Welcome everybody, great to have you here on day one of the five day alcohol-free challenge. My name is James Swanick. Some of you or maybe most of you already know who I am. Some of you have got no idea and you're scratching your head going, why am I listening to this funny talker? I'm from Brisbane, Australia but I am a Australian US citizen so I'm a dual citizen. Let me just share my screen. I'm going to go over what we're going to be talking about today. You get to enjoy seeing my entire desktop here. Just for those of you who don't know me, I am the founder and CEO of Alcohol-Free Lifestyle and the company Swanick Sleep. I'm a speaker, coach, an investor and I'm an advisor to businesses, entrepreneurs and top professionals. I help high performers to get long-term power over alcohol. I do that mostly through my flagship program experience which is called Project 90. Just to give you a little bit of context, Project 90 has an 87% success rate of clients getting to at least 90 consecutive days alcohol-free on their first attempt, so 87% success rate. 99% success rate of clients getting to at least 90 consecutive days alcohol-free on no more than three attempts and then all those folks who get through their 90 consecutive days are the ones who've stayed in contact with this. Most of our former clients report that they are still alcohol-free years later or they drink modestly or on rare occasions. Alcohol no longer has power over them. So those success rates are pretty, I mean, I'll say this humbly, I guess. I think they're the best success rates on the planet. I mean, I don't know of any other place where you can get power over your drinking that has a success rate like that. AA by comparison has less than a 10% reported success rate. This is an article in the Atlantic and you can see here peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5% and 10%, which is not that great. So my method has been proven to work repeatedly over many years and I'm going to give you this method for free over the next five days. It's great to have you here. Maybe you're here because you want to get long-term power over alcohol. You want to reduce the frequency of your drinking. Maybe you want to quit entirely. Maybe you want to do moderation. Whatever your intention is, what you're going to learn over the next five days is going to help you. Okay, that's my promise to you. Let me just share my screen again here. So here's the schedule.  You are here to be alcohol free for the next five days, so I am going to show you how to do that. And today we're going to rewire your brain and we're going to manipulate your environment, your home probably, and set you up for success. Tomorrow, day two, also at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern, I'm going to show you how to socialize alcohol free. A lot of people are worried if they quit drinking, reduce drinking, they'll lose their friends, they won't be able to network. People will think that they're an alcoholic, etc., etc. I'm going to show you how to socialize alcohol free and have an amazing time doing it. Day three Thursday, we're going to be talking about the truth about alcohol and its cost. You may think that you're only spending $3,000 or $4,000 a year on alcohol, but the real cost to you could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yes, hundreds of thousands of dollars, including, by the way, if you're not just an entrepreneur or you're a high performer, even if you have a modestly paid job, your drinking habits are costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars every single year. I'm going to show you how.  I'm going to show you.  Let me just share my screen again. On Friday, I'm going to be showing you how to reduce or eliminate cravings. If you ever said to yourself, I'm going to quit drinking, I'm not going to drink anymore, and then the craving comes and it just becomes all too challenging, and then you reach for the drink anyway. On day four on Friday, I'm going to show you how to reduce those cravings or how to eliminate them entirely. Again, you may be a skeptic. That's okay. Skeptics are welcome here. You won't be a skeptic soon though. Then on Saturday, starting at 10am Pacific, that's 1pm Eastern, I'm going to wrap it all up, put it all together, give you the magic formula for lifetime power over alcohol. Lifetime power over alcohol can mean quitting forever, or it can mean quitting for a long time, and then possibly having a drink on occasion. It could mean moderation, but you will have power over alcohol. You will be free to choose versus you need alcohol, versus you need it to reduce your stress, or you need it to relax. That will no longer be a thing. I'm going to reveal the magic formula for lifetime power over alcohol. Common questions I get. I've been coaching people now since 2015. I've coached more than 20,000 people. In terms of project 90, I've coached hundreds of high performers, business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, husbands and wives, parents. Why can't I quit on my own? I've tried so hard. Why can't I do this? It's a very common question. We'll get to that. Why does willpower not work? We're going to get that. You may have asked yourself at some stage, am I an alcoholic? We'll have good news. Chances are, you're not. Even if you've been asking yourself that question, you're not. 99% chance you're not, and I'm going to show you why. What do I even do if I'm not drinking? How am I going to have fun? My whole identity is going to change.  We'll get to that. Is there something wrong with me because I can't stop? No, there isn't. I'm going to show you why. I'm going to show you why you can't stop, and I'm going to show you easily how to correct that. Will my friends leave me if I stop drinking? How do I network if I don't drink? How much is drinking actually costing me? What should I drink instead? I'm going to be showing you on this very call, what to drink instead. How do I eliminate cravings? How do I reduce stress without alcohol? Because stress is a big cause of our cravings. Maybe you're here because you want to feel healthy, and you want to improve your looks. Maybe you want to get rid of the poison out of your skin. Maybe you want to lose some weight. You want to feel great, and you're wanting to get power over alcohol. Some of you might be asking, who is this guy anyway, and why is he qualified to be teaching you this stuff? I'll just give you a very, very quick overview, and then we'll get into the nitty-gritty, because I know you're here for the nitty-gritty. Before I do that, let me just check. I had a couple of questions here from people, which is fantastic. Is this a Facebook-based program? I don't use Facebook that much. It can be, but no, you don't need it. You don't need Facebook. Thank you for your question. If you have a question, just a reminder, you can go ahead and just click on the Q&A. It says there's a Q&A button there. Type in your question, and as we go along, I will get to that. Okay, let's continue on here. Quick overview on me, and then we'll get into the nitty-gritty. Who am I? Well, this is me when I was a drinker. I don't think I look that great in that photo. Then here's a recent photo of me. You can really see the difference, kind of like a before and after. You can see here, I've got the double chin. My skin's not great. I'm overweight. I was just feeling blar. In 2010, I unearthed a simple method for quitting alcohol. On March 13, 2010, I stopped. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since. In fact, on March 12, which was the night before, I was at a party not too dissimilar to this. This is South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. I had two Bombay sapphire gin and tonics. I went back to my hotel, went to sleep, woke up in the morning, looked in the mirror, and just like, ugh, I don't feel great. I didn't necessarily have a huge hangover, but I just looked in the mirror and thought to myself, you just average, James. You're performing at a six out of 10. You're foggy. You're distracted. You're not sleeping great. It wasn't like I was rock bottom, but I was just, just blah. The hotel I was staying in was right next to an eye hop, and I went into this very eye hop, and I sat in the table in this very window here. You can see my mouse, and I looked out the window and I thought, what am I doing in an eye hop? And I said to myself, you know what? I'm just going to quit drinking for 30 days and see what happens. I'm going to commit to this so I can clear up this fogginess and irritability and this general feeling of lethargy. In 30 days of not drinking, I lost 13 pounds, which is pretty amazing. I went from this to this, lost 13 pounds just by not drinking. It wasn't that I ate any particularly better. I just stopped drinking the calories and the poison and all of that kind of stuff. And I started feeling great. Three months after that, I landed my dream job. I became a sports center anchor on ESPN. Some of you have told me that you remember seeing me on that show. I was there in 2010 through 2012. It was a dream job for me, and I got to meet and hang out with people like Magic Johnson. I had him on the show a couple of times. I got to interview him, which was amazing. And I had this clarity and this focus and this energy from being alcohol free. Excuse me, I'll have some sparkling water. And you know, because I was clear, because I had energy, because I was sleeping well, I was focused. So I credit being alcohol free to helping me get that job at sports center because I was clear in mind. I was energetic. I focused quite frankly, I just performed at a very high level. Let me just close this. There we go. Soon after, I started a e-commerce business. I produced blue light blocking glasses. These things are called Swanis. This is my sleep company, Swanix Sleep. You can check it out if you're interested. Swanix Sleep.com. We generated a million dollars in revenue in the first year, which was pretty exciting. So exciting. In fact, that entrepreneur magazine wrote an article about me and my brother who did this. I started the company with my brother, how I