Once any of us goes through a traumatic event, it sticks with us, but have you ever wondered how some people seem to recover from trauma while others don't? Well in this video, we're going to discuss 5 signs that you can tell that you're overcoming your trauma and you might actually be doing better than you're giving yourself credit for it. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. If you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. So I try to discuss different topics and try to see what we can do to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And quick little house cleaning real quick. So I announced the Shane Dawson Palette Giveaways yesterday and we've had over 400 sign-ups already. So check this out. Check this out. If you've already signed up, so if you've subscribed, you've signed up for the email ring list. If you want to get a second entry into the first giveaway, retweet my tweet for this video. So you'll get not one but two chances to win in this first giveaway. Alright? But yeah, anyways, let's jump into this topic. So what is trauma? Alright? When we talk about trauma, like we often think of like PTSD, right? And for some people, it's something really severe such as, you know, assault, abuse, going to war and all of that. But trauma can happen to anybody who goes through an experience that can be life-changing even, right? Like the death of a loved one or even being in a near-death experience such as a car crash or things like that. A lot of us have trauma that stems from our childhood. So what happens is, is our brain develops trauma responses, alright? Our brain locks in in a park called the hippocampus which is in charge of our memories. It's like, yo, when this thing happens, the sight, smell, situation, whatever it is, you should be afraid. You should get ready to run, alright? Or fight, okay? And yeah, like I was saying in the intro, like it's always fascinated me that some people are better at overcoming their trauma than others, right? So using myself as an example real quick, I had a traumatic childhood. Now it might not be the same as yours, but I grew up in a household with an alcoholic mother, alright? Some of you have had your own traumatic childhood experiences. For some of you trauma might have happened later in life, right? But something that I was always curious about as well, I was talking to a buddy of mine who's a war veteran and he, you know, he has some PTSD from, you know, being deployed and everything like that. But you know, he's back home, he's married, he has kids, he works and everything like that. And I was having a conversation with him and I'm like, what separates you from other veterans who come back and they can't get over it, right? Or get through it, right? Like they've been through the same things you have and he didn't really have an answer, like he didn't really know. Well, I think after reading some recent books, I think I've found the answer, alright? So we all know about PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, alright? But something that we don't talk enough about is something called post-traumatic growth, alright? So this has been covered in a bunch of different books I've been reading lately, but the most recent book that I'm reading is called Super Better by Jane McGonagall, alright? And I'm kicking myself in the butt. I wish I would have started this book sooner, like, oh my God, I cannot stop reading it.  And I'll do some more videos about this and everything like that. Like if you feel like you've been stuck in your mental health journey and you're trying to find a new way to kind of like overcome depression or anxiety or trauma, whatever it is, check out this book Super Better. I promise you, you'll love it. Well anyways, Jane McGonagall, she has done so much research. Like part of her studies, they've looked at, I think she said over 400,000 people, right? And she was fascinated with, too, was this post-traumatic growth.  And she found that there's five common things that people with post-traumatic growth have. So I'm going to talk about these five things. What I want you to do is ask yourself where you're at with these different aspects, how you can move forward with these different aspects, or, you know, work towards these different aspects, alright? So I'm going to use some of my own personal experience because something that I'm trying to do is because my life is a million times better than it was, right? And I'm always trying to deconstruct it and see like, what have I done or where am I at? Like, why am I handling things better than some people are? How can I break that down and use that to help others? So I'm going to use some of my experience to go through this, alright? So number one, the number one thing that people say with post-traumatic growth is my priorities have changed. I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy. So like I was saying too, part of trauma can also be having a near-death experience. So for many years, those of you who don't know me, I was in a drug and alcohol addiction, right? Many children of alcoholics and addicts become addicts themselves. And during my addiction, I was very depressed. I was very suicidal. And seven years ago, I had a 10% chance of living, okay? I was this close to death. They told me that even if I got sober, like, I was probably only going to live another year, okay? So I often look back at that situation as well, because I was totally hopeless. So when it talks about my priorities have changed, I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy, like hugely, hugely, like my priorities have changed, right? Like my son, for example, like back in my addiction and any other fellow recovering addicts out there, like the addiction takes precedence over everything, the drugs and the alcohol, right? But another thing is too, like coming that close to death, like all my priorities have changed. And like the last six months, like this year has been very difficult for me and I feel like I've taken a lot of steps back, but reading these books and kind of looking at these different things and kind of having something to set my sights on, I'm like, okay, that's where I was. This is where I need to be again, right? So the second thing people with post-traumatic growth say is I feel closer to my friends and family. Yes, yes, yes. So for me, like I mentioned my son, I have my beautiful girlfriend Tristan, you know, I have my parents and I have my friends too. And I have the new friends that I've acquired since getting sober and just, you know, other people who knew me in my addiction and who I've grown up with and everything like that, like my relationships mean so much more to me, especially I'm more connected with people who have been with me throughout, you know, my addiction as well as my recovery. Some of my best friends that I've known since I was a teenager, right? And it took me getting sober and going through everything I've been through in my life to really know what a good relationship looks like. And when I say that, I mean, good relationships are two way streets. Like I legitimately something I try to do to foster better relationships with my friends and everything and, you know, let them know that I care. I set reminders up in my phone all the time just for silly things, not just like birthdays or anything like that. But if one of them has like a doctor's appointment or something like that, like I try to set it on my phone and like foster a better connection with people. All right. And then something I also do if a friend was sick or like my mom recently, she had surgery earlier this year and everything like that. I set a reminder, right, not only for the day of the surgery, but also days afterwards, right? Follow up with them and see how they're doing. Okay. So the third thing people say with post-traumatic growth is I understand myself better. I know who I really am now. And this is something especially since getting sober as well. And it took me time. It took me a lot of time to discover who I was for a long time. I had no idea who I was. I, uh, when I share my story, like my full story, I discuss how I used to be this kind of like social chameleon. I was constantly changing who I was and who my personality was based on who I was around and everything like that. Right. And it's taken me a long time to discover who I am and get to know myself and like myself for a long time. I had no clue what I liked. I had no clue what I liked, what I didn't like, and I just experimented with everything.  Like I would change for the girl I was with and everything like that, you know what I mean? But now I know myself and I know who I really am. All right. So number four is they say, I have a new sense of meaning and purpose in my life. Yes, yes, yes. Like coming so close to death for me. It's made me want to live each day with more purpose, but also overcoming my addiction, you know, massive improvements in my depression and my anxiety, my, you know, traumatic childhood and everything like that. I have found meaning and purpose in helping others, right? Like why do I have this YouTube channel? Like you guys, it's something I haven't even discussed. So hi, this is the first time I'm saying it. I actually have a full-time job. I'm back to full-time work and I've been back doing it for a few months now. And I'll dive more into that in another video. But like I love doing this so much and helping others that not only am I working like a 40 plus hour week, but I come here and I'm still doing pretty much daily videos. And sometimes when I'm feeling kooky, I do two videos a day.  And it's because I have this new sense of meaning and purpose in my life. And I often look at myself and I'm just like, I can't, in good conscience, be where I'm at today, have been through everything I've been through and not try to use that to benefit others, right? So number five, the last thing is I'm better able to focus on my goals and my dreams. And this, what a great number five. Like, again, this is something where if I'm being just, you know, honest and trying to be self-aware, I made some major back steps this year after everything happened. But I feel like I'm finally getting back on the track and I'm better able to focus on my goals and my dreams. If any of you watched my other video about how I've wasted the last six months of my life, like I, the way I envision it was like I was on this path, right?  And it's taking me six months to get back on the right track because here's the thing and this is what I hope for all of you. When you get back on the right track, when you're able to focus on your goals and your dreams, everything else is just noise, right? Everything else is just noise. Like my goals and my dreams involve being a good father, right? Being a good boyfriend, being a good son, right? But also helping as many people as I can and giving them hope to improve their mental health or overcome their addiction or whatever it is, right? So the rest is just noise. You know what I mean? The crappy comments that people leave, the little tweets that people do and everything like that is just noise because I'm getting back tunnel visioned on my goals and my dreams. And that doesn't have to be yours.  But I want you to look at this list again and ask yourself, like, how are you doing with these things? Right? And you don't have to be like where I'm at. You might be ahead of where I'm at, right? You might be behind where I'm at. It doesn't matter. But like something that helps me out a lot is knowing what to aim for, like knowing what to strive for, right? Am I going to let my trauma run my life? Right? Or am I going to work towards something? Am I going to work towards something and overcome this thing and use this as something that is built up strength and resilience? You know what I'm saying? So anyways, like I said, like even if you're not in the Shane Dawson giveaway, retweet this video, share this video because chances are you know somebody who has been through a rough past and maybe maybe they're actually doing better than they think they are. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge, huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel over on Patreon as well as everybody who supports the channel by buying my mental health books and merch and all that good stuff. All right. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


