All right, so it's interesting. It's obviously not my studio. This is a little Interesting to say the least normally so I have a standing desk. I had a standing desk solid Permanent standing was an Ikea hack. You go to IkeaHackers.com you can build your own to Ikea stuff It was always up and most recently I just replaced it with an actual up-and-down automated desk. I record standing up all the time That's how I just record and I also have a little thing I do every time I drink water I smile I laugh because of what I'm gonna say So let me get a couple things ready here So before I record I'm gonna show you the process of what I would normally do on Tuesday But my show comes up Monday. I don't really start prepping till Tuesday sometimes Wednesday usually Tuesday So this is what I do you can hear me here. I don't think I'm talking to this like it's on That's the problem you get so accustomed doing this all the time and also on my standing desk I have a swing arm with a microphone and a pop filter So I bring it to me when I record and I put it away during the week So but it's all connected on my desk and this is usually on this side So this is kind of strange for me, but it'll work out. It'll be fine. Okay So when I start I mean the screen's a little smaller now because I had it I'm sharing the screen I mean I'm mirroring it so you can see it So I have a couple things I do first and foremost is on this bottom left here. I have a folder called post haste This is a free piece of software. It's on the Mac only I actually it might be a PC version I'm not sure but what I do I've been using this forever It's free and when I was doing video editing it helped me create file structures for every project to be consistent Okay, so what I mean by that is this I'm gonna show you something here by going to my folder into Podcasts kitchen sink. You'll see I have this is episode 231, right and in this I have The folder called original way files graphics or else number one or two and workbook That's uniquely different. So every show sometimes it gets an extra file But not every show but often shows we'll get extra data But the core one two three four five things are created each time every time that's done by this And this is what I'm talking about. I we've done normally done this on Monday or Tuesday I want you to see this whole process. So I double-click post haste. This is in the alias, okay? I can then I have different templates in here, right? And I have get options podcast. It's not a hobby. That's in the whole other show by the way real quick You want to be a guest on a show? I'm looking for new guests. It's called. It's not a hobby main goal for this is if you went to School college trade school anything else for a job a let's say you went to school for become a lawyer You become a lawyer and now you make on the side you start making kitchen tables would work and now you do that full-time I want that story, but it's not a hobby. You're interested. Let me know I need you So so get options. So I want you kitchen sink, right? I'm gonna say this case. I want the project named the kitchen sink Podcast I want this to be episode 232 the double check that real quick Yes, and I say create podcast create project where well, I don't want to go there That's the last show I just did so I want us to go to kitchen sink it goes to save it here and now I get that folder and My five things are done. Okay, and inside these things are also the members. This is a template pretty easy to set this up So now I that's step one what I would normally do, okay, and then I go into my outline I change the XXX because it's not that kind of show 232 I Changed us to 232 so I know I'm saying here's my opening that I would say it has a typo I don't care it's for me. It's not really for you guys to see this, but it's okay Okay, and I this is what I say and I that I during the week I filled a little segments, right? I actually fill those things in this is my outline and to save a little bit of time I did this array so I went ahead. I went to WordPress Work camps. This is the upcoming events. So I copy paste and get the links all the way to go Okay, and I have some news I found online that I want to share This is my new segment. I paste that in it So I would do this normally during the week Tuesday Wednesday as things pop up as I see it I call it all together in the spot, right Segment to this is where I would say hey, what am I gonna talk about this week? And I would start doing research in here writing out a script. So some people write verbatim some people use an outline Some people try to wing it I write I write not verbatim. I write pretty close again. I'm fortunate I'm gonna be in theater so I can read something not read something that makes sense Some people read it, but it sounds really red. There's a difference and I may get close to it But I could always paraphrase I can change it up as I want to go out of the 231 shows I've re-recorded less than a handful because They sucked, you know my personal choice most people would never know I knew like I got reported I'll just trash it start over other than that. I rarely record Not that I'm perfect. It's just that It's a podcast, you know, it's not the end of the world It doesn't have to be you want to get it out produce the content hit publish second to this in this case. It's gonna be Q&A Word camp Beham save our hands for short interview With I'll put the name after then tip until the week in this case I have the tip until I pick that out as well here And I look this up as I say these as I find them it's a github thing I'm not a good thing over on github good block But I'll say that so this file only wouldn't exist because it would be in here to begin with right so I close that file up So there's my quick out of this news usually takes me a day or two But not like all day just over the week. I would add things to this, okay? When I'm done with this you'll see that steps after this and then I would be ready to record All right, so this point okay if I'm gonna talk about something I'm gonna go and record a piece I'm gonna record right now not with you yet because this is gonna do an interview So when I do interviews two styles one is at work camps like this Traditionally when I do a work camp interview. I don't have all this with me I just had the recorder I take the person the new word camper aside to a quiet room. We sit down I hit record we ask some question I ask some questions and they have a conversation five ten minutes tops and then I come back to my studio and I record second of the sections and I insert the interview so it's usually two files in this case. It'll be one file All right, I'll make it two files. You actually see it. I'll make it two files also But we are gonna record with better audio because if I record just with this by itself with no microphones It's a little tinny. It's it's much more ambient noise with these it'll be much better audio overall You want the best audio you can get what kills a podcast what kills video like Steve said yesterday is bad audio, right? So All right, it's more of a quick so That said I think we're gonna record. I'm gonna record. So I'm gonna go ahead and record It's gonna be it's a little nerve-racking to tell you the truth because I've never had a live studio audience But I've always wanted one By all means Yeah, I said I actually said huh Maybe yeah, you know, we're gonna have fun with the show We are gonna have on the show It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome and for those who came in after I mentioned it about my little issue with chocolate peanut butter There's cookies up front. I wanted three. I took my three. I could eat all of these But it's better than I don't Everybody really better than everybody doesn't eat the whole box. Just no judgment. Just saying okay again I'm talking in the microphone. See it's like a habit. I'm like, ah, okay. All right So now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to also close this bring up sound board So what you won't be able to hear is you won't be able to hear the bubble. Actually, will you be able to hit a bumper? No, you have to get a bumper. So just so you can Is there anybody for you to hit a bumper? Probably not. There's no Right so I didn't heard my show anyone in this room know my show Yeah, it's okay. There's like a thousand people who love it. Ha. Oh I want to mention two things about numbers and money. You owe me five bucks nothing So people always ask or they come in place. Hey, I have a podcast. I only have 25 people How do you go the audience here takes time consistency? They say I only have 25 downloads per week or per episode. I say hey What's your name? I said hey, I eat a 25 great number imagine a room for the 25 people every week listening to you visualize that Right five times it takes time you want to make mistakes when you have a small audience Not when you have a bar, right? No one starts a large audience unless you have a name already Okay, as far as monetization earlier. I meant to mention most recently. I added a patreon account I was torn about doing this I thought that was weird honestly, but I had a half a dozen dozen people kept asking me Hey, I want to donate to your show. They don't want to sponsor the show because they don't want to spend that much money Totally fine, but they want to donate so like all right, so I do have a patreon account It's $2 $5 $1,200 and my levels are very much me. I have a caffeine break clearly any cafe two bucks a month five dollars is a light lunch $20 is happy hour And a hundred bucks is date night, which my wife would love to see that happen By the way, we are in my bio set 19 years of marriage in 25 days Yeah, I'm really surprised Who's been married longer than 20 years Wow 1971 All right, so you're not going to hear my audio Actually, I'll do this real quick for you I will let you hear it for a second because it's it's 45 seconds my bumper is a bit long my opening bumper But some people skip through it three times fast forward fast forward fast forward or they listen the whole day 50 50 honestly But I like it and see if you hear what the references so here's it here it is real quick That's not it why is it so low can't hear that can't get no, okay, never mind, so it's pretty cool Listen to the show All right, so oh No, that still won't work Yeah, I don't know that's there's no way for me to get it out to you at the moment So hello, all right, so headphones. Oh headphones super important. I've had these for 25 years maybe 30 for cheap I love okay Don't spend a ton of money on equipment to start just kind of start just start okay, so yeah, these are like these are like how old am I AKG AKG and other honestly the lights they're crappy couldn't couldn't love them anymore, okay so Testing one too. All right, so this is very strange So with get options podcast actually I did have we we've done that show twice in the front of a live studio audience But that's a different type of show all together. This is usually not the type of show All right, so let me turn me up here a little bit I need a hit record over here And a little trick I'm gonna teach you guys every little thing I do here So all right, so I can go up to right now an hour 23 minutes and 41 seconds It's not gonna take that long to take like I'm gonna use like 30 minutes total time today All right, so I do test I can see my my fees. I can see the monitor So I know it's there once I hit record. I'm gonna hit record. So now I'm recording This is actually now recording this won't be in the show unless it is as a blooper Okay, so now I do this test one to I can hear myself and it's better just like I don't want to hear you All right, so and what I do is I literally take a sip of water Because I need that Every time this is so weird Taking a spotlight All right, so I don't think I hear you guys I hit um I Say what I need to say and then I hit the music That's all right Yes, I say I need to say I'm like all the sudden I'm confused so you'll see that's how I'm gonna do my show So just be quiet. Oh This is a trick. I want to say I do this. I stop my fingers Three times. I'm doing it again because it gives me a waveform. I know when to cut out before that's why I know what start I do that. So here we go in this the kitchen sink WP podcast episode to 32 I gotta do that over because I'm having an issue with balance. Hold on A little bizarre small technical difficulty, excuse me I know I got it Remind me to put your microphone in when you come up Problem solved So the problem there was just you know, just to share technically this is my audio out This was going into a just a single channel left left channel not not so stereo So now it's in stereo balance versus unbalanced. Now we know problem solved. Whoo awkward. Okay Here we go again, try this one more time microphone up one two one two Hit record again testy one two one two That's what here we go Okay, they're really noisy aren't they Kind of do a show here So I just burned 30 seconds. That's totally fine But I do the snap so I know if I'm gonna start over do something I can't and I rarely start over during my show if I guess I like five times in the last quarter This is the kitchen sink WP pockets episode 232 Why hello and welcome to that's wrong. I'm gonna keep this in here. Hi. This is Adam sort of the host of the kitchen sink WP podcast Thanks for being here. Let's get started. All right first and foremost before I even start with upcoming events I'm recording the show live in front of an audience at word camp Birmingham in Alabama So if you're in the audience, you want to say hi or applaud you can And this is a little strange I'm doing a presentation and I'm including the actual workflow how I do a podcast So you might be able to see this on WordPress TV in a few weeks. Actually, we'll see this because Lucas is saying yeah You'll see this in a few weeks. All right, so moving forward moving on to show upcoming events like I said Let's get started. We have a couple events coming up. We have word camp for publishers in Chicago That is August 8th through 10th. That's mid-week. That's what I mentioned at first So it's mid-week. It's a word camp for publishers in a community organized events bringing together folks who support word camp or Publications so it's a specific type of word camp. Okay. There's also word camp. Ooh, I don't have to say this Sweden I think you pronounce it nor okay, so I'm sorry It's August 10th and 11th. Yeah, we're kept Montreal August 11th and 12 work camp Jackson, Michigan We're which is August 11th. It's a single-day camp and I might be there virtually I might be recording the get options podcast there with my buddy Kyle So we'll check that out that works out or not and we're camped on poor Which is August 12th. So if like I always say you're in those areas by all means go to work camps because I love going Um and I will go to more of them this year as well And if there's any meet-ups in your area you should go to your meet-up as well If there's not one you should create them like I always say all right moving on segment one in the news couple things to talk about this week WordPress 4.9.8 was released and is now available for download happened last week as expected and like I said last week One of the key elements is to try Gutenberg call-outs and not everyone's gonna see this by the way And I did see it finally this morning and I was gonna share with you what I saw took a screenshot of it So I saw on my dashboard for kitchen sink WP this thing that says hey a new modern publishing experience is coming soon I can dismiss it I can install Gutenberg as a plug-in or I can install classic editor of the plug-in slightly confusing honestly But the class together. Let's me keep it there. So when 5.0 comes out. I had the choice of the two Install classic editor didn't activate it because there's no reason to at the moment. It's a little confusing So not everyone will see this there is criteria on how this will happen the criteria will be if it's not installed or activated Actually all this isn't a show notes because it's kind of convoluted how it works the classic editor I still use it and still I still like it and I'm not moving over to Gutenberg just yet So, okay, lastly, I want to mention the news. I'm creating a new course about easy digital downloads and Self-paced will be delivered via a learning management system lifter LMS more than likely It is because I built a Course an e-book and I was asked by the team behind EdD to create a course about how to sell using their software So that'll be out. It's coming out in about two months. I'm doing a pre-sell right now $47 you can go to kitchen sink wp.com The full price will be $197, but right now it's 47 bucks and that's gonna go up as time gets closer to launch So check that out. All right moving on segment two this week. We are doing the traditional Q&A with a brand-new word camera, and I'm not gonna do it like this minutes I'm gonna do it after I take a quick break to bring up the guest to answer some questions So we'll be back after this break and then the questions and then the tip into the week It's kind of weird, but that's it for the moment. So we're right back. Okay, stay tuned That was weird. I ain't gonna lie It's only weird because normally my screen is here. I can read, you know, and it's just different So that worked out for the most part. Okay, so now you need to come up And we're gonna keep recording this actually I'm gonna hit pause for a second I'm gonna actually hit stop because I wanted I want two recordings. So I'm gonna do this way this way This goes out for a second you go in Okay Hold that you nervous right on What's the water cookie? Remind me how the Marcella Marlissia easier No, I'm gonna do it myself Okay, all right, this is Marlissia. Hi Marlissia. All right, so All right, here we go. So you're not gonna be able to hear anything. Is that okay with you? You'll be able to hear you won't be able to hear yourself except for yourself. That makes sense All right, so bring you back up here so say something like let me see is this on testing. Yeah, this good. All right Okay, and Lucas, can you hear us on the other microphone as well? Sweet. Thanks. Okay. So here we go. I'm gonna hit record again She's really loud over there. I'm gonna hit snap snap snap Because I took this out, I think this might work for a second All right, so we're back and we're talking today to Marlissia Marlissia What's her last name? Shavers. Hi Marlissia Shavers. Hi. So thanks for being here. I really do appreciate you being a part of the podcast Thank you for having me. Are they making you nervous out there? No, not really. Okay, just ignore them. Imagine them all Not there. Okay Not naked, not a number of boxers.  So we have your name. So what do you do in relation to WordPress? I am a Love-style blogger. I created my own genre of blogging and basically my blog is about self-love, self-care and creating your best life Wow, that's pretty impressive. How long have you been doing this? I've only been doing it since November of 2017 Oh, so not even a full year. Right. Mm-hmm. So a question for you How do you hear about WordCamp and have you ever been to WordCamp? So how do you hear about this? I actually heard about it through my fearless writing leader, Javacia Harris Bowser And she was a WordCamp speaker last year and she was telling us about it And so I said, oh, I should probably go to that next year. And so when it came up, I signed up to get the notifications and So you've been here for two days, this is day two. We're almost done. Another literally three hours and the camp is over. Right Have you learned anything? Yes. What have you learned? What's your biggest, like what's a major takeaway for you? Um, I would say a major takeaway from me is I learned that WordCamp is just not for techy people It's actually for the users as well because I was a little conflicted about coming in first And so now I've gained all this invaluable information and one of my main reasons for coming is for the podcasting Because I want to start my own podcast. Nice. And what's your podcast coming about? Same thing as your blog? No, actually, it will probably incorporate some of those aspects, but it's going to be about The global view from a black woman's perspective. Okay. Okay. Interesting. Very cool. And have you have a podcast name or domain picked after that yet? Yes, it's going to be the mahogany perspective. Love it. That's awesome. Okay So if somebody came to you new into WordPress or had never heard about WordCamps, would you suggest they come? Absolutely. For what purpose? For any purpose if they want to own a business if they're in entrepreneurship if they're thinking about managing websites or Learning to create websites It's just a myriad of reasons that you could come to WordCamp to gain that knowledge Or if they're already in a profession to just get more knowledge to help with their career.  Absolutely. Nice. That's what we want to hear because You've never been around the community. So is it new to you in a sense of are you surprised by the community at all? Actually more questions at this point. So yes, I am. I wasn't Expecting it to be as welcoming as it was because you know, you can go to conferences And you're not see anybody, you know, and everybody's standoffish. They're just there in their own little world But here it was like, hey, how you doing? What's your name? What do you do? You know, and so it made me feel like I was a part even though it's my first year Right. I mean just yesterday when we put the call out for new WordCampers to be part of this You stood right up and said I'll do it. Right, which is awesome. So awesome Well, thank you so much for being here on the podcast and best of luck with your show If you need any help by all means, let me know and I'll see you and hopefully next year speaking here. Awesome. Thank you so much Thank you. All right Okay, we're good there So that part's done Okay, does anybody else want to come on to be interviewed the same thing or no not so much What have we done on time two? We're okay. You want to come up? Come on. We're gonna do one more. Awesome More the merrier I think that's the right way to yeah What's your name? Priscilla. Hi Priscilla. I know like four Priscilla's now I'm the best now, right? At the moment Okay, same thing. You'll hold it right here. Actually, we're gonna do just hold that All right, still recording. So Okay, all right, here we go one more time And we are now talking to Priscilla Warren. Oops, now hold on a second. I know that audio. You didn't hear that Sorry, never mind. All right We are now talking to Priscilla Warren Also a first-time word camper and she just literally raised her hand to come up as a second interview because my other interview I was going to come up had a migraine, right? Got sick. Totally fine. No judgment. Really. Oh, she's better Is she here? Okay, so welcome to the stage Priscilla. Thank you and what brings you to word camp So I'm a complete newbie and I've got a computer program or brother And he was tired of asking and me asking him questions And so he told me to learn it myself and so here I am Okay, and how did you hear about word camp from my brother? He told me Yeah, what are you going to do with word press knowledge? Like what was your main goal to learn this weekend? So I'm sort of uh, I'm just trying to learn about word press and because I thought I was going to have to manage my own website and I didn't I really have no technical background. I'm an accountant So I just really needed to come and immerse myself in it and learn Okay, do you have a current blog? I do not do one blog Yes, I had a business plan before I came here and I met some people at lunch yesterday And they have totally put me on a different track a better track So I've got to stop and rethink everything. What was the original idea? The original idea was that I was going to do business consulting services And I was going to sort of maybe do some of their social media marketing and website development But I've realized now that maybe that's not the best use of my abilities Maybe I need to partner with other people But I can be that sort of just one person that they talk to and I have other people help me behind the scenes Okay, fair enough. And did you find the value? I mean was it was a cost prohibitive to come? No, I mean I had to drive because I'm from I'm not from Birmingham, but I absolutely 40 dollars You could totally swing that right and just to you know a few hours drive to get here and to have the resources And to have all these helpful people it was totally worth it So what's the main takeaway besides like so is your main takeaway really the new direction that you've got advice on Yes, that's all I did last night was I couldn't even go to sleep because I just kept thinking about this Different path that I'm on now that I totally was not on when I left uh Saturday morning So you've been up for 24 hours at this point? Basically, I'm really tired. Can't you tell? No, you look great. Okay. Well, I appreciate you coming up on the stage Do you have any questions for me at all? Actually one more question any interest in podcasting? I didn't before I came here, but now I'm totally gonna do it. Awesome. That's what we want to hear. Awesome Thank you so much for being up here. Thanks. Thank you That's my microphone. Let me turn her microphone on And uh, thanks to both Priscilla and Marlisa Marlisa. See I got her better that way. Okay And I'm going to hit stop now and come back after this break with the tip and tool of the week. All right, stand by Okay, so this point actually I paused because I don't want a third file just kind of Weird but we do that. All right. So now what I would do is Click on this you can still see it. Yeah, pretty good Open this up And actually I have found already a better tip until the week I have to wait for next week because I haven't tested it I try to look at things a little bit more in depth if I can But like for example next week's tip until the week is this wallace. I just found out that's inline It's inline editing for beaver builder. It's pretty cool. It's supposed to be a better interface for clients So I might check this out. There's a live demo. There's rami macala Anyway, so but you know, I want to find things that I think are interesting to people And ironically enough my tip until the week has become my e-book a free e-book. So if you guys can go to WP Let me do this way real quick If I'm not logged in So just to share with us for you one second. We still overhead pause good. So on the top, you'll see a bottom It'll scroll down in a second face on Uh, it should come down. Maybe no. Oh, there it is. So I have a free e-book. So you sign up for you know It's a lead magnet. I want your email address. You get my e-book and it's the top 101 Tips and tools of the week all organized. And yes, it's a pdf and some of the links are affiliates So again, it's a way to monetize. All right again. I'm talking to the microphone for no good reason. All right All right, moving on So now what we're going to do is I'm going to mention this and I'm going to wrap things up Create gluten block. Okay All right, so pretty basic talk here. I'm gonna hit record again I'm gonna come back this way All right, and segment three tip and tool the week this week. I want to mention a Gutenberg-esque item. It's called a gluten block create gluten block. It's over on github. It's by um Ahamad Wadi. I believe it's how you pronounce his name. Let me get back to it. It's on github It's create dash gluten dash blog It's a way to for those who are creating Gutenberg blocks and going that way of the technology because that's where wordpress is going version 5.0 do out like september sometime It's a way to It's a starter kit a boilerplate. It's a developer toolbox which is continuously being updated So it's on github. It's free if you're into the Gutenberg creation of code and content check that out That's the typical the week this week and other than that I think at the end of the show and I do appreciate the live audience in the room It's been interesting that today the least It's different and the show is different this week and that's okay because that's just how life is right I'm good with that. So I'm going to wrap it up. If you have any questions by all means send it in Email adam at kitchen sink wp.com or use the speak pipe punctuality website Thanks so much for listening and see you next week and have a great week and stuff like that And I'm gonna say goodbye now. Goodbye now And you guys gonna bought a good one And I need to add my sound effect back in Dang it Which I can still do it's still recording All right, good enough. Okay. So the recording as hodgepodge is that kind of was normally much faster and less Interruption and introduction in a interruptions. So now what I do is I click this I close this I take the card out. So two gigabyte card. So this version of my of my recorder The only drawback is it only can use it up to two gigabytes, which is ridiculously small when I first got this I'm like spent this was normally new versions five six hundred bucks I paid two twenty five on ebay some older versions It's kind of fast to eat a new version that are a little more heft better features Etc. And they take bigger cards. So when I got this, I'm like, I have like an eight gigabyte card. Put it in It doesn't work tried like 16 different eight gigabyte cards with nothing I'm like, huh, I google it two gigs is the maximum you take that's just the formwork. So f y Take this put this into my computer Okay, so now the rest of this is just the post-production at this point, right? So Just make sure I hit everything I showed that I showed that yeah get photo. Okay So now I have this cannon card. I'm gonna take out the last I think it's the last three files So we'll take the three take this is my desktop for a second I'm gonna go into Sync podcast original audio phones This isn't sexy. This is just the reality of what it takes to do the show. Okay Come what was that? Was it this sexy? nice I love that april Do you want me to put uh lucas the microphone back on me? Okay, good He's like, no, don't touch it All right, so and I eject the card Okay And once I fully eject I'll take this out and here's a little personal trick Take the card with ejects to take it out. Put it back in the recorder Not in your pocket Not somewhere else. It'll turn off by itself. Totally fine. All right. So then the next step is literally Uh recorded a copy file. I'm gonna do the light edit. So the light edit is this I gotta figure out which one's which I need my headphones back on And I need this I think that's it Oh, yeah, okay. These are okay. So they're the wrong order 24. Okay. So now what I would do is I'm gonna take the first one I'm gonna right click Open this in Adobe Audition And there's the file Now that's pretty sexy like that. All right. So now I need to listen but So it's actually so you see how there's all these areas here. It was all the snaps So I know I don't need any of that before it Oh Maybe I do I what you did like six. Yeah, apparently. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Maybe why is this not This is a problem Oh, you know what I think this is the first one that we were those no good, right Yep, okay, so it must be 25 and 26. That was close I've actually in the 231 episodes. I've actually lost not lost. I had a pick up with one file And there's actually a way to recover it. I got lucky if you thanks to youtube. I found a way to get back Here's the here we go. All right. So here we go. Perfect. So So yeah, so this first area here all this stuff. I don't need I can toss it, right? This is me saying This is on the opening segment. So I'm actually gonna I usually start like right at it That's putting that Okay, so this came in a little low just because of my opening music here. I'll just highlight that I'll bring that up a little bit just to match All right. Ooh magic And then my show starts Does he applause we're good there? Good good good So again, I don't go too deep even I mean I'm lucky. I don't do a lot of ums. My show is concise I know I'm gonna say if you have a lot of ums kind of take those out if you have an interview with somebody Here's a little tip if so when I do longer interviews, I don't give anyone Heads up on anything except for there's one segment say what are the three tips? Three tools you can't live without so that way you can have a prep at the end of the show If someone says by say So tell me what do you think things are going in the wordpress phase in regards to You know female empowerment and you might need a minute to think about that, right? Oh, that's a good question because everyone says that's a good question. It's like the weirdest thing ever Oh, it's a good question. Really? It's because it's a dumb question. Unless you're orange. Okay, so Um, so you might take him into the same totally fine. Let the person take them in and say, uh, Think about it because you can take that piece out. You want it. You want to take out some of that So those long times of people thinking remove that not all of it because if I ask you the question Did it hit right to your answer? That's awkward, right? I didn't style wise Like I said, but you can take time you can have some you can have some duration But you want to take out those long gaps. So when you're interviewing someone don't rush it, right? So in that case so we get to the end here. So I don't go to do too much here Like here's a piece here for example. I can listen to this and see what was this right here. This was Nope, it's fine. Okay So in this case, I swallowed for a second if you can barely tell I know it's there. It's totally fine All right, so I'm gonna leave all that in there And then I think at this end here, I see what I have here So it says stay tuned. Okay, great. So this is where I want to put in the first Both interviews the first one's gonna be here, right? So I'm gonna go grab that file. I'm gonna double click over here I'm gonna grab Podcast 232 original way file and it's the last one 26 correct. Yeah So it opens up a new file That's weird Oh, there it is so 26 so 25 is the main one. Here's 26. So here's the first interview the section right here Here's the second interview. Okay, so I'm gonna take this first one So the section right here just so you can see it you can't hear it. Oh, yeah, that is a sound effect So who remembers the six million dollar man? I'm a huge fan. I mean, it's a problem. Okay. I have a watch I got about seven years old from my apartment from my parents for Hanukkah. It's fantastic Um on my face of my apple watch now. I actually have a custom face with him on it I have a fan of the show who knows I don't know man so much He recorded found all the episodes made like all the seasons and all the episodes and sent me in the mail a dvd set For my it's like a little freaky. I'm like, how do you get my address? So I thanked him on the episode. He liked it. Anyway, so the opening segment of my show has the audio of There's a mixture of six million man. We can make it better stronger faster with word friends That's the f my the bumpers between interviews and stuff is the That you know that that's what that's what this is like. It's a little low because of how I wired it My mistake, but of course I can fix that by literally just bringing this up a little bit So now it's it's a little better, right? So I can I can match that I don't need any of this Okay, and this like this piece here talking the first one first one Okay, so right here. This is interesting just so you can see the audio file So this is uh marlissia she Smack your lips You did the so that's a little it's a little high. It's a little high So I see a lot of those I'll fix it in this case. It's just the one easy to fix lower to that a little bit It's who you are. It's what happened. I don't want to I don't want to change the audio I'm not npr, right production quality does matter, but you have to know what you need to get done to get it done Okay, when you're starting out when I'm funded at ten thousand dollars an episode. Yeah, this will be great All this up. Yeah Okay, so I'm gonna cut I'm gonna go all the way through And I'm gonna scroll down here. I think we're good there. There's still So So here we go. This is the whole interview right there. So we're done with this one right there I look over this one here. So here's the thing. I want that clip again. I forgot to do at the end So I'm gonna go grab it here copy it And I'm gonna paste it over here So now I have it on both ends the beginning then so it's a did it did it interview did it did it End of interview and then I'll do then it'll it will go to the second one here. So I'll just I'll lose this Here is Priscilla Oh, so I have to bump it out Okay, great. So I can take this piece out Now we're talking Priscilla And we're still good there and I know she's a little low because her microphone's a little further away But it's okay. It didn't bother me because I'm gonna fix it in a second. I'll show you how I'm gonna fix it And then over here. What's the section here? So this is the so the right here is a tip until the week section moving forward. So that's fine Snap my fingers I'm gonna lose all that Okay, that's the end of the show there. Okay, so now because her bottom's a little low this area I'm gonna go ahead and highlight all this. I'm gonna go to effects Diagnostics, uh, where's it filter modulation? up dang it effects Actually, it's here. It's um speech volume leveler Apply so now everyone's speaking same level based on the average You can get really detailed here. I don't okay So the problem is I so I want to make sure that it's not too noisy now. No, it's actually pretty good Okay, so actually this section here is too hot now. It's the sound effect. It's way too loud. So I just want to lower that a bit Because I can kind of tell it's blown out. So how's it now? It's not ideal, but I'm gonna um Keep it for the moment right and then the very end here. This is the very end of the show That's the applause. Can't you tell? That's your applause. That's awesome. Okay the section right there was your applause I think actually I got Taking all that out. So now I'm gonna copy all this I'm gonna go back to number 25 Because this is where it goes it goes to the end of the show So normally in a normal situation. I would literally do my section do an interview I would do my I would do everything Okay, how do I normally do it? So normally I would depends on the interview when I do the interview if I do it early in the week because it's on Skype Here's how the best way to explain this way Whenever I do the interview is when I record the show I want my voice quality to be the same and my levels will be the same So if I do the interview at 7 a.m. Or 10 a.m. Eastern, you know, wherever maybe wherever the guest is once I don't interview I would then record the rest of the show because my voice and I wanted it to match Some people don't you can actually tell sometimes when it's been different time because it's just not there, right? If I record in person like this just using this I normally pre-record the opening and closing at home So my quality that's studio quality and I just insert the interview and it's obviously different and I'm done Copy paste on it and it's done. So in this case Yeah, it's a little it's a third option at this point because I do use this on location So it's just a little awkward. So okay, so this case. I'm gonna copy all this. So is this number? Or we have this is number 25 I'm gonna copy all this. Oh, this is actually no, this is the end of the show, right? This is the end of I'm just gonna paste it right here. I'm gonna say It's a nice pastes there. There's the rest of the show So literally at this point, so some of that stuff's pretty hot You can see this one right here that little section that's really high on the radar there So see what is that real quick and see? Oh That's wrong. That's the wrong segment. That's the problem. So I need to go here I have to make sure where I'm in the right place here Okay It's 25 Okay, I think I just copied this I need to go back to 26 There we go. Okay. So I copy this section Put it back in 25 if you get confusing it can be put it here paste and So I'm gonna see if you guys hear this often All right, so we're back and we're talking to each other now. Okay. So what I want you to hear is this for example I still like it and I'm welcome to go over it just Right, okay. Lastly, I want to mention the news I'm creating a new course because that's the news section. So I went through the news. We get to the questions. That's the sound effect All right, so we're back and we're talking today. It's Marlisa. All right. So what's your last name? Nice in here Okay, you sound great by the way and just so you can hear what I'm talking about from the beginning You kind of get the gist of it. It's kind of techy All right. So at this point the show is done, but I do one last thing I go to here and I have an effect and what I want to do is I go to actually it's here under Presets I go to kitchen sink to be secret sauce And that what that does is it raises some tones and then also I will then lower give it some depth So if you listen to it this way It blows the way out, right Can't go that loud And I want to go to Enhance the loose Great sadness right so now listen to difference listen for the second With it on And that's just you know, that's just microphones technology It's you can always do some tweaking and post production to make things sound better look better. Is that right? Right Lucas, so I don't do a ton of posts because it's a matter of time This is taking me twice as long as normal. Obviously. It's a different situation. Okay So now I am technically done with production and post production. Well There you guys Okay, and I will say that is it for that take all that out save it Oh save cancel. I need to actually apply the effects to the entire file depends on the effects This will take a couple seconds here. Okay Getting close. Look, how are we doing on time? We're still good So now the file now now that effect everything's done all the editing is done The effect that I added to raise the audio but lower the depth is there and flattened out You can see it. It changed the waveform a little bit to flatten it, right? So now I go ahead can I say Export file or you and it says where I'll say I want this to go to Uh kitchen sink wp's folder Uh mp3's Say save are you gonna say okay? Are you sure because it's a wave file if I go mp3 It's lossless. It's a different format totally fine. I want mp3. I need mp3. Okay takes another put three five seconds Okay, save the file one more time just to make sure just have it Quick oh you want to save all this stuff? I'll say Yes, it's fine. So it's saving what I did the edits I did in the other file if I edited it. It's fine Okay, quits out of adobe edition. Okay, so now My next step would be I did the light edit I exported it. Okay, so now Technically I need to do this. I have an mp3 file, which as you can see is the wrong name Right, but I need show notes before I do anything else So the show notes in my case are kind of redundant of how I do this It's kind of unfortunate. It's what I started four years ago and it just works for me I go back to the show itself So I have that outline And I also have what's called show notes two files Right, so this week I interview say I interview View two new word campers If I knew how to spell it would be great. Actually, I'd make this really big so you gotta see what I'm doing here So again, based on that file I created Oh, I forget to show you one thing and new word campers from word camp Bermin Upcoming events so I do that that's my title that that'll be like the Part of it. I will then take all of this and I do that in the news Uh, I'll take wordpress 4.0. So in this case, I literally I don't take the reason I do it twice And I just take the bullet point, right? And I'll say my class is this way. I'll say edd class Edd course Pre-sale And I'll actually I'll just link this this way Okay segment two q&a With uh word campers And then tool of the week create gluten block And here I say create gluten block Take the blips Take the bolt off And that Make this all 18 doesn't have a size I just like to see it for me when I move my screen to the 18 for you It'll be 20 doesn't matter I take away all the bold I take away all the formatting because The way it currently works in in in classic editor if I put in bold underline and something except for links It doesn't work right I have to redo it just the way interface Because it's just not smart the way text edit does it right I could do this in some other service some other software Just this is what works. I try to keep things low tech if I can okay, so that was in my show notes So that I can close this one Uh close that and then what I do is once I have that done then I take the file the mp3 oil I open this up with id3 editor And what this does is this wraps it the proper way as a podcast Right, I can add shows and artwork to it. So in this case, I hit command d So it puts in my it knows what to put in from previous podcasts It kind of fills in a couple things like it fills in You won't be like can't see what on that I say e 00x or xx say 232 episode I copy that paste over here. I go to lyrics. So lyrics or show notes copy Paste and if I really wanted to I do I do this a lot. I just do like some bullets here I just copy one And I just do it manually on the faster ways. Yep. Do I do them? Nope Can I hire somebody? Yep. Am I going to nope my frugal? Yep cheap. Nope Well actually That goes here All right, that's done. So what happens once this comes done? You'll see that the icon will change in a second Did it not change? Come on Really, there is it changed see how that I can change actually I can make that bigger for sure I think I can go this way So that icon changed right the problem is just the wrong it's the wrong name. So what I do is so simple I take this one I go up here Change it to Right, so now this is ready to go up to lipson If I did this if I didn't do this first I can't just set I couldn't put an epi three file But then there's nothing wrapped around it doesn't have any information except the duration of the show Right. So now I can take this to lipson. So that's right. That's what's next. Uh, Yeah, I did three editor to make sure I'm on the right track here. Yep lipson. So this should be interesting for a wi-fi. So now I will go to lipson I'll log in everyone close your eyes for a password. I'm kidding. You won't see the password lipson Wi-Fi is working pretty well sweet Change shows so I have two shows, right and in hindsight the mistake I made was My business company name was silver line productions. It doesn't I can't change it now. It's not worth it. It doesn't matter All right, so I click on this show I click on content what I do is I copy this first So you'll see what I do is I copy previous sort of the same format matches That's again consistency. I copy the name of this one. I'm going to go to content add new episode I'm going to add the media upload it From kitchen sink mp3's 232 It's uploading this could take Long time if the wi-fi's on so you know that's or it can take a switch time, which is we're doing really well right now I'm not gonna say anything okay, all right We're almost done. You see now we're close. Oh, we have 10 minutes. Hopefully this will be done in 10 minutes Close the message So this is what I'm talking about this interface that they have Not ideal, but you get used to it details. This is where I paste that title in I changed the number to 230 tubes I changed this to 232 I'll say q and a new word campers uh, birmingham 2018 Then down here, I'll take those show notes again put them in here as well I can clean this up, but it really doesn't matter. It depends on how you're using lip syn as your source or just as a reference I put it there just in case so I know what it is if I need to go back.  No artwork to put in scheduling I always click on uh, set a new release date if I hit publish now, it'll be available right now For anyone who has the fee I want I don't want it now. I want it tomorrow at 6 a.m. Eastern. So I say release date. This is going to be tomorrow and I say 3 a.m right And I just say Publish which is scary. I publish. No, no wait, but it's a scheduled publish, right? Then I grab this file And I copy it I close this window and that that link goes right there And remember you'd asked about playing in the browser. So if I use this right now, this was live Then you can hear it with just using that link if you if so if you want to get someone's show early And you kind of figure out their their syntax from you can actually sneak shows early from some producers It's kind of funny. I've done this before they don't like it. Okay Okay, so that part's done So now the next step is I need to create a blog post But before I do the blog post I need to create the art So art for each episode in this case. It's pretty basic. I'm gonna go to kitchenthinkwp.com. I want to show you something real quick So I I saved one step So this is an error in my site. This is supposed to be 275 275. It's just not pulling right So they're supposed to be this size, right? Okay, but what I do is You know, it's pretty basic how I by the way, that's my daughter. You should listen to that episode She's beautiful. Okay So awesome conversation to have with a teenage daughter about social media and if you use facebook, she's like, yeah, you're old And now she's coming. It's great. Okay, so So I need artwork that first first of four months. So I go to photoshop Actually, I have a file here. It's over here It's in this area. I have an untitled document. It has every cover I've ever done Same size every time. Okay, so I open this file up And there's that one and I duplicate the layer And I say this one's now 232 I don't I don't need to say revisiting goonberg. I'll just say it's a cute q&a p.m Should not layer off do this I don't need that image. Whoops. I don't need the image anymore I'll probably say New word camps campers I'm loving that idea, but it's okay. Hold on a second. What I did is I already grabbed this the logo from cancel cancel I grabbed the logo earlier just the png from word camp. So there it is, right? So I need to fit this in here somewhere We just put that in There we go So there it is there. Let me just do this real quick. Let me just go ahead and Do a new layer That is put that behind that layer. So now we can see it So I'll probably just leave it like that as my guess. I'm actually not going to go and worry about Having to be text. I'm just going to go with this. I think it's fine I mean the longest thing it took me when I first started the first 20 episodes I would spend two three hours on finding the perfect image Not worth it really isn't just be quick. You want to be quick again publish. Okay my opinion This is my opinion. All right. So I'm going to save this I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it again as a jpeg Save as to my desktop kswp p2 32 desktop And save it as a jpeg I actually do one more step on this image itself those clothes I go to tiny png I want to optimize the image as best I can I mean it's already small. It's 81.2 phillipines small. I need to be smaller people Now it's 17 Anybody use tiny png That's awesome site It's free. Okay. So now I can toss it on the desktop. There's one in my downloads folder. All right Five minutes. Oh five minutes. Yeah, get those done people. All right. So now I'm gonna go back to kitchen sake wp I'm gonna go to dashboard Posts all posts and again, I'm gonna do this thing where I literally copied the previous title So so I get the right format so I get the right exact idea. I want to do that Take that's fine. Let's say a new post paste that here 232 interview with Oh first time say first time word campers Y'all Take the show notes In this in this case, I actually do format it But see if I had kept in the bulls before they would just it doesn't show up, right? It messes things up for some reason Boomburg actually kind of fixed us. I did a test last week on Boomburg's post editor the way it does it The blocks changes things So bold Um bold bold See how I messed up this and I need I need to actually go this way to go turn that off again and then bold this gets a Bullet this one too Oh, I didn't link to this one. That's I have to fix that later. I'll fix that later. I'm not gonna worry about it right now This is what I'm talking about. So this file that link that there has to go not there It won't work there. It needs to go down here for to go to iTunes I verify the url. It says is it verified? Yes. So it knows it's there. It's not published yet, right? Um the excerpt is because I however reform it I take this I put this in here I press bbb bbb I haven't I did I power press that way now the player will be in that post But I'm taking power press. It's not there that we can play it in the window, right? You know to show you what I mean This is real quick. I like four minutes left. See it's playable right there If I put it if the the other plugin sends it to iTunes The power press brackets the shortcode plays it in the window plays on the website, right? It does Download yeah, yeah, okay And then most importantly the most important thing in my case is this if I don't press Podcast here is a category. It won't go to iTunes. It won't go to the fees It has to it has to happen and the next step is I pay publish when to be the sixth Yep at 305 Because I want to make sure that lipsyn's fine. I always give it a five minute buffer, right? I can now say, okay Uh say, okay scheduled, but before I do that, I have one more thing. I say set featured image Open And I say date modified two minutes left almost done Put that in there Okay, great and set featured image And schedule I can obviously preview it right Um, and then what happens that there's the other follow-up. So here's a preview. That's what's gonna look like tomorrow I could change this tonight still. I probably won't you know, I think that's totally fine Huh So I'm gonna fix that Hold on Ham Enter Yeah, I got that I got that Right update. All right. So now if I refresh this that should be fine. Anything else? I'll double check this tonight before I go to bed All right, good No, no, hold on give me a second Well exchange it. What did that? Probably my cash. It's okay. Well


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So, something I've never done before is interview someone I have, but not in my role as the Bishop of North Texas Conference. So, it's a joy to be with Susan Robb. Reverend Robb, of course, is one of the associate pastors at Highland Park. Yeah, I'm at this church and she has written a very good book on the seven last words. And the subtitle is, Listening to Christ from the Cross. And so, I'm going to visit with Susan about the book and I want to encourage you to purchase the book because I think this is a good way to be, to frame your own devotional life during the season of lands. So Susan, it's good to have you with us today. It's good to be with you, Susan. Susan, I really enjoyed writing this book and I'm grateful that you asked me to write an endorsement for it and so I read the book quickly and then I've read it again since writing that. And I'm just struck by several things. First of all, this is, I can't think of a better way in which to move through the lit and season than to focus on the seven last words. Tell me why you did that. Well, I did it for a couple of reasons. One, and I was real honored by the fact that after my last book called came out, I think Abingdon thought it did very well and they liked it. They liked the way I wrote. And so they asked if I would write a book on the seven last words of Christ. They felt like they needed one. They hadn't published one in a long time. And so they asked if I would take on that project. So I was very humbled and honored to do so. And I also, getting into the project, I got excited about it because as we know, as a minister, you know, and I know that when we're with people in their last days of life, they often will say the words that mean most to them before they die and the words they want you to most to hear and in return, those who love them want to lean in and listen because we're hoping that we hear words that are just for us and we know and hope that those are the most powerful words that we'll get from this person that's leaving our lives. Which is perhaps the reason and for the subtitle of the book. Listening to Christ from the cross.   Exactly. And the same is true, of course, for Jesus. Jesus, in his last words on the cross, the words that he thinks are most important for us to hear. All of those words reflect the way he lived his life. The way he wanted everyone to come into his kingdom. The way he loved and forgave and gave of himself fully. So the words that he ends his life with reflect, of course, the way in which he lived his life. But they are even more powerful at the end. So that being the case, is one of the words most important to you? That's interesting because, you know, as I worked and studied with all of these passages and of course, we know these aren't seven words or seven passages. I think the one that struck out stuck the most in my mind. One was, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  And I know people ask that question. Why did he feel forsaken? Well, if he's the Son of God, why would he feel forsaken by God? And yet in that moment, he, of course, feels like we did. He's fully human.  And he feels abandoned by God. And yet, if we take where this verse comes from, he's actually saying a prayer from Psalm 22. And Jesus, it opens up, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But if we take that song, that song to its biblical conclusion, we know that that song ends not in defeat but in victory. And so I love researching that and realizing that God wants us, Jesus wanted us to hear these words, not a defeat and hear this song of hope for the future and a victory in him. It's a reminder of that particular phrase, Jesus reaches deep into his own faith roots and instills living through them or out of them. And I think that's the most important piece about that particular word, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? But you've not been in ministry enough and been pastoring for a long time or I have. And that it's like, there are those occasions in which we've had to have conversations with people about why did God let this happen? And so this becomes a perfect way to speak to that. Yeah, when, you know, in Luke, Jesus from the cross cries, Father, forgive them for they do not know what they're doing. And people are in Luke's gospel especially. Everyone is around the cross taunting him. If you're the Son of God, why don't you just come off the cross?  And what I learned again as I was studying on this, this really harkens back to the temptation in the wilderness where Satan comes and says, if you're the Son of God, why don't you turn this bread, the stunts into bread?  Then people will really come to know you. They'll really believe in you. And what happens in the temptation of Christ is at the end, it says then the devil departed and told more opportune time. The cross is the opportune time. Or we hear the same language, only this time it's Satan isn't the one who is tempting Christ. It's all of those around him, the religious leaders and the crowds.  And Jesus doesn't save himself so that he can save us. I think that one of the things that in reading at this time I was reconnected again, and I mean, you know, these kinds of things mentally, but just so fully in a way about that Jesus is fully human and we tend to forget that. And that's the danger of skipping. Oh, the whole Lenten experience and then moving to Easter Resurrection Sunday.  Yeah, and that's what makes, I think that that's why it's so important for us to go through the Lenten experience. You and I have talked before this, I grew up in a family of believers, but we did not go to church often. And so when we did, it would be for the Christmas season, or it would be for Palm Sunday or Easter, all those high holy days, and they were always so exciting. And so I really enjoyed going from joy to joy to joy. But what I discovered is that going from joy to joy to joy is like eating, it's like eating dessert for every meal.  And if we go through this Lenten season and we go to the cross and we listen to what Jesus has to say to us and we see his humanity, we connect with his humanity and realize that he's been through everything that we have been through and that he relates to us, of course, as we all know, he relates to us on every level and he's overcome the worst that humanity can offer to him, the worst that we can do. He's overcome all of that so that we can overcome all of that too. So it's in his humanity, I think, where we feel the closest connection with him. And so it's important for us to be there. So there's another piece that's really important that is, we tend to think we can control everything. I mean, that we can't. I mean, we know that we get through those moments we can't. And so one of those words is, Father, in the hands I command my spirit, which is towards the end, it is finished as the end. It's like, it reflects a deep abiding trust that people have even during difficult times. Yeah.  We talked about how Jesus knew the Psalms. He sang them by the time he was a child. This into your hands, I commend my spirit was a bedtime prayer for Jewish children that Mary would have taught him when he was a child. And it too came from a Psalm and it was an extended song. So he learned this from an early age to always be willing to, like we might say at night, to teach our children. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep Jesus great every night into your hands. I commend my spirit. And he does the same thing on the cross. It's just ingrained from him as a child to trust in his father, trusting the one who created us all. So what is your hope for the book? So what's the intent? I mean, you wrote the book, you were asked to write the book. And so what are you thinking about as the end of the book, the end product? And what do you hope people do with the book? What I hope people gain from the book is, one, I hope they make this connection between these are the most important words that Jesus leaves for you, just for you and me and the world. And so it's important for us to lean in and listen to those words. And as we do, I hope people walk away with feeling this intimacy, this all, this hope, this joy, and this sense of victory that we really do gain from these words. And also our mission, Jesus reinforces our mission to, one of the last words he says is, it is finished. And in Greek, that's Teleste. And what that means, it's not just, it is finished. It is, it's as if Jesus is just saying finished, completed with an exclamation point. And it's not just that his life is completed, that his work on this earth is completed. That word in Greek means it is finished, but it has ongoing implications. I've heard Will Willamon speak of this last word, this finished or completed, as if something that Michelangelo might say when he painted the Sistine Chapel and he put the last brushstroke on that he would say it's finished, this masterpiece and it's done. I think Jesus says in these last words, it's not that just his life is ended and that his work on earth has ended, but that it has ongoing implications in us, his masterpiece, to take that work into the world. So we get his, we were given his mission in that. So there's another piece in the book that really was telling to me simply because I so admire Sister Helen Brajane and her activity, activism on the part of the death penalty. And of course the book, Dead Men Walking. And you reflect on a very important scene about that. And it reminds me is that this is really, we tend to forget that Jesus came, you know, to embrace and to tell everyone they were loved by God. And so that story in which she's meeting with Matthew and she just tells him, you're God's beloved child and it sort of is an aha moment for him. She's been working and working, trying to convince him of his worth and nothing has gotten through until this moment.  No one's ever told me that. No one's ever told me that. Can we imagine how different the world would be if everyone knew that they were a beloved child of God? I hear that, I used to be on the advisory board of new friends, new lifetimes, women get out of the sex trade industry.  And they'll say the same thing, no one ever told me that before. I never knew that. And it completely turns their life around. All of a sudden they have worth and they can see that they have worth in God's eyes and worth in our eyes. Well, I commend the book to anybody. I hope a lot of people read it. And I hope people will do some studies during Lent and pick up the book. I have my copy too. I have my copy. Seven words. And we'll have a way in which people can locate the book and we'll put that out as well. And so are you going to lead any studies with your group at church or anything? I'm going to do two studies. I'm going to start one the day before Ash Wednesday. I guess it's Tuesday night, the 16th. And I'm going to start another study on Thursday morning from 9.30 to 11th.  I'll do a study of that. But I encourage other churches to have small group ministry. I've had some ministers call me. They're going to use this as a basis for sermon series. Good for them. I started this as a sermon series in Cox Chapel last year. And then we expanded those stories and sermons into this book. And so I hope that people will do that. And that they will lean in and listen to these last words of Christ. Because I think that they are the most powerful words and some of the most important words that they'll ever hear. Well, thank you. And he wrote an excellent book. And I enjoyed reading it very much. And actually, if somebody has a study, begins a study, I may participate if you'll let me know about that. So if you'll email me and if the time works, then I'll participate in the study. I don't want to lead one. I just want to be in one. And so I think it'd be interesting, fascinating. And as I told you earlier, I've done four sermon series on this and 30 years of ministry. So I had four times during that. So it was great. So I want to thank you for your contribution to this work. And thank you for the work you've done on this. And Bishop, thank you. Thanks for having me. Tom, I'm glad to have you. It's so good to meet with you. Good to see you. Thank you. You're welcome.


Guys, welcome back to the channel. I talk about buckets all the time and you know, if you look on the surface or you catch one or two of my videos, you may not get the depth and complexity of my portfolio. I say that tongue-in-cheek because I think that when you look at investing as an independent investor, I think it really helps to break the information down. If you try to look at this thing holistically, you're probably going to be lost. You're probably going to do what most people do is resort to the services of a financial planner. It really doesn't have to be that difficult. So when I declare these portfolio makeups to you guys, and that's what we're going to do, we're going to go over the statistics on my nine, count them nine total buckets in the portfolio. Pretty impressive. I really couldn't believe it until I got into it, but we've really expanded the reach this year in 2021 and moving into 2022. I've got a few fundamental goals in the direction that I want to take this portfolio really kind of emboldened some of these other areas of the portfolio as we look to build it out and build upon what we've evolved to now over the years. I do want to stress to you guys a couple of things here. The majority of the wealth in the portfolio is comprised in tax advantaged accounts here in the Roth IRA as well as the TSP Roth. So there's a ton of different elements here and I'm going to try to highlight them for you so it can establish a framework for you guys to understand how it is that I seek my wealth in the nine buckets. First one being passive. It's the most important. It's the dominant percentage of waiting in the portfolio. The passive element takes up right on 30% of the portfolio.  You can do that. You can win with that strategy. As I've evolved with my philosophy, I've understood that a passive program, albeit as great as it can be for the masses out there, it's great in a bull market and it really doesn't give you any other options in a prolonged bear market or even during recessionary times. And I think there is some inherent value that become that much more apparent during those times of volatility. And I'll talk about that when I get into the dividends and how that's so important to be able to render some of those dividends off of the portfolio on some of those value plays, but 30% of the strategy, that's a big part of my wealth here at about 151,647 dollars. That's to the T down to the dollar amount that I've got devoted to passive investing. What was the definition of passive investing for me was either an ETF or an index fund. Very, very simple. Each and every one of the ETFs or index funds are represented in 11 sub buckets or sub strategies within passive investing. And I'll go through those 11 for you now. This is going to be like 11 stock picks in a minute. But here they are. This is how they're represented in my portfolio. VTI, talk about a lot of time, the triple cues, VINQ, which is Vanguard's real estate REIT. I own that exclusively in the Roth and then to complement it, VPU, which is the Vanguard's utilities ETF, VIG, which is Vanguard's dividend appreciation fund. I own that in my Roth. VO, which is the mid cap ETF that I've just as of late added into one of the sub accounts. I believe I hold that in Webull. It's a kind of a cool idea to go after some mid cap there and kind of build that out a little bit. VUG, which is Vanguard's growth, the thrift savings plan, which is the government sponsored. That's all index funds. They don't allow single stock investing. They've got very, very tailored down to a few options, five to be specific. And I own three of them, three index funds there in the thrift savings plan. And then the M1 sectors. I talk about this all the time, about a $20,000 bill in that, but it is just a strategic sub arm of my passive portfolio. 11 total, which makes up 30% of the total overall portfolio. That's what makes up the 151 of aggregate dollars that are invested in each of these 11 subcategories. VBK, which is Vanguard's small cap growth. And then finally, one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite ETF is to grab that S&P 500 exposure through the VOO. So that's how it shakes out. That's my passive portfolio. I think a lot of people, they may tune into the channel and they're like, geez, Ryan, you're highly on all the way. I think you'll find that when I declare the percentages to you, you're going to maybe understand a little bit more holistically as to why I do what it is that I do. The next bucket out of the nine total buckets that I've got here, some of these are going to kind of surprise you guys, but the dividend growth strategy is kind of a value type of strategy that I've got. The criteria for this is very, very simple, single stock. So the dividend growth strategy is comprised with value stocks of companies that pay a dividend and have paid that dividend for many, many years and a lot of cases, many, many decades on top of each other. That makes up my dividend growth element to the portfolio, a lot of single stock holdings there, and that comes in a close second at 28%. So if you lump the dividend strategy with the passive strategy, we're talking about just shy of 60% of my total portfolio is locked up in equities that I really don't have any reason to sell ever. Very, very simple. Furthermore, a lot of those assets are housed, both tax protected and wealth preserved in that any of these dividend stocks that I own, I pay zero in trading commissions, I pay zero in annual fees over my self-directed account, and I just enjoy being an investor. Now, I could have lumped these in with the passive type of perspective, because again, I buy these and I dividend reinvest them, and I don't sell them. I just own them. But the dividend growth strategy is actually comprised in only two sub-buckets, only two. Single stock, number one, number two is the M1 Dividends portfolio, and that's flirting with just shy of $30,000 in that portfolio. Total money amount devoted to this strategy is $137,759 down to its granular dollar amount. It's fun to be fully disclosed to you guys because I want you to understand the context around seeking that higher than average dividend growth in some of those great companies.  I did include that into this dividend category because if it met the criteria of a value stock, I went ahead and lumped it in here, having it not be considered a growth type of an arm. So out of the dividends in the passive here, we're looking at 58% total represented in the portfolio. We're almost 6 tenths of the way done, and we're in our first two categories. So the other category is significantly less exposure. And if I just earmark cash next, as one of those buckets that I put a lot of value on, right now I'm probably a little bit more cash rich than I would like to be, I guess. But for the times now that I'm in saving the cash and some of my strategic goals down the line of having some down payment money for real estate, it makes sense to have the level of cash that I do in the accounts, which is about $72,804 of cash. A lot of you guys might think that that's crazy, Ryan, you're crazy, you carry in too much cash. It might be true in the time being. And I do acknowledge that I'm probably a little more cash rich than I would want to be. But I don't think the market is a market that is conducive to being fully levered 100%. If we were at pandemic lows, it sure is nice to have those opportunities to roll back some idle cash into the portfolio on a downturn. I still think the market's trading at all-time highs, that's just me. So I do justify having some sleep-easy money in case of an emergency and to actually just add another buffer and layer. It's to-do or not to-do, I choose to-do. And a lot of people choose not to-do and they may have a few hundred bucks and they're ill-prepared to deal with an emergency situation if it comes up. But 15% of my total overall wealth is comprised right now in cash. And I do think that's a little much, but if you take the 60% in the dividend and growth and add the cash on top of it, you're talking about three-quarters of my wealth right there comprised in the first three categories of how I accumulate wealth. So we're at 75% and we're only in three out of the nine buckets that I'm going to disclose to you now on this rollout. The next one is everybody's favorite. You guys be happy to know I've got 8% of the total overall portfolio in growth.  This is your salesforce.com. Any of those companies that don't pay a dividend that's more in the growth trajectory in their specific cycle in the evolution of the company, I went ahead and threw into this section of the portfolio. So 39,823 just in the growth category. I feel like that's prudent when you declare the numbers this way and you kind of look back and say, gosh, am I over-levered in Google? Am I over-levered in Amazon? When you look at it collectively over the bucket of growth and you look at it from that perspective, I absolutely can have almost one out of every $10 that I have in my total portfolio infested in growth. So it just kind of makes sense to be honest with you. So 8% there were up to about, that's 83% of the total portfolio represented. And we start to get into some of the subcategories in the portfolio that although they are significantly less, they are worth disclosing to you guys because as time goes along, I expect that these will grow and these will mature over time and they will absolutely render the strategic benefit that I put them in place to do. That is the kids account. I've got both college accounts, 529s and UTMAs comprised for each of my children. Okay. Now I do have other checking and savings established to them already. They've got the independent investor as their dad. So this is just how it shakes out some serious wealth in there, especially on the college side of the house. We're talking about an aggregate of about 24,000, just over 24,000 of college dollars and UTMA, which is Uniform Transfer to Minors Act and its accounts established for them as a gift to get to gift to them when they reach the vesting age, depending on where we're domiciled at the time, either 18 or 21. But 24,000 in that represents 5% of the portfolio. 5% of the portfolio, man, I gift to my kids. It is part of the bottom line. 5% out of a half a million dollars is a pretty significant amount of money there. But that's what we're working with there, and 24,000 there. The next couple here I will declare to you is an interesting one. This is the one that anybody's always interested in. And I could roll out a video just on this speculation section. Everybody's really interested in the highly on. As of late, there's some of my most popular videos when they turn into the channel, but I really think it's going to benefit even the highly on holders to understand my goodness, Ryan's just declared 83% of the portfolio and he's yet to talk about highly on what gives. Gosh, I thought his entire portfolio was in that stock. This is not true. When you look at it in context, this is wealth building and its granular level. And it really helps you understand that there are different layers in the portfolio as you build and mature these out over time. And it becomes quite complex. But at the same time, you know, a Ferrari engine is going to run like a Ferrari engine. And this is what it takes to kind of master this craft is to appreciate that your portfolio doesn't have to be comprised in a one fund fits all type of application. It doesn't have to fit that way because there will be elements of this portfolio that outperform when those tried and true methods that the fundamentalists want to preach about all the time are maybe lagging a little bit.  You know, it's amazing how I can get a real run up and growth. And if I take some profit off the table, I can roll that into passive. Whereas if you just go passive all the time, well, you're stuck either with the appreciation or the depreciation in the market just makes sense to me. And plus I like a little bit more dynamic application with my profile. The speculation, we're talking here 62,326. This is your so fies of the world. This is where Hylian is comprised in this specific application, 12%. 12% is where I've gotten and 12% now if I looked at the market total overall, I would say that the market is overvalued. But some of these speculation companies have really come off and the value proposition is screaming. I would contend that a lot of these are in oversold categories. And, you know, it kind of begs the question, should you have some of these in some of these companies that, you know, a lot of people will say, well, don't touch them. You'll never make any money. I beg to differ. I've made a lot of money with growth and a lot of money with speculation over the years. So, you know, to say that it's just absolutely futile and you will absolutely lose, I think it's shortsighted. I really do. And I think it really benefits individuals if they can look at the holistic application of the stock market. If you want to take the easy passive road the rest of your life, you can totally do that. Absolutely. But you may be given up a little opportunity there by putting a little more risk on the table and realizing exponentially a much larger return. Do it in scale? Like I said, 12%. And a lot of that is tied up right now in a very large position in highly on holdings. About 50,000 of those dollars are tied up in that holding right now. But 12%, nonetheless there in that specific element. So, the rest of the buckets here are significantly less. I've covered the big buckets. But the final three that I want to talk about in probably order of precedence is the bond portfolio, which is only a quarter point in the portfolio. Very, very small, just $1,162 in the bond portfolio. I'll roll that out exclusively to show how I seek that exposure to the short, intermediate, long and extended duration bonds both on the government, debt side and the corporate debt side. I do that through the Vanguard ETFs. It renders about a 3% dividend.  Like I said, it does render 3%. You're going to beat any savings account out there by going ahead and putting a little bit of capital to risk in the bond portfolio. The second is the crypto element. And the crypto is just about a half a percent, even less, about four tenths of a percent in the portfolio. This is comprised of five different holdings within that crypto portfolio. There's some Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, some Shibu Unu, as well as some Litecoin in there as well. A very speculative level of, I don't even want to call it investing, but I do own that in a Roth IRA. So if that does run away from me and actually materialize over time, it could be a very, very powerful asset in that I can transfer those profits from my existing crypto IRA into my self-directed Roth IRA and maybe look to leverage some of that crypto profit into some of the value plays. If it doesn't happen, no big deal. It's a very, very speculative element to the portfolio. I put that in there. I was very much willing to see the fluctuation go up and down and I'm perfectly comfortable with that. The last bucket that I'll talk about, and it's worth mentioning, is about 1.5 percent of the portfolio. And that is tied up in options for the majority of this in long calls. I didn't talk about the premiums that I collect on some of the cash secured puts, contracts that I write. It was kind of insignificant because the contracts that I write are only rendering me a few hundred dollars of premium. I write those for about 30 days on an average, but the long call options, I do have a fairly interesting amount, $7,427 wrapped up in some call options. Most of these are highly on call options, leaps, which are long call options. Most of them into 2024. Those are the optimal premiums right now or multiple year of expiry that you can get into on those options contracts. That's the portfolio, as it shakes, guys. Nine total buckets. I've given you some sub categories in each of these buckets, but 2021 will close out half a million bucks total in the portfolio, $505,000. Closing it out self-directed investing is very, very real. I'm one of the very, very few people that talk about it and how many people come on and talk about how complex of a portfolio that I just declared to you. I mean 11 total ETFs just within my passive bucket, 75% of my wealth is tied up in cash dividend growth strategy and passive with a few more dynamic applications. Guys, it doesn't get any better than this, man. It's investing is what I do. Love to teach that general fundamental framework of how to construct the portfolio. Hope you got some benefit out of it, guys. And I'll leave your comments at the bottom of the video, share the message, subscribe to the channel. If you enjoy the message coming through, guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the portfolio fundamentals from 2021. I'm super stoked on how it shook out, guys. Thanks again for tuning in and good luck in your investment future.