Okay. Welcome everyone. My name is Lou Tucker. I'm a VPN CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco Systems and thank you for coming to the session. Today what I wanted to talk about and I think we've seen a lot of this and much of this will probably be a repeat but maybe what I'm going to try to do is give you some color of my view on what we're doing here with OpenStack. But it's really looking at how OpenStack I think over the last couple of years and in the near future will continue to expand in a lot of different market opportunities, a lot of different applications. It's not just in an ordinary cloud platform anymore. We really are in many ways I view this as becoming verticalized into a couple of very interesting industries. At the same time as what we're doing is that we're increasingly aggregating a lot of new technology that's coming about even though the four or five years that OpenStack has been around. So I think actually Jonathan you know we're all you know talking about these disruptions that are happening in the industry today and these waves of innovation that are fueling companies like we saw Uber mentioned earlier and we saw you know Airbnb. These are major disruptions of industries that are happening because of these technology innovations that we've had that allowed new business models to arise and other people you know and allowing people to approach these problems in very different ways. So we're both seeing you know the entire you know who goes to a store to rent the CD anymore. It's all being delivered down by Netflix. Amazon now is becoming the largest retailer almost in the world delivering things again through you know the internet purchasing through the internet and delivering then even in the same day delivery through logisticals large logistical centers around the world. So all of this is in many ways I think you know just driven by the internet and by cloud computing and the reason why that's so is that the internet gives us the reach we can now address very very large audience audiences marketplaces and cloud computing allows us to deal with a very small number of people. So when those two things come together the internet and cloud computing you have the possibilities that very small companies can take on very large industries and go after the entire marketplace and that is something that I think we are all a part of and Mark Adresin made this point back sort of in 2011 that essentially softwares eating the world and it could eat into all of these different businesses and that's what people are experiencing today and that there's no notion that software itself because of the ability for us to rapidly create software requires a lot less capital intensive businesses we can approach these businesses in new ways because driven by software and those so all of you who are developers you've got a very very bright future because software really is taking over more and more of the traditional enterprises and so if we think about this in another way that we've already passed that that time period in which now there are more virtual machines and physical servers out there traditional IT department you'd measure the growth of IT or whatever by how many servers how many networking ports and things like that and now it's a number of virtual machines which kind of interesting about virtual machines as you know they come and they go they disappear they may be around only for a couple hours or a couple days so it's a very different model that we're talking about provisioning now resources it's on demand it's self-service none of us like to file a trouble ticket or call up somebody on the phone to get resources for us we wanted to be able to to go to an API and and type in a command and get resources provision for us and so it started actually in actually virtualization as you know goes way back to IBM mainframe days and when it started in the enterprise there was still essentially run by IT organizations so you still have the file of trouble ticket but now the IT organization's job was easier because now they could actually just spin up a couple of virtual machines for you instead of racking and stacking servers I think the big change in cloud computing was when that became self-service and that's what I think we have Amazon to thank for their model with the self-service model and everything just like FedEx no longer are you calling up to see how you track your package you given a link in an email and you click on the link and you can now track your own package well that saves FedEx an awful lot of money and that provided you with a great service so the notion of self-service combining again with the virtualization technology I think really sparked this whole change in cloud computing and then people started you know looking at it and like like Joe Wyman if you've read any of his material really looking at it from the point of view of economics and from an economics point of view you can start talking about things such as you only have a certain amount of sustained capacity you need every day and then you have peaks around holiday seasons or or anything else so the notion of hybrid cloud starts to come about where you are using resources not only that you own or that you lease for a long term but also then you through peaks and valleys here you can more accurately match the demand curve with your cost curve that directly translates into profit companies and so that's why there's a strong strong economic foundation behind everything that we're doing in cloud computing and something else happened not only was this a different way to do the same kind of computing we used to be doing that we changed infrastructure but we started looking at these cloud native applications and so this changed sort of the design paradigm for building applications you started to think immediately about the fact that on these virtual machines since you can spawn them up or or or kill them off over time you can make it dynamically elastic and so that became an integral part and when you're dynamically elastic that also means you can recover from failures if a couple of those virtual machines that are on servers that have a problem or you've got a disk failure or something it doesn't matter because you have a fleet of virtual machines that you're dealing with so a lot of the resiliency of applications started moving resiliency of the application moved into that application layer and was less dependent upon the resiliency of the underlying infrastructure platform because we know at scale those kinds of failures are just going to happen every day and you have to have a service that's running nonstop so the notion of these kind of cloud native applications application design patterns started to come about okay so now we virtualized everything we are running your own infrastructure in the cloud and I see like we have got Ryan here here who's been doing it in one of our super users look talking about the Webex platform and a lot of things he talks about are the fact that now even though you virtualize that some of the things are very much the same you still have to operate it so you are now still operating your virtual machines and so the notion of DevOps is really paramount here at two different layers from the system provider point of view where you have code driving the infrastructure and then again at the application layer where you have an operational concerns about keeping these things up and so whatever you have operations you have operational costs the way you control operational costs through automation the way you get automation again it's through software so all ties back to this is the whole notion I think that Andreessen was talking about several years ago it's interesting to look in the in the past a bit here over we've open stack because we've seen now over the years the number of different applications and industries that we're talking about that now we are seeing being addressed by open stack we've gotten this not just cloud providers most of these are not cloud providers in fact when you're providing open source software that's so anybody can run that software and so people are building all of their their private clouds within the enterprise they're running clouds to run e-commerce operations even so we see like Bloomberg and Comcast and Best Buy these are major industries we saw you know Walmart talk about their their fleet of you know over a hundred thousand cores that they're running now so this is all now very very possible it still requires quite a bit of work because this is still very new technology that we're talking about but these companies unlike Nicholas Carr's does you know statement many years ago does IT matter well for these companies IT matters a lot as a matter it's fundamental to them because they're out to disrupt other companies with IT and so that becomes very important role that we have in terms of making that making open stack continue to address these kinds of applications so in some way I think that we now are seeing open stack becoming this new layer in the data center we are looking at a point we had physical data center we sort of had administration and orchestration and operational tools usually managing that physical infrastructure and now on top of that we layer a set of open stack services and it's not just a compute service not just a compute and a storage service or compute storage in a networking service this is over time moving into database services moving into message bus services I think that over time we'll increasingly see things such as Monaskia coming up which is talking about big data pipelines for you to be able to process your logs and events and everything else so all of these become services and in fact that's a new platform those of you who follow at any of the what I've been talking about a couple of years I always objected to this definition of platform as a service yet infrastructure as a service platform as a service and software as a service I just thought the platform part we got wrong should have been services become the platform that's what I think is really happening so that when