. Danine is the program manager over there for Volunteer Engagement and Giving, and so, hi, Danine. Welcome. Hi, Dawn. Thank you for having me. Yes, we're very excited to partner with you guys for sure. And I know that you have a couple of things that you want to talk about, and then I'll jump into the agenda and everything else after that. So, good morning, everyone. I am super glad to be having a moment to chat with you all. As Dawn mentioned, my name is Danine Ngoi, and I'm the program manager of Giving for the Quick and Lones Community Fund. I know that some of you are returning participants of the Community Challenge, and many of you are newcomers, but either way, welcome. As I said, we're super excited to have you all. So, I'm sure that you have all been reading our emails thoroughly end-to-end, but just in case, I want to make sure that I give you some background on what we can look forward to during our month-long crowdfunding campaign. So, this year, we have over 130 nonprofit organizations participating in Detroit, Charlotte, Phoenix, Cleveland, as well as organizations all over the country in our national category. In addition to fundraising happening all month, which I know all of you will completely knock out of the park, you will have a chance to compete in weekly bonus challenges for cash prizes. Last year, we helped down profits raise over $870,000, so the stakes are super high. This is our fifth year holding the challenge, and it's very special to us because all of you participating were personally nominated by our team members. At the Rock Family of Companies, we believe that we have a responsibility to reinvest into our communities that we all call home. So, we are, again, super excited to have you. Thank you for participating, and I know that we'll all have a great time together in the month of August, and I'll pass it back to you, Don. Thanks, Janine. So, here's a look at today's agenda. We're going to be going over some of the basics. We're going to walk through getting started by navigating and customizing your team page on the platform. And then after that, we'll go over the prizes available, and then we'll move into a Q&A session. And again, if you have a question while I'm presenting, just type it into the questions box of your go-to webinar panel, and we'll make sure to cover it at the end. And if we do run out of time today, I'll make sure to email everyone so we get all questions answered. And then, of course, if there's a running theme with any questions, then I'll be sure to add that particular question and answer to the FAQ on the challenge page so you all have access to the answers. So, Community Challenge Basics. The 2020 Rock Family of Companies Community Challenge is a four-week long event that runs from August 3rd at noon Eastern to August 31st at 11.59.59 a.m. Eastern.  And the really awesome thing about this giving event is that there's $275,000 of prize money at stake and lots of opportunities to win. But we'll definitely get into prizes available a little bit later on. So how does a fundraising challenge work? For those of you who are new, a fundraising challenge is a unique campaign presented by a host that allows organizations to compete with other nonprofits or you can compete against your own goal to win prize money. So fundraising challenges are an exciting way for you to engage sponsors, community partners, peer-to-peer fundraisers, and more to spread the word about your organization and mission and raise funds for your cause. So the limited timeframe creates a sense of urgency that donors really tend to respond to. And the prizes available give you fresh messaging opportunities to use throughout the campaign. So question from all of you, I'm sure. What does my nonprofit need to do? So all of you on the webinar today would have received a challenge welcome email this past Monday after accepting the invitation to participate in this year's community challenge. If you don't remember receiving that welcome email, I would check your spam or junk folders, or you can email the support team rockchallengeatmightycause.com to let us know that you didn't receive it and we can definitely resend it to you. In that welcome email, you can find the link to your exclusive team page for this year's challenge. So the first thing that you'll wanna do is customize that team page by adding a logo and information about your organization. You'll then wanna make sure that you're fully eligible to receive prizes by uploading your W-9 and your most recent 990. And then once you've done that, you can start planning for your campaign by strategizing around this year's bonus challenges. You can also attend the second training webinar on July 15th. That one's gonna be all about strategy. So if you're not sure where to start or you want some good tips on using the new tools that you get with your Mighty Cause account, be sure to attend next week's webinar. You can find the link to sign up for the webinar on the welcome page that is referenced in that email you received on Monday. But again, if you wanna send you the direct link to the registration for the webinar, just email rockchallenge at mightycost.com. And at the end of the presentation, I will have a slide that has the support information on it. So you can write it down and put it wherever you need to to make sure you have easy access to it. And then once the challenge has started, your organization will need to promote your campaign so that people know it exists. You'll wanna invite people involved with your organization to participate as peer-to-peer fundraisers, join your team. And of course, you'll need to raise money to win some of the really awesome prizes that are being given away. So this is the home page for the community challenge this year. You'll see the URL here at the top. I would definitely bookmark it. You can access each market's page and grand prize leader boards from this overall challenge site. And then once the challenge starts, this is where you can find the leader boards that will show your bonus challenge standings as well underneath the bonus challenge tab you see in the menu. So just make sure that you bookmark this main site now. Not only will, it has all the different location information, but