built a million dollar business in 12 months. Again, I credit being alcohol free to giving me the focus and the energy to enjoy success, not just in business, but in health and relationships. We'll get to that in a second. Forbes magazine named me one of the top 25 professional network experts back in 2015. I became acquaintances. It would be an exaggeration for me to say that I'm friends with, but I became acquaintances with folks like Elon Musk. You may have seen him on Saturday Night Live the other night, billionaire owner of Tesla and Paypal and SpaceX. Mark Cuban from Shark Tank. I spoke on stages. I gave to Arnold Schwarzenegger's charity and got to go to his annual fundraising event each year, which was really exciting. Even got to work out with him once at Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California. That was a real thrill. Then as I started to coach high performers on how to quit drinking, I ended up coaching a two-time Oscar winner on how to get power over alcohol. I'm not allowed to reveal who that person is, but you will know them. Hugh Hefner from the Playboy Mansion before he died. I consulted to him about how to reduce or quit alcohol. Eli Manning, New York Giants, two-time Super Bowl winner. If you're an Australian, you might know Jack Bongiorno, who is one of Australia's top real estate moguls. Also, he's the owner of a Melbourne Cup winning horse. Melbourne Cup is Australia's biggest race day. America had the Kentucky Derby or the Kentucky Derby, I should say, just last week. If you've been following that, the head trainer is under suspicion of doping the horse. That's another story. But Jack Bongiorno, I helped to get long-term power over drinking. He credits much of his real estate success to having clarity and focus from being alcohol free. You may have seen me speak on stages around the world in New York and London, Sydney, Australia. I've been on the Doctors TV show a couple of times, Yahoo! Dave Asprey had me on his podcast, number one health podcast. One of the top health podcasts in the world. The podcast episode was Be Wiser Without Button Wiser, which I thought was pretty clever. Psychology Today has featured the method I'm about to reveal to you in its magazine. A few other big blogs, Elephant Journal. So that's a bit about me. I know you want to get into the nitty gritty, but I can say that a life without alcohol is far better than the life I had with alcohol. All these photos that are coming now are photos of me since I've been alcohol free. This is me living on my New York City apartment building. Travel, of course, before COVID went to Rome. That's Burning Man, the Roman baths in Bath in the UK. This is Scottsdale, Arizona. This is up in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. I like to be active. All these active photos I'm showing you just to demonstrate what is possible for you when you're consistently alcohol free. Today I'm an investor. One of the other things I do, I invest in brands. I'm a part owner in PO1 Imports. You may have bought some home goods there. Radio Shack, Dress Barn, Stein Mart, Models Sporting Goods, linens and things, Mentor Box, Farmer's Cart, Knowledge Society. I am an investor and part owner in many of these businesses. I used to not have any clue about business until I went alcohol free. When I became alcohol free, that really kickstarted my entrepreneurial and investor life. Now I was free to do whatever it was that I was interested in. If you're here because you're wanting to get more clarity and focus, you're in the right spot because being alcohol free is going to help you produce that. A couple of famous people who don't drink, you may not be aware of. Let me just give you the inspirational talk, so to speak, because there is a tide happening of people who don't drink. Warren Buffett, world's most successful investor, doesn't drink. Jennifer Lopez, alcohol free. Larry Ellison, very successful businessman, alcohol free. Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, alcohol free. Whether you like him or loathe him, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are both alcohol free. I don't care about your politics, just something that's interesting to note. Shana Twain, alcohol free. Tyra Brinks, alcohol free. Ronaldo, the soccer star, alcohol free. Kristen Davis, alcohol free. Now maybe you don't care about Hollywood celebrities or you don't care about President Biden or President Trump, that's fine. It's just interesting that there is a big movement at the moment where people are choosing to be alcohol free because of the incredible benefits that you get from that. If you're just joining, welcome, we've got some new people here and we've got a couple questions. If you're just joining, go ahead and just type in where you are joining from, which city, which state, which country. Let's go back to the truth. Here is the truth. The truth is that you've been lied to because all of the marketing and all of society tells us that if you drink alcohol it's fun and cool and you can be this guy with the two attractive ladies on his arm or you can be these ladies with the attractive man on his arm. If you meet up with the ladies, you can just have riotous fun because alcohol is present.  It's the waitress or the waiter who says, good evening, sir. Good evening, ma'am. May I get you started with some drinks? It's the waiter who says, ma'am, sir, welcome. May I get you started with some drinks? Would you like wine cocktails? It's the friends who invite you to the bar and of course they're all smiling and happy and laughing. How can I get you a drink? And of course it's all false marketing. Marketing shows photos of a couple enjoying a glass of wine. This woman is looking at this man seductively. These guys are hanging out at the bar, having a good time, holding on to their bud light. Look at them smiling and laughing and having a great time. People are cheering. Oh, yes, wonderful. Leonardo DiCaprio was drinking champagne and there's fireworks going off in the background. He's very sophisticated with his tuxedo. So of course we associate champagne with celebration. Well, who created that idea? A very clever marketer because all the champagne is and all this beer is and all of this beer and all of this wine is is just attractively packaged poison. Jay-Z in the club, let's pop a beautifully packaged bottle of poison and then everyone will associate that with excitement and celebration. And so everyone will want to drink this attractively packaged poison just like these guys. The truth is that alcohol is a poison and toxic to the body. It takes seven to 10 days in most cases for the body to rid itself of all the toxins. So that means that if you have a drink right now, if you have a sip, let's imagine this is a beer, for example, the toxins from that beer are now going to show up in your body a week, a week and a half from now. They can take a strand of someone's hair. They will not be able to take it from my head. But if you have hair, they'll be able to take a strand of your hair, put it under a microscope a week later and they will be able to see the toxins from the alcohol that you consumed. That's how long the alcohol hangs around in your system. That's how long it's in there just eating away at you. So it takes seven to 10 days in most cases for the body to rid itself of the toxin. Alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer in women. It lowers the testosterone levels in men. It can cause sexual dysfunction.  Oh, what fun we'll have.  I can't tell you how many people go through my Project 90 experience and their blood pressure drops from high to low over the course of 90 days. It's incredible. I had one client, Roseanne. She's a 60-something retiree from Arizona. Is it you, you, Connell, using Arizona? I think it is. Her blood pressure when she joined us was incredibly high. Her resting heart rate was high. And then at the end of the 90 days, her blood pressure had dropped to here and her resting heart rate had dropped to here. She lost 24 pounds, I think it was. Maybe it was 21 pounds. One of those odd numbers, even though 24 is an even number anyway, somewhere in the 20s, she lost as a result of not consuming alcohol, attractively packaged poison, I should say. Let's keep going here.   Gin and tonic, same as a candy bar, glass of champagne, same as a packet of chips or crisps. Pinot Grigio, same as a chocolate donut. So every time you're enjoying that wine or that drink, imagine eating a chocolate ring donut. We know it affects our sleep. Now, it's true that it may help you fall asleep, but the quality of your sleep is going to be severely compromised. And when your sleep is compromised and you've got toxins rolling around in your skin, then the aging process speeds up faster than what nature wants it to go at. There's a natural aging process, but what you're doing when you drink alcohol is you're speeding that up. You're like, I don't like nature's plan for me. I'm going to go faster. I'm going to age faster. And that shows up with wrinkles, skin issues. They did a study out of the UK that showed that drinkers, regular drinkers, not even alcoholics, but just societally acceptable drinkers, have about a 30% more visible crow's feet and wrinkles on their face than non-drinkers. So look at my skin. I haven't drunk since 2010. I'm a 45-year-old, soon to be 46-year-old man. I have what nature has given me. I've got some wrinkles. I've got some crow's feet. But I don't have bags under my eyes. I don't have a sunken face. I think I look the way that nature just intended me to look. I don't think I look any better than anyone else. I just look the way that nature intended me to look, because I drink lots of water. I eat well. I exercise. I get some sun. I practice gratitude. And I just think I look the way I'm supposed to look. A drinker, a societally acceptable drinker, which may be you, will likely not look like the way that nature intended that person to look. Nature wants you to look a certain way. But when you're drinking, you will likely have 30% more visible signs of wrinkles, crow's feet, dry skin.  