people now are building applications they're drawing upon a number of different services and the competition now is do you have those services in your cloud do you have those services available to your users because that's what makes a developer's job easier nobody wants to stand up their own database anymore if you can have one provided as a service so those are the kinds of things that accelerate the application development that that is going on you know at the same time cloud computing was coming about there's another shift happening in the industry and that's around software defined networking we've all heard about open flow and how the same model that we were talking the the model around virtualizing resources that we saw applicable in the compute space is now being applied into the networking space and so this allows the kind of perfect storm between software to find networking happening and cloud computing happening and so the now companies and some of you know the largest like carriers are looking at network function virtualization they're saying the net and what that means if you decode that NFV is really talking about those traditional network services that we all use in applications load balancers firewalls VPNs those are becoming virtualized now so that they can be dynamically spun up instead of having to make a phone call saying please provision my you know company with VPN services you can do that through self-service you can dynamically scale those services and you can reduce the operating costs for the provider which means that they should be passing those cost savings on to the consumer as well so these things are coming about at the same time and colliding with with cloud computing so what do we see again open source I think is one of the other real drivers of this of this change as well and so we're seeing even open source now moving into the world of defining you know designing these network controllers to open daylight now is really growing up and coming on very very fast where a lot of the functionality we want and all of this networking will be encompassed by these controllers and so this has a lot of the same constituents as open stack that is we're getting together and we're designing this kind of an open source network controller that we all can use and then plug into different infrastructures to provide these kinds of network work network functions if you look at new trying itself it's rather interesting we started this very more than like three or four years ago at something called quantum and ridgeline now is neutron and this was in a way to say let's make networking as a service that's actually something new we had no real model to go after so it's been through a couple of iterations and what we see here was designed very early we wanted to enable multiple technologies with SDN coming on we wanted it to be able to you know accommodate open flow we wanted it to also accommodate traditional networking if you have just got standard networking out there it should work with standard networking as well and a lot of different models so in fact there's over 40 plugins that are built into neutron today provided by a lot of the different vendors and different open source communities which allow people to essentially plug and replace the different networking components that they would like to have I think that we're going to see continue to see a lot of change in this area in fact in Europe there's a standards body called FC who is defining what they what a virtualized network service network function virtualization should look like architecturally so standards bodies are getting involved here because they want to define a reference standard or architecture here that would allow multiple companies to adhere to this and plug in so that the consumer of these could plug in different components from different different vendors and so this is work that is coming out of that on the code side so that's a standard body on the code and the implementation now that is being done by open NFV and in concert with with our summit here we've also had a day with the open NFV folks as they're looking to build a reference architecture around network function virtualization so this is this isn't something four years ago we weren't even thinking of when we're starting OpenStack that was going to be a cloud platform for IS now we're looking at it also being able to accomplish being the the platform the virtualization platform for network function virtualization entirely different space to do that even on the foundation side on the rest of the community here we've had to spin up different groups OpenStack has to now get to be carrier grade enterprise ready the resiliency of the platform itself becomes really important so there's a lot of work that is being done and I think it will continue to see going forward and I urge you to work behind a lot of the blueprints that we're bringing out to really make OpenStack resilient have the same kind of uptime that you'd expect to have in a carrier space or in the enterprise space the other day I had a talk actually with Bank of America it's interesting even the banks are getting involved in this most traditional part of IT and what they're looking for they are very much behind this notion of a software-defined data center software-defined infrastructure they want to think of their entire IT infrastructure as being driven by software that means they can automate it to reduce the cost that means they can be more agile they can roll out new services to their branches as the bank and to new branches that are showing up in shopping malls or pop-up stores around the world they want to rapidly provision new services and they can only do that through software lowering they have to be very cost conscious so it has to be fully automated and they have to de-risk their investment and one principle way of de-risking their investment is to go to an open-source platform such as OpenStack where we have they can get a solution for multiple vendors and they don't tie necessarily their new services or their applications to a particular vendor and be held hostage they like the fact that it's multi-vendor and participation by broad aspects of the industry so in many ways you know configuration and cabling those of you who've ever worked in IT or worked in data centers know the nightmare that this is and that's now being replaced by code and that's what this whole software-defined infrastructure is largely about so that you can have Yang models you can have formal ways of expressing what you want the infrastructure to look like and instead of sending guys out there with a trouble ticket that they have to review and cut and paste from one system into another system of record and a CMDB they can express it now through a software model and that software model becomes the model that then the rest of the orchestration system is supposed to make the infrastructure look like and we're only looking then at the difference so that when there are failures you can say there's a failure here because what we're actually running doesn't look like the model and we can produce that kind of a feedback loop so the other notion that's somewhat is sort of the holy grail in IT in many cases you would like it to be policy you don't even want it to be this you know JSON file or Yang model or whatever you would like it to be expressed as a policy the intent of what you would like to have you would like to have the intent expressed through these mechanisms so that you can say these web servers will they have to talk to the internet but my database server is only behind doesn't have no connection to the internet so that you can talk about the policies that you would like to see enforced you would like to be able to say the front end of these servers here which is some internal service has both a firewall and has a load balancer so that any of those individual nodes could go down and the service continues to run that's intent and that's a policy so there's many efforts underway as this could have been very heavily involved with group based policy which is API's and now allow you to express groups sets of servers your web front end your middle messaging tier perhaps and your back in database those are groups and you don't talk about the individual IP addresses you talk about traffic from this set should be able to go to this set filtered by these following rules and that's the intent that you'd like to do so a lot of the mistakes that we make when we get down to translating intent into configuration or even config files is alleviated because you're instead talking about intent and that intent can apply then and wherever this application might be put inside of the infrastructure and your binding sort of with the IP addresses and everything else starts to go away there's all the other things in terms of policy Congress is another effort underway to really define even a more higher level policy across both applications and services and infrastructure and I flex then reflect policy going down into the individual devices so watch this space over the next several years is more and more applications you're going to find another level of efficiency through this kind of automation by again what as computer scientists what are we always doing we're abstracting things so we can talk about them in a way that removes the dependencies upon the underlying layers and so policy I think will be a very important aspect of that a couple of weeks ago I went to Las Vegas for the NAB show National Association of Broadcasters I don't know if you've ever happened to be in Vegas I mean this show is going on but it is huge it's like CES is one of the things that takes over a large part of the city and since this is all about media and broadcast and TV you know big screens flashy screens all over the place and the latest movies and sitcoms and TV shows are being talked about this entire industry has been built on hardware appliances you couldn't use general purpose computing you were doing transcoding video ingest you're doing broadcast where latency is paramount high bandwidth is required and