then it also just has a lot of great accessible tools. You'll see the videos, you'll see resources. So just bookmark this link that way you have it handy whenever you need it and can access everything quickly. The resources tab that you see here too includes the comprehensive FAQ and it includes all of the bonus challenges for each location. The challenge rules which are coming soon and then obviously general information about this year's community challenge. So moving on to your organization's team page for your community challenge page this year. We recommend taking some time to get to know your team page dashboard. Your dashboard is the admin bar that appears on the left side of the screen when you're logged in and on your nonprofit's team page. So you'll automatically land in edit mode which is the view that you see here in the screenshot when you access your team page. You can always see the public basing view at any time while you're editing by clicking the live page eyeball icon on that dashboard. And then under live page is the page editor icon. So this is going to allow you to open the page back up for editing if you're not quite satisfied or you have additional changes that you wanna make. Underneath that the campaigns icon gives you a quick overview of all the fundraisers that have joined your team page while participants gives you visibility into each team member's progress and gives you the ability to communicate with them directly. And then you can also invite new supporters to join your team through the participant section of your team page as well. So then below participants on your dashboard is the report section. You'll be able to preview and export your team's donation report and utilize the Mighty Cos matching grant tool which we're gonna talk about in just a little bit. And then the last option on your dashboard is the settings. So within settings, you can update your social share template, you can add a fundraiser template to make joining your team really easy for your supporters and you can view and manage your challenge checkout flow by adding suggested donation amounts, customizing the thank you page donor see after they complete a transaction and you can get a little bit more information from them through that checkout process as well.  So you'll wanna make sure that it looks good and it represents you well. And so just so you know, your team page link is the link you'll share with your supporters to ask them to donate to your challenge page. So to share your page, just copy and paste the URL into the email or social post or wherever you're advertising the campaign. And that is the same URL that you whatever received in that welcome email that you were sent on Monday as well. So that's another great link to bookmark and save while you're in this kind of pre-phase getting ready for stuff. So as you're getting started, you'll wanna customize your team page to match your brand. There are two ways to start customizing. You can click the page editor on your dashboard. This will open up everything that you're able to edit.  The other way to customize, as you can see in the visual here on the slide is to just use the little pencil icons that appear on the page to indicate a section can be edited. So all you have to do is just click the little pencil and that section will open up for editing. So the story section of your page is your chance to explain what your nonprofit is all about. The text editor is right in that section. So all you have to do is click the blue pencil icon to open up the editing tools and start writing. You can add media to your story, to jazz things up by, utilize the inline text editor, add links, you can upload images, you can link to videos from YouTube and Vimeo. Those will get embedded right in your story. So people visiting your challenge page can check them out within that section. You can also add bulleted or numbered lists. There's a lot of different tools available to you, paragraph headers, you can center things, you can add tables. There's just a ton of different tools available to you in that text editing bar. So you can really make the story section of your team page look really awesome if you're so inclined. So this story spot is just really where you can go in depth about your work and make a really strong appeal to donors, tell them why your organization needs their support and then show the impact of your work. So you can access your challenge team donation report in the report section of your dashboard. So clicking on that section will give you a sub menu where you can choose from donation report or matching grants. We'll get in more into matching grants here in a second, but for now, your donation report will be available to you in real time and include information like donation date, donor email, donor name, any designations or dedication options that you've turned on, the amount the donation was for as well as which page the donation was attributed to. So that column obviously comes more in handy when you have multiple team members on your challenge team. And then within the checkout flow section, which we'll go into detail about later on, you can see what information you collect during the checkout process that shows in your donation report. So for example, if you needed to collect phone numbers or addresses from donors, you can do so. You can turn those on to get collected during the donation process within the checkout flow so that everything shows on your donation report. So all donations on the site are processed by the Mighty Cause Foundation, which is a donor advice fund. So within your organization account, which I'll get into more about later on, you can sign up for electronic fund transfer, which is the recommended method since it allows fund disbursement twice monthly. We can also send disbursements via check if you prefer not to do direct deposit or can't sign up for direct deposit. Checks get sent out once a month and there is a $5 administrative fee associated with check disbursements. So it's highly recommended that you sign up for EFT since it's free and you get your money faster. And then again, I'll point you to where you can do that within your organization account in just a few slides. So the reports