France's relationship with Africa has deteriorated to the point where the King of Morocco, King Mohammed VI, has refused to accept French aid in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the North African Kingdom. On Friday night, September 8, 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco. This tragic incident has killed around 2,500 individuals and injured many more. According to the US Geological Survey, no earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 6.0 have occurred within 3-10 miles of the center of Friday's quake in at least a century. Parts of the walls encircling Marrakesh's Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site erected in the 12th century, were shattered and destroyed as a result of the shock. As is customary in such situations, offers of assistance have poured in from all over the world, including France, a former colonial power with a sizeable Moroccan diaspora. According to AFP, on Saturday, September 9, shortly after the earthquake, French President Emmanuel Macron posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was devastated by the terrible earthquake and sent a message of support and an offer of aid to Morocco's King Mohammed VI. However, it has been more than three days since Macron issued an offer of assistance and Morocco has yet to accept. Even as the death toll in the disaster approaches 2,500, French assistance workers have expressed dissatisfaction at not gaining permission from Moroccan authorities to enter the country and begin working. Arnau Fress, the founder of the French humanitarian organization First Responders Without Borders, commented, unfortunately, we still don't have the go-ahead from the Moroccan authorities. He also stated that he was unaware of the cause of the blockage. Later that day, on September 11, Mr. Fress retracted his offer to Morocco because the so-called golden period during which most earthquake victims are found alive had already passed. Our role is not to find bodies, he clarified. Meanwhile, a British team of 60 rescue personnel and four search dogs landed in Morocco on two Royal Air Force A-400M planes sponsored by the Ministry of Defence. In addition, Spain deployed 86 rescuers to Morocco after Rabot accepted their offer of assistance and the Gulf states of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are sending specialists as well. The apparent rejection from Morocco's monarch has astonished French aid workers who believe they would be well placed to assist due to their technical competence and the fact that French is widely spoken in Morocco. Human officials, on their part, have stated that they are reviewing the aid request since a lack of coordination could be counterproductive. Morocco has had various historical grievances with France which reigned over the North African Kingdom as a colonial force until independence in 1956. According to Pierre Vermeuren, a French historian and professor at the prestigious Sorbonne University, the refusal of aid constituted a clear political sign. Minouki Muhammad VI diplomacy, he told AFP. He likes to send messages, make swipes, and show how angry he is. Overall, France has had decent ties with Morocco in recent decades, better than with other former colonies such as Algeria, but in 2021, tensions erupted between the two nations as a result of France reducing the number of visas available to Moroccan citizens. At the time, the French authorities claimed that Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia were not cooperating in efforts to combat illegal immigration. French officials, in particular, accused these nations of refusing to accept people whose visa applications had been refused in France. Due to the visa issue, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna visited Rabot, Morocco's capital, last year. The visit was intended to enhance relations and lead to an increase in visas for Moroccan citizens but complaints about visa procedures persisted. This issue, combined with previous colonial conflicts, has weakened the relationship between the king and Macron. France's efforts to repair ties with Algeria, Morocco's regional competitor, have also strained relations between Macron and King Mohammed VI. Last year, the French president paid his second official visit to Algeria in an attempt to repair traditionally strained ties. Algeria backs the Polisario Front, an organization that has been fighting for Western Sahara's independence for decades. Morocco, for its part, wants France to recognize Western Sahara as Moroccan territory, which Paris has so far refused to do. The French president's scheduled visit to Morocco has been repeatedly postponed and the position of Moroccan ambassador to France has been vacant for months. Officials in France have attempted to downplay any schism between the two countries, which is concentrated on the subject of Western Sahara, which Morocco wants France to recognize as Moroccan territory. On Monday, September 11th, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna denied claims of a snub by Morocco and stressed that it was up to Morocco how it wanted to process aid requests. She stated, we are ready to assist Morocco. It's a Moroccan decision and it's up to them to make it. She has referred to the situation as a misplaced controversy thus far. She also stated that France had pledged 5 million euros for 0.29 million pounds to help and rescue organizations already operating in Morocco. While France is attempting to downplay the tensions between the two countries, Morocco has not. In fact, the government officially stated through its interior minister that for the time being, it would only accept search teams from four friendly countries, namely Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. It would accept aid from other friendly countries if necessary, according to the statement. Morocco's foreign minister has yet to react to a request for comment on why the country has not accepted offers of assistance from other countries. While some analysts believe that the king of Morocco's refusal to accept French aid is due to pride and incompetence, according to Lee Storm, a professor specializing in North African politics at England's University of Exeter. The Spanish and UK rescue teams have stated that they are impressed by the professionalism of the Moroccan counterparts and that things are going well. In the midst of political tensions between France and Morocco, the Moroccan people have been profoundly affected by the earthquake and have criticized the government for its late response. One of the earthquake victims, Abdul Karim, indicated that he is still waiting for the authorities to come and help his shattered community. We are not asking for much, not villas, just small homes, he said, adding that while regular Moroccans have been sending food to this hamlet about an hour's drive south of Marrakesh, he and his fellow villagers have received little official assistance. Hundreds of people's homes have been damaged. They have nowhere to go. Long lines of people waited in the blazing morning sun three miles north in the town of Omismes awaiting relief from troops. Some have voiced dissatisfaction with the amount of aid supplied with military commanders doing their utmost to keep the throne quiet. The earthquake disaster in Morocco is a tragic event, but it has also highlighted France's diminishing influence in Africa. What are your thoughts? Do you think the king of Morocco is right to refuse aid from France? Do leave your comments down below and don't forget to like, subscribe and share this video.


What is up, you guys? Welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Goldpony. I typically do new car truck and SUV reviews on YouTube, doing something a little bit different today. Today's video is going to be my top 10 list of best cars you can get for under $10,000. And so my personal requirements for a best car in that particular price range, for one, it's going to be something reliable. Because at a price range of under $10,000, that's definitely something you're going to want to look for. Second criteria on my list is going to be something that's actually fun to drive. In my opinion, you have to have a car that's somewhat enjoyable for yourself.  And so having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and get started with number 10 on the list. And so to start out, coming in at number 10 on my list, being a car that I've previously owned myself, being the Infiniti G35 and actually G37 Coupe as well. And so Consumer Reports gives both of these vehicles a well above average reliability rating, which is the very highest designation by Consumer Reports. And again, I've personally owned a G35 Coupe, and I've absolutely loved it. And so when it comes to the engine setup, you're either going to get a 3.5-liter naturally aspirated V6 or 3.7-liter, hence the names of the cars there. 275 horsepower for the 3.5-liter, 325 horsepower for the 3.7-liter. Power is either going to be sent to rear wheels, which comes standard on the 3.5-liter, or rear wheels or all-wheels. All-wheel drive is actually optional for the 3.7-liter. And essentially, this is a great drift car as well, if you're into that kind of thing. I used to drift my G35 quite often. Power is going to be sent to the ground through either a 6B manual or an automatic. And as far as the pricing and mileage goes on these, you can expect to find either of them coming in at 60,000 to 80,000 miles for under $10,000 there. Then coming in at number nine on my list, a very similar vehicle being the Nissan 350Z. Once again, well above average reliability by Consumer Reports. Essentially, again, the same car as the Infiniti G35 that I used to have just in Nissan form. 3.5-liter naturally aspirated V6 is the power plant producing 306 horsepower sent to only the rear wheels. And again, this is a legendary drift car. They were everywhere in fast and furious Tokyo Drift. Power sent to the ground through a 6B manual or a five-speed automatic, although I would recommend the 6B manual for the 350Z at least. And you could expect to find these with around 40 to 60,000 miles coming in at under $10,000. That's a heck of a deal for this one. Then number eight on my list being the Honda Fit. Well above average reliability, really near perfect reliability. So that's excellent. And although it doesn't have as much power as the 350Z and G35, it is still a very fun car to drive with the magic seat in the second row. If you guys don't know what that is, it kind of flips up like a pickup truck if you wanted to put it up that way at least. And then it flips back down if you have rear passengers, of course. But power is going to be made from a 1.5-liter naturally aspirated inline four cylinder. 128 horsepower being sent to the front wheels. They are very inexpensive to maintain as well. Again, it feels like a go-kart really. I've driven and reviewed plenty of them at this point. Power is sent to the ground through a 6B manual or a CVT. Again, I have to go with the 6B manual on this one. But here's the best part about the Honda Fit. They're still fun to drive, but you can actually find them with only 10 to 20,000 miles on them for under $9,000. That is crazy considering the Honda Fit is typically going to last you over 200,000 miles because that's how reliable it is. But only 10 to 20,000 miles for under $9,000. That's definitely got to be on my top 10 list in this one. Coming in at number seven, we're going to switch it up and go with Subaru Crosstrek. Well above average reliability according to Consumer Reports. And I really wanted to put the WRX on this list. Honestly, you guys, I did, but it does not have good reliability. And I had to include that on this list because that's important when you buy a pre-owned car. And so the Crosstrek though comes with Subaru's symmetrical all-wheel drive system, which is the very best all-wheel drive system out there right now. It's been proven so you have plenty of adventures in the snow with the Crosstrek. Powering this one is a two-liter horizontally opposed four-cylinder boxer engine, of course. 152 horsepower. But with 152 horsepower and the size of this, it's slightly underpowered, I will be honest, but you do have the ultimate freedom with that best all-wheel drive system in existence today. And you can expect to find a Crosstrek with roughly 60 to 90,000 miles for under $10,000. Then coming in at number six on my list, being the Kia Soul. It's a above-average reliability for most years, according to Consumer Reports. And the best part about the Soul and reason why it beats all the others on my list so far is you can find 2018 model years for under 10 grand, which means you have the factory bumper-to-bumper warranty left over because Kia's warranty is five years, 60,000 miles on the bumper-to-bumper. They of course won't transfer that excellent powertrain warranty to the second owner, but they will for the bumper-to-bumper warranty though. And so, if you get a 2018, you still have that for what, three years at this point? I'm making this video in 2020. Also, with the Kia Soul, you have awesomely vibrant colors available. It is a spunky little car, and you guys know how I love bright colors, hence my own car. Most Kia Souls are going to be equipped with a 1.6-liter naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder producing roughly 130 horsepower, with that power being sent to the front wheels and again, for a 2018 model year Kia Soul, you can expect to find them with anywhere from 40 to 80,000 miles for under $10,000, so that's a really good deal there too. Then coming in at number five on my list being the Mazda MX-5 Miata. And so, I don't know about you guys, but these things look like mini Dodge Vipers to me, especially in the older years, which is a good thing. And I've driven and reviewed these as well, and they are insanely fun to drive. Very easy and fun to drive standard six-speed manual that comes with the Miata as well. And of course, well above average and really near perfect reliability by Consumer Reports. You almost can't beat these things. Power plan is going to come from a two-liter naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder, and depending upon the year, it's going to produce anywhere from 116 to 181 horsepower. You can get them in an automatic, although the six-speed manual is going to be more enjoyable. And once again, like the fit, it does feel like a go-kart, but with even better handling, which is why they are often raced on the circuit track as well, and they're convertible. So you have that more intimate feeling going through the back roads perhaps, but you can expect to find an MX-5 Miata with 30 to 60,000 miles for under $9,000 right now, and that's a beautiful thing. Coming in at number four on my list being the Hyundai Elantra. And so for this one, I just wanted to look at the 2017 model year and newer, because before 2017, styling wasn't exactly on point for me. And honestly, 2017 and newer offers you plenty of options for under that 10 grand price range anyway. So like Kia, Hyundai does give you that transferable five-year, 60,000 mile bumper-to-bumper warranty, and PowerPlan is going to come from a two-liter, naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder, producing 147 horsepower paired up with a six-speed automatic. And best part about this, you can find Hyundai Elantras in the 2017 year and newer for very low mileage for under 10 grand. Expect to find them with roughly 20,000 to 40,000 miles for under $9,000. That's a heck of a deal for a Hyundai Elantra where you get the transferable bumper-to-bumper warranty as well. Then coming in at number three on my list being, of course, the Toyota Corolla. And so legendary reliability comes with the Corolla. We all know this. I don't have to quote any particular publication to substantiate that. PowerPlan is going to be a 1.8-liter, naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder, coming with approximately 128 horsepower, manual or automatic transmissions available. And although the Corolla isn't as much fun to drive as some of the other options on my list, it is still a great deal and it is insanely reliable. And so you can expect to find a pre-owned Toyota Corolla with roughly 20 to 40,000 miles on it for under $8,000. Then number two on my list being, of course, the Honda Civic. And once again, legendary reliability, at least, for the naturally aspirated engines, the VTEC engines, before they started turbocharging their Honda Civics, of course. And I've personally owned three of these Honda Civics. They're pretty fun to drive, definitely more enjoyable than the Corolla in my personal opinion. Power is going to come from a 1.8-liter, naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder VTEC engine, approximately 140 horsepower. You can get them in a manual or you can get them in an automatic, of course. Mine went over 200,000 miles. My top Civic went roughly 230,000 miles before it ended up trading it in. Still kept running, of course. Not only that, you can get them in coupe or sedan if you wanted to and they're extremely easy to work on. Anytime any of my batteries ever went dead, I just got somebody else to drive me to Napa Auto Parts. I bought a battery and I installed it in probably less than 20 minutes. They're super easy to work on. So that's a plus, too. You can find a Honda Civic with roughly 30 to 40,000 miles for under $10,000. And so now for number one on my list and the first car I have ever owned. So there's absolutely no bias here whatsoever being the Acura RSX or Honda Integra if you're in Japan. And so the RSX is a super fun car to drive. It's super easy to modify as well. There's so many modifications available for the RSX if you wanted to. I will say the trade-off with this one is they are kind of hard to find at this point because so many people took them over 200,000 miles and then they're kind of done after that to the point where nobody else is going to want to buy them. But at the same time, they're still insanely cheap right now with well above average reliability. According to Consumer Reports, once again, you can get them with either a base model or the Type S version. Either one is under $10,000 at this point. Power is made from a two-liter naturally aspirated inline four-cylinder. You get 160 horsepower with the base model, 201 horsepower with the Type S, five-speed manual or five-speed automatic if you want with the base. However, that Type S will give you a six-speed manual and they do have excellent handling as well. That's definitely a benefit to this one. As far as the mileage goes, if you wanted to go with the Type S, you can find them with roughly 90 to 200,000 miles for under $10,000. If you want with the base RSX, you can find them again with roughly 90 to 200,000 miles for under $6,000.  They're insanely reliable. So that's really the mileage that you can find them with these days if you can find them at all. And so, but that is about it for this one, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there if you like. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews. That is what we do here on this channel. After all, primarily. Do appreciate you guys watching them more than you know when I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