Your eyes might be sunken. If you're not sleeping the way that nature intended you to sleep, your eyes might have bags underneath them. You might just feel tired and lethargic and irritable. Let's keep going. And then I'm going to give you the plan to get through today alcohol-free. Obviously, you put on weight. For men, it shows up as a beer belly.  It's not great. So that's the truth. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news about alcohol. But today we're going to do a mind rewiring and I'm going to show you how to look at alcohol through a different lens. KD asks the term, or doesn't ask, just mentioning saying the term attractively packaged poison. Yeah, tell me about that KD. What's interesting about that? Is that interesting or another way to look at it? What's interesting about the term? KD says it resonates. It's interesting. Great. I'm so happy. How long have you been alcohol free from Chris? Since 2010, since March 2010. So I'm not sure what that is now. It must be 11 and a half years, 11 or so years. Ben says the part about erectile... I didn't actually say that word.  But I get what you're saying.  So men or women, if you're in a relationship with anyone, whether it be your husband or your wife, your intimacy improves noticeably when you are consistently alcohol free. This little side note there. All right. Let's continue on here into the mind rewiring. Are you guys ready? All right. So you might want to grab a pen and paper for this. But the first thing that I want you to really grasp is stop trying to quit alcohol. And I'll tell you why. Because what you're doing is that you're telling your mind what not to do. Okay? You're telling yourself what not to do. And all of the recent, excuse me, neuroscience shows us that when you tell yourself something, what not to do, you end up thinking about that very thing, which increases the likelihood that you will do or consume that very thing. So instead of saying, don't drink, I shouldn't drink, I have to quit, I'm quitting. Okay. See how in these examples here, you're saying, don't drink, but now you're thinking about drinking. You're saying, I shouldn't drink, but now you're thinking about drinking. I have to quit, but now you're thinking about drinking. I'm quitting, but now you're thinking about drinking. Also notice here, you've got I shouldn't, which has got a lot of shame and guilt built into it. I have to, which is very heavy. Oh, I have to. I need to feels very heavy, doesn't it? So instead of don't drink, I shouldn't drink, I have to quit. I'm quitting. We instead say what we will do. I easily only drink water, ice and a piece of lime tonight. I only drink water. I easily only drink water. Henry Ford said the man who says he can and the man who says he can't are both right. They're both correct. So if you say something is hard, like, oh, it's hard to quit drinking, well, it will be hard. If you say, oh, it's easy to only drink water, then easily only drinking water will be easy. I easily only drink lots of water as opposed to don't drink. I shouldn't drink. I have to quit. So let me let's do a little example here and I'll need you to pay attention for about 20 seconds. I want you to close your eyes for the next 10 seconds. I'm going to ask you to think of something.  This will take 10 seconds only because close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes. Do not think about a pink elephant. Do not think about a pink elephant. Okay, open your eyes. Did you think about a pink elephant? Chances are you did think about a pink elephant, but I asked you not to. I requested that you did not think about a pink elephant. So why did you think about a pink elephant? because the latest neuroscience shows us that when we tell ourselves not to do something, we end up thinking of that very thing and increase the likelihood that we'll do that very thing. So when I say don't think about a pink elephant, you started thinking about a pink elephant. When you say don't drink, I shouldn't drink. I have to quit. I'm quitting. Then you're going to be thinking about drinking. So each night when you come home or rather each night when you each morning, I should say when you wake up and you start saying to yourself, Oh, not tonight. I'm not drinking tonight. Oh, no way. I shouldn't have had those two drinks last night. That's it. Tonight. Not drinking. I got to stop this. I need to quit. I have to do this.   So it makes sense. Now smokers get this wrong all the time. People who want to quit smoking quit. I must quit. I'm going to quit quit smoking. But of course, what are you thinking about when you say that you're going to quit smoking? You're thinking about smoking. So then a packet of cigarettes turn up and you're like, Alright, I'm going to smoke. But what's a way that we could do a flipper Rooney? That's a word that I made up a flipper Rooney on quitting smoking. That doesn't involve the word smoking. How about this? I easily only breathe in fresh air. The only air. The only thing I put in my lungs is fresh air. I only ever allow fresh air into my lungs. I easily only breathe in fresh air. See how that's so different to I've got to quit smoking. I need to quit. I'm quitting. See how that's different.  This is backed in neuroscience. They've done studies that show people who are trying to quit alcohol, keep drinking alcohol for the most part people who just don't even focus on alcohol and instead they focus on drinking only healthy drinks remain alcohol free and have a much healthier life. Who here wants to put in? Well, actually, let's do a little bit of engaging here. Just type in what is the sentence that you will now say as it relates to drinking something tonight. What will you do tonight? Tell me what you will do now. Be clear. Don't tell me what you won't do. Tell me what you will do. So go ahead and type that in for me. Just put that into the panelists and attendees section there. You can just click there on comment or on chat and you can just type in beautiful. I will drink water. Fantastic. I love that. Thank you for sharing that. Who else? I will drink water. Kyle says I will enjoy soda water with cranberry juice. I love that. So Kyle says I will enjoy soda water with cranberry juice. Pete says chilled water with cucumber. I'm liking this. These all sound pretty good. Christina says looking forward to ice water with lemon and a walk versus a half bottle of wine. Okay, so even better. Christina, great job. Even better is don't even say the words half bottle of wine. You don't even have to say that. You just say looking forward to ice water with lemon and a walk. See how that's telling yourself what you will do as opposed to what you will not. Katie says I will easily enjoy sparkling water with lime. Fantastic. I love this. Great work. You guys are getting it. Let's continue. Second thing and this will be the second of three things that we talk about today. Design your environment. So we want to remove the visual cues of alcohol and we want to replace them with the visual cues of health and vitality. Okay, we want to design our environment. So James Clear, who's a friend of mine, wrote the New York Times bestselling book Atomic Habits. In fact, I interviewed him and recorded the interview about habits and our Project 90 members get that video and that interview as part of their membership. But he says James Clear in his book, remove the steps between you and your good behaviors and increase the steps between you and your bad behaviors. So what does that mean? And what does it mean when we're talking about removing visual cues of alcohol and replacing them with visual cues of health and vitality? Well, chances are, if you're like most people who drink, you've got wine glasses, bottle openers, cork screws, bottles of wine, six packs of beer somewhere in your home, whether it's in your fridge or cupboard or your pantry. That's a visual cue. And every time you see those visual cues, that is queuing you up to drink a wine or a beer or a Scotch or whatever. A lot of people have liquor cabinets. See how the liquor cabinet is beautifully presented. It's got the vodka and it's got the rum and each day you walk past that liquor cabinet, that is a visual cue. It's essentially saying to you, drink me. Come forth, dear sir or dear ma'am and drink me. What are some visual cues of alcohol that you have in your home? I see Blake says, for me, it's about doing something else, spending extra time with kids, watch a show, not focus just on what I'll consume. Great. Fantastic. KD says glassware. So you have glassware. What kind of glassware? KD, wine glasses, beer glasses. What have you got? Someone else here has got wine decanters. Yes. Fottle openers. Yes. Tina says caulk screws. Yes. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Pete says everything.  Pete, great question. We'll get to that. We're going to be talking about that tomorrow actually on day two, where we'll be talking about how to socialize without alcohol and how to defuse or defend against the smiling assassins. Sounds like your wife is a smiling assassin in this instance. Thanks for the question, Pete. Tune in tomorrow. We'll get to that. Now, what do you replace these wine glasses, caulk screws, liquor cabinets, wine? What do we replace it with? Type in some suggestions there and then I'm going to show you. So what are some, some, some visual cues of health and vitality that we could put around our home that every time we just walk past it, we go, oh, healthy or subconsciously. Maybe we don't even notice it, but we're thinking about ourselves as being healthy and vibrant and energetic, someone who's alcohol-free and loving it. Variety of sparkling waters with fresh herbs to add like thyme and basil. That sounds delicious. So sparkling water is fantastic. So I have a sparkling water here. Let me, this might be an opportunity time for me to show you. In the fridge, there's no alcohol, there's no beer, there's no wine. I have a sparkling water. This is a company called Spindrift. It's actually really, really nice, real squeezed fruit. It's natural. It's got three calories in it. Okay, I'll just show you on the back here. And the ingredients are simply carbonated water and lemon juice. That's all it is. Carbonated water and lemon juice. There's a company called Zevia. I love this. This has got to be my most favorite drink of all time. Ginger root beer. I don't know if anyone likes ginger beer or root beer. This is amazing. Zevia is a tremendous company that has zero calorie soda, perfectly healthy for you. And let's have a look at the ingredients here. Carbonated water, stevia leaf extract, natural flavors and citric acid. So these sparkling waters are nice and colorful. These are attractively packaged waters, essentially. But comparing it, you know, attractively packaged poison, these are James approved. And Zevia's got lots of great flavors as well. It's got orange and lemon and a few other things. Katie says, I drink their ginger ale mixed with seltzer. Great. So ginger ale of itself is actually full of sugar and we don't want to just substitute one poison for another. But if you mean, if by you're saying there, you're saying the Zevia ginger beer, yeah, great. Fantastic. Because they've removed all the sugar from it. It's just some natural flavor. So here's what I do in my home when I am replacing those alcohol cues with visual cues. I like to put glass mason jars around my home.  Okay, so instead of having wine bottles and wine glasses, I have glass mason jars. And I fill up my glass mason jars with filtered water. And I drink lots and lots of water throughout the day. Plus I drink my Zevia or my sparkling water. Flowers.  Buy a bouquet of flowers and put them on your living room table. Put them on your kitchen table. If you have a wife or a partner buy her some flowers and take care of those flowers because the flowers become a representation, a visual representation of health and vitality. And I want to challenge you to really take care of these flowers when you buy them. Put them in a vase with water, replace the water each day. Take care of the make sure there gets plenty of sunlight, not to too much sunlight, replace the water. Just by replacing the water and maybe cutting the stems a little bit each day, you can prolong the life of these flowers. And every day you come home from work or you walk in the door once you've been out and you see those flowers. It will get you feeling and thinking like you are healthy or at least healthier than what you've been. The colors and the scent becomes a representation for your own body. So I want you to focus on treating those flowers with the utmost respect and love and care. And that becomes a metaphor for your own body for your own life. Treat your own body with love and respect and care. Drink lots of water. Go outside and face the sun. Care, nurture for those flowers. They become a representation for you caring and nurturing for yourself. Again, we're trying to design or manipulate our environment. If we go back to what James Clear told us in Atomic Habits. Remove the steps between you and your good behaviors. We want a nice clean path to good behaviors and the clear path is visual representation of health and vitality, which is glass mason jars, a bouquet of flowers, a fridge full of zero calorie sparkling water. This is for the ladies. These men look quite handsome with their bouquet of flowers. I remember when I bought my bouquet of flowers for the first time, I was in Venice Beach, California. I went to the Friday morning markets there about two blocks back from the famous Venice Beach boardwalk and I bought a bouquet of flowers and I was my home at the time was walking distance and I was walking back to my home with this bouquet of flowers and all the cars were driving by because it was about eight thirty nine in the morning on a Friday. So there's a lot of traffic and I kept thinking while all the people in the cars must be thinking that either I've made a mistake with a romantic partner with my partner or or I'm about to that was the story I created in my head. But in actual fact, all I was doing was buying a bouquet of flowers to stick on my living room table to remind me to be healthy and vibrant and to challenge myself to take care of those flowers as I as a symbol for taking care of myself. In fact, I recall a couple of days later I was in the Air 1 supermarket in Venice Beach and I was lining up and there were a few people ahead of me and the way they design the supermarket is that when you're waiting in line to go to the cash register they have candy and chocolates and packets of chips and all the things you know you shouldn't eat. But they're all just staring at you as you're waiting in line. They do it deliberately because they want you to you know to make these impulse buys and I remember at the time I was like oh I really want to buy one of those chocolates but then straight away the flowers came into my mind and I was like oh I am the flowers. I only put in good food and good liquids into my body. I take care of myself. I nurture myself and so I just walked up to the cash register and I bought the groceries that I had bought and I did not buy the chocolate bar and I went back to my Venice Beach home and that was proof enough for me that these visual cues work.  All right, let's have a look. We've got some questions here. Who has got some questions? Type in the questions down below. What is your favourite water? So I like Perrier or yeah, Perrier water is good, not Pellegrino because Pellegrino has a lot of sugar in it. A lot of people get those two mixed up. I think Pellegrino is really healthy but it's actually got a lot of sugar in it. I would invite you to look in the back of any drinks and zero to three calories is good. This has got three calories but basically what you really want is just to check that the water is just water and some lemon juice or some water and natural flavours. Okay. All right. So today your goal is we're going to wrap up today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Remember, there is a Facebook group. If you're not in the Facebook group, I invite you to join Melanie. My executive assistant is going to drop in the chat right now the link to that Facebook group in there you will be able to see the replay of this particular presentation for day one. I'll be uploading it there in about half an hour or so. So you can go and review if needs be. I invite you to go into the Facebook group and post a photo of you being alcohol-free tonight.  Take a photo with you with bouquet of flowers. Take a photo of the flowers. Take a photo of the drink. Tell us your favourite alcohol-free drink. Go ahead and post in that community if you feel comfortable to be in the Facebook group. I would love to hear from you and see from you. I will comment back and give you a little shout out. What felt valuable for you about today's core? Christina says, emphasise what is positive versus negative. Yes. Fantastic, Christina. Thank you for sharing that. John says the term alcohol, sorry, attractively packaged poison. Thank you, John. If you have any other questions, go ahead. Focusing, James says, focusing on what I'm going to do not what I'm not going to do. Yes. So what are you going to do tonight? You're going to be drinking.  That's what you're going to do. Blake said what was valuable for him was when I described myself as being average, stop being average.  This is who I coach. I have entrepreneurs, parents, husbands, wives, top professionals. When you are drinking, you are holding yourself back. And we're going to do a mathematical equation on Thursday.  And it's frightening. It's not just the three or $4,000 that you spend each year on alcohol. It's what you're not generating for yourself because you're drinking habits. So make sure you tune into that. Some of you probably won't want to because you won't want the truth. Kyle says, I think all of these points are valuable. The one I most appreciated is the clarity of mind that one loses without even noticing while drinking. Yes, Kyle. Thank you. Mark says, should have bought myself flowers on Sunday along with my mother. Yes. Well, Mark, great news. You get to go and buy yourself a bouquet of flowers now. If you're an alpha male, if you consider yourself an alpha male testosterone field guy's guy, it might feel a little awkward to go and buy a bouquet of flowers with the intention of a being for you. I know it felt awkward for me when I first did it, but it works. I promise you it works. Okay. So that is it for today. Thank you so much for attending. If any of you would like to work with me on a more professional basis, I'll be talking a little bit more about that as we go along here towards the end. But you can also, you can always, I should say, read up a little bit more about Project 90 and the folks that I help in over here on this page, alcoholfreelifestyle.com apply. And there you can see a lot of these people here, these folks down below whose lives have been completely transformed because they went alcohol-free. You can just go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com forward slash apply and you can read up there and see some pretty amazing success stories. Mark, you're going to buy yourself some flowers, which is amazing. Thank you, Blake, James, Christina, Kyle, Nelson, Pete, Ben, Tina, John and all of you others who were here on the call. I will see you guys same time tomorrow. Go ahead and post in the in the in the five-day Alcohol Challenge Facebook group. All right. Thanks, guys. I will see you tomorrow. 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Hello everyone. It's great to be here. I'm Ibrahim Kurt. I am the CEO and the co-founder of M genomics and Today I'll be talking about our new really exciting product called genomics comprehensive newborn DNA screening test By the way, I think they forget to give me the slide changing thing Or should I say next slide I Think the Slide no, I don't have it Okay, perfect. So who are we and genomics is a healthcare analytics startup producing DNA analysis software for screening and early diagnostics And we have been recently accelerated by healthcare lab that is powered by Roche. Thank you very much awesome That is powered by Roche EIT health and European Union Union and of course This is the future of the healthcare and hopefully you will enjoy our our product So, who are we I completed my PhD studied studies recently at Harvard University in the field of molecular biology and genetics Murat is an expert in biostatistics and bioinformatics and these are the core pillars of our product and Harun is an expert academic expert in the field of human biology and Biochemical pathways of diseases and Serkan is an investment operations expert in biotechnology So what is the problem? We are tackling addressing and trying to solve Right now around the globe. There are more than 300 million people worldwide suffering from rare genetic diseases and Unfortunately, 50% of them are children and again, unfortunately 30% of these children will not survive until their fifth birthday so this is a huge number if you do the math and We as algeomics do not accept this number. We think it's unacceptable in today's 2022's technology we have and What's the main culprit? What's the main problem? The main problem is with the standard newborn screening when you have babies around around the world in hospitals today It is not it's it's called blood hill prick test and it's not only invasive and painful But it's also incomprehensive that's built upon almost 70 years old technology Although the exact number of number of diseases that are being screened varies from in between countries It can be as low as five and six in Turkey in Finland in most of the European countries actually This insufficient screening leads to many problems But the number one problem is it can lead to permanent irreversible physical and mental damages and or even premature child death Compounding the problem making it worse. We as adults are unaware of our genetic background There's a huge genetic and awareness in the society and statistically speaking trust me Every one of us are carrying some genetic conditions right now. We are just not aware of it There is this ghost in the background in the society looming around That combined leaves families and the health system under pressure both financially and psychologically So to illustrate the promise of our product, I will show you two cases There are not currently screened with the conventional methods But there are screened by our methods and they are both medically actionable The first one is called Segawa syndrome and you're seeing it became big news in Turkey recently You are seeing from news channel some screenshots on the left. You see two twins Walking in the aisle and the title says twin miracle So these boys up until they are seven years of old for the first seven years of their lives They were they lived bound to bed semi-paralyzed. They couldn't hold their heads and neck upright They couldn't properly eat speak talk and they constantly had epileptic seizures Of course after painful and long diagnostic odyssey knocking on many doors across many hospitals They ran into dr. Adnal Yüksel who happened to have some genetics training background And he figured out and diagnosed that they have Segawa syndrome all he did all he did was prescribing super accessible and simple drug called L dopamine and Then they started walking talking and speaking and saying mom and dad first time after seven years The second case starts with a common infection that can happen to every one of us And of course can happen to babies as well and they might spend few days in NICU at the clinic And of course doctors usually just prescribed common antibiotic and one of the common antibiotics is aminoglycoside family it's very common again Tommy sin you might know it and Unfortunately certain fraction of the society they we we can carry a mutation in one of our mitochondrial genes And if you are administered this type of family of antibiotic It leads to antibiotic induced hearing loss and that's permanent and we also screen for this pharmacogenomic mutation So what's the solution the solution essentially we're offering is a single test that checks for 180 genetic diseases in a single Test that's built upon sensitive and accurate next-generation sequencing technology It's gentle non-invasive and we are only checking for a medically actionable genes and diseases It's super simple just a mouth cheek swap that you can apply to any babies even five minutes old Actually our algorithm as a as a type of validation has already successfully identified More than one baby with conditions. The first one is a baby 20 to 30 days old male baby from China We already knew he was positive for this deadly condition called metal malnick acidemia So it was a true positive for us to test and when we pushed him through our algorithm our pipeline product We must be successfully labeled him as positive then in the middle Actually, you see my daughter back then I was in Boston doing my PhD And she was one year old and proving the point that we are all carriers of some diseases But we're just not aware of it. It turned out. She's also a carrier of cystic fibrosis and a dear friend His son one month old turned out to be our genemia carrier By the way, I want to clear out something in the remaining time Genetic carriers ship shouldn't be thought and deemed as a viral viral infection Carriership these genetic carriers ship do not exhibit or demonstrate itself in the individuals They are totally healthy until the end of their lives only when they marry or their spouses are also carriers for the same conditions Then only then statistically their children can exhibit these conditions So please join us in our efforts to increase the health and wellness of society by screening for actionable diseases Thanks a lot for your attention and for joining me


Today's topic is how we are going to derive the indirect utility function. As we have already discussed that the indirect utility function is a technique or a method that we utilize in the Marshallian demand function to assess the change in the utility of a consumer via change in the price and then we calculate that this can be described by the change in the price in the form that we have to measure the change in the expenditure of the consumer with the change in his price. So when we calculate we utilize the mathematical technique of the envelope theorem here and we say that if there is the utility curve of the consumer that we have mostly utilized in the form that utility is the function of x1, x2, x3 and up to xn and for this the consumer is having the respective prices in this form and now we have to calculate the utility of the consumer we mostly take the utility maximization approach and when we take the change in the utility due to the change in the price we can utilize this price and x in this form that utility is indirectly equal to the expenditure incur on the price of this commodity. So expenditure incurred on commodity x will be this expenditure on the commodity of x2 will be like this and the expenditure on commodity 3 like this and like this the commodity n and when we add up all these we can say that it is equal to summation of all the prices multiplied by their respective optimal bundle of the commodity. So this will be our optimal or the desired budget or the expenditure. Now the utility is maximized through the optimal level of the budget or the optimal expenditure that is required to provide our desired level of the commodity and what will be the change in our optimal utility that will be measured through the change in the optimal required budget. So it gives us this equation that we can measure through the indirect utility and when we measure through change in expenditure with respect to price we come up here that it can be equal to this that when we sum up this will be equal to the summation of all the utilities and change in the optimal amount due to the change in the price. So keeping the all Lagrange equation that will be equal to this part and we say now this is the change in the utility due to the change in the price and this can be through the change in the expenditure and it tells us that the budget constraint of the consumer it should be same or the nominal income it should be kept constant. So we can measure the utility not only due to the change in the price through the utility rather through the change in the optimal amount of the expenditure or the budget required to attain that amount of the utility. So when it is ensured that this part that all the price and their respective expenditure and this any change in the optimal point that will occur due to the change in price it will give the optimal point of the same commodity. So it tells us that any increase in the price of this commodity that will cause the reduction in the purchasing power of the consumers it will require from the consumer to reduce his income or to reduce his expenditure incurred or that commodity. So that now the consumer will be able to at least purchase his previous bundle and at the same time he will have certain amount in his hand now to allocate equally to the all other goods. So by Shaffer lemma and utilizing the first order conditions now we will say the purchasing power of the commodity it will reduce and that purchasing power of that will reduce it will provide the consumer a further availability in the form of certain real income that now consumer will incur for the purchase of the other goods provided that the goods that he is going to purchase they are mostly the normal goods.


Brett Favre telling us what makes Rodgers so good year after year. Brett? He's got great arm strength. He's got tremendous accuracy, but I think most importantly, two things. His playmaking ability, meaning that you draw a play up and it ends up totally the opposite of the way he's drawn up. He gets flushed out of the pocket. He scrambles around and he can make a throw from any position regardless of where his body is contorted off the ground. Moving to the left, moving to the right, moving to the right, moving to the left. I think you can do it and make all the throws and plays. But also his football IQ is off the charts. You're not going to really have smarty. You know, you can draw up a different scheme, but he's going to figure it out.


