I once asked the mentor why my life was never changing.  And that really struck me. I mean, yeah, it's a slap in the face, but how many of us do that? We say that we're gonna change our life. We're saying that it's gonna be our year. But when you look back objectively, like at the real performance indicators, you're the same weight, same friend group, same career, same income. You didn't start that business. You didn't write that book. You didn't travel more. And what gives? In my opinion, it comes down to a few simple things we are discussing here in this video today. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the book, Master Zideh. Let's jump in. So how do you change your life in a big way? That's ultimately what we're talking about here. How does your life actually change? You can believe in manifestation, but sitting here doesn't manifest a hot 10 out of 10 girl, right? You can believe about manifestation, but it doesn't actually put any more money in my bank. I don't have an extra $1,000 for that trip to Europe. How does your life change?  I like to think of life improvement as like when you're coming home drunk from the bar and you get to wherever you live and if there's a staircase, you might be trying to shine your iPhone flashlight to try to find that first step so you don't eat it. And as you're shining the light and you're trying to get into your home or your apartment, you just are trying to get that first step so that you don't fall on your face. And then when you get to that first step, you find the railing and you're trying to find the next step. And then when you find the next step, you try to find the third step. And as long as you can get the prior step, you can't see the next step until you're on the prior step. So to get to step three, you have to be on step two. And to get to step four, you have to be on step three. And you can't even see the steps way above you unless you're shining the light way up the staircase. So for so many of us, we think that we have to know the entire staircase, the entire journey before we even do the first step. And we try to plan or even do step seven when we're really at step one. You know, when I think back to a lot of the goals that I've worked on and if you guys haven't, check out the recent video I shot on the five steps to your dream life because I talked about how in a relatively short period of time, you know, I published multiple self-published books that have sold a lot of copies, built two six-figure businesses, became a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, I have a private practice in LA, I've traveled to 60 countries on the earth, I became a bachata dancer, I've gone all over the world dancing.  So how did they actually happen? If I never could have visualized that because of this progression principle. You know, it's like you start by shooting, let's say a YouTube video, you start by getting in the gym and there's a lot of doubt and a lot of fear and the very first roadblock that comes up, you're like, I'm out. It's for sure not gonna work. There's no way this is gonna work.  You try to build a business, everything you try fails, which is par for the course. But you think there's something really wrong and you think it's just not gonna work. But as you get one little win, then you try to get a bigger one. You know, one YouTube video performs well and you try to get another or you start to lose five pounds and then you can get to 10.  I could probably do a book. And as you progress, you take on bigger and bigger challenges and bigger and bigger goals. Eventually, if you keep doing that, every year or every quarter is bigger and better, you look back in 10 years and you've grown to an absurd degree that you didn't even plan. But because growth was your goal, it happened naturally. But what drives that growth? To me, it's one thing, hunger. You know, Tony Robbins has a great article on the one commonality among all of his highest clientele that he's had. People with hundreds of millions in their terms of their net worth and he said, you know what the one commonality was? Because all of the strategies are different. They're different people, different times, different opportunities, different setbacks. But he said the number one thing in common is hunger. Because the strategies, the people, the timing, the marketplace changes. But the one thing that dictates success is hunger. The desire to figure it out is the one commonality between all of those high level clients that he had. Because you cannot guarantee that path is going to be the same for everyone because it never is. But if your burning desire for a better life is there, you're gonna find whatever strategy works. You know, going from never having written a book to having written a few and my next one's gonna be traditionally published with an agent, that takes the desire to figure it out. I didn't believe that I could until I could. Going from living in a small town in Connecticut to living in the best part of Los Angeles, I didn't think that I would do that. But as I grew, I decided to move. And then when I moved in a slightly less desirable part of LA, now I move to a much better part of LA. That hunger to improve and just figure out the next step is what led to that happening. Now the third way to 10X your life is to understand that every level has a new mindset and new rituals associated with it. For example, going from, let's say, running at your local high school, being a fast sprinter to now being an Olympian is a totally different ball game in terms of the number of hours to train. Who do you find as a coach? Having a coach that's really on your team may be bringing on trainers, doctors, functional docs, nutritionists. The number of hours is probably the single best one. The biggest thing may be going from an hour a day or two hours of training to four, five, six hours a day of training. That's going from pretty good in high school or college to best in the world. So you may have the belief of, okay, I just need to run and train every day. That'll get you to a good level. But to become the best in the world an Olympian requires a totally different mindset and different habits that match that mindset. Let's say you're going from writing in your journal every day to now being a professional writer. That's a different mindset. I'm going to be a professional writer and I'm going to have the discipline to write, let's say, 1,000 or 2,000 words a day every single day, seven days a week. I'm going to write more hours per day. I'm going to study the best writers. I'm going to study the craft of writing. I'm going to have to find an agent. I'm going to have to learn how to market and sell my book with my agent. So as you can see, I'm just going to write my journal is different from professional writer, the title, the intention, the vision, all different. But those things don't make you a professional writer. The action ultimately does at the end of the day. So the tenets are life. It is one part your beliefs and your vision and one part your daily habits that have to be very different. A little mom and pop ice cream shop is totally different from Jeff Bezos, billionaire, trillionaire who knows at this point. But what's crazy, they can work the same hours in a day. The little mom and pop ice cream shop or taco truck can often and regularly do work as many hours as a billionaire or trillion dollar company, which is staggering when you think about it. So they have a different vision and different rituals that lead them to that place. Now I'm working on opening this brand new coaching program for a year. Every year I take on only two to three people. We work one to one together on a call every other week. And we go through a three to 12 month curriculum on how to 10x your life or start and launch or 10x your current business. Each call we have a curriculum. I have a strategy for you and then I'll coach you through my process for how I did this in my own life. We'll work together through this sort of 12 month curriculum on the vision, strategy, purpose, goals, exactly what to do. And we'll work through it one on one. Now I'm only accepting two to three people for every year, which is what I've done for the last few years. So click to apply down below. You'll see a link to a video and an application form that appeals to you. This is not your everyday coaching program. It is a premium coaching program. So if that resonates and connects, I'd love to work with you. And then before you guys go, I have another video here on how to design your dream life.