Live from the San Jose Convention Center, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, covering Hadoop Summit 2015, brought to you by headline sponsor Hortonworks, and by EMC, Pivotal, IBM, Pentaho, Teradata, Syncsort, and by Atunity. And now your hosts, John Furrier and George Gilbert. Okay, welcome back, everyone. We are live in Silicon Valley in San Jose Convention Center for Hadoop Summit 2015. I'm John Furrier, and that goes George Gilbert with Big Data Analyst at Wikibon.com. And this is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. We have two special guests here, the founder and CEO, Praveen Kankaria, and Anand Venigubal. You got that? You got it. All right, good. So you guys, head of street analytics, the CEO here. First, before we get into what you guys do, what's your vibe of the show here? You guys are seeing everything out on the floor. You're talking to folks. We're doing our best to share the data here on theCUBE all day, yesterday, today. What's the vibe? What's going on?  Not happening. Maybe it's consolidation, but this packed house here, bigger names, enterprise focus. What's your vibe? What's your take on the show? Share to the audience. What's going on here on the ground? I'm not so worried about the vendor community. What kind of consolidation's happening or not? I'm more fixated on the customers and the enterprise customers who are walking around here while we are talking here. I'm seeing a very different vibe this year. People are on to real use cases. People are not demystifying what big data is. It's not a small POC. Somebody should de-risk the company and figure this big data thing out and go in one corner, take half a million dollars and figure this thing out. Do a no use, throw away a discardable POC and come back and say that we can do it when we want to. We're way beyond that. We have real customers, real large enterprises walking around here who have, who are solving real use cases and creating transformational benefits. Hanna, what are you seeing? Same thing? Yeah, reality. Yeah. Real money. People see the value. The ROI thing is like, hey, you know what? Our ROI is we don't start doing something. There's no ROI at all. Exactly. So, you know, I just want to harp on one thing that Praveen said, it's real now. It's real now. The biggest companies in the world are spending real money seeing real value and hence buying. Are you seeing commonality between or even like categories of applications that are taking off? There's a bit of a bias in what I'm saying but I'm hearing streaming a lot, right? Yeah. Well, real time drives that. Yeah, real time. That's not, I mean, bias in the sense that streaming helps you guys. It is a fact, right? People are really enthusiastic about adding a rich customer experience, creating a rich customer experience by adding the most recent information and blending all of that with a powerful- It's interesting you said that because you know, even though you claim to be biased because that's an interest you guys have, you kind of look what you want to see but one of the things that I do in the queue at every event is I kind of have a mental model of if I was going to do a tag cloud in my head of what I hear the most and or top three conversations I'm in, you know, real time is probably what I hear the most. Yeah. Okay, besides Hadoop, I mean Hadoop, obviously would be the big fat font but real time is huge and that affects a lot of different things. The database, the in memory, streaming, geo, this is fast data, it's certainly data flying around and harnessing it is challenging because it's a whole new paradigm shift. So I would agree with you on that. Let's take a step back. Tell us about impetus of the company, speeds and feeds, employees, where you guys located, what's the company about? Then we can dig in some questions. So we are a product and services company largely focused on big data and as part of that we do, we help large enterprises deliver the promise of big data by way of services and along the way we have introduced products where we've seen massive gaps and the combination is actually turning into a very explosive benefit for our customers. So we go in there and we don't get out till the problem is solved. Now whether our product, Anand Venugopal here represents stream analytics where the stream analytics will create a head start and in some cases not. It's just a data at rest problem but needs to be solved with some smart algorithms crafted by our data scientists or just smart data engineering but we don't leave till the problem is not solved. And customers want that right now. It's services heavy right now because it is across the chasm. Some say the early adopters in the industry's across but that bridge to the future still is going to bring on the fast followers in the rest of the industry. So even Gartner says some good numbers, 50% of the people will look at Hadoop. That's still a massive number. That's everyone going to cross over the chasm. So it's not necessarily the enterprise themselves hasn't literally crossed over the chasm. So it's services heavy. So I would agree but I got to ask you what specifically in the services do you see the most of that will get the product market booming? Because at the end of the day the customers are building their products. They have a chasm to cross themselves. So the first thing is Anand mentioned from his bias perspective, real time streaming analytics is a big area of operation for us. That's where customers have burning use cases and we're able to go in with our tool set and smart people and we're able to solve, create proof of value in a very short amount of time. One voice over IP company called us and I'll give you half an hour. This thing is really good. Can you really solve this problem without writing a line of code? And we went, we were able to do this. Ranging to pretty large use cases where people are looking at offloading the traditional data warehouse because that's choking. The price points are not feasible, not viable for them to scale further. I got to ask a question that's going to lead into how you guys relate to the big data space in Hadoop. Kind of as a setup to that. And it's kind of a trick question. So take it for what it's worth. Analytics, a process or a product? It's from a customer standpoint. Process. It's a means to an end. The end is not analytic. So next step is, well to me you can argue both sides but process improvement right now seems to be another, not on the tag cloud in terms of most buzzword but what I'm reading out of the trends is everyone's transforming their businesses end to end, right? So like big data impacts every part of the business because you're measuring everything. So if you can instrument something, you can improve it, that's the thesis. If you believe that, then the question is, okay, people going to scratch your head and say, oh boy, I can really make a difference. So the process changeover is across the board. So I see analytics first addressing process and then product develops out of that, outcomes and whatnot. So what are you guys seeing in that transformation and how are you guys working with customers because they need to trust their partner? Right. They got to have a tech person, they got to have a team and it's a full on engagement. Yeah. So I disagree with calling it just for sake of process improvement. It's about improving anything and everything because if you can gather data on anything and everything and analyze the data, you can improve. So we have customers, hardware companies who are improving their products because earlier they were not able to analyze all the data they were gathering. The data was sitting in some cold storage. Now they're able to analyze and get the analysis to their engineers who can improve the products in their very next release cycle. So in other words, you could improve a product or a process that you can instrument it. So what I'm trying to say is I agree with you and yet I disagree that it's much larger than just process improvement or product improvement. It's about product. I guess I really disagree with myself but no, that's the point. This is the beauty of people. This is the beauty of my big data. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I don't say, oh I need MapReduce or I need streaming. I just got to go in and figure out how to architect that so I got to, you know, either I have staff on, people on staff that can do that or I got to find a partner. That's why I'm focusing on the services piece because at the end of the day, who are you calling, if I'm a customer, who do you call to do that, right? It's like, okay, so that's kind of my next question. So take me through an example.  We had a debate about processing products. We've got 10 different opinions on what to do. We all know we got to go to the next generation. Come in and help me. What do you say to that? Yeah, sure, I'll be right over or whiteboarding. Take us through the engagement process with you guys and the customer and take us through that historical journey there. Sure, the beauty of impetus offerings is that no matter where the customer is in their evolution cycle, we have an offering to start them where they are and take them all the way through the journey of realizing business value. So with a major airline, we're doing use case discovery. Right? You're doing use case discovery. Use case discovery, right? Where are the opportunities for them to improve customer experience or revenue or shape cost off, right? And prioritizing them. That's a pretty unusual way to get into a customer where they're like, help us figure out what problem we should solve. That's like trusted advisor territory. Exactly right. That is the territory we've been playing in since about nearly two decades now. We have been trusted partner to our customers and it is the journey is continuing in the realm of big data. And you might be surprised, but that is true. They actually want help in when you bring wisdom across industry verticals, people want to hear about not just their industry vertical, but what's, you know, a telco guy wants to know what the healthcare industry is doing and how can they take their lessons from there over here. That's what we do. We help people cross learn from across the ecosystem. And some of these are horizontal best practices that can be applied to. Well, as best practices as customers want to partner, it's going to help them figure things out. Exactly. Because a lot of things are happening in real time. Look at Spark, for instance, next week, we see a lot of tsunami of activity on Spark. And then the people will be speculating, customers will be getting seeing all this greatness and like, hey, I want that, that too. And it's not like, Spark's not a shiny new toy, it's relevant, right? So we can see that. You can obviously go, okay, I can get that. But now operationalizing Spark. It's a whole different bottom. But John, that comes much later. The first problem is what is the use case I'm going to solve? But then I'm going to solve through storm or Spark or some proprietary platform. That's very secondary. I think if you go talk to enterprise customers, and particularly the executives who have to go into that board meeting and justify where they are and how are we differentiating compared to our competitors, they have to, they're not dealing at a Spark or storm. Yeah, they don't talk that language. Whatever. They're dealing at, you know, what problem can I solve? Yes. How fast can I solve? And how much of a benefit can I produce? That's why I agree. I think that's why it's challenging when customers come to these early adopter industry movements like Padoop, for instance, which has been great. The linguistics are not connecting. It's like the language of the customer is, hey, I might get fired, or this is the psychology of the customer. I might get fired, or if I'm successful, it might fail by growing too fast and now I have more costs that could bloat it out now for, okay, now I'll take that success because the board says, double down. Yeah. So these are the challenges, an architectural challenge, if you will. And we have seen behavior changing in customers based on business priority, right? They become less attached. Like just like Praveen said, they become less attached to the technology. You know, we have seen across the distros, there's obviously polarity, right? And even in the customers, right? Some one distro supports Spark, one other distro supports more of storm. And there are customers who know, we are putting a call center analytics case in front of the customer and saying, hey, we solved this problem. Here's a sample