So once again it's from the Kumar Sambhavam and you're going to absolutely love this one. It says, and so she comes pulling up again and again the girdle of Kesar flowers that are slipping from her hips as she walks. So flower girdles were worn on the hips as it says in the passage but they were made just a little bit larger than your body so that you'd really have to swing your hips to make sure that they wouldn't slip down. So these girdles were actually worn to teach women how to perfect their walk. You know that very sexy swinging of the hips walk? This was how you learned how to do it and the reason that I think that this was such a delightful idea is because I can remember how we were taught to walk when we were younger.  The girdles on the other hand were about teaching you how to walk like a woman. This was not about being all controlled and straight and being the proper lady. This was about swinging your hips. It was about owning your body. It was about being aware of your own sensuality. It was literally about the joy of knowing that there are depths of pleasure inside you that are just waiting to be tapped just like every woman should feel. You know I often think I wish we could have grown up like this wearing girdles of flowers around our hips understanding what it feels like to have the curves of our body kissed by fresh fragrant flowers just learning to be visible instead of being taught to be ashamed.


What is up everybody, it's Stas here and in this video we're going to be doing an overall market update. Taking a look at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. We're also going to be doing a trading update talking about what I did today in the markets as well as some stocks and ETFs that I'm watching and looking to trade right now in the month of November heading into the month of December in 2019. And as you guys read in the title, we're also going to be talking about NEO stock and why I think there's a good possibility here that it could break upwards based on this technical break that I'm seeing right now. And I also want to break down U-Gas, D-Gas and natural gas because there is some research I did today and I want to share with you guys that research. But before we do get into this, all I ask from you is to go down below, hit that like button if you enjoy the content here, if you find it valuable and also consider subscribing if you want to see further content from me about the stock market and consider joining our StrafSmart Discord group chat and our StrafSmart Facebook group which are linked down below in the description box. So let's get into it right now starting off here with the good old S&P 500 guys, the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies with about 53 minutes left in the session today and yes, I'm recording this video a bit early today. This is up $19.50 up .63% and we hit yet again another all-time high at $3,131.65. And the analysis that we did on Friday and in yesterday's video, it ended up panning out, it ended up coming into fruition in today's session. And that analysis was pretty much that this was a dip buy in the S&P, that we were potentially going to go higher in the S&P, hit a higher high, hit an all-time high if we were to break that 50 S&P resistance. And we all saw in yesterday's video, the futures market was up. If you guys remember, the S&P was up 7, 8 points. So I was saying that the S&P, if the futures were to hold where they were yesterday, which they did, this thing would probably gap up in the morning, which was this morning, and that's exactly what ended up happening. So we got that massive gap up, the breakout, the continuation of the uptrend, the higher low confirmation from the previous, and we got that all-time high like I stated. So the S&P is looking extremely bullish right here, guys. If we go back to that one day, one minute, it's very clear that it really hasn't done much after it hit that all-time high. It's pretty much been consolidating here, but that's honestly a good sign, right? That's a good sign that the S&P could be gearing up here for the next leg up, honestly. It could be gearing up for another pop here, maybe another half percent to a 1% pop before it either consolidates and sells off or continues to go up again. But remember, guys, this thing's not going to go up every day, day in, day out. There's going to be a day where it pulls down. Like we saw last week, it saw two days of pulling down. So if we run up another day or two here, two gap ups, a gap up, another half percent, gap up, whatever it may be, we're probably going to see another retracement either later this week or maybe even next week for this thing to cool off a bit. But nonetheless, it's looking extremely bullish right now, up 0.6%. And who knows? There is another 50 minutes left in the market today. Maybe we do start to see another leg up push later in the day today, and maybe we even go and test another all-time high, maybe even hit another all-time high in these next 50 minutes of trading. And obviously, if you guys are watching this video right now, you know whether or not we did hit an all-time high or maybe we even sold off at the end of the market. So going over to the Dow Jones Industrial Average here, guys, this one's up 150 points right now, 148.02 to be exact, up 0.5%. And just like the S&P, this thing gapped up, we saw a nice run in the first hour of the market, then from that point on to right now, we've really just been consolidating around 28,000 bucks. Really, that's just where we've been consolidating, right? And if we go back to the 20-day one-hour chart, and just like the S&P guys, we talked about this on Friday and in yesterday's video, you know, we gapped up above that 50 S&P, and we saw how the futures were gapping up in Sunday's session when the futures market opened at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard. So that kind of gave me the notion that, okay, futures are up here. That means if the futures hold this nice gap up, we'll be gapping above that 50 S&P. So I'm thinking to myself, okay, the Dow is probably going to open higher, and that's exactly what ended up happening, right? We gapped up, very bullish here, higher low confirmed. We didn't hit an all-time high, guys, like the S&P, but this all-time high could be hit tomorrow, which is at $28,090.21, if we do see another nice day in these markets, which honestly, I could definitely see another day, especially with optimism surrounding the trade war and all that good stuff that we've been seeing out there. So that's what the Dow's looking like right now, guys. If we break it down on the 5-day-5 minute, you can see it's looking quite bullish. Same with the S&P. Now, if we go to the NASDAQ, this one's up the most, guys. This one's up an impressive 1% today, up 84 points here. And look at that poll, guys. This thing is insane. It went from 8,300 all the way up to 8,375 in the matter of one hour. That's pretty impressive, right? And if we pull this 20-day chart here to see what it's looking like, we can see the massive bull move that we saw. Again, that nice poll here and the gap-up, right? We saw the gap-up yesterday. We broke above the 180SMA and the 50SMA as we gapped up when that futures market opened. And that, again, just like the S&P and the Dow, that move gave me the notion that we could be seeing a nice, healthy green day today, especially if those futures were to stay green heading into the market open today. And, obviously, that ended up happening and we saw a massive, massive rally here. We didn't hit an all-time high, right? The all-time high is about 15 points away here, but I wouldn't be surprised if we hit that all-time high tomorrow. I was about to say yesterday, guys, tomorrow or the next day, or maybe even later today in the next 30, 40 minutes. Who knows, guys? So keep an eye on that. Again, S&P at the all-time high, but the Dow, the Nasdaq, they did not quite yet. So let me know down below in the comments what are your thoughts about the markets right now. Are you buying right now? Are you chilling on the sidelines? Are you loaded up on cash? I'd love to know what you guys have to think. Let me know down below in the comments section and let's talk about what I personally did today in terms of my trading. So the first trade I made today was trimming some profits from my Chipotle Mexican Grill position, ticker symbol CMG. And for those of you guys that have been following the channel for a week or two at this point, you know that I've been swing trading Chipotle Mexican Grill. So if we pull up this 10-day chart, I got in during this period, I believe. It wasn't, I don't think it was here. I think it might have been one of these days, but my average cost is around 750 bucks, right? I scaled in during this time period. And those shares right now, guys, the ones that I sold, I made about a 4% profit on them because I got in at, again, at about 750. And if we go to today's movement, I actually ended up exiting half of those shares at about 784 bucks as we started to aggressively run up today, right? And you can see this stocks up almost 2% today, guys, $14. So quite a good day for Chipotle Mexican Grill. And my initial plan was to get out of the shares completely under this 180SMA. So I didn't do that quite yet because there is some more room to run. But I do feel comfortable, again, trimming half of the position here, taking about a 4% profit on the shares. And again, looking to unload the rest of the shares, especially if we break that 180SMA, which honestly, I see potential in that happening. I definitely see that happening over these next couple of days. So locked in that 4% gain on Chipotle in terms of day trading today, guys, I was eyeing up, what was it, TQQQ, but honestly, I missed the move because it ran up so quick in the morning and then it really just consolidated for the rest of the day. And this is actually an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ. It goes up three times with the NASDAQs going up. So if you like trading individual indexes, you can do that trading, you know, TQQQ for the NASDAQ. You know, if you want to trade the S&P, you can do SPXS if you want to short the S&P or SPXL if you want to go along the S&P. These are good options for you, right? But for me, again, I missed the move, so I didn't end up day trading that. So really, all I ended up doing today was profiting on CMG and then cutting out of my McDonald's position, which I've been swinging here for about a week or two, just because of the technical break below 192.50 to about 193 bucks, right? I ended up cutting that. And honestly, guys, this is looking bearish to me, in my opinion. This could potentially fall down back to the 180s based on the technicals here strictly and again, based on this 193 break. So the fact that I was in around 192.193, I didn't really lose anything at this point, right? I lost like 0.2%, 0.3%. Nothing crazy. I just feel more comfortable unloading those shares as the trend is not in my favor at this point. If I were in the stock, I'd be fighting the trend. And that's kind of going against one of my main rules when swing trading, which is don't fight the trend. Do not fight the trend, right? So McDonald's cut that. Chipotle took the profits. That's pretty much all I ended up doing today in terms of my trading. So now, let's get into NEO stock, guys, because this is one that I'm holding in my long-term account, right? You all know that.  