Welcome everyone once again. Let's talk about social inclusion and we'll start by asking this question. So how can we make cities more inclusive for migrants? I have two speakers today with me, Niroshan Hamashandran from Hedgill University and Claudio Di Matteo from Lund University. And I've invited our two speakers to explore with us how social work can help create cities where everyone feels welcome, where everyone feels safe, supported. So I'll invite you to join us. Let's dive into the latest research and practice on inclusive cities and social work with migrants using in this case, Sweden and UK as examples. Niroshan, Claudio, welcome. Yep, thank you for inviting us. I will start with you, Claudio, first. So maybe it's a bit obvious but inclusive cities are important for the overall well-being of all residents, including migrants. So I believe this is the core relevance of the topic of your article. Yeah, thank you for inviting us to discuss our paper and basically me and Niroshan, we wanted to know more about inclusive, or discuss more about inclusive urban cities linked to migration because we thought it is underlooked in research, especially in social work research. But we also think that it's such an important topic to address the social justice, economic development and sustainability issues that, and especially in urban cities, the link between individuals' well-being and their relationship with spaces, with institutions, with access to resources is of particular interest. And especially when we talk about inclusive cities, we touch upon a very important aspect of the living together. So considering well-being of established residents and newcomers, and among the newcomers, considering migrants and the specific needs of different migrant population and recognizing the access of urban areas, then there depends really the integration and the participation of all inhabitants is necessary to feel part of the community. Yeah. Niroshan, something to add? Yeah, I would like to add that cities actually play an important role. More and more migrants actually moving towards cities than countryside because cities are the places where they could find employment. Cities are the place where they could actually feel like they are doing something because if they move towards countryside, countryside creates problems for them because they don't have opportunities for employment, opportunities to find proper housing, and then they also have issues with the majority community in those countryside. So for them, urban cities or cities are useful and important because they could even find social connections over there. By reading your article and revealing a bit from what you told us, you mentioned that there is a lack of knowledge and research on social work engagement with social inclusion. So this is what you wanted to focus on then? So this is the gap you wanted to fill, Claudia? Yeah. I mean, of course, this is scoping review. So we focus on specific gaps in research, but yeah, we were hoping to find really new knowledge and new information, especially because we, I mean, me and Yiddishan, we met to a conference and we started to talk and we realized there is no, we don't know much about it and we wanted to know more and we wanted to see at what point social work research, like how much we develop knowledge and we develop instruments and tools to understand what makes an inclusive cities and how do we define inclusive cities? Promising. Claudia, let us know about the findings. Nerošan, do you want to? Oh, Nerošan, sorry, please. Yeah, I would add something to the previous point and then I'll move on to main findings. But the important part of this research is that the role of social work with migrants is not clearly defined. We are using social work for more statutory services like social welfare support, social benefits. So that includes everyone. But when we talk about social work with migrants, it's all about the voluntary sector, voluntary social work. We talk about charities, third sector organizations and GEOs and refugee community organizations. So that's something that triggered us to consider this topic. So what are we really doing? Do we really have social work playing an important role in including or migrant inclusion in cities? So now with the findings, first of all, it was kind of interesting. We have different levels of approach towards social work and inclusive cities in Sweden and the UK. So if you look at the English of UK context, there are lots and lots of studies. I went closer to 96,000 studies with my initial survey. So it's because in the UK, we have more studies looking at migration sector. But then at the end, we had around 10 papers that are actually looking at migration, social work and inclusive cities. So you could see that we are looking at the majority of the researchers looking at, yes, migration, but we have just minority of scholars looking at social work, inclusion and migrants in cities. So that's one of our key findings. Claudia, would you like to add something? Yeah, to this point, because we did compare Sweden and UK, I think that it's interesting because in Sweden, the debate, even on migration is very little because my survey was about 6,000 records found. But I would say one of the elements is because we only used English literature. So we know what Swedish literature to written in English stays. So that's an aspect. But anyhow, me and Hiroshin, we had 10 paper each that we figured out were really keen on understanding this interconnection between migration, inclusive cities and social work.  I'm curious to know more about policy implications for the Swedish case. What can you tell us about that? So if we can look back or look zoom in in specific findings, we saw that there are four, let's say components or elements that are really strong for the Swedish context. The first is the role of stakeholders and especially the role of community or grassroots movements in mobilizing and voicing out the demands of migrant women. Sorry, I study migrant women of migrant population. So that's the first element which can be for sure understood also as in terms of improving and supporting the actions of these grassroots movements in specific cities in the biggest cities, I would say in Sweden. And then the social culture, sorry, yeah. The second element is the social cultural context which is very relevant in Sweden. And in particular, I would say sport activities are used in specific vulnerable areas to promote a kind of interactions and a kind of leisure time that over time can create friendship, can create a sense of community and prevents let's say criminalization or getization and exclusion. And then there is, it was very important in the past, now it's a bit less important, but the social spatial context in relation to access to social housing or affordable housing with the governments in the past where they engaged in it to facilitate the access to housing from migrant women in person communities. And finally, the migrant experience of inclusion. So how do we involve and engage the migrant population in participate in the process of and in the access to education, employment, health and an overall sense of well-being, of being in place in the community. Perfect, Nerošan, let's jump into the UK now. So after considering your findings what can you tell us about public policy implications, individual choice? What can you say? Yeah, I would say that what we have to consider is that we have different stakeholders in our society. They're dealing with migrant. So first of all, the policy approach should consider those people when they try to develop any policies related to inclusion and immigrants in our society. We cannot just exclude them. If you look at the general idea sometimes they just stop down policies. Some members of parliament comes up with some ideas. They went to the parliament and they bring it as a policy and then ask grassroots organizations to apply it. So it's not the right way to approach social inclusion. So the social inclusion starts from the very bottom. So the stakeholders themselves. So for example, there are refugee community organizations. So those organizations are actually created by immigrants themselves or refugees themselves. So we should start from them, we should ask them rather than telling them, okay, we have this why don't you apply these policies? Why don't you apply these actions? So the second one is that I would again go back to the social cultural context. So what we have to understand is that we cannot apply the same size fits all approach when it comes to my immigrant inclusion because each and every city in our society are completely different in terms of economic condition, in terms of opportunities, in terms of even geography or spatial aspect. So we have to consider that. This is where the cities comes into play because we had to ask this question, do we have a good minority ethnic community in cities to support social inclusion? So one of our key findings was that ethnic diversity in cities would actually promote inclusion because you could see me, I'm a person of color myself. I would be happy to see people from my country. I would be happy to speak my language with people in my society. So that means that, okay, I'm not alone here. There are people in here. So then that makes me feel like I'm being kind of included in the society. They are acknowledging me, they are accepting me. And then if we look at the social spatial context, so we also have to consider these availability of physical spaces for immigrants because they are moving from one country to another country. So they would expect some aspects such as parks or open spaces or open libraries and especially shopping facilities. So especially the aspect of where you could find actually is the specific type of spices to cook because we don't wanna use the spices made in the United Kingdom because it never gives us the taste. So likewise, immigrants also look for those special amenities and facilities. Okay, I'm living in the city. I can find my food. I can find ingredients for my food. Or I can go to this public park where I could find people. I could find people from my country of origin. So that connects people towards their communities and that promotes social inclusion. And then finally, policies should also consider migrants' experiences. Again, I'm going back to the idea of top-down and bottom-up approaches. So this is another aspect of bottom-up approach to social inclusion. We should speak to them. We should really try to understand their experiences because migrants feel included when they have opportunities available to them. So for example, they are feeling included if they could apply for jobs, if they could find employment, if they could find proper, suitable, affordable housing, if they could find other opportunities for social connections. So policies should consider these four aspects. So one is the role of stakeholders in the socio-cultural context in each city and the socio-spatial context in each city and their experience of migrants themselves in those cities. And then I would also like to highlight that social inclusion is context-specific. So we cannot apply general policies to each and every city. It should be for those cities themselves because it has different socioeconomic condition with the proportion of ethnic communities or proportion of population. So social inclusion should focus on that local context. Perfect, well, you have brought both of you two different contexts for us to compare and to explore. So I'm curious now to know about future steps in research. Let's start with you, Claudio. So what else is there to explore this topic? More geographies, more case studies, what is it? I would say I totally agree with what has been said by Nira Shen and I think we are both actually migrants in each of the contexts where we work. And but what we bring, I think, or we try to bring is this global local connection that should be always present. So what has been said about these four different components it has to be addressed in each or could be addressed in each and every context of research, of policies, of practices. And at the same time, the context specific elements then can, let's say, bring into life this very basic concept of supporting stakeholders or supporting social cohesion with activities, general activities, cultural activities and so on. And also support specific migrant networks and I mean, because I realize, for instance, being in Sweden that there are actually not many Italians so I would not be able to access Italian networks here. But so make sure anyhow that the possibility of me socializing or even access to food which is Italian food, it should be present. So all this, I think, yeah, is a way to move forward both research and policy practices. What would you add to this, Nerošan? Yeah, I think you kind of gave us your answers with your questions. I would say, yes, we should have more research without the divide of global south and global north. So the one problem with our overall research is that we tend to focus more on global north and we don't really get perspective so experienced from global south. But in reality, we have also migrants moving towards global south too. So we could conduct studies looking at those different contexts, global south and global north countries. And the other one is that, yes, now United Kingdom is out of the European Union. It is, again, it's an interesting case study how UK is actually applying its own policies and rules and regulations or practices to include people, include immigrants in their society and compare it to other European countries. And when I say that it doesn't need to be the Western European countries, we could also look at Eastern European countries or the down south. So we have these different geographical contexts where we could actually compare them. And the other important part is the empirical studies. Of course we like empirical studies. So as qualitative scholars, we would like to have more qualitative empirical studies, but then it will give us more information. So as we said earlier, migrants' experiences are important. So conducting primary research with them could give us more information. What do they think? How do they feel? Because sometimes the problem is that, yes, we develop policies, but then those policies or the consultations on those policies doesn't really, don't really reach to those population in our society. So we could include more qualitative studies or in general research, primary research studies to collect firsthand information so we can actually apply or contribute to developing new policies in different countries and different cities. With some recommendations for future research. Nira Shan, let's stay with you. Recommended materials to complement this topic. What would you recommend? We found a couple of interesting research areas, a couple of good practices. One is that in Quebec, there is a coalition of inclusive municipalities. So we could look at that, the ideas of inclusion. So they have 96 cities as members of this coalition of inclusion, inclusive municipalities. So they are publishing reports on intercultural and inclusive practices in multi-ethnic settings. So we could learn from them. Of course, Canada is also a country that actively promotes inclusion, integration, and then they want to make people feel good in those countries and feel welcome in those countries. So Quebec is a good example. And then we also have other examples from the UK too, inclusive cities for all, that is a project involving EU cities in EU countries funded by the European Union. Perfect, Claudia, what about in your case, what would you recommend? Yeah, it was just maybe another idea is to look at city alliance, which is a more international network of cities from all around the world, without distinction really, and they share good practices and knowledge on specific projects they do. And for instance, in Italy, Bologna came to know a project that was made in US and replicated by adapting it to the social, economic, cultural context of Bologna. And so I think this transfer of knowledge is between research, municipalities, so political local leaders, and good practices that's very important to keep in mind. I also add another point. It's maybe a self citation. We recommend reading our article. It's a good marketing, and of course, it's a good recommendation. For those who are watching on, let's talk about social inclusion website, there's the button there to access the article that has been discussing here with Claudia and Niro Shen. This has been a straight on the point conversation, so I would like to ask you now, each of you, to give a punchline. If someone just turned up to listen to this conversation and you wanted to pass the most important information very quickly and briefly, what would it be? Niro Shen, let's start with you. Oh, that's a pressure on me then. Yes, inclusive cities are important. They play a huge role in each and everyone's lives in their spatial context. So migrants move towards cities. So we have to consider cities as important. The other point is that as I said earlier, social inclusion is context specific. So we cannot apply one size fits all approach to social inclusion. So we have to be more specific. We have to learn from our communities and stakeholders. Claudia? I wish and hope that social work research and in general research could create a space alongside policy practice recommendation to really removing barriers to inclusion and to acknowledge migrant experiences and the important of the subject in producing tools and knowledge and instruments for inclusion. Straight to the point. Claudia, Niro Shen, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Rodrigo. It's a great pleasure for us to share our findings and research. It's our pleasure. Thank you. For those who are watching us on YouTube, you can find all the resources and materials that has been discussed in this conversation. As I said, let's talk about social inclusion website. You can also listen to this episode whatever you get your podcast in audio format. There's a newsletter you can subscribe to and of course follow us on Twitter at Kojitatiu LTA.