so that that's just in this show itself we're seeing the set of companies that a couple years ago started looking at it going you know look at what happened in other industries and we're going to see the same thing happen in ours and it's kind of start to virtualize so these functions if you're transcoding every time that we come up with you know to get the standard broadcast out to this and after all of the other devices that's different encodings that we have to take place upon even accommodating for different bit streams and bandwidths so all that video pipelining now which has been done on hard and appliances is moving into the cloud computing realm so do we see things for example today that those applications that were in these fixed appliances are now moving into a virtualized pipelines and some of the early movers there are doing this on open stack so I find that particularly exciting because here again is a whole other industry now that's starting to move to cloud computing and so that five years from now NAB show will look very different it'll look more like a software show where people are showing the tools and everything else where much of this now is virtualized and so obviously the advantages you get you know is that you're cutting down from weeks to minutes one of the things in the broadcast space this is all real time many many years ago I worked on real time signal processing and there are real strict constraints I mean you just have to be on there you can't lose frames and broadcast so you really have new things but at the same time they have workload requirements they have 45 movies they just got in and they have to transcode and encode and get them ready by Friday so they've got huge demands in terms of the quantity of work that they're trying to achieve in a fixed period of time so the orchestration of those different components and the resource allocation and scheduling placement of those services becomes very very important so here's another industry that's being I think disrupted by cloud computing and by OpenStack and I think this one will be a very interesting one to come another change how do we develop code we've all seen and even in this conference you know a lot of talk now about containers and we've seen actually you know the whole VC world and everything else get rally around a lot of new companies who are looking at the code development process from the time you sort of have an idea and and how you can package that up can you share components with other other parts of the industry you know in the in the electronics industry itself those of you who ever did like circuit board work or VLSI design or whatever we had standard libraries and we had components and reusable pieces of hardware and we're trying to get that same kind of reuse now and something which is kind of containers but we've seen a lot of things now start to come out here so it's not just been docket but Kubernetes and mesos and core OS so we're starting to see a different layers of this come together so it has layers and we saw even the demos during the during the keynotes of now application libraries where you can bring these things into your system very readily you can containerize these and you can deploy them and at the same time we're seeing operating systems are getting skinnier and skinnier because they don't have to support now everything in the world they can really support much more narrowly cast applications so I think this is a very exciting area that we see and a lot of people when they're looking at this look at it so you know it starts to look like a cloud so in fact a lot of things if you look at mesos and another platform such as that it's a distributed operating system so it's an operating system that is running actually on top of an operating system but it's distributed across a data center and it has resource scheduling capabilities in it you can say I want to have five copies of this application running at all time and it will use Zookeeper and other things to make sure that that application only says five instances of it running so if one should go away it can automatically start up another so a lot of the distributed computing work that's been done over the years in different systems I think it's turning the sediment down into these new layers making it again easier and easier for application developers to get their job done and then so as we start to think about this the question is is there a battle here many people right now and I think that you see even reports out there is that you know doctor and containers and mesos and Kubernetes is going to kill off cloud computing and I actually don't find that ever to be the case with technology technology has a wonderful way of taking the best from every different piece and use it for the most appropriate use so I think in some up some uses absolutely we fully just containerized but then it's not really designed for the whole kind of multi-tenant notion that we have in a cloud so in fact if you look at the differences between virtual machines and containers there's some very primary ones and and so virtual machines we think are fat they're heavy so on top of a host you're running now an operating system and depending upon type one or type two hypervisor that allows you to create a virtualization layer to live vert you can talk to that and now you the customer is bring a virtual machine on top that virtual machine thinks it's running on hardware because what did we do with the hypervisor we're emulating a hardware layer so through that emulation it makes it possible to run an operating system and an application let's say which might be Linux next to another one that's running Windows because we're emulating at the hardware layer and this is this is the brilliance I think of virtualization and allowed us to do the stacking of application and dramatically increase utilization of of our servers containers on the other hand really do this at the operating system layer itself so here you are able to do segmentation of through namespaces and C groups and others so that you actually are running simultaneously two different applications that sharing the operating system by and large but may have different user libraries may have different libraries in terms of which level which python release you're running that allows much lighter weight sharing of resources greater utilization in terms of the memory overhead you're not carrying around the whole operating system with you wherever you go but again it doesn't now allow you run Windows and Linux applications on top of a common operating system because there isn't one so they each have their use it's important for us when we're designing applications to know when we want to use one technology versus versus the other what's even more interesting is that when they're used together and what I'm particularly intrigued by so you've seen work through things such as Magnum where we're talking about well what if every tenant what if we can have a service and a tenant comes into the service says spin me up a Kubernetes environment cluster Kubernetes cluster our dark Docker swarm cluster and be able to spin that up and that's owned by that tenant whereas another tenant can bring in their own cluster and again running on top of virtual machines so this is where the cloud computing model and the the container model comes together in fact when you're running containers if you've done an experiment you know an Amazon or Google that's actually the model you're using we can talk about then those virtual machines as getting smaller and smaller and smaller but they're still providing there's still hyperbop hypervisor based isolation between virtual machines but they can get to be very small what's interesting with OpenStack particularly in the Kila release now we're also really pushing and bare metal hosts and so through Ironic now with some things like Magnum you can start talking about running these on top of bare metal which essentially means all you've done is sort of partition again your host resources to buy tenant to giving them capabilities of running a pure kind of container environment so Magnum is one of the projects I urge you to take a look at and get involved in we're heavily involved in this from Cisco's point of view and this is really containers as a service according to the model we just talked about where there are APIs that allow you to spin up these container clusters and that it supports both Docker swarm and Kubernetes and we're using heat again to provide the orchestration of these services and they have as with I think Marcoli also mentioned you know this is running on what's known as a bay which is where then the environment for the containers operating system works and this allows us to basically use both kinds of of image-based deployments at the same time another interesting services Kola this is where we're looking at what if it one of the issues that we have I think in OpenStack as we all know is the manageability and availability of these services and so what if we use some of the technology that's coming out of container world to help with the manageability of OpenStack services itself so in this way a lot of the work that we're doing here is to run the OpenStack services Nova glance and they're inside of a container that allows us to put the container in a cluster of machines and allows us to do things such as more easily run one version of Nova upgrade from Havana the kilo at the same time and then start to switch things over so in this kind of a model I think we're looking very deeply into this to understand is this a better model for how we actually deploy the OpenStack services themselves and so again I urge you to take a look at that project all of these oh and this is just a mile one of the interesting thing about deployment of opensack if you think of the application space and what we're doing with CI CD to deploy applications we would like to do that for OpenStack itself so the CI CD pipeline becomes very important and that again feeds very well into the whole model of containers containers are meant to ease the whole integration