of the screenshot. And the customer, no matter what distro they have, like, I want that. I want because I have that problem. Who are you coming in? When you come in with these, you know, business solution, like case studies, who are you calling on? And then, you know, then who do they introduce you to to say, go now, work with them? Very good question. So we've seen multiple models. We've seen some very large, and I'm talking about very large enterprises, Fortune 50, as an example. You go in and in some companies, the business leaders are driving this whole process. We had one studio called us, this executive called us that and said, we're releasing a new movie and we don't have our analytics in place. So somebody told me, you guys work on Hado. On what? Hado. Hado. Hado. Hado. But the guy was looking for his problem to be solved. Now, he doesn't care whether it's Hadoop, no sequel date, whatever you bring to bear. Hadoop connected it for him. He sees the buzz for Hadoop. Somebody told him that. These guys are pros. Call them. They know that Hadoop stuff. Can you get us some Hadoop? But then, what was the step? You said to him, okay, we can, you know, help you figure out like the demographics and who's receptive to the movie. Then what is the step from there? Who does he connect you with? To actually go do it. So they have people who are one or more levels below who are more hands-on at a business level. But is it traditional IT or is it like a rove? And then IT comes in. IT definitely comes in. So where I was going was that business leaders take, start driving the process and then bring in IT. But we're also seeing another very interesting model which actually is very hot and I think it's spelled very good for such companies. IT leaders are calling us, hey guys, we need you to come in as a partner and help us ferret out use cases and sell these, the solution for these use cases to business so that they can give us more fun. And so that they don't lose relevance. They don't lose relevance. They're outselling to business. So which is very hot in the monstros. Yeah, they just want to sell that through because they're champions. I mean, this is great. And I love this about early adopter markets where it's growth is fast. The stakeholders who are your champions know what to do. Then they got to kind of heard the cats internally to kind of get it in soul. And they're going to have questions. Wait a minute, we have an Oracle system that does that. Why would we want to move off a relational database to handle this unstructured data? There's no value that's been proven out of that yet. Prove the value, then we'll, well, so there's always that circular hole you dig deeper and deeper of the no ops who say no, no, no to everything. So that's the first step you're saying. So get the use case identified, sell it through, then what? Make the first use case a success. And in a major credit card company, that's what happened in early 2012. In three and a half months, we took their first use case, which was a real-time offers and recommendations engine into production, and I have the date, it's June 12th, 2012, and then we went live. And it was a three and a half month assignment and they were dramatically surprised. It was a 51 order root cluster. And after that success story, we've now gone on to implement what 20 or 30 different use cases successfully in production. Over three dozen use cases for that same customer. And the cluster is now over $2,000. So I got to ask the CEO question for being to you and to come in and share with us the top three conversations that you have that you're having with customers and what specific large enterprise, not small, large enterprises that, and why are they going, and what is their top concern? So top three conversations you're constantly having, if there's a pattern, you can identify. And then like the top enterprises, what's their mindset, what are they working on? So one is a lot of customers are dealing with pure data engineering problems. It's not even analytics. They're drowning in the amount of data. So they just need a better database, a data infrastructure to deal with all the new data that's coming in. And everybody knows. Is it the amount or the fact that they can't sort of make sense of it, the cataloging almost? So dealing with data, getting the data, ingesting the data, cataloging. Yeah, data management, that's not a dupe issue. It's just like. They find it when they need to x years from now. Yeah. So this is one area. The second area where people did not just come up looking for a solution, but as soon as you show light on this, is this area of real time analytics. Yeah. And we just. And that's something that they haven't seen before, right? Every other day. It's a very big jobs like kind of mindset. They don't know what they want you because they haven't seen it. Absolutely, yeah. And we're actually, we're surprised by what we're learning on a daily basis. Every new prospect conversation is teaching us a new application, a new use case. Oh wow, we had not thought of this. And this morning, Anand actually gave a talk on a topic which was given to us by a customer that they used our streaming analytics platform as a big data enterprise services bus. They actually coined it for us. That's nice. And he went and spoke and he had 150 people in the room. It's great when customers do your marketing for you. Absolutely. It's fantastic because you're so successful. All right, so let's talk about the streaming services and the data warehouse modernization. Because that is a trend. Streaming's been out for a while. We've seen it in real time. But now we're also hearing here, you know, offload, moving off, migrating out of data warehouses. Because there's now coexistence between large data warehouses and then the new needs for, I'm seeing new use cases that I've never seen before, whether it's internet of things and or other different, what was considered weird use cases now going mainstream. So talk about the streaming and the data warehouse modernization. Talk about both? Yeah, talk about both. We've got a couple of years left. There's obviously a relationship between the two and I'll draw that line, right? So it all started with the adoption of Hadoop. It's great. People have become open to adopting open source and now they're looking for a streaming technology that's compatible with Hadoop, right? And the Kafka storm or Spark stack, either of those are designed to sit conveniently on Hadoop any distribution. And we're currently based on Kafka storm moving to Spark streaming, adding Spark streaming support as well. So it's a powerful stack and we are able to actually overcome conversations with where the competing technology is proprietary in nature. People have become so friendly to open source and they've been waiting to get liberated by from proprietary, the hold of proprietary vendors that they will, they're positively biased towards open source oriented technologies, right? So we are a streaming analytics platform based on open source, but we've solved the problem of deep skill sets and complexity that people need. We make it drop dead easy visual to put together applications to the point where in a month we were able to produce 12 different screens and use case scenarios in a month for a major telco. And the beauty of what we produce and the functionality what we produce rocketed it up all the way to the corporate CIO in terms of the presentation, right? So that was, that's streaming analytics, dramatic productivity to achieve real customer value. Can you give us a quick sort of recap of the use case that required both the big data, you know, the data warehouse and the streaming, so where, you know, where they came together? Sure, in this case we're talking about use cases that essentially needed streaming sources like a set of box data coming through and you're taking the set of box data, you're matching the customer ID on the box to who the customer is, checking whether that customer actually, for example, opened up a maintenance ticket or not. So when you call in, John calls in, the call center agent already knows that, oh, this is John, he's probably a pretty frustrated guy right now because his set of box has been misbehaving. And the first thing the agent tells you is that, don't worry John, if you're calling about the set of box issue, we've already figured that out. We have a replacement job on the way Wednesday morning. So the streaming, the data quality is real time, so it's not stale data. Oh, he called two months ago to complain or about his bill. It's actually, no, no, I get other data sets unified in to that moment of the touch interaction. Right. Engagement or whatever you like. So you're able to now blend real time data with the historical data and provide context sensitive service to the customer. That supports your systems of intelligence thesis that we're working on. Okay, we're getting the book here, but I want to give Praveen the last word. So what's your next move? What are you guys up to? Website, how do we folks contact you guys? What's next in the company mission? What's going on with the next steps? So for us, I think we see delivering the promise of big data as an opportunity of a lifetime for us as a company. We're investing in products and services and the proof is our customers, large Fortune 50 companies, willing to work with us. We are not a Fortune 500 or 1000 or 2000. Not a reseller of our, yeah. And yet these large companies are very comfortable in working with us. And it's solely because of the value we can bring. One other trend which has taken hold in the last five, seven years is information technology has gone on the revenue side of Fortune 500. Prior to that, it was largely seen as a cost center. Yeah. 70% of your cost is to operate your business. IT was a cost center. And now IT is on the revenue side as well. And that's where, so IT has become an area to differentiate the company. Is it any particular department? Is it like marketing first or? We've seen this in marketing first, but I think we're seeing it all across. Anand mentioned this credit card company which actually, I'll share a story. Another financial services company, they had a massive rule-based system for fraud detection. And we actually helped them build a new system which is based on supervised machine learning. So they could discard all the hundreds and hundreds of rules that built, which were not relevant for anybody and everybody, to a fully supervised machine learning-based system where the system is constantly learning from their own data. And they have cut down false positives tremendously. The system paid for itself in four months. Okay, Praveen, we got to get in the wrap here. Thanks so much for sharing your insights. Congratulations on your success. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. We appreciate it. We are live at Hadoop Summit here for three days of wall-to-wall coverage at theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with George Gill, but we'll be right back with more coverage right after this short break.