רגע שעד שנציבור את התוארים להתחיל ישר באינטרדקטי שאני תביאו, שאני חכה לך שתיים של סמולטוק הזה שמצוברים את תוארפיק כן, אנחנו יכולים להתחיל עם סמולטוק כנראה לנסות את זה, כדי להתחיל את התוארים אנחנו יכולים להתחיל על את התוארים כאן בישראל, ככה כשמתנו בבקשה, כדי להתחיל את התוארים כן, אני כנראה, אני כנראה את התואר. אני ע será 40 קundילים של תואר vaya, ואני כפרדה תואר התוארים וביסטים אבל אני לא מולט orbital, זה לא את המזכאים נראה, זה הרבה תוארים, אני לא יאיש, אני כבר הייתי איפה לזריט ואני לא חאה כי זה 40 קטשה 40 פעם, אבל זה היה אוקיי, אז בואו נראה, 1 מיליאנס פסר אהרס, על שלמנגל סטריט, שאתה ירסה בו על שלמנגל סטריט, ראשון ובאוטו פתניס, ראשון, תודה אוקיי, אז אני חושב שאנחנו יכולים להתחיל, בבקשה אוקיי תודה נראה כמה אנחנו עודים אוקיי, רייטיול, כמה אתה עודים? אני חושב שאנחנו נראה איך עודים כמה היה הלך, שאתי נראה אני חושב שזה 2019, אני רוצה לך, אבל אולי 2018, אולי 2019 אני חושב שזה 2019, אתם ודניאל ואתם קראתי את ארסות היטקורטריים ותאוקיי את אישראל, כמה היה לך אתם?  אנחנו יתגיד אחד ואחר חלגת אולי צריך להפוך סטייאל מרחבי אז אתה זוכרת את סטייאל אני חושב שאני זוכרת את הסטייאל home So I don't know who really lost שמרחבי אוקיי, אז שם ראית So that's Rachel. So Rachel thank you for joining us and you know Thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk to you. About filmmaking, about YouTube, all for the sake of a woman's day Where we want to spotlight women creators. So I think we're going to jump right into the first question. I think we got warmed up a little bit.So when did you start your filmmaking career?Sure, so we started the YouTube channel in 2017. Before that, we were doing mostly wedding photography and making videos for that. And that started, I did my first wedding in 2012 and then started my business the next year in 2013.And so since I've been doing things in the photo video world since 2013, but in the YouTube world since 2017.Cool. What drew you into the photo and filmmaking world in 2012-13?I think it has a lot to do with my personality. I like making things, but I'm also very introverted, so I really like the idea of being behind the camera. Telling stories without having to talk, which I know is kind of counterintuitive in terms of being on YouTube mostly now. Because we're in front of the camera a lot more. But I still think even though we're doing YouTube videos, it's still a lot more behind the camera than in front of the camera compared to other people. So yeah, that's kind of what drew me in. Being able to tell stories without having to do stuff like this. Talk about this. Awesome, but in the end you found yourself doing YouTube, but you say like, you feel like you're doing more work behind the camera basically. That's what you feel like. I do, yeah. We'll do short intros and actresses, but for the most part we're just going behind the scenes of our shoots so we're giving tips as we show B-roll and we do voiceovers. It's not a lot of turning the camera and talking to it. It's not my favorite thing. Not daily vlogging stuff. No. Just vlogging. Cool. Do you have any influences? Who influenced you regarding photography, filmmaking? Sure. So in terms of photography, I guess and filmmaking, I really don't like looking to other photographers in our niche because I feel like it's really hard to, I don't know, be creative when you're just only being influenced by the people who are making the same things over and over around you. So I always try to look to find inspiration outside of photography, so whether it be movies or music or books, anything that sparks an emotion or a feeling or an idea in me and taking that and then making photos out of it I feel like is one of the things that helps us, I don't know, not just fall into trends that you can see on Instagram over and over again, just kind of like doing our own thing but inspired, you know, it's not our own thing because we're being inspired by other things but it's not just, you know, taking photos that already exist and then recreating those photos over and over again. Well, it's a lie to say that you came up with something. Like everybody gets inspired from something. Either it's from, like you said, like music or pictures. But the main source of your inspiration is what music, photos, paintings. Yeah, so we've done some videos where we've actually done that. Like we did a photoshoot inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is one of my favorite movies. And so you kind of grab your favorite still frames from that movie and then like apply that to photography. We did a whole shoot based on that. We've done where like we'll take a song and then we'll break down some of the parts of the songs, some of the like feelings that are, you know, that you get from a song or some of the ideas that like the lyrics may be paint, the pictures that the lyrics paint. You take those and then you make photos from those. Cool. And that's just, I don't, I have a hard time calling it original. Like you said, like it comes from somewhere but it's just different than just like looking to other photographers in New York Mesh. It's giving it your own vision, your own take on whatever inspires you. Yeah, that's cool. So like Eternal Sunshine is one of your favorite references for creating like content. Yeah, we did a whole photoshoot based off of that movie and that photoshoot was more like, like we would try to recreate the frames from that movie. So I guess it's less like inspiring, more derivative. But yeah, but for the most part, like when I get an idea for a photoshoot it's usually because I'm like jogging and listening to a song and I'm like, oh, I love that idea. Like I picture this thing in my head and I want to recreate that. Yeah, instead of just like scrolling Instagram and seeing a photo and saying like how can I like, you know, shot for shot, recreate this thing. I like to be inspired by things outside of photography or photography. Awesome. Yeah, definitely. It makes sense. And you know, inspiration comes from all different things. I remember the last time we've talked, I've like asked you some questions regarding that. I remember you were talking about like when inspiration hits it's not when you're like looking at a video or a movie. It's actually when you're doing something completely else like jogging or shower.    That's where I feel the most. For me, it's getting ready in the morning. That's like when I'm like, I remember that thing that I saw. I have a great idea that could connect to it. And then I always write it down or, you know, on a phone or something. Or just record myself saying like, what's the idea? And then I would give people to listen. It's always like weird a little bit. Anyways, yeah, that's cool. So how do you like you're doing YouTube? How do you combine that with like being an introvert like introvert? Um, I don't think that those two things normally mix. I think like one of the questions that we get a lot is like, I want to make videos. I want to do these things, but like I'm so introverted. I'm so bad at being from camera. And I think that we haven't let that stop us. I think that, and I can be wrong about this, but I think that being an introvert means being like deeply aware of who you are.  You're familiar with it because it's, you know, you were the person you spent the most time with. And so I think it was very easy for us to figure out like what our voice was. In terms of making videos because, because of that.  And, you know, it's going to be different than the majority of like the vlog style, like your Logan Pauls and your whoever else is trending on YouTube right now. It's going to be different than that. And it's not going to be for everyone. But, you know, just because you're an introvert doesn't mean that you can't make YouTube videos. You can just like make it work for you. For sure. And I think like specific, the case for Mango Street, that was part of the charm. For me, I remember seeing you guys and it was like, they're not trying to be like, I don't know, something else on camera. Like that's them. That's who they are. Like they're a little bit quiet. And I really liked it. I think that's a lot of the charm. Like being yourself, being authentic is a big part of it. It's not for everyone. We're not for everyone for sure. People let us know all the time. But yeah, like we've done collabs with a lot of different kinds of YouTubers and it's very, it's always like jarring to like once the camera turns on, like a personality turns on. Like a lot of your favorite YouTubers are really like toned down normal people. But like once they turn the camera on, they can flip this like charming personality on. And I just like, I don't have access to a charming personality. Like that's never going to be me. And it doesn't like, I feel like we've kind of proven that you can still do videos without it. But yeah, again, not for everyone, but for some people it works. Well, I think the fact that you guys have more than a million subscribers is just the fact that you don't need to be eccentric. Or, you know, like all over the place, the minute you press record on the button, on the button. So it's just, it's a fact. Be authentic. Yeah, yeah. I think people crave like different things. Like they don't want everybody to be the exact same personality turned on. Like you kind of want different flavors here and there. So yeah, I do think there's a place for anyone, you know. And now how does it feel to be like on Mango Street, you and Daniel are together and sometimes he's more on camera and you're less on camera, you're more voice overing the video. But with your fitness channel, it's you constantly on camera. So how is that for you? It's probably new. Yeah. So even on my fitness channel, like you can tell an intro where it makes those videos. I don't look at the camera. There's no talking. Like most fitness channels are like instructors just like yelling at you or like shouting platitudes. And that's not me. Yeah. It's just the text on the screen and every once in a while a voice over, but never me talking to the camera. And so yeah, it's not that different from Mango Street for me on the fitness channel either. Even though I am in front of the camera 100% of the time, I'm not like interacting with it. Cool. And like that's a sigh that I haven't knew about you even when I met you face to face and we've talked, we've got to talk a lot, but I didn't know you're that into fitness. Like what drew you into opening a fitness channel? Yeah. So just around the time that the pandemic came to Los Angeles last year, our gyms closed. And so I turned to YouTube for, you know, the same way that most people did. And I just didn't see, it was like when we started our photography channel, there were so many photography channels that weren't, they didn't have what we were looking for. There were a lot of like long