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Any guesses what we're doing today any guesses any guesses that's right guys We're doing the floors and look it's one half of mojo bus mojo bus Today we are gonna be doing well when I say we you'll meet Ronnie in a second But we're doing the floors today. It's finally gonna get done and we have a seasoned professional here Ronnie and He's helping us with the floors. He does flooring installs for the flooring places so this guy Knows what he's talking about Let's jump into the work All right, so we got Ronnie the man the myth of legend you guys will also notice that we took the underlayment off Ronnie suggested that we did some silicone. We talked about a couple different options For an RV application. He is doing silicone with a floor that's supposed to be floating so Many ways to skin a cat and this is the way we're skinning this one Walk us through why you're doing silicone and not that floating floor because the silicone will Create some stability, but it won't harden it will always flex so it'll help keep the floor semi in place, but it won't harden or crack and That underlayment is Really just a moisture barrier.  Mm-hmm. So essentially we're kind of creating our own Underlayment adhesive in a way And sound reduction the The ratings on the sound reduction of that little Cork yep, it's also I have I have tons of I mean the only sound insulation really is You know the subfloor.  So There's no sound Come, you know, the most sound is not coming through the floor is coming through the front engine the tires And if you're walking around on the flooring, it's not like there's downstairs neighbors or anything And what we're doing is we're creating a bond with the floor. So with with a with a floating floor In a home, you know, you're gonna get a lot of echo because it's it's clicking against, you know It's it's it's hitting the it's hitting the floor. It's reverberating off the substrate and then it's creating more of an echo So, yeah, I mean that's what it's designed for, but you know This thing's only gonna be like four and a half pieces wide. Yeah, tell us about that Story of my life Now I'm gonna run this next piece here Make sure we're straight then we can start nailing it gotcha So he's gonna put in some nails, I think towards that edge and that's to have a Well, you could say it better than I could but have it like an anchor in a way so that it doesn't move When we're putting all that on there.  So we have a seat a seasoned veteran Guys look at how amazing these floors look. This is some exciting stuff So we're working our way forward as you can see I'm lending a hand. I think that was the only hand I've lent so far Although I did clean up this area and you know filled the holes for the seat and Smother very easy jobs But Ronnie is quite the professional Nice and clean Now hopefully Yeah, we'll get a couple this is for the airline and We might have to this is gonna be an interesting piece there, but let's see hopefully I can still put the pedal to the metal I sure can or this is round to where we got the the device Unlocked so it's gonna actually look like I know like I know what I'm doing Okay Take the line take the line almost like a seasoned professional.  All right, so I forgot to show you guys what it looks like After Installing but you get a pretty good idea. I'm gonna finish up the steps So all the do-it-yourself people you guys will be happy to know that I'm gonna do under this part and under that part The trickiest part has been spoken for over here, so thankfully Thankfully had a hand with that because this is little little on the tricky side When you first do it But learning from pro like Ronnie is always a pretty cool thing So I just got to thank the man the myth the legend Ronnie Thank you so much for generously generously assisting today and Ronnie is a pro Ronnie Contracts with a lot of companies and all the Displays and things that that you see like that at flooring decor This man is in charge all those Bathrooms that you see that are all perfect that look like IKEA stuff in there, you know This is your guy. Are you looking for extra work in the Phoenix area? You can always give me a call and see if I'm available. It's worth a shot. Cool. Yeah, but there's no, you know What's the business name? Lifetime flooring concepts lifetime flooring concepts. Yeah, awesome. Lfcaz.com Cool. Cool. So if any Yeah, so if anybody was in the in the Phoenix greater Phoenix area hit them up As you can see these things came out amazing and I'm taking this fine gentleman and these guys out for some dinner What's a little place we're going to? Chino bandito. That's right So if you guys are from Phoenix or you pass through and you know it that's where we're going tonight So, dude, thanks again, man. I really appreciate it. My pleasure. Yeah I love helping people out and maybe show you some tricks of the trade So you can have an easier time the next time you have to tackle this on your own That's right. So I'll be doing the steps in the coming days and then under the benches. So thanks to your you know Assistance and teach me how to do this. I'll be able to do it and not screw up all my


Great. Thank you, Dan, for being so timely. I appreciate it. Is there a... Yeah, there's a clicker. Thanks. Okay. So I was going to talk just briefly on the, what grew out of the Genomic Medicine 4 meeting that we had in Dallas in terms of this inter-society coordinating committee, just to remind you that the goals of the meeting that we had in January, which grew, you know, grew out of the meeting that we had in May, I think, in Chicago. So each of these meetings really builds on the previous one, and that's why it's so important to get your input as to what our next steps should be. And at the end of the third meeting, people said, you know, we really need to address education, particularly of physicians. And so, you know, we felt it would be wise to try to bring together professional societies and other relevant organizations that are involved in both setting clinical practice guidelines and also developing educational materials for physicians, learn their perspectives on Genomic Medicine, understand their processes for establishing guidelines, and kind of explore how to facilitate the integration of Genomic Medicine into clinical best practices and physician education. And we did kind of, I think, evolve from focusing more on guidelines into more on education, and as we interacted with the societies who basically, you know, are those, the ones that are responsible for making guidelines, but they need to have an educated workforce to be able to implement them. So what we did was to try to identify the largest and seemingly to us most relevant groups in professional societies in that, that we might bring together in a room like this, and we didn't try to capture all of them, or even a representative sample, but basically kind of started with those who were willing to, you know, come to Dallas and meet with us in January. And that's the list that's shown here, about 10 groups or so. We were asked and have been asked why only doctors, this says he was different from other doctors for one thing, he refused to play God, and it doesn't look good here. And so one of the reasons that we did that is as you've heard, I think, throughout this meeting, Nichepeg and other groups have been pretty effective at capturing physician's assistance and reaching out to pharmacists and to a wide variety of nurses and other groups as has NHGRI. We haven't really until now begun to sort of crack the nut of dealing with physicians. And part of the reasoning for that, we think, is that there wasn't anything that really was kind of ready for primetime for physicians to implement until fairly recently. But now we think we have a real opportunity to do that. So we asked the professional societies that were coming, that within their specialties were among your members, can you describe for us sort of the state of the science regarding genomics and practice of genomics within your field? What short and long-term pace of change do you see in the use of genomics? What gaps are there in across leading academic centers, well-informed specialty practices or small practice MDs? Thinking in our minds, at least, there was sort of a hierarchy that presumably the academic centers might be at the cutting edge of this, whether they were evidence-based or not, at least they might be the furthest along, where the small practices might not be. Any needs assessments that they had done, whether patient access to high-quality care they feel is going to be impaired by the lack of physician genomic literacy, whether plans they had to address any perceived shortfalls, specialty board activity that might include genomics in their certification or maintenance of certification processes, and how they go about reviewing literature and fashion guidelines for using genomics in diagnosis and treatment. So each of them was given a list of these questions, much like we gave the federal agencies yesterday, and they all had not enough time to try to address them, but they did a really nice job in approaching that. And all of the materials for these presentations are up on our website, as well, all the materials from this meeting. But areas of general consensus were that one of the major stumbling blocks that at least has been perceived is that physicians have been sort of taught that this is a major revolution in medical care, it's going to turn everything on its head, and that is very intimidating to people. And it's also been a bit of a letdown, because it hasn't turned everything on its head, but it certainly is having an impact. So we were strongly urged to present this as an evolution in knowledge, rather than a major revolution, and I think that was a really important message to get across to us. And that we should embed genomics education at the point of care when it's needed, and only when it's needed, with appropriate clinical decision support, again, when it's needed without overwhelming people, and without really getting in the way to the degree possible of their clinical workflow. We are also urged to utilize other resources in addition to things like lectures and seminars and conferences, such as simple check lists or fact sheets or ethical guidelines, case studies, that sort of thing. And there was considerable agreement that we could incorporate genomics into certification and licensing procedures. We should identify and emphasize appropriate competencies, and there was interest among the societies for doing this, and that we should allow so-specialty tailored training, actually this was more a message, I think, to the genetics community, that insisting that geneticists be sort of certified in the large range of rare Mendelian conditions and dysmorphologies and that sort of thing has acted against getting physicians engaged in genetics. So the oncologists were saying, can't we have sort of an oncologist genomicist track where we learn just what's important for oncology, or just what's important for cardiology, and not necessarily have to learn everything about pediatrics or whatever. And so an interesting thing that I believe the college may be looking into, and I might note that there were several people involved in that meeting there at this meeting, and so I'll give a heads-up to Deborah and Bruce and a couple of others to maybe comment. And Mike Murray, I think I see you back there. So I'll ask you to comment in a bit. Areas of concern that were identified included many of the very things we've heard today about standards for data storage and sharing, not only sharing among physicians, groups, but also even getting results back from a lab and being able to interpret them. Liability risks, we've heard that today as well, from extensive genomic testing and getting back results that you really don't know what to do with. Conflict and guidelines across societies, there were a couple of rather telling examples of that listed. Interpretation and counseling on patient-initiated direct to consumer testing, and marketing pressures, which we heard about from the military groups, from genetic evaluation companies. Also in kind of reviewing some of the surveys, there are about four groups that had done surveys among their members. Some of them did them in response to this upcoming meeting, which was very gratifying. And they found that even the physicians who were confident in their genomics knowledge felt really reluctant about ordering and interpreting these tests. So that's something that we really need to address. Even those who thought genomics were important were only willing to commit one to two hours to education. So one to two hours