So, Shlomo, you are the relationship expert and marriage counselor. What do you think the best way for people to find the right marriage counselor for them could be? Well, the number one thing is to find someone who is trained in marriage counseling. That sounds like an obvious, but the truth is that, you know, all of us, even mass, at least for master level therapists, the licenses, the typical social worker, professional counselor, they had to have one class in marriage counseling, marriage and family therapy in grad school. Wow, just one? Just one. And that's enough to get yourself licensed as a therapist, and then you can put on your shingle individuals, families, couples, whatever you want. Well, I can tell you that after doing one course in marriage counseling, which I don't remember too much about, I would not have been able to work with couples. So I read somewhere a study was, I think like 80% of people, or more than 80% of people who are doing couple therapy, have only had one class. So that's pretty scary.


Dude stop being yourself up if you really want to improve your life like to the next level Follow these three steps any time you do or say something that you'll wish you hadn't or that you've regret Before we get into it. I just want to reiterate stop beating yourself up because it does nothing for you Nothing good or productive comes out of that and in fact, it'll keep you stagnant or moving backwards Think about it. If you have negative emotions directed at yourself or someone else, it isn't hurting anyone, but you If you're feeling resentment or anger or whatever towards someone else, is that really affecting them? No, probably not, but is it affecting you? Oh, yeah The goal of this video is to show you how to easily move on from these less desirable Emotions and feelings and how to actually make them productive and work for you So I want you to right now think of something that you're holding on to Something you did that maybe didn't work out something you said to someone that you wish you hadn't Maybe something you notice that you did that you aren't exactly proud of that doesn't align with who you want to be or who You see yourself as or who you strive to be an example of this could be Gossiping about a friend or saying something to a loved one that you kind of wish you hadn't okay Do you have that thing in mind? If you do and if you feel comfortable comment it below and share it with the rest of us Now you have to be really willing to look at yourself under a microscope and ask yourself Who do you really want to be does this action this feeling this thought whatever line up With that version of you that you want to be it's probably not So the first thing you need to do is take note take note of whatever you did or whatever You said and just bring that awareness in and I'll tell you what if you If you can do that you're already way ahead of the majority of people that can't even take accountability For their own actions and their own words.  Okay Now I also want you to take note of how this action makes you feel do you feel guilty? Do you feel disappointed in yourself? Do you feel shameful? Do you feel regret? Do you feel angered? Do you feel sad? The list goes on and on How does this action that you did Make you feel and this is important. So definitely take note of this. All right next and this one is difficult But you can't move on to step number two unless you've done step number one You can't change anything and you can't do anything about anything in your life If you don't first have the freaking awareness. Okay So don't even move on to this step unless you've got the first one figured out Whatever it was and the emotion it brought you we have to learn how to release judgment On the things that we did that we perceived to be wrong Or not in alignment with that person that we want to be so how do we do that? I want you to look at yourself as like a almost like a third person and also sidebar Understand that you're human and you're gonna make mistakes and that's okay And this process is going to help you through that but let's see back to number one stop beating yourself up Stop beating yourself up and now we will release judgment You are deciding in this moment that you refuse to hold on to this negative emotion Whatever and you will move past it and move through it moving through it is really the better way to go because We're facing this shithead on. Okay, so we don't want to just shove it down and forget about it If you move through it, that's really where the growth and the change occurs.  Oops didn't mean to do that won't do that again Look at it that way and I want to be clear here. This is not victimizing yourself Okay, we want to stay away from victimizing ourselves.  I I cannot stand people that victimize victimize themselves and like we've all been there. I've freaking done it, you know But like if you actually want to grow and you actually want to change and be happier and bring more fulfillment and all the things in My channel is about you've got to get out of victim mode And you know what if you guys want I'll do a video on that too. Um, let me know in the comments below and I will Make a video on victimization because it's bullshit It hurts me. Okay. I was around. Okay, let's keep going with the steps Next and for some of you this might be the hardest part for me personally This is the easiest part and that is finding the lesson in the circumstance Now I want you to go back to that emotion that I told you to identify in step number one And let's go back to let's go back to the gossiping example Say you feel guilty for gossiping about your family member your friend whoever and you feel Guilty about it. This doesn't align with who you are So the goal here is that you don't want to feel guilty about gossiping about someone you love That's what it really comes down to so you have to figure out, you know, I don't want to feel ex emotion For doing or saying why like that's what the first two steps kind of like encompass this too. Okay So how do you make sure that you don't feel that again?    So do it for yourself not for anyone else You know other people that you love. Yeah, they're a byproduct in this They will definitely benefit from you doing that. All right, but do it for you Do it for you because you deserve that you deserve to be the version of you that you want to be But it's not going to happen overnight and no one else can do it for you If you guys want value in this video, please don't forget to like and subscribe So we can hang out again next week. I love you guys so much and don't forget be limitlessly yourself


I am Swati Gadge, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering from Walton Institute of Technology, Solarpur. Topic for today's session, Ladder against wall friction. At the end of this session, learner will be able to solve problem of ladder against wall friction. In the figure one, the person is standing on the ladder and ladder is on horizontal floor and rest against vertical wall. We will draw the free body diagram of that ladder. This is a line showing ladder. The top point is A and the base point is B. At point A, it is supported with the help of vertical wall and at point B, it is supported with the help of floor. Self-heat of the ladder will act at the center of ladder and in vertically downward direction. The person is standing near to the upper end of the ladder and the self-heat of that person will act in vertically downward direction. For the free body diagram, we have to remove the support and instead of that support, we have to show the support reaction. So at point A, after replacement of vertical wall, the horizontal reaction will be act and at point B, after replacement of horizontal floor, the vertical reaction will be act. The point A will have the chances to slip down and the point B will have the chances to slip in right direction. So to avoid that motion, the frictional force will act in the opposite direction of motion. So frictional force is also shown in this figure. So free body diagram of this ladder is complete now. Now we will solve one numerical on ladder. Question is, a ladder of 5 meter long rests on horizontal ground and leans against a smooth vertical wall at an angle of 70 degree with the horizontal. Weight of the ladder is given 300 Newton and the man weight is 750 Newton and it stands on it 1.5 meter high. Question is, calculate coefficient of friction mu B between ladder and the floor to prevent the slipping of the ladder. So all the given data are highlighted here. So with the help of that, we will try to draw the free body diagram of the ladder. Ladder of length 5 meter and the upper end we will take as A and lower end of ladder we will take as B. Support at A vertical wall is supporting the ladder and at B the horizontal floor is supporting the ladder. Self height of the ladder that is 300 Newton given, it is shown at the center of the ladder in vertically downward direction. Angle is given 70 degree. So shown here in the figure. And the person is standing on the ladder at a height 1.5 meter high. So after replacement of the support, we have to show the support reaction. So support reaction at A is horizontal and support reaction at B will be vertical. And here only the frictional force in horizontal direction will act at B point because we have to determine mu B. And it is given that the vertical wall is a smooth wall. So friction offered by the vertical wall will be 0. So this is the complete free body diagram of this ladder. Total how many forces are there acting on the ladder? One is the support reaction at A. 300 Newton, self height of the ladder 750 Newton is the person weight standing on the ladder. RB and FB are the support reaction at point B. So here ladder length is given 5 meter. This is a non-concurrent force system. So we have to use a moment equation. The moment means force into distance. So we have to determine the distance of all the forces with one reference point. So for here we will take B as a reference point. Let us determine first the distance of RA from point B. So this is the force RA and here the point B is. So why is the distance of RA from point B? So if we form a triangle by considering ladder as a hypotenuse. So y is the opposite side of 70 degree. So for opposite side we always use a sign. So y is hypotenuse into sign 70 according to the trigonometry. So we will get y 4.698 meter. Similarly we will determine the x1. X1 is the distance of 750 Newton force from the support beam. So consider this small triangle. We have that opposite side of 70 degree is 1.5 and angle is 70 degree. So we will use here tan 70. Tan 70 is equal to opposite upon adjacent. Adjacent is x1. So x1 is equal to 1.5 divided by tan 70. So 0.546 is the x1. Now we will determine x2. X2 it is a distance of 300 Newton force from support beam. So for that