So we just hopped on this lake. It's been a while since we've been here. Got my boy Chance with me today. It's been forever. It's been a while, yo. Feels good to get back on the water. It's been so long. The first day I actually fished with Chance was on this lake, wasn't it? He almost hooked his dad in the eye. It was a crazy day. We caught like a hundred fish though. Was it that day or was it the next time? We caught like- I think the next time was a hundred fish. Yeah, we caught so many fish in eye. It was just an amazing day overall. This pond is super clear. It's a smaller little lake. I mean, you could kind of call it a lake, right? When you got a boat in here. Yeah, we got a boat in here. It's a lakeish slash pond. It's been a while since I've been here. I filmed one episode here last year where we caught them on bed and we're back at it today and we're gonna be trying to catch some big fish. And if you guys are wondering about the conditions, we got a tiny bit of wind today. In the skies, bloober skies. There's not a cloud to be found. I think we're gonna have to slow down today. And the water clarity in this pond, why don't you show them, Chance? With that red eye shadow right there. How clear the water is in here. On a good day, you can see about 10 foot down, which is just insane. You can almost see the bottom. So we're gonna get at it today. There are a bunch of different baits, which we're gonna talk about here in a moment. Hopefully land us a five plus pounder. Look at this. Was that your first cast? First cast, yeah. On the red eye shadow. No way. And there's an amazing, good one too. I don't even have my GoPro on. Want me to grab him? Yeah, that's a good one. Look how fat he is, right there. Freaking awesome. Go ahead with that. Go ahead and let him go. He's bleeding a little bit. This man, really trying to do it right now. So this is what we're gonna throw. So this is the one that we smacked him on a Lakemare. If you guys haven't seen that episode, highly suggest you go back. By the way, if you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell. Also, hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. Go check out that Lakemare video. We had a great time, but we were smoking them on that red eye shadow right there. And they were munching it pretty good. The one that you're throwing is like what?  Yeah, it's like a sexy shed. Short truce? Short truce. He did catch one on his first cast. And if I know anything about that, it's either really good luck or... Most of the time it's really good luck out here. It is, but like the first cast, are you weird about that? First cast? No, not out here. All right, let's see. Chance is already talking a little bit of smack, so hopefully we'll end up smoking them. All right, there we go. Let's see what we can do. All right, guys, we're gonna start this off. Lipless crankbait. See what we can make happen. Chance got one on his first cast. That's a good sign. And we just gotta try to duplicate it. I don't know. Hopefully it was some good luck. This water is so clear. The visibility is insane out here. I'm just really hoping we run into a four to five, maybe six, maybe 14, you know? Maybe 17, just never know. Might be one in here, right? I can't believe he choked it like that. First one. Is that what you're saying that she got two? Oh, no, it's not those, they're really on the ground. He ate it up on the bank. No, it's bone in there, that wasn't me. I can't believe he ate it that good. I'll get the first cast out of the way. So we can end up with a short one and empty it. Yeah. There's no way they're betting already. This is all this cold. All right, so we've been fishing for a minute. Ever since Chance caught that first fish on the first cast, we have yet to have a bite. So I'm gonna switch up to one of these Z twos. You know, we talked about them recently. These are the Elastic Flux and they're very durable. They can catch 10 fish on each one. This is actually a Smokin' Shad color. Let's see what the exact name is. Smoky Shad. We're gonna rig this up. It's a regular three-yacht EWG hook. Start casting it around. I'll tell you the Smokin' Shad right now while the sun is glaring down, it has these little blue and silver glimmers within the bait and the sun bounce off that really well and reflect in the water. But we're gonna throw that around for a bit around these little grass piles and see if we can get something to come out. This fish are a little more finicky today. Hey, I see fish eating bait right there. Chance on the edge of that grass. Kind of where I just casted. I mean, I got that punch in there just in case I need to flip back up in that little puddle. Remember that? Yeah. Shad, try it with the punch rig. I think I should just shoot for the fences for all that. You see all the bait. That is so deep. Good one, it surprised me. Get him. Big one. That's a good one, hey. How in the world do you get it? Pretty good one. Two pounder. There you go. You give him on a curl. A little creature bait. A little creature bait. When you leaned into him, he seems so big. Choked it. Nice. Oh my God. Ho, ho, hold up. Are they gonna do this now? That was insane. He hit me so hard, I literally felt it on my toes. My fish has hammered this. There he is. Got a whole bucket of salad with him. Let's go. Or that's how you wanna catch him. I don't even know if I want that weighed anymore. That's fun. That's so much fun. Oh man, I haven't caught him punching in a very long time. Not a big bass, but hey, he's a pretty one. Just get a little nice shot. Look at that one. That's my first fish today. Three fish total, right? Yes. And that is awesome to catch one punching like that, flipping the edge of this grass. He actually bit me the cast before and I got him that second time. Let's get him back in the water. Just have pretty markings on these fish and this clear water. She just flashed me all over my face. All right, let's get back in there. You should have felt the way that fish hit it the first time. It was like, dude, the whole rod bounced. So guys, this is also, you know, I went down to Florida. I got these new super duty combos by Luz. Big shout out to David for getting these over to me before my Florida trip. This is my second time using them rather than the Florida trip. And let me tell you, they're actually very sensitive. The way that that fish just hit the bait was insane. Like I could feel the whole vibration all the way down to my toes. That was crazy. But we actually had a little rage crawl on there. We're gonna have to change that out. And we're gonna get back in there. Hopefully we can catch them on the edge like that because if we can catch them punching, I'm probably not gonna stop throwing it. And the crawl that we're gonna throw is actually my favorite color of all time. This is a summer crawl by Striking, the rage crawl. I bought, I used to buy like 10 packs of these at a time for some of the high school tournaments back in the day. This color smokes, have you used this much? This color? It's a juice. You know, we've always talked about punching this place and we never did. We never did. We always talked about it though. One day I came out here, I was gonna punch. I brought my punch in there and everything. Yeah. I was catching them so good on the trap, I didn't even pick it up. That's where the big ones are, dude. They have to, yeah, they have to. Oh, he came off, dude, no way. I saw him. He had a big head on him, didn't he? I got a little, I got a little nervous, man. I get so nervous punching like this with people on the boat. Like if I was by myself, I would, I rip the fish's head off like, but when I have people in the boat with me and you have a two ounce weight, the last thing I want is smack Cody in the side of the shoulder with it. That would not be good. So I gotta be a little careful. If I would have hooked that right when he bit it, I probably would have caught him, but that was cool. He was deep in that stuff, dude. Just a big boy. Oh my God, you backlash my reel. Oh, you see him right there? Did he come off? Look, he has my bait. Or no, no, no, wait, he's still on.  I thought he was off. That's a four pounder. Get him, Chance. That's what we need right there, brother.  He's three pounds, not four. They look big in that clear water. That's a good one though. Nice. Oh yeah. That's the ones that we're looking for today. The punching rig, that's a good fish. This is just a mean looking guy. Gosh, that is a good bass right there.  Best fish today so far. Still punching the edge of this grass. That one is actually a little further up in there. It's funny because I leaned back, hooks at him.  So, that's a pretty fish right there. Let me see if we can keep on catching some and upgrading. Yeah, God, I'm gonna, dude, I'm already getting my workout.  Oh yeah, he's right there. That's a dang good one too. Look out. Look at that. Look at that. Gotta love it. Rage crawl on the back of his mouth. Stuck him good, dude. I'm telling you, I'm getting a workout early today. I still haven't gone to the gym but hey, we getting it with these fish. Pulled him out of this slop. It's another little nice one. So, we actually went down this bank and we were talking earlier, you know, you can have all these straight grass banks but then you have these little tiny spots to have.  And right here on this back bank, this is where I actually caught the first one, has a lot deeper water. I think that's where some of those bigger fish are and these fish are fat and healthy. We need to get back in there and see if we can catch another one but that's, it's all a little two pounder. Nice, that's a big. He's right there, he's right there. Hey, go in, go in, go in, go in. Go in, I'm gonna grab him. He's like right here. Let me see if he jumps.  That was a good fish. I was, I pitched all the way back.  Usually I like flip it in there and I go up about three, four times and then I really back in but I for some reason started doing it a little bit longer probably on like the sixth pump that fish hammered it and I saw his belly. It looked like he was about four pounds and he just came off right there. This two ounce weight just has so much momentum and it can sling it out of their mouth so easy. Just as easy as you can hook them. We're gonna get back in there. There might be another one. There on that fluke. Ate it like a topwater. Probably my smallest fish of the day but that was fun. I'll tell you that. After catching all those on that punching rig, throw in there at the fluke. That's a Z2 right there. Skinny little bass but he ate it just like a topwater. So much fun. Right there on the edge of this grass we noticed that this bank was a lot shallower and I couldn't really get that punching rig down in there. You know, I wanted some deeper water to flip into. So I picked up that fluke started casting across this grass and that's a pretty old bass. That's a good one too. Dude, that is fat as can be dog. Look at that fish. That's the fattest fish we caught out of here dude. Look at that thing. He ate it right in front of the boat.  I think God he didn't come off.  You got them black markings all over him. Look at that one right there guys. I don't know if that's the biggest one but I can definitely say that's the fattest fish of the day.  And it's crazy because we were so close to that patch right there right in that corner. It had a lot of deep water on it. That fish is over three pounds right there. Fat belly, it's chunky.  That's a football. That's the ones we've been looking for today. He ate that punching rig right in front of us. There she goes. So we just got off the water. We got off the water about an hour ago. We kind of had a situation where Chance's truck got stuck and kind of show you guys. Wait till you see how much dirt is in his boat. This is a situation but we got it taken care of. Stayed out here for a while, got us a good change I'll tow them out of here. I feel so bad, look at this. But we got the situation taken care of and if you guys enjoyed this video, if you could, please hit the like button. We've got some more amazing content coming soon. We've got Cody with the sexy drone shots. We're gonna have some more coming soon. I appreciate you guys watching this video. I appreciate the support more importantly and I will catch you guys in the next episode. Mm-hmm.


All right, are we ready to get started? Yes. All right. Just kidding. Oh, good. Okay. You had breakfast. You had some coffee. You're ready to go. So I'm going to go ahead and set my timer because this is going to be a action packed, fast, fun filled morning. You're going to be glad you woke up early or you probably woke up early anyway if you came from the, if you came from, I like to say you came from, that is true. That is true. So I always forget to do this, but I'd like to introduce myself. I always just kind of jump into the presentation. So my name is Jessica Morillo and I'm the vice president of system strategy at IBM. And so what I get to do in my day job is I get to work with clients to help build out product roadmaps so they can build out their IT infrastructure into either clouds or enterprise data centers or hyperscale data centers. And I know my friends at Rack Space do a lot about that. So that's what I get to do in my day job. And I became involved with the women of OpenStack in Hong Kong. And it was literally because I missed the boat. I, for any of you who took the train here, you know that and tried to make it to the women's event. And it's sometimes challenging to get places on time. And so that was my first experience. I signed up. I had my event bright ticket, but my plane was late. But I was still hooked. And so I became involved, you know, joined the LinkedIn group at that time. And then in Atlanta, I, you know, happened upon the, you know, went ahead in RSVP for the women's networking event where I was, where I got to meet a lot of great women who were interested in technology like me.  So that is kind of my history with the women of OpenStack. So did anyone get a chance? Did they maybe come in early? Were SMART came in earlier? They're going to take a, maybe a take a day afterwards. Is anyone recognized the picture you see up here on the monitor? CJ, I know you do. What is that? It is a bridge at the Imperial Palace. And so I do encourage everyone. This is such a beautiful city for art and culture and architecture. Try to get out. I know that these are jam packed sessions, but you really need to get out and see some of the beauty of Tokyo and Japan. But I, there's some symbolism in this bridge because this is, that is the Imperial Palace, but the bridge is very famous too. It's probably the most famous bridge in Tokyo as well as a, if you look at some of the guidebooks, it is a symbol for all of Japan. And I thought it was very symbolic of what we're trying to do with the women of OpenStack as well because we are trying to build a bridge. We're trying to build a bridge to bring more women into the community and to bring more diversity in the community. So it's a, it's a great symbol for us here in Tokyo today as well. So you might be wondering why we're here. So by a quick show of hands, who was able to attend this working breakfast in either Paris or Vancouver? Oh, that's great. That's great. So you know the good stuff you're going to get to do here. And so, okay, we have to do the obligatory. Who had, who wasn't, who is the, who was the first time as their working stack breakfast? Okay, great. Okay, good. So we will, we will help you along. And you're, again, as I said earlier, you're going to be glad that you got up early to do this. So what we're going to do, we started this in Paris and we started talking about plans. It's been great. This, this group has gotten together since probably the unconference in San Diego for networking opportunities, helping with education as well as, you know, kind of general support for women in open stack. But in Paris, we did something a little bit different. We got together and we wanted to create a charter of things we wanted to accomplish for the next six months, basically between Paris and Vancouver. And we want to continue, continue that tradition today. We want to continue to find ways and opportunities to work together. So we're going to talk a little bit about our accomplishments. We're going to have some great lightning speakers. You're going to break into some groups. We're going to take a picture. And then we're going to talk about next steps. All that in the span of the next hour and 15 minutes. So hold, hold on. Okay. All right. So what we've accomplished since Vancouver. So really the, some of the feedback that we got back from the groups was we needed to increase the opportunities for women to have more leadership. And specifically, we're focusing on speaking opportunities. So going into the Vancouver summit, we had three of our women of open stack. And gentle Nikki Acosta as well as Diane Mueller create a webinar for how to submit a winning abstract, which was very well attended by both men, about both women and as well as men. We also have encouraged women to present in the technical brown bags, both at Vancouver here as well as in Tokyo. And then also we've sponsored panel discussions. And our panel discussion will, which will be led by Diane Cohen on Beth Cohen, I'm sorry, Beth Cohen on Thursday. We will be talking about subtle bias and how to understand the biases that we all have. So that's what we did is around speaking opportunities. Now the other, the other focus area was communicating between summits. It was great when we came together and had networking events here at summits, but then it kind of, you know, went radio silent for several months until, until the next summit. And so, you know, some things that we've accomplished is we've had regular meetings that have been led by Carol Barrett. And you'll hear from her a little bit later today for the women of open stack, as well as regular communications on our women of open stack mailing list. That was another thing that we started and new for this summit is the creation of our open stack women IRC channel. So really a lot of more opportunities for us to communicate in between summits as well. Now the goals for today's session are pretty simple. We have some great speakers, as I mentioned earlier, who are here to inspire you. So we're going to have two lightning talks where these are women who are both very active in the open stack community, but, you know, kind of building on the theme of we are open stack. There's lots of us that come from different walks of life who have different jobs, who have different experiences. And so what we want to do is show kind of two different sides of the open stack community. So we have someone who's an active technical contributor and we have someone who's more of a product management evangelist who's working to build the ecosystem and community. So they'll talk to you about one thing that they learned to be that's helped them be successful in their current role. So then we're going to break up into small groups. We have two rooms to the either side and well as we can use this entire room. So we'll break you up into groups. We do have an etherpad link up here. You can hopefully someone has a device, a mobile device that they can for one for each group. We would like someone to take minutes because what we want you to do is spend 30 minutes after the lightning talks getting to know one another, sharing what you learned from the lightning talk and also sharing your own experiences. So that's what we're going to do for 30 minutes. Then we're going to come back together and Carol Barrett from Intel is going to lead us in a discussion about how we get ready for Austin. That's my home city, my hometown. Yay. I'm so glad I get to go. I don't have to travel for 14 hours. I get to sleep in my own bed. But yes, we can't wait to welcome you. I know Nikki is from Austin as well. So we can't wait to, and Anne as well. We get to welcome you to our home city. So, all right. So that's kind of what we're going to do today. And with that, I would like to introduce our first lightning talk singer, a singer. Well, you guys, you can sing it. It is, this is the city for karaoke, isn't it? I think it is. You can choose to sing if you'd like or if you'd like to sing. Okay. Let me talk speaker. Xin Yang. She is a senior consultant technologist at EMC. Her expertise is storage, data protection, and disaster recovery, as well as cloud and virtualization technologies. She has been an open stack contributor since the Grizzly release, and she's currently a core in both Cinder and Manila. So with that, I'd like to welcome Xin. Okay. I'm Xin Yang. I'm a technologist from the office of the CTO at EMC. I have attended the Women of OpenStack event at every summit since Portland. It's such a great opportunity to have all these wonderful women to get together and to know each other and to support each other. Today I want to talk about my journey into OpenStack. I attended my very first OpenStack summit in Boston in 2011. That was the ASAC summit. At that time, I knew nothing about OpenStack because I was not a contributor, so I couldn't even get into the design sessions. And in 2012, I got the task of writing a Cinder driver to support EMC storage and to contribute it to OpenStack. So I wrote the driver, and I started to navigate through the contribution process. It was daunting. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, and finally at the end of 2012, I submitted my very first patch. So I got a very warm welcome from the Cinder team right away. The first review comment I got was, glad to see EMC finally joining the game. Police fix PAP-8 errors. So for anyone who doesn't know what PAP-8 is, it's coding style. It could be that you missed a period at the end of a doc string or space after operator or some indentation issues. So it took me a while to sort through the PAP-8 issues, and I submitted another patch. And I got another review comment saying, your unit tests are not testing anything. So I went back to work, and I rewrote all the unit tests. That was the week between Christmas and New Year. Most people were on vacation. But there were a few, in the course, they were still working, and they responded to my uploaded patches very quickly. My driver was merged right before the New Year, making me the first OpenStack contributor from EMC. So, yeah, that was early in Grizzly. And at that time, I was also involved in a multi-vendor initiative to bring fiber channel support into Cinder. The group had meetings regularly, and we also had a joint presentation at the Havana Summit in Portland. I was sitting in the front row with a few other developers from other companies. So the session was very well received at the end. I was just sitting there. They started to show this visual development history of block storage. So it's a visual graph with all the contributors' names displayed based on the time of the commit. It was very, very cool. So we were sitting there, searching for each other's names. We had a really long time. Working on OpenStack is very different from any other project that I had worked on before. It's completely a new experience. But I just really enjoyed, I really enjoyed the aspect of collaborating with people from different companies, but we are working together towards a common goal. Being an OpenStack contributor is very special. Even though in the years after my very first commit, there were some bumps on the road, I always tried not to move away from OpenStack. At the Juneau Summit in Atlanta, I attended a Cinder session where the team were talking about what constitutes a Cinder driver and that everyone should give back more to the community. Should help with code reviews and backfixes into the core code. It reminded me of what President Jennifer Kennedy once said, ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. So here we are saying, ask not what the OpenStack community can do for you, but ask what you can do for the OpenStack community. So it was in that session, I realized that I really did not do enough. I should contribute more. So around that time, I transitioned my driver work to BU's and helped bring them up to speed with contributions. And in the same time, I shifted my focus to work on core contributions. The first major non-driver contribution was to add consistency group support into Cinder. And at that time, I was also involved in another project, Manila. It's a shared file system service project. Back then, we still had the incubation and graduation process. Manila was still new. It was still trying to get incubated. But since then, Manila has gone a long way. It has become an open stack and we have a lot of new contributors now. So one month after the Juno Summit in Atlanta, I got nominated to become a core in Manila. And two months later, I was nominated to become a Cinder core. So I was very happy about that. So I think working on OpenStack is such a rewarding experience. It gives me opportunities to travel to different places, meet different people, and come to the women of OpenStack event and make new friends. I enjoy working with people from different backgrounds. We may not agree with each other all the time, but we always try to reach a consensus when there's a disagreement. It's really exciting to work in the team that we work with OpenStack because it makes me think that what I'm working on every day will help make the world a better place. The other day on TV, they were showing this picture of world leaders with all the men removed from the picture. So the women in the picture look very lonely because there are just so few of them up there. And there's the hashtag more women. So I think we need that hashtag here too. We need to encourage more women to come and join us and work on OpenStack. Together we will build a better OpenStack for tomorrow. Thank you. Also too, you will notice at the end of the table there are these pamphlets. And hopefully if you're on our women of OpenStack mailing list you would have received this. So on the front page these are all the great things and ways for us to be next during the week. You'll see the breakfast session on here as well as the tech talks and the tech tools lunch and learn later today. And then tomorrow it shows the overcoming subtle bias session as well as afternoon sync up we have in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon on Thursday. And on the inside is the handy-dandy map that we all need to navigate from session to session. So with that let's me introduce Nikki Acosta she is a Cisco cloud evangelist and a co-host of OS pod. She joined Cisco after the MetaCloud acquisition in late 2014 but when I first met her she worked for a different company, she worked for RecSpace and that's where her OpenStack journey really began back in 2008. So she is a frequent speaker, podcaster and blogger. She is recognized in the cloud industry for not only her cloud technology expertise but also as being a passionate advocate for women in technology. She really wants me to use this. Okay. I'm gonna use this. Thank you. With that I will turn it over to Nikki Acosta. All right. We're good on time. That's great. Hi everybody. I'm so excited about this kimono. I picked it up in Nakarosa and I was like, I have to wear it but then I need to choose and socks and an obi belt. I was like, man, so I don't know. Now I understand why they walk slow though because if you walk fast like your skirt opens so you got to kind of like walk really slow. So my name is Nikki Acosta. She gave me a pretty awesome introduction. Thanks Jess and thank you so much for all the help that she's done. How about a round of applause for Jess. So awesome. So when she asked me to talk, she's like, hey, you want to come talk about something other than what technical contributors do and I was like, yeah, sure. I'll do that. No problem. So I do a little podcast called the open stack pod which is actually a trademark violation. Holler. So we had to change it to OS pod now as the official name. Claire's giving me thumbs up because they're not going to listen. And then we're quick to send me an email or Japanese email. So when she asked me to talk, she's like, yeah, you could talk about anything, talk about, you know, what's made you successful and I started to think about why that is. How did I get to where I am today? And I think part of it was luck, but I think at some point I just I was less afraid to fail And working in an industry where it's predominantly men, and we're talking this morning about cliches, even something that sounds as innocuous as, oh, we're going to open the kimono. It's like, you hear the stuff day in and day out, and I had to defend men a little bit because I think they just don't understand or don't realize that those things can be perceived as offensive. And so I've made it my mission over the last few years, thanks to encouragement and women and open sac to start speaking up about those things. And once you speak up and you realize that the intent is not to harm you or the intent is not to offend you, and that it was just something that's so culturally ingrained that you don't think twice about it, you go, okay, that's not so bad after all. I can deal with that. Someone apologizes and then maybe they stop doing it because they didn't realize that a phrase like that would be offensive to you in any way. So I think the other part of my success has just been attributed in addition to not being afraid to fail is really just finding roles where I could do what I love.  It is hard to do. It's like another language to me.  What do you not love to do? I don't love spreadsheets. My brain just cannot, booking flights, spreadsheets, like logistical things, not my thing. But I started to realize that if I could team up with people who complimented me because they were good at what I wasn't good at, that I would be more successful than if I tried to go it alone. And so one of my new BFFs at Cisco is a project manager, and this guy loves spreadsheets. He lives for spreadsheets. And so I'm helping out with some product prioritization stuff, and I'm like, man, you know, we really need help taking all this info from sales and prioritizing it.  And he's like, man, I love doing that. I was like, sweet, let's work together. And so I'm helping him build his online profile and his personal brand on Twitter, which he was like, you know, I've never used Twitter. That's kind of great to me.  And so Twitter has been a really great tool for my career, not only because I get to share some of the things that I do, but also because I learn so much from other people. And it's a two-way channel that doesn't require a phone number or an email address. So it's slightly, I think less, it's easier to get that information from somebody because it's out there in the public domain, and it seems almost less intrusive than asking for an email and a phone number. But it's very rare that I send someone, you know, a message or a tweet at them and they don't tweet back, which is really great. And so I've used Twitter to ask all kinds of questions and share all kinds of opinions. The other thing I learned about Twitter is that people really don't like you if you're just a megaphone for your company. So you've got to be yourself. You know, the most interesting people that I follow on Twitter, their tweets are maybe 10% about work and 90% about them. And I think that's really cool when you start to look at Twitter. Some people think, like, oh, I need it for my career. I should just use it to retweet all of the press releases that come out from my company. And that's, that can be farther from the truth.  So if I had to give anyone advice, it would be, you know, build your personal brand through social media. You know, I often think I have a five-year-old and I often think, like, long after I'm gone, like, what is he going to find about me on the internet? You know, and so that's usually my litmus test for what I should post and what I shouldn't post. Because sometimes I'm like, oh, I should tweet that. No, I shouldn't tweet that.  Once you put it out there, it's kind of out there forever.  But I guess part of that also comes back to not being, you know, afraid to fail and not being afraid to speak up and not being afraid to use your voice and not being afraid to, to push the boundaries. I've been incredibly lucky in my career because I've taken the risk to, to call leaders of my company to voice, you know, my concerns and not just focus on problems, but focus on solutions. And they seem to like that a lot.  That's all. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate our speakers. So for the next phase, we are going to come up here and we're going to take a picture around our sign. We are open stack. Yes. So we are kicking this, kicking off this campaign, starting it here in Japan, but we really want to highlight it going into Austin. So keep this, make sure that you remember this hashtag. We want to use it kind of as a cadence or a drumbeat between now and Austin. And so we're going to start it by coming up here and everyone taking a picture. So if you wouldn't mind coming up here and we have our photographer. I didn't realize there was one single aisle, so we're jammed. Okay. Come on. Everybody come on. And we did a quick count earlier and we were kind of in the 70 range. Is that still looking about right? Come on up. Come on up. And it's going to be the photographer's job to make sure he gets everybody in the shot. Grab a seat. Gentlemen, don't mind standing in the back. Yes. Get closer. You like each other. Pretend you're on the train. Okay. Everybody pretend you're on the train. It sounds like she's done this before. Exactly. My 16-year-old calls this the prom picture shot. Right? No? Okay. Keep on going. The male allies can come up as well. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming. Nikki, you have to get in the picture. Let's go. You're not too late. You're not too late. Good job. OK. OK, don't go too far because we're going to break into groups right now. So if you want to stand, just go ahead and stand where you're at. If everybody wants to stand where they're at, we're going to count off groups like elementary school style. If you want to go back to your seat, that might be easier actually. Sorry, sorry. People that, yeah, I want to divide because then they're sitting by people they know. What do you think? All right, so if you go back to your seat, we're going to break you up into quick groups. And we're going to start our discussion. OK, so I don't know if everyone got a cup of coffee, but we're going to. So we have this room as well as the room to the left and the room to the right. So what we would like to do is to break up into groups about 10 people. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 through Beth. So are you guys going to stay here? Yep. OK. So these three people are in the second group. So you all group one, OK? Group one. Right, so you have to pick a scribe as well. So the scribe needs to come up here and look at the etherpad location. And we're going to do this all online. So that looks like that's one, two, three, right? Four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh, good. OK, it's also off our Wiki page. So you'll get to see where our Wiki page is too. OK, I think it was at nine, eight, nine, 10. You'll group two, OK? You can make up team names if you want. That's fine. All right, so let's keep going here. This is group three. One, two, are you saying? Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. That's group. What group are you? OK, you're listening. That's awesome. You're group three. This is group four, right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. The rest of you are group four. Now, you can stay here in your group or you can go to one of the other areas if you think it might be too loud. OK, the next two rooms next to us. OK, so are the guys in the back or are you guys hanging? Yes? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. 11, we'll go ahead and add you. What group are you? Group five, yes. Everyone's paying attention. It's early, I know. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. We'll go ahead, 11. Right here, this is a group. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. This is the group seven, seven, five, six, seven. OK, all right, we will be coming around. So again, your task is to have one scribe. The etherpad location is up here. It's also on the link from our wiki. We want you to capture the key takeaways and any other inspirational ideas that you have for the other women of OpenSAC to be successful in their role. Does that make sense? All right, 30 minutes. Let's try to plug it down. Can she turn on her screen to test it out? Yes, yes, she can do it. She's the master. I will go over it one more time. So in your small groups, discuss the key messages that our lightning speakers shared. And then if you have any other ideas on how to be successful in your role, you can share that. We'd like for you to annotate that on the etherpad. So this is something that we can capture for the next session is the idea. But I'll wander around if you guys have questions. Sometimes it's easier just to begin with what you've heard. Thank you so much for your help. I've never been able to get it off of that mode. I attached it to.  Have you seen that one? Yeah, for this audience. It was my daughter's. So I'm just going to watch this. You will do it? You will do it. Yes, thank you. All right. OK. If everyone wants to take a quick seat. Did you want to talk a little bit about outreach now? All right. If everyone wants to take a seat, you don't have to move back if you don't want to. This will be pretty quick. Did everyone learn something? Did everyone make a friend? Are we all going to continue to connect throughout the week? So the keynote doors are opening now. I want you guys to get a seat. So if Carol wants to come on up. And we also have a speaker from the foundation who's going to talk about outreach. So do you want to do that first? Or do you want to do yours first? OK. Real sure. So let's do the outreach real quick. Or you want to sit up here? You want to come on up? OK. Victoria is here from the OpenStack Foundation. And she wanted to share with the group some information about outreach. I also want to welcome Mahati, she's from Intel. We are both our coordinator for the outreach internship in OpenStack. That internship is intended to get more women involved in open source. We have been running this internship for about two years now. And the next round is going to close in November 2nd. It will be really nice if you are interested and you want to help mentoring some applicant for the next round. Please get in touch with me and with Mahati here. Or you can pass on this information to anyone who's interested. Let me know about the program. We have docs and testing as well. API, actually it can be for anything you want. There have been internships for marketing as well. And design and everything. We only need that people that is working on those areas say, OK, I want to mentor someone in this area in particular. Then of course we are willing to take that internship and to help more women to get involved in the different areas in OpenStack. We have been very successful in the last couple of years with this internship. We have many people that are right now. Right now here. Yes. Yes. I'm a former intern. She is as well. And we have interns that made it really well from the last couple of rounds. We have Sayali over there. She is working on the manuals. We have Spurty there that she all did amazing coding internship in SACAR. Also Dora Lee over there. I know who I'm missing. Cindy, of course. Yes, well, we're a lot. And it's a great way to get more women involved in OpenStack. I know that there are a lot of mentors that are applying for the next round here. But sometimes it's like people don't know about this internship in OpenStack. And it will be great if you could help us to spread the word about it and, well, get more people involved with us. Thank you very much. So hi. I'm Carol Barrett with Intel. And I've been helping to continue to keep the group meeting and talking and figuring out what it is that we can do together and we want to achieve in between summits. And so starting to think about Austin, which will be here before any of us know it, there's things that we've been talking about around launching a mentoring program beyond outreach for folks who are inside of the community today and are looking to either get into new projects or learn new type of skills or get connected with other types of folks. And we'd like to go ahead and put more definition around that and actually try and launch it, or at least pilot it, in Austin as a way to go ahead and see how can we really help each other. We were having a conversation earlier about one of the best ways to get more women involved is to go ahead and reach out to the women that we know and help them to get in. Because it's easier always to start something new when somebody is there to lend a hand and show you the way. And so the mentoring program would be a way to go ahead and allow us to do that. And over time, hopefully, scale it so that it's a larger program and not just around women, but actually allowing us to be able to work with everybody in the community so that we can go ahead and be able to be a more integrated and broader community that continues to grow and thrive. So we'll have those conversations in the team meetings. So please, my call to action, is continue to stay involved. Get on the mailing list. Be active on the meetings in the Wiki site. Add your thoughts. And to go ahead, and I think all of the links, you're either, OK. Yeah, so you can go and just Google the Wiki, and you'll find it there, and then you can find the mail list and everything else from there. But please, stay involved. Be active. Help us to figure out how to make our community really be the community that we want it to be. And look forward to seeing what we do in Austin together. Is that it? Thank you. Thank you, Carol. All right. So what we're going to do is we're going to take all your comments. They'll be available from our Wiki. And from that, we're going to derive what we want to do next time. I think definitely the mentoring program is something we want to get behind. But there's other ideas that came out of your discussions. We want to include those as well. So a big thanks to the foundation. I know Claire and Allison are probably upstairs in the main session. A huge thanks to our speakers, Nicky Acosta and Jing. Jing Yang, why don't we give them another round of applause? And thank all of you for coming. So with that, we are adjourned. And make sure that you take one of the pamphlets. And I hope to see you at a Women of OpenStack event later in the week. Yay. Yay.