is not a lot of time, and we need to use it very wisely. And it was also interesting, I think, to some of us, that the minority of physicians who really thought that family histories were important, only a minority of them routinely take a complete three-generation family history. And I can tell you, I don't take a complete three-generation family history. I do take a family history. I think it's better than most, but I don't do it in every patient, so maybe I should. OK, so what came out of the meeting in Dallas then at the end was we need some kind of a conglomeration of these societies where we can continue to share materials and coordinate to develop resources in that four-physician education without reinventing the wheel and duplicating what everyone is doing. And I think Deborah, through the College of American Pathologists, had shown us some really nice educational materials that they have that everybody sort of drooled over and said, we'd love to have access to these. And she said, of course, here. And we will. Yeah, no, that's great. No, I need to comment when I get through. So the charge to this group then that they've kind of agreed on pretty much is to improve the genomic literacy of physicians. And we added other practitioners, so again, focusing on physicians at least to start and enhance the practice of genomic medicine through sharing educational approaches and jointly identifying educational needs. And really the purpose of this group is to facilitate interactions among the professional society. So it's not an advisory group. It's not a recommendation group. It really is just a club where people get together and share approaches. And it focuses, again, primarily on physicians. We added dentists because dentists really don't have any other home. And it seemed like a nice thing to do for them. And also, and teeth are important. And then hoping soon to begin to collaborate or expand collaborations with allied practitioners. We recognize that relations to professional societies are very important, that we not overstep any bounds that there may be in recognizing their primacy in defining practice guidelines and certification requirements for their members. So that is not something that we want to do or should be doing to support and stimulate the activities of these societies by offering our partnership and available expectees when they want it and not when they don't want it. And we recognize that we're not intending to assume any primacy in these interactions at all. Dan is a long-term vision guy and encouraged us to come up with a long-term vision. So I think this one may work as well as any. Which is recognizing that the technology continues to advance and it will soon make it possible for lots of patients to have lots of their genome characterized and available in their medical record. And we see this as inevitable. And I think you've heard that during these meetings as well. One can debate what the timeframe will be and what the steps will be to get there, but it's almost indubitable that this is gonna happen. So it seemed to us that if we begin educational efforts now, when the body of knowledge that one can implement is relatively limited so that it's not overwhelming. And then allow the understanding of the genome and its application to grow with the practitioner's knowledge of that understanding and application would be a good thing. So that's why it seemed good to start at this point. And we felt that there were sufficient numbers of clinically relevant findings available currently that would support effective educational efforts so we can get people's attention for the use of these variants without, again, scaring them off. We proposed a structure that would be each professional society would nominate one person. They could send more than one, but we'd like at least one. And many of them have already done this. We've asked them if they'd be willing to support the travel of those members. And for the most part, they have been able to do that, which is great. There's not a lot of travel. We're anticipating meeting face-to-face maybe twice a year at the most. We would invite ad hoc content experts as needed, propose that we have a co-chair who's a professional society representative and one that's an NIH person. Again, meeting at six-month intervals and then kind of design a three- to five-year work plan with the potential if it goes well to extend that. This is a list of proposed specific activities. I won't read them all, because these slides I know are very text dense, but there were a number of them sort of surveying the literature, kind of identifying things that are about ready to be applied, reviewing and disseminating them, having working groups to address a number of things, focusing on physician competencies and listening what those might be. Reviewing professional society guidances on request. I mean, if there were an interest in having another sort of disinterested group look over what professional societies were proposing to put into guidance, we'd be happy to look at that. Disseminate some metrics for assessing educational programs, sharing those, collaborating with those that are working with other allied health providers. And particularly, we had both the accreditation council on graduate medical education and the accreditation council on continuing medical education. So that's, you know, residence fellows and practicing physicians, very, very engaged. And particularly the ACCME is quite interested in engaging with us in developing materials and sharing them throughout physician's careers. And then what we're working on currently is to identify a few activities that we could bring forward in the short term. Again, you wanna have a couple of early successes. And we asked our members to kind of pick among the 10 specific activities we'd identified maybe five or six or so that might be things we could move forward on. And the ones that kind of got the highest votes where there were four of them, one was on competencies. And, you know, one could have a working group on competencies that kind of reviews the sources that are available, see what competencies might fit into current clinical practice, review the existing ones, work with the societies to determine their desires and needs, that sort of thing. Another on educational products where you gather together the educational products that are available, review them, see where the duplications are or the synergies and make them available in a reasonable way. Engaging specialty boards, so a lot of the societies said, you know, what we really need to do is to get the specialty boards from the various, relevant to the various professional societies really engaged in this. Because what physicians will study, given their very limited time available for education, is what they have to know in order to maintain their certification. And so far, the specialty boards have been quite interested, particularly the American Board of Medical Specialties, which is kind of an umbrella group over 18 or not, maybe it's 20, different specialty board groups. And they are quite interested as well, so trying to engage them in the most effective way. And developing use cases, we've heard about use cases here as well. So those seem to be the four working groups that we see as being sort of ripe to bring forward. And we're planning to meet in June for the first time. We've had a couple of conference calls of this group where we develop these materials, produce a white paper, which is kind of deroger of meetings and groups like this. So, and kind of move forward from there. And we've even come up with a few suggestions of how to evaluate and show success, some of which would be process metrics, like we identify some best practices and disseminate them, we generate competencies or estimates of physician use of these materials. But recognizing that the process metrics were sort of less satisfying than actual practice improvements, more substantive things like the educational products actually get used and that there's evidence of improved knowledge and comfort in using genomics. There might be useful papers or even improved clinical practice, which is what we're aiming for. So, I would just close with as of today or perhaps yesterday, in white are kind of the initial groups that we had involved. And I've added in blue those that have kind of approached us and Deborah came up and said, we really need to have the College of American Pathologists and they're interested in joining it, so they're up as well. And I think with that, that's probably all I had. Yeah, so I'll stop there and be happy to take any questions. Oh, yes, Bruce, please comment and I'll call on Mike as well. Yeah, so I'll comment specifically on the issue of subspecialty training that you raised. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has been very interested in creating training tracks for, for example, cardiologists or oncologists and various other specialties who, as you point out, don't need to know all the things that or be competent and all the things that a medical geneticist might in order to focus on the area of their interest. It has not been easy engaging the American Board of Medical Genetics in that discussion or at least in moving them forward largely because of the enormous expense of creating an ABMS sort of blessed subspecialty that involves using the National Board of Medical Examiners to produce an exam and so forth. It's a quite expensive process and we're not quite sure how many people would actually be doing this. So that is an option on the table but a quicker option is probably for a professional society which the college could be to issue some kind of certificate of special competency which honestly has probably as much weight as the paper it's printed on and the organization that stands behind it so take it for what it's worth. But in fact it could be a formal education program on the assumption not everybody who say does cardiology needs to be an expert in genetics. I guess I look at this and I think the college does as sort of concentric circles in a way which the outer ring being, you might say, all physicians who we hope will have more awareness of genetics and genomics in the middle one being specialists in different areas some of whom may be quite expert just in the area relevant to their specialty and at the center people who are the really experts in medical genetics and genomics much more broadly. And for example if you're going to interpret a whole exome sequence done for clinical purposes you may well need to be at that center target because of the breadth of what could potentially come up that needs to be discussed whereas if you're doing a panel of exons for cardiomyopathy you could very well function effectively in that middle tier. I think competencies and defining them is going to be in some ways the key to getting this off the ground. Great, thank you, Bruce. Deborah, did you want to comment as well? Or cover things that you... I think the only reason that CAP fell off the list is because I moved to the University of Vermont kind of right after the meeting and was in a tizzy so I didn't get them connected in with the ISCC but they are very interested in doing that. Fantastic. Mike, please. Yeah, with the American College of Physicians the internal medicine organization we undertook the survey that generated that one to two hours willing to commit but also in that data an overwhelming number of the doctors agreed that they needed further education on this which is remarkable and a good sign I think because they also told us that they're not seeing this in their practice for the most part so physicians are very practical learners usually what gets on their radar are things that patients are asking them or they have to carry out in their daily practice but they're watching this and they're interested I think. Great. I might also note that this is a joint effort between the Division of Genomic Medicine at NHGRI and the Division of Policy Communication and Education that Laura Rodriguez leads and this really is an educational effort and so we're happy to involve you. Did you wanna comment at all Laura? I'm not sure that I have anything to add to the overview that you gave. I mean I think that Gene Jenkins and others have put a lot of effort into our educational outreach and as was mentioned before have had great success with some of the allied disciplines but reaching into the physician pool has been challenging and so we're really excited by all the momentum that we're seeing coming out of this group and looking forward to pursuing the activities that have been identified. Great. Okay. I think with that I'm done. I can't remember who's at 12. Derek.