we will consider that small triangle here. Ladder part is 2.5 meter and x2 is the adjacent side of 70 degree. So we will go for the cost formula. So x2 is equal to 2.5 into cost 70. So x2 is equal to 0.855. Now we will use equilibrium equation that is summation of vertical forces is equal to 0. So RB is equal to 300 plus 750. Only three forces are there in y direction RB 300 and 750. So RB must be equal to 300 plus 750. So it is 1050 Newton. Now we'll take a moment about point B. For the reference, we select point B for taking moment. And we have already determined all the distances from point B. So first take a moment of RA about point B. So RA into y is the moment. And to determine whether it is clockwise or anti-clockwise, just rotate your hand in the direction of four. So it is a clockwise moment. So plus RA into y. So similarly, determine the moment of 300 Newton. So 300 Newton into x2 and rotate your hand in the direction of four. So it is anti-clockwise moment. So minus 300 into x2. Similarly, 750 also giving you the anti-clockwise moment. So 750 into x1, it is anti-clockwise moment. So it is minus 750 into x1. For that, we have used the sign convention. For clockwise moment, we use a positive sign. And for anti-clockwise moment, we use a negative sign. All the calculated values of x1, x2, and y put in the equation and find out RA. So RA will come 141.762 Newton. Now we will use this third equilibrium equation, that is summation of fx is equal to zero. RA and RB are in the x direction. So these two forces must be same. So RA is equal to RB is equal to 141.762 Newton. Now here we have FB and RB. So from the coefficient of friction formula, the coefficient of friction is equal to FB upon RB. So put the values of FB and RB in this formula and find out the coefficient of friction at B. It will come 0.135 Newton. Now we'll solve now second numerical. A four meter ladder is weighing 200 Newton. It's placed against a vertical wall. A man weighing 800 Newton reaches a point 2.7 meter from A. The ladder is about to slip. Assuming the mu between ladder and the vertical wall is 0.2. Determine the coefficient of friction mu between the ladder and the floor. So you pause video here. Similar to the first problem, you try to solve and find out the value of mu. Let us see the solution of that problem. So free body diagram is shown here. So similar way we will determine all the distances y, x1, x2, and x3 here because here vertical wall is also offering some friction. It is in this numerical it is not given that vertical wall is smooth. So FB will be there. So we have to determine the distance of that FB with respect to A. That is a reference point, okay? So y, x1, x2, and x3 determine like this by using a trigonometrical formula. The coefficient of friction at vertical wall and the ladder is given that is 0.2. So the FB is equal to 0.2 into RB. Now we take a moment about point A. Here we cannot use directly summation fy is equal to 0 or summation fx is equal to 0 because we are carrying two unknown in y direction and two unknown in x direction. So first we will take a help of moment equation. So RB moment is RB into y. It is clockwise moment, so plus. FB moment is FB into x3, it is also clockwise moment. 200 force moment is 200 into x2, it is anticlockwise moment. 800 force moment is 800 into x1, it is also anticlockwise moment. So after putting all the values in the equation, we will get RB. RB is equal to 331.263. RB and FA, only two forces are there in x direction, so they must be same. So directly right here FA will be also 331.263 Newton. And we have already determined FB is equal to 0.2 into RB. So after putting this value, that determine FB that is 66.252 Newton. Now last equation we will use that is summation of vertical forces. So RA is equal to 800 plus 200 minus FB. So RA will come 933.748 Newton. So here we have RA and FA. So mu at A that is, it is a ratio of frictional force divided by support reaction that is RA. So mu is equal to FA upon RA, so it will come 0.355. So correct option is 0.354 that is near to our answer. Thank you very much.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie Level A Night Edition is stock number 14048Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck and ram headquarters. This 2022 Ram 2500 has the 6.4 liter V8 gas Hemi engine, puts out 410 horsepower, paired up the 8-speed automatic transmission. This truck has a max tow capacity of 14,759 pounds and a max payload capacity of 3,020 pounds. I found those on Ram's tow guide website, I'll link that in the description below. This truck in particular has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the vehicle possible. Bright white clear coat is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K and if you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto. Click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube 8,000 videos and counting. This one comes with the 20 inch painted black alloy wheels and it has firestone transverse LT28560R20 tires. I would say they have probably 70, 60, 70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean. This one was always owned in Utah, has a clean car fax, clean title history and is really nice all the way around. You get the LED headlamps, LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. I'm going to turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are because they do look really good and they are super bright. You get the gloss black grill, you also get a very nice clean hood, no dents or dings on there. Passenger side front fender is in fantastic condition. You get those fender flares with the Laramie package and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Now as you go down this side of this 2022 Ram 2500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck and then have the confidence in the vehicle to make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that smart and informed buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. The back wheel is in excellent shape as well, no scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, frame and underbody looks really good once again probably because it's been in Utah its whole life, it's like that all the way underneath and it does have the power running boards, lower rockers all look really good. I'll show you that the passenger side is working nicely those are AMP research running boards and they do have some LED lights on there as well. Going down the rest of the side of the passenger side box here, no dents or dings on that, get the LED tail lamps, the rear bumper is in great shape, no dents or dings on there and it does have the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring, you also get the backup parking sensors on there too. Tailgate is in very nice condition, has a shock down assist tailgate, I'm guessing it has the power drop down tailgate as well, comes with a weather tech bed mat, that's in pretty nice shape and it has been screwed down. You do get a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here, now I don't think this one has the fifth wheel or goose neck prep package so it's just a solid bed underneath there. You get that weather tech mat that goes on to the tailgate as well and that shuts nice and solidly. Going down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side, no dents no dings on there, looks really really good and for full disclosure this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Cab and doors all look fantastic on this truck, this one does have the heated fold-up tow mirrors built-in directional signals, they fold up like so, fold in like that they also have LED side lights on them, I'll show you those in just a second.  Storage under the driver side, the other side has a factory subwoofer, you get the Berber floor mats back here, USB and USB-C hookups as well as a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in and then you get in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning you can put ice and drinks in there and it's like you have too many coolers wherever you go or if you're not in Wisconsin just extra storage space you do get side curtain airbags on there as well and child safety locks on the back doors inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic on this truck. I'll show you the VIN stickers as long as I'm standing right here, no Canadian trucks here, tire and loading information sticker and inside the Laramie level A package gives you the black leather and suede bucket seats in the front as well, you also get the Laramie stitched into the backrest and you get the gray piping throughout. Both these front seats are heated and cooled, you get the Berber floor mats up here as well, Autohead lamps, power pedals, power windows, locks and mirrors, suede inserts on the door kind of that diamond-plated looking finish to the door there as well. These mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly and you also get a memory driver seat. Last but not least you get the power blind spot mirror so if you look at that mirror on the outside you can see that that is moving that's really nice especially for the passenger side mirror you can adjust that while you're sitting in the truck. Top and side take a look at the miles radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 14,362 miles you do get the nice 7-inch LCD display, digital speedometer, water temp, oil temp, transmission temp, you can change all those corners to read whatever you want miles per gallon, time, radio station whatever so instrument cluster is very nice and clean, smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in you get cruise control and gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls in the back and the steering wheel is as you can see leather wrapped and heated. Push button start, push button four wheel drive, your eight speed automatic transmission this one does have the Uconnect 5 radio it's run on Android and it's supposed to be like five times faster than the old one. Now you get the factory navigation system on there there's highway 41 so that is working nicely. You also get AM, FM and serious XM radio capabilities you can do your climate controls here as well including your dual climate controls and you can also do your heated and cooled seat buttons and heated steering wheel controls there as well. You get all these different apps on here including the cameras and everything and off-road pages those are pretty cool I'll show you those. You get steering angle so as you can as I turn that steering wheel that angle changes you also get latitude, longitude and altitude and if you're transfer cases in two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. You get different accessory gauges and pitch and roll right there obviously we got to be in GPS signal for the pitch and roll to work we're inside the building right now so that doesn't work too well but we can check out the backup camera and you can see just how crystal clear that is they made those HD when they redid the RAM in 19 nice and crystal clear and you can zoom in on your receiver hitch I think the truck's got to be on for that to work but that's a really nice system as well so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time and then just all your other apps on there you can do Android Auto, Apple CarPlay as well down here's your factory brake controller, stability control, tow-haul mode and you can turn those front and rear parking sensors off to USBs to USB C's and an aux jack and down there is a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. Keyless entry, remote start and it does have the power drop-down tailgate like I suspected passenger side format and seat are in fantastic condition as well no rips or tears in there once again I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in and the headliners in great shape you get those speakers in the ceiling part of that premium Alpine sound system, assistant SOS buttons and power sign where window controls, power drop-down tailgate and map lights there home link buttons for your garage doors, security systems and lighting systems and there's the Alpine badge so you know you get the good sound system. Alright let's start it up take a look under the hood. Starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that other than my hood's open. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. There's the LED lights on the side there they are super bright and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out all those lights are working very nicely and under the hood we have the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine, engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped up and it is 100% ready to go.  There's the emission sticker of course this one's got all the remaining factory bumper to bumper and powertrain warranty and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint I'd ship this one to California, Texas, New York, Florida, wherever whoever's gonna get it it's gonna love it. 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Good morning, stocky traders. Welcome back on this lovely Thursday. I'm pretty excited. Having a bunch of really good runners. We finished phase three. Great afternoon class. Josh ran himself. Hopefully everybody had really enjoyed it and watched a bunch of stuff that was going on there. Oh, hold on. There we go. Had my voice off. There you go. Welcome back, everybody. Hope everyone's having a great Thursday. Great lesson. We got beautiful stuff that happened. Want to talk about what happened yesterday. I know Josh had a great afternoon, phase three. We had book map here. I know you guys love it. We'll talk a little bit about that. But let me tell you something. How is Carvana doing? How? I mean, I can't believe how much this stock has gone up in the short period of time that we had it. And I've been patient for about a month now, but it finally kind of picked up some steam. Who here has Carvana? Who traded it in the trading room? Just out of curiosity. Who has it?  I mean, I've been talking about it forever. Right around the $4.50. Wendy, you have it. You're holding on to Phil. Brian, you have for a few days. Lewis, good, good, good. Looks like all the Diamond students and all our gold students have it. Wendy, you have it. Good, good, good. Listen, Brian, you made money. That's all that matters. Brian said he got out early. Listen, it was great day trade too. Yes, it was phenomenal. But there was just so many other stocks that were just moving, that were just crazy. How about the one we traded yesterday, the day before, that was at $8.00 and went to $80. You know what I mean? What was that, the MGSM? Let me just bring that up. And I want to talk about the stock really quick, MGAM. All right, let me just bring this up. And no, that was the wrong one. That was the Warren. What was the other one? It was MSGM. There you go. Oops, MS. I can't type, maybe the clock is kicking in a little bit too much right here. So anyway, here it is, this one right here. This thing was just wild. So for some of you here, we were trading it the day before and it was right around the $7.00 and the thing went all the way up to about $25.00. Substantial big runner up. But remember what I told you? Remember what I told you yesterday, in yesterday's meeting? The stock literally right around 8 o'clock in the morning was around $65.00. I got in it, I got out. And thank God I got out of it. I lost a little bit on it. And right here, you could see the writing on the wall but the stock started trending down, down, down, down and you could see right when the market opened up, bam. Stock just got crushed. You could read the writing on the wall and if you were in class yesterday in the morning meeting I told you specifically, do not trade this stock. Period, okay? And then the stock went all the way down to 23 and it did a big slingshot to 45. Who cares? We do not trade stocks like this.  And hopefully that was a very good lesson for everybody to learn. Now getting back to the Carvana trade, this is the issue I have with Carvana. It's going up too fast, okay? I told you this, we don't like when you swing trade stocks like this. Now, a lot of you are probably asking where's the resistance levels? So when you blow up the chart here a little bit further and if I zoom in over here, it's going to give you a little bit of a sense of direction where we're at and it didn't work. There we go, hold on. So right around here you could see that there's a lot of resistance levels. Back here, well we broke this resistance levels here. It was, yeah, right around here. You see the lows on the top left hand corner? It's around 1920. And then when you go back here in June, July, August, see the lows right there? 1940, we're just about there. That is a major, major resistance levels. Now, when I go over here on level four, which a lot of you guys want to check out, I guess that's obvious. By the way, who enjoyed the event that we did with Bruce Pringle yesterday at 1130? You know, when we're talking about book map. Well, I hope you guys really enjoyed that because we're gonna be doing a lot more of those. You know, now we're doing the best that we can to stream more. We're streaming now on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, well, YouTube forever, Facebook, all of it. So we're gonna be sharing for you on the social media part of it, but by the ones that are in class, you know, you got the morning training hours the afternoon, but these are things that are gonna teach you to become good. You have to learn before you can earn. And remember, we're not here to talk about fluff. We're not here to brag, okay? We're here to educate and we're here to trade like a team. So I'm gonna hope you guys enjoyed that. It was recorded, so if you missed it, you can always get back on your dashboard or you can watch our YouTube channel. Anyway, right here you can see a big, big resistance levels right around $19 for $25,000. Now let me explain something to you. That's not a lot. That's not a lot because if we go back in history, if you remember a couple of days ago, we saw a 200, 300, what the hell is 25,000? But from what it looks like right now, it's a resistance, okay? Because we're in the pre-market, but I'm pretty scared, okay? I'm really nervous about this number and it's a major, major resistance. So if you are a swing trader and you're in that position, that's the number really gonna be focused on where to get out. And it looked like it kind of got there just a little bit in pre-market and kind of backed right off, but she's up a lot. Remember, most of us, if everybody who was in here when we were watching it, I basically, you should have all had about $4.50. That was the number that we were watching it. And remember what I was telling you, I'm driving and it's funny, I mean, Josh was talking about it, driving around and who else told me about it? Driving down on my parkway and I see this big glass building being built.  A tower or something? Like a cell tower? And then sure, I saw a caravan. I'm like, they're still business? I'm like, this stock was $250. I guess bankruptcy is working out pretty well. So I think it's probably a really big short squeeze. Anyway, let's go talk about some other stocks that we did trade yesterday because it just wasn't this one that did big moves yesterday. Peloton moved awesome yesterday too. For some of you missed out on that one, that thing ran from 13 up to 15 and had a nice push going into the close. Stock was right around $5, that's $16. And all the stock does up about 300%. A lot of these stocks are doing pretty well. Listen, Peloton was in, you know, pandemic. It was up in the 180s. I mean, look, this thing was all the way up there, all the way up there. So that stock did pretty well too. What else that we have? AI, so that one moved pretty nicely to him. So ticked off, I sold that stock. I had a swing trade on it. I, you know, I was getting, I didn't want to, I made money on it, that's all I could say, but AI would have nice moving stock and she's moving again, okay? So the stock is starting to fall into a, you know, a really nice swing trade also. So AI is doing pretty nice. That was picked up AMD also. Nice run up in AMD, AMD got hammered. And you could see that, but it's been on a really, really nice little move lately. AMD, nice little comeback on that. Also with AMD also, you had, was it, NVIDIA moved up pretty nicely. Another stock, and I want to bring it up, Brian in the trade, you know, private chat to me. He says, Faus, do you swing trading DKNG? Draft King, Draft King did pretty well too. Draft King, he owned it at, I think he said, would you say you own it at Brian? Brian told me, what would you have? He had like, I think he said, 1480 Brian had it. So he did a really nice swing trade on that one. I was a big fan of it and this thing was easy. I mean, look, the stock had major support levels of $10. I'm so upset at myself that we didn't see it earlier. Okay? But she had a really good move yesterday going into the close. And Brian, you're still holding it. There you go. That's what I want to hear. Beautiful. Now, let's talk about, now listen, let's talk about what's going today, right? What's moving today? We got about 20 minutes till the market opens up. Some of you here have never trade pre-market. Now you're seeing the value of it. But let's talk about what's moving this morning. So we obviously, going in the big percentage gainer is a couple of the stocks that are moving. You had this one stock, the TNX. Now this stock, you had a really good run up in after hours, which is not really moving up too much. It's just up about 139%. She's kind of trending down. I'll put it on the watch list, but this is not something that I'm super excited about. I love the spread. I love the volume, but I don't like the trend. Remember what we always teach you, tradable, trend, and trap. So TNX, we're gonna put that on the B list. So that's the biggest percentage gainer. This is another stock up about 67%. She's up big from yesterday, pharmaceutical stock, but she's starting to trend down. Not really a big fan of that, okay? So remember, there's a lot, excuse me, there's a lot of stocks that are moving. I know we always get this, everyone always asks me, how do you filter out, out of all those, which ones you wanna trade? 50% of the people fail by trading things that are not tradable. So, and this is what we do. You gotta know the spread. You gotta know the trend. This is the experience you get when you're part of Cyber Trading University, okay? It's what we teach you what to do. This one, flat line. Now, BBBY on the other hand, we've been trading this stock. We know very well to be very careful. It's got these wicked sling shots, but BBBY is doing pretty decent. Had a big sling shot this morning, came back down, it's got some good support levels, right around here, around 340, okay? So, there's a couple other ones here. Meta, shockingly, had good earnings yesterday, okay? So, Meta was down to 100s, already had 180, really nice swing trade on that stock right there. She's doing pretty well. Now, you know we're not gonna trade Meta, but what might do pretty well is Snapchat, because Snapchat got hit pretty bad yesterday, I guess with their earnings, but with that, it's starting to come up a little bit. So, I would probably follow Snapchat, because obviously they own them, and it's a little bit cheaper, a little bit easier to follow, better easy trend, okay? Now, what else did we have here? We had, oh, GNS. So, this stock is moving pretty big right here, and I was looking here on level four, and you know what, there was a buyer right here that showed up, you could see it there for 86,000, and it kind of held there, and I guess he pulled his order, so it came right back down to seven. I know he's still out there, because you could see the orders right here popping up a little bit. It's a nice moving stock. It's up about 39%, the spread is a little big. Tier size is a little bit small, so I'll be a little careful. Remember, I'm always looking on member traders, and this is what separates us from everyone else. We don't focus on the winners. We focus on the losers, because we've got to control them.  Loser's most important. Carvada, you could see it right now, is the second biggest percentage gain on New York Stock to change. SI, yes, so Wendy, thanks for sharing that. SI moving really nicely, another stock. Hey, this could be our next, you know, our next biggest little runner up here, because here's a stock that was at 160. She's been moving up pretty nicely the last couple of days. This could be a good swing trade also. I mean, it's funny, you gotta be careful. You got SI and you got AI. So make sure you guys don't confuse the two. This stock has a really nice, couple of really nice levels. Buyers bidding it up, 18, 1850, 1880, really nice. No sellers out there, all buyers, okay? So we're starting to get a little bit of the building effect on that one. That one's pretty nice, I like SI, okay? Remember, today is Thursday. Fridays when things start slowing up, Thursdays are very, very important days for us. So pretty much, I think we're done right there, right? This stock has gone up, but we're not gonna trade that one. This one's a little slow. These are all very, very spotty, low volume stocks. Any good shorts? This one's trying to come back a little bit. It's got some big buyers out there. We'll probably get a dead cat bounce on this one maybe. I think I'm pretty much done there. All right, so anything I'm missing, I did not call out. Anybody on YouTube, Facebook, any of the five social media, cyber traders, anything else, I think we got a pretty big list here. I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine on that list. Now remember, we only need one. So for everybody here in the trading room, and by the way, if you're watching any of the social media networks, you could just like us, friend us, you could join us on our trading room with our all day, but just remember everybody, there's always new stocks that do pop up. Not all of them are the ones we're gonna trade, okay? So we're gonna trade a couple of them and we'll trade a couple of them. Oops, I spelt this word wrong. It's had HPI, it's H-B-I.  All right, everybody, let's get ready for the market open up. We got about 15 minutes. Let's get ready for that nice, hopefully we have a good day like yesterday, just don't get too cocky, and everyone else will be back here at 2.30 for the afternoon meeting. Cyber traders, traders in the room, like we always say, be safe, all right? Good luck, don't get too cocky. We had a good day, we paid our bills, you know, try to end up, this month's been so far, I've been pretty decent, which is exciting. Good luck, everyone, happy trading. We'll see you back at 2.30.


Pat, I've got to know, what's your favorite? This is Sports Center app. Well, I really love the anchors who are trying to teach the players how to get big, you know? He's like, you got to say it with me. He's like, I'm the man. Kobe Bryant's like, I'm the man. He's like, no, I'm the man. I'm the man. Oh, I'm the man. I'm the man. He's got to be like, I'm the man. The anchors are hyping up the players in this sort of flip-flop scenario, so I really like that one. And then Michael McKeehan from Spinal Tap, he's in character. We're talking about writing a theme song. Obviously, Sports Center owes a lot to Spinal Tap and that sort of style of things. So seeing him in there, it's just hilarious. What about if you wanted to go obscure, say, maybe curling? Oh, yeah, I've got a curling piece. It goes like this.


This is how people become a victim in their life. They wait until they feel good before they do right. Instead, we can flip that equation around and realize that if we do right, we will feel good. Now this is something that all of us probably need to be reminded of every day, right? Because it is normal. It is typical. This is what everybody does is to wait until they feel good before they do the right thing. Wait until conditions are optimal. Wait until things are working well before they do what they said they were going to do. Whatever that means for you. However, you're pursuing your goals. So for example, these videos that I make, I never feel like making these videos. I never feel like posting on Instagram. Now you might say, gosh, George, how do you live with yourself? You've never feel like doing it and you still do it. Isn't that painful? Well, let me ask you this. What about the people who stay fit, who exercise, who go to the gym or train for marathons? Do you think they feel like doing it? If people only did it, if they felt like it, there would be no marathon runners. There would be no elite athletes. There would be no world-class artists or successful business people. Successful people have learned to keep reminding themselves of the correct equation, which is when you do right, then you feel good. You do right no matter how poorly you feel. No excuses. If you allow yourself excuses, you will manifest things. That you can call excuses. It's the truth. If you say, oh, I don't feel good right now, then you're going to manifest more, not feeling good. Oh, the family emergency right now. Oh, you're going to manifest more family emergencies. Oh, I've got a phone call I got to take. Well, it's magical. You're going to manifest more phone calls. It's a weird thing. Okay, so if you plan, so here's the simple so simple formula, plan, practice, and then praise. Let me explain this. You plan what your goals are and what you need to do to achieve your goals. Whatever it is, you have to decide for yourself. What is sustainable for you? And yes, in the planning phase, you need to work it out with your family. You need to work it out with your sense of health, whatever your health needs are. You need to work those things out in your plans. Oh, I need a certain amount of sleep. I need a certain amount of self-care. I need a certain amount of time with family, things to take care of. And when I'm working my goals, then I need to tell my family, this is not the time to contact me, to bother me or whatever it is. I will help you afterwards. You need to plan so that it's sustainable. Sustainable rhythm to reach your goals. And then you need to practice your plans no matter what. You need to show up for the process no matter what. And the practice means that it's not going to be perfect.  No matter how poorly you feel, no matter how suboptimal the results, I make these videos anyway. So for example, my green screen here, I haven't figured it out yet. So here you got the white screen behind me. It's not optimal, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm doing the video anyway. And then praise. So plan, practice and praise.  You got to praise yourself or praise God, whatever you believe the source of your power is, the source of your creativity, praise that source, whether it's yourself or God or universe and celebrate. Okay. Then you reinforce how good it is to follow your plan. So break the cycle of having to feel good before you do right. This is how people get into a terrible life. They don't feel good. So therefore they don't do the right thing. And not doing the right thing means that they feel guilty. And then feeling guilty means that they go into addictions because they're trying to escape the bad feelings of not doing the right thing. Okay. And then the bad consequences that happen as a result of not doing the right thing.  And then it's a vicious cycle. Then you still feel bad and you don't do the right thing. And then you feel guilty and then you escape. And then break the cycle immediately right now by saying, I'm going to commit right now to do right, no matter what, knowing that I will feel good afterwards. And here's a tool that can help. You can give yourself a quick minute. Use your mind and heart to reset yourself. Breathe and say your affirmations or meditate or do yoga or whatever. Just for one minute, reset yourself to say, I'm just going to feel a little bit better. Just a little bit better right now by resetting myself without needing any substances. And then I'm going to do the right thing. No matter how poorly I do it, knowing if I do it consistently, I will get better at it over time. Okay. Do the right thing and then I will feel good afterwards. So I hope this helps. Now it's your turn. Go and reset yourself just for one minute. Go do the right thing, the thing that you plan to do to reach your goals. And then you'll feel great afterwards. Take care.


Training, load monitoring and prescription has been a hot topic recently within both academic and applied circles within sports science, and really there's been a lot of arguments and discussions around what are the advantages, what are the limitations, how do we move forwards as a field. And I think a lot of it comes down to different people coming at the same problem, but from completely different perspectives. So hopefully it's really useful to get an academic and a practitioner together to discuss this and think, yeah, how do we move forward? What are the limitations of our own current approaches? And that's the idea of this chat today, really. So it's a bit of an introduction. I'm Stuart McEarlane-Nailer. I'm a lecturer in sport and exercise biomechanics at Loughborough University. My PhD was very theoretical in nature, looking at the simulation of shockwave transmission through the body after people land on the ground. So purely theoretical biomechanics. I then took a job at a very small, new university with a much more applied focus where I got involved in a bit more wearable tech and training load monitoring. Having now returned to Loughborough, I'm trying to merge these two worlds and say, how can we use wearable technology as an input in place of some of the laptop or computer-based things that I've done previously to try and advance the training load monitoring field, whether that's in sport or rehabilitation. So that's the background I'm coming from. And I'm really glad to be joined today by Joe Club. And yeah, I'll probably let Joe introduce herself rather than me butchering it. So to you, Joe. Thank you, Stuart. Yes, I'm Joe Club. I'm representing in this conversation, the applied practitioner. I have been an applied sport scientist in professional team sports for a number of years. I worked for Chelsea Brighton in English football before moving to the US, where I worked for the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL and then the Buffalo Bills in the NFL. And now I'm working as a sports science consultant with teams, individuals, organisations, sports tech startups all over the world. And I also just love to discuss sports science insights and that translation from the research to apply practice. And I do that through my company, Global Performance Insights on my blog and my YouTube channel. So I'm really keen for interested to get into this conversation today. Great. Thanks, Joe. And yeah, definitely check out Joe's YouTube channel while you're here or maybe after this conversation, there's some really useful videos over there in terms of training load monitoring as well. I guess to start the conversation, then, it'd be really interesting for me and hopefully people watching or listening to this, if you could just give me a bit of a background in how you or others within your area typically monitor training load and what you think kind of the pros and cons of that are at the moment. Yes, so I will admit firstly straight out the gate that my bias, my experience is more so towards team sports than the individual kind of endurance based sports. So generally speaking in team sports, external load monitoring, so player tracking of distances, speeds, accelerations, decelerations on a whole body level has desperately become the focus. There are a lot of technologies, predominantly GPS now, that is very commonplace across a lot of these settings. And even now in the last 10 years or so, we've seen competitions permit league wide tracking or perhaps I say permit, but sometimes these technologies are determined by the league. So there is a league wide provider on game day, which may then differ from in practice. And given the ease of those kinds of technologies, particularly RFID or optical tracking that doesn't burden the athlete, those have become the go to external load tracking in competition. But that might not be the same provider or type of technology as being used in practice or training in the week. And then internal load, it's interesting, right? Because I think early on in applied practice that was came first in terms of heart rate and GPS, sorry, heart rate and RPE. And perhaps now in certain sports, we're seeing that movement away from internal load tracking. I think that's just the nature of perhaps external load is maybe now less invasive and just gets so many numbers. That internal load tracking has gone by is becoming less common in certain sports. Yes, when you say external load gets so many numbers that it's kind of overwhelming internal load measures. What kind of numbers are you talking about on a kind of daily basis? What kind of things are people actually paying attention to? Definitely bias towards distances, total distances and high speed distances running distances above certain speed thresholds. Now, there's going to be so many rabbit holes. I think we could go down in this conversation, right? Because immediately there, OK, we're trying to turn continuous data into buckets to say, OK, above this speed is high speed running or above this speed is sprint distance. And that also varies across sexes, ages, individuals. So there's a whole bunch of complexity there. We have seen in recent times, perhaps more awareness around acceleration and now catching up is deceleration. There's more discussion in our field that perhaps decelerations are such a damaging movement. And I'm sure you have thoughts on that biomechanically and associated with injury risk and performance that we need to pay a bit more attention to that. And then I would sort of say the third bucket are accelerometry derived metrics. So obviously, these are provider specific. But if I pull out perhaps the most common one is player load that's trying to capture those lower speed but higher intensity type movements. But as I alluded to, whilst that has benefit in applied practice, because those wearable devices aren't always used in competition, then we may be limited with when we get access to that. Perhaps we only get it during the week in training and not come game day. So what other constraints are you working within? There's a key one there in terms of what you're actually allowed to wear in competition, but even in a training or rehab kind of based session, what are the kind of constraints of what is and isn't doable? A league wide provider, for instance, the NBA have a committee that assesses different technologies. And even though in that instance, you might have some variety in those that you could pick from. You have to pick from the ones that they deem suitable, which is quite interesting context. One thing I've written about on my blog is this precision practicality trade off. So it's perhaps not a legal constraint, but I think in applied practice, we are always trying to balance this desire for precision and accuracy with the practicalities. And I think this is where this is exactly where our conversation intersects. Right. So one example I'd give for that, although it's less biomechanical, is body composition. So DEXA being the gold standard, the most precise methodology, but not particularly practical to either go to or have in your environment. That said, some environments with more well resourced to have it versus perhaps pod pod or skin pod calipers, which are more practical tools, but then you lose some of that precision. And so I think for any kind of technology, but in the context of talking about low monitoring, it's this, how do we best compromise on precision to maximise practicality or get the best trade off there? So, for instance, often now GPS devices or wearable devices will be worn rather than in those vests. They will be worn in custom made pouches. That are sewn into the back of player jerseys or shirts. It makes it more practical. You can put it in there in the morning long before the players get in. They don't need to put anything on. There is no burden to them whatsoever. But of course, that approach loses some of the precision in terms of the reliability, the additional movement of the device. If I think back to my time working in American football, some practices will have your full pads on. Some will have what's called shells, which is like a lighter equipment. And some might just be the jersey. So in all those instances, there is a difference in what's being worn underneath. But in order to try and maximise compliance, that's the approach that's taken. Yeah, that's a really good point there as well, in terms of the separation between GPS based metrics and accelerometer derived metrics as well. Because I think if you're looking for total distance covered within reason, whether that GPS unit is in an elasticated vest or on top of other clothing, the distance covered is pretty much the distance covered. Whereas once you start getting into things like play load from Catapult or dynamic stress load from statsports, if these are based on peak accelerations, then we know from just pure biomechanics research for getting training load from in it that the attachment of an accelerometer to the participant is incredibly important to accelerometer based research. How tight that attachment is is going to have a big impact on not just kind of peak acceleration, but even not wanting to get too technical when we get into frequency components of that signal, the way you've got high frequency noise, maybe low frequency of the thing. Actually, you know, the limb moving moving through space and then somewhere in the middle, you've got the actual shockwave from the ground traveling up through bones, skin, muscle, clothing. They'll travel at different rates through different materials. All of that is going to be changed by the actual mounting of the device. And I think that links quite nicely on to another question I wanted to ask, which is how accurate is accurate enough because as academic, there's a big tendency for us to try and almost assume that everything has to be as accurate as possible. And it has to be lab based or it has to be the absolute gold standard or it's not good enough. But like you said, with the precision and practicality trade off, if something's very accurate, but can only be done in the lab, that's not good enough. If something can be applied in the field, but it's not accurate enough at all, that's also not good enough. And maybe we'll come on to this later. But one of the areas where I think we need to work together is actually establishing how accurate does it have to be? What questions are you trying to answer? Is it just how did their training load compare to last week? Was it higher or lower? That only needs a certain level of precision. If it's comparing two drills or two athletes, there's a certain level of precision. I think I don't know if you've got any answers to any of that, but just how accurate or how much error would you be willing to accept in some of these measures in order for it to be kind of applicable in a field based setting? Or how would you even go out making those decisions? I think it's a great question. And one I wish I had the straightforward answer for. But I think this is the beauty of this conversation, right? Is perhaps academics and researchers would be surprised in certain settings at how much of a bias and a lean there is towards the practicality standpoint, because if you just consider the logistics, I'll use American football as an example because it's just such an extreme example in terms of logistical demands of in certain times of the year in the offseason, preseason period, you have 90 athletes, nine zero and, you know, perhaps four or five strength coaches and sports science staff trying to run around and manage all of that. And obviously the technology and the training load is just one aspect on top of everything else that's going on.  But then even if you were in an environment where you use them, insisted on burdening the players with putting that additional equipment on, well, then you're juggling the different sizes of the garments and, you know, alignment, however big, 150 kilos, 300 pounds is not going to fit into a small or medium. But then you get the other guys with an extra large that's alignments worn. And so I do think there is this need for more collaboration and communication as we move forward here of like what the amazing work that's being done in the lab, but the realities, again, of the of the applied setting. Yeah, I completely agree. But I think that's a really good point of where I think as academics when necessarily even giving practitioners the information that they need in order to make those decisions, because all of the validity and reliability work where that's even possible to be done is in very controlled environments. Yeah, we're even back to that mounting example again. But reliability work will typically be in, you know, the manufacturer provided harness. Nobody is saying this is the reliability of the unit if you wear it in this particular way. Or nobody is saying, you know, we might have a study that says this is reliable or valid to within certain limits. But then it's being extrapolated outside of the range in which it was tested. And you almost can't make a decision around is it OK to accept this precision practicality trade off because you don't actually know how big that trade off is unless we're measuring those things. I'm interested along those lines of what isn't research currently doing that you wish it was. But if you forget about practicality for a moment, what would you want to know about an athlete that you don't currently know if you could design a training load metric of some kind? What is it you can't currently measure that would be your kind of holy grail that you really want access to? Oh, I don't know. Well, obviously holy grail is the performance in the injury prediction pieces, right? I mean, clearly we are biased towards these whole body metrics in training load, total distances and play loads and acceleration base. But of course, we know even from the textbooks and appreciating the complexity of the human body that there's so much more going on inside in terms of the tissue types in terms of of the joints. And I think that we've got a great starting point now with these global whole body external load measures. But actually, you know, there is so much more in going on inside the body in terms of what's going on with the different tissue and structural components and, you know, linking with that that trade off again in applied practice. We're we're always seeking to simplify things. And this is perhaps the difference, again, of of the the lab where you're going into more and more detail and you can disagree if you want. But, you know, as I said about external load monitoring, we're getting hundreds, if not thousands of metric. And we want to know the one, two, maybe four at max measures that we then report to coaches or physios, medical staff or strength conditioning staff. But in doing that, I think as practitioners, it's important we realise that we are oversimplifying it, that we are reducing complexity down to a handful of numbers. But I would love to have more access under the hood to those, you know, more specific measures of, well, we're talking about training global, but what impact does that have on the tendons, on the muscles, on the joints? Because that when it comes to rehab, that's the level we look at. But we don't tend to look at that level on a global training load basis. Yeah, you raised the point that I was going to make, which was around simplicity or the number of metrics where I think if we separate this into a performance or rehab context, you can definitely see why in a rehab context, it would be useful to know what is the load on through the Achilles tendon or the hamstring or ACL, etc. But then from a general kind of, I guess, from that rehab perspective, you're targeting a specific tissue and looking for relationships between stimulus and adaptation. But from a general training perspective, where does that balance lie between? I guess you're looking for a meant from what you just said, you're looking for a metric that describes the stimulus to adaptation for the whole body. But then even if we were able to accurately give or quantify that stimulus, it would be specific to tissue types. Like you said, are we talking about tendon, ligament, muscle, bone? What is it we're talking about? But even within that is what muscle are we talking about? What ligament? What tendon? But if we were in this main belief world that might not be too far away, but if we were able to even estimate what is the load through the ACL ligament, for example, if we could do that, you'd then have this even longer list of metrics than now has every part of the body.  But what is it? Are you looking for a load on specific tissues? Are you looking for a number that represents adaptation at muscular tendon level? Something that represents this is ground reaction force. And we're going to assume that it correlates with loads of other things. So this is an overall measure of muscle activity within a particular part of the body. Yeah, I don't really know what the question is, but where's that? Yeah, without spamming you a hundred more metrics. Well, that is the problem, isn't it? I'm asking for simplicity, but then I've asked for more detail and more numbers. I guess rather than starting with the numbers and the metrics from an applied practitioner perspective, what are the questions I'm being asked right around training load? And that is, you know, questions around minutes. How, you know, how long should we train for? How long should we do these drills for? What kind of drill should we be doing in, again, American football? That's more rep based. So certain sports is minutes, certain sports is rep based. How do we design preseason training to progressively overload the different tissue types and help our players adapt so that they are exposed to optimal training load and be ready for the first game of the season? How much recovery should we give them? And then, yes, the rehab piece, obviously, is where we get more intricate and think about it. So, you know, right now we're answering those questions on training, planning and monitoring based on very global measures, as I said, of total distance or player load. And perhaps that next layer underneath, which would open account of world of complexity, but it would give us more knowledge of that training load planning process. Yeah, I'd argue we probably don't necessarily even have the estimation or prediction of the values that we would want before doing that. But I think it comes down to a really key point of establishing the causal framework or pathways here. Even if it is take player load and we're not coming up with any new metrics, but saying, can you predict injury risk from player load or can you predict some positive training adaptation from player load? I think we need to know what are we? What's our kind of pathway of player load correlates with this particular stimulus applied to the body? We're then saying that stimulus is going to correlate with this particular type of adaptation. And the more of that adaptation that you get, the more performance will improve or the more injury risk will increase or decrease. But even then it gets complicated with, I don't say we're talking about loading on a bone or a tendon, but we need to know not just necessarily an overall number for this session or for a week or kind of training cycle, but what's the relationship between the number of loading cycles and injury risk or the magnitude of those loading cycles or the recovery between them? So even something like the tibia in running, you know, what's the relative importance of how many strides you take versus what the load from each of those strides is? And even the recovery period between those phases, you kind of need some kind of model of how does this all tie in with injury risk? But then again, that's possibly getting into the academic side of overcomplicating things. We kind of want all of that to then work backwards and say, well, which bits actually matter? Can we predict that endpoint from the start point and just take out the bits in the middle? I don't know, but I think it's just, yeah, it is challenging and that you want to know what's the load on this particular part of the body. But on its own, that doesn't really tell us a lot when we talk about validity. It's valid for what, what kind of something isn't just valid or invalid. It's valid for a specific purpose. It's completely feasible that a training load metric can be valid for one application and invalid for another, or even then valid and invalid. Isn't this dichotomous kind of yes or no? It's how valid or invalid or what's in what context. And based on what we said earlier, how accurate does it actually have to be? But to try and come back from this over complication, I think the key point really is for us to maybe work backwards from speak to practitioners and what do what do practitioners want and how accurate does it have to be? So if you said, I want an estimate of load through the Achilles tendon during a run and it only has to be accurate enough that I can compare 10 different rehab exercises and see which ones are loading it more or less or correctly rank those exercises in order or compare to data last week and see if I'm progressively overloading that tissue. Kind of if we work backwards from there and then say, well, what would you be willing for the athlete to wear? Can they wear 20 sensors on every segment of the body? Or are you restricting it to just one GPS unit? Or are you restricting it to something on both boots and the GPS unit? And I think, yeah, establishing what are the constraints that we're working within? And then from there, you can start your kind of research process which might come down to, like, can we predict whole body? Even before we estimate load, can we predict how the whole body is moving from some sensors worn on just a couple of locations? There's been some really nice work recently looking at pressure based insults in a boot or a trainer. In combination with an IMU on the shank or the foot and saying, if you put those two together, we can estimate load through the tibia or Achilles. You know, you've got two sensors. Can you predict the rest of the body? Or are we looking at once we can predict those, can we predict the load on specific tissues that those movements result in? I think it's coming up with specific research questions that actually benefit practitioners and keeping that dialogue throughout. So you're not working in silos, but it's a collaborative process. And you come back and say, don't do that, because even if you do manage to do it, we're never going to use it too many sensors. Or, like, why are you hovering to get it that accurate? It doesn't need to be that accurate. I guess the last thing for me is just a massive thank you, because regardless of what anyone else thinks, I've got a lot out of this. And it's not the first conversation we've had, I've really enjoyed it. Where can people find out a bit more about you or you've mentioned various videos and blogs and things that you've written or filmed during this conversation? Where can we find those? And as fellow academics, where can we continue learning from practitioners like yourself? My company, my website is globalperformanceinsights.com. And there's my blog on there. And then that's the name of my YouTube channel. And then I think I'm at Joe Club Sports Cy on other channels. I think we've got so much to learn from each other. So I love these conversations around, OK, research, applied practice, how do we bring it together? So thank you for the conversation. No worries, yeah, thank you. Again, this has been quite selfish from my perspective, and I just want to chat to Joe and kind of discuss these things. But if anyone else does have any questions for either of us or kind of, I guess we were going to say at the start of this and I probably forgot that I don't think there's a claiming to be experts in any of this area, but it's just a case of trying to learn from each other where we can and discuss where should research go in the future? But if anyone does have any ideas or even anything you want to refer as to where you disagree or think, oh, have you seen this thing that actually we're closer than you thought? Or here's a really cool application. What do you think? Just kind of even getting in touch with either of us or leave a comment below the video. And I'm sure we'll both be really happy to do some reading and brilliant. Yeah, thank you again, Joe. And yeah, I guess I'll leave it there for now.


Welcome to the nonprofit show. We are glad you're here joining us if you haven't checked the calendar today's a Wednesday. So you might be listening to this any other day and we're so glad that you're here. Julia Patrick and I are here with LaShonda Williams and you might know her from Fundraising Academy which she's still a part of. But we wanted to bring LaShonda on to talk to us about the other role that she plays in our community. So she serves as the associate director alumni engagement as well as annual giving at South Texas College of Law Houston. So LaShonda brings a variety of experience from her career to us. So we're really glad to have you here to talk to us specifically about transitioning affinity into philanthropy. So LaShonda we are thrilled you're here. Julia and I are so glad to have you on deck Julia Patrick is here American nonprofit academy where she serves as the CEO and I'm Jarrett Ransom Julia's personal nonprofit nerd but I can be yours too. 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Yes, take out your smartphone scan this QR right here and now where you can download the app and in just a couple of hours after our conversation that we're going to have with Lashonda it will be live and you'll receive the notification. So we're also on broadcast platforms as well as podcast platforms. So no excuse. You can consume us anywhere you consume any other entertainment. I love it, I love it. So there's a lot to talk about and we have those recordings. And as we dive deep with you my friend Lashonda Williams, MPA CFRE and again she serves as the associate director alumni engagement and annual giving at South Texas College of Law Houston. Welcome. Thank you both so much for having me this wonderful wins, yay. Love it. I love it. You know, a hundred of anything is a lot. It is. And to think that your organization is celebrating their 100th year when I was getting ready to look at this conversation with you the South Texas College of Law is the oldest law school in Texas. It is and we recently celebrated our centennial we had Founders Day in April and it was phenomenal and reflective of a century of phenomenal service that supports our Houston community. That's amazing. What an achievement. You know, I think some of our viewers that are coming to us maybe from the east even the Midwest where you know there are older communities. A hundred is like, okay, whatever. But you know, in the West we don't have institutions that, you know as many as they do in older parts of the country that have reached a hundred years. And so this is a really big thing to celebrate. And I'm thrilled that you're able to be there and be a part of that historic piece. But more importantly, I'm really thrilled to have you here to talk about the nexus between alumni institutions where there is an alumni factor and then how that moves into philanthropy. So first off, talk to us and maybe explain what you do to foster student engagement, you know with your alumni and building this trajectory of a relationship.  And I tell everyone that the student experience plays a major role in how the individuals transition into becoming an alumni experiences as a result of their engagement with their professors, with their engagement with their peers and then with their internship experiences all of those things play a major role. But most importantly, when you think about the philanthropic space and you think about alumni engagement and annual giving specifically it is really critical for us to maintain communication with students during their tenure at the school. So one of the things I found to be most effective in prior roles as well as the current role is making sure that we have a connection with those student organizations as well as those individual students. So there are two different variables when you're thinking about that. There is engagement from a philanthropic standpoint and one of the things that I've done with successful cultivation is created a student giving day at a prior institution where we had a senior gift challenge so to speak which was a way to make that very first gift and become an official donor prior to graduation. But before we even get there we want students to be aware of the philanthropic space and the importance of philanthropy and its role that it plays in their educational experience. So specifically with those individuals who are scholarship recipients these are, it's very important to make them cognitively aware that the money didn't just magically appear out of the sky that someone has invested in you via an endowment or a current use scholarship or even any type of government funding. And so with that it's an opportunity for the development division or your advancement division to foster stewardship because stewardship is very important by connecting those scholarship recipients with their donors because that makes it real. It creates a meaningful experience. It's a wonderful way for students to demonstrate their gratitude directly with the donor. It is a stewardship piece. And most importantly it's a cultivation piece as they prepare to transition to become alumni about the importance of giving back because they'll be connected with someone who has invested in that next generation. Wow. Love that. It makes so much sense. Thank you. And I'm going to witness to everyone. When I was in, in particular my undergrad and even my master's to be honest, I did not think about like becoming a donor of the institution. That was never on my radar, honestly. And so I love what you share here LaShonda about like really building that into the entire culture of engagement and then also like the stewardship piece. As soon as you said, you know, like much didn't fall out of the sky although I know a lot of people think that it does. It does, of course, yeah. And so I love that you bring this into in particular the scholarship. That to me is just so brilliant. Yeah. And it works very effectively and it just really creates a phenomenal experience not only for the student but for the donor but then it also transitions into more because once the student has had the opportunity to meet with the donor, they forge their own relationships. And before you know it, they have a mentor and the mentor is a lifelong mentor because the individual has played such a vital role in their educational experience. And not only that, that person is in some instances, they become family members because of that connection. And so being able to be a part of that connection and a conduit to that wonderful relationship that manifests long-term that obviously will transition into another generation contributing in a different kind of way. It really is a wonderful experience because you can learn so much from donors, like why they give their educational experience, who were some of their favorite professors, what are some study tips? When you're getting ready to start that first job, what were some of the concerns or what are some of the things that I need to be cognitive of in interviewing skills and just simply referrals for opportunities. So that helps create a wonderful experience for the student and it's a cultivation piece that the advancement team or philanthropic arm of the institution can help foster. So, I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, I was gonna say, so higher education, I mean, it's more or less kind of like a short-term plan. So talk to us then about the long-term benefits of the short-term plan, right? Specifically connecting alumni when they leave the institution. What does that look like? Like how can you continue to foster this student engagement once they've graduated? So it's really important that you start that relationship while they're students because you want them to be very cognitive and familiar with the division, but most importantly by securing that information, their next step for a permanent address, working in concert with your registrar's office, with career services where they'll have to be registered because they wanna make sure that they receive that degree because they wanna make sure they hear about career opportunities. And also creating an opportunity, like I mentioned earlier, for them to make that first gift. And I love to be the person that delivers the first piece of alumni swag and making your first gift in recognition of those gifts and providing that updated information. You receive your complimentary first piece of alumni swag, that's worked very, very well. But most importantly, having the opportunity and the space to ask students and soon to be graduates, what is most important to them? And so one of the things that I've also found to be very effective is implementing surveys. And we work in concert with either career services and or with the registrar's office and ask students, what are some of the things that they're looking for with the alumni affairs or alumni relations division upon graduation? What are some of their top priorities? When it comes to career placement and career support, what are some things that they'd like to know about? What are some topics that they'd like to hear about so we can help pair up alumni who may have those levels of expertise in sponsor sessions where the students can come back to the campus or in the virtual space and receive that additional professional development. We've done a variety of different things ranging from, identifying alumni to not only mentor, but also instances where alumni are seeking employment opportunities at their organizations and connecting those students. And most importantly, you want the students to understand that the Office of Alumni Relations, Alumni Affairs, Alumni Engagement, whichever name that you use, but that's the resource for them upon graduation and keeping them informed as well with some of the things that are going on at the institution post-graduation. So newsletters are very important because it helps them maintain a heightened level of connection. But most importantly, if your organization has the resources, creating reunion programs where the class years can stay connected. And so in my previous employment, I've worked with reunion class years and that's proven to be very effective with keeping individuals together. And then in addition to that, identifying and understanding what affinity groups the students were engaged in in their undergraduate or post-graduate experience and keeping them immersed in that type of environment with information and updates with those affinities. So just really curtailing the information to specify that, okay, I know Jared was a Marcom Theater major. So if there's something that's Marcom Theater, we've got an email for those individuals so that they will be engaged with the institution post-graduation. Go ahead, Julia. We have so many questions. I know, so many questions. So one of the questions I have is how many of your students, the alums, do they stay not only in Houston but maybe in your state? Because it seems to me with law school, a lot of times you're in for that period of time and then you head to a completely different environment. So it's not top of mind. You're not driving past the campus. So what does that look like for you and in your world, LaShonda? So fortunately, South Texas College of Law, Houston, the majority of our students remain in the, our graduates remain in the state of Texas. So this is our highest saturation. We have a, also we have a significant constituency in the Tampa, Florida area, but the majority of our alumni reside in the Houston greater metropolitan area and then also Dallas, which is roughly about 250 miles away. So we have a significant saturation that stay here in the city and they work in a variety of spaces in the public sector advocacy. And so they're able to really make significant impact and change in the environment in which they were able to study in. Interesting. That's amazing. Great. So my question is, and this is really, you know, my experience through going through school, I wasn't re-engaged as an alumni until, gosh, years later, right? So how might you recapture alumni that has left and maybe, you know, wasn't involved in philanthropy? How to recapture their interest? So it's a combination of approach. So one, there is, you know, obviously sending out the emails and the mailers, but most importantly, it's the referrals. It's the word of mouth, just like we're thinking about the philanthropic space and we're seeking to secure additional donors with engagement, it is all about relationships. And so having your champions or influencers who are actively engaged and encouraging them and bringing them into the space and asking them to be ambassadors for helping increase engagement and, you know, begin to reignite that passion that may have dwindled because you've been removed for a while, has proven to be very effective, especially with those affinity groups. Now in instances where individuals may not have been a part of an affinity group, there are a variety of different ways to reach out to individuals.  We're very excited. And most importantly, when we're engaging them, have meaningful engagement to the point where you're wanting to also transition that engagement into sharing their story and having the conversation with Jared about what was your undergraduate or graduate experience like at the law school? You know, what were some of the pluses? What were some of the misses? But most importantly, how are you using your law degree? Whether you are in the legal space or if you may have chosen to not be in the legal space, however, that law degree is playing a major role with you securing the position and also has an advantage in the role that you're currently working in in terms of being able to provide some extra value to that organization. Let's talk about that a little bit further because law school is grueling.  How do you kind of loop back in or recommit to folks when they are just flat out exhausted and ready to put law school in the rear view mirror? Like, how do you keep coming back to that magical point, especially if they didn't have a magical, you know, period of time during your education? So I love to think of things on the very high level of the glass is always half full. And with that concept, there always has to be at least one shining star in that experience. And I hone in on that star for dear life. I do. You brought it and you're not letting it go. I'm not letting it go. And so this, it really makes me think about like, just recently we had commencement, which was absolutely phenomenal. And being able to be a part of commencement, simple things, you know, making those connections with the students there in real time as they're preparing to go out in the processional, you know, and I'm the calm voice that they get to hear before they leave out and, you know, take a moment, breathe, enjoy this moment, providing that affirmation. But most importantly, taking the time to say simply hello.  And so when I see the students throughout, you know, the day I'm always talking to students. But again, as your question, which is once they've gone away and they're not so much as engaged, it is thinking about what was happening during that particular year. That is something that is really significant. Who was that significant professor? What was that unique historical moment? Because law school is very different from undergraduate because you're very laser focused on a particular content area. And then you're also thinking about what area of practice, you know, are you going to be on law review? Are you going to be with advocacy? You know, all of the different things. And there are tons of affinity groups. And so with our law school, because it's a private law school and it's very tight-nitched, I would say that one of the major things that helps keep our students connected to the institution is the fact that because it's a private institution and it's a smaller institution, it's an extended family. And you know, you can say family in all size institutions, but when you're a 1L or 2L and you're moving through the trajectory with 30 people that are in your cohort and all of your classes, there are going to be some people who may not be as engaged. But again, I mentioned referrals. That's where the friend referral comes in handy to re-engage you because nine times out of 10, we're in a position where we have a significant number of our alumni who want to be engaged. And if they don't simply have the time to be engaged, then we identify ways that we can meet them where they are. And that means something as simple as providing some webinars. We had a group that recently launched a new program that proved to be very effective and well, you know, attorneys need to have these VLEs. And so we worked it out and we were able to create some virtual VLEs, which is an opportunity for our alumni to be connected to the institution. That's brilliant, brilliant to do that. Is that a unique thing? It is a unique thing for us specifically. One of the affinity groups that I'm working with was really adamant and very excited about creating this new opportunity to re-engage alumni. And it has proven, as I mentioned to you, proved to be pretty effective in terms of regaining the connection with some of our students, our alumni now. And most importantly, within that particular community, it allowed us the opportunity to get updated information because there were some individuals that had not been connected. And then we can re-engage them in meaningful ways. And, you know, we're able to discover some of the phenomenal things that they've done post-graduation that we may not have known had that opportunity not been made available. Sure, yeah. Yeah. You know, again, I reflect on my personal trajectory and, you know, there is so, so long in my career and I moved thousands of miles away from my undergrad, right? So I certainly, Julia, did not drive by campus, right? Right. Well, that's why I was thinking about that, Julia. Yeah, it's really hard. And so like I would have had more time to give, you know, like earlier in my career. And so I just love to hear all of these opportunities because just as you and I talked about LaShonda in the green room chatter, like you were, you know, criminal justice majors and here you are working at a law school. I was a mass comm major. Here I am, you know, essentially in a broadcast. And so how this full circle comes around and I would say now I'm really primed as a potential prospect and donor for my alma mater because I don't have the time, I have more of the financial resources later in my career, right? And so looking at that and then looking at how it has played a role in the trajectory of my career. So. Absolutely. And you're right, you know, at different stages, post graduation as an alum, you go through different phases. The first phase is that phase when you're starting your career, you may have a little more time but you don't have as many resources. And those more recent groups, the five year reunion group is the perfect example. Those are the individuals that you wanna keep the momentum, keep the excitement and connect them with recent students with those one L students sharing their experiences, creating that mentorship opportunity for them because they may not have the financial resources but in some instances, they may be able to have time.  And so there are also instances where they may not necessarily have the time but they may have resources. They may be able to provide insight about career opportunities for internships for some of our upcoming students and be a referral because referrals are the best way to be able to create momentum within any engagement piece. And then as you mentioned, there's the instance where, you know, once you become a little more settled, you're starting your family, you may not have as much time, you may not have as many resources but we still wanna keep you engaged. And so with that, we're asking our alumni, especially with this centennial year to try to commit to at least one of the many offerings that we have available and we continue to provide you with that information. And once the information that you receive, you have a chance to look it over and identify what works best for you in your schedule. And I often share, it's really important when you're talking about alumni engagement that you offer a variety of types of engagements that will appeal to the variety of your particular constituency. We have a plethora of events planned over the rest of the years. We're celebrating the centennial year. We had the wonderful kickoff. We're preparing for an alumni awards luncheon. We'll have a gala and then we'll have our family and friends alumni picnic and see all of these things are different opportunities with different constituencies. You may not be able to bring your children out to our documentary premiere. However, you can bring them to the family and friends picnic. Bring your hope. And so we offer a variety of things to make sure that our alumni feel appreciated and we also create a space for them to congregate but most importantly, we want to educate them as well because we know the importance of the value of time, talent and treasure. In all roads, we want to eventually transition that affinity, that love, that fondness, that wonderful experiential learning to transition that into a philanthropic support, whatever that may mean. And that's why annual giving is so important because it's not focused on a specific dollar amount. However, it's focused on the engagement and that is the opportunity to give, creating that opportunity to give at what a level that is comfortable to you and that also can be impactful to others when all of those resources are pulled together. So I love what you shared this concept and pulling this across. Let's in the little amount of time we have left talk about expanding that affinity group. I loved what you said about the difference between attending a gala and a picnic and family and friends. Talk about this because we were sharing in the green room for both my daughter's private high school and private college, her father and I, and we still are, you know, are solicited to make gifts for those two institutions. So talk to us about how you all look at this and pull, expand that donor base if you will. So affinity groups are really a driving force for philanthropic support in many ways because it has a heightened sense of engagement. And so we're launching a variety of different affinity groups based on areas of practice as well as areas of interest. And with that in mind, one of the things that sometimes is often overlooked and people will be surprised about Julia, believe it or not is that families are also prime participants in opportunities to support the institution. And some people will say, well, why would you ask family and friends? Well, because they too are having a wonderful experience and they are beneficiaries of that said experience of the student. And they also will have an affinity for the institution because they're supporting their loved ones. There are a variety of different ways. With my prior employer, we actually had a family program where we had the Panther parent program where we literally solicited the parents of the undergraduate students and asked them to make an annual fund gift. And we also had a giving society associated with it in which they received recognition. When you're thinking about the professional setting and employers, employers are also potential donors from a variety of standpoints. One corporate gifts because a significant contingency of your alumni may work at that particular law firm. There are instances to secure matching gifts from various organizations. And I can recall working specifically with an alumni who worked at an organization and she was really committed to the institution and we pulled together an employee giving program. And with the employee giving program, we were able to transition that into an opportunity for the organization to make a substantial contribution as a result of 100% participation of the alumni that worked at that said organization, which was phenomenal because it was impactful beyond measure. So there are a variety of ways to incorporate the family, the friends, employees because all opportunities create greater opportunities for the next generation. You are so passionate about this and I love it. I really love it. And I've really enjoyed hearing and learning the intersection, right? Like knowing you from fundraising Academy, phenomenal fundraiser, seeing you as your associate director role now here with South Texas College of Wall Houston, LaShonda Williams, you have been, again, another phenomenal guest. Congratulations on 100 years. I know you haven't been there for the entirety. I don't think anyone has, but no one has. But we are very excited about this continue year and we have a lot more in store for our alumni as a transition affinity into the philanthropic support. I love it. This has been great. I mean, I agree, Jarrett, it's really fun to see, and we know LaShonda through Fundraising Academy and all of the wisdom and passion she shares, but to see this other side of her with her job there in Houston, really cool. And so thank you so much, LaShonda. Check out stcl.edu, really an interesting program. And again, the oldest law school in Texas, which is saying something. Again, celebrating their 100th year, the centennial is a major, major thing. And so thank you, LaShonda, for coming on and sharing all of your wisdom. Again, I'm Julia Patrick, been joined by Jarrett Ransom today and always as my co-host and nonprofit nerd. We also wanna thank our amazing presenting sponsors. They include Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Your Part-Time Controller, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Fundraising Academy at National University, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Nerd, and Nonprofit Tech Talk. These are the folks that make our days possible. You know, don't they, Jarrett, in so many ways. Yeah, absolutely.  So I'm so glad that all of you could join us today. Again, either live or in the recording. And there's plenty of places. Hopefully you downloaded that app because you'll get the notification in just a couple of hours that it's been uploaded because you're gonna wanna re-hear, re-hear, re-listen to everything that LaShonda shared. I mean, there's so many nuggets of wisdom that I'm gonna send it to my alma mater, that's for sure. Yeah, it's was really powerful. Sounds like a winner. Subtle, subtle. Yeah, really powerful, really, really powerful. Well, ladies, as we end every episode of The Nonprofit Show, we wanna remind ourselves and our viewers and our listeners to stay well, so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone.