Hey everybody, JR Fisher here. I'm trying to get my screen up here. Say hello to everybody and do me a favor. If you can hear me, would you post in that chat section say, yep, I can hear you or loud and clear or something like that. Morad Amen, what's going on? How are you doing, buddy? Good to see you here. But do me a favor guys, post in that chat section there. I would really appreciate it if you would do that. That way I know you can hear me and we're gonna get into some really cool stuff today.  Gift cards, look at this, check this out guys. Gift cards, I'm gonna be giving out gift cards. So that's pretty cool, I think. But I wanna make sure you can hear me. So just put in there, I can hear you. I got good, everyone, I got good evening. But can you hear me? That's the thing, can you hear me? I don't know, maybe I need to turn up my volume here. We can hear you, okay, cool, cool, cool. We can see you, you can see and hear me. Oh my God, I've done something right here. This is amazing, it's amazing, I've done something right.  I live actually in San Diego in Scripps Ranch, if you know where that's at, Scripps Ranch. But I'm building a house in Austin, Texas right now because the taxes are crazy, they're crazy, crazy. And Austin's got pretty good weather so we're gonna be going there. This Roblox Acoustic is there an apple. Is there an apple? Oh, apple card, I don't know. We're gonna find out in a second. Here's the receipt, just paid for all of these here so you can see them, all these gift cards are paid for. Here's what you gotta do for these, nothing. I'm just gonna give you the code.  The page link is right there on the screen right now, guys, do you see that? It's BIT.ly forward slash gift card JR. You want to go to that page now because you wanna have it off to the side where you can click to it because the first people that put in these gift card numbers are gonna get the gift card, okay? Now some of these things like, I don't know, Burger King or Target, you gotta have a Burger King or Target account, they're free. You just sign up for one, do it real quick. You may wanna do that off to the side now. I'm also gonna be asking you guys to give me questions. Now I've had a lot of people PM me a lot of questions but put it in that chat section there because I'm gonna answer all your questions to give you a little background on me if you don't know me. I've been selling online since 2009. We've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. I have courses, I have survival foods, and I've done coaching, all kinds of different stuff but I'm not here to sell you any of that today. I'm here to answer your questions and I wanna see you quit your job. That was the most exciting thing for me when I was able to just go in and say, I'm out.  You're not gonna tell me when I could leave.  You're not gonna tell me anything anymore because I worked for myself. And that's a really exciting thing. Let's see here, other people live in other country. Yep, what about the Amazon money? I don't know what I've got there yet and you're right about the other country thing and thanks so much for bringing that up. Just Roblox, I can promise you I'm gonna do another one of these and I'm gonna have Amazon, eBay and all those other things because some of these don't work in your country and I apologize for that, I wasn't thinking. So thank you for telling me that really. That's super important. But we're gonna have a great session today no matter what. Now I'd like to be able to get my screen up here. Let me see if I can share my screen here because I wanna show you guys a couple things here before we get into all this question and answer. I'm gonna pull down my picture, okay. And I should be down in the corner here and I'm gonna pull up another page for you guys to go to. It's that link right there that you see on the screen, the BIT.ly forward slash gift card, JR. It's all gift card JR at the end there, okay. And like I said, I do apologize for not having stuff in other countries. I wasn't thinking, I will get that done. Matter of fact, you'll have the majority of that next time. Okay, so now I'm gonna go to desktop and I'm gonna click okay and hopefully you can see, let's see here the page that we're gonna end up on which is right here. Let me make sure this gets up on the screen here real quick guys. When you go to that link that BIT.ly forward slash gift card JR, this is the page you're gonna end up on. And I wanna show you how to do this because last week we had, can you do iTunes and Google and Visa? Yes, I will. I will make sure all those are in there. Last week, some of people didn't understand how to do this and they didn't get their gift card as quickly. So I wanna make sure you do, and I'm gonna have something to scrape with. Oh, I can scrape with another gift card. I got another gift card here. I got a pile of them I just gave away. These are the ones I just gave away that people won right here. Okay, so they won all these right here. Okay, so yeah, when you click for that link guys, you're gonna end up at this page right here. Now I'm trying to stop people who are bodying and spamming me and that's, you know, you're gonna get that. You're gonna get that. Those things happen, okay. So what I did is I put up this little kind of block page where you got opt in to get to the next page. Now the next page you're gonna go to will be this. This is where you're gonna enter your gift card numbers. Okay, it says go to the link below to enter your gift card number and claim your cash. Now some of these, okay, are gonna not be listed under there as to what it is. Like this one here is like Macy's and Ulta and Red Lobster and Lowe's and Chili's and GameStop and PF Chang's, but you're gonna go to happy holidays, I think it is. Let me see where it is on here. Happy cards gift card, if you see it down here. So once you click there, let me show you what's gonna happen.  So don't necessarily look for Macy's because Macy's is listed under this happy cards thing right here, okay. Same thing with this Olive Garden one. So if I click the one that says Olive Garden, let me let this thing load, it's a little bit slow. Whereas if I click the one that says Olive Garden, it also has all the other restaurants and let me show you that card here too. And this one by the way is $15 to $100. But this one has Olive Garden, Longhorn Ranch, a whole bunch of different other ones here. It's got Bahama Breeze, Yardhouse Cheddar, Seasons 22. So when you click on that Olive Garden one, you can get to all these other restaurants that this card is good for, okay. So I wanna take some of your questions and do me a favor before I give one of these out, give me a couple questions, okay. I gotta get questions first or I don't give out gift cards, that's the rule, okay. Cause you're really here to learn. I mean these gift cards are great, but I would rather show you how to make this much an hour or this much every 10 minutes. This morning I woke up and I made thousands of dollars and it was a really good feeling. And these gift cards here, these are nice, these are nice, these hold your attention, okay. These hold your attention. However, the ability to earn thousands and thousands of dollars is really what we wanna do. So now I'm gonna go back over here to my screen so you guys can just see me. And you know how to redeem these. If you have any questions, put that in there. But I need questions before I give out gift cards. That's the rule, all right. So you guys gotta give me questions first because this is really about learning. This isn't about 15 bucks. This is about thousands or millions of dollars, okay. That's what this is about. And I wouldn't have thought that I could have made that money when I started out. But you know, I was able to. And I wanna share this with you guys. Guys, this is free to you.  I wanna give you the knowledge you need to make money. Now, some people buy my courses once they see my training. That's not what this is about today, okay. This is all about you. So you could ask me any questions you want. I normally charge 2000 an hour for consulting. You don't have to pay me anything, okay. All you guys just ask questions. So I mean, that's a pretty cool deal. And not that I'm all that great or anything. I just figured some stuff out. Quite honestly, once I show you these things, guys, you can do the same thing. I'm no different than you. We're no different. Doesn't matter what country you're in. Doesn't matter what your background is. Doesn't matter how old you are. Doesn't matter what race you are. Doesn't matter. None of this matters online, guys. And so many people will send me a message and go, well, I'm in India. Can I make money? Of course you can. Well, I'm 15 years old. Can I make money? Of course you can. Well, I'm 78. Can I make money? It doesn't matter. It doesn't, the internet don't care, okay. So let me check some of these questions here. How do you often, do you make live? You know, I went live twice last week and this is the first time, I guess the end of this week is the first time I did it. But guys, this channel here, subscribe to the channel. Hit that subscribe button down there because I do a video every single day. You get five videos a week plus one of these lives. And don't forget, oh yeah, ring the bell, okay. Turn on your bell notification. Let me get this microphone out of the way. Turn on your bell notifications because when you do that, I will be able to let you know as soon as I do a new video. So that's about how often I go live. If you want me to go live more, you gotta tell me. I don't know. I don't know what you guys want. So put that in the chat section right there. Which of your businesses would you say is the best to go into with limited funds and experience? And that's from Jerry Clements. Jerry, first off, I wanna thank you for putting a comment in there. It really matters to me. And I would tell you, when I started out, I started with a hundred bucks. Look, I didn't have a lot of money.  