A poem titled, The Dictators Who Say.  Yet you cry and mourn his death as if you wish to take his place. Tell me how this love for a man you do not know has magically become the only purpose for your soul. Perhaps it's just a reaction to a story you've been told. But surely, this is a bid'ah upon our religion, you've behold.  You dare to say we innovate a grief upon Islam? When the Prophet's blood his very flesh will stain upon the sands? For you is yours, for me is mine. No words could bring to light. The truth that you defy so hard, the blind still left with sight. I wonder how the day will be when God will lift the veils.  A king does not leave his throne for the people to decide. Nor did he the Prophet, though the truth you try to hide. It's in your books as well as ours. The Prophet raised his hand. For whoever I'm his master, Ali is your Imam. Salli ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad.


Okay, so this is an old tech TV staff bag that I have been using as my mobile broadcast kit. I last used it CES 2020 and most of the stuff in here stays the same from broadcast to broadcast. The main one being this tank, the Elysis Multimix 8. Good old USB fan and power. It's got eight channels, four XLRs, and then two of these wine ends here that count as five, six, seven, and eight. Yeah, it's pretty typical. Multimix isn't the only one that does that. But yeah, this is what I use to do the broadcast. That goes in this main compartment. And then I've got a Gorillapod for video. I pack the microphones around it. So this is a cheapy Shure SV100. It's not even a Shure, it's a digital reference. Justin and Robert Young bought this when they were doing a broadcast from my house and left it there for me. The other two are the same.  They are, in fact, PGA48s. I got these because they are more durable. They take a little more of a beating when you move them around than the classic SM50. The rest of this is power cable for the mixer, the USB cable for the mixer, not properly wound, Tom Ethernet cable just in case. This is a spare lightning cable to USB-C. That's probably why it's down there because I don't use it as often. This is for a blue icicle, which is not in this bag. It usually is, but I took it out when I went to Vegas because I knew it wasn't going to use it. And then this cable is just kind of a spare. This probably should be the front pocket. This is a mini-jack to mini-jack just because occasionally you need that sort of thing. So that all goes in the main compartment. This is where the majority of the cables go. Now, to keep it from rubbing up against other hard stuff, I do have the Logitech C920, which is my camera in this pocket. This is a spare USB-C cable for the multi-mix because you don't want to get caught out. This is a USB extension cable for the C920. XLR cable, XLR cable, XLR cable. These are three XLR cables because there's three mics. I used to pack a lot more of these, but I ride a little risky now just in case. Usually I'm around people that have XLR cables. I think that's why. Oh yeah, this is from Hammond. Hammond gave this to me at Vegas. Oh, I did not take the icicle out. There it is. There's the blue icicle. In case I just need to do XLR straight into the laptop, I've got that option. These are my headphone monitors. They're just Delta Studio monitors, but they're mini-jack headphones. They're not that bad. They come in this nice little pouch, so I've been using those. It's my data-only USB cable for charging on planes and airports and stuff. This is an extension cable for a quarter inch, which comes in handy sometimes. And then there's a lot of other little stuff in here. So there's a mini-jack to quarter inch, which gets used pretty much every time. There is another sturdier. Oh, this is an extension for a mini-jack, sturdy extension for a mini-jack. If I want to share a headphone out, I can do two headphones into a mini-jack, then use the mini-jack adapter if I need to. This is HDMI and lightning. So I can plug in a phone. Is that what that is? Yeah, I think that's what that is. But yeah, I can do HDMI out to a TV. Oh yeah, I can charge and do HDMI out. That's why that's like that. This is mini-jack to RCA. This doesn't come up as often, but since I have RCA ports over here on the mixer, I keep that. This is just an old Mac plug. Don't know why it's there. This is an old USB-C stick or USB drive. It's very old. I've had this forever. I bought this at Target. I haven't used that in a long time either. But there you go. That's the bare bones. There's other stuff that can go in here, but that's what I took to Vegas to make DTNS happen from Vegas. And it is all of this stuff that's in here for the most part generally is in this bag every time I go anywhere. I will kind of mix and match though. Hope you enjoyed the bag.