section on your team page dashboard is also where you'll find the matching grants tool. So I'm sure many of you know, having a matching grant from a donor, like a major donor or corporate sponsor can go a long way in driving donations. So I wanna make sure you're aware of the tool that Mighty Cause has specifically for matching grants. The matching grants tool is a really versatile tool and you have a lot of options for how you structure your match. So a lot of matches are one to one matching where if someone gives that amount, the exact amount is matched. But within the tool you could do two to one matching, three to one or you could match a percentage of each donation. Our matching grant tool does all the math for you. So all you have to do is choose how you want to structure your match. You can also apply a match when a certain number of donations has been received. So for instance, if there was a bonus challenge available for the most individual donations, you could say that if you get 100 donations within the hour you'll get an additional $1,000 for your nonprofit or however you want to set the matching grant up to really help you actually drive donation volume and traffic. The matching grant tool allows you to post multiple grants at the same time and also in sequence.  So while that might sound like a lot the tool itself is pretty user friendly and you have a lot of flexibility in how you structure your match. So since we have a little bit of time before the challenge starts I would highly suggest checking out the matching grants tool just to see what your possibilities are and really start brainstorming. Then of course, if you get overwhelmed by the possibilities just setting it up as a one to one match is definitely the simplest and easiest thing to do. So the last item on your team page dashboard is your settings. This is where you can go to customize the social share template for your challenge page. You can add a fundraiser template and customize your team page checkout flow. Once you customize your social share template anyone utilizing the share buttons on your team page will automatically get the template that you provide when they share. Obviously making it super easy for them to quickly post. You can also add and customize a fundraiser template within the settings section. Adding a fundraiser template is probably one of the more important things that you can do when customizing your challenge page especially if you're planning on asking supporters to help you fundraise and join your team. The fundraiser template that you create will get everyone going faster since it pre-fills their fundraiser image, their text, goal and more depending on what all you've added. So this means that when they click that join team button on your challenge team page their fundraiser will already be pretty much ready to go. They'll be able to customize what you've pre-filled for them if they wanted to but if they don't then they're already good to start sharing their page with their friends and family making it really easy for them to join your team and then get the word out. So also within your settings section is there's a beneficiary settings tab within them. This is where you can go to customize the checkout flow for your challenge team. So this is probably the most important feature to focus on when you're setting up your organization's team page at least on the backend. The checkout flow section gives you a lot of control over the donation process for your organization during the challenge. It allows you to opt into collecting the information that you want and need from donors like addresses and phone numbers. You can also set up custom suggested donation amounts and add descriptions to help tie those amounts to items or services that your nonprofit provides which obviously strengthens the appeal to donate. Checkout flow also allows you to preview the whole checkout process without actually making a test donation. So you can see what your final process looks like and then use that to edit yourself if needed. So the checkout flow is also where you'll go to set up your thank you page which uses the same text editor as your story on your team page. So you can add text, you can add links, a video or image and you can also add a custom call to action button that tells donors where you'd like them to go next. So it's a pretty customizable thank you donation confirmation page that you have control over which is really nice. There's a lot you can do in the checkout flow tool to optimize your campaign and really customize that checkout process for donors. So you'll definitely wanna spend some time customizing this team page using everything that we just talked about because the more work that you put into it the chances are the better you'll do during the community challenge. You can have the best campaign strategy in the world but when your team page, the page where people actually go to make donations looks like you haven't shown it any love then that could make them pause and we obviously don't want them to do that. So each 501C3 organization on the site has an organization profile which is separate from your team page with information that we Mighty Cause have imported directly from the IRS. So on a slight side note if you're with a chapter of a national organization then your challenge team page would have been set up underneath the national profile with funds going directly to the national organization's address. If you have any questions about that or know your chapter original office should be set up differently then please email rockchallengeatmightycause.com and we'll be able to help you out. For everyone else for those of you that are the main 501C3 organization your organization profile is where you can add additional admins to the account. You can update your legal address if needed. That's where you can set up your direct deposit. You can also download a more comprehensive donation report and access your organization's disbursement report as well as a couple other available reports within that organization profile. The disbursement section of your organization profiles report center allows you to see your batch disbursement history. You can click on a disbursement listing to open up