And it's actually peaking my interest for my swing and day trading account. So let's pull it up and talk about what is going on today with the stock. It's currently priced at $2.08, up $0.14 on the day, $0.15 now, and climbing up 7.73% right now. So NEO stock is doing exceptionally well today. And like I mentioned in the beginning of this video, I saw a technical break here that is quite attractive, in my opinion, and that could yield a lot more upside if the stock continues to break out from this technical break that I saw this morning. And let's get into that right now. You can't really see it on the 4-hour chart, but if I zoom in and dig in a bit more on this chart and we go to that 20-day-1-hour time frame, you'll be able to see exactly what I'm talking about, right? So we can see a clear level of support at $2 right now on NEO and a clear level of resistance at $2.40. So what happened last time we broke $2? We ran up to $2.49, which was a nice gap fill of about 18%, right? So now that we're breaking that level again, I'm looking to see if NEO could potentially redo that pattern, to see if it can repeat that pattern, right? And right now we're actually at a point in the chart where we're reversing. This is a beautiful reversal pattern that we're seeing here on NEO, right? From the $2.49 peak down to this low at about $1.68, notice how these moving averages, the 180 and the 50 SMA, both of them were acting as resistance levels, right? We also saw a bearish cross, meaning the 50 SMA crossing below the 180 SMA. So this was really bearish during this time period here, really from the beginning of November, kind of towards the middle of November. But since the middle of November, the 15th, 16th, 17th, there's kind of been a shift in the stock here. We've slowly found a bottom at 170, right? And we've been making higher lows and higher highs since then, and we've actually been breaking out of those moving average resistance levels and holding them as supports, right? And we're also getting a bullish cross, which we actually got on Friday in the afternoon and heading into today's session where the 50 SMA is crossing above that 180 SMA. And we also got a break above the resistance that we were at, I believe, Friday morning at 207. We just broke out of that, hitting a higher high, right? And again, we're breaking into the channel between 2 and 240. So this is all kind of formulating together, and it's looking good, in my opinion, for a breakout, right? We're slowly getting the breakout here, but what I really want to see before entering a position in NIO is a continuation, right? Tomorrow, if the momentum continues, let's say we gap up into the 210s, 211, 212. At that point, guys, I could definitely see NIO continuing to rally here. That's kind of the momentum we need to see, as well as some volume kicking in here into the stock, right? If we just look at the volume right now, if I kind of just spread this apart a bit, NIO, you can see 32 million volume right now. So if that starts to kick up a bit, that starts to get higher, and of course, it's kind of high as it is now. If it ramps up even more, this could definitely result in the stock breaking out, popping up to $2.40. So that's kind of my thoughts here on NIO stock. I'd love to know what you guys have to think down below in the comments section.  So let's get into natural gas first and foremost, slash NG F20 is what we're following right now, the January futures, and you guys can see down 13 cents, down 4.9% at the time that I'm recording this video, which is insane, right? If you guys watched my video yesterday, we actually talked about the gap up that natural gas had. Very, very positive for the bulls here. We gapped up from $2.70 up to $2.75, but we quickly dumped after that, all the way back down to $2.70. And what I was saying in my video yesterday, guys, remember this, right? If you guys remember this, let me know down below in the comments. But what I was saying is, if natural gas were to hold $2.70 and rally back up, U-Gas was definitely going to be the play for today, right? At this point, that's very bullish. If we were to test $2.74 again, which is where we gapped up in terms of the futures and especially if we were to break that level, right? But I also said if $2.70 was broken to the downside, D-Gas was going to be the player of the day. And what happened, guys? Well, natural gas ended up breaking $2.70 quite aggressively and we actually got all the way down to $2.60. We broke $2.60. And now we're testing $2.58, which also happens to be a strong level of support. So the quick gap up yesterday, it did not last. U-Gas and natural gas ended up crashing through the floor, guys. Now, on a technical level, technical basis, I'll be watching $2.58, $2.57, which we held a couple weeks ago. We actually held that level about a month ago as well. So this is a very, very strong technical spot for natural gas right now, $2.58. And if we go over here to U-Gas, guys, you can see the abysmal performance today down $2, down 14% as of right now, which is very, very bad, right? One thing that I'm looking at here is the $13.1275, $13 level of support. But then again, guys, this doesn't really matter a lot because if natural gas just dumps even further, this support won't really mean anything, but still it's worth watching to see $13, $12.90. Does this hold heading into tomorrow's session for U-Gas? That's pretty critical, rather not extremely critical, but it's something worth watching if you're doing some technical analysis. And of course, on the flip side, D-Gas was up 14.2% today, is up 14.2% today, and climbing up almost $16. So tomorrow, guys, if natural gas breaks $2.58, I'd expect a lot more blood in the water. D-Gas will probably run up here in the short term. But let's say we start to fill the gap back up to $2.60, $2.61, that's going to be quite positive for U-Gas. So what ended up causing this drop today? Let's talk about that right now. So I did some research online today about natural gas on this specific website called NatGasWeather.com. So we can see this kind of graph here showing the mild trends of weather, the milder trends of weather, compared to the 30-year normal, as well as kind of just the forecast from 12 hours ago and 24 hours ago. And you can see that we're more mild right now, especially heading into the early months of December. That's kind of how this trend is looking. And if we look at this other little excerpt right here, one weather system will exit the northeast early Monday while a new weather system arrives into the west end plains with rain and snow and chilly lows of teens to 30s. Ahead of this western U.S. system, mild high pressure will build across the southern and eastern U.S. the next few days with highs of 40s and 50s from the Great Lakes to the northeast Monday through Wednesday with 60s and 70s from Texas to the mid-Atlantic coast. The west system will eject across the Great Lakes and northeast Wednesday with areas of rain and snow. Another system will track into the west for the second half of the week. Overall, there's going to be light early week national demand in terms of natural gas. This early week from Monday, Tuesday to Wednesday, then it's going to be increasing from Thursday to Saturday. So that kind of explains why natural gas is kind of tanking here in the short term the milder weather. And we've been talking about this over the past couple of natural gas videos, guys. We saw withdrawal last week of 94 BCF billion cubic feet and I also look deeper into that that a lot of people expect this week's withdrawal to be around 60 billion cubic feet. So it's going to be less, which just goes to show that the demand this week wasn't that strong due to really the milder weather that we've been experiencing over the past one to two weeks because remember, this natural gas report, it reports the storage for the previous week's storage. So it's not going to be really on time, real time. It's going to be delayed by one week. So overall, guys, that's kind of my perspective here. Those are kind of my thoughts and some things to consider milder weather than expected. It's warmer than expected, but it is supposed to get colder here in the middle of December from what I was reading and, of course, later on in December as well. So in the short term here, natural gas, it probably has a bit more downside, especially if we report a week withdrawal, this upcoming week, which is very, very possible. So I'd love to know what you guys have to think about that down below in the comment section. Now let's just rapid fire, go through a bunch of stocks and ETFs, not really a bunch, but just the couple that I'm watching right now in the market in these next couple of days, the ones that I'm personally looking to trade. So one that I really like here, guys, is going to be obviously Chipotle Mexican Grill. This is one that I'm really liking, very bullish, bullish cross here. We're seeing it, obviously. We talked about it earlier in this video. I trimmed off some profits, but I still see a lot of potential here in the short term with Chipotle Mexican Grill, right? If we break that 180 SMA, there's a lot of potential for this thing to go back to 8.30, and maybe even 8.60 to test that all-time high. So from where it is right now, up to 8.30, guys, 6% in the tank, up to 8.60, that's around 9% profit potential in the tank. Another stock that I'm watching, and I know a lot of you guys are watching as well, is going to be Tesla stock, guys, TSLA. Pretty weird day-to-day for Tesla stock. It ran up, I believe, this morning, pre-market actually, it ran up. This is really due to the, you know, 200K sign-ups for that Cybertruck. We actually got an updated tweet that it's at 200K. I don't know if it's more now. I haven't really checked since that 200K tweet, but I'm guessing those sign-ups for the Cybertruck ended up gapping the stock up, and honestly, I was expecting that. You know, we saw about a 4% gap up here, but ultimately, that ended up selling off right to where it was at the close, really, on Friday, which is kind of interesting, right? So, we saw the 4% gap up, 4% fall on Tesla stock, so am I buying this up? Maybe tomorrow, honestly, guys, maybe tomorrow this is worth looking into, especially if we start to see more momentum pushing us back up to that level that we got to this morning, maybe around 340, right? 