Hello and welcome to the session on the topic set theory under the course discrete mathematical structures at second year of information technology engineering semester one. In this lecture, students will be able to apply principles of set theory to solve problems involving sets. The flow of the session will solve certain examples first and we will discuss the solutions and you will be given an assignment to solve on your own. So, here is the first example. Here we are solving certain examples based on an important set operation called as Cartesian product and this is useful in many of the applications of computer. You will learn the same how it is applicable in databases to find out the required data. So, here let us solve certain examples based on Cartesian product operation. The first example, if A is equal to alpha, beta, B is equal to 1, 2, 3, find A cross B, B cross A, A cross A, B cross B and A cross B intersection B cross A. So, here is the solution. We will use the Cartesian product operation to solve each one of these. See the order. First we need to find out A cross B and we know that when you apply Cartesian product operation it simply combines each and every element from the first set with each and every element from the second set resulting into a set of ordered pairs where first element is from the first set and second element is from the second set. So, we will solve A cross B first. We observe A contains two elements alpha and beta, B contains three elements 1, 2 and 3. So, we will start writing the pairs where we get first element. See the first element from A is alpha and we will combine that with each and every element from set B. So, we get alpha, 1, alpha, 2 and alpha, 3. Similarly, now the second element from set A is beta. We will combine that with each and every element from set B resulting into beta, 1, beta, 2 and beta, 3. So, this is the answer for the first part A cross B. Similarly, we will find out B cross A. See the order now. We have to take the first element in the ordered pair from set B and the second element from set A. So, we will start with the first element of B that is 1 and we get 1, alpha and similarly we combine with the remaining element as 1, beta. Next we combine the element 2 from set B with each of alpha and beta resulting into 2, alpha and 2, beta. Similarly, the third element 3 from B is combined with alpha and beta giving us 3, alpha and 3, beta. So, this is the answer for B cross A. Now what next we have been asked is A cross A. This is the Cartesian product of the given set with itself. So, in both the places in a ordered pair, we will assume the elements coming from the same set. So, we will take alpha and beta and combine that with alpha and beta itself. So, resulting into alpha, alpha, alpha, beta, beta, alpha and beta, beta. So, this is the answer for A cross A. Now the next part B cross B is equal to B get. Now we have to assume set B and combine with itself that is 1, 2, 3 combined with 1, 2, 3 resulting into 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2 and 3, 3. So, these are the sets and finally what we have been asked is the already found set A cross B take intersection with B cross A. So, that results into we have found A cross B and we have found B cross A and then if you try to take intersection obviously we find there are no common elements. So, it results into phi that is the empty set. So, that is why we derive an important property of Cartesian product saying that A cross B is never equal to B cross A that is Cartesian product is never commutative in nature. So, with this we go on to the next example. Here is the second example. If A is a set given as phi that is an empty set and B has been given as 1, 2, 3 then find A cross B and B cross A. Simple enough we have been given one set out of the two which takes part into a Cartesian product operation as empty that is phi and then if you take A cross B as well as B cross A one of the set contains no element because in A cross B A contains no element in B cross A A contains no element. So, both these Cartesian product will result into phi being the empty set. So, here you have to simply assume that no elements exist in one of the sets you cannot combine with anything coming from the other set. So, that is why the answer for both A cross B equal to B cross A is equal to phi the empty set. See the assignment question for all of you given A equal to set of 1 B is equal to set of A comma B and C is equal to 2 comma 3 you have to find out all these Cartesian products A cross B cross C B square. So, how will you find B square? It is simply B cross B similarly A cube what will be A cube it is A cross A cross A then B square cross A that means you have to assume it to be B cross B first and then cross A and finally A cross B. So, these are the various Cartesian products you have to apply on the given sets A, B, C. Thank you.


A court has revoked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's Ecuadorian citizenship. Administrative errors were made when the citizenship was granted to Australian-born Assange in 2017. Newspaper Elco Mircio reported Tuesday citing an administrative court in Ecuador's capital, Cuito. Assange remains detained in London's high-security Belmarsh prison. The United States is seeking his extradition. Assange has been accused of conspiring with former U.S. military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak a trove of classified material in 2010. The secret documents relating to the military engagement of allied forces in Afghanistan were released on WikiLeaks while Assange also collaborated with journalists at prominent news outlets. A total of 18 charges have been lodged by Washington, which argues he put the lives of U.S. informants at risk. He found guilty and Assange could be jailed in the U.S. for 175 years.


Stierer clips the back of Pedersen, and he has gone in hard there. That's a nasty fall, and that is... He's set up anyway, which is good. Millic, set up. Right, clearly shook up. We're looking at Millic, who's up on the inside of Nicky Pedersen. He then elects to go to the outside of him and misjudges it, just completely misjudges it, and a massive, just straightens him up there. He does that too late. He needed to stay on the inside of him. Pedersen's lucky not to go with him, but fortunately, although it's extremely high speed, he's away from the bike, and that effectively saves him. That saves him, because if he'd gone with the bike, it would have been really nasty. Look how out of control. I'll tell you why that's frightening. I can't tell you how frightening that is. Really fast. Just at the end of the first leg. Yeah, he's out. Poor he hasn't had a great start. Is he a warning then in exclusion? And again, I have to repeat, Kels, for goodness for an FM stay. He can't chase the inside, but Donald Sanders is off, just at the end of the bike. He reacted so well, but there's no doubt about it, that Cook was out of control. They had absolutely zero chance of holding on to the bike. Look where the bike's ended up. I do hope it's okay. There's still plenty of people around him, but now he comes charging in here, and he's going to hit a rut there, and the bike just literally... Wow, Zagar's lucky as well, because the bike only just misses the bike. Zagar, and it leaps the fence. Unfortunately, there's a fair distance between the safety fence. Watch Lambert in reds here. He sees it straight away. He gets the bike down. See how the peripheral vision, and he puts the bike down, and avoids any contact with Craig. You see it straight away. He sees that out of the corner of his left eye, and then the bike just literally catapults itself over the fence, but Cook's okay. That's good news. Yeah, that's amazing. modern day speedway bike, when it hooks up like that, you've got no chance, and that clearly demonstrates it, and fortunately, there's nobody there, so no damage done to anybody, but the bike will be a bit secondhand, that's for sure. Well, you won't see anything about Zagar. Yeah, my luck is Zagar. He's completely unaware of that as well, unfortunately, but that bike, I have to tell you what, that's going to need some repairs. I liked how Doiley was on the inside just looking over his shoulder, what he was seeing. That's great news. Tied up on him with him. Thank you all. Nosti has made the start on Pedersen. Now Kellerman is trying the inside. Zagar has blasted around the outside. No room for Pedersen. Nasty one. All three riders down in an untidy heap. Nobody was giving anything there. There's no way anybody was ever going to give way. Well, Zagar was set up, which is encouraging and has been spoken to, just to the right of that. You see it again. Initially, of course, the inside gate working well. Younowski, watch Zagar there. Lifts violently, runs very wide. Peter Kilderman coming across. That is tough. Kilderman is very cool as well because Kellerman could argue that he had the advantage there. Chops back to the inside. Just them in front. Nikki Pedersen there just not giving anything. There's a contact. He throws the bike away. Nikki Pedersen is set up, by the way. Oh, that's a tough crash. Bikes and bottles there all over the place. I really don't know what Jim Lawrence is going to do here. Such a difficult call. Peter Kilderman coming across on that angle. It looks like Kilderman just cleans up Pedersen and then it's just carnage from then on in. But the turnback from Peter Kilderman is perfectly entitled to do that. And it's... Nikki's set up just taking some water in. Which is good to see. Oh! Oh, my goodness. If those boys get up and walk away from that, they are very fortunate indeed. That is an awful looking Pedersen up. That's great to see.  No doubt about that. Well, these boys are tough. A bit of ice treatment for Matty Zagar on his wrist. Pedersen has a lead. Look at that! The back straight going into turn three. Well, let's hope they're going to be OK, these boys. Fingers crossed for the boys here. Well, they're just really winded on here. No room there. Nikki goes down, Matty can't avoid him. His front wheels taken away by Doyle coming up the inside nodule. So Doyle clips in there. Clips in there, goes straight down. Doyle. And then Zagar's got no choice as well. It was a really, really tough move from Doyle. Doyle's alongside there. A little bit of contact with Zagar, but he just wipes out. Doyle, unfortunately, just a little bit over eager there. James, you can see that the helmet has taken a massive grant. He wears a very good make of helmet. It's fantastic to see Pedersen up. Brilliant, brilliant. Zagar now coming out in the middle of the centre. Well, that's good news. Looks like he's going to be able to take his place in the rerun, which is a miracle. Let's do that. Well, well, well. Let's hope the boys are going to be okay here. Because that was a big one. Freddie Lindgren trying desperately to get out of the way. Let's have a look at this. Is that too hard? Is that too hard for Mikkel Mikkelsen? I'll tell you what, Freddie Lindgren. Ah, frick. I'll tell you what, that is a minor miracle that they've all got up. Mikkel Mikkelsen's hard on Dodeg there. He is very hard on him. Wow. Bikes and bodies everywhere. What a spectacular crash. Max Frick is still being attended to. I think he's holding his wrist, Max Frick. This is a big decision for the referee here. It is now, yeah. Because Mikkel Mikkelsen moves over there. Just there. Basically, he leaves him with nowhere to go. I'm not quite sure which way the rest is going to go there. I don't like that move there. It just gives him a nudge there when he's alongside him. He knows he's there. He must have had an idea he's there.  Well, Dodeg is excluded, we're told. I can't see an exclusion light, but that's just information that is being fed through to me right now. But I'll tell you what, that could have been such an even worse outcome.