I know that sounds like cocky, but I mean, we'll spend that just on some of the supplies we need. My survival food that we manufacture. We have one of the largest survival food companies in the US. And we do millions of dollars with that product. And I literally fell into it. I did not know what I was doing. Okay, I literally fell into that. But the way you fall into this stuff, guys, is you just start, just start something. So your original question, let me circle back around to that. If you've got limited funds, I would think the best thing you can do nowadays is affiliate marketing. I love affiliate marketing. I am on both ends of the spectrum on that. And what I mean by that is I actually have affiliates that sell my products, digital and physical, because I have courses and those are of course digital products. Then I have physical products, which I have people that sell those products that's survival cave food. And let me put that in the chat here, in case you guys wanna look that up. You search survival cave food and you're gonna get about 23 million hits. Let me put it in here. And I'm slow typist, so I hope you guys bear with me. Don't give me a hard time here. I'm slow. Let's see here. I'll put search this. Search this. There. Okay, and search that on Google and you'll see it. So let's see here. Affiliate marketing is your business? Not, yes and no. I mean, I do a lot of things. I have my products that I drop ship for other people. So we manufacture, we have a warehouse, we ship out those products. But you know what? I mean, that company brings me a lot of money, but I don't even need it now because we have so many other digital products and so many other things going on that's really exciting for me, guys. I mean, it's really kinda unbelievable what this has grown into. But I would suggest if you're just getting into a do affiliate marketing, you can go to clickbank.com, set up an account. Pretty much every country in the world, there's a couple you can't do it with. However, there's ways around that too. And just set up a clickbank account and find a product that's already selling in there. And once you find that product that's selling, you can just market it. I mean, it's already there. They've already got sales letters, they got stuff that converts, they know it works. You can make money. I mean, it's that simple. Running into Christmas, Richard Brown, what's up, Richard? Running into Christmas, best products for Ecom. Now, I will tell you, we're getting really close to Christmas. So if you're planning on doing drop shipping through something like AliExpress, which you can do, you don't have to invest anything in inventory. I have some videos on my channel about that. It shows you how to set up all that. But understand that can take four or five weeks for something to get to somebody. So that takes you a little bit more time. So I would think Christmas stuff, you may want to start marketing your courses. A lot of people say, well, of course, I can't gift that. Yeah, you can. I mean, you can gift a course on survival. You can gift a course on exercise. You can gift a course on hunting, on fishing, on woodworking. I mean, you got a click bank and you can make some great Christmas offers with digital products because you can deliver them instantly. You don't have to come up with a product, which is pretty cool. How do you keep track of all your affiliate accounts? I create an Excel spreadsheet, but it's complicated. Loobie review, mom. Let me see here. Let me tell you which I gotta hit. I gotta hit this one right here.  And I didn't use it at first and I finally set it up. I'm so glad I did. But I use share a sale now. Share a sale is pretty amazing. What I did with share a sale is I put my survival food products there. And I think within the first hour, I had made 800 bucks. Now it cost me like 500 to set up the account. I'm not gonna tell you share a sales cheap. But the other thing you can do at share a sale, if you don't have a product, you can look for other products to market in there. A lot of people run like coupon sites or something and they'll say, well, you know, we'll grab a coupon for some other product, whether it's food or clothing or whatever. And when people click on it and it goes to that particular page, share a sale is gonna pay you a commission. And that's pretty cool. You can do that. Richard, great to be back. Yes, yes, yes it is. Many thanks for the courses. No problem, buddy. And let me look here, 32 days to Christmas. Yes, that's very true. Somebody's smart. Somebody can calculate that. Your advice to get traffic. My advice to get traffic is not what you would probably think.  So you may see me bugging you on YouTube. You're gonna get pixeled from watching me. But I would say give out free content. You know, me doing for these free videos right here gets me a lot of people who are interested in who I am, what I do. You know, some people buy survival food from me. Some people buy my courses. And I've got, excuse me, I've got courses in drop shipping, e-com, setting up Shopify stores, Facebook ads, I have a lot of different courses. And a lot of people will find me here and then end up, you know, buying one of my courses. Now some don't, and that's okay. I'm not doing this to make any money. It just kind of happens. So my best advice is to start building a brand. If you want to market stuff and you want to get traffic, let people know who you are.  Why not? It's free nowadays. I mean, it's free. This doesn't cost me anything to train you guys, which is pretty cool. And I'm getting ready to get to the gift cards too. We're already decorating.  You should be, Jess Roblox. It's time. How do you define survival products? I didn't know a lot about it. Well, survival products is a lot. Survival is basically, and we've all seen this because of the pandemic. And guys, I actually wrote the book called The Great American Food Shortage. And I'll put that in there. Let's see. Look up on Amazon. And let me see here. Terrible typing, guys. Great American Food Shortage. Now, I wrote this book because I felt like there could be a pandemic one day. And there was.  You're insane. There's not gonna be a pandemic. Let me put that in there. So you can look up that book that I wrote that book. I wrote that book in 2016 because I felt like it could happen. Now, the original question of off track is what is survival products? Okay, so when a pandemic happens, what did you need? You needed food and water. That's certainly important. But maybe you needed flashlights and maybe you needed shovels and maybe you needed paracords and maybe all of these ancillary things that go along with surviving a bad situation you're gonna need. You maybe need candles. So there's so many different products that you can sell in the survival niche. Now, we don't sell that many other products and every now and then we will. We pretty much just, we're so busy with our survival food that it's kind of hard to actually sell some of these other products. However, our foods do great and if we had the time, I would probably add a bunch of survival products, saws and all kinds, this is all kinds of stuff. If you just Google survival niche and types of products, man, you'll find thousands and thousands of them. So that's a really good one. Let's see, is blogging still a good option these days? 100%. I'm blogging right now. Now, they call it vlogging because I'm talking but I can take one of these videos that I do and I can have it transcribed over at rev.com that's r-e-v.com into words. And then I can take those words and upload it to my site and boom, I've got a blog and I've got a vlog. Okay, so yeah, blogging is great. If you have a cool niche that you like and people are coming to your page and they're reading it, the other thing you can do is run native ads which means there's gonna be ads off to the side. When people click on it, you make money. You can run affiliate links in there. So you could write a blog on a bunch of different survival items and you could take and put a whole lot of Amazon links in there that go over to a survival item. When people buy them or they buy anything else within 48 hours, you get paid. So blogs are great. Yeah, that's a great question. Let's see, let me see what other questions we got in here. And guys, hit me with your questions, okay? Just don't stop, you know, I want questions. I want questions here. Somebody's also sending me a message and they're saying, how do you get money off your channel? There's a lot of ways you get money off your channel. And, you know, I think they're specifically talking about like running ads on your channel. Like, when this started out today, I saw an ad on my own live and I was like, ah, it's irritating. But then again, it's cool because I'm getting paid. Oh, speaking of getting paid, I'm gonna get right back to this. I wanna give away gift cards. You guys, you haven't said anything about gift cards. There's a target one right there, that's cool. Okay, so I'm gonna hold up a couple different ones. You tell me which one you want.  All right, so, and guys, I really hear you about having something in other countries. I miss that, but I'll get some Amazon ones and I'll get some eBay ones. So I've got Burger King here. This is $15 to $100 right here. This is $15 to $100. And I want you to put in the chat section, what do you want? It's Burger King or it's Target, Target, okay? That's $15 to $500, $15 to $500. Now, put in there which one you want. Jess Rublox says happy, I don't know if you're talking about a happy gift card. We're gonna do these two first. So just put in there which one you want. If you want Target, put in Target. If you want Burger King, put in Burger King. And I'll put it in there. Somebody else's low. Pick something I got by hand, okay? Make it easy for you. Pick something I got by hand here. So we've got both of these here. Just put in that chat section. I want Burger King, I want Target. And however many votes I get for that, that's the first one I do. I haven't got a bunch of them I'm gonna do though.  Morad says, I love you from first video. I saw you and very nice of you, very cool. Jess Rublox says he can't use Target, okay?  And I'll have some more in just a second. But right here, look at these cards. I cannot use Target, I got that one. I'm gonna pick one if you don't. Guys pick one of these, Target or Burger King. Target or Burger King, okay? Somebody take it, somebody take this, okay? Somebody take this. I just gotta know which one you want and I'll start scratching. That's all I gotta know, that's all I gotta know. I think blogging is still okay. Yes it is, it's great, blogging is awesome. Okay, so I had somebody PM me as Burger King. Does everybody else want Burger King? Or somebody else with Target, what do you want? Tell me what you want. Man, all of that I can't use. I know Morad, I know, I know, I know. Don't beat me up too bad.  I'm gonna have some for you, I'm listening to you. I hear you, I'll make it happen. Target, somebody says Target, okay. All right, we'll do Target. My movie review mom, I remember you, I remember you. Okay, so here's the card and this is Gently Scratch to Redeem and Check Balance. Oh, this is also gonna tell you the balance of the card. So let me get something to scratch with here. So I'm gonna Gently Scratch. Okay, I'm Gently Scratching right now. This is me Gently Scratching. All right, if you can hear, ooh, there's the number. There's the number, I see it. Okay, now remember you need to go to that link I gave you. It's on the screen, it's on the screen there. And I'm gonna also read this out if you can't see it, but right now I just wanna scratch it. For those of you who are quick, you wanna get ready. You wanna get ready, cause it's getting ready to happen. Let me give you this card number, ooh, I see it. I see it, let me get this stuff all over my carpet here. Okay, there is the gift card. Oh, it's a little blurry. It should, there it is. It looks like<PHONE_NUMBER>. 0-0-0-6-9-9. Then you're gonna need to enter this access number, which is 311-41744, okay? And you know what I'm gonna also do? I'm gonna put it into the, right, I'm gonna put it into, what's Roblox asking for? Would like happy later. Is that the happy card Roblox? If that's what you mean, put that in there. I wanna make sure I do the right thing for ya. Okay, so I'm gonna put this target card, and I'll put it in the chat here, is, and when you get it, post in here that you got it. 041-222, whoo, this is tiny. 222-098098, 0-0-0-0-6-9-9. 0-0-0-0-0-0-6-9-9, 6-9-9. And then we've got the access number, number number, which number symbol there it is. Access number is 311-41744, okay? So guys, you see that in there? There's the target one, I just wanna verify it, 041-222-098-0-0-0-0-6-9-9. Access number 311-4174, there it is. Let me let that camera, there it is. You see it? You got that? Okay, let me know when you get this, okay? So other people don't keep trying to go to that page. Let me know when you get this. You do have to have a target account to get this one right here. And Roblox, okay, yeah. So you want the happy card next? All right, I'll do that one next. Roblox is kind enough to ask me questions, so he's gonna get what he wants and he's gonna get some more of the cards too, I'm sure. But where's the happy card? Happy card, happy card, where's our happy card? This one goes here. Okay, this is the happy holidays card right here, guys. Okay, now this one here is Macy's, Ulta, Lowe's, Chili's, Red Lobster, GameStop, and P.F. Chang's, okay? So when you go to that bit.ly gift card and you opt in, you wanna go to the one that says happy cards, happy cards, okay? Then you can redeem this one here and hit me with a couple questions. Oh, somebody just got it, movie review mom, got it. Thank you, $15 on target, yeah, you're so happy. Awesome, awesome, you got it, cool, cool, cool. And guys, these are real, okay? So there's your proof right there. Some people say, are these really real? Can you really just give away money? Yeah, I can, I can do whatever I want. So I wanna give away money. Okay, so this is gonna be the next one up, guys. This is your happy holidays cards. Once again, Macy's, Ulta, Lowe's, Chili's, Red Lobster, GameStop, P.F. Chang's. Now, I'm gonna give this away as soon as I get a couple great questions about making money online, because that's what this is about. This is to keep you here, but this training is to get you out of your job, okay? So that you can make some money. So I wanna get a couple good questions in here, couple good questions about growing your business online. And then I'm gonna give you this number right here, which is covered right now. See, it's all covered because it hasn't been used yet. But I'm getting ready to give it to you. Get ready to give you this card. I want questions in there about business, okay? I wanna get you on the right track. I want you to learn how to make money. I want you to get away from your boss, okay? Don't you wanna do that? I mean, I know I did. Don't you wanna do that? I mean, even if they're nice, mine was not nice, by the way. But, you know, even if they're nice, it's just nicer to work for yourself, it really is. So put some good questions in there. Moving Review Mom, give me a question. Are you growing your channel? What's happening with your channel? How do you wanna do it? Now question, out of all your businesses, which one is the most profitable online? Well, I'm gonna have to say my survival food company right now. Now that's not because the other ones aren't great. They are. But I started that in 2010. I started online in 2009. Notice in 2009, I didn't say anything about making money because I didn't. I had to learn. But that's been around since 2010. And it's just done millions and millions and millions in sales. And obviously we're in a pandemic now, so people are buying it like crazy. We have a weight of about, I think it's six to eight weeks when you order now. You can go to our webpage at survivalcayfood and check that out. But that's my most profitable. But the other ones are growing. And the one thing I knew, and I'm gonna continue to do, is I'm gonna continue to add new streams of cash. Like, I'm gonna add my courses, okay? My channel got monetized the other day, right here. And I gotta tell you, when I first started selling online, the first thing I sold, I was a single dad and I sold something. And I'm so excited. My kids were in the living room. I came running out of bed where I'm like, I sold something, I made some money, I made some money. And they were like, really? How much did you make? And I said, $10. And they were like, oh, well, you know, our allowances are more than that. I'm like, that's not the point. The point is I sold something. I was able to sell something. So the other day I got monetized. And my first day I made $5.29 on my YouTube channel. Now you say, well, $5 share. That's nothing. Yeah, but you know what? In the past 11 days, it's up to $73 at 11 days. Now you say, well, that's not much money. It's not, but here's the point guys. If you can start making some money and it's going up, what words are gonna go to? I know people who make 30, 40, 50,000, 100,000 a month just off ads on their channel. So although my survival food company is my most profitable now, I can't say that's gonna be that way of the future because all these other things are growing. My courses are growing. I'm not doing the coaching anymore because I still have time for that. But that was very profitable. I mean, my last client paid me over $60,000 for 90 days. And I did a couple of calls a week. That's it. So some of these things can be tremendously profitable. They really can. But anyhow, I wanna get back to this card here. This is the holidays card. Okay, I wanna scratch this off and give this to you guys. Where is it? Where is it? I'm gonna do this with my finger, the only thing. Yeah. Yeah, oh, there it is. There it is. It's not coming off easy. See, it's kind of like, it's like tearing in pieces. But I've almost got it. And make sure you're at that page so that you can, let's see, it is if you're getting money daily. Yes, it's so nice to get money daily. I like getting money daily. I've already gotten money today. A lot of money today, which is nice. Ooh, this is kind of messy here. These sticker things, they used to be, you could just scrape them off because these stickers are ridiculous. All right, okay, I think I got it. I think I gotta let it clean up this desk later. Yeah, I think you guys can see this. It's kind of small, but let me just wipe it a little bit more here. Okay, so this is the holiday card, guys. This one here is 20, this one here is $20 to $500. So the worst you can do on this one is 20. The best you can do is $500. Serious money, okay, guys. And here's the card, you ready? Ready? Did you see it? Did you get it? No, you didn't get it. Okay, I'll quit messing with you. All right, here it is, here it is. All right, all right. Let's try to hold my fingers in the way. It's hard to get this thing to focus. There it is. It's 44361-36450-915234. And you're gonna need this code here. It's 520. Now this one is good through 629. Okay, so this is good for nine years. All right, 44361-36450-915234. The CVV2 code is 520. Does everybody see that? Did we get that? Let me know when you get it. Okay, let me know because I wanna put that, I'm also gonna put this in the chat here. This is the happy card. I'll just put it in a happy card. Okay, for those of you who can't see it, I wanna put this in here so you can see it. And it is 44361-36450-915234. 45361-36450-915234, 915234, and then CVV2 code is, 520-915234, 915234, and then CVV2 code is... I'm trying to find the little, the dot things. There it is, there it is. is 520, 520. Let me know when you get that. Okay, let me know when you get that. That's the happy card. That's this card here, okay? And it's good at Lowe's, Alta, Chili's, Macy's, GameStop, PF Chang's, and Red Lobster, okay? So it's right there. So that's asking for a longer pen than the CID number. That's, there it is right there, guys. So make sure you just put that in. That will work. There it is, that's on the back of the card right now. So if you didn't put that in correctly, you'll miss it. There you go. Maybe you gotta put it in CVV2, I'm not sure. There it is. All you gotta do, just for blocks, is go to happy cards and you can put this one in. So put that in there. If you get that card, I wanna know in the chat section there. Give me some more questions. Give me a couple more questions. I don't have much more time, because I gotta go to work. What, Saturday? Yes, still gotta work. It's definitely gotta do. I can't get stuff I'm working on. So let me know a question you got. Are you working on your channel? Are you working on a website? Are you trying to figure out products? Are you trying to get traffic? Are you trying to do ads? What are you trying to do that you need help with? You can either ask me here or you can hire me at two grand an hour. No, I'm just kidding. I'm too busy. But when I was doing that, that's what I'd get, okay? So ask in here those questions, guys. You don't have to pay me anything. It's free right now. Just do it, do it, do it, do it, okay? Ask me those questions right now. It's really, really super important that you do that, all right? And I will be happy to answer them. Somebody's also saying, how did you start a survival food company? I didn't, to be honest with you. I started selling cell phone cases and I failed miserably, miserably had it. But I learned how to list products on eBay. I learned how to buy some products. I learned how to set up PayPal accounts. And from there, I sold some camping products. After I sold my camping products, some company asked me to sell their survival food. I started to sell their survival food and they couldn't deliver anymore on a bunch of orders I took. So I came up with my own survival food and that's how I started a survival food company. It was just all by accident. And you know what, guys? The same thing will happen with you. You just start something. You know, just start something. This drives me nuts when people try to figure out the exact way to do it. The biggest killer for everybody is perfection.  You're gonna make mistakes. I screw up all the time. But if you're doing stuff constantly, some of the stuff just works. That's how it works out. How to be good at copywriting. I think that's a great question. Dog on it, that's a great question. Here's the truth about selling online. It's not the product, okay? It's the marketing. The marketing is what sells it. There's a lot of good copywriting books out there. But what I would suggest you do, if you wanna look for like great headlines, go to a store that has a bunch of magazines and look at the headlines of those magazines. Those people are amazing copywriters. They get your attention. They make you wanna open that magazine. Look at some of these trash magazines and just look at some of the headlines they put on there. Take your smartphone, take pictures of them, go back home and look at all those and think about how you can convert those to your product, okay? And a lot of them are list or numbers. Like seven ways to lose 10 pounds in only five days. Eight ways to improve your tennis game that won't take you all day to learn. So it's like X without Y. That's what you wanna do is X without Y. How to get this accomplishment without having to do this. And what you do is you write a whole bunch of different titles like that. How to lose seven pounds without cutting out all the foods you love. How to lose seven pounds without having to exercise every day. How to lose seven pounds without changing your dietary habit. Or how to lose seven pounds and still eat pasta. So it's that X, Y thing. How to X without Y. And if you write some titles like that, and the more you do it, the better you'll get. If you just keep testing different ones. Take action, yes. Take that step. Very, very important. Affiliate stuff, affiliate stuff is great. I love affiliate stuff. Affiliate offers are good. You can go to share sale. You can go to commission junction. There's so many JV zoo, click bank. There's so many of them. If you don't wanna do a product. There's people who don't do products. There's people who've made millions of dollars and they've never sold or created their own product ever because they just find products out there that are going well. They build a list. They have some opt-in page. If they're selling weight loss, maybe they have an opt-in page and it's seven ways to lose weight. People opt in to get their free download and then they've got their name on a list. Once they've got their name on a list, they can go find an affiliate offer, email those people or target those people and say, hey, here's a course of how to lose weight for 19 bucks. But that course may lead into a $49 continuity. It may lead into a $1,000 coaching call and you find those things on click bank. You can go to click bank and find these offers right now. You can do that. I'm getting ready to wind down here. I feel like you guys have been really good. You've been really good for me today. I really appreciate you being here. I appreciate you participating in this. I'm gonna be giving away more gift cards. We just run out of time here. I've got these to get rid of. Hey, do me a favor. Everybody on this call. Put in there the best time and day that you'd like to see a coaching call. The best time and day you'd like to see a coaching call. The more I figure out when you guys wanna listen to this, the easier it'll be for me to get you the information. So just put in there, Saturdays are great or Sundays are great, a daytime, nighttime, whatever. Put in here so I can, I'm gonna adjust my schedule for you. That's what I'm gonna do. How do you invest your money in stocks, real estate? Yes, I do invest my money in stocks, real estate. I love stocks. I think they're really cool. Many, many, many, many years ago, I was a stock broker. I was terrible at it. It wasn't my thing because I didn't like sitting on the phone all day. But I did learn how to figure out some stocks and kind of read some of the news and figure out what's gonna happen. I bought Tesla when nobody thought Tesla was worthwhile. I paid $137 a share for it. They got up to almost $1,000 a share then it split five to one. I think as of yesterday it was about 500 bucks a share, but understand I got five shares for every one I bought. So my $137 investment Tesla alone is now worth $2,500. Not bad, okay? Not bad. But another thing I did a few months ago is I was reading about Moderna, a drug company in Pfizer and they were working on vaccines for coronavirus. And I bought some of their stock and lo and behold, this past week, they both came out that they're gonna have vaccines ready and I'm making money on both of those. So I would say if you wanna do that, Movie Mom Saturday mornings is good. Everybody else let me know or else I'm gonna do everything what Movie Mom tells me to do. She's pretty cool. But you gotta kinda just listen to stuff guys. I think too often we go through the day and we've got these blinders and we got the kids, we got work, we got dinner, we got TV shows, we got all this. Sometimes you just need to stop and look around and go, what's around me? What's going on in the world right now? You know, what's happening? What's gonna change? What direction are we going? Did I know there were gonna be a pandemic? I felt like it when I wrote the book in 2016. I didn't know if it'd be in my lifetime. I just felt like it. So I wrote a book like it. The Great American Food Shortage. I put it in the comments there. Great American Food Shortage. You can find it on Amazon. Not trying to sell you a book but you know, if you just stop and look around we had all the makings for this situation. Now that Great American Food Shortage also talks about terrorism, civil unrest, all these things, but we've had all of those. We've had all of those in just about every country. So I wrote a book on it and now the book's pretty popular because people are going, oh, he was right. He's not insane. He's not crazy. And it wasn't even an insane thing. It was just something I thought about. Which social media sites have you found to be the most effective for you? That's a great question. That's a really good question. I'm gonna tell you ones that I'm moving away from. That would be Facebook. I don't like the censorship there. I don't like the politics there. I don't, there's many things I don't like about Facebook. I think it's very time consuming. I think it's very hard to grab people's attention. I think the ads are very expensive right now. Not that they aren't great.  I have a course called Facebook Ads University and they're there and you can make money. However, I think YouTube is one of the best right now. Now I'll tell you why YouTube is one of the best because you can get to know somebody.  If I'm just posting Instagram picture, you don't really get to know me, okay? Now I know you can do little movies and short ones on here, but I can talk on here for a half hour, an hour, 45 minutes, whatever. You can actually get to know me. You can ask me questions. It's really hard to do that kind of stuff on Instagram or Twitter. You just can't do it. Not that they are good. Not that some people haven't made a ton of money doing it. I just prefer YouTube. I prefer it a lot. I have close to 700 videos on here now. I just this year really started working harder on YouTube and I'm trying to do videos for you guys. So if you do have suggestions for the right kind of video, let me know. Facebook couldn't agree more. Yeah, Richard, I'd say I just, I don't like Facebook. I just don't. And I did in the beginning, they were pretty cool but man, they censor everything. And I don't care if you're right wing, left wing, somewhere between, they censor everybody. If they don't like what you're saying, you get censored. And I guess this channel does it some but not to the degree that Facebook does. I mean, Facebook, here's the thing about Facebook. They decide what you're gonna see. What drives me nuts is I'll see a post and below that it says a most popular post or most popular comments. And I'm like, how do you know what's popular? How do you decide that? Just show me all the comments. On YouTube, you could post a video here and anybody can see it. Unless you're doing something that's pornography or cursing or something like that. And it lives on forever. Like you can come to my channel and you can say, I wanna learn something about SEO and type in SEO and it may pull up a video I did three years ago. If you got a Facebook, you can't do that. You can't go to like my channel and go, I wanna learn something about SEO.  You may not even see it. They may not even be able to show it to you. So that's the part I don't like. I just don't like that. Let's see here. I'm back. Awesome. And you guys who didn't put in here what days you want me to be on, let me know because I've done this on Fridays. I've done it on Saturdays. I've done it on Sundays. I don't have a set schedule for it yet. And I don't mind changing it, whatever it is to match your guys' needs. This is not, I'm not trying to be convenient for me because I gotta get up early to do this now, right? Which I don't mind doing, but I'm trying to reach as many of you guys as possible and help as many of you guys as possible. I genuinely wanna do that. When this video's over with, if you want to get more information about me, about courses, about other videos in the description which doesn't exist yet, but it will put that in there. Also in the comments section, don't forget to ask me questions here. You could ask me a question. You may be watching this video and it's two weeks old or a month old. If you put a comment in there, I'm gonna answer you. So put comments in that comment section there. Don't forget, if you haven't done it, subscribe. If that little subscribe button right down here is red, that means you haven't subscribed. You need like red's a warning. It's trying to tell you something. Click on it so it will turn gray. When it turns gray, you wanna ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications. Now what this does is it prevents you from having to look for my videos, okay? It's gonna notify you every single time I do a new video which is pretty important, pretty cool stuff. Okay, guys, I think I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here. I really appreciate it. If you like this, give me a positive comment over there in the chat section. I wanna thank everybody. Thanks for being here. I really appreciate it. I put belting. Hang on, hang on. Being, jeez, being, got it. Dang, that was hard. Hey, if somebody like me who can't type can sell stuff online, what could you do? What could you do if you got started, okay? What could you do? What could you sell? How could you change your life?   What do you want? Okay, you gotta ask yourself that why and be willing to give up some of this other stuff. Give up the TV show, give up going out to the bars which we have to now anyhow, right? This is the perfect time to start a business. You can't go to a bar or restaurant or anything. They just shut them down inside and say in the AO again. But put in the effort, guys. I mean, it's so, so worth it. It's so worth it. I'm so happy I did it. I look at the people who worked at the business I was at that was 10 years ago and they're still there. They're still complaining and they're still not making money. They're still unhappy. They still don't have free time.  And it's only because I started. It's not because I'm smarter or better or anything. I'm not good at a lot of things. I can't type. Okay, I just can't do it. I don't do that well. And I'm not perfect on video or anything but I put forth the effort and if I keep putting forth the effort I know I'm gonna get results and you will too. I really appreciate you guys listening to me today. I mean so much to me. Put your comments in there, put your questions in there. There's anything I can help you with. If you need help, put that in the comments section, put it in this chat section here. If you like this, put in that check. Say, eh, you like this, put it in the chat section. I like this. I want more of this or I wanna learn whatever and fill in the blank, whatever you wanna learn. And I will work on that. Your feedback means a lot to me. That's what's gonna keep me showing up here is your feedback. So put that feedback in there guys. I really appreciate your feedback. If you're on this right now let me scroll people are doing to this. This is Richard Brown. Listen to J.R. We'll change your life.  I'm just encouraging you to do so. Now thanks for sharing your wisdom. Richard says it is always fantastic. I appreciate that, Richard. That's a nice question. Okay, that's it. What have you found to be the most effective way to sell an online course and our coaching package? Let me answer that real quick. YouTube, YouTube ads. I spent $10,000 yesterday to get some coaching on YouTube ads. Now you're gonna say to me, well, J.R., you've made millions online. You don't need to give anybody any money. Yes I do. I constantly do because I found somebody that is exceptional at YouTube ads. They're doing ads where people are spending $100,000 a day and I'm like, I wanna know that. So will I give them 10 grand? Yeah, I sure will. And I gotta spend 10 weeks with this person and I gotta work with my YouTube ads. 10 weeks. So you're gonna see a lot of YouTube ads because I just spent 10 grand to do it plus the cost of the ads. So I'm doing that because I know I don't know everything and you don't need, nobody does. Okay, there's always areas that you can improve on it. You gotta invest in yourself guys. Don't invest in junk.  Invest in yourself, something that you're gonna get something out of. More ads, I like this, cool. And we love having you here, man.  Need to know more about YouTube. Yes, and I've been doing a session on YouTube every single week and I kind of switched over to this live thing but I am gonna talk more about YouTube because I monetize now. I have the 4,000 hours of watch time and I have over 1,000 subscribers, I think at 4,000. Do you, have you tried Google ads? Yes, I'm Mr. John, I am gonna be doing Google ads. That is part of the $10,000 I spent yesterday to learn how to do YouTube ads but I'm also gonna do native ads and I'm gonna be showing up everywhere in your news feed probably. Can I ask a question on how to start to grow your channel? What's the best way to learn how to fill out marketing? Woof, you guys got a lot now. Now you have all the questions. Now that I'm getting ready to go, that's good questions. All right, let me just cover these real quick. Can I ask a question on how to start to grow your YouTube channel? Do videos, do videos. You know, I was in a room the other day, the other day, actually, it was a couple of years ago but somebody stood up and they said, my YouTube channel's not growing and I've done, I don't know, 20 videos, 30 videos, whatever they've done. And so the person who's moderating the question said, well, when was the last time you did a video? And the person said, six months.  Now you say, well, I don't have time to do that. Well, what do you have time to do? Do you have time to do it twice a week, three times a week, once a week? You've got to do it consistently. You can't do it.   You know, people who subscribe to my channel expect, they expect me to produce videos that are gonna help them, that are gonna solve their problems. Not do videos to sell them stuff. They don't wanna be soldy. They only wanna buy something they can always buy from me. They wanna learn stuff. They come here for education. So I would say the best way to build your YouTube channel is just start doing content. Watch people who are doing well in your niche. See what they're doing and emulate them. They'll give you great ideas for YouTube videos. I mean, I look at other YouTube videos and like, oh, that was a good idea, but I don't like the way they did it. I'm gonna do a little bit different. Do you have a YouTube video about how to set up AdSense and Google Analytics? I think I do. I think I do. Just search my channel for AdSense or Google Analytics. And if I don't, I appreciate that question. I'll do one on it. So I need to make content to the audience. Yes, you gotta make content, guys, and content is so important. You gotta upload on a consistent basis. So if you can only do it once a week, that's fine. But do it on the same day and the same time. Same day and same time. And think about this. If you had a TV show you liked, but they would have one show one week and then three shows the next week. And sometimes it'd be in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and then they may skip a month before they did another show, you wouldn't stick in there, would you? YouTube is the same way. People expect those videos a certain time and dates. No matter how many you do, they expect it on certain time and dates. You've gotta be consistent. I can't tell you what's best for your channel. You gotta try different things. I think I posted six in the morning or seven in the morning. And that doesn't mean I get up and post it. I schedule it. You can schedule these things. I schedule videos for two weeks in advance. I checked yesterday and I got 33 videos recorded that have not gone live yet, 33.  When is the next live? I like your content so much. Hey, Mike, I appreciate that, but it's very kind of you. That's what I'm trying to figure out, Mike. I did these on Friday. I've done them on Saturday. I've done them on Sunday. I think Saturday, next Saturday is gonna be the best one. Let me know if that's a good time for you or if there's another time. Because I'm seriously adjusting these to fit you guys. And Mike, it looks like you may have came in late, but I've been giving away gift cards too. I do this. I give away gift cards. Oh no, somebody said I gotta give away one more gift card. Somebody wants the Burger King one. All right, all right. I'm gonna give away one more gift card before I get out of here. Who wants Burger King? Put it in there if you want Burger King. This is worth $15 to $100. You're gonna wanna go to that link that's on the screen there, the bit.ly Ford slash gift card J.R. The reason I send you there first is because I don't want spam. And you gotta put in your email to get to the page where you can actually put this in. So I'm gonna do this one here. Burger King, Burger King. All right, let's see what I got here. All right, go check this. Oh, this is a card number here. I don't really have to do much to give this to you guys. This is a simple one. Are you ready?  All right, I got the gift card. Do you see that number? You see it? Not yet? Okay, I quit messing with you. Here's the gift card number. Here it is. Six, one, four, four, six, eight, one, seven. Eight, eight, eight, two, two, one, two, nine. Once again, six, one, four, four, six, eight, one, seven. Eight, eight, eight, two, two, one, two, nine. There you go. Burger King, who's gonna get it? Oh, I want you to tell me as soon as you get it. You gotta have a Burger King account. You can set that up when you get to their page there. There's a link when you get to the login page there where you can go to Burger King, okay? You got it? You got it? All right, I'll put it in here too. So let me just type it in. I gotta work so hard for you guys. Burger King is six, one. Now guys, if you are watching this and it's no longer live, check to see if these cards are good because some people don't get them. They assume everybody else is gonna get them. They never enter the card. And a lot of these cards are still good because nobody entered them. I don't know why, I don't know why. One, one, seven, eight, eight, eight, two, two, one. See, I was gonna stop 10 minutes ago. And then you guys got me to do this, two, nine. Let me make sure that's right. Oops, that's wrong. Two, nine. All right, so I've got six, one, four, four, six, eight, one. I got too many ones in there. Six, eight, eight. Six, eight, one. Seven, eight, eight, eight, two, two, one, two, nine. That should be it right there, guys. Six, one, four, four, six, eight, one. Seven, eight, eight, eight, two, two, one, two, nine. Okay, you got that? And you know what?  Burger King, Burger King.  Go through my channel. Watch 15, 20, 30, 50, 100 videos. And you're gonna get knowledge. None of these videos are selling you anything. This is just knowledge. If you don't wanna have to buy a course, you don't have to buy anything, just go through my videos and watch them, all right? All these things are things that we've done to make money that I just wanna share with you guys. That's all I wanna do. Just wanna share it with you. That's it, okay? Will some of you guys buy my courses? Probably. If you don't, no big deal, don't worry about it. But make sure you subscribe. I am gonna, I gotta go now, gotta go, gotta go. Make sure you subscribe. Make sure you ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications. That's super important. Let's see, get that thing down just a little bit here. There's my bell. Man, nice bell. One of the nicest bells you've seen, didn't it? And there's my guy here. He's fighting. He's got all kinds of arrows coming at him, but he's still fighting, okay? Guys, thank you so much for being here. Put your comments in there. If you like this, let me know. I may do another one on Sunday, movie review mom. Make sure you're subscribed and if so, it's gonna notify you. Or if you're on my email list, I'll try to email my list and let him know too. I really appreciate you guys being here. I'm gonna get out right now and I'm going to see you guys next time, which will probably be Saturday. Could be tomorrow. Could be tomorrow. Stay tuned. See you soon.


up to shorten it. Hey friends, you're watching behind the scenes Divine Intimacy Radio. Excited to have Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers with us today to talk about male-manly spirituality, a Catholic vision of male spirituality. Before we jump into the show, though, I wanted to tell you about a few opportunities we have coming up actually right away, November 16th. That is just two days from now. I'll be giving a webinar on how to fight advent anxiety, which is a pretty common issue that people are struggling with as we enter into the holidays. Maybe it'll apply to Thanksgiving as well. Whenever we're getting together with family, if you have a family like mine, God love them. It can be a really interesting thing. I have some great, we're going to see some amazing family. On my side. On Stephanie's side. We're not talking about my side of the family. We're talking about you just to be clear because I do have family that listens to this show. No, I'm very excited about going to Dallas, Fort Worth to be with your family. There's another little corner of the world I'll be stepping into and you can pray for me and I'll pray for you and we'll all survive together. God be praiseable, but we'll be good. So how to fight advent anxiety, spiritualdirection.com forward slash events, November 16th. It's a free webinar. So it'll, it'll bless you. The last thing that I'll tell you about is we have a new course, a school of spiritual formation course with Dr. Mary Ann Sigmund. If you know that name, you would, you would take this course, no matter what she's teaching, but holiness, of course, on the spiritual classics. She's going to be talking about plan of life, holy science, foundation of prayer, humility, et cetera, covering the saints like St. Augustine, Gregory of Nissa, Benedict, Ignatius of Loyola, Thomas Aquinas, John Paul II, and then not yet canonized, but a beautiful soul, Father Romano Guardini. So that's Wednesday, December 27th is when those courses begin. So you can check that out at avala-institute.org. So avala-institute.org or spiritualdirection.com forward slash events. And I think we can jump right into the show. Let's do that on your market set go. This is Dan as Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio, your radio haven of rest, your hermitage of the heart, your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw upon the wisdom of the saints to help us understand and be encouraged and inspired regarding how do we navigate the tumult of this life? And boy is it tumultuous, our culture inside the church, outside the church in the world. I think there's a lot of us who never talk apocalypticly.  And we're in one of those times actually where I think everyone is, even if you're a little less inclined to be apocalyptic about how you think about things, we're looking at Matthew 24 and looking at the predictions of Jesus in the last days and what's going to be happening. And there are a lot of beautiful lights in the world that help us to navigate these times and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers is one of those. And Stephanie, you're going to introduce some, would you do that, please? Well, we have two guests. Oh, yeah, that's right. We have two guests. One, I like a lot. The other one's just okay. Deacon Harold, I like a lot. No, our pastor, Father Andrew Jones, who I will say is an extraordinary pastor. We love him to death. So he's with us today. And he is pastor of City of St. Jude in Montgomery, Alabama. A historic... Best parish ever. It's a fascinating parish. It's a historic Black parish. It's known for Martin Luther King, where he stopped on the way on the famous march. His children were born in our hospital. Yeah. He did the Freedom Riders. It's amazing history. And it's an exquisite church. Yeah, it is one of the more beautiful ones in here. It needs some love. Well, he's working on it. Yeah, it needs a little more love, but it's coming. But you know, I'll accept some love from other people if they want to send some. Send some green love so we can keep the place up. You have part for a beautiful historical church. Stop by and give him some love. Okay. So we want to welcome Deacon Harold Berks-Sivers. Is an internationally renowned speaker, author, and preacher. He has appeared as a guest on numerous international Catholic radio and television programs and is the host or co-host of several popular series on the Eternal Word Television Network. He is the author of five books, including Behold the Man, A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality, Father Augustus Tolton, The Slave Who Became the First African American Priest, and The Acclaimed New Book, Our Life of Service, The Handbook for Catholic Deacons, and a brand new book called... Yeah, so it's six books. It's six books. Yeah. So, and a brand new book called Building a Civilization of Love, A Catholic Response to Racism. So thank you, Deacon Harold and Father Jones for being with us today. Thank you. It's great to be here. Great to have you with us. So let's jump into your work, Behold the Man, A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality. What prompted you to do all the hard work that is writing a book on this topic? So a couple of things, a little background. First, I was born in Barbados in the West Indies, and my mother was a Methodist. My father had no faith background at all whatsoever. So my mother converted when she was a teenager to Catholicism, and so I'm the oldest child of their marriage. So I'm actually the first baptized Catholic in the history of our family because my mom didn't have to be rebaptized when she came into the church. So when we came to the United States, our father didn't come with us. My dad didn't come. Just me and my mother, my brother, and my grandma. And so we went to the state of New Jersey, and my mom made sure that we went to church and she worked, she was a cardiac care nurse. She worked overtime, graveyard shifts to make sure that we can have a Catholic education. That was so important to her. God bless her. And yeah, I was saying last night at the talk that she went to work with poles in her shoes and runs in her stockings because we needed stuff. And when my father joined us, we wish that he hadn't basically. He basically loved three things, womenizing alcohol and cigarettes. And he has 15 other children with other women besides the four of us from my mom. And he drank, and if you ever come from a household where alcohol is an issue, I didn't have to tell you about the hurtful and painful and embarrassing moments that come from living in a house like that, where I often wish to God I lived at my friend's house rather than have to go home to my own house. Yeah, my stepdad was an alcoholic, fired a gun in our home, beat my mother, destroyed our home in the end. So that's not the kind of manhood we want. That's not what we're looking for. Yeah, exactly. But in conjunction with your conversion and what the Lord has done with you, it forces you when you don't have that good male figure. You got to figure everything out on your own. Yeah, so my mom made sure during the separation divorce that there were other men in my life that were godly examples because she knew if that didn't happen, then what happened in my neighborhood that I grew up in in the week wake section Newark, New Jersey, you went to the gangs because you these guys are looking for father figures. Yeah, they don't have the files at home. So they go to the gang. So my mom made sure I was in good gangs like Boy Scouts and all the servers and smart and stuff like that. So so my Scott master was a huge influence, teachers at my school, the month I went to a Benedict in high school, St. Benedict's prep in Newark, the monks, my wrestling coach.  And then I felt a vocation to Benedict in life. So I went to college for four years, worked for a year and joined a monastery as a Benedict in and which I enjoyed that very much.   So I left to take care of my mom and my sister. And then when I was out of monastery, I went to a wedding and met my wife. So she's from Oregon. That's how I got out there. Because, you know, if you're from the East Coast, as far as we're concerned, Philadelphia is the West Coast. But so that started life out there. And what ended things with my dad, even after the divorce, when I joined the Benedictines, I went to his apartment out of respect, because he's still my father to tell him what I thought I'd be doing for the rest of my life.   And he's bragging, you went to Notre Dame.  What's wrong with you? What am I supposed to tell my friends? Well, painful. I told him, but he can tell his friends. And then I didn't speak to him for 18 years. Then you had to go to confession. No, no, I literally considered him dead to me from that point forward. I didn't I didn't talk to him for 18 years. So which I had, I had no problem with that. If he would have died during that time, I would have not just completely ignored it. And so, so I joined a monastery. I left the monastery. I'm moving out West.  And I said, no. And my mom was like, she was like four or 10 or something like that. Yeah. And she looked at me. She goes, I don't think you heard me, son. I said, the only thing I want you to do when you leave this house is to pray for your father. Okay. Yeah.  And I even got to the point when we started having kids and they asked where the grandfather was, I told my kids to their face that he was dead.  I mean, I say it now, kind of embarrassing, but I hated my father, you know, and so that's basically what was the effect of the wedding. My sister got married at City of St. Jude. Yeah. How crazy. In 1995, I was there before. I walked my sister down the aisle because my father wasn't there. So I walked her down the aisle. Just for context, Deacon's here to give talks on, you know, the Catholic, the building of civilization of love is a new book and on racism at this historic parish. And that's crazy that connection. Yeah, it's crazy connection because, you know, we started last year with Bishop Joseph Perry, the auxiliary Bishop of Chicago every year for November, which is Black Catholic History Month, which I'll be honest. I didn't know that until I came to City of St. Jude. We don't do a good job. Well, you've done a great job. Yeah. So, so November is Black Catholic History Month in the United States. And so we started this sort of lecture series, right? And we started with Bishop Harry came last year and talked about Father Tolton. So we had Deacon Harold this year and, you know, came into the church and everything and didn't say anything until a sister came because she lives in the area. She teaches in the area and she said, she said, I got married in this church and you walked me down the aisle. Yeah. And I remember, I just, I didn't remember it was that church. I mean, this was before Deaconate before any, I only been married a year actually. Yeah. You know, so it was long before, because I usually remember when I go back to a place, but this was before everything. So quite crazy coincidence. Yeah. It's just beautiful. So let's turn the corner and I'd like to, your story of course is powerful and a lot, I can resonate with a lot of the pain and the suffering and then having to rebuild your own vision of what it means to be a father. I had less help than you did on the backside. My bio biological father was helpful because he was a stable provider, but he had, his dad was an alcoholic and a flander as well.  Thank God you had your mom to point you to all those, get you in the right Catholic context and coaches. But I'd like maybe you two to take a shot at, we have a few minutes for the break, diagnose if you would, or maybe give me the top three ailments or however you want to say it of the, of current masculinity that really needs to be addressed by the church and by the work that you've written. I just real quick before we go to that, just because I'm cognizant of people like on the edge of their seat now. Oh, your father did get reconciled just to cap that story. So yeah. So it didn't end with him hating. The 17th year of our estrangement was my first series of EWTN call named after the book that I wrote Behold the Man. I've written the book and then EWTN want to be through a series or actually the other way around this series that I wrote the book. But so it started airing internationally. Someone saw that call my father, isn't that your son? And so he starts looked on the channel. He saw it was me and he wanted to watch the next week. And instead of watching me, he's what he got the time where he's watching Mother Angelica. So he didn't know how it worked. He thought, okay, this lady's gonna come on and my son's gonna. And I never, I never, and we kept listening. So later we'd ask, why did you keep watching? Even though I didn't, he goes, she just made so much sense. Yeah, she's a man who never went to church. The only time I remember talking about God was as a curse. And now he's watching Mother and he watched for a year and then called me out of the blue and that began our reconciliation. He came to Oregon. He met my wife and kids for the first time. He reconciled with my mom. Praise the Lord. And when he died in 2016, I was at his bedside praying to chapter in my mercy. And my favorite part of that story that you said, the monastery that he's so mad, yeah, you join the, the, a priest from that monastery was the one who anointed him. Yeah, before he died. Yeah, wow. So beautiful. Wow. So we are going to go to the break, but just to remind you that kind of set your mind, we get back from the break.  You hear it with, in terms of people that you counsel, you see it in the culture. You're, you're, you're the youngest guy in the room as well. But also from you, Deacon, I'd like to hear you both talk to what are the things that ale young men and male spirituality in our time? And then what are, what are the remedies? So we'll do that when we get back. All right. And then what we'll do is that's the setup. And then you do follow up on the questions in this conversation. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah, just imagine in some way listening on Facebook, you're like, what happened to his dad? He said he hated him. Yeah, I never, I, in terms of Frank, the guy who was, you know, who fired a gun in our home and did all that. I, I didn't, it was a weird thing. I think you probably understand this.  And I actually, even though he was brutal, just as I still wanted a relationship with him, which is a little strange. So he, but after I left the house, I did go back, never really, I just tried to influence him to the faith. That was just what I was doing.  But then I lost touch and he probably died at some point. He was, he was so, his alcoholism was pretty, pretty serious.  I mean, we probably swapped some stories about encounters with that. Yeah. Yeah. There's one I thought for sure. He hit on a girlfriend of mine. Oh, it's not good. Yeah. No, I had the talker. I literally drove her home the whole time. Talker had a call in the police. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I won't say the incident. We'll get back to the show. Everybody can hear what we're saying. I have to be careful. But, but there was a time when my brother and I were going to, we're going to put his lights out and God be praised. We didn't, we didn't succeed. Just those moments where the Lord works in and through this and even makes us who we're supposed to be. Reminds me of my, one of my favorite passages, though, I've talked to St. Paul about his wording when it gets to heaven. But it's, we comfort others with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted. You know, 2 Corinthians 1, when we go through these tough things, we can come out with some perspective that helps other people who are hurting. So that's why these stories are so important. All right. Let's go back to the show. Behold the man, a Catholic vision of male spirituality. Deacon Harold Burke, Sivers on the Market Set Go. This is Dan Stephanie Burke. Welcome back to Divine Intimacy Radio. Two special guests today, our own pastor, one of the best homilists, by the way, in the known universe. So I think we're going to get a sign on the front of the parish that says, greatest homilist ever, you know, something and put it up. Got to put an asterisk in English. In English. Right. And Deacon Harold can preach like crazy, too. Boy, if you've never heard him speak. And by the way, just for lineup's sake, you don't want to put me after lunch, I'm a little sleepy. But if, but Deacon Harold can wake anybody up at any time energy. He and I did a men's conference a few a while back, but we're talking about Behold the man, a Catholic vision of male spirituality. For the break, I asked both Deacon Harold and Father Jones to diagnose a little bit about the issues with male spirituality and our time. And what are the answers? Yeah. So, you know, in Genesis, chapter two, when Lord puts the man in the garden, he says he puts him there to till and to keep it. And those words are Abad and Shamar in Hebrew, which means Abad means a work that's in the form of service and Shamar means to protect and defend. So he's giving him his mission, his purpose, his reason for existing, serve, protect, defend everything that I am entrusting to you. And we've lost that sense. So we have men who basically spiritual lethargy, you know, their faith is just kind of secondary, even tertiary in their life. If it means anything to them at all, you know, we've lost this sense of the serve, protect, defend the prayer life, I think it suffers for a lot of men. A lot of men aren't leading their families, they aren't being the priests in their families, leading their families to heaven by being the chief prayer in the family and definitely not praying with their spouses. That's a whole other thing. And then I think the sexual temptations, you know, pornography, and I haven't worked in law enforcement and seeing human trafficking up close and seeing this multi-billion dollar industry being fueled by pornography, you know, so there's definitely some challenge and then this culture where feminized, you know, a feminization of men and kind of women having to assume those masculine roles in the family. It doesn't help that you have individuals and institutions that are trying to further that, you know, the disintegration of the nuclear family, you know, cisgender privilege, all this garbage language being used now to basically describe the destruction of the nuclear family. And so what we have to do as men is recover ourselves, get back to a proper sense of who we are. And my whole thing is, you have strong men, you have strong families, strong families, strong church, strong church, we take back the culture. Amen. Yeah, I would say, you know, from work with younger guys, I was a priest at Auburn for a year before I came here. My best friend is now the current chaplain at Auburn University. With Focus? Yeah, I was at Focus Missionary for four years before a seminary and, you know, work at the high school here with high school students. And I think, you know, it was interesting, I was talking to my friend who's the father of Peyton Plus, who is the chaplain at Auburn University now down the road. And he was given a talk to the CYO the other day as a youth group. Catholic Youth Organization, yeah.  And he said that the students, like afterwards, like straight up to a space, told him, like, I don't really want to do anything with my life. Like, I'm happy where I am. They're just like a malaise. Yeah, he said, but they were like, honestly, they're like, we're happy, we don't want to do anything else. And he's like, what, what, what do you do with that? There's like, there's not even like an aspiration for anything else. Yeah, because, and so I think what you sort of see is we've created an atmosphere in which you don't have to do anything.  Not my house. Well, no, not. Yeah, we're not talking about your house. We're talking about, we're talking about, you know, in general, right, you can sit at home, you can play video games all day, you can order what you want on Amazon, you can have, you can have things brought to you food, right? You don't have to do anything if you don't want to. And there, I don't know that we've ever had a time in the history of the human race where that's been the case. Just because of affluence. Yes. I think, I think in the West today, it, we're in a, I think we're in a new situation really, like, you know, Solomon said there's nothing new under the sun. This is new, I think. You know, maybe back in the days of Solomon, like if you were the prince and you grew up like sheltered in the palace or something, but everybody's like that now. And like, and it's like, what do you do?  Like I don't need anyone else. That's an older, you know, that that's that was my dad's my generation, my dad's generation. It's we, it's we have the freedom to achieve. But now it's take care of me as the primary value. Yeah, I would argue it's a spirit of effeminacy of this. So effeminacy is not feminine, but rather this, this lack of desire or lack of ability or lack of willingness to do what needs to be done to do the harder thing. Right. And I think, you know, I've heard people talk about this. I think what we're looking at is probably coming out of pornography is the prevalence of pornography, because it kills the male. It kills his drive. It makes him physically, emotionally, spiritually sick, immature. You can pretty much tell if somebody's got a porn addiction by their immaturity or trauma. They kind of get stuck in this adolescence where they are. And it's just, it's a real sickening of the culture. And I think it's, it's, it's been targeting our male men for a long time. And then it destroys the family. It destroys relationships. You know, people don't want to get married anymore. They don't even really kind of even want to live together if they do. They're not all that interested in sex. That's the other thing we're finding out. I mean, it's a really, really sick culture where everybody's just kind of asleep and effeminate and passive, passive.  And if there's no children, there's no priests. If there's no priests, there's no Eucharist. So we need to really understand that this is a demonic attack on families and on the drive of men to seek their wives, to procreate, to build a life, to build society. Men have no purpose anymore. But the question is for you guys, how do you get there from here? I mean, what is it? Obviously you can speak the truth, but how do you motivate, how do we reach young men and get them moving on this right path? Yeah, I think you have, we have to challenge them. They're not being challenged right now. And I think in his heart of hearts, men need to be challenged. And I think what you said was important. What pornography does, it destroys the heart, you know, and Hebrew, the heart is as lab and in Hebrew understanding different parts of the body serve different spiritual functions. And so the heart is the place where your desire for God lives in you pornography kills that. So we have to do is revive the heart of man, revive that heart of men to get them empowered, inspired to move forward. And one of the ways is you challenge them because they're not being challenged. But I think deep down inside, they want to be challenged, you know, because that just the very nature of who we are. Yeah. So we just have to tap into that and stir those coals into flame.    So I turned it, I turned it's my 14 years old, my first grade in high school was this history test, Mr. Frank Mullen. So I turned my Mr. Mullen would walk up and down the desk and turn your paper, we keep walking. So I turned my paper and said B plus and I automatically said, yes. And Mr. Mullen stopped walking and he backed up and he looked at me and he goes, and you're happy with that? I'm looking at him like, yeah, I'm thinking about, I got B plus, not a bad way to start, you know, and I was so proud. I went home and show when I said, mommy, look, I got my first test in high school. I got a B plus. I told him, Mr. Mullen said, no, son, you don't understand what he's saying is you could do better than that. I mean, it sparked something in me. He said you could do better. He saw something and I didn't even see it myself. I said, what if I worked a little harder? What if I went after school and got instituted? What if I, and it just awoke, awake at something to me? And then from that on, I just pushed forward. I just became the first person in my family, had an academic scholarship to college. So it was because of my mom and because of people that pushed me and challenged me. But I think it's something like that, right? It's like the solution, right? You have like, you have men who, you know, and maybe, you know, like you said, there's lots of young men out there who don't have male role models or positive ones, right? But they have guys in their church, they have guys like in their community, and you can take that as part of your fatherhood. Like I don't have my own biological kids, but I have kids. And I can take that responsibility on them to do what Mr. Bollinger, right? And to say like, look, I love you and you're great, but you can do better.  We're not at our own parish a lot on Sundays, but we were on Sunday a little while back and I saw all these little new altar servers you have.  So they, they are seen by somebody, because when you're seen by somebody outside of your family, that has a, because you just sort of expect your family to encourage you, that has a big effect in saying you're doing great. And then eventually, if I see them again, I'll see them four, five, seven, 10 times.  Oh, I could wait, I could be a priest, you know, given the vision for that sort of thing. Yeah, I'm an educator at the table, you know, the teacher in my background, I think kids need goals. They need stuff to work towards, like the A, like the better grades, like the challenge or whatever.  We have a very passive culture where they're sitting and, and we're very passive. Men need to be running, they need to be challenging, they need to be working, they need to be challenging their bodies, which challenges their heart and their mind. They need dragons to slay. Guys need dragons to slay. They need risk. They need adventure. I totally agree. I mean, it was one of the things that saved me when I was a kid is my dad taking me to Alaska or going up in the mountain. My dad was a manly guy. And those were the best times for me. The home was not good. But when I could escape out in the wilderness and do things at a risky, I guys got to do that. And the feminization of the culture is moms want to protect kids from risk as a natural thing.  We're already out of time. And I wish we weren't, because it's such an important topic. But hold the man, a Catholic vision of male spirituality is the book by Dick and Harold Burke. So recommend anything and everything he does. It's all going to be good. It's all going to bless you. Thank you so much for being on the show. Yeah, I'm honored to be here. Thank you for having me. Okay, until next time, may the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire spirit, soul and body irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question that says if x plus iota y whole cube is equal to u plus iota v, then show that u upon x plus v upon y is equal to 4x square minus y square. So, solution we are given that x plus iota y whole cube is equal to u plus iota v. So, first we will try to find the values of u and v, then we will substitute it in the left hand side and show that it comes equal to the right hand side.  This has sense iota square is equal to minus 1. Now on the left hand side separating the real and imaginary parts we have x cube minus 3x y square plus iota times 3x square y minus y cube is equal to u plus iota v. Now on comparing the real and imaginary parts we get u is equal to x cube minus 3x y square and v is equal to 3x square y minus y cube. And now according to the question we have to show that u upon x plus v upon y is equal to 4x square minus y square. So, substituting the values of u and v on the left hand side which is u upon x plus v upon y can be written as x cube minus 3x y square upon x plus 3x square y minus y cube upon y which can further written as x into x square minus 3y square upon x plus y into 3x square minus y square upon y. Now cancelling the common multiple we have x square minus 3y square plus 3x square minus y square which is further equal to 4x square minus 4y square is further equal to 4x square minus y square. Thus we have u upon x plus v upon y is equal to 4 times of x square minus y square. Hence proved. This completes the solution. Hope you enjoyed it. Take care and have a good day.