winded talking. They just focused on the tech. They didn't focus on our style. And so we're like, there's like a gap here that like we could fill with like what we like about photography or what we like about our favorite kind of tutorials, like short, succinct tutorials. And I felt the same way about fitness videos. There's a lot of them that are like loud, EDM music, people, you know, yelling at you to do, there wasn't a lot of like calming. Like I like my workouts, not necessarily so hard, but I just like them to make like my brain feel good. Like that's my goal when I work out and I wasn't seeing that on YouTube. So I was like, there's a little gap here. Maybe I can try to fill it. And so that's what I've been doing since the last July is when I started. Cool. Did you see, so last July, it means like in the middle of COVID, right? Did you see, I remember it was a trend. I remember like a lot of fitness instructors were doing like zoom live sessions and you probably saw like the opportunity there. Did you see like an increase with COVID cases going up and then like maybe a little bit of a decrease in your traffic or like did you see it? The main boost, which I found out later was in April, which is when I should have started my channel if I really wanted that boost. I got a boost around October, but it wasn't, it didn't seem to correlate with any numbers. It just, I put out a 30 day workout program in October and I think that just made people start watching my videos more. Yeah, I don't think I've really, I wasn't very strategic, I guess. In my timing. Well, you did do that eventually and it's pretty successful right now. So, but yeah, that's, so you did like a 30 day program where every day you put out a video and that what really gave you the boost. Yeah, I have a 30 day program where people can sign up for it and then they get sent a daily playlist of my videos to watch. And so that's like, that got a lot of people watching the same videos over and over, which I think helps the algorithm, like make, it makes the algorithm think that people like your channel, so they'll recommend videos more, which just adds to both. I think nobody knows how the algorithm actually works. Mysterious algorithm. Cool. Let's see. How is it managing two separate YouTube channels? Like, because I saw you guys are now publishing a little bit less on Mango Street, so is that like a conscious decision? Yes, so we've wanted to, for a long time, we wanted to go down to like one video per month. That's just like a big video, like a big photo shoot, something like really, that like really excites us because it's a lot to do a video every week. It feels like a hamster wheel. And yeah, we're finally getting the place we're doing about like two videos a week. If we have to do like ad spots in our videos, we're just trying to keep it so that we still have extra videos that don't have ad spots because we don't want to just make a video whenever we have to do an ad. That feels really depressing to me. But yeah, we're finally able to like cut back on those a little bit, but we're at the same time putting out more videos a week than we ever happy for. Like on my channel, I do three a week. Daniel and his channel does two a week. And then Mango is like one every two weeks now, so it's still so much work. Well, taking care, are you helping Daniel with his channel, by the way? Or are you like completely separate? But you know, they're completely separate, but we do help each other when needed. Like I'll help take his thumbnails. He bounces feedback off of me. I don't, I'm not interested by the topics in his channel. And so if I can understand a video, then he knows that it's like a broad audience can understand it. But yeah, it's mostly separate. Nice. So, you've created three YouTube channels now. You, you know, all of them are around teaching, giving people tips, advice, and they're all successful YouTube channels. And you probably learned a lot along the way. You probably learned from your mistakes. So maybe we can make it a little bit easier for all the up and coming YouTubers or people that want to open a YouTube channel. Like what would you, what tips would you give them for starting a YouTube channel? Yeah, I think that just like actually doing it, doing, making videos over and over, taking photos over and over, that's the way that you get better. But if you want to learn from my mistakes or like learn from what works for us, what we've found is the main thing is just consistency. So pick a schedule that works for you and upload schedule for us for a very long time, for like four years, it was once a week. That's what we commit to, to make our best video the most frequently that we could. And we post it at the same time every day. So everybody who followed us knows Monday, mango street video. So that's, that's big, being consistent. Kind of knowing your voice, I think is really important, like I was talking about earlier. There's a lot of people who see a YouTuber that they really like, and then they just want to completely emulate that. And then what they end up doing is just making like a less good version of that channel that already exists. And there's just not going to be an audience that cares about you as much as they care about that first channel. Like that's just the reality of it. So kind of knowing your voice. And you can, you can borrow ideas from other people and you can kind of like twist things and make them your own. But when you just try to, like people always try to rip off like Sam Kolder, Keithy and I, those are like the big ones. Sam Kolder forever. Yeah, and you can always tell.  Or Mango Street, your own Mango Street. For me, you guys are on the top of that list, by the way. Like I really love your content and it's unique. You're teaching so many people like basic and complicated, you know, educational content about photography and filmmaking and it's, for me, I remember watching you guys was super inspiring and helpful. And you know, it was fun watching you guys. You were entertaining as well, which we talked about where, you know, introverted how do you do that or you come across the camera, but you were entertaining for me at least. So good job on that. And those are really good tips. Everybody that are watching right now, if you just joined, I'm talking to Rachel Gulotta. She is a part of the Mango Street Channel with her husband Daniel and she has another channel called Rachel Gulotta Fitness where she instructs and teaches you all about fitness and fitness exercises. So she's a real YouTuber, successful one, I have to say. So listen to what she has to say. Are you guys, do you have like different creative processes for your channels? Like do you go into that channel with a different creative process and opposed to a different one? So for both channels, for all three channels, we have like a formula for how to make our videos that requires like little to no creative thought. I would say that like the creativity on the workout channel just comes in like writing the workouts and then the creativity on the Mango Street Channel comes in like the ideas like what we're going to shoot what we're going to talk about. And then here and there like how are we going to like transition this shot? How are we going to like little things like that? But for the most part in order to put out a video every week or three videos a week you kind of have to have like your main process like when you turn on the camera what you need to do do you know what I mean? You kind of have to just have the same process every time, yeah. So you turned along the way like how to you know make that process better and more efficient. Yeah, we've kind of the first video that we did on Mango Street it took us like all weekend to edit it and then we've kind of stuck to that format this entire time every once in a while we'll get a video where it has to be longer or we'll get a video where we're like I don't know we have to put certain ad spots in we have to adjust our main formula but truly from the very beginning we knew we wanted like succinct videos we knew we wanted to give like quick tips do a recap we knew that like we're super awkward like you were saying so that like there has to be like humor incorporated in some ways to like make people forgive us for our compliment Yeah, we've kind of been doing even on the fitness channel like the first video I did was like that set the tone for the rest of the videos that I'm making and on Daniel's channel they're all the same too so I think we kind of like walked into the process like from the get go which having a background in video I think was helpful for that Daniel and I both do so Yeah, that was my next question you probably like watched different fitness channels and in the back of your mind you probably thought about like how can I make it look better I have the experience I've done this for years now and I know that I can take the visuals for that channel or maybe like the look and feel for that for my channel to a different place I did, yeah, yeah so I would watch videos and I would pick out what I liked and what I didn't like so like when I watch a video that there's no talking I'm like I want to have no talking videos and then I also really wanted to bring something new to the table so even just like the branding of the video I this is like embarrassing for me to say but I looked around on Instagram to like all these there's like a certain like a micro influencer I think is like maybe the best term for it there's a certain kind of influencers yeah up and coming like influencers where you see they have their own unique they have their own yes they all shoot the same like places the same kind of poses the same kind of editing it's like a very strong niche and like I was like that's my target demographic so I want to like I kind of have to set like a target demographic to like know what you're yeah so I knew my color palette I knew like my text I knew everything that I wanted to have based on that and what was the question that you probably saw that you probably saw like different fitness channels and you set yourself I could do that I can make it look better like I have the skills yeah so there's a lot of like like nobody was like reaching out to those people who are like there's a lot of people who you know like that sort of aesthetic and that's people comment all the time that they like the aesthetic of it and I also wanted to do like really calming stretch breaks and so like I use our list don't tell anybody who's taking my stretch break ideas but I use are not art list but art grid I use art grid to get like really beautiful footage so during stretch breaks I play like a lot of like nature scenes and add like some fully to make it feel like really relaxing