Hey, YouTube, you might see my headset dangling. That's because after two years of hard work and labor, it finally broke on me. Shout out to Astros. I don't usually give shout-outs, but it's a great headset. That's not how we start videos, though. Hey, guys, I'm here, Agent Zero. Daily uploads, kind of. I did miss yesterday. I apologize about that. Hey, if y'all new to the channel and you haven't already, be sure to subscribe. Today, we're playing this game, NBA 2K21. So you might have went into the jump shot meter and thought to yourself like, hmm, everything looks identical. And it does, guys, because it's the same jump shot meter. It needs the controls, though. That threw me for a tailspin. I'm still getting used to that. Babe, the one thing they did add was Trey Young Bass and Trey Young Release. And so I'm throwing it on right now because it's the only addition into this new jump shot meter creator thing that we're doing this year. Oh, man, you know what they say about people who are backpacks. What'd they say? I'm gonna leave it up in the air. You never know, YouTube. Yeah, instant monetization. Take about your address. Oh, that's not even what I meant by it. That's not even what I meant by it. What did you mean that I could just hear your CPM plummeting right now, man? You gotta pull it back. Green. White! OK, so off to a bat, start with Trey Young. Pop out. Pop out. That's green. Mike? Yes, sir. Hey, we're going to pretend like that was green. Let's call it green. Watch me do this right here. I'm going to sauce right here. And then boom, back this way. And now he's sauce. I need them six. He's sauce. White! Yeah, I don't know. So far, the consistency is not there, but I'm going to put it on myself if you'll me that's pin. Oh, my God. That's green. Right back. Why? Mike! The fact that I have takeover after missing that consistently is insane. Green. White again. That just shows the lack of a skill gap, though. I missed open. I'll take over. Trey? Trey, was that you? Don't look at the box score agent. It's kind of a scary sight, bro. Oh, four seconds. Trey on. Trey on. Hey, green! I know y'all see that green! There's no way they added one jump shot, and it's a white machine. Half-core, though. You got it. That's too easy, man. Let that be. White animation. Watch out, watch out. Another white. Hey, Mike, appreciate you making this game very easy and making me look crazy right now with Trey on. Oh, yeah. Seven for seven. Another white. Another white shot. Look at the score, by the way, as we're f***ing around the entire time. Ah! That's green. Green! Oh, yes! Pin that.  These guys really need to retire. Bro, they could be fans. Why are you violating them like that? That's just a joke. Ayo, Ayo, Ayo. All right, let's hop into the jump shot crater. We got to shift and shape and maneuver, you know what I'm saying? Because there's some potential here. I think we can see the potential here. All right, so if you guys have been on the game in the past, you might have seen this jump shot crater. It's very similar. They changed some of the controls, but this is the jump shot I'm using. Trey Young, Clay Thompson release, Mups all just released too. Honestly, I feel like that release one and release two can be paired with a lot of bases where they don't jump high. Like, it probably would do well with 98. It'd probably do well with D-Way, it'd probably do well with Tony Parker.  But for right now, we're experimenting with Trey Young. Trey Young has a very, very interesting release, and it's very quick. Even as I slow it down, I have to release it mad quick. So f***ing I'm just going to speed that b***h up, put it on very quick, and we'll try it out like this.  Make sure to drop a like, subscribe to the channel, it gets 30,000.  I'm trying to get good at it, okay? But when I put it on Hall of Fame, it literally takes longer to do cuts. I don't know why. So I drop this to silver and just Hall of Fame hot start. So if I do green my first shot, it almost gets automatic at that point. How many did you go 7 for 7 this game?  I'm going to do that for you. Just for you, just because you asked. So you just gave me your word that you will go 7 for 7. No, I didn't do that. You just gave you my word. How'd you do that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So now if you don't go 7 for 7, you gotta do the WAP for the culture. I'm not back. First of all, I think you guys would want me to do that. Disturbs me a little bit. No, no, no, no, no, no, I promise you. That's what Agent Zero doing the WAP. Oh my God. Slightly late? That was the quickest I could have released it. How is that possible? I don't shoot very early releases like this. White, white, early. This is preposterous. There's no way. He's asleep. He's asleep, Agent. Green. That's a good shot. No. Buckets, baby. No, that was a good release. And I know how to release. That was a good one. That's such a clean cut. That's a dot. What? You're green. Yeah, Faxi has been. Yo, Tray, what's going with you, man? Out of 20 shots, you shot a single green. I know, I know. But it's not me. It's Tray. Remember that. It's not me. It's Tray. But you're the man using the jump shot. Yeah, but I don't like to take responsibility for things, you know what I'm saying? Okay, okay. Sound like, you sound like Ronnie. Why do you sound so much like Ronnie right now, bro? I need it now. I need it now. Yes, sir. Hey, I didn't go seven for seven. So I guess I'm not, you know, doing a little twerk dance.  What? What? Does this count? Tray young dunk? No. Tray young playoff. No, no, no. That counts, that counts, that counts.  Okay. No, no, no, no. You need to talk to Tray young. Cut it out, bro. Cut it out, cut it out, cut it out. I need to try on Tray young, bro. That might save you. Hey, I'm shooting four for 10, three for eight from three. And that's not good. You feel me? I'm gonna blame Tray young for this, but I genuinely believe without exaggeration that this bass has a whole gang of potential. I'm gonna try and find a cue to releases though.  There's just no way. Yo, Loh, I'm recording right now but I have one question for you, bro. Oh my god. Who would you say like, if you had to choose? Like who's the best jump shooter in 2K that you know of? It would, it would happen. All right. That's just wrong. 