Good morning everyone, happy Monday morning. Welcome to a week in my life vlog. It is so dark. It is currently 6.40, I'm about to head out to go work out. I've been a little bit off my fitness game lately. I just haven't been as consistent as I normally am. So yesterday I scheduled and I put it in my Google Calendar every single day when I'm going to work out. That's what I normally do and that's what keeps me kind of disciplined in my workout routine. So I'm doing this like core workout this morning.  Hope you guys enjoy this vlog. If you guys haven't subscribed already, be sure to subscribe, follow me on Instagram, TikTok, all that stuff. Love you guys so much and let's get started. Guys, it feels like how it did when I first moved here in February because it's cold and raining in the morning when I'm going to work out. Also, I was just thinking like so much has changed since I even moved back to Dallas. Like I cannot believe how much my life has changed. And then also it's not even been a full year. So like, what? That workout class was humbling to say the least everyone. I do not know what happened, but I have lost all strength that I had. Obviously I was just in the best shape I've ever been in when I was doing Hapulates every day in LA but I've still been working out a ton since moving back to Dallas and like I had good workouts. I take two weeks off everyone and like I literally died in that class. Like I couldn't even do half of it. And like maybe it's because it's early and I'm not really awake yet. It was very humbling to say the least. I used to be the person in the class that like I knew I could do everything and it was like no problem. And now I'm like, oh my God, get me out of here. The dishes that I'm making breakfast, it's rainy and gloomy out until I'm just so happy. We'll get to this in a second. Today I had two recordings, a lot of editing, computer stuff, whatever. I'm not filming today, but I think I will be filming tomorrow. Anyways, I got this book because I saw it at Barnes the other day. It's Gucci Mane. It is like the perfect little small coffee table book or even for my dresser. Like it looks so cool, but I'm planning on just stacking this with another like black book or something. It's really cool. I also found this book as like icons. It's a cool coffee table book. I'm just looking for new ones. So I'll have this link down below, but I think I'm gonna put this on my coffee table. All right, I ate breakfast, I showered. I am feeling very weak this morning. I'm just slow. I need to drink coffee. I just need to be back to being fit to where I was just so much stronger in workouts. Like I cannot believe. I mean, also I was early, but like still guys, I'm appalled. I have a new package from Laura Mercier that I got last week and I was reminded about it. I totally forgot. I really wanna try out the tinted moisturizer. So that's what we're going to do today. I'm just gonna do a really light makeup look. I also was gifted their Perfect Cream multitasking moisturizer. Oh, it feels really good on your skin. Like actually really good. First impressions, I really like the packaging. I'm looking for things that, I'm looking for a product that doesn't leave my skin so like disco ball-y. Like I want it to be glowy, but also, I don't know how to describe it. It's raining, so the lighting in here isn't the best, but I do think that I like it. So far, so good. I do really like it.  Like take me through your entire step-by-step process. I like actually am dressed how I dressed in high school at this point. I'm not proud, but I'm comfortable. All right, I finished my makeup. I like it. It's really simple. The lighting is just so off right now because it's so gloomy out. All right guys, I have my coffee, my books. I'm gonna do my morning reading and then I have a recording at 11. I still have not fixed this paint. It is what it is, guys. My grocery just got delivered. I ordered them yesterday to be delivered this morning. Oh my gosh. I'm about to record my first recording for the day. So this is exciting. This is for the living room. This is my faith-based Patreon. If you guys wanna join, I upload stuff there all the time. I'm actually working so hard on it right now. So if you guys are interested, go join. All right, everyone. I just made a chicken label from home. This is my favorite order at Zinc in Hollywood. What, in West Hollywood? But in LA, just in general. It's one of my favorite restaurants. It's one of my favorite dishes. I made a reel. So if you guys want the recipe, it's a really easy lunch to make from home, especially when you're working from home. I don't wanna actually cook, cook, and this is really easy to put together. So go check out that reel on my Instagram, but I'm just so proud. All right, guys, I'm done with my recordings for the day. I think I'm actually going to head downstairs. I need to work on the living room. I'm doing a whole plan for mental health for our next Bible study thing. So I need to finish that because we're filming that tomorrow. I can't, like, what is wrong right here, guys? That is so annoying. I just, like, honestly, guys, I'm so tired today. Like, I'm just really exhausted. I think I just need to lay on the couch and then I'll get stuff done. I also need to read a book because I'm having the author on next week. So I need to, like, read a chapter a day. Okay, guys, taking a little break. My sister picked me up and we dropped by Starbucks. I got an iced pumpkin spice latte. I didn't realize I'd give this to you with, like, whipped cream. I'm so upset about it. I know. I wasn't even thinking about that. I also just said no to it today, apparently. Good morning, everyone. It is Tuesday morning. I am currently about to get some work done. I let myself have a really chill morning because I just felt like I really needed it. I started reading this new book. Oh, this woman, well, her agent reached out. I was pitched this woman for my podcast that's all about, like, attachment styles and all of this stuff, like, relationally. And, guys, it is, like, mind-blowing. I was into attachment styles before, like, I just kind of learned about them over the summer. But, oh my gosh, like, it is so good. So I'm recording with her in, like, a week. So I'm just trying to read her book right now and I'll, sure, I'll talk about it soon. I actually just sent it to a friend because I'm like, you need to read this, like, literally right now. I'm only on chapter two. I'm really excited about that. Basically, there's, like, four attachment styles or are there three? I don't remember. There's, like, the secure, anxious, and avoidant. And I'm definitely the anxious. Anxious attachment styles are always attracted to avoidance and vice versa, but really you need a secure. But even more than that, your attachment styles, it's not like a set personality test. It's like, you can learn how to become a secure attachment thing. A lot of it has to do with childhood. It is so interesting. I'll link the book. Oh, wait, actually, the book's not out yet. The book isn't out yet, so I can't link it yet. But guys, this episode is probably gonna be my favorite episode I ever do. So, today, I need to do school. I have a lot of work I need to do. I have a meeting with dear media, and then after that, Brin is coming over and we are shooting the entire next month of the living room content. We're doing it on mental health. Again, if you guys are not aware, the living room is my, like, faith-based Patreon. I'm really excited. I think I'm just gonna, like, play something and just get some work done for the next few hours because I desperately need to. For lunch, I just made myself another chicken lane bowl. I somehow only got one avocado when I ordered a on Instagram, so I need to go to the store. We are back in the same location. I have sent a bunch of podcast stuff in for this week's episode. I'm finalizing a lot of things, and I also did a school assignment. Wow. Currently, I have someone over who is doing, I'm, like, now, being quiet, now I'm whispering. He's installing the kitchen hardware on my kitchen cabinet and switching out all my doorknobs. I'm very excited for that. Pretty soon, it'll look so different. Adding hardware to your cabinets just makes them look so much nicer. Waiting to get on a Zoom meeting. So fun. I just got off a call with Jermedia. It was with pretty much the entire network. It was just a Zoom call, obviously. So since this week in my life vlog is more of, like, a work week because I have a lot of work to do, I feel like there's not that much to vlog because I just sit at my desk or, you know, my couch wherever I'm at. We had a meeting and we were just going over, like, ads and kind of brand strategy and things like that. Podcasting is actually about to be a billion dollar industry by 2021. So there's just a lot of, like, potential and opportunity there. I'm actually a lot more, like, business savvy and oriented than, like, maybe my vlogs seem. So because of questions like that, always let me know. I finally got to set up my passion planner on my iPad. And I started yesterday. So, like, this is what I did for digital planning. Hold on, I think I can probably show this better. If you guys have watched my vlogs, you guys know that I am a die-hard passion planner person or I was before I went fully digital and now I just do Google Calendar because I have too many people involved in my schedule now. Like, I join people that I work with, management networks, all that. So that stuff's just, like, sent to me. I started trying and I definitely do like it. It is my favorite digital planner that I've used. But I just don't know. I'm not sure if I'll go back. I honestly probably should have gotten the daily because I think the daily would help me more because Google Calendar, I do the weekly views. So I think I probably should have gotten daily, which I might actually buy and then give you an update on. But I haven't actually finished all of this stuff, obviously at all. I have way more than this on my weekly schedule. But yeah, I do like it. I did find it useful. I'm gonna try to look for a little bit longer and let you guys know what I think. All right, guys. I have some beautiful home updates for you. So sad news is I found out my kitchen renovation is gonna cost so much money today. Good news is that I had this kitchen hardware installed. These are actually from Amazon. I'll link them below. It's really inexpensive. I had someone come over from TaskRabbit to install and it just looks so much better. I'm gonna get rid of this backsplash now because I know what I want. So I don't need this fake backsplash up anymore. It's really bothering me. All right, also replaced the door knobs throughout my entire house. So it just looks better. They used to just have these like silver ones that just came with the house and this just fits my vibe more. Guys, I put a coat on because it is 40 degrees out. What a beautiful day we have. Also, I got this new sweater. I forgot to show you guys. It came in the mail yesterday. I don't know where it's from. I saw it on Ashley Robertson's Instagram and I bought it immediately. I just thought it was cute. So. Thank you to this season. Brenna and I are a really good representation. Actually, I am you, but Brenna has already, it's today's October 27th, I believe, and she's already moved on to the peppermint mocha latte. The pumpkin latte had its moment. It did have its moment and that was in August. The peppermint mocha is, the roommate walked in today and she was like, Brenna, oh my gosh, are you playing Christmas music? I know, but it is Lauren Daigle's hymn covers. So basically it is. It's like a real gray area. I love Lauren Daigle. I