Good day fellow investors. Today we're going to discuss how the stock market works. The reality is that the stock market gives you signals way ahead, but nobody listens until they finally start to listen. And this is exactly what is going on. The things I have been blabbering for a year writing about two years now are the following. Higher interest rates will come as the Fed told us. Higher interest rates will squeeze valuations. Higher interest rates will slow down economic growth. Higher interest rates will slow down earnings growth. So let's start discussing what I just said. First thing that happened this week is that the Treasury, 10-year Treasury yield passed 3%. So Treasury, what is a Treasury? Treasury is a bond issued by the U.S. government where you have over 10 years guaranteed coupons 3% per year and the guaranteed payment of principle after 10 years. So practically it is risk-free in case the U.S. government doesn't go bankrupt. So you can either invest in a bond like that or in other stocks that pay dividends. And here you now you say okay this is risk-free with a guaranteed payment of principle or I can invest in a stock that gives me 3% per year and an unsure, uncertain payment of principle let's say after 10 years. And this means that to invest in the stock you need a higher return. Thus dividend yields have to increase, require dividend yields increase. And this is exactly what has been going on. In the last year, two years the Treasury yield went from 1.40% to 3%. That's a huge difference for yield seeking investors, for risk-looking, risk parity investors which means that okay now we need higher returns from stocks and this is what I have been going on about for a long time. Valuations will lower. And this has become a headline the 10-year Treasury above 3% on Tuesday and you can see here how the stock market really dropped on that day. Let me explain what I mean with require dividend yields will go higher. If we have a dividend of $3, a required dividend yield of 3% in case the Treasury is at 1.5 like it was two years ago, the stock price is 100. In case next year the Treasury yield 10-year goes to 3%, then the required dividend yield goes to 5% because stocks are always riskier than bonds, especially Treasuries. And then you see the stock price dropped to 60. So when at stock price at those small yields, those very small yields, everything comes very volatile. And when a stock drops from 100 to 60, that's 40 bucks. That's what 13 years of dividends to cover the difference. And therefore, if interest rates continue to increase, there will be much, much more pain for those blue chips, stable, beamons paying great dividends. But if those dividends go to 7%, to 8%, to 9%, to 10%, then the stock prices will go down, down, down, down and down. So when you are thinking about buying the dip, buying what's going on, understand that dividends, that interest rates are changing and required dividends will also change, which means required dividends, if things continue like this, will go higher, stock prices will go lower. This is how interest rate work like gravity on valuations. There is nothing you can do there. Many of you have been wondering whether Altria is a buy now given the low stock price, but the stock is down 22.5% over the last three months. Apart from the regulatory noise and whatever, one big reason for this are higher interest rates because Altria is a cash cow, higher interest rates seek for a higher dividend yield and that's why you see this drop. Further, there are other negative influences on stocks. Higher interest rates make debt payments higher, make costs higher. We have seen inflation, interest rates are increasing because there is increasing inflation. That's all the costs that the companies have are also increasing, where interest rates, higher interest rates, squeeze their margins. Further, if you have a project you are investing, you are growing and the growth rate, let's say, of the project, the return on investment is 3%. If your cost of capital is 1%, you invest. If your cost of capital has just increased to 3% or 4%, you are not going to invest in the 3% project, which means the economic growth, the Fed will try to balance it, but the economic growth will slow down or will have to depend on other growth instances, not on low interest rates. Similarly, as the Treasury yield has been growing, so we have seen growth in the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates. They have been 3.5 last year, 3.6 a bargain. I've been telling people to buy houses. Now it's already 1% point higher, which is a big difference when you are going to buy a house with a 30-year fixed mortgage. This means simply that people will or see lower house prices or people will buy less houses and that will have an effect on the economy. I'm not saying it will turn an economy into a recession. Perhaps the Fed and the politicians will manage to deliver a soft lending. So that's a possibility. We are not going to grow at 4%, but we could grow stably at 2%. And that's already excellent. We'll see what happens, but higher interest rates will pull down valuations, house purchases and anything that's related or that has grown immensely over the past thanks to low interest rates. Further companies like 3M just lowered their top profit guidance for 2018 where the earnings were expected to be between 10.20 and 10.70 and now they are expected to be between 10.20 and 10.55. The stock dropped very significantly and then JP Morgan issued a statement that there might be more downside as raw material prices have been going up. So when a company like this 3M you see the drop, you think it's a dip. Look at the long-term chart and look at where was the stock just a few years ago. And then you will see, okay, this dip is nothing in comparison to the long-term chart. And if interest rates increase, if the conditions change, then the stock might drop more, more and more because you have to see how those margins evolve in different economic conditions. Also, Cattle Peeler told us that it doesn't expect higher earnings than what it obtained in the first quarter of 2018 as input costs rise. And I want to show you something else. You all see now forward SAP 500 price-to-earnings ratio is 15-16. These are the revenue estimates for the SAP 500 over the past 10 years. And you can see that revenues in 2009 everybody estimated very, very low revenues and then they revised them upwards only to the revised them downwards later. 2010 also first estimates are always extremely positive and then they are always revised downwards. Revenues are usually revised downwards between 10 and 20%. Look at 2016, 2017 and we have not yet seen downwards revisements for 2018 and 19. But I bet you those will be there. Further, if revenues are revised downwards, then earnings are revised even more. And we can see here how EPS forecasts for the FTSE 100 were revised on average between 40% over the last 7-8 years per year. So always take the forward estimates with a grain of salt because now if we have forward price earnings ratio of 15, if we put the 20-40% 40% earnings revisions downwards on that PE ratio we are again at 22. Plus when you get into the adjusted impairments and everything else you get to a PE ratio of 25, 24, etc. So always be careful with those estimates. We have now increasing interest rates and that's the key to look at anything. Who will be hurt the most? We have already seen REITs being hurt very significantly and then companies for example like Proctor and Gamble that are stable, stable dividend payers, great brands, but it's all a valuation game. And if we see the company, that company didn't actually grow earnings over the last 10 years. 2008 EPS was 3.64, 2017 is 3.77. The book value is lower than it was in 2008 and consequently the five-year stock price change didn't go anywhere. However the stock is down 21% year to date due to higher interest rates, noise, higher input costs and other fears. Now perhaps it will rebound, I don't know, but my point today is you should never have a fixed mindset when looking at the stock market. You have to have a dynamic mindset looking, okay, what happens if this changes? What happens if this changes? What happens if these changes attach probabilities to each scenarios and then invest, invest, balance your portfolio accordingly. When you do that then you know over the long term you will reach amazing results. Thank you for watching, looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


1,500 people are working on this project at this bridge right now, that's 1,500 people who are taking home enough money to be able to put food on the table for their kids to look after the people and their lives that they love. And I really want to salute all the workers and their families who are here today. You've reached the halfway point in building this magnificent structure and it's a huge opportunity because you are not just building a bridge. You are building a province and it is also going to mean something real different for families. It could mean up to an hour or more every day because they won't have the long commute that they used to have. That's a real difference that you're making in very real people's lives. You know we take a lot for granted, I was telling someone earlier, the men and women that do the work on this bridge, we drive by it to some people on a daily basis, others that came by it while they're visiting Vancouver, but you never pay enough attention to the men and women that are actually building this force and this infrastructure. The work they do, they put their lives on the line for us to build a better province and say thank you to each and every one of them. So this is a great point of pride for I know all of you and I am absolutely delighted to be able to share it with you here today and I look forward to coming here next year and see you all again when this bridge is finished.