345, if we were to break that level, that's where I'd probably be buying Tesla right now. One negative thing that I'm seeing here is we did get rejected by the moving averages at a lower high, so ideally, again, like I said, if we were to break that level, that's where I'd probably be buying Tesla ticker symbol TSLA. Johnson & Johnson is another one that we talked about yesterday, and this is tuning up for a potential buy in the morning tomorrow, in my opinion, right? We got the gap up to 138, we got the pull down this morning, and we actually solidified a higher load this morning on top of that 50 SMA, and we've been slowly climbing up since then, which is really positive for the bulls out here, right? If we close like this, that will be even more positive for the bulls, and that will probably lead me to take a position in my account, in my swing account, in tomorrow's session. So Johnson & Johnson, definitely watching this one. Let's break down gold very quickly, guys, because honestly, I haven't broken down gold in a while here. So gold down 0.6% today, down $9, and ever since these markets have been killing a guy's, gold has been falling, right? We saw the fall from 1560 down to about 1450. Now it's going to be interesting what gold's going to do, because you can see 1450 here, old resistance from a couple months ago, that's the support that we should hold, in my opinion, right? We should hold this. We held it a couple weeks ago, two weeks ago to be exact on the 11th of November. So if we were to hold this, hey, maybe we run back up to that 180 SMA. That could be a short-term play in J-Nug, right? But if we break this, that's going to be a very bad technical break for the bulls. Good for the bears, bad for the bulls, right? We could be pushing down to a lower low at that point, either at 1440, 1430, 1420, or even lower than that, right? So that's kind of what I'm looking at here, gold. It's been quite boring, but if you guys saw my M1 Finance portfolio video, I actually bought some GLD in that portfolio. And if you guys didn't check out that update video I uploaded earlier today, that's going to be linked down below. And it's definitely a video you should watch right after this video. If you guys want to see what I'm holding in my individual stock portfolio on M1 Finance, that I started building a couple months ago in the beginning of July. So that's it for this video, guys. If you enjoyed it, feel free to go down below. Hit that like button. Consider subscribing if you want to see further content from me. And don't forget to join our StriveSmart Discord group chat as well as our StriveSmart Facebook group. 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This is a study guide for Chapter Six of Sociology for Optimists by Mary Holmes published in 2015, the chapters called Relationships. Please note that these study guides are meant to point out some of the important concepts of interest to introductory students. They are not designed to be thorough or provide an in-depth discussion. Material will be skipped or barely discussed, while other concepts will be given more emphasis than the chapter may have given them. Also note that the purpose of this book is to look at ways in which sociology can provide a basis for optimism. So discussions of pessimism and optimism will be central to this guide. In the past few decades, major changes have occurred in how we think about and do intimate relationships. Of course, probably the biggest change has been shifting gender roles. In the 1960s throughout the U.S. and developed countries, women demanded the right to work away from home, and men had to shift their understanding of familial responsibilities. The legalization of birth control and abortion has allowed women to choose more freely when and if to have children. This has allowed them to pursue work and family in new and different ways. In the 1960s, we also saw changes in how people thought about sex, and opened up boundaries that were previously placed on sexual encounters by either social norms or formally by the law. Cohabitation, sex outside of marriage, recognition of different sexual orientations, and same-sex marriage are some of the ways in which the relationship between consulting adults and the extent to which the state intervened in sexual matters has changed significantly since the 1960s. Currently, gender itself is being challenged to the binary category, marking a major shift in how we perceive the identity of others, with people demanding more say over how they present themselves and their gender identity. Perhaps one of the biggest changes for women has been the ability to live alone, which not only represents financial independence, but also is a way out of abusive or potentially abusive situations. We can demonstrate these changes empirically using both historical analysis of law and demographic changes, but these also have changed the meaning of intimate relationships in everyday life. Cohabitation without the legal ties of marriage has become a way for people to test relationships before they make a commitment, allowing people to lead bad relationships more easily. Legalization of same-sex marriage has opened up legal protections for couples that previously did not have this legal status, and ironically have also enforced more traditional forms of coupling by making it a state-sponsored entity that is monogamous and permanent. Of course, these changes, as in all new experiences, have created some fears. Sociological research can help alleviate some of these fears. When previously disempowered people gain power, there can be misunderstanding and fear. Overall, these fears are more about relearning expectations rather than some inherent problem with empowerment. The empowerment of women has seen many as making intimate relationships more difficult, especially because this has challenged the rules of engagement and intimate encounters. Overall, though, this empowerment has been more good than bad. As the status of women rise, in general, democratic and economic freedom rises. Same-sex relationships have become more acceptable in mainstream developed countries. Ironically, this has had the effect of reinforcing traditional ideas of state license of marriage and primacy of monogamous relationships. While many lament the rise of divorce as a loss of traditional family, sociological studies have indicated that there are some positives to divorce being available more freely. Probably the most important positive effect is making it easier to leave abusive relationships and family situations. There is a wider acceptance of human variations and what is acceptable between consenting adults and honoring how people express their gender identity or not express it. This is the newest of effects of these changes, but early studies of what this means is generally positive and optimistic. While the lived experience of intimacy is an important concern in understanding these new ways of doing relationships, there are some who fear that these changes are going to have profound demographic effects, especially on questions considering intergenerational relationships. For most of human history, high fertility was important to economic growth, both on a familial and a national level. Empowerment of women, among other factors, have led to a reduction in birth rates called fertility rates. Lower fertility has some positive effects on populations. These can be more dramatic in the developing world. When women are freer to pursue economic independence and provide more resources for families without fear of abuse, the entire economy becomes more sustainable. Some fear that lower birth rates will eventually lead to intergenerational problems because there will be less young people to handle the burden of older adults both by families and the larger economy. This doesn't seem to be working out that way, however, as older populations are less dependent than expected. Older folks are living longer, but are healthier and more independent. One of the reasons for less dependency may very well be that people are learning how to live alone and for longer periods of time and are not stigmatized for this type of household. Women especially rarely lived on their own in the past, as they often were seen as the caregivers to others, such as children and older adults. The rise in the number of women living alone has been linked to women being better able to walk away from abusive relationships, choosing careers either in Lua families or as a reason to postpone families. These shifts have had an overall positive effect on the economic well-being of not only women, but also the population at large. So we always ask, where is the optimism? What does sociology have to offer? Sociologists have mapped out social relationships for years, taking into account changes and who is allowed into intimate relationships. They have found that living alone and being lonely are not necessarily related. Sociologists have been studying gender and gender roles for a while now and have some ways of measuring not only of relationships are more egalitarian, but also the positive effects of rising gender equality. Sociologists have been studying marriages and families and following the changes that have been made over the years, demonstrating that the path to happiness is probably varied.