What's happening guys? Welcome back to the channel. Today I have a very special guest. I brought Chris on the channel and he was able to secure a digital marketing fully remote job in a very short period of time. So thank you so much for taking some time out of your evening and coming on the channel, Chris. Really appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Shane. My name is Chris, 22 years old. I'm based out of New Mexico currently, currently working digital marketing. As I told you before, my salary is $68,000 a year. Awesome, awesome. Yeah, we jumped right into it there. Perfect, perfect. So yeah, Chris was able to secure a really nice digital marketing job very short period of time. I think you're about a year, year and a half in right now and you were able to secure it, I believe in about three or four months, you said? Yeah, about three or four months. Awesome. So take us through kind of like the journey. Like take us back to the beginning and maybe just talk about your background a little bit and how you discovered digital marketing. Yeah, going back to the beginning, we'll be going back to late 2020. I was a real estate agent at the time. I wasn't doing so well and I was looking at ways that I could do better and I was looking at paid ads as a strategy to get leads and clients as a real estate agent. And at the time, I started getting more and more into the ads and as things went on, I got really into it and I decided, I was like, I really like doing this. I'm getting pretty good at it. I started looking at digital marketing on YouTube, things like that. I ended up finding Seth's course, I took it, I leveraged the experience I got from creating my own blog, running my own ads all night using my own money, $300 a month to just kind of turn knobs and Google ads and stuff like that. And then I eventually leveraged all that experience to get a job. Awesome. Okay. So you discovered Seth's course. What made you interested in digital marketing in the first place? So when I looked at digital marketing, it was kind of like one of those things where it was like, you know, everything that's new is like kind of like shiny and bright and everybody talked about it really positively.  And I was like, okay, this is pretty popular. It's not just, you know, people saying this, you know, like when you actually dig into it, there's so many job postings for this kind of stuff. So I really wanted to get into it. And you know, I looked at the salaries, I was like, the salaries are good, you know, I can get remote positions, like this is definitely something I should get into. Got it. And so what made you kind of choose digital marketing when there's all these different things on YouTube, right? We were kind of talking about this before the interview.  What made you choose digital marketing? Yeah, I chose digital marketing. Because if you look at it from a logical point of view, there's definitely a laid out path, right?    It's very, you know, like laid out for you, whereas like forex trading, if you actually ask them how exactly they make their money, they can't exactly tell you because they don't make that money from forex. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah, there's like, we were kind of talking about this, but you know, all these channels that talk about like investing in, oh my gosh, forex and day trading and all this sort of thing. First of all, when you look at the statistics, it's terrible. And then the few people who do make it are mostly just outliers. But I mean, there is a small chance of making it. But realistically, if you don't have much money to invest, which the average person in the United States actually has a negative net worth until they're 30 years old, because of all these kind of debt traps we have in the United States with health care, with education, etc., going to college, for instance. So the average person, you know, has a negative net worth until 30 years old on average. So in fact, I think it's actually more than that. I think it's like 31 or 32. But we were kind of talking about this, if you've got like 500 bucks or something, and you're like the smartest investor of all time, let's say you're like Warren Buffett, you get 20% returns, that's still only $100 in a year, if you only have 500 bucks to invest.   And those returns are going to be better than 95% of hedge fund managers, right 95% of hedge fund managers, the smartest people in the world still cannot beat an index fund.  If you really were going to beat an index fund, you'd have to be spending like 40 to 60 hours a week doing research to beat it. And that's if you're like a genius level investor, which let's be honest, most people out there are not. So the smartest thing you can do is to just spend your time learning valuable in demand skills, and earn active income. And one of those valuable in demand skills you can learn is digital marketing. And that's exactly what you did.  And you kind of put that together just logically thinking about it. So that's really good that you're doing that. How long exactly did it take you to get through Seth's course? When I first took the course, you know, I got through about like the whole thing in about a month. And I ended up going through again, to just, you know, like double check that I did everything, because one of the problems a lot of people have with Seth's course, and some people may get like upset that they're not like having progress is that Seth has like gotten a really detailed way of laying things out and like what you should do and like what the process is. But you know, a lot of people like to skip around where they're like, oh, like I'd rather learn about this without like learning like the first like few like foundational steps about digital marketing. And like some people do the assignments that he has in the course and stuff like that. And it may not seem like, you know, you're doing anything that that wrong. But you know, when it comes to like applying and you know actually getting jobs and getting experience and stuff like that, when you miss those pivotal, pivotal first steps in the foundation, it makes it really difficult. So it took me about like from one to four months. That was the timeline to get through the course, get some experience and then get a job. Got it. And what was the job offer like for that first job in terms of salary? In terms of salary, I took on a junior position because that position was looking, you know, no experience or very little experience needed. And the first position was offering $42,000 as a junior. Got it. And then you were able to get a raise. How long did that raise take approximately? And how much was that? About eight to nine months. And then I got bumped up to $68,000 a year. Got it. Awesome. And I think you're probably on track for another raise very soon. I've got a feeling. Yeah.  And that's fine if that's what you want. But if you want to push yourself, you can definitely make it to that six figure mark within about three to four years. And then everybody else who went to college might have spent six figures in three to four years. So you're making six figures and you've already got a bunch of money saved up, whereas they are accumulating debt and they're all going to have to start off at an entry level position anyways at the end of the day. So again, you're, you're a smart young guy, man. You're, you're doing the, you're doing the smart thing. So I commend you for that. What would you say to somebody who's kind of on the fence a little bit about doing digital marketing, about investing in Seth's course? I'm glad you asked me that question because digital marketing is great because the amount of money you can make in it is, it almost has no ceiling. And let me explain because in digital marketing, we're essentially taking businesses and advertising for them. We're optimizing their SEO for like websites and stuff like that. Historically, if you look back at the gold rush in the 1800s, the people who made the most money were the people selling the shovels to the people mining for gold. In the United States, we live in a such an age where entrepreneurship is at an all time high almost and so many people are making businesses. And with digital marketing, you're the one selling that shovel, you know, you're doing the advertising for them, you're doing the SEO and you know, you're trying to make their business get better and you're getting paid for that. And if you do that multiple ties with 10 different clients and stuff like that, you can leverage a lot of money per month having your own agency or even working a job for another company because there is a lot of money in it. There are people that want to make businesses that get better and they go to these agencies to do all the advertising. Yeah, that's a great way to think about it. Absolutely. You're kind of just like the middleman at that point. You're facilitating the buying and selling of products and services. That's a really great way of thinking about it. So I didn't think we mentioned what type of digital marketing job did you happen to get? So the type of job that I got is a PPC slash paid advertising. PPC just means pay per click. That's basically where we just work with businesses and we create ads and I run them on specifically Google where you know, if you just type in the search bar, you know, like I'm looking for a plumber in my area, you may see a few sponsored ads. That's essentially what I do. We're always optimizing against other businesses or other agencies and that's basically what I do. Got it. And I know that's one thing that a lot of people are confused about because digital marketing is such a kind of like umbrella term. There's like so many different types of digital marketing careers and a lot of them are really good. SEO, pay per click, you can get into like email marketing, like copywriting, for instance, that's another really good one. So actually if you want to learn about the different types of digital marketing, as well as why it's such