more information about that disbursement like which donations were included in that report as well as a summary of the total amount the total associated fees and net amount included in that disbursement. And then as I mentioned previously all donations on the site are processed by the Mighty Cost Foundation which again is a donor advice fund. Your organization can sign up for electronic fund transfer which I'll reiterate it's the recommended method since it allows for fund disbursement twice monthly but if you can't do that or you don't want to do that you don't have to take action we do send out checks and then checks get sent out once a month as well. So to access your organization profile which again is a separate place from your team page you'll want to click on the icon in the upper right of the page when of any page when you're logged in and you'll see your organization's name in the dropdown list that appears. And so that's a really easy way for you to be able to get to your organization profile at any time just click your icon in the upper left choose your organization from the dropdown and then it'll bring you right to your organization profile where you'll have access to these additional tools and things like that. So if you haven't done so yet you're going to need to upload documentation to make sure that you can receive any prize grants that your organization wins during the challenge. You will need to provide your organization W-9 and your most recent 990. You can find the link to upload the paperwork in that welcome email you received on Monday or you can also find the link to upload the prize documentation at rockcommunitychallenge.com forward slash welcome. You'll get an email once we've received your paperwork confirming that we've received it and that you're all set. And then of course if you have any questions at all about where to find the ability to upload the documentation, et cetera, what is needed, you can email our support team at rockchallengeatmightycause.com. So moving on from the prize documentation but before we get to the prizes available this year I wanna make sure I mentioned the really great tools that you're gonna have access to really soon. The non-profit toolkit will have tips and tricks, the FAQ walkthroughs, it also has templates that you can use for email and social media to help you get inspired and figure out how to promote your campaign. The toolkit is also where you'll be able to find today's training recording. All of you will get emailed the recording but if you want to access it or share it with anyone that you want on your team to see it you'll be able to access the recording on demand at any time within the toolkit once it's available. You'll also be able to find logos and graphics that you can download to start tying your brand into the Community Challenge brand. So we'll let you know as soon as the toolkit is available and then you'll make sure that you refer back to it as you're planning your campaign because it's got a lot of rich resources in there to help you out. So now we're gonna move into talking about all the awesome prizes, the Rock Family of Companies Community Challenge has to offer this year. So the Rock Family of Companies Community Challenge is offering five grand prize grants to the organizations that raise the most in each market. The grand prize leaderboards for each market are on the specific markets sub-page. As soon as the challenge begins, participating organizations will start getting tracked by the dollars they have raised. Now it's important to mention that only online donations made through the Mighty Cause platform count for leaderboard totals. So this is a big reason why you wanna push your donors to give online. You can definitely record a check that's given to you. It just won't be reflected in your leaderboard totals. And the reason for that is because we don't and cannot verify offline donations. The leaderboard is gonna reflect your cumulative total from the time the challenge begins at 12 p.m. Eastern on August 3rd. So it is a running total of everything you've raised online. And here you're engaging in some friendly competition for those top prizes. So as you can see, each market has for the most part a slightly different grand prize structure. Cleveland, Phoenix and Charlotte are all the same, but Detroit and the national market have different structures. For the Detroit market, first place gets $25,000, second gets 15, third gets 10, fourth gets 7,500 and fifth gets $5,000.  And then for the national market, first place gets 7,000, second gets 4,000, third gets 2,500, fourth gets 1,000 and fifth gets $500. So there's a lot of additional prizes available as well. We have a specific bonus this year geared just for small organizations that runs through the whole campaign. We haven't quite determined budget size threshold yet to participate in this bonus that's still being determined, but that'll be included in the rules and on the actual bonus description once we have that settled. But for now, there is a small organization bonus that we're really excited to be able to offer. There's a lot of matching funds available. There's, you know, we have unique donor bonuses, we have most raise bonuses. There's basically lots, there's lots of opportunities to win. We have lots of multiple winners for each bonus. So hopefully, you know, it gives every organization participating a good chance of winning something or, you know, coming home with some prize funds, which is also why it's very important for you to upload that prize documentation so that the ROC family of companies can distribute anything that you want to you. So, you know, all of these prizes, you know, methods of entries and dates associated with them, they're all on the challenge site at rockcommunitychallenge.org under the bonus challenges tab. So you can reference them at any time. Each market has different numbers of winners or prize amounts. So you'll wanna make sure to reference your market's bonus challenge tab when checking them out to make sure you're getting the correct information for the market that you're in. And this year, bonus prizes will have live leaderboards. So you can see where you stand at any time for any of the bonus challenges. The key to winning them is in, you know, getting your donors invested and helping you climb the leaderboard. So, you know, keep tabs on your position on the leaderboard, not only for grand prizes, but also for the bonus challenges this year.  