deployment rapid deployment of applications that application changes in a very very lightweight fashion and this this allows us to do that for OpenStack services itself that's where a lot of the power is going to be so with all of this we've got a larger number of things that we are doing and we've got a larger and larger systems in different kinds of application spaces so this is where it becomes much more imperative to really talk about how we're getting the stats out of the system being able to use analytics being able to dynamically create these things and use visualization so some of the work that's been coming out of some of my team also you can check is AVOS where it really integrates both visualization and advanced analytics capabilities into running on top of OpenStack so you can get a better view of what's going on and being able to run some of these services both at the system level at the application level I think is important as we increase these number of services and microservices again we have more and more need for this so one of the simple ones we've been working on lately is something called cloud pulse and we just start launch this the other day as another project think of this as a monitor a health monitor for your OpenStack cloud so that just like an intensive care you go into any kind of hospital wherever you always hearing these like beep beep beep that means the patient's still alive the cloud's still up if that ever stops or goes to a high-pitched wine you know your cloud is in deep trouble and so cloud pulse is where we're gathering a lot of these metrics and again working with things like Monastka and everything else being bringing those together so that you can have a health check of the system because and provide this health check again at a much more detailed level for the application providers because the worst thing you want to do is running an application on top of a cloud and you have a problem and you go is it my problem or is it a problem in the cloud so by increasing our level of visibility around the analytics that's taking place in the cloud platform itself will make it easier for application providers to understand whether their application is at fault or whether it's something going on in the cloud and as we get closer to that understanding what that fault might be so that they can take action and it shouldn't be to call up the cloud provider or your IT department and say I've got a problem here you can increasingly use automation then to get possibly move virtual machines out of an area that's having a problem and move them to a healthier place so opens that keeps expanding and this is viewed sometimes as a you know benefit or a curse more and more services are coming along I think that we've you've probably heard talk about you know this big tent concept where we want to have more and more services become available provided they are adhering to the principles that we have around open source and so this might be confusing at some place but I view this again as opportunity and that what we have is that new things that are coming on in terms of data processing and morano is an application catalog that we're now seeing being tied in in what we're doing with containers this becomes a much more more powerful platform that we are working on so the real challenge here I think is that with these ever growing number of possibilities and opportunities is essentially can we keep it together I mean can we find the right balance between simultaneously moving towards carrier grade enterprise ready solid resilient cloud platforms as we continue to expand and grow the number of services I think to do that we have to take much more of an overall architectural view of how these services put put together and and really you know focus on what is going to ultimately end up with the true value to the end user customer by the way I'm just getting the sign to close off but I think there will be time for questions so if you do have a question or whatever we do have a mic up in here before I close so more than anything what I'd like to do as a community is to find that balance and work on both of those layers both towards increasing resiliency and availability of the platform and scale at the same time as we don't to accomplish that we shouldn't shut off all innovation because I think the innovation that is coming is very very real and providing very very high value so finding the right balance between those two and those of you who are contributors into into the open-stack community it'd be great if you really recognize that you should be working on both those things that way also as we bring in new services we want to we want to emphasize those services that are actually increasing resiliency and availability of the platform that's the ideal world so with that I'll try to open it up for questions but thank you very much questions anyone yeah or shout it out I'll repeat it will get okay so let me I'll repeat the question so Cisco is known for its routers and switches and proprietary systems essentially even though Linux has been used inside of Cisco's routers for years and years so we've been a big consumer of open-source software I think that what we're seeing now is that we want to be much more of a participant in the open-source communities and your question I think is around so how does that translate into a business model for Cisco because of Cisco is helping essentially putting all of this technology out back into the open-source anybody can use that so how does that create particular value for Cisco in a business model I think many companies are struggling with that same question and I think that we are all recognizing though there's something new going on here in in kind of community-driven development standards bodies have existed for years and years because the industry recognized rather than inventing 25 different ways to plug into an electrical outlet we can make that more money in our individual companies if we standardize on those places where you interconnect so interop has only been driven by standards well the new interop now is when we're creating software platforms is for the develop the applications that run on top so I think Cisco very much believed we are working with customers many of our customers who are deploying open-stack they are buying a lot of Cisco gear to do that and we are providing our expertise and support in there we also have provided a lot of plugins which allow us to integrate into Cisco systems so we fundamentally will be competing on open-stack works best on Cisco Cisco is not just about routers and switches we also have servers and storage so we very much want to provide assistance and and capabilities back into the platform that will make open stack work great on top of an integrated environment delivered by Cisco we also think it's just very important to to have this kind of community-driven development I think that if you look at the number of companies below the BHP Intel Dell that we are all working together and we've decided it's better for us to work together and grow cloud computing than it is for us to create a million different kind of cloud standards out there which I think will hurt the industry long-term follow-on questions unless somebody else is willing to stand up and here we are so Cisco's been at 65 percent margins I think I know where you're going with this yep okay well as a Cisco investor let me address that so yeah we're 60 with the with the business model that sort of demands that we maintain very very high margins you have to create very very high value that's the only way you can do that so for example what we're doing with our inter cloud strategy is rather than Cisco standing up our own clouds and making all that we are making that investment with service providers around the world because what we see Cisco has a global reach guess what we're a networking company we connect the globe so it makes perfect sense for Cisco to have a strategy around cloud computing of creating a global network of inter cloud nodes that's what we're essentially called so we are making a number of announcements that we've made about partnerships with many of the largest telcos service providers around the world where Cisco is going to be building a cloud they're connecting these clouds together and they're primarily their focus there is however not to compete directly with Amazon and even Google which can do this a huge huge volume and and instead our business model is to focus on the business applications so it's much more about providing the business services on top of those those services are largely for many of those telcos they are business networking services their connectivity its VPNs if those kinds you know direct data links it's those kinds of services and then our own businesses around collaboration and around security many of Cisco's new businesses are cloud-based businesses you look at morocchi how we're with morocchi that is being that is managing Wi-Fi access points from the cloud so we see our future growth is in terms of these cloud businesses and that's how I think they will be able to maintain a successful company times out I will be available out in the hall if you want thank you very much