and I have not yet seen that on any other channel and I feel like that's something that like makes it also stand apart and helps like my goal is to make people feel good and I feel like that adds to it makes your brain feel good cool so but I really liked first of all that's really cool because you saw like a a gap in the visual and the visuals and that you also wanted to fill in but also planning your demographic and then like understanding your demographic and planning your color palettes and your fonts and the the tone of voice and everything according to that is so smart I'm not sure that a lot of people start off like that and that only comes with experience yeah yeah I think that's true yeah a lot of them that's that's why I see and that's what I feel is that a lot of them just like look at what the other person is doing and they all use the same like kind of standard fonts the same timers the same and they they're not really making making it their own or making it unique or you know making it for a certain group of people I guess cool so let's see we just talked about how to build like your own style but if you want to give tips to like other youtubers or other up and coming youtubers is there anything else that like you could take into consideration or when building your style I can say that when I was before the channel existed the first thing that I did was go to Pinterest and then like build like like I had a color palette I had like what kind of fonts I wanted I had like different like icons and stuff that I wanted to like see everything all in one place and you don't have to do that on Pinterest but it's just like an easy way to do it you know you can do it in Photoshop or you know there's a lot of tools for that but that's that's what helped me visualize what I wanted the channel to look like like all in one place awesome and that's a good tip because I have to say like with everything not only creating YouTube channels but any creative project that you're going into it's really helpful here at Artlist we also do that for every project we do there's references there's color palettes there's like a lot of them are from Pinterest as well different paintings, different photos, songs that all convey the mood and feel that you're trying to achieve so everything that you do especially when you're building a YouTube channel definitely try to do that even if you don't have a client or whatever it's for yourself to understand like where are you going with that project yeah awesome so it's women's day how is it for you like what's your feelings of being a woman creator in 2021 society has gone we've been through sort of a mind shift but do you feel that like how is that for you I would say that it's not something that I think about a lot but it is something that I'm affected by from time to time especially on the mango street channel when we started the channel I never really and even still I don't really consider photography or making videos filmmaking to be tech based I approach it more if you're like the lens of art and like that's how I appreciate photography those are the kind of photographers I like aren't people who are just trying to sell you a camera they're like the people who are creating meaningful I don't know works of art and so I did not think that we were starting a tech channel I didn't think I was going to be a woman in tech and so but I am I feel like a little bit uh like a representative of my gender in this space even though I don't consider myself a tech person um and so how that's affected me is um even though I'm not necessarily always interested in tech uh I always feel like I need to be I like uh like say we're making a video about drone photography I think it's always like important to have shots of me actually operating the drone um me speaking about what I like about the drone just to like um kind of let people know it's okay that you know girls can fly drones too um which seems silly and it's um not something that I'm very passionate about but just because of the space that I'm in has a woman I feel like that's something that I need to do what was the exact question well how is it for you to being like being a creator and these times like 2021 yeah a woman creator yeah so um things are a little bit um different for me like it's kind of interesting because Daniel and I run the tech channel together um and so it's kind of interesting to see like a lot of times um like especially when we're starting out people would call it Daniel's channel um like I was just there as a um like to model or you know to we were both writing we were both shooting um he was mostly editing but I was sitting next to him while he was editing like we were both like 50 50 part of it but um that wasn't really recognized and um so that's just something that like we've had like make a conscious effort to like like this is a two person channel like we're both adding something to this um and there are things that we do like for example last that we just but the video that we put out before this one um was about my first music video that I ever shot and um we couldn't frame it that way um because it's about all the mistakes that I made and I really felt like if we frame it as just like my mistakes my failures then one I'm doing into service to girls somehow because people are gonna like judge it differently and two people are gonna be a lot more harsh instead of like hearing the advice that we're giving the video they're gonna you know be more judgmental and so we had like Daniel had to be in the video with me we had to say like we had to use our you know like our mistakes this is like something that we would have done differently um so just stuff like that um yeah did you really like think about it where like that's not a good representation of like women creators like if you'll be alone there and talking about your mistakes like that would be yeah that's something that we do have to like consider and think about kind of like approach it as like we're photographers not like I'm a I don't know I don't know but we just it's something that we have to be mindful of that's definitely something that I can understand like the fact that there aren't like the majority of filmmakers are actually and unfortunately men I would want to have way more women in the industry you know kicking ass um yeah but the fact is I think there are I'm sorry I think there are a lot of them but they're not the big names that people care about um and I do think that there's something to that um I I don't think that you know you should just look to someone's gender as like this is the reason why I follow them but I do think that there are a lot of really awesome women filmmakers out there I think one of my favorite filmmakers and directors and just like tutorial makers is Valentina V and she's someone who should be like at the top of everybody's list when they're making their um you know they're having their uh like events and and they're inviting all these like great filmmakers and stuff and she's not people don't like I feel like she's not picked as much and yeah I think that they definitely exist and um I think they just need more recognition for sure for sure couldn't agree more even here at art list we really try to balance the amount of female workers and male workers in overall the company and also in like management roles it's super important for us to have that you know representation of female employees and the fact of the matter there are really really really good sometimes and not sometimes I mean they're awesome and it's something that should be in every place like definitely in cooperation and I really wish there were more creators there's a lot of them and they should get more recognition women creators for sure um so let's see let's see in youtube in general there is more male creators like how do you feel about that would what would you say to other female creators who are maybe not afraid but concerned of getting in front of the camera and you know being themselves and opening a youtube channel yeah um probably just the same thing that we talked about earlier just kind of like being comfortable with yourself knowing your voice I always think like if this is something like if I'm making something that I like then somebody else out there is going to like it as well so you just kind of have to like trust that you you know what people want to if it's something that you like then other people are going to like it and if you just do that then an audience will follow um yeah but I don't know like I don't know what determines like who's a big youtuber or not I think a lot of it has to do with algorithms and a lot of that has to do with like the people that youtube the platform promotes um and there are women included in that and I think that they're making like a more conscious effort to do that but I yeah I don't know what the advice is if you're a woman like how to to I don't know through that lens how you make how you stand out more I don't know what the answer to that is I think maybe um whoever writes the youtube algorithm maybe knows the answer to that I have to say that we did a film about currently Hannah um last year for women's day and she experienced like a lot of let's say not nice comments on her youtube channels and she said something that I really liked she said like you just look at the good parts of what you're doing look at the people you're influencing look at the old all the people you're inspiring go over that there's always going to be haters doesn't matter if you're a female or a male yeah um and just you know just don't let it get to you it's hard I know but keep doing what you're doing keep being true to yourself and that will definitely take you far at the end yeah I think that's great advice I think it's really hard advice follow but I think that's super hard I know it's super hard being in front of the camera getting a criticism um yeah that's tough but um there's a lot of great creators out there they're doing it improving everybody everybody's that they're wrong do you like we've talked about the part where you're you planned the youtube channel you decided like Daniel should be beside me do you feel like you're representing female creators in some way yeah I do um yeah just whenever we do anything on mango street I always have to be just as a person I'm not um like to me tech is so tech is so second to the story or you know like making something meaningful tech is just a tool that I use to do it I don't think that's because I'm a woman that I build that way I think that's just because I I don't know the way that I appreciate photography is through the lens of art um but yeah so I do feel like I have to care about the tech like interact with it talk about it um even though