100%, that's what I thought. Huh? Yo, cut it out again. Cut it out again. Cut it out. Make sure to cut that out for sure. Thank you, thank you. Appreciate it. Good luck to my guy. Yeah, no doubt. Well, he's gonna cut it out. He usually does that when I ask him to.  Might as soon. Gotta take out the cord. There's no way. Yeah. He's messing with my earnings. Of course, of course.  Green. Green. Look at me. Okay, potential. Potential right there. What a prince. Did you see potential? I think I have one more solution to your problem though. I feel like you not doing the warp dance is holding you back from your true potential. Oh, I tried to, no, no, no, no, no. I see, see, see my butt in jam. That's what happened. My butt in jam. My butt in often jams when I'm in tough situations too. I feel you. Hey, prince, that jump shot, you just delay it. He's on it. Very, very hard. Green. Green. Green. Trayong, we're onto something. Green, let's come back. That's a dot. Needed. Oh. Four seconds, agent. Trayong, seconds. Trayong? No way. Bang. Yep. Trayong, yep. Ooh, ooh, get saucy, prince. Get saucy, all right. Best jump shot video coming out tomorrow. Y'all ain't seen me miss five times. Simple. Yo, that's my spine. God damn, I'm talking to my chiropractic see if I'm straight. Are you okay? White buckets. Oh my God. Yo, Trayong is the best white release on NBA 2K21. This is confirmed fact. I'm proving it. Green. Yes, there's buckets. There's buckets. Trayong. This is Trayong we're talking about. All right, I slowed the jumper down, fellas. This is the one. I'm telling you right now and I'm guaranteeing it's everybody watching this video. This one right here is the one. Oh, this is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. This one here is it.  The base is so quick. I have to go down to normal speed so it feels normal. Usually you have to speed it up to very quick so it feels normal. Most jump shots are real slow. I'm out here running around trying to, oh, there we go. Look at me. Green. Or big green. Cut it out, bro. I don't know what it is. My fessin. The fact that they had to put four after their team name means that there's already another team name. By the way. Get ready for another one, Hooper. I guarantee he was coming. Oh, no, turnovers there, my fault. That's a turnover. That's a turnover. Not a rebound. Hey, so far the Trayong release has had promise but it's not panning out, fellas. But I will give it some more shots, literally. Change your PSN to I need a new jump shot. That might be the wave. Maybe you get some good, yo. Oh, you all crack, sir. I ain't going to lie. This is bad. I didn't slide in front of me. Oh, look at me. Kobe. Yes, Prince! Okay, no, no, no, no. Green. Green. We're good so far. It's not over yet. We're good so far, fellas. Where's the paint present at? That's what a play. Look at the present. Look at the present. What a play. Yo, my batteries have 5%. So we're going to determine right now with this final shot. 5%? I like your shooting percentage, dude. Green. It's not. Oh, no. So far, we're good. So far, we're good. Yo, if I'm going to rest my shots, 4 for 10, it's valid. All right? Yeah, I'm so nice off-ball. I'm so nice off-ball. White, white, white, white, white. We hit those. Oh, yeah, that's you. OK. This jump shot's not it. That's the verdict. Thank you, finally. The one new jump shot added this year is not it, fellas. It just isn't it, man. We really tried to make it work. That's it. It's not dead. Green! Oh, my god. So Treyoung might not be the best jump shot, but I am experimenting with all the things that have changed in the jump shot credit, because some of the bases and releases do look different. Hey, if you're new to the channel, man, you haven't already, be sure to subscribe. I'm going to leave Prince's link in the description. Hooper, do you have a channel? No, man. Oh, OK. Why not? Here's a Twitter, so I'll leave that in the description. Thank you guys for watching. I'm going to catch you guys in the next one. I'm out. Peace.


This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around the United States are finding new life as urban farms. Echo City Farms in Edmonton, Maryland is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working class community. People do not have very much money and they have limited access to fresh food in markets. Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day, she brought them to Echo City Farms for a lesson. Her children harvested rows of spinach, mustard greens, lettuce, Swiss chard and carrots. It's important that the children understand the connection between the food that they eat, the soil, the air, the pollution, how all this is connected to their well-being, she says. Her son, Alston, agrees. You connect with the earth where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more. Margaret Morgan Hubbard started Echo City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. Our view is that what happens in a community influences the culture of that community. So our idea was growing food in a community and showing that you can have farms even in urban areas, redefines what's possible in that area, in that community and brings people together. Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have a sustainable community, she says. That means not only farming food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste. 16 wooden bins are filled with worms. Their job is to eat the food waste and help make it into compost. Echo City Farms is an off-the-grid experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity grid, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the greenhouses are heated using a geothermal system. Buried tubes pump air at underground temperatures 13 degrees Celsius into the structures. Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors can come to the farm and pick up a share of the harvest. For VOA Special English, I'm Carolyn Presuti. You can find two videos about Echo City Farms, including one about the composting worms at voaspecialenglish.com.


Hey guys, it's coach Ben from soccer entrepreneur and in today's video. It's gonna be a little bit different I've gotten a lot of questions from coaches out there who asked me how I began private training and when I started all that and what really got me into Starting my own academy, which is something that I've been doing since 2009 2010 So I want to kind of just explain my story and hopefully this motivates you If you're thinking about starting your own private training Academy or your own camps or clinics I want to be transparent Show you where I came from with this and show you how far everything's come I feel like in a pretty short amount of time So as soon as I graduated college, I went to a school called Drury University It's a small division to school. That's in Springfield, Missouri. I played soccer there And as soon as I graduated I came home and I looked for a job. So I started Working it was kind of like an internship for this company that specializes in sports performance so every day I would go to work and I would Help I guess serious athletes who wanted to get better With their speed with their power They wanted to get stronger and this is more for I guess kids who were specialized already in other sports It wasn't soccer specific at all And the more I started working there The more I realized for me I Wasn't going to be best suited working for someone else. I remember every day. I Would wake up with a lot of anxiety Not really wanting to go to work. Although I loved training the actual kids were there I never felt like I had any creativity behind Creating my own programs for them. I was always doing something that you know, someone else was telling me to do and That made me kind of think about how it was when I was coaching kids in club soccer because I did that You know throughout high school and college. I always coach club teams and I never really felt Like it was my thing that I was producing for the players And so as I continued with that internship, it was a four month Unpaid internship. So I wasn't making any money. I was doing it with the hopes of getting a full-time job there And it got to a point where I just knew that that was not going to be the right thing for me personally And I wanted to try to figure out something That was going to make me happy number one and something that was gonna Make an impact on kids and I at the time I didn't know it was going to be private soccer training I just knew that I needed to leave what I was doing. And so I had a few options to go coach at some clubs But the more I kind of explored those options. I realized that That wasn't going to be the best fit for me either Because if I really wanted to have control of something if I wanted to have a lot of creativity behind what I'm doing I Needed to branch out on my own and do my own thing and It's crazy how everything started for me. I haven't really shared this with too many people Especially on YouTube But when I first started It was a couple weeks after I quit my internship at that time. I was pretty lost. I did not know what I was gonna do I was pretty concerned actually about the future. I knew that I Wanted to do my own thing. I just didn't know what that was yet And I remember I came home my dad called me and he was like, hey I don't know if you would want to do this, but there's a family. I know They have a couple kids who might want to do some soccer lessons and for me I just instantly jumped on the opportunity. I went over to these people's house. I trained them for a few months and It's just amazing what happens when you take action and I did it because I Wanted to go help these kids and I did it for free. I wasn't charging anyone anything and I think the best part about me taking that action was it gave me better experience working with players one-on-one I've done that before in college, but it wasn't really a serious thing. It was something that I just did Periodically, it wasn't like a weekly consistent training sessions. It was it'd be something I do like maybe once a month with players But as I got in a groove Training players training these these kids that they were in the family You know once a week or twice a week. I started to get to know them. I started to go watch their games And it was really cool. The father of that family Was a very successful private tennis coach and so every single time after our sessions He would motivate me to expand upon what I'm doing and tell me that hey man, like this is possible You can do this full time But you need to get everything set up and for me if you would have met me Back then 2009 2010. I was extremely shy. I would never come and Created YouTube videos like this And I was very shy talking to parents. I was very shy even with the players who I was training I had very low self-confidence about myself, and that's really the honest answer, but I didn't Know how bad I was at that until I started training players And it really kind of exposed that and it made me grow it made me figure things out But every session after I train these kids, I would sit down with the dad. He'd give me some Incredible advice and I would just go take action. I wouldn't think about what he would say I would just go do it and it kept working And at that time I didn't know how to make a website. I didn't have any logo I didn't do any of that. I just focus on the training and As soon as these kids got pretty decent results. I knew that okay This is working. How can I help other kids? And that's exactly what I did. I started to post ads on Craigslist I started to network with this family to see if they knew anyone else that would want to train And then I had a couple kids in high school who were looking to get scholarships And they they knew that I played in college and I wanted to walk them through the recruiting process And once I started to gain a little bit of momentum I knew that this is something that Ultimately I can do full-time and I had the blind confidence to know that because I knew As especially after I train those first couple players that this is what I was meant to do I knew in my head that There was nothing that was gonna stop me from training players and all I need to do at that point Was learn the actual business and this is the thing that I know Most trainers get caught up with is they're great trainers, but they don't understand business And that's really the whole purpose of this channel is it's not to teach you how to Structure your sessions. I mean we are gonna have some videos about that But it's how to actually dominate the business. This is the thing that most coaches don't get I did not get that at the beginning and Since starting my training I spent thousands of dollars with mentors who've helped me I spent thousands of hours Learning how to do certain things a certain way and this has put me in the position I am today to help other trainers and that's the whole purpose of this channel now But if I didn't start from where I started I started, you know below zero If I didn't take action there, I wouldn't be talking to you right now I wouldn't have written the books that we've been able to create We have a separate online company I wouldn't have been able to do any of that stuff if I didn't take that first action step at the beginning And I could have very easily said no To that first opportunity, but I didn't I jumped on it without knowing what was gonna happen I didn't think about money. I didn't think about charging these people and honestly for the first I would say six months nine months. I wasn't charging anybody anything and I know that sounds crazy But I wanted to build a reputation. I wanted to get players results and Once I knew that I had a certain amount of results once I could get more testimonials Then I could really go after this and that's when I started charging maybe $15 a session if you've read my book, you know the rest of the story but everything come from came from that first action step that I took and Everything developing grew from there and I know in 2011. That was a very pivotal year for me. I Kind of parlayed everything. I You know, I was doing this trying to do it full-time. I wasn't making that much money But I knew that at that point There are other people in the US or other people in the world that are doing private training for other sports Or personal trainers and they're doing at a high level and I needed to learn how they were doing it how they were You know breaking down their business and see if I could implement that within my own and so What I did I used a lot of the profits that I was making my own company to fly out to California To go to a seminar to where I could learn how to Build a better business and how to create a brand within my community And I know for me that was kind of a life changer That's when I really opened my eyes and I know a lot of times when you're trying to do your own thing You feel like you're on an island.  I know for me none of my friends were You're starting their own business. Everybody's working for somebody else. So it was impossible for me to explain the feelings of you know the struggles that I was going through with any of my friends and So me going to this conference Really opened my eyes to like wow. There's so many people out there Who are doing you know what they love at a very high level now? How can I? so can in this and so can this information and Implement that with what I'm doing. So for three days. I sat there with my notepad. I just jotted down notes I talked to a few people. I kept still in touch with some of those people And I came home and I implemented I created a website. I created a marketing system I started writing emails. I started doing all the things I talk about my book that really launched me and propelled me forward with with my company here and That was a huge moment for me and I know when I first started that would be something I probably wouldn't want to do I wouldn't want to go sit in a conference Room full of people for three days. I thought in my head that I would maybe just know how to do it on my own and That's not the way I you know, I recommend anybody who is looking to get in a private training that wants to do it full-time or even part-time I Would rather you learn from someone who knows what they're doing. That's why I created this channel I don't hold back any secrets People who go through our programs Are doing this full-time people who go read the book?  There's no secret walls behind what I do. I'm very transparent about you know How to start how to succeed? I'm very blunt about it too and because I know at the beginning I was very stubborn. I didn't want to learn. I had to learn the hard way and That really sucked doing that way. I could have fast-tracked what I was doing times 10 If I would have you know gone to that conference earlier That could have saved me lots of time lots of money lots of you know There's a lot of stress that went on in this first couple years with me not being certain about if this is what I was gonna Do or not and so That conference for me was a life-changer that mean that made me realize the power of mentorship And so after that I started to figure out okay How can I surround myself around other successful people all of the time and in my town? I mean in San Antonio, there's not a ton of younger business people And so what I did is I found older business people people who've been In the game of business for a much longer time than me people who have been in us for decades And so I started to get mentors I started to be more accountable with what I'm doing and I would check in with people Once a month and I would pay people I would put myself in position to where I Knew that I had skin in the game.  I need to do whatever it took To get someone else who's more experienced to help me out and That's when I started to really get the ball rolling and get the ball moving with what I'm doing and It went from me training zero players in 2010 2011 time frame to scaling what we're doing to over 3,500 players trained And that's not me training all the players. Obviously. I've had other Contractors or employees coaches who've helped me out with doing that. We've done camps clinics private training But our bread and butter now is private training the one-on-one training and small group training This is the thing that I really carved out as a niche in my town And I know a lot of times when trainers ask me, you know, what direction should they take? Should they do private training group training camps clinics? I mean my advice is very simple you need to get into One or all of those to see which one you like the most and don't just do what I like because If I wanted to make as much money as humanly possible, I would just be doing camps That's why you see a lot of people to do camps. They hate private training. They don't want to spend their time that way For me, it's not about the money. It's about the enjoyment and it's about the satisfaction knowing that I'm helping players On a private one-on-one level and that's my philosophy That's why I never, you know, like coaching teams anymore. I like coaching kids one-on-one or small groups And that's really my obsession. I love that aspect of training because I Know at the end of the day, I can give the highest level session To one or small group of players because they're getting all of my attention and this is what players lack in Their teams or in their high schools. They're not getting that and once I understood that here in my town I could carve out that niche and I could dominate that and since then there's other people who've tried to come in Try to replicate what we're doing but the problem is they don't understand the business and this is the thing that I'm so strong about You know, when I teach other trainers how to do this is they have to understand the business. You don't get that You're not gonna be cut out to do this long term.  I don't want to rely on someone else I want to rely on These systems I create and that's the thing that I tell all the trainers who go through our consulting program The ones who go through our books our four-week program It's all the same. I want everyone to Be well balanced with their business and understand the basics and eventually learn the advanced tactics to how to run your academy The profitable way the way where it's going to bring the most enjoyment where you you have the least amount of stress With your training and this is the thing and I know how it was for me because I did not understand that At the beginning stages, there were so many times I show up to the field where Parents would want to pay me after the session or not pay me at all or they would show up late to sessions I've been through all of the BS that so many trainers are going through right now And this really made me realize after a certain point Okay, why don't I create a YouTube channel? For soccer trainers who want to learn the business and that's why I started soccer entrepreneur And you know before I started YouTube channel I started consulting with coaches who were kind of around my area people who are non competitors That wanted to learn how to structure their business and we've helped a lot of people now And it made me realize that you know, I can't just meet with people one-on-one I mean that that helps that's beneficial for them But how can I help this? You know how help other coaches through video? So that's why we start our YouTube channel That's why we have more advanced programs for more committed coaches And so if I had to go back and do everything over again And this is a question that I've got the first thing that I would do is Instead of me Just jumping into training which I know that was a good thing for me to do but instead of me just jumping into it I need to kind of take a step back and Understand and refine what is going on in this business, you know, what it how can I set this up in a way to where? before it really begins It's in my favor It's not something that I'm playing catch-up on and I know that's something that I did the beginning I Wasn't really strategic and smart about how I was doing things And this is why I want to give you all the advantages now if you are new to this or maybe you've been doing this for years I mean some coaches that I've helped have been doing this for over 10 years and they You know have been grinding through this. They've been doing this for a long time They're at the field all day trying to train players And they maybe just haven't cracked the code yet. It doesn't matter if you're there or if you're brand new I want to fast-track What you're doing and that's the whole purpose Behind my brand soccer entrepreneur and it's not just for private training. Obviously, it's for you know camp clinics anything soccer related We have coaches who I've helped that have started like foots all the academies Goaly training academies you name speed and agility doesn't matter We've already tested so many things within my own program. So I know what works, but doesn't work Especially with all the marketing and so that's why I created this channel That's how I started honestly started from nothing had very little equipment didn't start off, you know with any money I grinded it out just like how most people do But the smartest thing I ever did was I sought sought out people who are smarter than me and I knew that once I started doing that My level of comprehension of business went from zero to a hundred Not, you know overnight, but over time it did and Now I look to put myself in the same positions for anything that I do I want to put myself in positions where I can be around somebody who's been there and done that and this way I can model what they do and That's really my advice for you if you really want to dig in and learn how this business actually works and how you can actually succeed and You know stop going through trial and error and stop guessing around, you know with this with the way this works Then I want you to contact me. I want to help you out I would love to help you out. That's the whole purpose here is for me to help you out share all of the Wisdom and experiences that I've had and I've been through so many ups and downs I mean I can think of a hundred things off the top of my head right now that have happened in the past That would never happen. No And it's just because I didn't have anything structured or organized the way that I do So I want to create this video so I could be transparent With you if you're watching And show you that you know, this is so possible. I didn't have any business degree And you know if I wanted to start this when I was 17 18 years old I could have done that and a lot of people who contact me or maybe a little bit younger and they They asked, you know, do I need to get certified or do I need to do this or that? No, you need to take action. You need to go help players. That's the primary objective objective Go help players help them get better and they will get results And then you can start to really dig in and then you can really start to help more people and make this a real thing But I hope this gives you some motivation to know that something like me very limited resources Not self-confident at all about what I was doing at the beginning. I knew nothing about business seriously I was really stupid when it came to that sort of stuff but I put myself in the position to succeed because I took action at the beginning and I sought out People who are smart people who understood things much better than I could they could sit down with me for 10 minutes They could expose everything I was doing wrong I would be open to whatever they would say and I would go do exactly You know what they told me and that worked that worked perfect for me And now I do the same thing. There's nothing different with what I do I'd seek out people who are more advanced with the things that I want to do in my life with my business And I model what they do and that's why you know for me. I created this channel I've created all of our program you know programs products it's for those serious people who really want to do this and I think it's important for me to say this to My goal here with this channel with this brand is very simple I don't want to help coaches who are not passionate about doing this So for example, if there is a club coach out there who thinks they want to do it, but they're not really sure Or maybe they're just trying to do it to make money I'm not gonna help that person and I've turned away a lot of people already in the past When I'm on the phone with them when I know that their true intention is not to help players We're not gonna work together That that's not gonna help me It's not gonna bring fulfillment to my life helping someone if they just want to make money I want to help coaches who are serious that they want to do this. They know that There's something within them that's telling them. Hey You need to be training players. You need to be doing this different than everybody else And how can we create a business around that? That's who I want to help and that's why I'm willing to Not work with a lot of people I want to help those who are committed and if you were you know around me with my private training program I'm the exact same way. I don't accept everybody I'm very specific and picky who I work with and that's what I recommend all trainers do when they are Training kids. That's how you should be. You know, it's your business You should be selective with who you train and so that's how I am with coaches, too I mean, I don't care if this channel has you know 100,000 subscribers we could have 500 subscribers But for me, I just want to help the coaches who are deadly serious to succeed Those are the people who I want to help and if you're like that. I want you to reach out to me I want to help you out And so what I'll do is below this video You're gonna see all of the resources we've created if you are a brand new trainer Go ahead and click on the startup soccer Academy book That's gonna basically walk you through how I structure everything at the beginning how I got to where I'm at now And then we have a four-week business accelerator course. This is for coaches who are serious about doing this full-time that that's where we go very deep into the business and how everything works and How do you set up, you know everything that you need and there's gonna be a link there? You can go check that out. We also have our consulting program where I help coaches one-on-one over the phone and anything that we offer and I'd tell us to everybody is Only four people who are serious, you know, I don't I don't want to help those who aren't committed those who aren't willing to take action because We won't be able to vibe if that's you. This is not the right place for you If you are super serious, if you know, this is what you want if you've thought about it for a long time It's been itching at you like if you know, this is what you want You're in the right spot And that's why I'm so happy to help those who recognize that they need help It's easy for me to help those who are like that. So that's it for this video Thanks for watching. I know this is a very long one But I needed to create something to give you more insight about where I started where I came from with this And what my true intentions are with soccer entrepreneur and so that's it. I'll see you next time