Well hello again, this is Jim Hogue, and I think we'll call this part two of the visionary future for Vermont, but we will extend it into the world, because our guest today is John Root, who has been studying monetary reform for at least as long as I have. And I am going to ask John to start with the psychology, if you will, of the way people think about money and some of the misconceptions that people have about money, and how we can go to the root problem and try to turn things around. That has happened periodically over the course of history, and the threat of the good example has been quashed very thoroughly, and the most important being the currency act during the colonial period. But John will talk about how the human mind has incorporated the current paradigm and what we can do about that, and after that, for the next 25 minutes, we will be talking about alternatives that have popped up, some of which are frustrating the powers that be, and some of which have resulted in, many of which have resulted in wars and assassinations. If you look at Perkins' book, The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, you will see the cold hard facts of what happens when people try to, when leaders try to step out of the current paradigm. So there are an awful lot of problems, huge problems, wars, for example, that have been thought necessary because certain countries do not toe the line with the current paradigm. But let's go back to the psychology of this. John Root, welcome, and off you go. Okay, so the interesting thing is that we all have this experience that money is power. The money you have, the more power you have. And we look at this whole situation that we're in with politics and money as speech and corporations being able to spend as much money as they want to influence the political situation. So there is a paradigm that we're living in that says you want the money. And you want the money because you think that the money is valuable in itself. In other words, you want the money. It's not valuable in itself. You can't do anything with the money except spend it. Well, you can earn it and save it and invest it and all of that, but it's the goods and services that are actually valuable. So it isn't that we want to get money out of politics. It's recognizing that money is politics. Politics is all about what to issue money for and what to allocate money for and what to promote. So the problem isn't that their money is influencing politics. It's the other way around. It's who's deciding. So in order to have an experience of the possibility of genuine reform, of genuinely creating an economy and a society based on the better world that we all know in our hearts is possible, is simply a matter of a different understanding of money. It's who decides. So money and the difficulty that we're in is that we only have the concepts, generally speaking, we only have the concepts that come to us from the culture in order to understand what's going on. So the culture says we have to get big money out of politics. So we waste a lot of time and energy trying to get big money out of politics. Well guess what? You can't get big money out of politics because money is politics, right? See we need different concepts and the reality is this. You always, always, always have a choice. When you're confronted with something that's coming to you from your background, from your childhood, from your education, from the media, you always have the choice to stop and ask yourself what concept do I want to use to understand this that would actually bring me joy, that I would be fulfilled, that I would experience real happiness in having that concept. So who should be deciding what to issue money for, how to manage the circulation so that there's no bubbles and no busts, no inflation, no recessions, right? Managing the money supply, that's a very simple thing. There are three things. There's the capital stock, the amount of money that's out there in circulation. There's the velocity with which it circulates. How many transactions each dollar of the capital stock, of the money stock, is affecting trade. So before it disappears somewhere or goes into a savings account, how many times, how many, what's the multiplier of the circulation, right? And then the savings rate, how much is sitting somewhere not being spent? So you keep those three things in balance. If the circulation slows, everybody went on vacation or something or they slept late and the circulation slows, you might have to increase the capital stock in order for the money to continue to properly represent the things that are actually valuable. So money has those characteristics. It has the characteristic of being a measure of value. We all know what a dollar's worth and we're all making decisions about what to spend our money on based on what we did in order to have the money and what the value of what we're buying is to us. That's what the unit of value does for us. And we have to use, we have to use. The courts will not support you if you try to use something else, right? You have to use the dollar. Or bank credit is what it really is, but we can talk about that later. You have to use the means of exchange that the sovereign, the congress or the Federal Reserve or whatever it is, or the king or whatever has said you have to use. So money is really a matter of law. Those two things are really important. Money is the primary tool that whoever is the actual sovereign is using to create the conditions in which we all live. What is the money being issued for? So if you use the idea that the money is never valuable in itself, I don't care if we're using gold coins, the money is never valuable in itself. In order for gold to serve as money, its value as money has to be set by law higher than its value as gold. Same for silver, same for anything else. Back in the 80s, the copper in the pennies was worth more than a penny. So what did people do? They took them to the metal recycler and they sold them for two cents on the penny. So they took the copper out of the pennies so that they wouldn't be worth more than a penny. I mean, this is absolutely true. And that's something the government does rather than the banks, by the way, because it's not important. Yeah, well, we'll get to all that. The point is that money is always a matter of law. It's always the sovereign that is establishing what the money is. There's a concept which will free you from this idea that you want the money. You never want the money. You want the money. You want the power the money gives you to create the life that you want. That's what you want. You want the power. What is the power? It's political. It's the political power. It's the way the system empowers or doesn't, right? So if you imagine that we were sitting together in our communities, in our wards, in our neighborhoods, talking about what we should issue money for, everything would change. Everything would change. And we would be... Everything. We would be sovereign. Yes, we would become the sovereign. We would be the sovereign. Is that possible? Well, I don't know. We haven't tried it recently. We have tried it in the past. It has happened. Yeah. With great positive effect. Right. So the really important thing is do not accept the ready-made concept that comes to you from the culture. If you want to create the better world, and I mean the better world, that you know in your heart is possible. I've conducted over many years in many different groups, what I call imagining community. And we just sit there and we talk about what it is that we imagine could be, given who I am. That's the most important thing. I do not want to hear what you think other people would do. I only want to hear what you would do. So let's imagine that because we were sitting together in a circle, talking about how we would like the world to be with the power to fund it, because we could issue the money for it. It turns out that the commonality in the vision that people have of what social justice is, is unbelievably strongly common. We all know what social justice is. We all know that what we really want is for everyone. I mean everyone, not just smart people, not just privileged people. We want everyone to have what they need in order to live out the life purpose, the transcendent purpose that they feel called to serve. And what's really interesting is you get two things. People say, I know exactly what it is that I want to do. What would make me happy is really being able to. And then they tell you what it is that I love building. I'm an artist. I want to grow the best food. I love chemical processes. I love computers. I mean just think, most of the major software that's running the world was created voluntarily by programmers because they love to do it. It's called open source, like open office or Linux, Linux, major operating system, created by volunteers. Why? Because they love doing it and they know the extent to which it benefits everyone. So I'm talking to people, we're going around the circle, we're getting them to say what really motivates them, what they would really like to do. And then every once in a while you get somebody, I haven't got a clue. And everybody wants to help them figure it out. Hey, this is human nature. We all know what social justice is. We all know the better world that lives in us as an ideal. If we could get those. If we all share those ideals, if we can get to them. And the way that you get to them is you stop worrying about all the stuff that the popular culture tells you about human nature. It isn't true. Well, it's not true of me. It's not true of you.  