All right, we're going to go ahead and get into the question and answer time before our final teaching time. I tried to put these in categories so that we aren't jumping around, so I'm kind of methodical like that. So could you please name other women, false teachers that have proven themselves to be contrary to the word of truth other than Sarah, or it's Sarah Young and Beth Moore. The ones I know for sure are Joyce Meyer and Jen Hatmaker. Now I will say this, I really, I'm not really, really don't spend my time doing that, like hunting false teachers or anything like that, but I will say this, there are two people that I would encourage you to look up and they can help you better than I can. Justin Peters is one who, that's his ministry, he's getting ready to come to our church in three weeks and do another conference for us, but he really keeps up to date on all the false teachers of our day. Also a lady named Michelle Leslie, I know I don't know her, but on her blog she lists women teachers that you should steer away from. She also lists good women teachers, but again, ladies, please check them out, because I don't even like giving you that, because I don't know, but she does document things, and so Michelle Leslie's website, Justin Peters, but the ones that I know for sure would be Joyce Meyer and Jen Hatmaker, I know there's some others that seem to be on the slippery slope I'm very concerned about, and I tell you how I find out is not just by women sending me links to their messages, but I get on, you know, even though I don't have a Twitter account, you can get on people's Twitter account, and I have gotten, I have seen some things on some female Bible teachers Twitter accounts that are appalling and blasphemous, and so I would encourage you to do that, just look at it yourself. It's pretty mind-boggling and disturbing. Are there any other biblical women teachers you would recommend? You know, this is a hard question, because I remember when I first started speaking, and I hadn't written a book yet, I went to a church in Missouri and the lady said, if you'd only written a book, we could have got more ladies here, and I thought, well, that's a strange thing to say, so I would say this, there are a lot of faithful women out there faithfully teaching the Bible, and you don't even know them, don't even know their names, and we'll get to know them in heaven. And you know, I really don't, Martha Peace, when she's been here with me before, I hate to even give you any names, because of names of people that perhaps I've read their materials, I don't know anything about their private life, I do know Martha Peace, I know her private life, and so as we talked about in the first John, they can preach a right message, but does their life back it up? And so, you know, that's a, I would just, I just wouldn't want to stand here before you and give out names of, but I do know, like in my church, I have very faithful women that teach besides me, and, but I know their lives too, but the, you know, Jesus says, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is the greatest, right? So there's going to be a lot of people in heaven that we never heard of, but they were faithfully teaching the Bible, men and women. So I really don't know, maybe Karen would usher out a name or something. But do you have any, my friend? They come and see, OK. Yeah, she's like, man, I don't know. Again, Michelle Leslie's website, she has, I think it's 10 safe women, she calls them to that you can listen to. And again, but I would check out those women. And make sure that they are indeed. OK, when it comes to naming names of false teachers, do you think it's a need for every teacher and pastor to do that? And what about prominent good teachers who don't? I don't think it, I think it depends.   But I don't think, at least my ministry is not calling out false teachers. But if it's in the text, I will do it. If I'm asking a Q&A, I will do it. I don't think we should be cowards. I think we should, if we are going to call someone a false teacher, that's a very serious indictment. You should have proof of it that you should be able to document it. And so I think it depends if the pastor is in a text regarding false teachers, I think he should be brave enough to call them out.  He shouldn't be a politician. But I don't think that we need to be using every time we are in a public setting to be calling out false teachers. We have a lot in the counsel of God. Prominent good teachers who don't, I don't know. I don't know what their motive is.  And maybe it's just not their thing. I don't know. But I would say if they're coward about it, then that's not good. Shame on them. But if it's in the text and the timing is right, I think that we should be willing to name names. Paul did. Jesus did. What are your discerning thoughts about Nancy Leydemoss, biblical teacher, or false prophet? Again, I have read some of her books. Her books are good, the ones I've read. I went to a true woman conference once with Debbie and my daughter and I think we traveled to Chicago and her teaching that time was on Romans 11. Oh, the goodness and mercy of God, how and it was good. It was expositional. But I didn't like some of the cheesy things that went on. And then since then, I know this has been years ago that and this was on her website. So I'm not saying anything that's not wasn't on her website. I don't know if she's taking it off at one of her sessions. She wanted something different or new. And she was asking God what to do.  And I took, I had an issue with that gets its roots in mysticism, the circle maker. But I don't, I mean, that's the only thing I know of. Again, I haven't listened to her recently. I don't follow her teachings. I've only read some of her old books. I don't know anything about her recent books or anything like that. So it would be wrong of me to stand up here and say, she's a false teacher. However, I did not think the prayer circle was honoring to the Lord, nor is it biblical. So I imagine if I got up here right now and said, the Lord has shown me that I'm going to pass out chalk and we're going to draw circles. Yeah, Karen, Karen's saying out the door you go. So that's what I would want you to do. So that troubled me deeply. I don't think God told her to pass out chalk and draw chalk and get in and pray. So but that's the only thing I know of. OK, regarding discernment, do you think it is, do you think yoga is sinful? I don't think a Christian woman should be participating in yoga. It has its roots in Hinduism and Buddhism, which are false religion. And so I would definitely do some research on that. I don't think we're to have we're not to have anything to do with other gods. So I think if you're wanting to do some type of exercise or something else, I'd I'd get a good treadmill or something. I don't think that yoga would be wise for a Christian woman just because of where read about it. I mean, just read about where its roots come from. OK, thank you for taking a stand with the other woman who signed the open letter to Beth Moore. Has she responded? What is the next step?  I did not write the letter, even though my name is first after the letter, because the person who wrote the letter put us five ladies in alphabetical order. And guess what? Heck comes before peace and Leslie and all those other ladies. So I was like, oh, good. I'm in trouble. So it's like, I might as well get in trouble. But when I was first when the person who wrote the letter first contacted me and asked me if I would sign the letter because of their concern of her recent cuddling up to the LGBT community, I really my first response in my mind was no, I'm not going to sign the letter because I do not make it my practice to get caught up in all the stuff that goes on on social media.  But anyway, I was I don't know. I just had a caution about maybe I shouldn't make such a rash decision. So I prayed about it for a few days. And then I talked to my husband and I read him the letter, most of the letter. And I said, what do you think you think I should sign this or not? And he said, I don't see any harm in you signing it. He said, I don't think it'll do any good, but I don't see any harm in you signing it. So I told the person I would and but I do not make it my practice to do that. I don't get involved in all that stuff. I don't feel that that's the main ministry, God's call me to. But has she responded? Yes, she has responded some on her Twitter account. I think we've thus ladies have been called heretics, witch hunters fault, you know, all kinds of things. But I have noticed since July 5th, she's taken a break from her Twitter account. She's not writing anything. She's been very quiet. The LGBT community is coming behind her and supporting her and her holding her. She has taken out a section out of her book that she wrote in 2009, where she wrote a section on her views on homosexuality. She was very strong against it. But since then, she's taken it out and she has an explanation on her Twitter account and her explanation, why she took that section out is because she felt her words exceeded God's words. So that's very dangerous, very telling to me. I did email Justin Peters this morning and ask him if he's heard anything because I I don't know. It was very hot bed for a while. But since July 5th, she's been silent and I don't know why. I hope there I hope she's repenting. I've been praying I've been fasting that Beth more would repent. I don't know if she will the next step. I don't know. I'm going to talk to Justin. What's the next step?  I've gotten some women that have emailed me thanking me for signing the letter. I have had, I think, at least two women. And because I don't have Facebook or Twitter, I think it's hard to find me unless you get on my website and get my email address. But and I don't answer my phone list. I know who's calling me.  But so many robo calls. But two women have contacted me that I'm sure are her followers. And they were not kind, but I was very gracious and kind back. And I documented what I said and told them my concerns with her were far more reaching than her views on the LGBT community that I've had concerns for many years. And I documented why. And so and then one of them actually responded back and said, thank you. I don't agree with you, but thank you for your graciousness or whatever. So I've tried to be gracious, but I'm not going to back down on what is true, according to God's word. It's very clear. And that's what I told them. She needs to be definitive about what she believes about homosexuality and she's not being. So that's very concerning. That was the end of RETUAL Held and Jen Hatmaker and some of those others. That was the downward spiral for them. So I don't know what's going to happen. Stay tuned. What are your opinions on the Nashville and Dallas statements? Do you think they're helpful? Again, I don't really know what the gender thing and the social justice issues. I keep abreast of those things, especially my son and my son-in-law. You know, they get all into all that. And my husband, I know a little bit about it. And I don't know that they're helpful. This is this is my opinion. This is not this says Lord, I really think that those things can be very distracting in the church. And what I've been concerned about is I've watched things like this, which is what was my hesitation about signing that letter to Beth Moore is that they pull us away from what we've just been talking about all weekend. It's Satan's tool to distract us from the one thing that's needful. And then the other thing I've seen is this hatred among Christian brothers and sisters on Twitter and Facebook is horrible. The the dividing that is going on. And so that is very concerning. And that's why I normally don't get caught up in those type of things. So do I think they're helpful? I say probably in the long run, not so much. I think faithful men expositing the word in their churches is the best means for your life and for spiritual growth. So that's my two cents. And that's all it's worth might only be worth half a cent. But how can I get my husband to have a desire for the word with me? I think the best thing you can do is pray. And I would encourage you to fast and pray. You have to remember that when you stand before the Lord, you're not going to be holding your husband's hand.  So you need to run your race, you need to run it according to the rules that God has set before you compete as an athlete who is submissive to the rules. And you can pray for your husband, lovingly encourage him. I know when my husband and I got married, we tried that. We tried to have like devotions together. And so at night we'd get into bed and he'd say, I'm I'm going to pray first and then you pray. So he'd pray and then he'd say, Susan, it's your turn.  And that never worked. We never tried studying the Bible together, but we did when our kids were growing up, trying to do that. And we found that the best model for us, this is the way we parented, was the Deuteronomy 6 principle. We just talked about things where sit down, lie down, rise up. We use the teachable moments we found with our kids and with us. A formal sitting down actually just provoked was more provoking than just going through life and teaching them the principles of Christ in his word. And so, but I think you have to work whatever works in your marriage. I know families, godly families that have family devotions, have family worship. I think it's great if that's what works in your family. But again, you have to let your husband leave. I pray for your husband and and don't nag him. Don't be his Holy Spirit.   But just pray, be content with where God has you. And that's my two cents again. Besides the spirit filled marriage and the excellent life by Martha Pease. What are some other helpful resources on biblical marriage? The only one I know I was asking Debbie about this, too. I have read a lot of books on marriage and I really don't find very many that are biblical. And I think a lot of the marriages I a lot of the books today I see on marriage for Christians are trying to put the 21st century America in there. And they're not biblical. So John MacArthur has a good one on the family where he deals with husband-wife relationship and parenting. But honestly, I mean, again, Karen may be able to belt one out. But I have not found very many that are very biblical. There's some there was some good ideas, but some are really cheesy and some are just downright. I mean, I feel like I'm reading a romance novel and not, you know, not something to guide me into truth. So again, Karen, you got anything? Can they? OK. There you go. I would say ask your pastor, too. But my husband and I have used in premarital counseling, we've used buying max material, R.C. Sproul's material, John MacArthur's material. And I think that's a bad. A dead guy. Those are the best ones. The dead ones are the best ones. OK. All right, all right. OK, Susan, what advice would you give to young women who are in courtship, in addition to studying, memorizing, applying the word as well as time and prayer? What are ways you would suggest making use of my time as a young woman with which courtship is going? Well, there's a second question by a different person. What are some book studies you would suggest for young women in courtship? Well, as it would so be, I just read a book that I endorsed called already beloved love relationship and finding fulfillment in Christ. And it's the companion to a book called Being Mr. Right. That's for the male and for the female is already beloved. And it's the male version is out. The female version is coming out because I just endorsed it. But those are very good on how to prepare yourself to be the right person and cultivating your relationship with Christ. And it is really good. I haven't read the Mr. Right, but I read his wife's companion book. It's called already beloved. And I would say that's that's what I would do. I would encourage you to not so much be looking for Mr. Right. But that's what you want to do, be a woman of the word. And a godly man will be attracted to that, right? So OK, I don't think I'll ever be married. Is it OK to pray for the gift of singleness and mainly that any sexual desire will be removed? You may have the gift of celibacy. I don't know. I know women that do have the gift of celibacy, which is the gift of singleness. If you if you don't feel you have the gift of singleness, I don't know that you should be praying for it. But if you're not going to get married, it would be good wise to pray that Lord Lord will give you self control in the area of sexual lust or anything like that. Definitely would encourage you to guard your your heart, your mind. I wouldn't be watching things that would be provocative in any way or stimulating any way. I wouldn't be reading things you shouldn't read anything like that. But if God has called you to singleness, I think he would make that very clear to you. And if you have a desire to get married, then he probably hasn't called you to be single. So start praying. Read that book. Be loved on how to be the Mrs. Right or something. But in pray, if you want to get married, pray ask God to provide a spouse for you. Okay, what are some practical ways we can turn our hearts to desire less things of the world and desire more things of the Lord? I think as we talked about last night, taste and see that the Lord is good.  We were talking to a gal Debbie and I Thursday when we came in, some ladies picked us up and we went out to eat. And one of the gals said that she was on some diet. Everybody's always on a diet. But except me, I'm not ever. But anyway, she said that we had dessert and she said, well, she said I'm on this diet and I don't eat sugar anymore. And she said, so the more I eat like I'm eating, she said just a piece of fruit is satisfying. I don't eat sugar anymore. And I thought that was a good analogy because the more we eat of the right thing of the word of God, the other stuff. In fact, things that I used to be okay with a year or two ago, I'm not anymore. It seems like the more I grow in my relationship with the Lord, and I'm not saying that arrogantly, I just don't want that other stuff anymore. And it wasn't sinful things. It's just like it's losing its appeal. It has no luster anymore. So I definitely would just taste and see the Lord is good. And then the second part of this question, are there any materials you would recommend, books, sermons, series outside of the Bible? I would say one book that really impacted me was J.C. Ryle's Holiness. Was excellent, it's a good read. I think Debbie's reading it right now or listening to it on audio, aren't you? And it was very good. Really, it really provoked me in a good way. J.C. Ryle Holiness. Again, he's dead. So I was, dead people are the best ones to quote. In fact, I have some people that have endorsed my books that I would like to take their endorsement off because they're no longer doing the right thing. But I don't know what you do when you get those names on there, how you get their endorsements off your books. If these teachings are causing us to think that we may not be saved, what can we do to call out to God to truly become his? That's a very good question. I actually was just speaking in another city and a lady came up to me and she said, I used to go to Cornerstone Church, this church. Every time you came to speak, I went home and told my husband, I don't think I'm saved. And she said, but I want you to know I got saved. And she said, my life has really changed. And she said, I'm in a good church here. She's in a new, she doesn't go here anymore. She's living in another state. So if these teachings are causing you to think you might not be saved, what I would do, I would thoroughly examine myself in light of 1 John and James. I would ask, in fact, I have a book back there, Life-Dominating Sins in the back. I have all the tests, the spiritual tests. Paul says, examine yourself, see if you're in the faith. And so I go through all those in James, all those in 1 John. I would really sit down with the Lord, ask yourself honestly, do I love the brethren? All those things that are markers of true Christians. Don't play spiritual gymnastics with yourself. This is, you're talking about your soul, right? So be honest with yourself, be honest with God. And after that, if you are not convinced that you truly have a living relationship with the living God, that you have not repented of your sins. And when I got saved, first time in my life, I saw myself as a sinner. I'd never seen myself as a sinner. I got saved and baptized three times. I never saw myself as a sinner. And I never wept over my sin, never was sorry for it in any way. So I repented and I gave my life to the Lordship of Christ. And that was a huge change for me. So I would call on the name of the Lord and call out for his mercy to save you and give you a new heart. If you could go back in time before your children were grown, what do you wish you had done differently as a mother? Well, I wasn't a believer in those first 10 years of marriage and I had a child, I got married and got pregnant six months into our marriage. So when the children were young, I was not a believer. And I'm so thankful, they don't remember any of that, but that portion that says that the, what the locus has eaten, God's able to restore, they only remember good things about me. That's really good. So obviously I wished I'd been redeemed, but God is sovereign in the day of our salvation. So I also wish that I had been more, again, this goes back to not being saved, more submissive to their father, more respectful, things like that.  And I really tried to do that. So if I ever had a disagreement with Doug or something I wanted to talk to him about when the kids were growing up, I'd wait till evening or till we could be alone to talk about it. So I wish I'd done that a little bit differently. Sometimes I wish I hadn't been so meticulous about my husband laughs.  And every Lincoln log has to be counted before they go to bed, every tinker toy. And so if there's a hundred in the box and they only picked up 99, where's that one? So there's times I thought, man, I wish I hadn't done that, enjoy. But I really did enjoy my children. I still enjoy my children, even though they're 42 and 39. And I enjoy my grandkids and try to spend as much time as I can with them. But I can say that my husband was and is an excellent father and he taught the children well. Deuteronomy 6-6 and still does. And they have wonderful, wonderful memories of him. And when he had his stroke, that kind of got to both of them. And I've noticed they've come to visit more often because I think they think they don't know how much more time that he has. So anyway, but, and he's a great grandpa too. So okay, what does meditating on the word look like? Meditating, as we talked about, is murmuring in a low tone of voice until it becomes implanted on your mind. So the best way to meditate is to memorize. For example, just recently, I'm memorizing Luke nine and the parable of the sewers in Luke nine is different than Matthew and Mark. And so I came across the verse that says, and those who have a good and honest heart bring forth fruit with patience. And I was like, who has a good and honest heart? I really puzzled me. So I pondered that, that made me think, well, Matthew and Mark don't talk about anybody that has a good and honest heart in the parable of the soils. Why is Luke saying that? And so that is meditation. And I pondered it for a long time. And then I asked my husband, I said, why does Luke say that? Nobody has a good and honest heart. So he gave me his two cents on that. But that's meditation where you're forced to just like, you're going over and over something in your mind, a passage or scripture, and it makes you think about it. And so, a lot of times you meditate to the point that you realize you gotta make some changes in your life and realize that you're not measuring up to what God says. So that is biblical meditation. It's not sitting around and humming, or doing anything like that. It's not meditation. But you know what? I was noticing even last night when the hotel was playing music outside the door, the lobby area, and it was in the parking lot too. We can't stand to be quiet anymore. Have you noticed that?  You go, you know, everywhere there's noise and music. And we don't even sit long enough in a quiet area to be able to think. I don't know how people do it. I have to have almost complete silence when I study. And so I've learned to put headphones in when I'm trying to work, just cause I don't like the distractions. But so meditation is hard if you're not in a quiet place to think. So I would try to remove as much noise as you can from your life. The world's noisy enough, isn't it? Okay, how important is physical attraction when seeking a spouse? Should a lack of physical attraction prevent me from getting to know someone? Someone, I don't know what the word is, or courting them. Physical attraction is bogus. I mean, it's, I mean, we're all kind of weird-looking, aren't we? I think we need to remember the body is perishing, but the inward band is renewed day by day. So I'm not saying, you know, don't look for a nice-looking guy or anything like that, but just remember, looks are deceiving. And I think of all the good-looking men in scripture, that's a problem, right? David was handsome, look what happened to him.  He saw a beautiful woman, he took her. So beauty can be charm is deceptive, beauty is vain. A woman who fears the Lord, she will be praised, Proverbs 31. So I'm not saying, you know, I'm not undermining a nice-looking man or anything like that, but don't pick a spouse based on outward looks. You wanna go for the heart. Do they love the Lord? Do they wanna serve the Lord? Are they sold out to the Lord? Is their passion the Lord, the glory of God?  So that's what I would say. Okay. How do I put evil suspicion to death? What I would do to put evil suspicion to death is Philippians 4-8, whatever things are true, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are a good report. That whole list, and I would say, is this true? Is this lovely? Is this a true thought? Is this a lovely thought? Is this a virtuous thought? Is this a thought of good report? And I would memorize Philippians 4-8, and then every time you have a thought that comes to your mind that is evil suspicion, I would Philippians 4-8 it, and I would put it to death. I would smash it. We are to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. And so, in fact, the other day, I was going through systematic theology with the Gallum Discipling, and we were talking about sin, and when does sin start? So I was coming home and was talking to my husband, and I said, so when do you think sin begins? Like, if you get angry, when does it start? He said, the first time it comes in your mind, that's a sin. And so we started talking about it a little bit, and so as soon as you get those thoughts in your mind that you know are not right, this is an opposition to God, you wanna put it to death, smash it, demolish it. That's why you should be memorizing the word of God. The Godly Man meditates day and night, right? That's what they're putting in their mind. So I would Philippians 4-8 it, and also maybe learn to be more thankful instead of being always suspicious about other people or things, be more thankful. Try to find the good in others and not the evil in other people. Okay. As a young Christian lady on a large university campus, how can you encourage me with regards to friendships and getting involved in campus life? It's so ungodly and the worldly influences are shocking and relentless. I want to honor the Lord and grow in him. It's difficult to find like-minded young women. Well girl, I'm 63 and it's difficult to find. I'm serious, it really is. It's very hard to find women my age that are like-minded. Most of my friends are from family and church family and they are all older than me. Sometimes I feel alone, I know I'm not. You know, this is a very good question and the Bible says bad company corrupts good morals and yet the Bible says Jesus was a friend of tax collectors and sinners. So how you reconcile that, you know? Those are, seems like, oh, the Bible's contradictory. No, it's not. The Bible doesn't contradict itself. Bad company does corrupt good morals and Jesus was a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But when Jesus was a friend of tax collectors and sinners, what was his purpose? I didn't come to call the righteous to repentance but the sinners, right? So his purpose was to vandalize them. And so what I would do is I would spend time with these ladies on campus but I would be cautious about where you go, what you do with them, but I would also be bold. I would share the gospel with them. I would show them Christ by the way you live your life. I wouldn't participate in their ungodly activities, their off-colored jokes, anything like that. And if you find that they are having greater influence on you than you are on them, then I would probably pull away because you don't wanna be deceived. In fact, Paul says, don't be deceived about this. Bad company corrupts good morals. I've seen women who have gone down the tube spiritually because of the girlfriends they hang out with. So we want to be very careful and that is a very good question. And pray, pray for God to protect you. That is so hard. But you know, it's not just a university anymore. It's everywhere. It's even in the church, ladies, that it's really hard to, because the church has become like the world in many ways. So just guard yourself, protect yourself. Find someone to hold you accountable. I don't know how old you are. I would find someone like-minded to hold you accountable, someone to mentor you, pray for you, ask you the hard questions and be willing to get into your life. Can the pastor's wife be called a pastor as well? Oh, that's happened to me.  And I go, no, I'm not a pastor because a pastor is a shepherd. He's an overseer. He's an elder. Those, all those words are interchangeable. And the Bible says if a man desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good thing. It's a man, not a woman.  I try to shepherd the women and help him in that process, but I am not a pastor. So I would be very careful about calling your pastor's wife a pastor, but just because of the Greek word, that it is an overseer, a bishop, an elder. What are some key scriptures? This is the last question. And I think she did say, I don't know if some of you came in late. I think some of you still had questions and I will be at the book table when I get done with the slash session and while Debbie's packing up books, if you need to ask me a thing, our flight doesn't leave till 7.30 tonight. So I can answer your questions out there. Lord willing, if I know the answers, if I don't, well, that's just, that's the way it is. Call Karen. What are some key scriptures that will help me to better evangelize? Well, the first one, I thought it was the Great Commission. It's a command, go into all. And I wasn't sure on this question. I didn't know if you were asking me like you wanna know the gospel better to evangelize or if you were asking versus on how to motivate you to share the gospel. So let me answer that first. Matthew 28, it's a command. You're to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That is a command by God. Acts 26, 18 is great. Pray that God will, as he did with Paul, that you can go and open their eyes, be a part of opening their eyes from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the saints. So that would be one that would be motivating. Paul says, knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.   That'll motivate you a little bit. It should motivate us. Now, so that would be some key passage. Now, if you're wanting to know like how to share the gospel. I have that little booklet out there. And then also, Will Metzger to Tell the Truth is a great book on evangelizing. He talks about, oh, that's my phone. Would you mind turning that off? I'm sorry. If my husband was here, I'd be in trouble. I was texting my associate pastor's wife, which is why my phone's on because I loaned her that book, that companion book, Mr. Wright, and the female version, because she has kids, she has daughters that are becoming the age of that, of dating or courtship or whatever. So she had sent me one back. And by the way, while she did, she said, caution the women about Josh Harris. I kissed dating goodbye, because she said he's getting a divorce. And so there you go. What did I tell you? Like every day, there's somebody new that's, you know? So she sent me the text that he, his Twitter account where he's getting a divorce. He and his wife.  So it's just, it's heartbreaking, ladies. It's really heartbreaking. So did you turn that off? Thank you so much. Okay. Okay, well, I'm not responsible. Anyway, I hate to even recommend books anymore, but Mark, not Mark, I am reading Mark Dover's book on evangelism. And it's pretty good. It just doesn't give to me enough help, but it's pretty good. But Will Mesker to tell the truth tells how to turn everyday conversations into spiritual conversations and how to give the whole gospel to the whole person. So I wasn't sure what you meant exactly on this, but if you wanna come to the book table afterwards, I'll be glad to help. I just wanna bring me that. So I just don't want it to go off. My husband likes to call. I mean, it's like right the moment I get done to see how things go. And I would hate for him to call as I'm winding out this conference. So, sorry. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. This is good. I'll hand it back to you. I don't need it right now. So thank, unless you wanna see pictures of my grandkids, but yeah, thank you so much. Anyway, that was heartbreaking when our new associate pastor's wife just sent me that text. I was like, goodness, another one.


Hey, what's going on everyone? It is be Avery here and I want to thank you for tuning in to another episode of Just my opinion where it is my favorite part of the week or one of my favorite parts of the week Well, we go over the box office results for the past weekend. It's been a week since I've seen you guys I'm so sorry. I have been absent not going to make any excuses But we're just gonna go ahead and jump into the box office results mainly for Avengers Infinity War so for the weekend of May 11th through May 13th the second weekend of May We're going to go over. I would say the top five or no We're gonna go over the top ten just real quick because you know, we got to talk about black my lovely black panther So coming in at number one. We have Avengers Infinity War. That was pretty much a given It dropped 45 percent from last week still in 4404 thousand four hundred seventy-four theaters Avengers Infinity War is sixty-two million seventy eight thousand forty seven dollars and of course I'm gonna come back to that Coming in at number two is Melissa McCarthy's life of the party This is a film that I was interested in but I have not seen it just yet I do plan on seeing it this week And it did pretty good as well it brought in seventeen million dollars to be exact seventeen million eight hundred eighty six thousand seventy five dollars And that is pretty good right now worldwide is to 21 million What I'm trying to do right now is just check on the budget real quick just to see what that could possibly be and Just give me one moment. So the budget for this film was thirty million dollars seems a little expensive But you know, Melissa McCarthy, she does have An audience so you know, you know my rule of three This needs to make at least was it ninety million dollars to see a respectable profit So that's coming in at number two coming in at number three is right behind it I mean like right around 200 K was the difference is Gabriel unions breaking in I was gonna see this last week But I've decided to wait to see this yesterday with my mother a Mother's Day and happy belated Mother's Day to all The lovely mothers out there. We love you guys very much Breaking in with Gabrielle Union brought in seventh with Universal Life of the party world was water brothers Gabrielle Union 17 million six hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and eighty five dollars at twenty five hundred theaters I will be I'm not gonna get my opinion on the film. I did see it. I will be Providing a review. That's probably right now. It is Monday night that I'm filming this This is probably going to go up on my channel Tuesday evening When I get off of work, I'm actually shoot it right after I shoot this video, but I Got a lot of videos coming up. I'll talk about that later But it's gonna come up tomorrow My Deadpool review is gonna be up in the morning. This is gonna be up tonight with some other stuff But 17 million dollars from Gabrielle Union The budget for this was only six million dollars produced by will Packard You know, he does a lot of black films. That's extremely cheap So much cheaper than life of the party coming in a number four is overboard at nine million dollars nine point eight Quiet place a quiet place is still in the top five coming in at six point four million dollars I feel pretty is number six bringing in another three point eight million dollars. And let's see what it is right now Worldwide is at forty three million dollars and then needs to make a lot more money I've talked about that in the past really don't think Amy Schumer has a pool I'm thinking the train wreck was mostly did well because of the marketing with LeBron James They came out in 2015 rampage coming in number seven a movie that I wanted to do where they drop 25% still in 2,500 theaters running another three point four million dollars. So Right now domestically, this is eighty nine million dollars Foreign and the national is 308. So it's at three hundred and ninety eight million dollars. Okay, not bad Not, you know, they not throwing part is nothing but not bad It is made three times the budget which should have been 360 million last week. I wanted to reach four hundred million So it really reached four hundred million dollars It right now globally worldwide it is at three hundred and ninety eight million dollars So unless the studio spent a stupid amount of money on the marketing campaign It looks like this film right here made Made the studio a respectable profit, but let's see. I want to see what it would be for you If I want to make four times the budget in a stomach four hundred and eighty million dollars I seriously doubt it is going to make that unless there is some major territory That I haven't looked up that it hasn't opened up in yet But I don't really care too much coming in a number eight is telly bringing a number another two point two million dollars And coming in at number nine is Black Panther still in the top ten and what week is this for Black Panther? This is the 13th of the 14th week. Let's see here real quick One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve So yeah, I could have just looked on the right. I didn't see that over there So this is the 13th the 13th week this past week. I believe so that is what's up Black Panther it brought bringing in another what was it a two point two million dollars and coming in at number ten is What is RBG? I thought that was ready play one. I don't know what this is RBG. What is that anyway? It's kind of a weird look I'm poster But of course, let's go over to infinity war real quick Right now infinity war world. It is set some records this weekend Right now globally. It is at one point six being dollars one billion six hundred and seven million five hundred and forty thousand one hundred and thirty dollars This right now it makes it the most profitable. Oh, not I'm excuse. I'm not the most profitable Yeah, it is it grows the most out of any other superhero comic book movie of all time It is also the number one Marvel Cinematic Universe in their MCU with this being I believe the 19th them So that's what's up that is expected internationally It did one billion Fifty nine million so far domestically it is at five hundred and forty eight since we're looking at foreign you know, the big thing with China is it opened up in China on the 11th this past Friday and This is the second biggest opening of all time in China coming in at two hundred million dollars To be exact was not exact, but you know, that's that's the numbers that they're providing You know, next is South Korea at eighty four million United Kingdom is eighty two million. I was on box office module right before right now I am looking at the numbers calm. That's the dash numbers calm South Korea eighty four million Right now the United Kingdom eighty two million and Brazil fifty five million. So it is doing fairly well In the foreign markets The question is will it reach two billion dollars? And I really think it will reach that to Billion-dollar mark. I'm very excited. I can't wait. We're gonna find out now something that is very interesting to me and Goes back to some conversations I was having in the comments section the past couple of weeks with some of the subscribers and viewers. So Shout out to you guys. So, you know me. I was the same to myself.  So a black panther Internationally right now is at six hundred and forty five million. That's not great But it's not bad either. It's kind of in the middle as far as all the bigger openers Domestically it is at six hundred and ninety six million dollars now I've been debating back and forth like man I really want infinity not a finger war black panther to reach that 700 million dollar mark domestically and I said that it's gonna be close and it is right there at it guys It is like three hundred and fifty 300 I said three hundred like three million dollars away three million five hundred thousand dollars away something like that May have maybe a little room but a little more than three million dollars away I don't know if it's gonna make it because it's already out on home video for digital tomorrow I'm gonna get my copy black panther is gonna be out on video I don't think they're just gonna snatch it from theaters unless people just not paying for it anymore It's still in the top nine. So that wouldn't make any sense But I really wanted to reach seven hundred million dollars, but we just don't know right now It is at one point three billion dollars one one billion three hundred and forty two million dollars now to tie Avengers Infinity War together and black panther Let me close this window out real quick, and I don't think I'm gonna need this stuff. I'm gonna need this one. So Avengers Infinity War and black panther now before Avengers Infinity War was released in theaters I was like, oh my gosh guys black panther was so amazing It looks like from the trellis and all the marketing material that there's gonna be this is gonna be like a black panther 1.5. I mean we got out we got to see everything They had to do it, you know just the lineage and the culture and The pride and the background and the backstory of Wakanda, but and Infinity War we're gonna get the the military Achievements that they've accomplished over the years and decades and centuries and things like that You know, they're gonna have a war there The war the Russo brothers are saying that Infinity War at least the last hour of the movie is gonna be in Wakanda But when we saw the film, that's not what happened So I was just thinking going into it that like okay all the black people they saw Black Panther 3 4 5 times they're gonna go see Infinity War 3 4 5 times 2 if Infinity War has a lot of black panther in it Well, we saw the movie and I think you know the consensus in that Wakanda was rushed Everything with black panther was rusted either water down So you don't have that same crowd of like black people and people that were just so in love with a black panther That are in love with Infinity War and so You know everybody was saying it's just not well not everybody but people were saying it's just not gonna do as good because black Panther had no competition black panther has legs. That's one of the main things. I was complaining about many months prior Just saying that I think Disney was done for releasing Solo on Memorial Day weekend I thought they should have pushed it out to August and I was mad at 20 century fox for moving Deadpool from January Not from June 1st to May 18th And so I honestly thought that this past weekend black panther was just gonna still stay on top I mean affinity war was just still gonna stay on top as far as pacing is concerned with black panther But that's not the case guys. That is not the case So of course eventually the infinity war won the first weekend in the second weekend But it did not win a third weekend now I love my up my my showdowns I'm on box office module right now looking at the opening weekend showdown between the six biggest openings of all time for any movies, which is Star Wars or Force Awakens 2015 Jurassic world Where did that come out? 2015 as well. Excuse me. Sorry about that Avengers Infinity War 2012 Star Wars last Jedi 2017 black panther of course this year Infinity Wars out, you know right now Comparing all these right now Affinity War one of all those opening weekend to be the seven breaking the record Force Awakens one over second weekend 149 But you know infinity war beat black panther in the second weekend 114 Was the opening weekend set? I mean for the second weekend for infinity war 111 111 million was the second weekend for black panther But when we get to the third weekend, that's where black panther is starting to pull off 62 million dollars for the third weekend for infinity war, but 66 million dollars for black panther So around four million dollars more. So black panther is now outpacing Black panther and that's not just on the weekend front. It's also on the daily front too because of course It won that following Monday of the opening weekend because that was president's day. So everybody was off work, but When you go down to Let me switch it up. I'm doing this by day. Let me do by day the numbers. Okay, so in So if fitting the war was barely winning day-to-day versus black panther by like 200,000 women to me not much Okay, but when you get down to where is it? When you get down to the 16th day in theaters, which was this past Saturday That's when black panther starts to put no friday black panther has 16 million infinity war have 15 million Saturday black panther had 30 million infinity war had 26 million sunday Excuse me black panther had 19 million infant 19 million 996,000 infinity war had 19 million 100 people 2000. So infinity war Black panther is winning on the pacing for now, but Black panther mean infinity war is still ahead by around 47 million dollars because it has such a big first week opening weekend You know 257 opening weekend versus 202 black panther opening weekend. So The question is is will Infinity war reach 700 million domestically also will it actually catch black panther? We don't know it will be very close now I will be very disappointed if infinity war does not make at least 650 million dollars domestically that is still very great. It is It is very great That's not bad. I mean if it makes that and it just stops right there That's not a bad thing That's still a hell of a lot of money and the studio should be proud of themselves But with the anticipation of going into infinity war and all the expectations Which they were met mostly but not entirely because I said that Wakanda black panther was watered down and it was rushed to It would be slightly disappointed because it has the potential to make so much more I mean, so they've been I'm saying it so that black panther, but I'm not gonna give another review part 7 about that But these are just some of the things I think about. So I really want both infinity war and black panther to make 700 million dollars domestically I just do And I just do Whether black panther makes more than infinity war. I really don't care But I want Infinity war should make more. I just feel like the Russo brothers and Marvel company and whoever's evolved Kevin Feige Bob I don't want I just really feel like they made a mistake by washing through black panther the way they did in the film But any who let's continue to move on with the box office results now if we look at I'm not gonna beat that. That's kind of common sense If we look at all time right now worldwide Infinity war set another record. It is at number five right now at 1.6 being dollars only thing above it is our avatar Titanic before Star Wars the force awakens Jurassic world Infinity war is gonna be number four. It's gonna be Jurassic world in this coming week That's just a given common sense. Will it restores the force awakens and reset $2 billion mark I think it will reach the two billion dollar mark. Will it surpass the force away because I'm not sure will it pass surpass Titanic that will be a stretch because Titanic is a 2.1 billion almost 2.2 I think Star Wars before I mean, I think infinity will really reach to be in and may surpass the force awakens Now right now black panther has done another great thing Um It has passed if I mean it was gonna be number eight, but infinity war shot past it So it's number nine now, but black panther did surpass Harry Potter in the deathly hollows part two that movie had 1.3 1 billion 341 million right now black panther is at 1 billion 342 minutes. So give it up to black panther I'm trying to clap away from the microphone because you know guys with headphones Sorry about that, but great job black panther. It is right now at number In number nine the only thing that I think that can knock it out of the top 10 this year is possibly the Incredibles 2 or Star Wars the solo movie or whatever Which I haven't seen yet, but a few people have Who knows who knows who knows who knows and so yeah So avengers infinity war is number five and it will at least got a number four black panther is At number nine. I don't think it's not gonna pass avengers infinity I mean avengers a devaltron at 1.4 billion unless those Saudi Arabia numbers come through but I'm not going to hold my breath and just lastly I like to look at the All-time domestic Black Panther right now is at number three at six ninety six avengers infinity war is number eight at five forty eight But we all know that's going to Improve and lastly but not least guys. I just have to look at the adjusted for inflation Real quick, and I think black panther still gonna be always at number 30 So I don't think it's gonna catch marbles the Avengers a 704 adjusting for inflation But that is okay and guys I think that is going to be it for my box office numbers This video is not going to be as long as they usually do because I do get requests that I can shorten my videos And I pretty much covered everything that I wanted to cover if I did leave anything out Please let me know down in the comment section below my guys. That is just my pin Thank you for tuning in. What did you think about these numbers? What intrigued you?  Do you think affinity war is gonna reach two billion dollars worldwide? Let me know down in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video Go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't this fire, but you can still subscribe to my channel you can also go to my website check me out there and bookmark and also look me up on social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter is right there at the bottom of the screen and Excuse me, I provided a link for all that good stuff down in the description box below and guys I'm right there 5,000 subscribers as I'm recording this video. I'm not there yet But please help me get there I would really appreciate it and before you go don't forget that my name is Brandon Keith Avery and that's just my opinion peace


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He minors 10, 9, 8, we have a goal for main engine start, we have main engine start, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, and liftoff, liftoff of the space shuttle, and it has cleared the tower. There she goes, STS-40, the first space laboratory dedicated entirely to life sciences research. We were pioneers. Oh, excuse me, where are my manners? Let me introduce myself. Ari Jellyfish here. Ari's short for Aurelia, my family name. We jellyfish go back 500 million years, you know. I consider our finest hour the Columbia Mission in June 1991. Yep, there were 2,478 of us on that flight. Of course, we were a lot smaller than just little polyps. There was plenty of room until seven astronauts climbed aboard. But we couldn't go anywhere without them. Oh, sure, it got a little crowded, but we were glad to do it. After all, we were making history. We were helping NASA learn more about living in space. Oh, I know what you're saying. What's the big deal? It looks easy floating around up there. Looks like a barrel of laughs. But living in space is difficult. In the early days of space travel, there was so much we didn't know. Before humans traveled into space, animals were sent, while scientists checked their responses. When the first animal space travelers returned to Earth, they brought back enough information to safely send the astronauts into space. But even when NASA sent John Glenn to orbit the Earth in 1962, they still didn't know exactly how his body would react. Of course, as more astronauts were sent up, scientists learned more about the effects of space travel in relation to life sciences. Life sciences? Well, basically that is the study of living things, how they grow, function, and interact. Scientists knew that more research needed to be done in space. And that's where I came in. I was part of an important NASA study on the effects of microgravity.  In other words, they float. Let me explain. Here on Earth, we feel the effects of gravity almost everywhere. You can experience a similar environment to microgravity if you go underwater, like me. Unfortunately, you can't stay underwater for long periods of time. You can experience microgravity on a roller coaster ride like this. Or train like the astronauts do in NASA's special training airplane, the KC-135, that flies up and down. But the problem is that simulated microgravity only lasts 15 or 20 seconds. In space, microgravity lasts for as long as you're in orbit. You drift all over the place, and it's hard to tell if up is really up and down is really down. So it's difficult to predict how body functions will react. That's why scientists conduct experiments to learn more about microgravity. When they decided to use jellyfish for the microgravity experiment, everybody asked, why jellyfish? Hey, why not? You know, we are similar to you in a lot of ways. And one of our best friends, a scientist, knew we were special and could contribute a lot to science. Dr. Dorothy Spangenberg is the real expert who made it all happen for us. She's been hanging around with us for years. She knows everything about me, raised me from a little polyp. Dr. Spangenberg and her students worked with us for years before we actually flew in space. She began her research more than two decades ago, collecting us along the Texas coast. And people from all around the world sent her different types of jellyfish to study. That's why they call her the jellyfish lady. And the more she learned about us, the more she knew NASA could learn a lot from us because of our similarities to humans. But you should hear this from someone who saw us in action, Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford. Thanks for the introduction, Erin. Hi. My name is Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford. I was a payload specialist on Space Lab Black Sciences. I'm here today in the Monterey Aquarium in Monterey, California, where another team of researchers are learning more about jellyfish every day. Jellyfish are among the simplest organisms, but they have neurons or nerve cells similar to humans. They have sensors called gravity receptors located in their arms that help them maintain their balance and know where they're going. Think of it as a built-in compass. The gravity receptors tell them up is up and down is down. Humans have this, too. To help us maintain our balance, there are gravity receptors located in our inner ear. Have you ever ridden an amusement park ride that spins you around? When you get off, you feel like you're going to fall down, right? That's because the motion affects your inner ear. Even after you stop moving, fluids in your inner ear keep moving. This makes you dizzy. This type of motion sickness affects astronauts in space as well. By learning more about the development and function of gravity receptors, scientists hope to fight the effects of space sickness. By sending jellyfish up in space, we hope to find out if they would react differently in microgravity than on Earth. Would they know up is up and down is down? And there are even more ways jellyfish help us learn about living in space. Astronauts returning to Earth also suffer from a calcium deficiency. We need calcium to keep our bones strong. Extended calcium deficiency causes osteoporosis, a bone disease, and many gun diseases as well. Each jellyfish gravity receptor has a sack of calcium sulfate crystals. Just as our inner ear has calcium-containing crystals. On SLS-1, we wondered if jellyfish would suffer a calcium deficiency too. But these weren't the only reasons the jellyfish were chosen to fly with us. It was their small size that made the difference. We wanted a small animal we could study as it developed in space. Did you know that more than 100 jellyfish polyps can fit on a dime? The jellyfish is also easier to study because it develops in distinct individual phases. From polyp to ephira and finally to medusa, the type most commonly seen in the ocean. It takes from six to eight days for a jellyfish polyp to develop into an adult ephira. And we know it takes nine months for a human baby to develop. And about two years for baby elephant to develop into maturity. Can you imagine if we filled the orbiter with baby elephants for the study? Holy cow! Or should I say holy elephants? What a mess! We were certainly a lot easier to work with than baby elephants. However, we still needed special preparation for space travel. We underwent months of training with the astronauts. They studied our appearance and development so they would know just what to look for when we were in space. And when launch day finally came, we were ready. Of course, I was back in the payload bay. To get a bird's eye view of all the action, let me introduce you to another member of the flight, Dr. Tammy Jernigan. Thanks, Ari. Hi, I'm Dr. Tammy Jernigan. I'm in the Space Lab trainer here at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. I was a mission specialist on SLS-1, coordinating all the payload operations and carrying out the mission objectives. In this case, working with jellyfish. When people travel in space, we have to take our environment with us. We have oxygen, food, and everything else we need to protect us from the elements of space. When jellyfish travel in space, they need to take their environment with them as well. The jellyfish on board SLS-1 were placed in specially prepared bags filled with salt water and carried in an incubator to stabilize their environment. Just before we launched, Dr. Spangenberg and her students poured an iodine mixture into some of the bags to encourage the jellyfish's development. After all this planning, we wanted to be absolutely certain that the polyps would develop. By the time SLS-1 settled into orbit and we had begun our experiments, the jellyfish had passed their first important test with flying colors. They survived the launch, proving a smaller organism can withstand the forces of liftoff. To help the jellyfish polyps develop into ephira, we added the iodine mixture to another group of jellyfish. While we conducted experiments in the orbiter, simultaneous research was taking place on the ground by Dr. Spangenberg and her students. The earth research is called the control, a setup that doesn't have the variable being tested. Every experiment should have a control because it gives you something to compare your results against. Both groups of jellyfish were videotaped as they swam in hopes of recording any changes in their movement or behavior. One of the most exciting changes happened almost right away. Remember how the jellyfish used their arms to pulse up and float down to feed on earth? In microgravity, the jellyfish moved in circles, but they were still able to pulse and swim easily. In fact, despite being in a microgravity environment, the jellyfish polyps appeared to develop normally. After nine days in orbit, we began to prepare the jellyfish for the trip home. One group was secured in the locker to be immediately studied after landing. The second group was preserved in a special liquid to be studied and compared to the jellyfish used in Dr. Spangenberg's simultaneous earth experiment. The information we gathered on SLS-1 will help us to learn how to fight the negative effects of space travel and pave the way for astronauts to stay in space for months or even years at a time. Pretty exciting, right, Ari? You said it, Tammy. Boy, those nine days just flew by. But this isn't the end of our story, uh-uh. Once we landed, Dr. Spangenberg spent more than a year studying and comparing us to our earthbound jellyfish, and her results surprised everyone. After swimming in circles in space, some of us still swam a little funny after we returned to earth. However, most of us went back to our old ways pretty quickly. Scientists believe that our gravity receptors function differently, which made us more sensitive to microgravity. The exciting news is that we can develop from a polyp to an ephira in space. When they studied our cells, they found most of us were completely normal. Oh, I hear you. You're saying, hey, what does this mean to me? Well, the more scientists on earth understand how cells, the basic unit of life, develop, the more they can learn about human bodies and their responses on earth and in space. They'll also learn more about the human immune system and how it fights diseases. They'll learn more about your body and the amazing things it can do. Just think. We can learn all this from a little jellyfish. It just goes to prove that science is like a puzzle. It takes many pieces to finally get the big picture. This mission was such a success, NASA is already planning to send more jellyfish up in the future. By bringing together more pieces of the puzzle, perhaps one day more of the mysteries of space will be revealed. And my children and you will be there to experience it all.


From VOA Learning English, welcome to economics in special English. The International Labor Organization says nearly 200 million people are without jobs around the world. And the ILO is warning of even higher unemployment this year. The United Nations Agency released a report called Global Employment Trends 2013. It says the number of unemployed worldwide rose by more than 4 million last year from the year before. The report says one fourth of this increase was in developed economies. The remaining 75% was in mainly developing economies in Asia and in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. The report also says an estimated 39 million people stopped looking for work last year. The average length of unemployment increased sharply in developed economies. One third of all job seekers in wealthy countries were unemployed for a year or more. The ILO's Director General Guy Reiter says the world's economic recovery is not expected to be strong enough to reduce unemployment quickly. His group says the labor market is especially hard for young people. The ILO says 12.6% of people between the ages of 15 and 24 are unemployed worldwide. It says more and more young people who experience long-term unemployment stop looking for work. This prevents them from gaining needed on-the-job experience. Guy Reiter says to create jobs all countries must provide more predictable policies. He says these include measures to raise wages and support buying. He says countries should enact reforms to strengthen their banking industries so banks can provide credit. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.


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Our next caller is Aaron from New York. Hey, Aaron. Good morning, Aaron. What's your question? Hi, so my question is, what is the best way to deal with a manager at my gym that programs not great group classes? Oh, God. A lot of cardio with weights, high intensity. I wanna be the best coach for my clients, but I'm pretty limited with how much I can change in the class. Okay, so you're a trainer there. Wow, this is a landmine. Yes. It tells this was me at Orange Theory. This was me at Orange Theory, totally. Do you teach group classes there as well, or do you just train people one-on-one? I train group classes. That's where I started with, and now I also train people one-on-one. Now, do you have the autonomy from the owner to run your classes the way you want? Yes, kind of on the back end. He knows I change things, and he's all right with that, but I haven't been given complete, do whatever, it's also hard because I work a full-time job, so I'm already training people one-on-one. It's hard for me to do a whole group class change when I should just be able to kind of go in. You know what I mean? So this is very close to home for me. So I don't know if you know this, but when we first started Mind Pump, I was also helping my buddy, Brendan, start up the first Orange Theories in the Bay Area. And if you've been listening to the podcast long enough, you obviously know my stance on group training. Get here I am teaching a group training class. So this was the same exact dynamic. And luckily, Brendan sounds like your boss, where he gave me some freedom and latitude to kind of mold or change some things that I really didn't like in the group class, but I still had to somewhat follow their protocol, which was still challenging for me, right? So what I started to do was the last five minutes or so of the class, I started to turn into like, I would teach like one thing. And of course I was trying to teach something related to what the problems that I'd seen in the class. For example, when you're in a class setting like that, you know, and it's supposed to be, you're trying to be building strength. Clients tend to, you know, no rest periods. They go right in the next one, right in the next one, right in the next one. And they just, they don't rest and gather themself and then go to the next weight in Orange Theories. And so that would be like a topic of the day is the importance of rest periods for building strength and not just doing cardio with weights. Or I might pick out an exercise that I saw everybody doing incorrectly and they're doing it incorrectly because they have mobility issues. And so I might talk about the importance of ankle and hip mobility when we're squatting down and why some people will lean forward or they'll feel it in their knees or their hips. I would just like pick one thing a day that I would teach after my class. And my classes became very popular for that because I wasn't just teaching the group class. I'd always give this bit of information and education surrounding the group that was in there. And that's what kind of allowed me to still be able to implement my philosophy and the things that I thought were important and the things that I saw wrong in the group training while also still being a group training coach at the same time. Yeah, the other thing too, Aaron, is if you have the flexibility to kind of teach the classes the way you want to, then the best thing you could do is teach the classes the way you want to and get those classes to fill up. If your gym manager sees that you are successful and you're bringing in members and people value you, that gives you a lot more power because I think the gym managers probably gonna be quite interested or at least they have a strong interest in having a successful facility. So if Aaron's classes are the ones that are filling up, if Aaron's members are constantly asking about her, if everybody else is saying, I wanna do that class, you've got a lot more influence and I know that's what happened at them. That's exactly how it went down. I started off with little bits of me teaching and then eventually I got all the freedom and then I started to completely change the format. I changed the total, I look at what they had for me to teach for the day and very little of it would stay on the routine but I had to get to that point. I had to first introduce a little bit of my philosophy around what they're teaching and without insulting the business and slowly do that and then once it got to a point where I had so many people waiting for my class, the bosses pretty much went, okay, we're not gonna let Adam do his thing. We'll make everybody else follow this thing but let him do his thing because he's our number one coach. So that should be your goal is to give, don't change too much to where you end up pissing everybody off, try and add more value to that class by adding the things that you see that you don't like about group training but don't do it in a way that you're putting down the boss or other people, do it in a way that you're just adding more value to your class and eventually you'll be known as that coach that's going that extra mile and then you have more freedom. Plant those seeds for sure and also if you can make yourself available outside of that to then kind of have that interventional type of mobility practices and more furthering their information with how they can help their joints, you could even start wrapping two clients together and taking them through actual priming in ways that they can actually add some longevity to these type of workouts. So that this is great, Justin, what you just said. So Erin, I don't know, have you seen the Maps Prime Pro webinar that we did? Yeah, so actually I have to thank you guys for all of your content. So quick background on how I found you guys is because the owner approached me to do the group classes and then I quickly took on more responsibility and I had no idea what I was doing so I was searching for information, found you guys on the podcast, found the YouTube and I have almost every program now and that's what I use for my one-on-ones and I try to do priming as we warm up and I think I've been able to provide a lot of value because of that and I just want to thank you guys so much for providing all your content. Hell yeah, that a girl. So what Justin was just alluding to was actually one of the things I also started to do with the class. So again, instead of asking the bosses can I completely change your format? I said, could we add a day? I did it on Saturdays for one hour and it was on a time that they weren't using the classroom and I started to offer everyone that took my classes to come see me on Saturdays for this mobility class and I offered my service for free so I could teach them and educate them and before long that class became so full and all I was teaching was the Maps Prime Pro webinar basically. So all those mobility moves I'd do that for like an hour with them and I'd be talking to them while I'm teaching them. So I'm teaching these moves and I'm telling them this is why this is so important for you to do this.  This is why I'm always trying to teach you guys to slow down and work on your form and your core and so it allowed me to really educate while also taking through my great mobility class. That's a good way to approach the boss instead of again trying to get him to completely change what he's doing offer your services outside of the time that they're using start to try and fill that class up with the people that you're already teaching. Build some interest. That's right. Okay, okay. All right. Well, Aaron, thank you very much for calling in. Thank you guys. Merry Christmas. You too. Merry Christmas. Yeah, I can totally relate to that one. Oh dude, I mean, here's the deal. I managed gyms for a long time. If I had somebody in my gym that was working for me that was different than I was but they were bringing in members, providing value, their classes were full. It's undeniable. I'm gonna be okay with it. The key though, the hard part though and where she's at is that transition. Yes. It's not, it's when you're teaching it and you know that you would teach it differently or you're not happy with the format. You gotta be calculated with how to do it. Exactly.  No, because there's no evidence yet.  Yeah, you gotta, and that's why, I mean, the way I did it was by just adding more value to what we were already currently doing to gain that trust from my members. Totally. And then I transferred a free service on top of that and then before long, it was like, okay, now everybody was good. And then it was really easy. Now it's like, Adam, what are you doing? How can we do? Yeah, why is Adam's classes booked out two months and the next coach is maybe booked a week out. Maybe we should incorporate this. Right, right.


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I was having trouble getting up flights of stairs and I went to my doctor and he put me right in the hospital. I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and I received a pacemaker defibrillator at that time. I did very well for a few years, but then I began to have trouble breathing again. When I visited a hilly area with my daughter, I could barely walk 20 feet before I would have to stop and catch my breath. So I knew that I was having trouble again. I went back to the doctor, was put right back in the hospital and I needed a transplant, but my insurance wouldn't cover it. So the only alternative I had was to have an LVAD, a left ventricular assistive ice implanted in my heart. They put that in and a few hours later realized that the right side of my heart was dying. So they went back in and put a ventricular assistive ice in the right side. So I'm what they consider a bivad. I had two vads in my heart which continuously pumped blood through the heart to keep it going. But I got to feeling better and stronger and so I was able to go out and do things and be with friends and even do volunteer work. So they put me on the transplant list and actually 10 days later a heart came in. And I of course burst into tears when they called me because it's such an incredible gift. The main thing is that I have this nice steady heartbeat all the time. I don't have any more rhythm yet. I love to look at the monitor when I go see the doctor. It's like it's supposed to do because it's a very strong heart. So every day I think about different things that I can do now. Like when I was in the hospital recovering from the VAD surgery or recovering from the transplant surgery. I a lot of times couldn't get up and just take a walk. And now I can do that. So I think about just the little things each day that I can do. And some of the big things like driving the car again, being able to exercise. I couldn't do any of that beforehand. My advice to people who are facing either the VAD or transplant surgery is to say yes you will have days that are totally overwhelming. But the main thing is to try to be active as soon as you can. To just walk around the halls. You don't have to go quickly. You don't have to do it all at once. You can stop every 20 feet. But get up and move. That's the main thing. I found that to be so helpful in my healing. Women need to pay attention to what's going on in their bodies. I know that for myself I put off going to the doctor way too long. I was having symptoms a long time before I went to the doctor. And so by the time I got to the doctor, they wouldn't let me go home. They put me straight in the hospital each time. So I really encourage people to listen to their bodies. We're aware of what's going on and not ignore it. Women are dying of heart disease way more than they're dying of cancer. And people need to get a handle on that. People need to realize that. Being an organ donor is the greatest gift that you can give to anyone. A young man that I know has signed up to be a donor. And he saw me right after I got home. And I said, this is what you're going to do for someone.  And that's what I have. There's just no greater gift. It's unbelievable. I'm going to cry again. Just every time I think of it.