You'll continually emphasize how much is at stake. You know, how much could this extra prize money do for your charity? You know, what would that help you achieve? Tie that back into your overall messaging about, you know, what you do and why you do it to really get people excited about helping you win that money. And then another trick is just, you know, concentrate on sustaining momentum, keeping the fundraising going and really starting and finishing strong. So as we wrap this up, I wanna make sure our support team's contact information is here for you to reference. They're a really great resource before and during the challenge for anything campaign related. So if you need help, you know, setting up your EFT direct deposit, if you need some help figuring out how to strategize around the weekly bonuses or if your donor needs a receipt reset, you can reach out to them at any time. We have their email address up here on the screen, rockchallengeatmightycause.com. You know, that's on the challenge site as well, but if you wanna write it down on the sticky note and put it somewhere where you'll be able to reference it easily, you can definitely do that. They're available via email and phone, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. And then their phone numbers listed here for reference as well. So really quickly, I just want to plug the next webinar for the community challenge. It's next Wednesday, July 15th at 3 p.m. Eastern. The second webinar is again gonna be all about strategy that you can use during the challenge to win some of that awesome prize money being offered. So you can sign up and put it on your calendar now. Just go to rockcommunitychallenge.com.com slash welcome. And there's a link to register for the next webinar right on that page. So before we jump into any questions, Deneen, do you have anything else that you want to say? I'm gonna see if we have any questions right now. Nope, just here, ready for any questions anyone may have. Okay, perfect. Let me go ahead and see if we've gotten any questions. It doesn't, it looks like we, so we got one question and they're asking to see what the social share template looks like. I don't have any shots within my deck of the social share template, but basically you are able to upload your logo to the social share template. You can add and add text as well as your handles for Twitter and Facebook. And then you can add any, there's some additional SEO settings if you wanna get fancy on the social share template. So basically when you pre-fill that template with your logo and then the text that you want them to be able to share, when they click share, when they go to share your team page, that will pre-fill for them. And then they're able to make changes if they want to the text that you've written there, but if they don't and they just wanna share really quickly, then that's a super easy way for them to be able to do that. Doesn't look like we're getting any other questions in. I am going to assume that my webinar was extremely comprehensive, which is great. So, if anyone does have any questions that you think of later, or if you run into anything while you're filling out your, customizing your team page or accessing your organization profile, you can always always reach out to our support team at rockchallengeatmightycause.com and they'll be able to help you with anything that you need. But just quick recap steps that you guys need to take now to get ready for the challenge before it launches on August 3rd. Make sure that you have uploaded that prize documentation. Go to rockcommunitychallenge.com forward slash welcome and there's the button to upload there. It'll take you to where you need to go. So make sure that you do that and then make sure that you customize your team page. That way, you have something there for, when people see your organization on the leaderboard, when they click into your page, then you have information there about your organization. And then make sure that you just check out the account in general. And that way, like you become familiar with some of the tools, make sure that you look through all the bonus challenges are available for your market. That way you can start kind of thinking through everything. And then make sure you attend next week's webinar too, because we're gonna be going into a lot more detail about different strategic things that you can do to really try to make the most of the bonus challenges available, as well as the tools available in your Mighty Cause account because you have lots of tools that you're able to use. So we really want you guys to make the most out of this. And so we're here to help. There's lots of resources coming and lots of information that's already available on the site. So just really like set aside a little bit of time, really just half an hour, one day to just click through everything, see where everything goes, just the site in general, so that you can become familiar with it. One of our goals is to try and make the transition from last year's platform to this platform really easy. So, but we need you to help do that too by taking the time to just click around and check everything out on your page, on the main challenge site, all the tools available. And then of course, again, any questions that you have, our team is happy to help. Rockchallengeatmightycause.com is their email address. But yeah, I don't see any other questions coming in. So I, you know, that's all I have for today.  And then I'm excited for the webinar next week as well. Same here, I definitely encourage you to make sure you participate next week's and reach out to me as well if you have any additional questions. And I just again, wanna thank all of you for participating. I'm really, really excited to hope all of you are as well. Awesome, thank you so much everyone for your time today. We really, really appreciate it. And we look forward for next week's webinar and all the exciting information coming along with that. Have a great rest of your day.