Thank you, Rudy. I've taken another position as chair of IGBP. And so now I know what Rudy does as chair of CSDMS. Protects, loves, enriches. So I guess that's my job with IGBP. So systems, I'd like to introduce someone that who's done a lot of modeling in his career. And I hired one of his postdocs within CSDMS. And it's our vice chancellor for research, Stein Steuer, who will tell you a little bit about CU and CU's views on this kind of research. Stein? Thank you, James. On behalf of the university, I'm delighted to welcome all of you to Boulder. It's a fine time of the year. We are sort of about to descend into winter from a beautiful fall. I'm also pleased to say that the university is proud to host the CSDMS integration facility. And James has, for great many years, kept me up to date as to what the importance of this is to the larger community and the university in particular. Your work is of great importance to us, the nation and the global community. You are indeed doing global modeling on a real global scale. One of the few integrated ways of doing so in a total surface by dealing with the air, water, and the solids of the earth. The university is also very pleased to support CSDMS, a community of science users through two of our largest supercomputers, Beech and Janus. Beech has been in activity now for a couple of years. Our large new supercomputer Janus just came online about half a year ago. And already it is seeing large-scale simulation and modeling of the kind that all of you are engaged in. Analysis and simulation of highly coupled natural and man-made processes remain a challenge in spite of our capacity for computing and rapidly increasing knowledge of how nature works. Boundary conditions, properties, materials, gases, liquids, and whatnot remains a challenge. And all those be there. But at some point, we'll have a good sense of what we can all do in forecast and tell us really what the status of the earth globally and locally is. CSDMS and related activities are a high priority to our university. And they're being supported by initiatives that we have in the way in interdisciplinary computational science and engineering in our new geosciences building complex and in our renewable and sustainable energy institute. And environmental earth system science. We're being engaged with a number of external constituencies, including ConocoPhillips, who will set up shop right down the road in terms of large-scale research and education, touching on issues like carbon management, for example, and many of the topics that you will be talking about here. Sustainable energy is also much on their mind. CSDMS activities are also closely aligned with efforts in local federal labs, as you know US Geological Survey, NCAR-U CAR, and whose facilities we are here right now, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and NOAA. Now, in conclusion, the university wishes CSDMS and its participants you all the best. And we're eagerly looking forward to the great strides that we know that you will be making. And the world is waiting for you. Thank you.


So, you know on top of you know going for my oil change, which is much needed I've been having a screen lifting issue on my infotainment Area, I think it's called the infotainment area. I'll show you guys in a second. But yeah, basically it's separating and It seems to be Dodge doesn't have anything on record, but there's been a number of complaints if you go and Google, you know this issue With the on the infotainment screen on the inside of your car while your Mopar I should say dodge and I mean not dodge a Challenger and charger. I don't I don't know far about other Mopars, but um the screen seems to separate after a certain period of time and I don't think the Florida heat helps that That issue so already called FCA and they put up a case number with me and the next the next step in seeing what can be done is Going to the dealership and getting a diagnosis from them. So like I said, I'm on my way there and I will catch you guys up after um, you know after they tell me, you know, whatever it is That I can be done But um side note, um, I appreciate the comments that you guys are leaving. Um, I Super appreciate that. I I know I'm not super consistent with video posting. Um, I I'm trying I'm trying to Get better at it. The thing is guys is that I do a lot of behind-the-scenes work, you know, you know I developed flyers. I'm developing graphics for You know multiple people on and off YouTube I Will I've been thinking about switching up my content in in order to you know, bring you guys into What I do That's out. Well, not really outside of cars, but it's related to the car community in terms of, you know Graphics and stuff like that. Um, I just got to iron some things out first To to make sure everything is good. And then I also got to figure out how I'm gonna show that content to you guys But yeah, um, so that's my update the content. I'm looking at different ways to bring new content new fresh content to you guys Also, too, I'm Going to be Well It's not really a mod. It's more of a Maintenance thing, but you guys can stay tuned for that. But yeah, I'll catch you guys I'll get you guys up when I'm back at the dealership. I got to focus on this Tampa traffic because it's ridiculous right now It's a 747 in the morning right now. And I probably picked the worst time to schedule a An appointment at the Dodge dealer, but I just took it and didn't really think about it. So that's my fault But yeah, I'll catch you guys up later When I get there peace Alright guys, um things didn't go as expected when I mean I was expected I didn't think that um I was going to Not have any time to record at the dealership. So basically what's going on right now is My infotainment screen that I was alluding to Earlier. Oh, that's that's a really good picture right there. Well, it's not a really good picture But it's a bad picture, but you know what I mean, but basically as you could see it is lifting you see how Where the seam is right here? Well, not at the seam But you see where it's lifted on this side, but it's still down on this side. So that was what I was on trying to get addressed and Basically, I'm just following the process that FCA has given me Also, too by the way, if anybody has dealt with this, I'm curious to see what your Outcome was if you could comment down below that'd be great. But yeah, that's what happened also to I went to get an oil change which uh, I Was letting the car cool down a little bit Because I need to empty the oil catch can right there. So yeah, I just figured I'd set the camera down You know again, this is how much oil from the last time I emptied it So let's see what I get this time.  Okay scratch that um, I Couldn't find gloves, but I got a little rag right here. So it's not just going against my skin but yeah, anyways, I'm working with FCA and The current process. God, this is real out there. Here we go. There we go. So I'm working with FCA right now And the process that I took is I basically called the customer service line. I Then spoke to a customer service representative She at the time gave me a case number and recommended that the next step is to go get a diagnosis I Wasn't aware that you have to pay for a diagnosis Which I was a little frustrated about that.  Oh, there we go. I don't want to lose something for a second to get it. Oh So it was just a little bit this time. Okay, but anyways As I was saying I paid for the diagnosis You move the camera this way for you guys. I paid for the diagnosis what came of that is now I had to call back FCA and They looked at what happened at the Dodge dealership and now They're saying that I qualify for it to be on escalated to a case manager which um, I was like, okay, I had to do break it down to me because He was saying a bunch of words that I didn't really get but basically what that means is on data on The case manager is gonna overlook what happened at the Dodge dealership and they're and he or she is going to you know determine Whether or not they're gonna fully cover it or pay a certain percentage to covering it and then I would have to pay the remainder So that's currently where I'm at. I Don't know if you guys could see How much I poured in here, but it wasn't much I probably didn't even have to take it off, but um Usually what I do is every time I get an oil change. I take it off. Just you know, you never know What's caught in there after you get a fresh oil change? So that's what I normally do.  Oh, I didn't need to get I didn't need to get a Because if the factory doesn't even necessarily you shouldn't put it on your car. Hey, man, it's my car I can do what I want. Just how you can do what you want with your car, man So enjoy yourself and I'll enjoy myself. Cool. Cool. There. Anyways, um, that's gonna be the end of this video Look at all the stickers I got Underneath the hood of my car. I never really show that Yeah, it's sort of like my little personal thing, but yeah, this is gonna be the end of this video guys My name is Jordan. This is modern day muscle Appreciate all the support guys keep watching and keep sharing. I greatly appreciate it. Keep commenting Um, I may I make sure to go out of my way to comment on everybody That leaves a comment and also to make sure you guys check out free smoke That's where you'll see fat cat garage driven and myself You know doing on daily videos on and then on Sunday We actually go live. So um with the special guest. So yeah, you guys stay tuned for all of that stuff Like I said, I greatly appreciate it Fast drive, I don't know if you guys saw that. Anyways, well, at least he made a bunch of noise for no reason in the neighborhood Anyways, um, yeah, man, I'll see you in the next video


With September coming to a close, these are the top products that you need to be offering in your dropshipping store for October 2023. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Now we all know that October is spooky season and it's pretty much almost the entire world's favorite season. At least one of them. But shortly after October is November and then December, which is when all the festivities start for the holiday season. So the products that we're going to be covering in this video are going to be perfect for October and transitioning into November. And because of that, this first product that we're going to cover is actually the perfect product for this kind of season. Now before we get started with this countdown, I do want to mention, as always, we have an easy to reference cheat sheet. If you want access to that, all you have to do is go ahead and comment down below. Hashtag October 2023. And let me know which one of these products is your favorite. Once I see that you want to head and comment to that, I'll go ahead and reply back with a link to the sheet. So the first one that we're going to cover is going to be the portable picnic table. Now this is a portable picnic table that's made out of wood. Most of the time people are going to use this as a charcuterie board where you're just going to have a bunch of different deli meats, cheeses, and some wine. Now that's perfect for pretty much year round. But during the October season, there's going to be a lot of Halloween parties. So you can have this as a perfect centerpiece with tons of different treats and drinks. Now the same way that this can be used for the spooky season and just filled up with a bunch of different cobwebs and candies. Once going into November, this is also the perfect item to have for just a few family gatherings, having friends over, just picking a little bit of food when everyone's talking over a glass of champagne or a glass of wine. So this folding picnic table is perfect for pretty much any occasion. So this website is currently offering this same foldable picnic table. And as you can see, they have some pretty clear images. It looks pretty good. It looks really inviting with all of the different food on here and with a nice background with a nice scenery. Aside from that, you have a few more images. They're all pretty clear and everything looks really good. And as you can see, the price is currently $18.98 down from $37.96. So there's two different size variations on this, but this website has it as a color. This is not a color. You can tell that what they ended up doing with this website is just importing everything, including the variations, and they didn't even try to optimize this. So a couple of tips on this. If you decide to offer this in your store, make sure you change color to size. And aside from the centimeters also offer inches because if you're dropshipping, especially in the US, a lot of people are not going to know what centimeters are. We don't use centimeters here. We go by inches. Now taking a look at the source for this, we have AliExpress and it actually has a pretty good rating. It's five stars, even though it's only one review, but it has sold 19 of them. So it's not that bad. Aside from that, you can see that currently it's on sale for $7.36. The price is about $13.38. Now as always, let's make sure that we have the proper shipping. So we have shipping here and tracking available for 60 cents. So that's perfect. That's all we need. Now let's take a look at a Facebook ad and see how it's being advertised. So the first thing they do is they unfold it so that way you can see how easy it is to unfold. Then they start making all the presentations. Everything looks really nice. And boom, that's pretty much it. It's perfect for any family gatherings, as I mentioned earlier, having friends over and just having a nice little bite to eat with your friends. Now let's take a look at the profit margins. So you can sell this for about $18.98 and you can source it for about $7.23. This gives you a profit potential of about $11.75. Now as for the target audience for the Facebook ad, this is where I'm going to start to change things up a little bit because a lot of times some of these points are pretty repetitive. So just to make it clear when it comes to the gender for the demographic, unless otherwise specified, it's always going to be for both males and females. And as for the marital status, it's always going to be for single as well as married. And unless otherwise specified, but generally speaking, you're going to be trying to target pretty much everyone. So for this one, the age range that you're going to go for is going to be about 20 to 55. And the interests are going to include outdoor activities, hosting gatherings, picnics and gardening. So one thing about me is the fact that I like weird art. I like weird sculptures. I like interesting and weird things. So that's why this next item is actually one of my favorites. And it's going to be this great white shark head. So this is obviously a decoration piece and it looks really cool, especially for people that live near the water. This is a perfect item to be able to have in somebody's garden or even in somebody's garage or inside their house. That's suspicious. So taking a look at the Facebook ad here, you can see that they simply have conquer your pool or garden with this ferocious great white shark. Here we have a lifelike shark garden statue. Now this has 2.1 thousand reactions, which is pretty good because it has like, love and laughing emoji. Then it also has 1.1 thousand comments and 660 shares. It's not bad at all. Taking a look at the comments you have, looks like a great present to give my ex. That's actually pretty funny. It would be nice if it was an outdoor speaker. That's actually a pretty good addition to it. So maybe you can even buy this, purchase a speaker on the side and just stick it inside. I'm ordering it. Now my neighbors are blaming me for their missing cat. That's hilarious. Now looking into the website that sells it, we have modest styles. And as you can see, they have some pretty similar images, except these actually look like they're taken by somebody rather than just taken from AliExpress. So they look pretty good. I like them. As you can see, it's currently on sale down from $72.99 to $59.99. The website itself, I like the color scheme. I like the green on the white. It stands out. It looks good. The logo looks really good. Moddish styles. It's simple. It's easy to read, unlike some of the other ones that we've read before. And then if you scroll down, you'll have a bit more detail. So check out securely. Great white shark is precisely created to resemble a white shark's powerful and magnificent appearance, sturdy, enjoyable, unique visual look. So just like the other dropshipping websites that we see, we have some images, a little bit of detail, some trust badges. Oh, and then this is actually really good. They have a lot of different reviews on here. So that's pretty good. That's a little bit different than most of the other ones that we've seen. Now let's take a look at our source. So on AliExpress, we have it for $15.43 down from $33.55. And it has free shipping with tracking. Perfect. Now let's actually quickly take a look at some of the images they have. So they have this one, which is the one that we saw on the website. So that's okay. But it's a pretty good picture. We have this one as well. This one looks good as well. This one looks good. This one, I'm not a big fan of because this actually looks photoshopped. So if you decide to sell this product, don't include this image. This one doesn't look really good. Got some product details here, which has some close ups. This is the other one that we saw. Okay, so they did end up using the images from AliExpress, but they look good for the simple fact that they look like they were taken with possibly a phone. A lot of the times when I see something like that, it builds a bit of trust because it means that people actually have the item in hand, which obviously in this case it's not the case, but you know, it worked. I thought that they actually took the pictures themselves. So jumping over to our profit potential, we have it's selling price at $59.99. It's sourcing price at $15.43, giving us the ability to make about $44.56 per sale. It's not bad at all. As we can see, selling this will not be eating up our profits. That was a really bad joke. Nevermind. So taking a look at our target audience, once again, when it comes to the age range, we're going to hit pretty much everybody. It's going to be between $20 to $55 because we have people living in apartments at about $20 and some people living in houses at about $55 because we all know that in today's market, pretty much nobody can afford a house until they're about like $50. So now interests are going to include marine life, ocean themed decor, home and garden decoration and arts and crafts. Up next for all the parents out there, we have a baby sling. So jumping straight into it. Let's check out the Facebook ad. Here we have the clingy and crying babies solution is here. Then they put a link in the description itself, which doesn't really help unless you copy and paste it. So I don't suggest you do that, but then it gives you a bit more details, regulate emotions, hands free, promotes bonding, womb like. So this is an extremely long title unless this is supposed to be the description, but the description is up here and it's a lot better up here than it is down here. So this is the title and then this is the description. Obviously what they ended up doing is just copying and pasting. I don't suggest you do that because look how bad this looks. You can't really tell what this says. It cuts off at the end and you can't even click the link. So when it comes to Facebook ads, the description is okay to have like this, but make the title shorter. This would have been enough to just put clingy and crying babies solution is here, even though the grammar there is not the best, but that would have been a lot better than having this huge chunk of text. So taking a look at the actual ad, let's go ahead and hit play. You can see that they're showing you how you can stick your baby in there. That's actually pretty cool. I might buy one of those for my baby and you can see how easy she can get up. She can walk around with a baby can do it right in the middle of the mall. Super easy to set up, super easy to use, comfortable to walk around in. Oh, look at that. Not just for moms. You can include your dad in there as well. So I can use it perfect for sleepy time, perfect time. So that way you can put your baby to bed. So it's pretty much the same thing over and over, except in different occasions. It's pretty good. It's not that bad. It's a pretty straightforward ad and it shows you the simplicity of using this baby carrier along with its advantages. And overall, I think that a pretty good job showing you exactly what this baby carrier does and how it differentiates from some of the other ones that are out there. A lot of the other ones that are out there, trust me, coming from a parent are extremely complicated to set up. I had maybe two or three different ones that I ended up returning because it was just too much. So something like this is perfect. So taking a look at the seller's website we have on Shadulam. I believe that's how you pronounce it. As I've said before, this is a pretty complicated name. It's not easy to read. So when you're coming up with the title for your actual page or your store, try to make it simple, try to make it relevant to what you're doing or what you're offering. Now, as for the actual product itself, we have Mamo's Bonding Comforter by Two Free Shipping. Grammar here could be a little bit better. So on ChatGPT, I just want to head on here and I'm asking it something simple that has to do with the product itself. So give me a few product titles for an easy to use baby carrier that helps with bonding. And let's see what ChatGPT says. And this is what it came out with. So it gave us the Snuggle Wrap, cozy baby carrier for bonding bliss. Actually, that's not that bad. I really like that one. Warm Embrace, Kono Connect, Easy Nest, Love Lume and a few others. So as you can see, I'm not going to go through all of them, of course, but as you can see, most of them are better than this one right here. Now aside from that, we have a pretty easy to read website. Everything is pretty straightforward. The colors are good. It's easy on the eyes. Let's take a look at these images. I didn't see these. All right, so the images themselves look pretty good.  So up to 45 pounds, that's pretty big. That's like my five year old. Can't really imagine carrying my five year old like that though. I might just end up like hunching over the entire time. But aside from that, let's see, we have small volume. The images are pretty good. They're all clear straight to the point. They easily show you the details of the item. Now scrolling down a little bit, we have only 1% items left in stock.  So my suggestion, go with an actual number. Go with a whole number. So maybe only 50 left in stock or only 55 left in stock. Now scrolling down, we have the usual, couple of gift, couple of images, some details and it's pretty much it. All right, so now let's take a look at our source over at AliExpress. And we can see that it's on sale currently for $6.26 down from $11.60. Now let's check the shipping, tracking available, perfect. All right, and there are a few different colors actually. So we have net green, net pink, cotton green and cotton pink. They had all those different colors here as well. All right, and I actually like how they differentiated here rather than net green, they put mesh green. So it tells you that it's gonna be mesh and then the outside's gonna be green. Whether you use net or mesh, either or it could work. So how much can we make from this product? Well, you can sell it for about $19.99 and you're gonna be sourcing it for about $6.31. So you can potentially make about $13.68 per sale per unit. Now the target audience for this is primarily gonna be women but you can offer it to both men and women because as I mentioned earlier, I've used one before. I have a baby that's a few months old that's constantly needing to be carried and it gets tiring, it really does get tiring especially if you have one of those that wants to be carried all day. So a product like this can really be geared towards anyone. But again, the primary demographic for this, for the most part, is gonna be female. Now the age range is gonna be between 20 to 45 because typically those are the people that have kids. Of course you can go a little bit older and have kids, it's really all dependent but generally speaking, 20 to 45 is gonna be the primary target age range and then the interests are gonna include parenting, baby care, nursery decor and baby fashion. Now if you're enjoying this video so far please make sure to hit that subscribe button and leave a like so that way you don't miss out any future product videos. So up next we have the Fun Fuzzy Couch Cover. Now this is the Facebook ad for it and as you can see, it's pretty easy to use.  How complicated can it really be? But the primary use for this does seem to be for your pets so that way your pet can lay on it whether it be either on the couch or on the floor. Other than that, it's pretty straightforward. It just shows you how comfortable it is for the pet. As you can see from the beginning again how easy it is to roll out and that's about it. It's pretty straightforward, straight to the point. Primarily targeted towards animal lovers or people that have pets. Now the first thing that I wanna mention when it comes to the seller's website is this is extremely easy to read. It's pretty straightforward and I like it. I like the logo. Funny, fuzzy, straight to the point and not overly complicated. So looking at the product title we have Garden Chic Cotton Protective Couch Cover. Pretty good.  So you have the bundle discounts. Got a few different variations when it comes to the colors and the sizes. I like the fact that they switched it over from centimeters to inches. That makes a huge difference in the United States. And if you keep scrolling down you have a website that is actually very, very clean. I like it, straight to the point. Not too much information. It's not overbearing and it's not too much in your face. It's clean, easy on the eyes, straight to the point. I love it, good job. Now as for our source we have AliExpress and you can currently buy it for $23.28 down from $40.14. Shipping of course does include tracking. So to calculate our profit margin we have a selling price of about $65.34. Sourcing price of $23.28 and that gives us a potential profit of $42.06. Not bad. Now as for the target audience we're gonna be looking at the age range between 25 and 55 with interests in home decor, interior design, entertaining guests and cozy living spaces. Up next we have an electric hair styler and taking a look at the Facebook ad we can see that they show clearly a few of the different functions so you can see how it actually turns to be able to curl someone's hair. It makes detangling easy and it just overall makes the whole experience of combing your hair and getting ready in the morning a lot easier. And it has different tips or different brushes. Aside from that the rest of the video is pretty much the same thing just showing you how it's used and how it works. Now let's take a look at the seller's website and we have Dallas Wind. I like that. That's a pretty good name, Dallas Wind. Even though it doesn't really have much to do with the hairstyle but it's easy to reference, it's easy to say and it has a cool little pelican next to it. So we have the 3-in-1 hot air styler and rotating hairdryer for dry hair. Curl hair, straightened hair. This title could be a little bit better. The grammar on it could be a little bit better. So my suggestion is always just jump on chat GPT and ask it for a few suggestions. But aside from that, we have the different type. So here it's not necessarily the different type. It would really be the different plugs. So my suggestion on this part is put type of plug, don't just put type. So we have European, US, UK and Australian. Color scheme on the website is pretty good. I like it. You have the little gold, a little bit of gradient here. Everything looks nice. Got some more promotions and then you have the usual. So images, details, images, details. All right, pretty straight forward, straight to the point. Let's take a look at the price. I didn't check that. It is $59.99. So looking at our source, we have the 3-in-1 electric volumizer. This is on sale right now for $15.85 and shipping is $228 with tracking. All right, let's take a look at how much we can make with this. So we can sell it for about $59.99 and we can source it for about $15.60. So that gives us a profit potential of $44.39. Now as for the target demographic, this is gonna primarily be geared towards women with interests in beauty, fashion, personal grooming and hair styling.  So this item can be sold for about $16.99 and can be sourced for about $8.29. Our profit on this can potentially be $8.27. So first off, let's take a look at the Facebook ad. Here you can see the simplicity and how easy it is to just pop up, fill up with water and fill up with food. So that way your little canine friends can enjoy their time outside without getting too thirsty or hungry. And that's pretty much it. It's actually a really short ad, which I really like because it's straight to the point. It shows you how easily it can be stored, how easily it can be set up and the convenience of use. Now let's actually take a look at some of the comments and reactions. So we have 5,000 likes and loves, it's pretty good. 415 comments and 955 shares, that's not bad. So only for small dogs. No, it's just a regular bull. These bulls can be used for both small and big dogs. Couple tags, I got mine. Got a few more tags. It works, it's made okay. And just more tags and more comments. It looks pretty good. It looks like people are positively reacting to this. So let's go ahead and jump into the sellers website. And on here we have Fort Tender, travel dog diner set. Not bad. Website itself is clean, easy to navigate, has nice little color scheme and has a picture of a cute little pup right there. If you keep scrolling down you have some more information and some more images. So pretty straightforward, straight to the point. Looks pretty good. Taking a look at a supplier we have over at Aliexpress. It's being sold for $8.22. Shipping of course is free and includes tracking. So as for the demographic, here we can target pretty much everybody. The age range is gonna be a really broad one. So it's gonna be between 18 to 65. And the interests are gonna include outdoor activities, hiking, camping, traveling, pet care and pet training. Up next we have a magnetic charging phone case. So as you can see, it's made out of aluminum. It's a hard material. It has a little slide out pin that actually lets you pop it open. Then aside from that, it's again very slim. It has a little ring in the back that is an actual magnet. So whenever you put it on a wireless charger, you don't have to take your phone out to actually charge the phone.  So something like this is actually very useful. Now looking at the website, we have Featherk. All right, so this is obviously a generic store. They don't specialize in a particular niche or in just one product. Then the website itself looks pretty straightforward, just like pretty much any other drop shopping website that we've seen. Now looking over at our source, we have over at Aliexpress for $6.77. Shipping is free shipping on time, 14 day delivery. That's awesome. Now how much money can we make from this? So we can sell it for $19.99 and we're sourcing it for about $6.77. That gives us a potential profit of $13.22 per sale. Now as for the Facebook target demographic, we can pretty much choose any age range for this. So we're gonna go with 18 to 45 with interests in technology, gadgets, mobile accessories and fast charging. Up next, we have a letter print hoodie. Now typically these hoodies are gonna be geared towards health and wellness along with mental health. So taking a look at the Facebook ad, you can see you are enough. She's showing off the hoodie itself. She's talking a little bit about it. And in the back, it has another message, one of those dear persons message. This is something that's actually been on the rise lately and I've seen this quite a bit lately. So it's pretty straightforward. It's a straightforward ad so showing you the sweater, it's showing you a couple different colors and it's showing you the text in the front and the back. So taking a look at the seller's website, we have NovoOM and the title is Dear Person Behind Me sweatshirt because that's actually what it says behind the actual sweatshirt. Dear Person Behind Me, the world is a better place with you in it. That's really one of the things that really makes this type of hoodie or this type of message more than anything for mental health and personal health and wellness. So you can see that it's currently on sale for 1999 and they have quite a few different variations along with a few different images. Everything is pretty straightforward, straight to the point. They have a size chart which I think is great but other than that everything else is pretty much just like any other website. Has a few more images, a small description and a few reviews. Now let's take a look over at AliExpress to see how much it's being sourced for and this can be sourced for $10.99. Shipping about $2.55 with tracking. So as far as our profit potential, we can sell this for about $19.99. We're gonna be sourcing it for $10.99 which leaves us a profit potential of about $9. Now while that doesn't seem like a lot, when it comes to things like shirts, hoodies and pretty much just apparel overall, that's a pretty good and general profit. So aside from that when it comes to our target Facebook audience, we're gonna be targeting people more or less between the ages of 18 and 35 with interests in fashion, streetwear, trendy clothing, casual style and as a quick bonus, athleisure and mental health. Up next we have Metal Ring Puzzles and this one actually takes me back quite a few years because I had a few of these back when I was a kid. These for one are extremely frustrating to figure out. The good thing is with this Facebook ad they actually show you the solution to these different puzzles but some of these can keep people or kids entertained for up to quite a few hours. These can be pretty complicated. I remember once my aunt actually told me she'd give me 20 bucks if I figured it out, which, ha ha, I ended up figuring it out so I made an extra 20 bucks. But aside from that, they're pretty simple in design and the kind of simple in design a little bit complicated. Overall this Facebook ad shows you how they're used, how they can keep people entertained and how complicated they can really be. So going over to the seller's website you can see that they have the disentanglement iron link unlock interlock game. This title can very well be optimized. I don't like it at all. The price is $12.99 and supposedly they've sold about 7.1,000. That I really wouldn't say is a lie because these are pretty entertaining. I like these a lot. Here you can see that they have it advertised with kids. I wouldn't necessarily say that this is specifically for this age range, but that's the images that they chose to use for this website. But aside from that, you have a few other images. So you have some details that is rust resistant round edges so kids don't get hurt and they're sturdy and durable. Aside from that, when it comes to the description you have a small little description of a couple of different images and the rest is pretty generic, just like everything else with a few more images here on the side. Now let's take a look over at the source. So on AliExpress we actually have a set of eight. So this comes with all of these different puzzles and it's being sold for $2.08 with $1.74 shipping. Now they do have quite a few other variations so they have different colors and it looks like they have single packs as well but these look to be a bit more complicated. So you have quite the variation to be able to offer your customers. So for this our source price is gonna be about $2.08. We're gonna be able to sell it for about $12.99 and that's gonna give us a profit of about $10.91. Now as for the Facebook audience we're gonna be targeting people between the ages of 18 and 40 with interests in puzzle solving, brain teasers and logic games. Now last but certainly not least this is also one of my favorite products from this list. So here let's take a look at the Facebook ad. Here we have Lump Lunar and it's showing it is a plug-in and there is a network. The grammar on this one is not really that good. You can understand, you can understand what it means. It's just saying that you plug it in and then you're gonna have an automatic network but there's a few things about this that you need to actually know. Most of these routers don't simply work by themselves even though it looks like they do at the end of the day you are gonna need a SIM card. I don't have a SIM card on hand but just so you know for those of you that don't, SIM cards are those little cards that you put in your phone so that way you can get reception. Without those you're not gonna have any signal from any antenna. So taking a look at the Facebook ad you have 2023 LTE router wireless USB. It has some pretty good reviews actually it has 6.8 thousand likes, 3.3 thousand comments which is a little bit more than I expected and it just has a lot of people being tagged. All right, now aside from that let's take a look at the description. Portable Wi-Fi, there is Wi-Fi when there's electricity no login and registration required just plug it and use it. That's kind of deceptive I really would not go with that because of the fact that you do need a SIM card and when you have a SIM card you're more than likely gonna have to login to the website or the provider that you're using. So just take that information and make sure you include that because even though it's not clear here it will be in a minute. So let's go over to the seller website we have Lump Lunar and just like some of the other websites that we've been visiting we have a title that could be a little bit optimized but aside from that we have some trust badges and we have the different variations the images and just images and more information on the product itself. So let's go over to our source at AliExpress. Here we have the 4G LTE Wi-Fi router. Now another thing to note about this is that this is 4G and it's not gonna be the latest 5G technology. So when you get a SIM card make sure that you have one that is gonna be for 4G. This can be sourced for $8.85 and the shipping is 14-day delivery which is really good guaranteed two weeks and you have tracking available. We have a few different variations and let's check out the images. So as you can see it's being promoted as a router and it's pretty much it. So let me show you exactly where I was reading right here. So under the specifications and other features it does note that simply insert a SIM card to act as a wireless router. So the user ultimately is gonna need a SIM card from a wireless provider. That's just one thing that I really wanna make clear because a lot of people can purchase this without knowing that you're gonna need a SIM card. So with a website like this it's not clearly stated that you need a SIM card it doesn't say it anywhere. It just says that you can get internet as long as you can plug this in. Which again, it's misleading, it's not really true. So my suggestion, be straightforward with your customers and tell them that they are gonna need a SIM card. But aside from that, a product like this can actually be very beneficial especially if you have kids. So let's say your customer's taking a road trip and they're gonna be driving maybe four or five hours. Kids in those four or five hours are gonna get extremely restless. Especially nowadays when they have access to literally everything on their iPads or their phones. So if you don't wanna give your kids your phone you can give them an iPad or a tablet but in that case they're gonna have to be okay with either playing games offline or if they wanna watch movies and videos then they are gonna need internet. Which is when something like this little router can come in very handy. Now most cars nowadays have USB plugs in them so you'd be able to plug this in directly to your car and be able to give everyone internet access within that car. So taking a look at the profit potential for this you can sell it for about $29.99 and you could source it for about $9.08. Giving you a potential profit of $20.81. Now as for our Facebook target demographic we have an 18 to 45 age range with interests in technology, travel, online gaming, social media and remote work. And that wraps it up for the top products to dropship in October 2023. Remember that a lot of these products are perfect to dropship in October also transitioning into November. A lot of these are gonna be doing great during the holiday season so make sure you look into these make sure you offer as many as you can. So that way you can be ready for the holiday seasons. Remember if you want access to the cheat sheet all you have to do is go ahead and comment down below hashtag October 2023 and let me know which one of these products was your favorite. I already told you which ones were my favorite so let me know which ones are yours. Huge thank you to everyone for watching especially if you made it all the way to the end. Remember these monthly product videos come out every single month for the month after. Aside from that we also have other product videos that have to do with different seasons, different events and just overall different occasions. But if you have any products videos that you wanna see if you have a particular niche or a particular event or just any idea that you have let me know down in the comments below I would love to hear from you. Aside from that once again huge thank you to everyone for watching. My name is Mario with AutoDS and catch y'all next time.


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