so see you just loving Lauren Daigle. There's a podcast you need to listen to. It's Annie. Do you know Annie F. Downs, are you familiar with her? Nope. Okay, well, I think you would absolutely adore her. She's one of the greatest people ever, but she has a podcast with Lauren Daigle. It's one of my favorite episodes ever, but it's so funny because in just the conversation that Annie is having with Lauren, it just reminds me of what you always say to me when my friend Rebecca always says to me, my friend Rebecca shared the episode with me because she said the same thing. All right guys, we're about to record for the living room an episode and then we're also gonna record a whole new Bible study series, which is exciting. We have this beautiful candle on display. Also the Sephora sales going on. So I made a whole video with Sephora deals. So go check that out. But anyways, this is the middle-aged divo book I've been doing. I literally can't make it up. Do you think I'm 50 now that you see this book? But it's really good. This is for women draining over the hill. That's not real. Where did you even get this from? It was somebody gave it to me. Hi guys, so it is currently 7.15. Brenna just left. We have been recording and filming for the past four hours for the living room, which I'm really excited about all the videos and podcasts that we recorded. At this time, the podcast is live and the new Bible study series I'm into health will be up, I think a week from now. We're currently in one on identity. Anyways, I love my new hardware. I decided to take off the stickers that I had there just because I was trying to see if I wanted a certain color for my backsplash. I did get the quote back for what I wanted and it is so expensive. So I don't know what I'm gonna do because I am in the middle of getting a new car right now and that's not really necessarily the problem. More so with the kitchen is one, I need to change what I want because it's too expensive and two, it would take a week to do and I don't really have a week to where I can afford having my kitchen messed up, especially with December. It's being such a busy month with Vlogmas and everything. So I'm trying to figure that out. But anyways, I'm about to take the dogs on a walk. It's 7 p.m.  I'm loving the new book that I've been doing and like the workbook and I don't, my dogs are literally gonna be the end of me. Okay guys, you're in a cabinet, obviously, but I am, ooh, see my parents told me when I got these cabinets painted to immediately get hardware on the cabinets because one, they'll look better and two, it won't chip away the paint and now there's all these chips on my paint because I didn't listen to my parents but, you know, what's new. Anyways, I'm going to make my liquid IV and my nighttime one. This one really helps me sleep. I go to bed honestly really early. Like, I go to bed, I'm in bed probably every night by like eight. That's just like the life I live, you know? I have my beautiful large mason jars but I can link down below. These are great and they make me drink more water. Update of my jug. I really only tried it two days and I failed so maybe I should try again. I did get one of those like gallon water jugs but I just haven't been doing that great with it. This is the sleep multiplier. I have a discount code for liquid IV. I'll have it down below. I don't remember what it is but I'm pretty sure it's for 20% off. I love liquid IV. Like, when you try it, you just get addicted to it. Like, I just am obsessed with it. I will say, the sleep isn't my favorite flavor but it definitely does help. That's fish in the background. It's been freezing and rainy also. I'm dressed like I would dress my sophomore year of high school but it's been freezing and raining all week and pits and cocoa are not loving that when they go outside. Good morning guys. Happy Wednesday. It is 8 a.m. I'm going to go do my treadmill routine. I'm putting you guys some sun onions. Agafoss is in my car and it is way too cold to go out there. I have my heater on full blast right now and I put it on yesterday for the first time this season and my fire alarm has gone off twice. For some reason, I just never even thought about the fact that like one day when I am taking them out it's gonna be like 30 degrees. So cold, gonna rain all day. Anyways, I'm gonna go do my treadmill routine and I don't know where my water bottle is.  I'm out of alcohol. I don't know how this got to my house but I'm not gonna question it. I feel like I should be drinking hot chocolate right now. I'm being so dramatic. I love the cold weather actually. I just never have to take dogs out on the cold weather normally. I either have a yard or I've been in LA. Liquid IV, this is the energy multiplier. It's green but it's great. That's how I cut off coffee out of my diet out of my routine for the longest time. I think the only reason I've been running coffee lately is for the tall drinks and also cause it's hot. It was hard for me to drink coffee this summer. Felt too heavy. Fitz is looking for the camera. Fitz, come back boy. Oh, you are so handsome. You're the most handsome of them all. All right guys, I just finished my workout. 12 through 30, if you guys didn't know. I got it from Lauren Geraldo. I wanna say she invented it. If you guys didn't know, 12 through 30 is a treadmill routine that I got from Lauren Geraldo. So you do in kind of 12 through 30 for 30 minutes. Let's go. It is so much harder than you would think. And it's really good cause you like lean out and stuff. I haven't really been doing it in the past few weeks but it's definitely something I want to implement again because I got this treadmill literally to do treadmill routines and I actually really enjoy it. Good morning guys. I just showered and got ready. I'm actually going to get brunch with a friend. We pretty much do this weekly. This is what I'm wearing today. I just got ready. I'm gonna show you guys on Instagram Reels how I do my hair because I like perfected it with my Dyson wearing this Boys Lie set just to coat. I actually changed out of Uggs. Who's proud of me, normal jewelry. Did my makeup. I'm gonna film this afternoon so I wanted to like actually get ready and then I'm gonna wear just my normal bag I've been using lately. Hey guys, this is my outfit. Really cozy, comfy. I got ready cause when I get back I'm gonna film. I'm actually gonna switch my phone case to my Instipio one just because it's sleek and I just wanna change it out. I work with them in my podcast so I'll have a link down below. They're eco-friendly phone cases and iPod cases. Oh my gosh, I love this. But they're really, really safe. This is not sponsored but if you guys are interested in a new phone case I will have the discount code below. Guys, oh my gosh. The morning that I have had just in the past literally 20 minutes. Okay, so long story short guys, I needed to get air put in my tires because there was just a big temperature drop so that affects your tires, whatever. My car kept dinging so I was like okay, I need to do that before I drive all the way to Waxahatchee. Literally the town is literally called Waxahatchee guys. It's really funny. I grew up in North Dallas so I grew up in McKinney so it's far away from there but now I have so many friends who live there and it's just like so funny. Every time I'm like Waxahatchee, Texas, like it's just, it's the cutest place. But anyways, I went to, this is my fifth place that I went to to get air put in my tires and you know what? Guess who the trusty air pumper was? As always, it was Firestone. You guys watched me on LA during my college days and I just befriended the whole staff at that Firestone of Ventura and Studio City because I am a car hypochondriac. Like I always think there's something wrong and there really isn't anything wrong but in the meantime I made friends with all of them and they would just like do everything for me and we were just besties. So went to this one and they were the only ones who really came through today. So anyways, I'm going to Dov's Nest in Waxahatchee. My pastor and her sister and everyone are obsessed with it and that's who I'm going with. So I'm excited. I've heard great things about Dov's Nest so I'm excited to go. I've been listening to a great little fall playlist I've made. I'm feeling just good about everything but I really want biscuits and gravy because it is cold today. Like it is no joke at all and it's rainy and I just deserve some sort of comfort breakfast. That sounds so good. It's like what campaigns and holiday are really looking for. All right guys, I'm on a Zoom call right now with my management. It's everyone there but I'm just going to listen to audio because obviously I'm in the car and this is a last minute meeting. So I'm back home. I'm going to get this out. I was a brunch and then I went around how to Zoom call that I just listened to. So that was good. I was working on some like to know what stuff I need to film my video because of the Sephora sale that I wanted to do like my favorite from Sephora. Also, I need to link some stuff from my like to know profile if you guys don't follow me there you need to. That's where I link literally everything and like all of my I mean, I link as much as I can in videos but like my Instagram I just have post up of that like Amazon, hey stop. Like Amazon things that I use for my house. Also with the Sephora sale it's like things that I think are worth it things like that, you know? So follow me there. That's what I do. I'm sure you guys see it on Instagram I link to there all the time. All right everyone. I am like actually losing my mind because my neighbors are somehow still getting hard to installed. And like I got the same thing. I don't know how or why this is taking so long but and like it's fine. I'm not that I'm never like the neighbor to complain but it's just always what I'm filming and recording. Anyways, I'm putting my shoes on because I need to go to Target to pick up something for a deal. I actually am filming my first TikTok brand deal. I'm working with Verizon so I need to pick up something from Target and then come back and film that. I just filmed my Sephora favorites video. I want to edit that tonight. I think the rest of the day and night will honestly be working just cause I want to get this stuff done and sent in as early as possible. I've been working on a lot of like to know it stuff to have all that linked and a lot of stuff with the Sephora sale. So if you guys haven't shop the Sephora sale yet watch my video. I share all of my must house and stuff in case you guys are shopping it. I absolutely love this set. It's my favorite boys lie set I think and it says perfect match here. Really cute. It's available on Revolve. I'll link it below. And my headbands that I have I got like five or six for under $20. I want to say it was like $14 or $15 and some of these are sold individually for like 12. So don't buy those. Buy what I have. I'll have them linked down below. It has just been very chilly recently. Anyways, I need to go to Target anyways because I'm supposed to pick up and look at ornaments because my mom is losing her mind that I haven't picked mine out yet because we're doing my tree next week and I'm going to be away this weekend and blah, blah, blah. And she's like literally as like a professional Christmas tree decorator. Like that's actually like what they're doing business wise right now. So I need to get it together. So I need to go to Target for the deal but also so my mother doesn't disown me. Anyways, putting this back on go to grab my coat. Leaving again, heading out everyone. I need to blow off these candles. My gosh, I don't know if you guys saw that just now but that was really quite the fight with that candle. Anyways, I really like this insipio case. It's really clean, sleek. This is just like really my perfect just go to out there for fall. I'll show you guys just once again because I'm really loving it. But I ignore my dresser. It's a mess but Yeezy's the best set ever. Just some jewelry, a nice coat. That is in fact my thing. All right guys, I'm walking into the Target at Preston Center. It's such a weird, it's just such a weird place. I mean, it's nice and it's great but just feels like you're, I don't even know how to describe it. If anyone understands what I'm saying, please explain it to me. Thank you. Our goods. In the fall and winter, I actually won't claim her even though I normally drink. I don't know if this is gonna be good. I'm gonna try it. I normally drink my coffee black but it just sounds good right now. They don't have teas on that. I don't see it anywhere. So this is a city Target. There's not much. I barely got any Christmas stuff. I decided to stick with this one because it's at least almond milk. But for some reason in the fall and winter I actually want like creamer guys. Literally no way. They're already here. I'm getting these for next week. So I'm prepared, you know? Okay, what I came here for originally was Aaron and I was running for a brand but it wasn't here. So this is full fiasco so I can't film this thing today. It's okay. It's just like kind of messing up some of the work plans but anyways, I ended up making a Target trip. Oh, my tree's already poking out. It's okay. Anyways, I actually love this Target. It's definitely like city Target. It's just so nice. It feels like you're in shops and like Beverly Hills is like how this center feels. All right, I'm back home. That trip was honestly unnecessary at this point. My phone is at 1% but I did get wrapping paper for Christmas. I'm very excited to start wrapping my Christmas presents and putting them under my tree next week. So I haven't actually bought any one at Christmas present yet but I need to do it earlier because my family is doing Christmas really early this year. So I just thought this wrapping paper was so cute. So I got two rolls of that. I just figured these would be really good to have on hand because I always say I want them and I never have them. I got Hawaiian bread for the sandwich I'm about to make which this is the only bread I could find. I don't know what was happening at this Target but look at this, guys. This is whole chicken. I'm a true Texan, barbecue. I was gonna cook tonight but no more. Exciting paper clips, highlighters, method all purpose cleaner. Oh, I got some Christmas decor from the dollar section. I thought this stuff was cute. I actually don't know where it's gonna go. So I'm just gonna keep it there until my mom comes and helps me next week. I'm not a huge creamer girl and I normally just drink coffee black and also it's just one of those things where it's just like so much added sugar for no reason. However, fall and winter I just always want creamer. Another Christmas tree, sweet potato fries, frozen, and avocado. That's exciting, guys. I'm gonna make one of those sandwiches and then I'm actually going to get back to work even though I'm not filming that deal anymore but I still have other things that I need. Good morning, everyone. Happy Thursday. I am on my way to grab some breakfast. Am I on the right street? Yes, I am, okay. I don't know what it is about the fall but I need a fall drink every single day. It's a problem. Okay, so today's Thursday. I have a recording with Amber of Poulter Hype in Dallas which I have therapy at one and then I just have computer work afterwards.  So I on Thursdays always just make sure it's like computer work and stuff and schoolwork or whatever rather than like a recording or filming or something that I need to be more like on for. You know what I mean? Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. I'm actually leaving my house, guys. This is exciting. Okay guys, I finished my recording. It was great. I'm going to vote now. So I'm excited. I'm excited to vote. I think it's gonna be a hopefully great experience. My last experience voting was actually like awful. Not gonna lie. Guys, I just voted. I'm wearing my sticker. I feel pretty cool. It's very important to vote. I don't know when this vlog will be up so it might be too late but it's a very cool thing and it's very important especially this election that we go vote. It's really easy to think that like your one vote doesn't matter and it does. I along with so many of you guys I'm really, really worried about this election. Anyways, I just wanted to say voting is so important and a lot of you guys have been asking like saying to talk about it more and I feel like I talk about it all the time especially on Instagram but maybe I haven't made it clear on like my YouTube channel and my sister's face telling me it's so important, go vote. So I have an hour until therapy so it's kind of dumb to like go home but also like where do I go, you know? So I decided I'm going to go to Highland Park Village. Oh my gosh, I'm driving through the city right now. Dallas's skyline is like so beautiful. Anyways, I'm going to Highland Park Village and I'm gonna stop at Royal Blue Grocery which honestly it's just comparable to like Air One but I think it's actually a little bit cooler than Air One. What a beautiful area. I'm not gonna bring my vlog camera in because I'm already gonna be, you know, filming but I love Royal Blue. All right, I'm back home from therapy but I did want to show you guys what I picked up Anthropology. I don't know what it is about going to Anthropology that just always makes me feel better but this game is called the Confessions game. Pretty similar to my We're Not Really Strangers game which is right there. I love that one. My friends and I have already gone through all the cards and I know that there are other decks and stuff like extension pox and stuff that I need to get but I saw this and I thought it was cool. There's like different things, you roll a dice and there's different categories. I just love games like this I love entertaining and hosting and stuff and they're just good to have on deck. Also, this one looks better in my house and we're not really Strangers one does but this one is really cute. I'll link it down below. I pulled out one card from it and I loved the question so I just feel good about it. All right, it is 3 at 15. I'm back home. I'm working. I changed into workout clothes because hopefully I'll do 12, 3, 30 at some point. I think my dad is coming over hopefully soon or gonna call me or something but I made myself some coffee because I was tired and cold. I'm gonna try out my new creamer that I got. Guys, this is the first shot. Who remembers back in the day in my vlogs like three, four years ago when I was such a creamer girl? Every morning I had a shot with creamer. When I would do my little divos and I went back to church, so cute. Anyways, that's a lot of creamer for someone who drinks black coffee now so. Great guys, awesome. Why is it separating? Okay, it's too hard now but it actually smells really good. All right, I'm now gonna go downstairs and work out. I've just been working at my laptop for the past few hours but I'm going to go do 12, 3, 30 downstairs because I'm making sure I'm still working out every day this week and just taking care of myself. Why do I always say I made some water? I poured some water. Guys, look at how much better the kitchen looks. It's unbelievable, right? Okay, I finished my workout. I feel great. My dad's here but he's taking a business club stairs. I just got a package from Isle of Paradise. You guys probably already know. Well, actually I haven't shared this self-tanner. Okay, like I was saying, I get the medium shade. I prefer, I really actually do like the water but I prefer the mousse. I use the mitt and then I just put like a few drops of this into my moisturizer for my face and I love it. I'll link it below. It's actually sold at Sephora too so I'm sure it's probably on sale with a Sephora sale. I would definitely check it out. They also sent this cute little book, guys. Isn't that just so sweet? I love this. Good morning, everyone. So, let me open the blinds more. It is Friday morning, the last day of this vlog. I look insane, like look at my hair right now. So, I self-tanned last night. I use the Isle of Paradise stuff and I love it. And I have my hair up like this after I slept in it like this and I just, I can't be bothered to fix it. I am working out and then I'm gonna shower. So, like, why would I do that? I'm just at my house, you know? Today is Friday. I have like four calls to get on today.  I woke up this morning. I just did my divo which I've really, really been loving this devotion book. I'll have it linked up. I'll have it linked up below. It's my middle-aged woman, Joyce Meyer one. This is another thing, guys. This does not match. But this is what I'm gonna be wearing as I work out from home today because I don't feel like finding a jacket that matches because they're in the wash. This is also from Maritzia lounge where it was always superior. It's just the best stuff ever. It's definitely pricey, but. Oh, I started a new book. Oh, I haven't even talked to you guys about what I've been reading this week. Now that I'm in this crazy outfit, I finished an anonymous girl and I thought it was good. I liked it. I didn't hate the book, but if I don't finish a book in like two, three days tops, it tells me that I don't want to do that much. So last time I was busy and I was also reading another book. It's like a nonfiction book, so maybe that was it. And also I think that if I just read more of a book in one sitting, I think that I like it more. I don't know. It could be like some weird brain thing, but anyways, it was good. I wasn't absolutely obsessed. And I wasn't obsessed with their other book either. Oh, I haven't read any of it. That was everywhere this year. In New York, I've even talked about it. I liked it, but I wasn't as obsessed as everyone else was. Like, you know, Lauren loved that book and I liked it, but I wasn't obsessed. So now I'm reading Eliza Starts a Rumor. I've heard that one was like a fun little read. Guys, literally look at my offer right now. So I'm starting that and it was really cute. I'm on like 20% so far. I just started last night and it was really cute. I also made myself some coffee with creamer. Isn't that so crazy, guys? Anyways, I'm gonna go do 12 through 30. I'm gonna answer emails and stuff on the channel. That's what's nice about 12 through 30 is that you die, but you're able to like answer emails and stuff as you're doing it, even though it's harder. Good morning officially, guys. So I worked out. I showered. I FaceTimed TK for like an hour as I was working out. And that was great. I have quite a few calls today. First one is with my friend Ali. I actually call with Facebook, which is cool today for the podcast. Okay, I'm going home for the weekend. I really just want a weekend to do like pretty much nothing except for something exciting is happening, comment if you can guess. But I wanted you to stay home this weekend because I have like three things in the next four days that I need to be in McKinney for.  Anyways, I'm gonna hop on these calls soon, but I don't really have much to vlog today because I'm at the McConaughey book now is not arriving until I think this weekend. I keep getting pushed back, but I love you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed this week in my life vlog. If you did, let me know by giving a thumbs up. Love you and I will talk to you soon. Bye.