a in demand skill where you can get into it with very little experience, and it actually hurts you in many cases, if you end up getting a college degree, it's much better to just go straight into it. Seth does have a masterclass, which I will link down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. Highly recommend checking that out because that'll explain probably like 99% of the questions you have will be will be answered in that masterclass. So definitely check that out. But with that being said, what is your work life balance like right now, like in terms of like job satisfaction, work life balance, all these sorts of things that people talk about that are outside of the money and the benefits and all of that. How is that for you now? My work life balance is great. You know, anytime I have to go to the doctor, you know, and this can be company dependent as well. But like anytime I have to go to the doctor, it's so easy because you know, I just work from a laptop, you know, like my company knows, I'm going to get the work done, and stuff like that. And you know, like working from home, like I've gone on trips to like Seattle or other states and you know, I've gone back home to Maryland and you know, spend time with family and I just work from there. And I think that's you know, just one of those things you can't really put like a quantifiable number on because it just, it gives you so much freedom and flexibility. Yeah, the freedom and the flexibility, that's what people tell me over and over again when I kind of talk to them after, after helping them get jobs. Like that's actually like one of the most underrated things that people don't even really think about. Like for instance, I'm kind of like traveling the world now. Last month I was in Thailand at a business conference. There's a ton of people living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, who are either working remote jobs, or they have businesses that you know, a lot of the time the businesses don't even make that much money. But when you go to a place like that, the cost of living is so low. So it's basically like a cheat code. You can be making like 50, 60 thousand dollars a year and be living like a king. It really only costs like maybe 1500 dollars a month to live a really, really good lifestyle in a place like Chiang Mai, which you know, back in the States, I think the last apartment I had in the States was like 1800 a month or something like that. So it's like really, really quite expensive. And then food is really expensive as well. It keeps going up because of the supply chain stuff. So yeah, it's basically like a cheat code having that ability to just go anywhere. And you know, some of the other things that are extremely underrated about flexibility working a fully remote job is let's say you need to go to a friend's wedding, you don't have to turn that down. Let's say you want to start a business with a friend, you can literally just pack things up and move across the country anytime you want. If there's some kind of opportunity that pops up, you can just literally just do your work remotely and go do this opportunity at the last moment. You don't have to turn these things down.   So that's kind of another part of flexibility that's just highly underrated that a lot of people really like. And you are working fully remote, right? Yes, I am working fully remote. When I first got hired, they did have an office but due to world circumstances, everything closed down. But when they reopened, they didn't require anybody to go back or anything like that. And when I got brought on, it was fully remote. So and I think that's where things are going. Awesome. So any tips, tricks, advice, pro tips, anything like that for somebody else who might be wanting to go into digital marketing?  When you interview with these companies, if you genuinely show that like you're, you know, weirdly obsessed with digital marketing or SEO or PPC or stuff like that, even if you don't have experience, if they find out you know so much about having experience, they're going to think, oh well, what if we teach this guy on top of him, you know, wanting to learn this much and things like that and you know, things like courses, YouTube videos, there's tons of paid resources and free resources. And I say utilize both because one of them is free. One of them is not going to cost you anything. Paid resources do help, but you know, the free stuff is always there if you don't have the money. Like you just essentially, you just have to want to learn. And if you put in the work, like I promise you that like you will eventually get to where you want to be.  Like I can assure you if you have the skills, somebody will pay you to do it. Gotcha. Gotcha. And then for somebody out there who's kind of watching this and they're somewhat skeptical because I know you said that you were kind of skeptical when you first looked at it, you kind of thought like this is, this has to be too, you know, too good to be true. What would you say to that person in terms of investing in Seth's course and getting into digital marketing? Yeah, I would definitely say look on LinkedIn, indeed, YouTube, like just look at how many job postings there are. And you know, how many companies are looking for this. And you know, when you look at like a macro scale point of view, you know, every company does advertising to a certain degree. And you know, like they need people that can do that or they need people that can optimize their website. So it shows up in Google. When you think about it logically, like there is definitely a need for it. And I can understand at first, you know, you're like, you know, I'm, I don't have a ton of money. Why would I spend money on Seth's course and stuff like that. But if you look at the reviews and you objectively look at the curriculum and other things and really do your due diligence, you know, you can separate, you know, like the scam courses and the scummy courses from the good ones like Seth's. Got it. Awesome. Well, hey, Chris, thank you so much for coming on the channel, sharing your story. I think it's going to inspire a lot of people out there. Really appreciate you coming on.


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Think about the strange versatility of the term immersion. It can refer to that sense of enchantment that accompanies a good book, being transfixed by the web of strategies encoded in a game of chess, where the act of immersing your senses into new digital interfaces, whether it be through sound, touch, or sight. Being both encompassing and frustratingly nebulous in its application, it is incumbent upon us to define immersion more clearly. In the realm of video games, the term has become entrenched in our lexicon without having a precise definition. We have games called Immersive Sims, Deus Ex, System Shock, and Bioshock amongst them that are predominantly about enabling player choice through systemic design. They create both strategic intentionality in the gameplay, as well as transporting you to believable, fully realized realms, suggesting immersion is about realizing an alternate world through systems and environmental storytelling. This was explicitly the design goal of people like Warren Spector and Ken Levine, who are seen as the progenitors of the genre. Games like Far Cry 2 and Metro 33 are also considered immersive, and what characterizes those games is a strict abidance by the logic of their own worlds, so much so that they embed their interfaces diegetically and employ mechanical conceits like malaria and nuclear poisoning that deliberately inconvenience the player for the sake of fully realizing a place. Finally, we have expansive open worlds that are also included in this immersive category, from the dense narrative theater of The Witcher to the picturesque vistas of Red Dead Redemption 2. Fiction is not unique to games, and thinkers through the ages have wrestled with the question. T.S. Eliot has spoken about the importance of suspending a reader's disbelief if you want to tell them a story. Tolkien speaks of the importance of enchantment if you wish to enrapture your audience, and dystopian fiction has either warned us about the liabilities of alternate sensory worlds like the Matrix, or promoted as the fullest expression of the evolution of art like the holodeck in Star Trek. Art is inherently escapist and fictitious, and so it makes sense that the word immersive is used as a testament to the power of that art. If we draw from the literature both inside and outside game design, it becomes clear immersion can exist in multiple dimensions simultaneously. We have sensory immersion, which is about how any of our senses can be engulfed with alternate stimuli. A game like Rez, with its abstract iconography and synesthesia inducing dynamic music is the perfect example of this. On top of that, we have narrative immersion, which is that experience we have all had in just being swept up in a powerful story. No media invokes this in a linear format, but video games are branching out into non-linear forms as well. Systemic immersion is about interacting with a set of interconnected systems, either arbitrarily or embedded in a new world, and this enables intentionality in both a narrative and gameplay sense. This then builds towards world immersion, which is about being lost in a world with an actual history and geometry. However, truly immersive worlds seem to not only leverage these forms of immersion, but actually meet the psychological needs for play that we have acquired over thousands of years of evolution. If Esper Yule calls games half real in his book of the same name, then our confusion with immersion might stem from the fact that we are existing in multiple worlds simultaneously. In his now seminal book, Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud argues that deeply abstract and iconic imagery can convey more universal themes than precise representation, and is why we can project ourselves into avatars like Pac-Man more readily than others. The nondescript is more immersive than the specific, allowing us to thrust ourselves into another's role. One could argue that as our first gateway into alternate worlds, avatars are extremely important, which explains why most immersive games take place in the first person and generally feature silent protagonists. However, even if characters are more fully realized, we often have the ability to define how they act within the context of the world, making the character a surrogate for our desires as opposed to a fully independent agent. In games like Half-Life, we are always embedded in the role of Gordon Freeman, with events and cutscenes transpiring in the world itself, enhancing its immersive grasp and bridging the divide between us and a virtual character. If we have a more fully realized character like Nathan Drake, we can match the emotional state of the player to the emotional state of the avatar, something seen in the opening of the game where both you and Nathan are disoriented and confused. This is our first step into sensory immersion, but there are many more dimensions we need to contend with. We have a set of evolved psychological functions that respond to sensory cues, whether sight, touch, or sound, that map onto a whole suite of emotions, themes, and ideas, giving us the ability to activate a cascading array of experiences in the mind of the player. At a base level, we have a psychological framework called Flow Theory, which argues that engagement in a game comes from having a challenge that matches a player's rising abilities. What characterizes the sense of flow is a loss of time and spatial awareness, immersing players fully in an activity. Emotions are also deeply intertwined with immersion. In the book Designing Games, Tine and Sylvester advocates viewing games through a two-factor theory of emotion, where we can use the fiction of a world to label any kind of tension to create the emotion we want. The tension in Doom can be labeled with fear by using monster imagery, and the tension in Res can be labeled with beauty and transcendence by using synesthesia-inducing abstract effects. He then argues for a step-by-step process to generate a sense of immersion, which coincides with Paul Cairns and Emily Brown's research on the subject. First, we create flow to remove a player from reality, then we arouse them using the events of the game itself, and only then do we work towards preserving this sensation by not suspending their sense of disbelief. Building on these ideas, Werner Werth and a team of other researchers came up with one unified theory of immersion that consolidates a lot of this information. Immersion ultimately comes from creating an alternative representation in a player's mind and getting them to prefer that world to our own. First, you need complete and multiple sensory channels, so a world like Assassin's Creed with its dense population and robust soundscape qualifies well. Next, you can use cognitively demanding environments, which is why abstract games like chess enrapture us so fully. Finally, a dense narrative also compels us to change our frame of reference. However, to preserve the suspension of disbelief, we need to ensure a world is not incongruous, is consistent, and is heavily interactive. A game like E.C.O. has a powerful sense of immersion because all the sound is diegetic and the world feels like a real authentic place. Warren Specter's game Deus Ex was devised with a series of consistent rules that made you feel like you existed in an alternate world and gave you options to tackle objectives in an action, stealth, or narrative way. Researchers often distinguish immersion from presence, which is the difference between feeling like you are physically being present, much like you are in a virtual reality game, versus being immersed in more conventional ways. This dichotomy speaks to a conceptual divide in the study of immersion, often called the immersive fallacy. The immersive fallacy is the misimpression that presence is the ultimate goal of immersion, but simulating alternate worlds is more important than a willing suspension of disbelief. In the book Rules of Play, the authors argue play is a form of medicommunication, where we are both aware that we are playing and engrossed simultaneously, creating a duality between reality and fiction. They argue a recognition of this is what will allow us to expand the kinds of play and storytelling we can craft in games. This speaks to a deeper conflict between systems and the fiction of a game. Systemic immersion is the cognitive process of optimizing and engaging with pure mechanics. The compulsion we have to play at dense strategic games, or perplexing puzzle games, engaging our cognitive faculties is the fullest of our abilities. It can also be about discovering the intricacies of a connected system. However, systems having a fictional level does not necessarily conflict with this. It can be instrumental in communicating mechanics like in Breath of the Wild, or it can actually be leveraged to craft unique forms of play. In Will Wright's Game Sim City, a version of urban dynamics is being modeled, but it also enables player-directed storytelling, reconciling the divide between systems and fiction. This double consciousness of games imbues all forms of immersive design. Dead Space's inventory, health systems, and navigational methods are all embedded in the world itself, but you are also aware you are playing a game at the same time. And the same can be said for a VR game like Beat Saber, the simulation is understood to be just that, a fiction. Red Dead Redemption 2 used slow plotting and methodical animations for its movement and interactions, an inconvenience in service of crafting immersion, but some complained that this was too laborious. This is a similar reaction that players had to Far Cry 2, where players suggested it had too much driving, malaria, and endless dread to be fun. Again, though, as the lead designer Clint Hawking explains in his GDC talk, the meaning of a game is both the systems, but also the fictional context that underlies it. There is a strange tension between immersive fidelity and flow, but this can be understood if we recognize that games are straddling the line between two realms, being both about the fiction of a world, and crafting emergent systems of play. In their talk, Crafting Existential Dread, the developers of Soma argue that to create an immersive world, you need to build a sense of presence by giving players agency and continuity of action. Embedding narrative level design and puzzle design in a virtual world is how he argues we should do this. For example, Little Nightmares has platforming sections where you actually climb geometry that makes sense in the world, and Insight has puzzles embedded in the themes of what is happening. This is mirrored in the talk by Gregg Kasseven, creating atmospheric games, where he argues there needs to be a tonal and thematic cohesion to suspend the player's disbelief. This sense of spatial presence is what can be referred to as world immersion, and can be also seen in games like Bioshock and Dark Souls. Bioshock has meticulous detail in its environments that implicitly convey the tale of how the underwater city of Rapture came to ruin. Dark Souls hides all of its lore and weapons, item descriptions, and locations, letting you piece together its subversive and macabre plot at your own discretion. Everything has a place, and is there for a specific narrative reason. Dark Souls also has NPC characters that seem to have their own agenda, reinforcing how the world of Lordran exists independent of us. A game that executed this earlier was Shenmue, which embedded a suite of interesting characters in its world that felt real and governed by their own desires. It also had a full day-night cycle, which altered the conditions of the world and forced you to change your actions and plans accordingly. World immersion is about maintaining the illusion that an alternate universe exists both in space and time. At the highest level, we have conventional forms of narrative immersion seen in games like Uncharted, which uses the tension-pacing and tone of other art forms and then layers in interactivity. On top of that, though, we have embedded forms of storytelling seen in mechanical or environmental form. All these devices enhance the narrative immersion of a game, but we also have to consider the avatar we inhabit. In his talk, The Identity Bubble, Matthias Warch says we can either have a puppet character, which is effectively us in a game, or an actual character to enable a player to interface with the world. In his talk, though, Jeremy Bernstein emphasizes the importance of creating a parity between us and a virtual character by creating unity across different dimensions. With this tool set, we can see why specific sequences in certain games work. Uncharted 2 has this section where you have to help the cameraman you have in tow evade your pursuers, and it uses a bevy of the methods we just talked about. It creates unity of purpose and action. We would escape, help an innocent man, and wander desperately through the streets. It uses mechanical reinforcement by restricting your movement and gun use, and it creates the right kind of tension by corralling you in a desperate series of actions. Additionally, it reinforces the theme of the narrative, as the plot is about Drake being torn between two worlds, and we literally carry Drake's burden and dissonance as we play this section. Ultimately, creating immersion through narrative means leveraging all these tools in innovative ways. Does the mechanic you use act in a context that creates an emotion that mirrors the character's state, the tension of the story or the themes of the game? Metro Exodus tells a story about surviving in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, and to do this effectively, it embeds all your actions diegetically, and allows you to act with intentionality both in the systems and narrative of the game. Immersive sims are possibly the easiest way to demonstrate the continuity that exists between narrative systemic and world immersion. Bioshock is a game that has a powerful sense of world immersion, it creates a sense of flow through an escalating sense of difficulty, and maps your emotions to horror and intrigue by leveraging its world's design. You can act with systemic intentionality by choosing powers and leveling up, as well as planning for your encounters with big daddies. On the narrative front, you are forced to make choices between harvesting and saving little sisters, and this directly ties to the themes of the narrative. Of course, many argue they executed this poorly, once more creating dissonance, but you get the point. Games like Bioshock leverage overlapping forms of immersion to deliver unique experiences to the player. Deus Ex was conceived of as a collaborative story generator between player and designer, and it too created a robust sense of place, enabled multiple options for players to experiment with, and embedded this in the context of a sci-fi cyberpunk ethos that gets us to question the utility of technology and the future of us as a species. The systemic elements in the game mapped onto the choices that existed in the narrative in powerful ways, to create what many view as the game that put Immersive Sims on the map. Warren Specter himself describes Immersive Sims as games that just do whatever they can to convince players they exist in an alternate world, and the entire lineage of Immersive Sims share this philosophy. However, we have yet to address the question of what the point of immersion is to begin with. We have some fairly robust frameworks that can help us conceptualize why we play games. The aesthetics of play model and the five-factor personality model show us how catering to your audience can amplify the immersive trance of a game. However, we need a more sound psychological basis underneath all this to understand the universal appeal of immersive games. Self-determination theory asserts that underneath all our idiosyncratic variation, we are driven by the need to fulfill a core triad of desires. These three needs are competence, relatedness, and autonomy, and can be seen in varying degrees in different games. Competence is the feeling that you are improving at a skill, relatedness is a feeling you have when you have a place in a social network of some kind, and autonomy is not about having the ability to do anything but wanting to do the things you are doing. Viewing immersion through the lens of fulfilling needs clarifies a lot of the confusion we were experiencing earlier. The reason we may want to be immersed by the games we play is because that feeling of enrapturement is a proxy for our core needs being met, and if the virtual worlds we devise are doing a better job at this, who can blame us for wanting to enter the matrix? In our book, Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal argues that games present a version of reality that is optimized for this needs fulfillment. Her thesis is that we should learn from the games we make, optimizing a broken reality as it were. However, what if our fictions no longer serve reality, but it is reality that starts serving our fictions? I suppose this is ultimately why thinkers through the ages have been very wary of immersive technology, as it's possible we might be sucked in by our own creations. Games are an immersive art form because interactivity intrinsically enables a broader range of needs fulfillment, and if you couple this with the fact that our attentional capacity is finite, it raises concerns about how we ought to manage this technology, as reality slowly starts to fade away. Jesper yields half reality of games as true in a technical sense, as for the time being, we are straddling the line between two universes. However, we can view immersion as a threat to reality, or we can view it as an opportunity. Ironically, given his aversion to manipulative art, Plato's parable of the cave might be our best analogy. We can create worlds that are more ideal than the ones we actually inhabit, but it is then our responsibility to bring this wisdom back to people trapped viewing shadows on the wall. Then again, unless we leverage this technology responsibly, we may be consumed by our own creations, before we see the fulfillment of that dream. I suppose that future is for us to decide.


Welcome to Psychic Medium Tony Green. I am Tony Green, the Psychic Medium and Channel. We're going to get right into it tonight. There is so much coming through. I want to tell you guys, I'm just really excited about tonight's show to see all of the happenings. What's about to unfold here? I don't get a preview. I just get a feeling and I get a feeling. Tonight's gonna be a good, good night. Okay, so if you know what that means, they are here. They have been waiting for you and we're going to get started. For those of you who are new, welcome to the show. I fancy myself a little bit funny. If you don't, it's okay. It's a lot of people don't think I'm funny. Okay, here we go. I am going to be taking callers from the call log. If you would like to call in<PHONE_NUMBER>, I will also be taking questions from the chat on YouTube. So if you are watching live on YouTube, you can post a question in the chat. You can call in and ask a question. I go live every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 7 p.m. central. Yeah. Okay. Now, when you call in, please, all I need is your name and where you're calling from and then have an exact question available. If you want to connect with a loved one, I just need their first name and how they were related to your friend, mom, dad, whatever it is and we will go from there. A couple things I will never reach out to you. Please do not get scammed. I am going to be live in Daytona Beach, Florida on February 2nd. Some tickets are still available. So if you want to get tickets, if you're going to be in the area, if you're planning to be in the area just to see me, love that. So go ahead and get your tickets so that we can see each other live. I'll be taking questions from the audience, connecting people with loved ones on the other side, doing lots of healings, including the look of love, which is that's one of my favorite healings to do. I do it with large groups and in person it is what happens, the transformation that happens to people during that healing is mmm, mmm, mmm. It is amazing. It is simply amazing. And again, it's a healing that comes to you through my eyes from above. I try to never take credit for the work that I do. Okay. We are going to do names. We are going to do songs. We may do a little channeling. We will. So here we go. We're going to start with names. This could be your name, your loved one up above his name, or the name of somebody that is in your family or friend that in some way, if it's a name you know, you know. So the first name is David. The next name is Norm. And then the next name is Nina. The next name is I'm going to say this. The second part of this name, I may have it off. So I'm going to say it in all the ways I could be. So Gia Valde or Gia Naldi or Gia something. Gia Valde, Gia Naldi, Gia whatever that is. If it's for you, you're going to know if I didn't say it correctly. I apologize, but please make it fit. The next name is Luciana or Luciano. The next name is, I get this every once in a while, Lucinda. The next name is, I need to slow down. There's so many coming at me. So I just need to take a quick breath here. Marquis or Marquis or both. The next name is Bob or Robert. The next name is Trinidad. And it could be a name, it could be a place or it could be something that meant something to both of you. So Trinidad. The next name is Smokey. Okay. The next name is, okay, that's enough. I'm going to say this one and then we're going back to Pine. Pine, I don't know. And then the next name is Maria. And I'm hearing that song by Santana. Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria. Like a something, something, something. I listen to that song all the time with someone while I used to. But I don't know any of the words except for I make up my own something, something, something. And I think I'm on beat and I am not. Something about Spanish Harlem. Clearly not afraid to embarrass myself. Okay, the next name is, if I did, if I already said this name, I apologize, Jerome. I'm hearing Jerusalem. Again, Jerusalem. The next name is, and then Ecuador. Are these predictions for things that are going to happen in these places? Yeah. Okay, we'll get back to that if we're going to do that. If you guys want the predictions for what's going to happen in these places, you can let me know. Now I'm going to go to songs. And the songs again, are they could be if you've had a question and about something in your life, you don't know what to do. The song could be the answer to the question. The song could be a song they loved you loved. Or you just know it is small water and fire in the sky. I'm just thinking in my head when you sing a song, you think you sound a certain way and then you listen back to it and you're like, no effing way. That's not how I sound. Yeah, it's how I sound. It is how I sound. Okay. Next, we, more songs are coming in. So let me keep going with the songs. The next song is take it to the limit. Yeah, I heard my voice crack. We're not going to get all out so it's about that one more time. Okay. And then the next one, the highway. And then Oh, this is like the saddest song. It is that song about I know the song. It's the saddest song. I can't sing it. But I'll tell you. I can't even I can't I know what the song is. But I really can't make out the words to it very clearly. I will come back to it if it comes back to me. And then diamonds and pearls by Prince. And then the next song is um every time I go to start singing it, I just if you love me, let me know if you don't let me go. Oh, Lord. Okay, the next song is Oh, my gosh, really? I can't I this is the only word of this song like serious. I like the song don't get me wrong. But this is seriously the only word I know to this song. Something something something gasolina da da da da da da gasolina. Okay, that like that. That's all I can do for that. I apologize to whomever that is for. And then that's that there's an okay, I'm just gonna cut the songs there. I'm gonna cut the songs there. And then I'm gonna hear I'm gonna tell you that I'm hearing avocado, whatever that is, I don't know. But somebody out there does. Somebody out there does whatever that means for somebody out there. Okay, I'm gonna start taking callers. I'm gonna answer questions in the chat. I'm gonna get through as many people as I can today. And if I don't get to you, I apologize. Remember in, I think it's two weeks now, I'm going to be in Daytona, Florida, doing my show just from Daytona, doing my live event, it's gonna be amazing. I already ordered books and sent them there. It's going to be so much fun. I hope you guys I hope at least some of you can come and join me.  Hey, Maria. Dennis.  How are you? Catarina. Rebecca. Hey, Rebecca and Terry. Okay, we're gonna start with callers. Again, when I when I say your area code, please let me know your first name and where you're calling from. And then what your question is and be ready because I think tonight's gonna be as some of the young and say lit. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay, five, six, one. What's your name? Hey, Tony. Happy New Year. My name is Stacy. And from home from Del Rey. And I just want to know when you see me getting a job that's gonna last a while. Okay, Stacy from Del Rey. Next month. Okay, so we're halfway through January. I feel like next month you are going to be hired in some place that is going to have the potential to be long term. What they're saying is that when you get into this position, please hold tight and just go in or wherever you're working from, just do what you need to do.  And they don't want you to get involved with it one way or the other, not that you would, but this is just kind of a heads up for you. But don't also don't let that make you, don't let that make you not take the job or want to leave it, just go in, do what you're supposed to do and get out, you know, at the end of the day. And even if you're working from home, don't get involved in anything that doesn't involve your work is what I'm hearing. It's going to be a good position if you can get past some of that. I also hear you already know about this position. So maybe you're going to hear soon about it. It might be something you've already seen or already applied to. And it's just not, it just hasn't taken that step to bring you on yet. But they are going to and I do believe that you're going to like it there is what I'm hearing next. Okay, that is that helpful for you love? Yes, because, um, yeah, I was working in a place and I was there a while and, you know, we closed and I'm diligently looking and, um, I was on an assignment last week and I got a call from somebody else and I was working already and I hope that I didn't pass up that opportunity. Is the other one going to call if I respond to the other one that I'm available now, would that come through or did I lose out? You know what, I'm going to say this, sweetie, I know we always feel that way, like, Oh, maybe I lost out on this. Maybe I made the wrong choice. But here's what I'm going to say. If you were already on an assignment, you were maybe either a, being protected, you weren't supposed to take that position or B, it was not something that was just meant for you for whatever reason. But what I'm going to tell you is there is something coming in long term next month, the one that reached out to you should you reach back out to them. They may have already put somebody in but you can you can reach out to them and just say, Hey, I'm sorry, I was already committed. But if you have anything in the future, let me know. And they may, if they have something in the future, let you know. But I do feel like I am going to tell you the position that you will be starting or knowing about next month, which is February. I feel like it is a very long, it's a longer term project. Okay, love. Oh, you really helped me a lot. You really helped me.  Yeah, it is. But then sing this song, and I won't back down because that's one of his songs too, I won't back down. So that's a good song for you to start singing love. Thank you so much for calling in love. I'm going to do a clearing for you. And anybody else looking for work or needing a full time position, right now, we're going to clear he'll release anything stopping or blocking the perfect position for us with the perfect co workers and management and or bosses, we're going to clear that now we're going to pull all of this out of us. And there's always fear when we're going for interviews or starting new positions. So any fear with any new companies, positions, promotions, work, money, let's poke. Oh, that's a big one. That's a big one.  Do you hear this? Let's clear all the fear with any and all of that. All I can say is holy guaca, guaca, guaca. Okay. Yeah, okay, I'm going to take a question from the chat now. I'm going to try to go all the way back up to the near the top and see where the first question came in. Amy, I love you. Dennis, maybe Dennis has a question. Thank you, Dennis. Thank you, Katarina. And then I read in his hello, I do have a question. Maria says Nina is my I lost her. I think she said Nina is her mom. I'm trying to read down to where the first Antonina. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much, Maria for saying that. Dennis, go ahead and post your question. And I will get to it very soon. Hello, my son. Welcome to the show. Okay, here's a question. Ms. Tony, will me and my crush move forward in our relationship? We've been texting for a bit lately. Okay. Yes. Terry, I'm going to tell you this is going to go very slow. And have patience. I feel like this is a really good door opener for you. Okay, I feel like it's a really good door opener for you. I do feel like it will go a bit further. So let me do this since we're at the beginning of a new year. Let's anything stopping or blocking us from meeting the right person. Let's clear that and pull out all fear, all apprehensions. And most importantly, any and all insecurities. Let's pull all insecurities from this.  What's that song? I like it. I love it. Can't get enough of it. I know you know that one, Amy May. Oh, stop it. I love you too, Amy. Stop it. These guys up here today, they have had me playing just all day long and now they're singing that song by is it Lionel, Lionel, Lionel Richie? All night long, all night, all night, everybody dance with me. All night long, all night, all all night. Yeah, okay, we're stopping that there. Enough of that. So if you hang out for the whole show, you will get this level of goofiness apparently tonight, but you also get clearings and you will also get questions answered. If you would like to call in the call in numbers eight, four, five, two, seven, seven, nine, one, three, one, you can call in every Monday at noon central, every Wednesday at seven p.m. central. Nine, nine, one, six, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, my name is Christy and I'm calling from California. Hey, Christy, how can I help you tonight? Oh, I would just like to ask if what's your insight on if you see me having the same relationship that I'm in now in the future? Like am I going to or is it going to be somebody else? Um okay, so I do feel like I have to work. I'm hoping to do anything. Okay, I'm going to work this carefully because we do have free will. So you can decide whatever you want, but the way it sits right now and the intel I'm getting is that there's somebody new coming in around six, seven, between six and eight months. There's somebody brand spanking new coming in and this person is gonna um gonna rack your world apparently um in many different ways. This person is open to many different things um as far as um just expanding and moving forward. You won't feel stagnant. You won't feel like like is this it? Is this not it? Where is this going? Is this you're gonna know.  Um not for jokes. Um so what I'm gonna say is in approximately four months so this is what January that will put us January, February, March, April, May, yep right around that May time maybe June. You are going to and I feel like you're gonna be the one doing it. I feel like you are gonna kind of snip the relationship you're in. You're gonna cut you're already you're gonna just start fading away from this relationship kind of backing off kind of like finally just like putting the final yeah and then by May June it's gonna be done and a couple months later within a couple months this really this person who is very they're using the word vivacious is going to come into your path I feel like this person is gonna have something to do with work this person is going to have something to do with um well whatever they do for work they do it good they're really on top of their game they have a lot of energy good energy things are going really well for them and they're going to you the two of you are going to give it a go as they say that you're just gonna you're gonna give it a go give it a go because I'll be happy to give it a go I'm sure yeah you're going to be really yeah like this do you know how when you meet someone or you and and you can go into different kind of personas but this person makes your eyes open wider and like you just smile and not in that like it's so genuine it's just such a genuine way and reason that this happens like there's like literally this person opens your brain and other things do I know this person you think are no it's no not yet if you knew this person and I made that comment you would be I know exactly who this is you don't know this person yet you're not going to meet them until it's time and you're ready for what they're ready for because they're ready they're very so one of the things that I'm going to say you need to do in the in the meantime in between time is to they're giving me so many freaking song lyrics you need to get because in the meantime in between time you need to get down on it and you need to work on on bringing yourself to that dynamic place that dynamic energy of being in in you know very open and moving ahead and building and just being in that space because otherwise when and yeah because your energy and their energy needs to kind of mesh together so in between like that six to eight month mark you're going to be there so just really focus in on you what do you want where do you want to go and just fly like fly with it and don't don't don't um listen you know there's a point and yeah don't don't and i'm going to say this for you and anybody else there's a point in relationships where when we first start the relationship we just adore this person or we really like them and then the relationship builds and toward the end of relationships that end there's a point where we kind of feel like you know i i you know this i do love this person they're very comfortable but i feel bad letting them go let them go get that person that's going to feel the way about them that you did in the beginning it hurts sometimes to let that happen and to know that but let them go get somebody who's going to think they're the you know cat's meow or whatever and you go get somebody that you also feel that and that feels that way about you and that you can maintain a lot of that feeling with um keeping someone around because you don't want to hurt them is not uh or just because it's comfortable or whatever whatever the it doesn't matter what the reasons are but just you know don't overcome the fear of letting go and being on your own so that you can get to who did everybody see that huge flash of light as i said that oh my oh mama they are they are not playing tonight if you are watching that's so scary because i'm actually holding on like five threads with my relationship now and i'm everything you're telling me i know i need to do i just need to do it yeah i don't know why do you know what i'm being treated this way or accepting it or you know i don't know it's it's hard no it's not here's the thing here's a thing it's here's how i'm going to explain it to you and i want you to think about this it's the the actual saying the words or getting it out is the hard part okay then once you get it out and you move forward you're on a good path you're you'll be strong and the more time and then you have to and i'm going to tell you you have to you're gonna have to block this person because sometimes when you're in a relationship with somebody who doesn't treat you well they're always going to come back because they know you're kind of a pushover and you'll put up with it and you have to completely leave them out otherwise you'll start again and just just you don't owe them anything and you just owe yourself everything so start moving in that direction of just being done and one way that's really easy and i wish i could take credit for this but i can't is everything they do instead of trying to figure out why they do it just say oh my gosh that's that's so unattractive oh my gosh that's so that's disgusting because if they if one of your friends or if you had a daughter come to you and say my guy just did this to me you'd be like oh my god that's so gross that's that's disgusting like why are you putting up but because we're in it we're just trying to figure it out like we're we're like digging through poop to find a diamond because we think our dog swallowed it and our dog never swallowed the diamond so we're just digging through poop to try to find something that there's no diamond there's no diamond in this move on so what i'm going to say to you is if you start thinking back on the things they do instead of trying to figure out why you're still in it or why they act this way stop and say oh my gosh that's such gross behavior i would not let anybody i know put up with this and then as you then say that you know you you take the behavior and you label it in an unattractive way psychologically you'll be able to move forward and just cut it and be like so done with it another thing that's really helpful when getting out of a situation like this that's very dysfunctional there's a lot of trauma bonding or whatever you want to call it is just to go and i know this is controversial and some people will say that's not a good way to do it just reach out to guy friends and start hanging out with your guy friends and remember how men are supposed to treat women just remember because when you hang out with your guy friends and you call your real guy friends and you talk with your real guy friends they will start having conversations with you and they will tell you you know they will treat you in a way that's so much better and you'll think it'll just click like why am i putting up with that and then you'll start building yourself up again okay love oh i can just give you a hug if i can i would i'm so thankful for you right now you are so welcome and anytime you need give a call back and we'll be able to to do this i'm gonna right now for you and anybody listening that has ever and we've all been in traumatic or dysfunctional or toxic or whatever we're gonna clear heel release all trauma bonds and let them go we're gonna pull those out right now we're gonna cut connections right now and i see like i see all these angels flooding in and just like like the the chefs at the japanese restaurant cutting all these connections to unhealthy people that we no longer want to be connected male female friend boyfriend girlfriend whatever it is just cut all those unhealthy connections and then i'm going to ask them to heal where it connected and pull all of that out and then the next thing we're going to do is we're going to take balls of light or the angels are not me i can hold my hands like this all day there are nobody's going to see any balls of light but they're going to start throwing balls of light into you of green for healing white for purity pink for love and they're just like it's like a big old snowball fight with all these balls of light going into anybody who needs it right now so if you feel that you feel it and just because you guys don't feel this it doesn't mean it's not happening sometimes we we don't feel things right away i've had clients in my office getting clearings and it's been like 30 minutes until they start to feel because there's been so much energy that's been so heavy on them it takes 30 minutes to get them to that point of who okay then the next thing we're going to do is we're going to clear the past like we don't care about the past and we're going to i see like big dark walls like cement walls and they're just opening them up and all the light is coming in again now we are at about the 32 minute mark of the show 31 minute mark of the show come back and listen to this again and really sit with your eyes closed and visualize all of this and let them do this for you again and again until you are there until you are there let them take all of this from you put all of this in you and open that pathway for you and when you see that pathway when you see that those big cement walls opening and you see that light don't walk mother fudging run because that's your cue like if there's a crack you make yourself fit through that crack and you go you are free they have unprisoned you from your own prison okay and you do deserve better thank you anything stopping blocking anybody listening watching at any point in time that believes they they don't deserve better clear that now all that causing cap clear pull all of that from everybody okay love i have to go to the next person we could do this for like two hours but you are so welcome love thank you so much for calling in call back anytime ask a question i think i think dennis did dennis ask a dennis uh from heaven okay what i think he's asking what do my dogs see um if they see a visitor from heaven dennis i believe that's correct and dennis i'm gonna say i believe your dogs are seeing i'm gonna yeah it's um what i see is like a funnel of light and then in comes like an older man who i want to say is is a grandfather or a father uncle's an older man he wore glasses brownish hair a denim he's pointing out his denim pants and he called them denim and then i and and maybe and then i see other people he's the first person and then just like the light funnels out the people funnel out and they come in and they're your ancestors that are coming in and hanging out um and yes they do i'm gonna use the word they play with but they're saying we mess with your dog all the time we mess with your dog all the time and dennis i feel like you have a friend on the other side somebody who passed away that was a really the and it could be even this guy with that that i just described somebody who was like a friend or a friend to you that is is always hanging out saying come on come on buddy let's go come on buddy let's go um and this person actually tries to make your dog want to go out or something like just to get to get you up and out to get you to get you going to get you going okay this is apparently going now this is walking i don't know okay anyway um anyway that is what i have for you dennis i hope that was helpful i really do i'm going to go to the next caller who is 708 708 what's your name and where are you calling from my name is Barbara and i'm calling from Illinois and i would like to thank you for taking my call i should have said that first um and i would like to know what's good is coming my way okay um give me a second Barbara from Illinois what good is coming out of the way okay there is a this might not be what you're looking for or what you're wanting to okay i'm hearing the first thing is a family event there's something within the family dynamics i it might not be immediate family but there's some kind of celebratory thing coming up with the family that's going to be really good whether it's a baptism a wedding a new baby whatever it is i'm seeing a number of different things so this might be a spring and summer of celebration i also hear a promotion now here's what i'm going to say whatever or whenever this comes in whether it's with where you are now or something i don't know if you're thinking about doing something on your own or something that you do on your own there's a promotion coming in with it now whatever that means for you they're not giving me because they're giving me a bunch of little things they're not giving me a lot of details on one thing but there is a lot of good now what they're asking of you Barbara is whatever comes in see the good in it and then bigger things will piggyback that okay so for example and i i know that this this probably isn't you but sometimes i'll say oh you know this there's a birth and people will be like i don't care that's not my like immediate family it's blah blah blah but that is it's a big deal because for whatever reason to to those on the other side that's a huge huge thing to bring another baby into the lineage here because it's somebody who graduated and decided to come in here and like try to help this plane understand what this plane is about okay now having said that if you celebrate everything for everybody else there will be big celebrations for you coming in very soon with that i do feel like in the beginning it might take you a moment to get into the swing of it but late february you have three three announcements three things you're going to hear three things that are going to be kind of back to back and that is going to help you to understand where everything is going and they're really again i believe me i am like nosy posy and try to get as many details as i can because that's just my personality i think i think i because i do this i'm supposed to know everything in the world and they they're not giving me more details on that love and so some of it is just supposed to be a surprise and other things are supposed to you know they'll just come up and kind of like surprise you i guess okay okay thank you so much for calling in i really appreciate that thank you thank you very much you are welcome you are welcome okay i'm going to go to the youtube chat and if you want to join us on youtube if you're on blog talk and you want to get in on the conversations on youtube go ahead if you're on youtube you want to call in or if you're listening on one of the many podcasts or whatever eight four five two seven seven nine one three one and i am trying to talk really fast tonight because i'm trying to get through as much as i can um for everyone uh katerina if you have time do you see my event in june being well attended i'm trying to grow it a bit more to make it more fun for people thank you is it going to be well attended yes what i'm hearing katerina what's really important for this event quality over quantity okay so whatever that means it's more important to have the right energetic vibe there than to just have everybody there but you will be able to grow the event and have really just such a spectacular uh so so much good there so much good it'll be very very good um no matter how many people show up it's going to be i just feel like it's it's an event that's gonna be like i get this feeling of warmth and love so that to me where's the event and what is it post that below for me sweetie post that that below uh what is the event and i yeah what what is the event and where is it okay uh next caller 805 805 what's your name and where are you calling from oh in a while how are you i'm good dana how are you good oh i just had that rsb oh for two weeks to get your vaccination mm it's going around so how can i help you love these situations going to get better am i going to find the love of my life you know i'm hoping for some good things to happen um i feel positive and happy here's what i'm going to say um i'm going to say that in about a month from now i feel like you'll be i feel like you'll be traveling someplace now it doesn't have to be someplace far it can even be in your area but it could be out of your area and you're going to meet someone and you have the choice of how far you want to take it with this person okay love now i don't know if this is going to be the person that you want to move forward with but i feel like they're going to want to move forward with you but it will be your choice okay excellent thank you so much for calling in love you too sweetie you too um okay uh okay maria wants to know uh can you see if i should get any of the apartments my daughter has looked at so far or keep looking in other towns maria tell me the town tell me um here's what i'm going to say for you maria give me a idea of i can tell you what town if you give me a couple of towns i can tell you which one is the strongest for you what i do feel like is so far you haven't seen the one yet when you see the place you want to be you're going to feel it you're going to you're going to know it you're going to be like i like this you're going to feel the light of the place and you're going to love it okay maria that's what i can tell you if you want to know what town is the strongest for you you can go ahead and post that below and i will tell you that but i don't feel like you have you have seen it yet at all i am going to go to i don't i don't really know where i left off um i don't know i'm going to go to zero four two zero two whoopsie two zero four what's your name and where are you calling them this is um alan from canada i've talked to you before a couple weeks ago hey alan how are you today yeah very good happy new year happy new year i'll get straight to my question i want go ahead no go ahead so okay uh i just wanted to know what the spiritual meaning or what the spirits say i have a lower left back pain and uh it just like strains me and if i get angry or if i start thinking about certain things it kind of flares up and it's been that way for a long time so i want to know if there's any spiritual meaning for that i don't do any injury i'm a patient transporter at the local hospital so other than moving patients around and i'm not moving patients around all the time i'm calling from canada by the way here we go um alan alan backgrounds to make it okay i'm going to do um some clearing on you so you may feel something pulling out of that area let's clear it now for anybody with any kind of thing along this line which i have to be very careful even if people call in and say if you use the word the a-c-c-i-n-e on air they will flag my show so please don't do that um but i have to be very careful of anything i say but what i am going to say is we're going to do a clearing of whatever this is and for anybody who's had anything like this any place we're just going to do a clearing of that now and you may only lower left lower left yep i got it i i they got it and you may or may not feel this right now i mean i'm i'm literally being pulled back on this one so whatever it is i can i can know they're pulling it out because i'm literally being like i said moved back who i do feel like you will feel this going and this and then sometimes there is no spiritual meaning or lesson except for you know bring light into your body and and which i'm sure you do so i can't even say it's that i just feel like sometimes we get things whatever they are so what i'm going to say to you is um yeah all that's causing keeping that aspect let's go to that and make sure i know this sounds like such a simple fix and i know you're probably going to tell me you've already done this but you may need some new shoe or shoe inserts that will help this also okay i know that sounds crazy but i i keep hearing it and they they keep saying it so i'm repeating it it might be time for like replacements or whatever but whatever this is they're clearing it now it may take a bit or a moment for this to clear but keep letting it go and it it should be pretty good by the end of the show okay love okay thank you you are so welcome i hope you have an absolutely amazing rest of the night okay i'm going to go to the next question online which is i think jennifer jennifer says tony uh do you have any messages for me from any of my pets that have passed uh jennifer yes um man did you have i'm going to say this did you have like a little critter as a child like i don't know if this is like a hamster guinea pig gerbil just a little critter as a child um because they're going way back or did somebody in your family have one what i'm going to say is one of the messages i'm getting is and i and again pets will give us messages about our path also and one of your pets is and i believe it was if you've i i this is i'm pretty sure this is a dog because there's a dog right here there are other pets around but um take the leap take the leap all like you know when a dog barks to go outside and they just do that one bark over and over again that one pattern over and over again and that's what this is take the leap take the leap take the leap so whatever it is they really want you to move forward or take that leap don't be um whenever something's going to come out and i think i do it might be harsh i i kind of stop it from coming out until a gentler way to say it you're kind of frozen in a space and time so let's clear that take all that out oh it's in your heart oh because i incidentally feel the fear and heart let's take all of that from you let's heal it and we're not just going to take it we're we're going to make sure it's healed too um yeah you know what i'm going to say this jennifer ideally you are going to wake up tomorrow feeling like a whole new person and then next week you're really going to run with it i i hope that's true i really really hope that's true i want to check down below to see if if uh la la la la la la la la la thank you for providing such a service to everybody in your heart uh thank you you guys are hella kind on here thank you so much i'm very honored and grateful to be able to do this this is um i for those of you who are new i've done this since i was a child like it was never really acknowledged in my childhood and i never knew what i was doing but um to be able to do it to to have held on to it and to continue to do it and to have added tools um to it and to be able to help people on their path is such a privilege you have no idea for for me personally other people you know how they look at it but it's such a privilege for me to be able to to do this for people and to have this and even to come on here and do it for an hour twice a week for people that might need just a little guidance it's such a huge privilege just that's i that's the only term i can use i'm going to go to the next caller 347 347 what's your name and where are you calling from hi um um cony this is katie and i'm georgia hey katie how are you i'm okay i'm okay i just had a quick question yeah um i was doing this contract contract position and it ended and um i'm i'm open to getting a new position and i'm wondering i guess about getting a new position that's like where you go into the office or you know like i'm trying to figure out i'm gonna get something where i'm going into office or just or just all remote but i am open to a new position so i just okay i'm about getting a new position katie i want to i so many words one word at a time folks on the other side so the first thing i'm hearing katie is banking i don't know exactly what you do but i feel like the next position that you're going to have the opportunity to take is going to have something to do with banking there might be some training with it and i do feel like even if it's not like with a specific bank it might be with something that works with banks like let's just say credit the credit card end of banking or something like that and you will be able to do some of it from home if you want but it will be a long-term position if you choose to and you will be able to work remotely with this particular position it's almost like i don't i i'm gonna say this but it it's probably it's something like this it's like if you work a fraud center for like a credit card company with a bank or a credit card it's something like that where you can totally do it remote but you still have all the meetings and stuff but it's going to be really good pay and you're going to be if you go with this position i feel like katie you will be there's something about you like that you will it's like there's the part of the fraud where people call in and they say oh my god somebody charged something on my card and then there's the part of the fraud where they do a deep dive to find out who the little thugs are that are doing the fraud i feel like yeah and the song that comes yes yes and i hear i instantly hear that song we be patrolling rolling trying to get them running dirty trying to get them running dirty and you're you're like tapping those keys going oh no oh no gotcha like you are like on it so let me say if you find that if you find that position get it take it keep it jump on it jump on it i feel like you are going to get that if you get in a position like that you're going to be so happy and you are never going to let it go you are going to be you are going to be you're going to be on people's social media going and there's the bag he took and there it is like you see that picture of him right there that's her bag with her credit you go get him i just feel like there's something about it like you're going to be so tenacious and on it that you're just going to be like gotcha like that just gonna be hilarious hilarious so good good good i'm definitely in the process of looking and i'm open to that i can't i do qualify to do those positions as well excellent excellent go find that position do keyword searches and go to the like the companies themselves and apply for those positions okay yes i will definitely do that thank you so much you are so welcome you have an amazing rest of the day my love you too thank you you're so welcome bye bye for now and katie also katie don't go any place yet because i feel like you are the perfect person to get your private detective um private investigator license and like get that sidetime hustle of i think my man or my woman is stepping out give me their name and number where are they let's go i i just feel like that might be something else you pick up like on this side if you get your private investigator license which will help you with this thing too but you'll be able to do 90 seconds this and that and this and that okay so that is what they're giving me for you okay everybody if i did not get to your call if i did not get to your question i apologize um but thank you so much for joining me here today i love you all so very very very very much um you guys this is like the fun of my week is coming on and being able to do these for you guys so please come back i will be back i'll be back for sure on monday but i might do a pop-up this weekend i'm not sure i have so much going on this weekend so much good stuff going on this weekend okay i love you all so much i have an amazing rest of the week


Alright, so in this video we're going to be reviewing the Muse headband and this is a device which has been really quite interesting actually and I think there's a lot to say about this. So on the surface this is basically an EEG sensing headband which you can connect to the app. It's a fairly pricey product at about £240 so about £260-$270 but the promises that it makes you know and the things that it says that it can do are actually quite interesting. So to start with let's just look at what the device actually contains and by the way if you do want to get one of these you can click the link in the description and it will take you in a new tab to their website where you can sort of read along and get one at a great price. So it's an EEG device which means it's going to sense your brainwaves and it should with some degree of accuracy be able to tell you which brainwave state you're in in terms of alpha, theta, beta, gamma the normal brainwave states that we're all used to if we've been using bunion or beats. So the next thing you'll notice is it's really sleek, it's a modern looking device and it actually contains an accelerometer as well so it can tell when you're moving around what your heart rate is, how much you're moving, your step counts and things like that so it's actually really really interesting. Now you're probably wondering why would I want to get the Muse headband and what can it actually do for me? Well the main reason is it's basically a way of meditating really really easily. You can meditate when you're wearing this device and it's going to tell you in real time what your brainwaves are doing and how your meditation session is actually going so you can track your progress and results later. One of the most difficult things that people find when they first learn or when they first try and meditate is they don't know if they're doing it right. You know there's just no way of them telling especially if it's a new experience there's no way of them telling whether they're actually meditating properly or whether they're doing something wrong so the benefit of the Muse headband and the reason why in this review I really want to recommend that you do pick up a copy of the you know pick up your own Muse and try it out for yourself is because when you want to meditate you can just put the device on and it will show you on the app and in real time with feedback it will show you whether you're meditating properly or whether you're not doing it so well and then that allows you to correct yourself in real time and and stay on track continue relaxing and making yourself feel calm and that is a really interesting feedback mechanism a bio a bio feedback mechanism which is going to make it so much easier to meditate in terms of the actual results I feel like it's a really good product for those of you who want to just learn how to meditate you can see here you can keep track of your meditation sessions you can see how long you meditated for you can even set targets for yourself and have it sort of inspire you and motivate you to reach your targets and you can connect it with you know your headphones your normal headphones that you would use and you can even connect it up with the app and have audio guides for your meditation now I don't think it actually comes with these these are the Apple ear pods so you would need to have your own headphones but other than that it's got everything you need to get started is in the box it's all ready to go so there's various different sessions different soundscapes and you can use them as an introduction to using Muse or you can just you know customize it to some degree but what I really like is it shows you when your mind was more active more neutral or more calm throughout the day so obviously you're not going to wear this all day but if you wanted to meditate it's very interesting and useful to be able to see which times of day your mind was active when you're meditating and which times it was not so active or neutral or even calm so you can actually use different feedback mechanisms to judge how well you're meditating and you can use things like your mind EEG waves you can use a timer you can even use your heart rate and your breath to actually judge and sort of measure how well your meditation session is going so I find that really really interesting and as I said the app is actually free to download that doesn't cost any extra so you can just buy this device download the app and you're pretty much ready to go you're going to be you're going to become your own neuro hacker your own neuroscientist and so that's what I really do like about the Muse headband so as I said if you do want to grab a Muse headband they're fairly cheap considering what it can do and like I said there's a link in the description you can go and check that out and I'll see you in the next video