that's not genuinely genuinely who I am I still feel like that's something that I have to do just because I'm representing women so that when somebody is watching it in Michigan and they have their ideas about uh like who who this drone is for um then you know then maybe can open their eyes like oh you know girls women like doing this too you know cool yeah how how is it working with daniel your husband like it seems you guys have a really special relationship and you know following you over on mango street you got married while you were doing the youtube channel like how was it exposing your your relationship to other people and like working together yeah I love working with daniel I think that um we're lucky I think that's maybe not normal that like people like spending time with their significant other but um yeah I love he before we went full time with youtube he was working uh full time office job where he did motion graphics and uh since he's been home like I love it so much and we work so well together every everything that he's so good at um I don't know our strengths just like really compliment each other like the things that I um like my weak places are his strengths and vice versa um so yeah it's really it's I feel like we make a really good team uh as far as like opening our relationship up to like the internet um I don't know if I would recommend that 10 out of 10 I don't know if I'm like so stoked that we've done that um there's something and there's a lot that like you know we just keep for us um yeah I I don't know if I would recommend doing that if I could go back I don't know if I would do that like 100% again but yeah I've seen you guys answered the question I wasn't working with Daniel but I have to say I I worked I I seen you guys working together like when you came over to visit us uh in Israel and you were shooting the video it was beautiful it was amazing seeing you guys work together giving each other advice you know it was just supernatural it was great seeing it from the side and I specifically and everybody here at our list wish that you know you guys would come over again and that you guys will keep on doing things together and separately um that's awesome seeing that and it's awesome to see that you guys you know you can also separate and do your own niches and help each other which is also you know not all couples and that work together would want to do that thing like separate and try to do each their own thing like how was that going into these you know different projects that was probably you know you got the support from Daniel and Daniel got the support from you probably yeah yeah it's really natural um he had been talking about making his channel for a long time and so that got me thinking like if I did a channel like what would I want it to be and when he's working in his channel what am I going to be working on so yeah it was really natural to do that and like I said like we still like we'll bounce ideas off of each other help each other out with like thumbnails and he calls off like when I do workouts I like to make a timer and he calls off the timer as I'm filming so yeah we're still very much like in each other's steps and stuff but yeah it's it's really nice working with him awesome awesome and speaking about you guys visiting here in Artlist so I think you have a special relationship with Artlist we've been working together for three years now maybe more you guys been using Artlist even beforehand we have been using Artlist from the very beginning before we could really afford the subscription it was a big risk to take it but we did it and we're so happy that we did because yeah we super love Artlist awesome so you guys have been supporting us from you know the get go and I hope we guys could you know help you out as well and I hope we helped you out along the way so it's a really cool relationship and another thing that maybe some of the viewers don't know maybe a lot of the viewers don't know and maybe some of the people that watch you and Daniel Loford mango street don't know is that Daniel has an album he's an artist on Artlist Generation lost he released a ton of new music over at Artlist and you guys also have a collection a new collection over at Artlist right yeah he has a ton I don't know how many albums he has but maybe he still has more that he's even working on right now but I think he has like at least four maybe five up on Artlist right now so it's amazing to see that you're so multi-skilled the both of you you're doing so many things and having Daniel with us and you guys are also by the way on art grid you have a profile filmmaker profile on art grid as well which is awesome yeah we are definitely all over the place especially Daniel so yeah that's amazing and if anybody that views us wants to hear Daniel in his songs over at Artlist go I think there's a link in the description below but generation lost is the artist name stage name go check it out some awesome tracks to you know soundtrack your videos yeah that's Daniel on Artlist cool thanks for the plug he asked me to do that and I forgot sponsor plug so how did you guys like you took the risk but like how did you find out about Artlist I think it was another wedding photographer told us but it was seriously so early on I like I want to say there was only like four albums on Artlist like it was so early on and $200 like we didn't start the business yet and $200 was so much for us at that point and we're like this is a big risk like should we do it we had a full conversation about it and yeah I'm really glad that we did because at the time I don't know if this is true but this is what it seems like all of the other licensing sites you had to buy songs individually so like the subscription model is really attractive to us and I know you can do that now on other sites but it's still we still prefer Artlist just because of the kind of music that's on there it's really hard to find especially for my fitness videos like the specific kinds of songs that I'm looking for um it's really hard to find like unique good music and yeah Artlist has always been there been that for us awesome yeah happy to hear yeah I know we've talked about it several times but it's always great to hear how you guys you know got into Artlist and started working with us so for sure um let's see let's see let's see I'm looking for good questions for you Rachel okay that's about it from our side of questions but we had some posts saying and announcing that you are here with us live today and we asked the viewers and the people to submit their questions so we have some questions for you guys for you Rachel from you guys the viewers and the Artlist community okay so honey crisp music asks let's see and also oh Phylus Phylus asks here on the chat any concrete tips for growing on YouTube regarding keywords, descriptions any best practices that you've noticed along the way but give us the real stuff emphasis on that give us the real stuff so I don't know if I can say anything that doesn't already exist on YouTube but I think for us a thing that we've had to really be conscious of on Mango Street is the phrasing that we use in our titles we just had to change the title because we use the word shoot for our photo shoots and I think that yeah it could be flagged as potentially a violent video and so little things like that that you don't necessarily think about phrasing your videos in a way that they won't get flagged is something that we always have to constantly go back and check a thing that I've learned recently which is maybe not a good tip maybe everybody knows this is that after you go through and tag your video you can go through and double click on the tags and then it'll tell you um how good that keyword is if it's common uh yeah and I don't that's a good tip I didn't know that I hope that's for everybody because we also use a thing like that might just be we use TubeBuddy but it seems like a YouTube feature so yeah if it doesn't work for you then maybe sign up for TubeBuddy that's also a good tip we're also using TubeBuddy which is great to you know trying to see more in depth metrics well then you can probably definitely do it yeah once you do keywords then go back after they're already um like in the description uh go back and double click them and then it'll show you like a whole bunch of analytics from each keyword cool do you have like a specific growth hack that you've noticed? no I don't I honestly I feel like it changes all the time and there's a lot of a lot of things about YouTube are frustrating and not knowing how to best you know make your channel grow you put in all this work for each video and then like especially for us lately like we just go on like little like sometimes videos will trend and do really well and we won't know why and then sometimes we think a video is going to do well and it just it doesn't so I have no idea I'm a terrible person to ask because I feel like we're not very good at that yeah with YouTube you're on the dark lot it's just like kind of a lot of trial and error exactly that's what I wanted to say it's a lot of trial and error it's consistency yeah it's I would say consistency is the number one growth hack the more you post interesting content and valuable content consistency is one of the key factors for growing the YouTube channel and also trying to look for everything that we've talked about but looking for that specific niche or gap that haven't been filled yet and what can you bring to the plate that's the best advice for any up and coming YouTuber yeah any growth hacks always learn the algorithm right try to figure out like what's new on the algorithm what maybe yeah it's different yeah it's hard to stay on top of it yeah it's always changing so always try to keep up to date with it and maybe try out you know talking about different trends if you really want to explore like if there's a boxing match between whoever YouTuber try to talk about it you can try boxing other YouTubers I feel like that would help you grow that's good right that's a trend that's going on lately and for a few years now try maybe go into boxing yeah next time on the art list maybe we can get all the boxes let's try that next time you come over little miss beats a musician from Cape Town asks love your work how do you sorry oh sorry I said I recognize that name oh yeah love your work how do you balance creating for your soul visiting creating for your job this is a really good question I don't know if I would ever call creating YouTube videos like rewarding for my soul it just doesn't seem that important to me but they have like creating videos that I want to make videos that make me happy versus videos that other people want us to make I don't know if we're very good at balancing that but we definitely try to do both um like for example when we came to art list last time we talked about this um like there are photographers that maybe aren't our cup of tea but a lot of people really like and respect them and we respect that and so if they want to know how to edit like that photographer how to make videos like this kind of filmmaker then we'll definitely like you know bend over backwards to figure out so like break down their editing style or you know whatever it is that people want to know um and we make those videos for people um but then at the same time like if we get a good idea that we like we just have to make um for ourselves then we'll also do that too and I don't I don't know if we're good at balancing it um I think that's a question for our audience not for us but um we definitely try to do both are you guys doing polls to see like what type of content people like to see yeah we do that from time to time we do that on um twitter but what we've honestly found like on all three of our channels is when we poll people the top requests are never the videos that people actually want to watch the most um so I think that yeah the people who answered the polls are maybe not the people who watched the videos interesting um same little miss beats she also asks um how do you nurse your mental health and balance it with your work and being in public in the public eye do you have any concerns about it I have so many concerns about it um and I don't think I'm good at balancing it um I do think that like stepping away from the internet uh social media in general is just really good and everybody should do that at some point um we don't do it enough I don't do it enough um I think that's really the the best thing that you can do for yourself is just taking a break from social media for sure um Raphael Lopez asks Rachel what do you what to do when you have a creative hangover like one week you love your work the next week you think it looks like trash oh um yeah I know I know that feeling for sure um I don't know I don't know if I have a good answer to this um that's like a self-confidence thing I think that it's just like really important to not um I don't know judge yourself because I don't my whole entire thing is like uh I have like I'm really afraid of being too confident I'm like just out by confidence I never want to have like overconfidence and so I never like look at my work it's like oh this is so good and I think that um that's probably a negative thing that I do and it's probably something I shouldn't talk about on international women's day but um yeah I think that the positive side of that is I've never like let down by my work because I don't have high expectations for it I feel like this is a bad I probably shouldn't do this question I want to add to that okay I think it's not about looking back at your work and saying that work looks great and that looks trash it's about thinking about the process that you went through in order to create that work and what you've learned along the way and that's really the key for you know for these type of situations when you're like uh like we all been there we all been at a place where we look back at the videos and say like oh my god like I was terrible in front of the camera or this was really bad but first of all you learn something along the way and second you probably inspired someone or you probably helped someone with that video um so that's my answer and that's a way better that's good advice but that's what you tried to say just basically I just wanted to translate what you meant but yeah that's definitely how I would look at it um let's see who else okay Giselle Bahutra I hope I said that right keep watching your vlogs and short movies I love them they're so well thought out are you planning to get more into cinematography and videography much love kisses from Giselle um thanks for the kisses Giselle I think that maybe she's talking about our um like when we do travel videos kind of those are sort of our vlogs yeah we're definitely like in the mood to make more of that kind of stuff we've just been so limited this past year everything that we've had to make has been inside of our apartment um there's like a lot of burnout not just from like I mean just from everything that's gone on this past year plus like having to keep coming up with new videos to deal like with the same backdrop over and over again um so yeah as soon as we're able to get back out into the world we'll definitely I'm sure we'll be very inspired to keep making new fun vlogs yeah um Giselle I have to say I've talked to Rachel before we started this live session and we talked about how we're both waiting for the world to open the skies to open again and we all can travel and make beautiful cinematic travel videos and Mango Street can keep doing those awesome videos um okay wow these are really hard names Urielan Kritu sorry if I've I didn't pronounce that well enough but asking about your um poetry and if there's a book in the works is there I I love writing, writing is my absolute favorite creative medium I don't consider what I write poetry um so there's not ever going to be a poetry book but um yeah I wrote like a sort of a sort of memoir um which is like a series of vignettes and I paired it with different photos that I've made and um yeah our agent has it right now and uh we're looking into maybe getting it published or maybe self-publishing it so yeah maybe in the future I would love that that's like been a long goal of mine to do that so hopefully awesome I didn't know that so first of all it's awesome to hear and when it's finished and you do publish that let us know we're gonna try to push it from our sides because we love you guys we want to help you out um awesome I think that's all the questions we've got from the audience and I think that's actually our time um so Rachel thank you for talking to us joining us an international women's day you are a great representative to female creators around the world even if you think that you haven't been but you are and you are by just doing what you're doing um and again thank you for everything um it's been a pleasure um and yeah thanks everyone for joining us and that's it have a great week everybody and thank you for having me you are very welcome we couldn't have thought of a better creator female creator to join us and talk to us so thank you Rachel say our send our love to daniel as well and you know keep keep doing what you're doing okay thank you so much bye bye סליחה סליחה


Committing Officer of Fleet Activity Sausagebow, Captain Matt Oveos, signs a proclamation in front of the base fire station to show support of fire prevention week. It's really important that we maintain our apartments and our homes in a safe condition, particularly as we look at fire and smoke. We're out here to pledge our support for that and to remind everybody to take time and think about fire safety. To help spread the word to younger children, commanding officer of EJ King's Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, Richard Rasai shows support by leading. Fire safety is important because it can happen anywhere. No matter where you are, your classroom, your house, it just can happen and it's a very dangerous hazard and it's just important to be safe from it. The fire department will hold more events to demonstrate fire prevention and safety. Putty Officer Christina Coffey, Fleet Activities, Sausagebow, Japan.


Hello people, I'm Ginny Metherill and I'm a fourth generation traditional witch. Today I want to look at that Wheel of the Year celebration that falls upon the equinox and that pagans and wiccans alike know as Ostara. What exactly is Ostara? Ostara is a pagan, neo-pagan or wiccan festival celebrated on the equinox. So I'm just going to delve very briefly into what that actually is. The equinox is when the earth in its yearly cycle around the sun has the sun pointing directly at its meridian, at its central belt. So neither the northern hemisphere nor the southern hemisphere are favoured and it is a singular point in time. After that the northern hemisphere tips over into summer and the southern hemisphere tips over into the six months for winter and this happens in the UK at 307 precisely and I think it's 1007 in the US eastern time zone. This was celebrated by our pagan forebears and ancestors with many celebrations of spring and fertility. And what do we know with a spring? Well it's when the hens start laying and so we get eggs and so this is one of the main celebrations that we have with Ostara. The wiccans in the 1950s came up with the name Ostara for this festival based upon ancient Germanic festivals of the same name. There is no real history towards them. Nobody really knows where Ostara came from. Did it come from us worshipping and there is evidence to show that the ancient Brits did worship the goddess Easter, which is where Easter obviously comes from. Easter is not a Christian festival. It is very much a pagan one. And as I've said Easter is always celebrated with eggs because it is at this time of year that literally every bird in the world pretty much is laying and so eggs are a symbol of the spring. So one of the easiest ways of course to celebrate Easter is to celebrate it with eggs. You can cook with them, you can eat them, you can decorate them, you can throw them down a hill. They do that around us actually, a bit of egg rolling. And if you have any Chinese eggs this is a great time to use them because this is a festival of fertility. We are celebrating the product of the new world coming forth. It shoots the spring, the green man himself, that great god of the spring is stalking through the land and pulling forth the energy from the earth in order to create the crops, the trees, the flowers, the leafs and the babies. This is one of the lesser festivals of the wheel of the year, so to speak. You know our ancestors would be celebrating this just because it's spring, we've got some eggs, the sun's coming out. After all that mud of winter we're finally getting some flowers and that is our spring. So second way to celebrate Ostarra is to use flowers. It sounds so obvious doesn't it? But we are simply doing as our ancestors did many many years before us. Ostarra, the German word, comes from the English word Easter. I think they are one and the same thing really. Easter was the personification of spring. She was a goddess who was known as a hair-headed goddess because hairs are about and hairs are very magical creatures at this time of year. They possibly are our sister brethren in that animal form so never ever ever hurt or harm a hair because you could be harming one of your own. Easter is obviously comes from the name East and she is a goddess associated with the East, the springtime of the dawn. These are great ways to celebrate her. I mean the dawn's quite early at the moment and I think it's dawn at about seven-ish in the morning in the UK so it's a great time to celebrate her with a little sun salute. Who knew that a bit of morning yoga can be part of your pagan practice? This time of year was often celebrated by walking a labyrinth. Now there is lots of famous labyrinths especially in Scandinavia on the coast which are these minor tour labyrinth. There is a very famous one in the UK on the Silly Isles and as you can see it's not really a maze because you don't get lost in it. There's only one entrance in and one entrance out but it is a meditative walk and one of the things that you should do at this time of year is meditation. It's very good to take stock to step back and see what you're going to do in the future. These labyrinths are incredibly old. There's neolithic remains of these types of labyrinths throughout the whole of the Northern Europe and you'll recognise this symbol of labyrinths from any witchcraft or spiritual shop. One of my favourite things to do with the labyrinths is to walk it because what you're doing is you're winding in your power. You're calling your power and as you walk round and round and back and forth you're winding it and weaving it into the central point. That's where you put your intent into this spell and then as you walk back out of the labyrinths that's you releasing it. These were thought to ask the sea to be calm for the sailors so they could you know go out and fish. However it's the same spell that they're using you know they're winding in their intent to a central point there then releasing that intent out into the world to cast their spell. I do believe that people have set up labyrinths all over the place so if you get the opportunity do you have a go? It's not a complicated pattern you can just make it yourself with a stick in the sand. A star as one of the Wheel of the Year festivals is always celebrated with a feast and so of course you get your children, your family, your friends, your everyone together. It was always lamb on the menu with the fresh greens that were growing so wild garlic and rosemary. This is all the sort of stuff that you would have and as well as a multitude of eggs in every way or form. Souffle, sweet or savoury omelettes you name it you can have them or cake let's just have cake. As I mentioned before the equinox is about balance the world is in balance with each other and this is a great time for you to explore that balance within yourselves. Now what I mean by this is that if you are a witch who normally does active magic for example being part of a coven, casting circles, so now is the time to bring the balance back to it so you would now look at the dreamlike and the spirit world a bit more spend some time in your mind's eye studying where those spirits are and how you communicate with them. Being part of that ancient world is really important in witchcraft and therefore I can't stress enough how you should practice this side of your craft. Lightwise if you're one of those witches who's got their foot permanently in the world of spirit it's a slightly like me. Now is my time to realise I need to bring balance to this and get out into the actual world and one of my final ways to celebrate Ostara is it is the time for the fey. The fey go into hibernation sort of in the winter you know like us we're all getting into hibernation mode sitting by our firesides not doing very much but in the spring they start to come out and the greatest way to see the fey is using flowers. Flowers such as primroses were known as gateway flowers and these you could peer over the tops of their petals and look into the fey's homes through them. However that obviously might be slightly difficult so why not do a flower essence and I'm going to show you how. This is really easy and although you might not see the fey because they might not be around you will certainly open your third eye with this. So here is my primrose flower essence in order to see the fey. So first of all you must find your primroses they are abundant in the head rows at this time and primroses have the added advantage of being completely edible. Pick 13 of them 13 is the number associated with the fey and especially with primroses so it always helps to go by the traditions. Pick over your flower heads and add them to a super clean bowl the cleaner the better in this instance. Use some clean spring water I've actually got moon water here and you simply pour this over the flower heads and you leave them to steep for three or four hours preferably in the sun but it's pouring with rain with us at the moment so they're just here. After a couple of hours they look much the same now you need to take a clean and sterilized bottle I've got a dark blue glass one because this will help the essence keep for longer. I'm now going to fill this bottle half full with some alcohol I've got gin here but you could use brandy whiskey vodka it just must be 40% proof and this helps with sterilization and of course preservation. And then I'm going to fill it up with the liquid that has been steeping with the flowers this will last for a couple of months you can add it to foodstuffs as long as you have been utterly sterile whilst making this or you can use it as a droplet on your tongue and that's why I've used one of these dropper bottles whenever you wish to see with them. I'd love to know how you celebrate Ostara so please you know drop me a comment below and tell me. I have got several videos that I've done about Ostara all of them do have slightly different information in them I'll put last year's Ostara video up here for you so do go and have a look at that if you think that you need some more help in how to celebrate this rather glorious festival. Please don't forget to go and have a look at Patreon. I think I've got one space open for those one-to-one sessions with me so grab it before it goes because otherwise there won't be any but if Patreon is not for you please don't forget to like and subscribe because this really helps my channel and I would be incredibly grateful for you doing so and I will see you in a couple of weeks.


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How about RPA nine of 10, Jackson Smith in Jigba. Going to Seattle. Congrats on that. That is Gloves, RPA, JSN, brother of Cannon in the MLB. Nice one there. Congrats on that Seattle. And going to the Texans, I believe, Xavier and Valaday. He is a Houston Texan. Yes, he is. Very nice. Empty, empty. That guy's going to check one thing. We've got going to the Chicago Bears, Justin Fields, the 75. Next up, going to the Bills. That is Josh Allen. 22 at 25. Moment. Player one, Wyoming Cowboys. Jaden with a spot in the mixer. Thank you there, Jaden. He is somewhere, I just forget where. The Bears to 49. Roshan Johnson. Congrats on that Chicago. Roshan Johnson. Nice one here is Rashi Rice. That'll be going to the Chiefs, 7 of 99. This is nasty. 22 of 25. Michael Meyer. Nice one there. That'll be going to the Raiders. Notre Dame Patch. And you can add this last one here. 4 of 99, Anthony Richardson. Congrats, Indianapolis. Here we go, Colts. Read D. Congrats, read the good first two boxes here with the JSN. Now, the Richardson. Good case. Assuming this is where I think it's going to be. Assuming Titans, but let me double check. Yep, Tennessee. That's going to be Vince Young. Nice one there. Got going to the Giants. That is going to be a Eric Gray, 19 of 20. That's kind of this next one's nasty. Bullpatch, 9 of 10. That'll be going to the Eagles. Jalen Carter with the Orange Bullpatch from Georgia. Very nice, very nice, very nice. Ooh, that's sick. Going to the Patriots, 20 of 25. Wes Welker.  Love it. Wes Welker in the Patriots, Immaculate Inc. That's sick. Got a Rookie Autograph, Joey Porter Jr. Going to the Steelers. That process really needs to be looked at here. Really needs to be refreshed. That's why Steelers, Joey Porter Jr. And going to the Broncos, 6 of 10. Another Bullpatch, Marvin Mims. Empty, empty. That's the first thing I say whenever I walk in, because it'll be like Dylan, Chris, Matt, Jaden, Donnie, like so much of bots. And I'm like, man, this hiring process really needs to be looked at. Jay will be in here, Joe will be in Jake. Like, God, dude. I'll just be like, really, all you have to do is have a pulse to get a job. I don't know. It's concerning to say the least concerning. Nice one there is going to be a Jared Goff to 99. Going to the Commanders. What's up? Jumbo Patch is Chris Rodriguez Jr. going to the Commanders. Oh, that's gross. Going to the Steelers. How about a Darnell Washington on the Chick-fil-A Bullpatch? That's sick, dude. Congrats on that, Pittsburgh. Nice one there. Jeffrey S with a mixer spot. Thank you, Jeffrey. We are down to six to go, everybody. Six to go. Unbelievable. Broncos, we've got a Cortland Sutton. Cortland Sutton, 33 of 99. They can't on some, but they can't on some. Like, they don't have. I don't think they could use. I know they can't use Houston. I know they can't use Georgia. I don't know where this guy is. Falcons. That is going to be Redemption of Clark Phillips, the third. Your brother's name is Chris Rodriguez. Jesse with a mixer spot. Oh, boy. What are we down to now? We're down to five to go in the mixer, Sean. Let's go. That's nuts. And how about a Jalen Hyatt? How do we go into the Giants? He is a Falcon. Let me double-check that, but I believe he is a Falcon. Yes, it lands a Falcon. This one here. We've got a Randy Moss. It's a 35. 38 of 42. We've got a Quinton Johnson going to the Chargers. Nice one there. How big his pads were for me? That's unbelievable, dude. I completely changed it. Scary. To 75. No, to 75. 70 of 75. Jamal Lewis going to the Ravens. Got 11 of 99. That is going to be a Nolan Smith going to the Eagles, two-color patch on. Nolan Smith. Redemption going to the Steelers, Immaculate Ink. That is a Minka Fitzpatrick. Minka Fitzpatrick going to the Steelers. And then nine of 25 going to the Vikings, Jordan Addison. Nice one there on the two-colored RPI from USC. MTMT. No randoms. Do a quick recap here. Incredible. Chris Rodriguez Jr. That is Eric Gray, Josh Allen, and a Deuce Vaughn. We have a Jordan Addison, Minka Fitzpatrick, Nolan Smith. That is Jamal Lewis, Jalen Hyatt, Clark Phillips, a Cortland Sutton, Darnell Washington, Marvin Mims, Joey Porter Jr., Wes Welker, Jalen Carter, Michael Meyer, Rishi Rice, Rashawn Johnson, Xavian Valade, Kenny McIntosh, Ryan Branch. That's fine. Yeah. Quentin Johnson as well. That is Anthony Richardson to 99, and Jackson Smith and Gigbut to 10. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the film. First up is the next is the first mix of