When AI first came out, a lot of folks were using it primarily to do creative writing. You know, I think LLMs were awesome at that. They were awesome at being able to say something like write physics for a fifth grader and everybody was using it to write essays, write content. But over the course of time, I think folks realize that these like large language models and general AI are good at a huge variety of tasks and you have to provide them the right data. So, you know, what we've started to realize is that AI can now start answering questions if you feed it the right data. And the large part of your day is thinking other people to be able to answer those questions, right?  And so what we want to do is gear towards the world where knowledge is as easy as asking AI first. And if it exists within your docs or tasks, like a brain will be able to answer that question, saving tons of time for folks.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says, construct an isosceles triangle ABC with base BC is equal to 7 centimeters and angle B is equal to 45 degrees. Let's start the solution now. So in the question we are given an isosceles triangle ABC. So we can say that since the isosceles triangle has equal base angles and we are given that one of the base angles that is angle B is equal to 45 degrees. Therefore, angle B is equal to angle C which is equal to 45 degrees. So we have to construct a triangle in which the length of one of the sides is given and two base angles are known to us. We shall now write down the steps of construction. Step one is draw a line segment BC equal to 7 centimeters. So we have drawn a line segment BC which is equal to 7 centimeters. Step two is at B construct angle ABC which is equal to 45 degrees. So at B we will construct an angle of 45 degrees. This is the angle PBC which measures 45 degrees. Step three is at C construct angle QCB which is equal to 45 degrees. So at C we have to construct an angle QCB equal to 45 degrees. So this is angle QCB and it measures 45 degrees. Step four is let PB and QC intersect at A. So this point of intersection of PB and QC is A. Thus we have constructed an asosceles triangle ABC in which BC is equal to 7 centimeters. And both the base angles angle B and angle C are equal to 45 degrees. Therefore ABC is the required triangle. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


So, a while ago I had this real important early meeting with an investor. And it took me months to get on in the schedule. It was an exciting time. So, the night before I went to bed early, I said not one, but two alarms, because the responsible adult that I am.  So, I tiptoed to the bathroom, not wanting to wake up my wife to release myself. Shit! So much for not waking up the wife. Going back into the bedroom, apologizing first, then picking up various pieces of alarm clock all around the room. I go into the shower to take a nice relaxing shower to wash the sleep out of my eyes. I turn on the water.  Sure that heating unit is 20 years old and I should have been replaced a few years ago, but hey, if it works, it works. Unless when it doesn't.  Alright, these things happen, I factored in some time, so I can still make my train and grab a coffee at the station. It's gonna be all good. So, I go downstairs, eat a quick breakfast. Pretty proud of myself for not spilling anything on my shirt. And I hop on my bike to the train station. Traffic is low this time of day, it's early morning, so plenty of time, we're all good. A flat tire. Alright, so there's no buses along my bike route, so I guess I will just walk. So at the pace, a bit faster than comfortable at my fancy dress shoes, I walk to the station, all sweaty, just in time to see my train leave. But hey, I'm a poster thinker, right?  And 20 minutes later, I actually like catch my train. No more issues there. So once I get to where I need to go, I make sure to be the one out of the train first, run up the stairs, grab the first cap and say, you're all to the district, business district.  And I texted the investors assistant along the way, so we're all good. So I report to the front desk, I'm ushered into the meeting room, and then the investor walks in. Like a seven foot tall, fit male, with a three-piece suit, and like this double winster knot in his tie. And we shake hands, or better, he gives me this stare, and then he applies this death grip handshake for just a bit too long. And before I can even apologize, he says, if this is how you fell in my time, we should probably end this meeting right now. Wait, what? I coped with the alarm clocks, the ice cold shower. I walked to the station. I even made up five minutes of last time while smelling nice. So what did I expect? That I would just set up a tent the night before the front lawn? I mean, I did my best. And sure, I hated when I need to explain how things are not my fault, but sometimes life just gets in the way. Why can the dude just be a bit more nice about it? Maybe it should be a bit more empathetic. All right, so let's do an experiment. You, sir. I'm just going to throw you the pen and then you try and catch it. All right, so what just happened? You got it. Let's do this step by step, right? So I'm Roy. So Roy, through the... Right? Yeah, you're doing awesome. And then you... A plus. Okay. Now throw it back. Bam. So what happened? Yes. You're the best. Let's do it again. See, so that's it. All right, so what just happened? Oh, that's not what happened. What actually happened is the pen was thrown. It flew through the air, and then I saw it fall on the ground. That's what happened. And I chose this example in perfect because after one just asked, he didn't catch it, or so it's not you. It's the human race who have this human reaction to focus on the negative or was not there. We compare what has happened to prior experiences we've had. So why am I telling you this? Because I want us to be nicer and more understanding of others. And that's not always easy. When walking over here this morning with giving a talk on empathy on my mind, the driver who almost ran me over, well, I didn't think, well, there must be a valid reason for this person's actions.  I too often assume the worst in people. And it's time to change that. So as you guessed by the title of the talk, it's not just about empathy. It's also about providing a framework to enable you to be more empathetic by using acting. So what if instead of playing a scripted character, we use acting techniques to play a different person, a real human in our lives? This is a framework based on the notion that all acting essentially boils down to faking a situation. While bad acting also fakes emotion, great acting uses genuine emotion to apply that to a fake situation. This framework is about recognizing the emotional state someone is in and then use your emotional memory, things you've lived through and then relive them and apply them to what they're going through. This important thing, and I'll be reiterating this in various ways throughout the presentation, that good acting is a may-believe situation plus a recalled emotion. This does not make sense yet, but in the end this will all fall into place. I'm Roy. You can tweet me if you want. I have been taking acting classes for the last nine years, both on scripted and improvisational theater, and during the day I'm a co-founder of ADAPT Signal, the best APM for Ruby and Elixir. And I'm a human, and I also tend to interact with other humans. And I've learned that that is way easier when you get to practice empathy once in a while. By the end of this session, you will understand why you should be empathetic and you want to practice empathy all day, every day. And in addition, you will be better method actors than Marlon Brando and Daniel de Lewis combined. I definitely will not succeed, but I'm going to get my best shot anyway. So let's first establish some ground rules to what empathy actually is in this context. According to dictionary.com, empathy is the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts or attitudes of another. Or to keep it simple, empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. And I mean this in the broadest possible sense. To be empathetic, you need to let go of any baggage you're carrying around.  Because you want to create this blank canvas which we can build upon to create our character. So we can finally see through their eyes and more importantly feel what they're feeling. Before diving in deeper, a quick thought on sympathy. Sympathy versus empathy. Like sympathy is to empathy what thoughts and prayers are to taking action. Talk is cheap. Being sympathetic is cheapish while being empathetic takes serious effort. And even though those two terms, sympathy and empathy are often used interchangeably, there are two totally different things. I get why people confuse them. Because both of them deal with the relationship we have to feelings and experiences of others. Sympathy means you feel sorry for a situation someone is in. That doesn't actually improve the situation someone is in. And it doesn't give them the confidence that you actually understand that. Now don't get me wrong, being sympathetic is okay. It's probably better to feel sorry for a situation someone is in than not acknowledging the situation at all. But you shouldn't stop at being sympathetic. Showing pity focuses on weakness while through empathy your goal should be to lift someone up. Prexing empathy is also about self-care. Of course empathy should be about anyone but ourselves. But we like it if there's something in it for us too, right?   It's real easy to get irritated and worked up.   Because again, it's easy to focus on a negative. We focus on negative emotion instead of improving the situation. And empathy turns it around and enables you to not drag others with you as well. So before getting into a off the setting, let's look at a classical movie, TV example. Good cop, bad cop. The purse grabbing perp sits in this interrogation room.  And they start crying. He's obviously the bad cop. Then in the back of the room, there's the good cop. He stands there and watches, walks over there, pushes the bad cop away. And then in a soft spoken voice says, well, if you just help us out and give up your crew, then we can make a deal probably and tell the DA you cooperate it. This is a classical example of the drama triangle. The drama triangle is a social model for destructive human interaction that can and often will occur in conflict. And it's all too common in office culture as well. The theater on the social model was published in 1968 by Carpman. He was a doctor of medicine, or he is a doctor of medicine. And back in 68, he also was interested in acting and a member of the screen actor field. So he wrote about the drama triangle and the three phases of drama. First as a victim, a victim feels or acts like a victim. Whether others consider them a true victim or not. They feel helpless and powerless. And it could be by circumstance, but also by choice. Some victims want or need to feel victimized. At the office, Bob is the victim. Bob does the dishes every single day. Alice drinks coffee too. She never does the dishes. Bob always cleans his cups and Alice's cups. The victim is enabled by the rescuer. The rescuer feels guilty when not helping the victim. But on the other hand, they also want to keep the victim helpless. It's often a mechanism to not having to cope with one's own issues. Now Carol, Carol is the rescuer. Carol brings her own cup of coffee from home. So Carol does not make any dishes dirty. But still she offers Bob help. She says to Bob, you know what Bob? I'll help you out and twice a week, I'll do the dishes. Because Alice is a meanie. Then there's the persecutor. The persecutor blames the victim. They're angry at them because it's all their own fault. Alice hates Bob and his whining. Seriously, Bob comes in early every single day just so he can get the dishes done before she comes in, which enables him to complain to Carol.  These kind of drama triangles appear in the office way more often than you would probably think when you start looking at it from tomorrow on. In workplace, make sure you don't become the bad cop. Don't become the persecutor.  So what I do when I see a conflict arise, I just step back, reflect on my role. Am I the rescuer, the persecutor, the victim? And maybe I just step out. Because a triangle needs three corners. As soon as you take one corner out of the equation, the whole thing collapses. All right, empathy, drama triangle, so acting, right?  And a lot of those I'm about to show apply to improvisational theater, and some of them also apply to scripted work. So what does acting teach? Acting teaches you to truly listen. All of our actions are based on the actions and the emotions of others. When acting, you need to truly listen to whatever you're playing with.  That will never advance a scene. A reaction is required and expected to keep going in theater. So acting teaches to listen. Acting also teaches to be accepting.  So if I say there's a door here, and the other one isn't paying attention, it's really just like walk through the door. Yes, it was open, that's okay. But the door is here. If you don't acknowledge that, you're in denial. And being in denial in this context means you're rejecting the information or ideas or emotions of others. And if you're in denial in theater, audience won't believe you. So everything is accepted as the absolute truth. You can't ignore input and still come across as a genuine character. Acting also teaches to let go of status, to not be afraid to speak up. In real life, your status is pretty much fixed. Your boss is going to be higher in status than you are.  And these differences in status don't constantly influence the way you interact with others. And if it does, you're probably in an unhealthy relationship. When there is a conflict, though, difference in status becomes a key ingredient. In acting, status is actively determined. Your status in relationship to others. You work together to determine who has a high status and who's a low status. And by switching roles, you're unable to speak up instead of keeping quiet. Because of that, acting also teaches to work together. Actors feed of each other. Through play, they learn who has a high and low status. And the beauty is that, contrary to real life, none of them need or want to win. It's about the process and not about the end result. When acting, status may shift at any time if it's beneficial to the scene and it just happens spontaneously, which often doesn't happen in real life. Acting also teaches to work what is there. What isn't on stage doesn't exist. And what hasn't been said doesn't exist either. Acting requires to let go of everything to be able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. So blah, blah, acting. What is acting? That's a great question, and I do not have the answer. You can ask ten actors what acting is. You'll get ten different results or ten different answers, and they're all equally valid. To me, acting is feeling a genuine emotion in a make-believe situation. But what all actors do agree on is that acting is always about conflict. And a theater conflict has a broad meaning. Sure, a fistfight is a conflict. But going through rehab is also a conflict. Or not being able to decide on a name for your baby. That's also a conflict. In real life, we're not looking for conflict. Or I hope at least we're not constantly looking for conflict. But if conflict does arise and you don't stop it in its tracks, it will snowball into something big and unstoppable. And practicing empathy helps to resolve conflict. And I'll show you how in a bit. Acting is a craft. And there are many approaches to how to train actors. And there are many variations on those approaches. And not even going to try to touch any of them apart from the method. Well, the method you probably know because of a handful of famous method actors. One of them, Daniel Day-Lewis. You may know him from movies like Genghis New York, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Threat, The Last of the Mohicans, and much more, but not that many. Day-Lewis describes acting as the gravitational pull of another life that fires one's curiosity. Day-Lewis almost literally becomes his character. And as you compare his roles, there are little similarities. Day-Lewis learned Czech just so he could speak Czech, or he could speak English with a Czech accent. He spent months in a wheelchair when playing a disabled person. Had to be lifted on set across lighting cables because he wouldn't come out of his wheelchair. Before playing a Native American, he learned how to track and skin animals. When he played a wrongly convicted inmate, he spent 48 hours in jail without food, without drink, followed by a nonstop nine-hour police interrogation. Heck, he even texted his co-stars in character. As Abraham Lincoln. He becomes the character when he's on set. He's Lincoln in a period setting. When he steps off set, he's like a 21st century Lincoln. He has his iPhone. Start texting co-stars and signs law of ape. He is that person. Some good news. This is not the kind of method acting you need to employ. It would help, but it may not find like a rabbit to skin in time and things like that. And I want to do justice to Day-Lewis. He is probably one of the best actors out there. But he's also the most common illustration about what method acting is about. Well, there are also less visible layers to it. So a real short history. Konstantin Samolsky came up with what he called the system back in 1930s Russia. Then he took it to the U.S. And there he met with Strasburg, Adler, and Meisner. So Lee Strasburg focused on the psychological aspects, Stella Adler on the sociological, and Samford Meisner on the behavioral. Today I'll be talking about the Strasburg approach, which revolves around what he called effective memory, but it's also known as memory recall. It's the ability to summon emotions from your own life and apply those to your role. So how does method acting help with practicing empathy? What I said, practicing empathy is being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. See where we're getting. Method acting enables you to put yourself in someone else's shoes. So in theater, there's going to be a character in a script. For us, there's going to be any real-life human being. We're going to approach situations as if they are played by an actor. And we already do this subconsciously. We switch roles during the day all of the time. By using acting techniques, we're enabled to actively choose how to react. Instead of subconsciously switching roles, we'll be consciously switching roles. So this is our own method, I think, I came up with. So let's call it the empathetic acting method, because there is no I in team. You can use team with people you know at least something about. You can't use this with a random stranger in the street. You need to know enough about something, but usually you know enough about your coworkers. You know where they live, some of their background, their relationship status, whether they have children, things like that. We're going to use that information to kind of like guess initially their emotional state of mind. We'll then use that to determine where conflict comes from and how it makes people feel. And our goal is not to solve a problem, or at least not a primary goal. The goal is to identify and learn how someone reacts and use that as input to potential problem-solving. So there are five steps to team. The first one is to let go, to determine the basic emotion, to listen and learn, to determine the complex emotion, and to apply memory recall. So first let go of everything. And this is by far the hardest step, especially if you're part of the conflict yourself.  Too bad you need to shake that off. When you have those intertwined conflicts floating around in the back of your mind, you cannot be truly empathetic.  And of course your emotions are equally important, right? So later on we'll go harder on the issue, but for now we're going soft on the person. Let go of everything. Your status as well. Like we're all humans and we're all equals on a personal level.  There may be a stone in your shoe that's bothering you. Wishing this context is a conflict, but unless you know that the other person also has a stone in its shoe, you should ignore it for now. Second, you need to determine the basic emotion. We want to use this to kind of like build our character on. And you're all grown-ups. You've all experienced a wide range of emotions, so you are all able to use memory recall to summon them from the depths of your brain. In this step, we're simplifying the whole thing by sticking to the four basic emotions. We use anger, fear, sadness, and happiness. So relating the foundation by kind of like guessing the emotional state someone is in and choose one of those four emotions for them. So I walk into the office breathing like this. I probably could be sad or it could be in fear. I'm probably not angry or happy. I want to come in smiling. I'm probably happy. And when I come in cursing, I could very well be angry, right? So now we've determined the basic emotion. Next, we want to dig deeper. We're going to learn more about the conflict by applying active listening techniques.  Just by looking at me, that may give me the confidence to open up to you and tell me about the conflict I'm experiencing. If not, you could just walk up to me and give me your undivided attention. That means not checking your phone, not saying hi to a passing colleague. Just look at me and that may get me to open up to you. And if not, encourage me. Just ask, hey, what's up? Keep an open posture. You can use a bunch of gestures.  You can mirror my facial expression. You can slant your head slightly. You can give formal reinforcement. But these could also be tricks you can abuse. You can pretend to be actively listening by slanting your head, nodding, saying.  So let's just don't do that, right? Give me feedback so I know that you actually understand me. And if you don't feel you understand me, then ask questions. Don't make any assumptions. Don't make any judgments. Don't offer a solution. We just want to find out which conflict caused my emotion. So basically my breathing is fear or sadness, right? So you ask me what's going on and I tell you that I heard, in the hall, that a company is about to downsize. I may be losing my job. My wife lost her job a month ago. She's already down to a single income. If I lose my job, I won't be able to make my mortgage payments. I'll be kicked with my house. You already know I have two small children, so that's a big thing for me. So you say you understand. You summarize the issue. You ask how I found out. Don't apply anything, so you may want to ask, well, who did you over her? You may not want to say, take your over here, Jack, because he's always bullshitting, right? So keep it like an open thing. Don't lead, don't imply. So now you know my basic emotion. You know some more details about my conflict. You can now determine the complexity of motion. You now know my high chest breathing came from fear. I know why. As a spoiler alert, it's not because I'm afraid of losing my job. It's because I'm afraid of not being able to provide for my family. Now each basic emotion contains a wide range of complex emotion. If I'm in fear, I could be alarmed, frightened, in shock, a panic, mortified, anxious, nervous, et cetera. Those are all fear at different amplifications and in different appearances. I fear not being able to provide, which I would say makes me anxious. Anxiety, according to the dictionary, could be caused by a situation that seems uncontrollable and unavoidable and a mood state of not being ready to cope with upcoming negative events. Well, I'm not kind of physical enough. Now with that in mind, you're ready to become truly empathetic. Because on step five, we'll be applying the memory recall technique. Again, being empathetic means you're vicariously experiencing the feelings of another. So you take this blank canvas. You've let go of everything. And now you turn into me. A middle-aged white man with two small children, an unemployed spouse who's about to lose his job, or at least afraid he is, and that will get him kicked out of his family home. You have likely never experienced this. And even if you did, you will have felt different emotions than I'm feeling right now. So think of a time when you were anxious. Maybe you traveled to the U.S. for a real scant and were afraid you wouldn't be admitted into the country because of a travel ban. Maybe you got here this morning anxious about not being able to make a connection and spending three days all on your own.  Now the amount of anxiety you've felt is going to be different from me. To me, it always feels like the end of the world, like losing my job at 80% anxious. So now think of what you went through, what triggered your anxiety, and try to amplify that emotion up to 80%. Now you're feeling a real, still real, but amplified emotion. Now, and this takes time and training, don't think about your trigger anymore. Don't think about what caused this emotion for you. Instead, remaining in that mood state, think about my problem, my conflict. So now you're officially being me, going home, telling my wife, oh honey, let's sell the place. And while you do that, you're still feeling the 80% anxiety that was triggered by something totally different, but you now apply to this specific situation. This should prevent you from ever thinking that someone is overreacting. You can't blame someone for their true feelings. By doing this, you'll be able to really step on my shoes and really feel what I'm feeling. And then congratulations, you just discovered empathy through acting. As a bonus, optional sixth step conflict resolution. So empathy reached, you can stop here, go home, that was it. But sometimes you just want to resolve an issue, right? So in this case, you may tell me, maybe we should first figure out if they're actually downsizing. And so whether your job is at stake. If you're part of the conflict, you should go hard on the issue. Empathy should never be used to sugarcoat anything.  I can be empathetic towards you and your feelings, but still, let's say, it's your own fault. So in the end, I guess you just want to say that I want you to be nice. I think practicing empathy leads to new insights in how to prevent and resolve conflict. And though conflict resolution is great, the goal of the exercise is to let people know that they're understood at a personal level. People can only flourish in a herd of humans when they know they are being understood while being themselves. And that is what being empathetic enables. I can share with my colleagues what makes me tick and I don't want or need any preferential treatment. But knowing of all of us was going on in our lives. Now we feel about that. It's all in our shared interest. It's a shared interest to be open to our feelings as a base for conflict prevention and resolution and keep going where we all need to go and which enables growth. I believe that by practicing empathy, we can make life better for the people around us and for ourselves. And when enough people practice empathy, that should make society as a whole feel more inclusive. So maybe you're not the new Daniel Deleuze. Maybe you do not want to practice empathy all of the time. But maybe, just maybe, the next time when that colleague is late again to a meeting, eyes health, health shut, seemingly zoning out, don't yell at him, why are you late again? Maybe just ask, how's your newborn doing? Thank you very much.


Friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here.  I'm going to be sharing with you my food throughout the entire day today. Got a hair, there we go. Throughout the entire day today, we're gonna see Diesel and Lola. I've got some fun things to share with you. It's going to be an excellent day. Also, I've been getting a ton of questions on my necklace here. It does have my name on it. I wore it in my weigh-in video and in my meal prep and I've been getting just a ton of questions. This was actually a gift for me. I will link it down below for you guys with a code for a sale. Get a discount on it. You can customize it. It's all customizable jewelry and all the different metals, really, really cool. So I'll be sharing that with you guys down in the description box below and I'll show you a little close-up a little bit later. But with that being said, let's jump into this what I eat in a day on WW. So here's my breakfast for this morning. I'm having my meal prep, which is my five-minute oatmeal power bowl. So excited for this, you guys. This is clean eating at its max. It is full of good food, lots of fiber, protein, nutrients, all the good things. So my bowl is going to be seven points on the blue plan and that is what the toppings included. I have some coconut flakes and some pumpkin seeds. This full recipe is in my meal prep video that was posted on Monday. And also it is on my website. If you're interested in recreating this bowl, highly recommend. And then I'm going to just have a hard-boiled egg for a little bit of added protein. So this is my breakfast for this morning and it is a total of seven smart points. Babadol cozy on his bed out there. I don't know if you guys can read it, but on his bandage, oh hi buddy, you can hear me, on his paw, it says I rock. His dad wrote that on there when I was with the client for real estate yesterday. But he is loving the new patio area. He goes and lays out there. It's cool and he gets the whole view of the whole backyard as well in the street. So he's happy as a clam, aren't you bud? Hi, hi babe. Whatcha doing? Oh Lola, your ears are cold. Look out there, look out there. Your brother, he's out there. Lola, look at mommy.  No, sit, sit, shake. Oh, good job, baby girl. Does that mean you need a bone? Well, these are the bones that we give our dogs these digestible better belly because they actually can digest them. They're small, which is perfect that way they're not getting too much because Lola loves these and she eats it in like a minute. So I'm gonna give them a bone. Are we ready? We're ready for a bone? All right. Let's show everybody what you guys get. So this is the size of them, so they're perfect for you and for you. Here you go guys. I'm so excited guys. I placed an order for Beauty Counter which you guys know is my favorite makeup. It's a clean makeup. It is cruelty free and it contains only clean ingredients that are good for your skin. The makeup industry is so not heavily policed that a lot of the makeup out there is terrible for your skin and Beauty Counter is clean, clean. So I love it. You guys know I showed a few of their items in my favorites, but I just placed an order. This is all with my own money for some of my favorite things, some new things. Yeah, I'm really excited. So let me show you what I picked up. So the first thing I got was the brand new Beauty Counter Counter Plus Vitamin C serum. So this is a brand new product. I had to have this. This is a great form of vitamin C. There's actually two types of vitamin C in here. It brightens your skin and reduces dark spots on your skin, which I do have a few of those as I'm getting older. It is supposed to be amazing. So I had to pick it up. You only use a couple of pumps in the morning or at night and it just smells fresh and citrusy. I'm so excited about this. So I grabbed that and then this is their brand new cleanser line. This is the Beauty Counter Counter Start. This is the Coconut Cream Cleanser. I had to get this. I'm almost out of face cleanser and this was super, super affordable. So it's gonna clean off your makeup. It has coconut oil in there, aloe vera and an antioxidant to help your skin from the environment, which is amazing. I'm so excited for this. So I'm gonna wash my face with this and then I will make sure that I put on a couple of pumps of the vitamin C serum, which I'm really excited. Vitamin C serum can be really expensive in this one. Super affordable. And then, because I'm getting older, like we talked about, I picked up the Beauty Counter Counter Cream or Counter Time Cream. So this is to help with anti-aging. And this one is about the same as my IT Cosmetics, but my mom's been using this and she's obsessed with it. She says it's by far the best anti-aging moisturizer she's ever tried. And my mom is an avid makeup person, like she shops at Macy's, Sephora, Ulta, you name it. So it's formulated with plant-derived retinol, which is super, super excited. It's supposed to visibly plump and firm your skin while giving it lots of hydration. I'm so excited. Literally, you guys, my mom raves about this and it is affordable, really affordable for anti-aging cream. Of course, I'm gonna link all of these things down below for you guys. I put the prices down there as well.  This is called the Glow Getters Trio and this is a killer deal. So you get a smaller version of the overnight resurfacing peel, which I favorited this. My skin has never looked better since I started using this. And this is a smaller one, but it will last forever because you literally put one or two little pumps in your hand, put it on your face, add your moisturizer and then in the morning, perfect skin. It's so crazy to me, I love this.  And then I've never tried this. This is the Instant Glow Illuminating Cream. So it's pearlescent lotion. So it gives your skin this like dewy, pretty glow, but it helps your skin breathe because it's Shea Butter Macadamia oils which hydrate and condition your skin. So super excited about that. And then this is something that I have seen but not tried. And this is the Illuminating Cream Highlighter in Rose Glow. So you could use this as a highlighter. You could also use this as a blush because it is tinted. So isn't that pretty? Look at that.  I'm really excited to try this. I'm gonna use this as a blush highlighter combo and you get all of that in this kit. I mean, all of this for a really, really good price. So I grabbed that as well. So you guys, I can't wait. As I mentioned in my favorites video, I am going to transition entirely over to beauty counter everything. So I'm starting with the skincare only because I have a ton of makeup. So I'm starting with the skincare. As things I go through my makeup, I'll be repurchasing beauty counter. So I'm gonna link these all below the website, all the things you guys check it out. So here's lunch for today. I'm making my Jen's blue cheese balsamic salad. This is one of my favorite salads in the world. I kind of made this up and I am, you guys obsessed. So I wanna show you what's in my salad. The recipe is actually on my website. The link to my website is down in the description box. So I have first a bed of lettuce. The lettuce I use, well, I change it up, but I really like this Trader Joe's baby lettuce mix. This is what I have on the bottom. You can see that I have avocado. I have 50 grams of avocados. I topped it with one tablespoon of the raw sunflower seeds. That gives it a nice crunch, but also adds some healthy fats, as well as some added protein. I also add one smart, one smart point, one ounce of the Trader Joe's crumbled blue cheese. You guys, this is the killer right here. This is what makes this salad so good because the blue cheese helps balance out the spiciness of these cauliflower, new chick on the block, spicy-ish chicken tenders. That is what is on top. So the blue cheese, for me, really helps balance out the spiciness of the chicken because I'm not a big spice person. So I think the combo with the avocado and the blue cheese, sunflower seeds and chicken is amazing. And then I make my own vinaigrette because it's super duper low points. It is only one smart point for the vinaigrette. So it's one teaspoon of avocado oil and then it is one teaspoon of balsamic vinegar. I'm just using this Trader Joe's one. It's gone, actually. So I just ordered a organic balsamic off a thrive. And then I add in about one teaspoon of stone ground mustard, mix that up, pop a little salt and pepper in there and you guys have a really healthy vinaigrette and it's so good and it's one point. So what I'll do is I'll go ahead and just spread that right over the top of my salad. Oh my goodness. I get so excited whenever I get to have this salad because it is literally so good, you guys, look at that. Full of protein, healthy fats, keeps me full. It is 10 smart points for my salad. I'm going to pair that with some fruit. So I'm gonna have a bowl here of strawberries and blueberries for zero points. So this is my lunch and it is a total of 10 smart points. So this is the necklace I've been wearing that you guys have been asking about. I actually got this as a gift and I love it. It came from this company here, Yafini Custom Jewelry. It came in this cute little box. There's a polishing cloth that was included as well to go ahead and polish it up. It is sterling silver. I love it. I think it's super cute. I went on their website and it's fully customizable so you can customize the jewelry with whatever name you want. You can even put words of encouragement like dedication, commitment, faith. I mean, you can really customize however you want. You can put your kid's name, your spouse's name. I thought it was a great idea and it comes on this really pretty chain and what I really like about it is you can see here that there's the clasp but there's a hook here and a hook up here. So you can make it as long or as short as you want which I really like because sometimes I want my necklace to be a little longer. Sometimes I want it to be shorter. So with all that being said, this is the necklace that you guys have been asking about. I've been wearing this a lot. I'm gonna link this website down below for you guys. I'm going to see if there is a discount that I can get for you. If there is, I will put that down in the description box. Otherwise, I'll link their website so you guys can check it out. But yeah, I love it. I think it's super cute and literally I've been wearing it a ton.  You guys, I have to share this company with you. This is called Coffee Over Cardio. I actually ordered this coffee and a shirt. I'll insert some clips of the shirt next. But you guys, I love bones, but this coffee is better than bones and more affordable. It is so delicious. This is the French Toast Texas Sweet Bread Coffee. This is a light roast, but even though it's a light roast, I like strong coffee. This coffee was strong and the flavor is on point. You guys, this is French Toast. This is Texas Sweet Bread. It's so cute, the packaging. On the side here, it says gluten-free, no sweeteners, clean energy, zero calories.  And here is the information on the owner. This is a small business. So I'm all for supporting a small business. She has tons of coffee. She has some protein, powders, lots of fun clothing that says Coffee Over Cardio and just fun clothes about coffee. I'll show that next to you guys. But it is just, it is amazing. This is absolutely positively delicious coffee. Without a doubt, absolutely delicious coffee. I'll put a discount on the screen for you guys that she gave me. So I was excited that I was able to share a discount with you. I bought this with my own money, this and the shirt because I wanted to support the company. And I will be ordering from them nonstop from now on. Literally, I can't wait to get my hands on a ton of our products. I'll be showing you whatever I purchased there is a birthday cake flavored coffee. There's so many great coffees. They come in these nice resealable bags. It is kind of a zipper seal bag. So it keeps it nice and fresh. I just stored it in my pantry. Cannot wait. So it's brewing now. I'm gonna have it in my cute cup that says she believes she could after coffee. I bought this at Hobby Lobby. So I'm gonna have a cup of this coffee, you guys. It's so incredibly good. Definitely check out our website. Again, there's a link down below and a discount for you guys. So I'm gonna have some coffee and do some editing. I wanted to show you guys my shirt that I picked up from Coffee Over Cardio. I'm literally obsessed with their coffee. I like bones, but Coffee Over Cardio is amazing. They have protein powders, all types of great options. Good ingredients, their coffee literally is to die for. But I went ahead and picked up a shirt because I was looking for a baseball style of kind of oversized shirt. And you guys wait till you see this, it's so cute. Look at this. Coffee Over Cardio. Isn't that absolutely adorable? It's nice and long, which I really like. So you can see it's super, super long. So it goes just, you know, the perfect length. I love it. I think it's absolutely adorable. I really like the black shoulders. I've gotten a lot of compliments. My husband loved it. So I'm gonna link all the Coffee Over Cardio stuff below for you guys. All the apparel, of course, all their coffee, just all their products. She is a small business. So again, it's great to kind of support her during this time as well. And I'm telling you, the coffee is amazing. So I'm gonna make a protein shake smoothie. It's kind of been my jam. You guys are gonna be seeing a lot of different recipes in my What I Eat in a Week on Purple that you will be seeing here in the next week or so. But I'm gonna make a protein shake with some blended fruit. And that is enough to tide me over until dinner. So let me show you what I'm putting in my shake. So the protein powder that I'm using is Tara's Way. This is the Grass-Fed Organic Way Protein. I showed this to you guys on Monday in my meal prep video. This protein powder is outstanding. The best price for this is on the Thrive Market. Of course, Thrive is linked down below for you guys. But this protein powder is two points for two scoops or one point per scoop, which is great. That's going to give you 21 grams of protein or a little over 10 grams in one scoop. Your ingredients are absolutely perfection. There is some stevia in it as the sweetener. And this is the Bourbon Organic Bourbon Vanilla. I really, really like this protein powder. It's right up there with my less naked way. So I'm gonna be having two scoops of that so I can get the 21 grams of protein. I'm going to add some of my teamy greens into my smoothie. Again, just to get some added greens. Now the serving size for this is 10 grams. That is too much for me. It makes it too grassy. So I'm literally gonna put in just a couple of grams and it does still give you that nice burst of greens. So a little surprise giveaway. I'm going to be giving away a canister here of the teamy greens. This is matcha, spirulina, and wheatgrass. This stuff is really awesome, you guys. It's just a really, really good way to get in your greens. It's literally just the plant-based ingredients and some plant-based caffeine. Really, really cool. Lots of great greens in here. So in order to enter the giveaway for the teamy greens, I'll be mailing that to you myself. So I might throw a couple little extra something-somethings in there.   And then that way I know that you were one of my people who made it all the way to the almost end of my video and I'll get you entered into the giveaway. Make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on as well because I will be double checking for the winner. So super excited to be able to do this for you guys. If you're interested in any teamy products, I do have a discount code. I've had it for a couple years now. I'll put that here on the screen for you. But I'm just getting back into these greens and I am stoked about it. So definitely do what we talked about to enter the giveaway. I'm going to be using my favorite cashew milk, the Forager Organic Dairy Free Cashew Milk. For fruit, I have this Dragon Fruit Supreme Blend. It's almost gone. I'm just going to add about a half of a cup of this. So not very much. And then I'm going to do one half of my frozen banana. I do not count blended fruit. So the only thing that has points in my shake is going to be one smart point for my cashew milk. I'm going to do half a cup. And if I do have to add any additional liquid, it'll be water, obviously zero for the greens and then two points for the protein powder. So it's going to be three points. So let's make this shake. Alrighty, there she is. I've got some greens. You can see I just put about a teaspoon of greens on top. We've got the fruit, the banana, some milk. So let's blend it up. And there it is. It looks really, really good. So you can see it barely. I mean, not really any green color. I just tasted it. It's really good. That's the perfect amount of greens about a teaspoon. You can barely taste it, but you're getting so much benefit. So make sure you are subscribed. Bells turned on. You thumbs up and comment the word greens and we'll enter you in the drawing for the team of greens. Look how cute he is. I'm looking through my door. He's so cute. He's out in the grass. He lays there because he waits for his dad. He can see the road. I'll show you guys. Oh, hi buddy. So over here, past that fence, kind of in the distance trees, that's the road. So when he's sitting right here, he can see the road. We are making a super fun, kind of comfort food type of dinner tonight. I'm going to be making pizza sticks in my air fryer. And we're gonna pair that with a veggie. It's gonna be simple, but delicious. So let me show you what's in tonight's dinner. First you're going to need some pizza sauce or marinara sauce. You can even use the zero point, skiniish dish marinara. I'm gonna put some mushroom pieces in mine as well. We like mushrooms on our pizza. So I think mushrooms in our pizza rolls will be amazing. You'll need some turkey pepperoni. I have this Applegate Naturals Uncured Turkey Pepperoni. It's our favorite. Light mozzarella string cheese and some type of egg roll wrapper. The only thing my store had was spring roll wrappers, which is totally fine with me because these are actually way less calories. So you can have two wrappers for two smart points. So basically they're about a point per wrapper. So that's even better than an egg roll wrapper. And we're gonna pair our pizza sticks with these tri-colored sliced carrots, frozen, great brand of frozen vegetables. So we're gonna go ahead and just have some carrots with our pizza sticks. So let's make these pizza sticks. Okay, so to make our pizza rolls, first I have a bowl of warm water. We actually need this for the spring roll wrappers. They come kind of this like thicker, crunchy material. And you actually have to put this in a bowl of water for about 10 to 15 seconds until it's pliable. So we'll need a spring roll wrapper. I've unwrapped all of my cheese sticks. I have some pepperoni here. And I went ahead and mixed that pizza sauce with the can of mushrooms. And lastly, I have the tray for my air fryer. So what I'm going to do first is go ahead and put my spring roll wrapper in this bowl of warm water. And again, just for 10 to 15 seconds or until it's a little bit more pliable. If you don't do this part, then the wrapper just breaks. It just cracks and breaks when you go to try to create your rolls. So there we go, we're much more pliable now. So go ahead and put that down on your working surface. And then we're gonna go ahead and add the ingredients. So I'm going to put a little bit of mozzarella, or mozzarella pizza sauce slash mushrooms on the wrapper. Then we're gonna put one string cheese, one entire light string cheese and a few pieces of pepperoni, like three or four pieces per stick.  And we're making basically a pizza spring roll. How fun is that? It'll get nice and crispy in the air fryer. And it'll be literally like a spring roll filled with pizza goodness. So there you go, super, super simple. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and line these on my tray for my air fryer. So let's do 12 rolls total because that's how many cheese sticks I have. And we'll get these into the air fryer. All right, so our rolls are done. I ended up only doing 10 because I ran out of pizza sauce. I'm gonna save the wrappers for, I'm gonna make some spring rolls. How fun. So there are the pizza rolls. What I'm going to do is spray them with some nonstick cooking spray. That will just help them brown a little bit better in the air fryer. Now, if you don't have an air fryer, you can certainly cook these in your oven or pan fry these. And then I'm going to add a little Italian seasoning to the top because I thought for fun, let's bring in those Italian pizza vibes a little bit more, make them pretty by adding some Italian seasoning just right to the top where we sprayed it with the cooking spray. And now these are ready to go into the air fryer. I put everything in at 400 and I'll just keep my eye on them. So let's get these in the air fryer. All right, pizza rolls are in the air fryer. I do have the power of an elite. I also have the small one, but this is my large air fryer. I have this in my Amazon store if you're interested. So let's bump this up to 400. And I'm gonna put it for 10 minutes and then I'll just keep my eye on it, hit the light and we can see exactly what's happening in there. So I'm gonna keep my eye, I'll probably flip them midway through, but let's cook these pizza rolls. Look at how gorgeous these carrots are. Oh, they're beautiful. So I'm gonna throw these in the microwave for about five minutes to get these steamed. And then I'm just gonna pop a little salt and pepper on them, call it good. So I'll be back to show you our pizza rolls and then we'll put together tonight's dinner. Pizza sticks are out of the air fryer. These look super good. The carrots are just about done.  Look at the water from the carrots. It's crazy. But here is my dinner for tonight. I'm having three of the pizza sticks. There are two smart points each. The only thing that has points in it is the actual wrapper itself, as well as the cheese stick. But because I do have a little extra pepperoni by having three sticks, I'm actually going to count this as seven points instead of six, so just an extra point. And then I have some of those tri-colored carrots. I'm going to add just a little bit of salt and pepper to those. And that is going to be dinner. So it is a total of seven smart points. So this is what I'm gonna be having for dessert tonight. I'm gonna do the peach rings from Smart Suites. This is the new one that is made with the Alulose. It's so much better. They're so soft and chewy, really, really good. So this whole bag of candy is three grams of sugar and three smart points on all plans. If you're interested in Smart Suites, my code here on the screen gets you free shipping over 12 bags, I believe. So definitely head over, check them out. Not all of the flavors and the new formulation are out in stores and you can't be free shipping to your doorstep. So this is going to be my dessert. Thank you for joining me on another what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW. I am starting officially on the Purple Plan as of Monday. I am filming this on Sunday. So you guys will see that video, what I eat in a week on Purple, coming up here in just a few days. I did go ahead and link this necklace down below as well as the coffee over cardio coffee. Oh, you guys, you can't go wrong with that. And I'll link that protein powder that I just bought and tried and love. I love it and the ingredients are amazing. I bought it on Amazon, so I'll link that down below for you guys. Also, if you're new to my channel, I'd love it if you'd stick around, subscribe, hit the bell so you're notified when new videos are uploaded. Make sure you're checking out the description box for the link to head over to my website, which is where you will find tonight's dinner recipe. So good. How fun of a recipe is that for the entire family? So you'll be able to find that on my website. Also in the description box are all of the products that we just talked about, as well as other links and discount codes to some of my favorite things and the link to head over and join my Facebook group. We'd love to have you be part of that community over there. It is such a wonderful and supportive community. So come on over and join us. Give this video a thumbs up if you love these kind of videos. And of course, leave those comments down below. I wanna hear from you guys. What are your thoughts on some of the products that I shared with you? And also to let you know, I have another protein powder coming that I purchased to try and I'll report back on that one as well so that I can share a few options for some really good and affordable protein powders. Thank you guys again, so much for sticking out today with me and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye guys.


Hi, and welcome to Nursing School Explained. I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you. My name is Petra Beals, and like many of you, I started my career in the medical field as a medical assistant. I actually had many of supporting roles, if you want to call them that. So I started as a medical assistant at a urologist office and then took all my prerequisites to go to nursing school. Once I was accepted to my associate's degree RN program, I worked at the local hospital as a CNA. Later on, about maybe a year, a year and a half into my ADN program, I transitioned to work as an emergency room tech, which really helped to open my eyes. And I was really excited working in the ER. This also became my golden when I graduated with my RN in 2007. So I was able to transition right into the, as a new grad, right into the emergency department, which was exciting and scary all at the same time. I had a very good experience. I worked with some excellent nurses that had lots and lots of experience that were able to teach me how to become an efficient emergency room nurse. I continued working in the ER for a total of about nine years and at two different hospitals. And then I continued going to school. And in 2010, I received my bachelor's degree in nursing, which I completed online. And don't worry, your bachelor's is nothing compared to your initial associate's degree program, unless you're already in the bachelor's program getting your RN. So from there on, I also worked on the side or partially in different roles because I wanted to also know what else is out there. So I worked partially in the ICU because I wanted to get a better understanding of how ventilators work, critical care drips and be able to manage those better while I was working in the ER. I also worked a little bit in home health which was a completely different environment. And then I also tutored at the college that I actually got my associate's degree in. And on the side, I also did critical care transport which is basically an ICU or an ER nurse requirement to transport patients from one hospital to the other from a skilled nursing facility if they need procedures and so forth. And then I also work as a clinical instructor which I really, really enjoyed. And so I knew that if I had to go back and wanted to instruct full-time I had to obtain my master's degree. So I went back to school and in 2015 I received my master's in nursing and my family nurse practitioner degree. After graduation, I worked in family medicine as a family nurse practitioner for about 15 months or so. And then I went back to work as an NP in the emergency department. But really my passion was always to teach. And so in 2017 I found an opportunity and I was able to teach both clinical and lectures which was super exciting to me. And so since then I have taught, like I said, both clinical as well as simulation and then lectures and case studies. And so nursing school has changed quite a bit from when I went to school. And there's a lot more hands-on training now application, case studies, all those good things that I think are very important to help you develop your critical thinking. But there's not so much time spent in explaining the concepts and explain the physiology, the path of physiology, the signs and symptoms which are in my opinion the foundation to really be able to apply the critical thinking and then the nursing process to a patient care scenario. So in late 2019, we had simulation lab and one of my students said, you should make some YouTube videos. And I said, oh my God, there's so much content out there. I don't have the time for that or whatever I said at the time. And then over the winter break, I actually thought about it and I started recording some videos that are now in the Fluid and Electrolike playlist that I thought that students always had a hard time understanding these concepts. And then so in March 2020, when COVID hit and we were all not allowed to go back to campus, it was really hard to teach online which the format really didn't change much but there wasn't really that connection part that I could just draw on the board and start explaining things. And so I continued making videos for whatever I taught at the time. And then over the summer, there was a request from my students, can you do this, can you look into that? And so the playlist just started growing and it's become actually a great passion of mine. And now it's December 2020 and I'm almost at 500 subscribers which is unreal and I'm really excited for that. And my passion is really to share all this information with you and hope to reach as many of you so that you can benefit from understanding these building blocks, these very basics and then apply them into your practice wherever it is that you're going to be working or whatever semester of your nursing program that you're in, whatever you're learning at the time. Now, besides being a nursing instructor or professor, I also am a big advocate for self-care and I've experienced that myself, working under stressful conditions for many, many years and not really taking care of myself really well. There was some times where I almost experienced a burnout and I discovered that I really need to take care of myself first before I can actually take care of others. And I really enforced that or really emphasize that with my students too because you really don't go to anybody else if you're not whole and well taken care of yourself. So the things that I like to do to take care of myself is to get fresh air whenever I can. I'm known to commute on my bicycle all over town, to campus, to the grocery store, wherever that might be. I love hiking, I love running and I also started doing yoga. I actually became a yoga instructor because it really helped me to slow down and breathe. And that's really a skill that many of us are not very good at to just slow down and take a deep breath. And yoga has taught me that and over the years by instructing others how to do yoga and guided breathing, I've really learned to slow down and really think about certain things and slow down and think about maybe something that you say before you actually say it out loud. And it's helped me a tremendous amount in caring for myself and just feeling better physically and mentally. And there's really something to be said about that. So one of my playlists also focuses on that, resources for self-care, which are so, so important. So currently in the works, I have topics on critical care and other things that are in the lineup. So keep watching. And I really look forward to seeing you again. I'm always happy to see suggestions of topics that you would like me to go over and I'll do my best to accommodate those. So please leave comments, give me feedback, share with your friends. Let me know how I can help you during this journey, which can be a challenging one, but it is very, very rewarding in the end. Once you get through your first nursing school and you get that RN degree by whatever means, whether it's a bachelor's or master's or an associate's degree, it really doesn't matter. And that's the hardest part to get through and then from there on, it's all good. So thanks for watching this introductory video. I hope to see you soon and happy studying. You got this.