So who is it true of? Well, okay, so you may not have any of the concepts that you need in order to see what it is that you could really do. Here's the thought experiment that makes the difference. What if we didn't issue the money for production, right? What if we issued the money for consumption? What if we made sure that everybody had the money that they need to live, right? Here's the concept. Most people will tell you, oh, you can't issue money for consumption. You have to issue money for production. Well, but we do that. I mean, we have a lot of disabled people who get a check every month. They get a check every month, right? Okay, so let's issue the money so that everybody has the money they need to buy the things they need to live. If we were to do that, then everyone would be at liberty to pursue happiness. So if governments are instituted among men to secure our inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then in order to secure our life, we would need to give everyone a dividend income. What would the dividend income be based on? It would be based on the overall surplus that the economy generates. What do you mean the economy generates a surplus? Well, yeah, every time you buy something, right, the shop, if you buy it at the price that the shop is advertising it for, it's going to be profitable for them, right? And you wouldn't buy it if you weren't going to be better off, if it weren't profitable for you. Every transaction by its nature as a result of human nature creates a surplus. You bet it does. I'm better off, the store is better off. With every transaction that takes place in the course of a week, we should all be increasingly better off. Well, let's distribute the surplus as a dividend income for everyone so that there is liberty to provide all the things that the community needs. And then we're in a position where everything that happens is a result of a healthy human judgment. What's the most important thing to do to make you feel happy? The most important thing is to do something that you see the community recognizes as valuable. There isn't anything else. There isn't anything else that actually makes you happy. It's a process. It's a process of fulfilling the calling, what the spirit calls you to do, however you understand spirit. Well, that's Plato as we discussed last time. Yeah, right. What is happiness? Happiness is feeling fulfilled. Doing the right thing. What is the right thing? Something that you are capable of doing and doing in the way that you want to do it that the community recognizes. One monkey wrench to this is that what you think is beneficial your neighbor might think is harmful. But that's a detail that is... OK, so I'm trying to figure out what it is that I want to dedicate my life to. Right? And I have this particular idea. And we actually get to because we have a dividend income and we're not running off in the morning to work and coming home in the evening to work. We're working whenever it is that it makes sense to be working. I want to know what everybody thinks. Now, if somebody thinks that something that I want to do is detrimental and I'm sure that it isn't, don't you think that I would be able to get them to be willing to try it? Good point. Do it this way. Do it this much for this. And let's evaluate it. Right? Let's evaluate whether the unintended consequence that you were worried about is actually happening. All of a sudden, we're in an entirely different paradigm. We're actually listening to each other. We're listening to each other. And we're supporting each other. And the last thing that I want to do is something that's going to harm somebody else. I don't want to do it. Well, yes, I do. I mean, there are lots of things that I want to do.  Those are things, and this is true for all of us. They're things that I may even need help to get. I mean, I'm sure Brett Kavanaugh is very unhappy about having adopted fraternity culture back then and gotten himself into that sort of mess. I'm sure he regrets it. I'm sure he's been very disciplined ever since, since high school, since college, and fraternity days, not to give in to those impulses. If we're supporting each other to be the best that we can be, and if we're actually willing to experiment with adopting the nurturing ideas, let's say that we said that actually what we need is to listen to the mothers. What we need to do is simply listen to what the mothers want for their children, for their families, for their husbands, for us. What do you want for us, mother? Everything would change. Now, imagine that we have the power, because we're sovereign, to issue the money for it and to regulate the money supply so that the money always represents the goods and services accurately so that it doesn't inflate, doesn't deflate. It took a really long time to get a really accurate watch, and we're actually only now, only in the past 25 years or so, in a position to totally regulate the money supply because we don't use cash anymore. It's all digital. We know exactly what's going on. We know whether there's enough or too little money, and that's what the banking system does. They blow up the economy. They blow up the housing market, and then they crash it. So what's the percentage of money that's digital versus the money that's cash, like 95% digital or something? No, it's more. I think it's something like 97% digital. And cash is very little. So without going, one of the things that's really important is to know that what I'm talking about is not pie in the sky. We haven't experienced it in America for a really long time. One of the interesting things is that it's really clear, even from the way that history is taught now, that the American Revolution was really important. The American Revolution was a real, genuine world event. And the reason that it was a real, genuine world event was that it was the first time, although you can go back to Greece and the Greek Republic, and you can go back to the Roman Republic and see the beginnings of it. But that's a long, long time ago. Well, there's Magna Carta. There were a few bleeps. Yeah, then there's the Magna Carta. But here you have a whole nation, not objecting or trying to creating a shift in the sovereignty from the king to the people. That's what the American Revolution was about. The colonists said, hey, the king has done nothing but a process. The king has not been creating the conditions in which we're all thriving. We created the conditions in which we're all thriving. So let's overthrow the king. Now, the interesting thing that the history books do not tell you is that the reason the colonists had that experience was that they issued their own money. They issued colonial scrap. Each of the colonies did it a little bit differently, but it all goes back to Benjamin Franklin and an experience that he had in the Iroquois nation. The Iroquois did not have money. They had Wampum. And what is Wampum? Wampum is the way that you remember. It's a mnemonic. It's the way that you remember the significant events that happen in the course of the year. So Benjamin Franklin is at a pow-wow at a meeting of the Iroquois nation. And he knows that they've enjoyed 1,000 years of peace and that they have separation of powers. And there are all these fascinating things about the way that the Iroquois nation governs itself that was very influential in the development of the American Constitution. But he has this experience that the popular culture into the history books do not tell you. And that was that the chief of the Iroquois nation was responsible for making sure that the chiefs of the tribes and the chiefs of the clans all had enough Wampum to commemorate all of the significant events that happened in the course of the year. And Benjamin Franklin goes, oh my god, of course, of course. There always has to be enough money for all the transactions that the people want to make. And there's never enough gold and silver for all the transactions that people want to make. We need paper money.  And it's called The Utility and Necessity of a Paper Currency. And all the colonies adopt a paper script. And you can Google it. Yeah, paper colonial script. From 1730 through 1760, there was no shortage of money in the colonies. Go look at colonial America. It was all built, 1730 to 1760. And the growth was? The American economy rivaled the English economy. Who did that? Well, no shortage of money. If you wanted to do something, if you wanted to do a mill or you wanted to build a bridger, you wanted to improve the road, or you wanted to, whatever it was, the mutual insurance, the fire company, whatever it was, you went to the legislature. And they not only gave you the money, they gave you the charter. In Pennsylvania, which had the most successful system, in other words, the least blips, the least inflation, the least, they issued the money at 5% interest. For however long, it made sense to issue it for. There were no taxes. All the money was the surplus in the form of the interest that they paid back to the legislature, that the mill, or the lumberyard, or the building company. And speaking of paradigms, listeners should know that your taxes, most of them, in fact, if you really look at it, just about 100% of your taxes go right to the banks because the banks created the money at interest and at compound interest. And that's what your money is paying for. Instead of going back into the community, sort of like North Dakota. As a dividend income. Yes. Why shouldn't we all have a dividend income? Let's issue the money so that we all have what we need to live. Hey, then nobody would do it. No, that's not true. What is the most important thing to do? We love doing things. We love building things. We love growing things. We love manufacturing. We love designing things. We love, I mean, hell, we would have an amazingly abundant economy.  Hours in the week, not days in the week. Why? Because we're about to be all jobless because of artificial intelligence and robots. I mean, I would love to train the robot to do what it is that I need it to do. And now if I had the capital to do that and I was producing goods and services that people valued, boom, we would have a booming economy and we could spend most of our time enjoying ourselves, celebrating life, having the potlucks, visiting all the places to see all the wonderful things that people are doing. I mean, we would have museums. We would have cultural centers. We would, everybody would be involved in each other's education. We'd all be, I mean, we'd be jumping out of bed every morning, rare and to go. And what do you need in order to understand this? You just need to remember one thing. You can issue money for consumption. Every transaction creates a surplus. That's human nature. We could harness the surplus from the economy to give everyone what they need in order to live so that they are at liberty to pursue the transcendent purpose they feel called to serve autonomously with the opportunity for continuing education. And why don't we have that now because the banks have historically had enough power to shut it down? Well, right. That's why we think we should get money out of politics. No, money is politics. So, we didn't get to actually list the alternatives that have been successful for a few hundred years and now we're out of time. However, you get the idea that if the paradigm shifts, the alternatives become actually doable and even more obvious to us. That we can do it outside. We can do what we need to do outside of the banking system because then we become the sovereigns. So, thank you very much, John Root, for joining the guest on the House of Poo Corner. And what we will do is make sure that the Public Banking Institute gets a hold of this particular interview because it's germane to what we do at the Public Banking Institute. And we'll get it all out there. So, thanks a lot. House of Poo Corner is the website with House of Poo Corner with Jim Ho. Thank you.


Hi friends. Welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. It's January 2021. It's the new year. How exciting is that? So this is my first favorites video of the new year.  So this is my December favorites. We talk WW foods, beauty, home, pets, fitness, whatever has been my very favorite things over the course of the last month. I include it in today's video. I'm going to link everything I talk about in the description box down below for you with the exception of some food items that are just found at your local grocery store. I love doing these favorites videos because I love watching them and I like hearing everybody's favorite things. So I know what to pick up either online or next time I met the grocery store. So if you're excited for today's video, please give it a big huge thumbs up. It means a lot to me. And again, let's me know to keep putting out these favorites videos moving into the new year. If you haven't already picked up my custom 2021 calendar where you can customize your healthy lifestyle journey, track everything, your day to day activities, your food, your self care, water activity, you name it. It is fully comprehensible. So definitely pick one up. I'll go ahead and link it down below for you. Also in the description box, you'll find my nutrition coaching website where I offer personalized macro and calorie calculation. Really important as we start this new year to know exactly where you should fall calorically and what macronutrients and how much you should be consuming every day. So I highly recommend taking advantage of that service. I also have 30 and 60 minute one on one individualized coaching sessions for a little bit more one on one help. Also in the description box, again, you'll find all of the items that I'm sharing with you today and my Facebook group. We would love to have you head on over and join the community on Facebook. You can never have too much support. So head on over and join that. And lastly, before we jump into today's favorites video, if you're not yet subscribed, what are you waiting for? We would love to have you hit the little subscribe button. And of course, ring the bell next to it so you're notified when new videos are uploaded. So let's jump in my friends. We have a ton of December favorites. We are going to start with food favorites, WW friendly food favorites. The first item I actually am completely out of and I haven't been back to the store to see if they're still available in my area. But let me just tell you over the month of December, we, meaning my husband and myself fell in love with the Yasso Peppermint Crunch ice cream bars. These are so good.  He loved these bars. It's the perfect pairing of chocolate and peppermint and creamy ice cream. They are delicious. The only store that I could find them in my area was Kroger or Fred Meyer, but I know that I've heard other people picking them up at Walmart and Target. If you can still find these, get them. They are so delicious and they're five points on the WW plan and worth every single one of those points. Next up is chocolate. Who doesn't love chocolate? Well, besides my husband, I love chocolate and I'm always looking for a healthier version. And I found these unreal coconut chocolate bites. This is a mounds candy bar dupe. These are so delicious. They're the perfect size. They're only 70 calories. You can't beat it. And it is literally like you're indulging in a mounds bar, but with absolute perfection when it comes to ingredients. Perfect size. They're small. They're doable. You can work one into your day every single day. I ordered these in my imperfect foods box. I'll link them down below with $10 worth of free groceries. And you can also find these on the Thrive Market.  I'll also link their membership down below with a free gift up to $24 when you join. I love the Thrive Market. Seriously love it. But these unreal bars are mounds dupe that are better ingredients and a lot less calories and points. Also on the Thrive Market, I picked up another box of these Lara bar kids. These cinnamon bars are so delicious. They remind me very much of a very soft snicker doodle cookie. They have excellent, excellent ingredients. And again, they're portioned out. They're a kids size. So they're fairly small, but they're the perfect sweet treat. This is also a really good thing to have for breakfast. Pair it with some eggs and some sausage. And it's a really delicious breakfast. These are really good. Again, I picked these up off the Thrive Market. Also in my perfect foods box, I found Ora Bora. I have said over and over on my channel that the only sparkling water flavored on the market without natural flavors, aka artificial flavors has always been spin drift until I discovered Ora Bora game changer. This is the best sparkling water I have ever, ever had. I ordered these from Imperfect Foods, which I get every two weeks. It helps prevent foodways. The prices are exceptional. And I often find really great new food finds like this. This sparkling water is clean ingredients, no natural flavors comes in several, several flavors. This one is my very, very favorite. This is cucumber lavender. It just has the perfect, perfect balance of flavor. Absolutely positively delicious. Highly, highly recommend. I'm definitely going to figure out where I can get these at all times. You guys know my love for cottage cheese. And I don't know where I've been. These canutes and doubles are delicious. It is cottage cheese and fruit all in a little container. You mix it all together. And I thought that these would be really high in points and calories just because there is like a sweetened fruit attached to it, but it's not. This is four points. It's 100 calories. It has nine grams of protein and it's the perfect cottage cheese fruit combination. It comes in several flavors, but I have to say the blueberry is my all time favorite. I hauled these from Trader Joe's and I didn't have very high expectations, but these blew me out of the water. These are absolutely delicious. These are the pistachio cranberry bites from Trader Joe's. Now they're small, but they are mighty. So here's the size of them. I mean, they're pretty small, but they're really, really delicious. They have pretty good ingredients, not necessarily the best oil, but they're really good. They're a nice, sweet treat that's actually packed with vitamins, minerals, nuts, seeds. They're really, really good. I don't know if they're seasonal at Trader Joe's. I did pick these up in the month of December. So next time you're there, check it out for these because they're really, really delicious. Next is this dip. I'm a sucker for dips. And if you didn't watch my meal prep just about a week ago, I prepped some feta dill burgers, some chicken burgers that were supposed to be Greek style. So they had a tzatziki sauce. So I bought this good foods one. And this is the best hands down tzatziki sauce I've ever had. It is only one point for two tablespoons. You can't beat it. It has big chunks of cucumber and perfect dill flavor. It's plant based and it has perfection when it comes to ingredients. Super good. Anything from Good Foods is a complete win in my book. But this tzatziki sauce, the best of the best. So the next item is just the package because I ate them because they're incredible. These actually came in my Miss Muscle Box. It's a subscription I get every month. It's $29.99 a month and it's a fitness box. So you usually get a few food samples, a piece of fitness gear, whether it's a shirt or a pair of workout pants or a jacket. You get an article of fitness clothing every single month along with some other really fun fitness themed things. I found some great products and this is one of those. This is the Shrewd Food Protein Dippers in Dark Chocolate. I actually got the milk and the dark in my box. Holy moly are these good. You guys, this is a whopper. This is a whopper with 10 grams of protein in 150 calories. These are incredible. If you want a sweet treat but you also want some protein, highly, highly recommend. I did reach out to them to see if I could get a discount code for you guys. I have not heard back, but in the event that I have by the time this video goes up, I will link that down in the description box as well as where you can pick these up. Yes, yes, yes, and yes, these are delicious. And let's end these WW foods with a bang with some chips because everybody loves chips. These salt and vinegar poppables, holy smokes, these are the best poppables I have ever had. I've been kind of on the fence on them. Some of the flavors I've had I didn't care for. Some of them were okay, but these sea salt and vinegar ones are really, really delicious. What I love most about poppables is their light, their airy, and you can have a boatload of them for four smart points. 28 chips to be exact. I love these. If you are on the fence too about poppables and you like salt and vinegar, try these.  Let's jump into this month's beauty favorites and I have a lot. Starting with this shaving cream. This is the best shaving cream I have ever, ever used. I love it. Number one, because it doesn't leave my skin dry, it really helps moisturize my skin as I shave my underarms and my legs. This shaving cream, I don't know why I've used this stuff in the can for so long. This is the Elba Botanica and mango vanilla. It is a lotion consistency shave cream that's out of this world. I don't know if it comes in other scents, but this one is very fresh and what an awakening and it really is honestly the best most moisturizing shaving cream I've ever used. Next up is this primer. Don't sleep on elf cosmetics. Not only are they inexpensive, they're cruelty free and they make some pretty rock star products. This matte putty primer has been a complete game changer for me. I've been watching a lot of beauty tutorials on YouTube and I noticed a lot of them use this putty primer and it was really affordable. I think it was seven dollars, so I thought I would give it a try. What does it hurt? It's seven dollars. This stuff's incredible. It fills in all of the fine lines, wrinkles, large pores on your face and just gives you this flawless porcelain doll type of look before you even put on your foundation. I love it. I will always, always purchase this. I picked this up on target.com. I will find the most affordable price and link it down in the description box for you, but if you're looking for a good mattifying primer, especially if you have oily skin, you can't go wrong with this one. Now you know I love beauty counter. It's a clean cosmetic and skincare line. I've slowly been transitioning all of my skincare over. I'm pretty close, but I picked up this Dew Skin Tinted Moisturizer just because I wanted something for 2020. When we're not going out of the house a lot, just something that's going to add a little color to my face, but it isn't going to require putting on a full face of makeup. So what this is is it is a moisturizer that's tinted. So when you apply it, it gives you the look that you have a very sheer light foundation on. It's perfection. I use this a lot more than I care to admit on days that I just don't want to put on a full face of makeup. I'll pop some of this on, add some mascara, a lip, and I look like I've spent hours getting ready. This is the perfect combination of moisturizer and tint for all those days that you just don't want to put any makeup on. From watching all these beauty tutorials on YouTube, I've gotten really into baking and I showed you in my Get Ready With Me video during vlogmas. I'll link that down below for you guys. How to bake your powder on your under eye to give you a flawless look. So I picked up a couple of different baking powders and I found one that I am absolutely loving. Now I haven't tried them all, but this one has been a game changer when it comes to translucent powder. This is the Beauty Bakery Oat Flour Translucent Powder. This is what I use to bake my under eye. And again, if you don't know what baking is, I'll definitely link that video for you. I explain it all, but basically you want a nice white translucent powder to apply under your eye here that's going to fill in all the fine lines and wrinkles and pores and again give you that porcelain doll look. This one so far of all the ones I've tried has been my favorite. And funny thing about this, it's one of the most affordable. I've always applied my foundation with a beauty blender and I still use my beauty blender a lot more to apply my Beauty Bakery Baking Powder. I decided to go ahead and invest in a foundation brush and I actually saw this one, I believe in a Jacqueline Hill tutorial. This is the Mint Pear Foundation Brush. It was pretty darn affordable and this brush has completely changed my life when it comes to applying my foundation. There is no comparison between a beauty blender and a foundation brush and they can be very expensive. Upwards a 50 or 60 dollars. This Mint Pear one was really, really affordable and it works so well. I just dab on my foundation. I feel like I use a lot less and it gives me a much more flawless look. So if you're in the market for a foundation brush, pick the mint pear up. So I recently got my hair cut and colored for the first time since the beginning of June and I was talking to her about heat protectant and explaining to her that the one that I received in my FabFit FunBox several, several boxes ago from Drybar is amazing but it's better for wet hair because when I spray it on my hair, when it's dry, it dampens my hair. So she introduced me to this. This is the Milk Shake brand. This is an all natural hair care line. I have already been on their website and ordered several more products. This is my very favorite thing. This is their Thermo Protector and it isn't an aerosol can. It's a very dry spray and what I do is I just spray it on mainly the parts of my hair that's colored before I run any type of heat product over it, whether it be a flat iron, a blow dryer, a curling iron and it protects my hair. You can use this on dry hair. I use it every single time that I apply any heat. It's amazing. I can't believe I didn't pick this up from her sooner. Unfortunately, Milk Shake is a little hard to find. You can generally only find it from a hair care professional or off of their website. So I'll link their website down below and I'll link this product directly. If you're someone looking for a really good heat protectant, wow, just complete wow on this Milk Shake. Next up for Beauty is a hair mask. As I've mentioned several times, I have very dry coarse hair. It's just always dry and frizzy. So I'm always in the market for a really good hair mask. This one has blown me away. This is from the brand May Rocky. They reached out to me and offered to send me this hair mask to try. I'm so glad that they did. I've been using it several times a week. It is 100% vegan. It instantly smooths all the frizz, makes your hair frizz-free and shiny and beautiful and my hair has never, ever felt softer. There's a couple of different ways to use this mask. If you have very dry damaged hair, you can apply it before you even shampoo.  What I've been doing is after I shampoo my hair while I'm washing my face, my body, shaving my legs, I apply the hair mask in the shower. I let it sit in my hair for about 20 minutes and then I rinse it out. You don't even need conditioner because this hair mask leaves your hair so soft, silky, and shiny. It's affordable and it honestly is the best hair mask that I've tried. I've always been a big fan of the Perfect 10 Hair Mask but it's really, really expensive. This is much more affordable and in my opinion may just work a little bit better. I saved the absolute best beauty product for last. This is something I have seen all over the internet. I think on Instagram more than anywhere. I don't know why I didn't buy this sooner. This mascara is the best mascara ever. I mean 1,000 million percent the best ever. This is called Essence. This is $5, $4.99 for this mascara. It comes in this one here and I believe there's a waterproof version. This mascara is a one coat wonder. It lengthens my lashes like I've never seen before in one coat. It separates them very, very nicely. I actually have this on today on my lower lashes. This mascara, I can't believe how great it works for $4.99. You can buy this on Amazon. I actually bought two because I've heard such good things. I wish I would have bought more. It is that good. And there is not a single mascara on the market that's quality like this for less than $5. So I definitely recommend this.  What favorites video wouldn't be complete without my custom 2021 calendar that I've mentioned several times in today's video. So this is what my calendar looks like. This is my blood, sweat and tears. I created this myself. I had it designed so that it's fully customizable to you no matter what your goals are, whether you're losing weight, maintaining your weight, or maybe you just want to drink a little more water every day.  I love this calendar. I have been using it since January 1st. I'm obsessed. It's kept me accountable. And honestly, it's been really fun at the end of the day to check the boxes of all of my goals that I achieved that day. You can pick this up down in the description box for only $15 free shipping anywhere in the United States. If you're outside of the United States, simply shoot me an email and I'll let you know what the additional shipping charge will be. My email is also down in the description box. I appreciate the hundreds of you that have purchased this calendar and I can't wait for the hundreds of you that are going to get this. Highly recommend it. I'm shipping the same day. So head on down to my website and pick up your 2021 calendar. And last, but not least, for my December favorites is jewelry. You guys know I love, love, love jewelry. Sylviox is a personalized jewelry company. They have necklaces, earrings, bracelets, inklets. You name it, they have it all customizable and all that you can personalize just for you. So I picked out a couple of pieces. I've been really loving rose gold lately. So I picked up this beautiful heart rose gold necklace. I love the detail of it and I had it personalized with my initial, but my favorite piece that I bought, my favorite, favorite piece hands down is this pendant necklace on each side of the cylinder. It has my name Troy diesel and Lola. So it has my entire family, the loves of my life all around my neck. And it's a stylish piece at that. So I love this company. I love that they have high quality, extremely affordable personalized jewelry. Definitely check them out. Personalized jewelry makes a great gift and it's extra special when you wear something that's personalized just to you. So I'll link them down below also with a discount code. So that's everything I have for you for my December favorites. We have quite a bit this month. I can't wait for January. I've already been picking up some new things that I've been loving and I'm definitely going to share those with you at the beginning of February. So if you enjoyed today's video, please give it a big huge thumbs up. It means a lot to me. And again, let me know to continue doing these favorites on a monthly basis here on my channel. Don't forget about my calendar down in the description box, nutrition, coaching, macros, calories, personalized one-on-one coaching, links and discount codes to everything that I shared with you today will be down in the description box as well as all of my other favorite things. And my Facebook group definitely head over and join us. We're 17,000 member strong and growing. And of course, we'd love to have you be part of that community. Don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell next to it so you don't miss a single video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Happy January. Happy New Year once again. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye.