And we did. We brought some beautiful, goddess warrior energy to Davis and thank you for, again, coming and joining us to celebrate this beautiful event. Heather, Ash and Barry here. We're really good at this. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. This is the one that was just given birth and there's my coffee over there. Sorry, great. Yeah, so if you haven't turned off your phone, please do so. We're doing a little bit of recording. We have access to the same team, and I wanted to mention that, again, we don't want to insist quite as possible, so recording part and most of us are in here now. I've selected refresh. So, the wardrobe is... Well, how many of you have been into the wardrobe before? Some of us do, actually, but I talked to a lot of people from the Sacramento area and personally from the store, so I got here tonight. Again, it's really my pleasure that you are getting to store a little bit better. And we are known for putting on very special events like this one. And this one, I think we've founded a scene for this a couple of years ago. Damping each other, Ash. And there you are. And Autumn. And how they're fond of each other. And, again, this is really, really, really special launching for this beautiful book and project. And what the wardrobe has in common with Warrior of God is, in case you aren't familiar with our store, is that we're really here to empower women to align with their choice and express it through color and style and adornment. So that's been my mission for 30 years. I've actually known Heather for, gosh, I think more than 30 years. So, again, it's really wonderful to have her back in town, creating, again, a lot of great awareness in terms of the divine feminine and our expression. So, on that note, I think that we are going to start the inner revolution. And I love that quote in one of your books. And if you would like to stay in touch with the wardrobe, I have a newsletter called Fashion for Thought. And I've been doing that letter for 10 years. So I try and sign up over there on the keyboard. Thank you. Or you can communicate and follow us on Facebook or social media, whatever works best for you. But I try and stay something valuable and keep you in touch with fashion in the way that I interpret it. And, again, I hope that I can help you get to know those that I don't already know of the next little window of time and that you'll come for some of our other special events. And so, let's see. This event is co-created along with Davis Media Access. And Davis Media Access, for those of you who don't know, is our local television station. And it is an important grassroots project that we're not going to be introducing to you. It has made a very, very impactful in our region. So, on that note, I would like to introduce Autumn LaBea, who I know. And thank you again, Autumn, for helping us put this together along with my wonderful team. I want to just do a quick acknowledgement of Reina and Sarah, who I'm staffed with, the wardrobe editor in the show, who's on camera about this. Thank you. She mentions a woman named Autumn, as me. And she taught, her Ash talks in the book about a time when we were very young and very new to spiritual exploration and kind of figuring out the world, seeing it through you. A lot happened since then. She circumnavigated the globe. I settled down here in Davis. I keep coming together and that friendship is more than, I don't know, 30 years. You know, she's been present at the birth of all our children. She's been a goddess, mama. She's family. The one thing, she's taught me a lot of things over the years. But the one thing Heather Ash does really well is encourage people to say yes. Yes, when you think you can do something. Yes, when you're stuck. Yes, when your beliefs about who you are are limited yourself. And that's really what this book is about. And when she called me, we talked a lot from airports. I'm here in Davis. When she called me and said, this book, I want to get this book on the New York Times bestseller. That is my dream. I said, great, let's do a book launch. This one. The last event we did here was with Angie Goodman. So I think we have a track record of really powerful uplifting women with important things to say to Davis. So it is my great pleasure to be introduced to you. Thank you to Autumn, of course. And it's such a joy to be back here. I went to undergraduate here in 1984 for coming to Davis. And so, cycle. Really, really fun. So I'd like to start with just a little round things. If you close your eyes and settle in to your belly. It's something that you're grateful for tonight. You need anything in your life. Let go of what's stimulated that sense of gravity and really bring it in into your project. And just experience. And I'd like you to also thank yourself for coming out tonight. Whatever it was that's not in here. Thank yourself for your willingness to step towards whatever the half-war you're now is here for. For you. And when you're ready, you can go ahead and hope to learn about it. It's going to be a pleasure to meet you. So I'll just start with this quick preface around myself and the book. And Autumn said that we both went to undergrad here and we met as journalists that you see, oh, we worked. Yes, journalists like California, I believe. So I grew up in Southeast Asia in all of the places where I was created. And when I first came to Davis, I was like, what is wrong here? And I couldn't name it, though. I just knew that I felt disconnected and I felt like people around me were disconnected. And I was raised in countries that were deeply connected to spirit and to family and to each other. And it took me a while to figure out what was going on. So for two years, I was political around anything you could be political around. And two years in, I went, okay, wait a minute.  All my friends are super angry and nothing to take care of. And so I was like, this isn't right. So that's when I started studying different spiritual traditions. And literally Autumn and I went to the library one day, one summer. I told her over this moment, check out every book we could on Earth's spirituality and got a spiritual opinion. We were like, what is this stuff? We don't know. And then carried the books back. We spent the summer reading. Like, oh my god, listen to this. And that just opened everything. So where I started was around European shamanism. Because I felt I'm a European descent. I'm curious, what did my ancestors, ancestors, ancestors believe? And what I learned was the importance of us to come back into the cycles, especially as we know we're in a very linear thought society. That you do this, you do this, you do this, and then you're supposed to get someplace. Which isn't the way life works. But there's these cycles that work.  And then there was a point where I realized that something's missing. And about that time I had a dream. And in the dream, this man showed up and I knew in my mind, I'm like, I'm going to study with this man. And my life is about to completely change. And then we're waking up thinking, right, where am I going to meet this powerful person in Davis, California? And literally a week later, someone came to my office and said, oh my god, you have to meet this man. And I went, I'm not ready. Oh no, hold on, no. And it took me a year. And that man was Don Miguel Ruiz, who's the author of The Four Agreements. And when I got myself ready to drag all my class with me one day to go meet him, and walked into the room and just fell in love. These are my people. And then I met Miguel. And I was really blessed the next month. He took my room. And so my work now is about blending these different traditions that I've been blessed to be part of and really to bring, synthesize down what's the most practical way that we as modern Western women can use these ancient traditions to help ourselves come back into work. A hundred years ago, a little bit over, women didn't have the right to vote. We're about to possibly vote for our first female president. A hundred years. That's not very much time. And as women, a hundred years ago, we had very few rights, we had very few possibilities. We pretty much had one choice, which was getting married and having kids and taking care of the family. There were, of course, some women that were outside of that, but mostly that was what the path was. So while as women in the West, this isn't true around the world, unfortunately, but at least in the West, we have an incredible amount of external freedom. We can vote. We can choose who we want to partner with. We can really work on the job that we want to work. So our external freedoms are incredible. And we have a lot of women and men behind us to thank for that, that struggled and fought and created the pathways for opening. But what I've noticed is this, is that while we have all these external freedoms, we don't have as many internal freedoms. We're still chained to old ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. So as women, we've often been incredibly domesticated to take care of everybody else and not think about ourselves, to put ourselves down, to compare ourselves and to compete with other women. To not really feel like we can bring our full light out. There's this sense of like, is it okay? Is it really okay for me to shine? So what Warrior Goddess, the Warrior Goddess work is about, it's about us as women saying, yes, I can be authentically 100% myself and getting free on the inside. How do we get free on the inside? That's what my passion is about. And what we're chained to, is as I see it, we each have, if you agree with me, this what I call the image of perfection. So this image of who we're supposed to be in the world. And what we often do is spend our time comparing ourselves to who we're supposed to be or who we were instead of living here. So our whole focus is on comparing ourselves to this and then comparing ourselves out here. And that causes this incredible suffering and we're not with ourselves. We're disconnected. And so really, the Warrior Goddess work is about coming back home to ourselves only 100%. So we're, we let this go. We realize this, you're never going to do this. And that's okay. You know I took about a year when sometime in the past I was like okay, I'm going to do everything that voice of perfection tells me to. Like I'm going to nail this. And I did. There was like a three second. Where I listened and I did everything it told me to do basically. Now do you suppose that when I hit that mark it went, that voice went, awesome, Heather Ash, you rock. High five, I'm retiring. What did it say? But that wasn't good enough. That wasn't good enough. Yeah, yeah, fine. You cannot win. And we think we can. It's a losing proposition because that voice is not talking to you about your best interest. It's trying to keep you safe. Safety and freedom don't go together. You can be safe but there's a huge consequence. And we don't need more safe people. We actually need more women that are wild and free and are finding their voice and their power and bringing it into the world. So when Warrior Goddess Training first came out, the first really beautiful book that Heather showed, there's a really fun thing that you can do as an author which you can call all your friends and say, hey, I just want to go on Amazon and buy it on this day. And all your friends go to Amazon and buy it on a day and become a best seller for a day. And it's like super like, oh, I was a best seller on Amazon for one day. And then Lamont's back to at number 11,423. So what was different about Warrior Goddess Training is I did the whole party in Yale, and all my friends bought their books and came home. And the book shot up to number one in two categories, Shamanism and God. So over two years later, it continues to be number one. It was two categories. And it's because it was one thing. We as women are ready to do something different. And there's something, I've had so many women like, the cover, the word, like, Warrior Goddess, what it is, is it's an energy that's deeply needed right now. And we, for all of us, not Yale, for my dear, dear friend, Craig, for being here. Well, I was like, well, yes. I was writing all my books and listening to more podcasts in line with anybody on the planet. So, Warrior Energy. Warrior Energy is about our clarity, our focus, our presence. It's about 100%, yes, I'm in. We'll talk more about this, too. So, and let me do something that they might stand up for a moment.  So, bring yourself 100%. Here we go. Awesome. How's it feel? Power. Power. Focus. You got more. Woo! Good. What else, what do you notice? Strength, energy, yeah. And then, Goddess Energy. Hello! How's it feel? How's that feel? Sit, stop, open, sitting, slow and relaxed. Breathe. Good.  So, that Goddess Energy is our creativity. It's our openness. It's the yes, as well. The beauty of these two things is it's not that we're here like, okay, 50% Warrior and 50% Goddess, you know, we're gonna have it. It's not about that. And he saw all of us, and he was like, oh, I get it, you're bouncing the masculine feminine. No, I'm not. We're taking two qualities and finding, what's our expression of those qualities? Expression. And some of us are very warrior oriented. That's our essence, that's our nature. And some of us are more Goddess oriented, that's our nature. So, what we want to do is come to find what's my essence and also be able to use both of these qualities skillfully. So, even if you are Super Goddess, you want to be able to pull that warrior up whenever it's needed. Right? Even if you're Super Warrior, you want to be able to call up that Goddess Energy when it's needed. Because there's different situations where that's what it's called for. And some of us are more 50-50 Warrior Goddess. For what's your expression? And recognizing too, there's women that we often create shells. So, we create these layers of I'm supposed to be more warrior or I'm supposed to be more Goddess. So, we want to, so much of this is an un-learning to come back to our offer. So, once warrior Goddess training came out, I started giving letters from women all around the world asking questions, sharing incredible stories of places that were struggling, asking for advice. As I was answering these women and women and feeling into what the questions were, what I started doing is gathering what were the biggest pain points that we as women are experiencing in our lives. And that was the foundation of Warrior Goddess Way. So, I took all of that information and ate it and digested it, basically, and sat with it and then brought out Warrior Goddess Way. And so, Warrior Goddess Way is a deepening into how do we take these tools and use them to transform different areas of our life that were stuck. So, there's three main pillars of Warrior Goddess Way and there's a secret way. So, the three pillars, wisdom, second pillar, authenticity, third pillar, yes! So, that's the way. The way is how do we begin to walk holding our wisdom, our authenticity, and our yes. And that's what we'll be exploring today. Those three pillars and how do we bring them into life? So, wisdom. We each have deep wisdom in ourselves, in our bones. When we come out of our little mind and come into our bodies, everything starts to shift. So, that's why I'm so passionate. We need to stop comparing ourselves to who we think we're supposed to be and really come here because here's where our wisdom is in the body in this present moment. Not, when I was 20, I could do that and I can't do it now. Or, if I haven't hit this mark I'm just going to judge myself because I should be here. Not helping us get to our wisdom. And those are habits that we want to start to clear. So, as we come back to ourselves, what we're starting to do is to learn to listen to what is coming from me. And some of the things that we journey through towards our wisdom is to really learn to start forgiving ourselves and to start forgiving others. Why? There's a whole section in what you're about this way of and some people think we shouldn't forgive. There's a long list of why people think we shouldn't forgive. There are really good reasons. But I go through each one and like and here's why and here's another one. Why? Why? Because you don't want to carry that weight. It's about ourselves. I take rooms to Peru and there's one journey that I was in Peru and one of the shamans, he was doing healing and he kept muttering in Spanish as people would come to the healing and take it on. And I find like the third person I'm like got it. Because what I'm seeing is all of this huge weight that everybody was carrying. And that's what happens when we don't forgive when we hold on to it, especially not forgiving ourselves. Because my guess is we probably made one or two mistakes in your life and how many of us haven't forgiven ourselves for things that we've done and we're still carrying it. And anytime we don't forgive somebody else we're carrying them as well. We're carrying whatever the event is and we're carrying their energy as well. And so really part of coming back to our wisdom is learning how to forgive. We'll talk more about this about the rightness of forgiving. Because I am definitely not, you must forgive and then you'll get to your wisdom at all. There's a process. We'll talk about that in yes as well. The other thing to help us get back to our wisdom is the other thing I notice is women if we have a tendency, not all of us but many women have a tendency to apologize constantly. Anybody fall, anybody always can't or is it just me? So somebody can step on my toe and I'll say oh I'm sorry! Not for that now, but I used to be like oh! And as I started tracking that in myself I realized I just apologize for everything. Like there's a way I've apologized for existing. And I really believe that's a cultural thing that's gotten passed down so as women to come back into our wisdom we need to start looking at where am I apologizing unconscious and start to shift that power and then also looking at where am I not willing to apologize. Where do I go into defense rather than just saying I'm sorry. So learning what apology really is the deepness of connecting to someone from your heart and saying I'm sorry. And facing that rather than running from it. And also letting go of that just unconscious, sorry! Oh sorry! I'm sorry for existing. You get to take up space. And as we do that we start again dropping into our wisdom. There's another piece around wisdom and this is one of my favorite parts of the book which is around our stories. So each of us is one of our storytellers. That's what we do as humans. Our brain makes some stories and we're really good at it. And you can make up a story that frees you and you can make the story that changes you. We have stories from our past that bring us more energy or stories from our past that drain our energy. So when we recognize that we are responsible for our stories how we tell ourselves our story we take our power back. One of the things I've noticed about stories is that there's what I call right stories and unright stories. And this is a big piece because I've seen a lot of us create a tremendous amount of suffering around our unright stories and also hang out with our right stories and ignore them. So what is right and unright? I had a story when I was living in Davis and people would say where'd you grow up? I grew up in Davis. I grew up in Southeast Asia. I moved every two years which meant that we moved someplace. I would be the awkward gawky kid. I wouldn't know anybody. I'd be super shy. And then about a year in I'd start settling in. I'd make friends. I'd start opening up. I'd get excited about where we were living and then we moved. And so the cycle would start over again. So the time I came to college was just a wee bit of issues around it. So how does that story feel? Sad, yeah, broke down, yeah. And that's what I realized one day. I'm telling my story and I'm like, I am so bored of this story. Every time I tell it it doesn't feel good anymore. It doesn't feel good in my body. It doesn't feel good in me anymore. And so I thought, okay, I've been settling in for a couple of years. So let's just change and see what happens. I said I was raised in Southeast Asia. We moved every two years. By the time I was 15 I'd been to Egypt and Austria and Germany and India and to the states all over the place. I had been to so many different cultures. So by the time that I moved to the United States I was incredibly open-minded, very, very compassionate and had a deep passion for intimacy and knew how to connect with different people. That's how it would feel. Okay, which one is the truth? Both. And neither. It's a story. So when we get that, that's huge. When we get that they're not truths they're not happening now. It's fluid. You get to be a storyteller and choose how you want to tell your story. What will serve you the best? Now, this is not about going, I hate that story, I don't like it. I'm going to just put a better story on top of it. That doesn't work. Because what that's like is taking a beach ball and pushing it under the water which takes a tremendous amount of energy and then trying to put something else here while you're bouncing, you can do it under the water. What's going to happen? It's going to pop up because you haven't really rewritten the story you've just tried to bury it. So we don't want to do that. We want to be able to bring the story up and when it's ripe how do you know it's ripe because you're kind of bored of it or you're just like, this is just ready. You just feel it in your body. I think I can shift my perspective a little bit. It can be just a tiny shift and it will shift everything. Shift how you feel about yourself how you see a story. So that's a ripe story. But then there are unripe stories and an unripe story is a story that has a lot of energy in it still that you're attached to. It's one you're not, and those are the ones usually were like, I'm done with that story. I just wanted to go away. But if you really feel into it, it's not ripe yet. So we want to be really gentle with ourselves around this idea of is it ripe or is it unripe and to love them equally. Because the truth is some of us, I think most of us are going to go through our life with a lot of unripe stories. Can we love ourselves through the places we're not ripe? Is that okay? The answer is yes. And if you love those unripe stories okay. I am probably going to go to my death bed hoping that everyone on the planet loves me. I'm a liberator. But that's one of my four things. Have I done a ton of work on it? Yes. Am I much better? Yes. That's part of the default. So maybe you'll write in one day. But I've just learned to just go, oh sweetie, there's that unripe story.  I'm a warrior, guys. I shouldn't have that story. Which is so not loving to ourselves. So with fruit. Now we talk about fruit for a minute. Are you ready? How do you write the fruit? Put it in a brown paper bag. So one way is you take the fruit, you stick it in a brown paper bag. It's so cool. What happens is it's in its own little environment and so it's off-gassing. What its own off-gasses then help it to write it faster. So sometimes in order to write the story you need to go away. You need to isolate yourself. You need to sit with your own story. You need to be with the discomfort. You need to go to a brown paper bag, you close it and be with the story. And you'll find your way through to write the fruit. Put it next to another fruit. Exactly, this is one of my favorite. Find people that are right in the area you want to write in. So it doesn't mean that person has been perfect in all angles and so you can stand next to them. It means if you are dealing with relationship and you're trying to write in something around a relationship, you find people that are like rocking on their relationship and you go stand next to them. You don't even have to talk to them next to them. It doesn't matter. Take in some of their body odor. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Because they've got it. They've worked that piece. We can really help each other in this way. And so what if I need to do a mess? You're not right about that. So you don't have to like, I'm not standing next to them. They haven't dealt with everything. If they're right in that area that you want to write in, so reading books, physically being around people. When I figured this out, I was like, oh, no wonder I spent years literally following Miguel around. I was always right close to him. And I was like, right, I was writing. I was just hanging out in his energy field and there's something really powerful. So the books he read, the people that you hang out with, again, doesn't mean at least I'm going to seem like I was only hanging out with right people. Not going to serve you either. You actually want people that are going to also diverge for a second and then come back. There was this amazing experience for the Viagra Foods. Viagra Seers, where they created a totally enclosed environment and they put people into it. I think for 30 years. And what happened in that environment is they planted a bunch of trees.  Look how cool this experiment is. And then the third year old trees fell over. All the trees fell over. And when they opened up the environment and they figured out what happened what they recognized is to get their center to have wind to get solid. So really, the more what Viagra Seers told people called petty tyrants that you have in your life that make your life miserable Why? Because you were going to get so strong. You're going to find your center. Yeah. Some of us are super strong, right? So you don't want to avoid we don't want to live our lives going I'm going to avoid all the uncomfortable things in my life because you're not going to get that strength. This is where the water comes in. So another way to write it is to put it in the sun. Take fruit and put it in the sun. And what that does is it is that we take our stories and we bring them out we share them with other people that can just sit and go yeah, that's your story I'm here, I'm listening So there's a way that when we as women open up and share our stories we feel seen, we feel heard we realize it's not just our story I've been listening to and reading about women that were part of the first wave second, whatever you want to call it of feminism in the 70s, late 60s, early 70s and what they talked about was so like oh, is that they never talked to each other and then they started sitting down and talking and realizing they all had the same issues and how radical that was that women had never talked to each other and so we need to keep doing the same thing of sharing, of bringing it into the life bringing it into the life, bringing it into the life so that it can get unraveled and here's the thing I've seen you know or I know the story when it's starting to write then by who I call I have friends that I can call and tell a story and they'll be like oh my god I can't believe the bastard you should definitely be really pissed at me I know, can you believe it and then I have other friends that I can call that I'll be like and they'll be like how's that working for you great and I call those people when I'm actually ready I'm ripened up and I'm ready to unpack it so just notice that don't judge yourself for it because I still call for them I'm like I can't believe it I feel so good but I know at some point I'm going to have to unwrap it because it feels good in the short run and that's that exploration around stories unripe, ripe, love them whole as we connect as we unravel the old stories create more space because that's what it does it creates more space inside of us what happens naturally is we start stepping towards our authenticity and authenticity is not something that we have to find it's something that we're unlayering because we're authentic it's there we just tend to put roles ideas of who we're supposed to be on top of it so coming back into our authenticity one of the best ways to reconnect with our authenticity is to get quiet to sit to go into stillness to have some sort of meditation or sitting practice where we're reconnecting to our stillness over and over again because it's from our stillness that our authenticity arises naturally hey I see people that I know it's so fun I know that it starts to come from the stillness our stories the old ways that we've thought of who we're supposed to be do not read and to speak we're going to need to learn thought but when we start to witness and this is a key part of born goddess when we start to step back and open and witness what's my mind up to what's happening in my emotional body what's happening in my physical body then we start to learn to be more skillful around not just running down that path oh it must be true we recognize our mind says so much stuff that's not true it's crazy I read a statistic that every day you have about 65,000 thoughts and that of those thoughts 85% lots of the same thoughts you have of looking into ourselves who's listening and who's talking why do you have to keep repeating that and part of this is just the habit we just get into this habit so retraining ourselves to go toward the stillness rather than towards the noise and hold I like to think about is that I'm holding whatever is happening from a place of connection with someone and what arises and naturally is our authenticity is our unique expression one of the things that I love about the Toltec work and the Toltecs were a group of people that came together to love and central Mexico to study perception and I'm really curious about how do we create our reality and the word Toltec means artists of the spirit and that what our art is is our life and that for each of us we are each a unique ray of light and I love that metaphor that we're each a unique ray of light we're here to shine on our light our world needs our particular light when we're busy comparing ourselves in our life we're not doing our guess but when we really connect into our authenticity and surrender up who we think we're supposed to be to land into who this being is now and get curious who is this being there's so many women that I've talked to who I am I've spent my life raising my kids or in my job and now I don't know and I'm like great what do you love what lights you up even a tiny bit go towards that and see, be curious so for all of us to let go of who we've been or who we're supposed to be to find out who is this being what do I love and to start naming things that light you up and doing more of them and I would think about it that this work is what do more things you love what a terrible task and do more of the things you love and the second one clean up clean up the old beliefs and agreements that arise and that's what leads us back into our authenticity is the letting go of what's not us and the reclaiming of and love your corpse, love your flaws one of my favorite stories is I had a roommate who had just fallen in love and had a new lover and she told me this next story that one night she was like, I have so many flaws how can you love me and her lover's like, sweetie those are like flaws features so love your features we all have features it's great and whatever it is that lights you up do more of it we forget one of my favorite things to do is running down hallways running down hallways so literally I mean hallways are like I think it's from living in a hotel in bay 5 or 6 months with my sister I've terrorized the hotel but it lights me up why not make some jars of lighting up like organize them I'm like I need to do five so whatever it is no matter how quirky celebrate it it's part of your authenticity that's part of your sweetness so our third and the word about his way is this word yes and I had debates like should it be yay because if you know me you know that I say you constantly pretty much so we decided to go for yes but you all know that it's also yay you're welcome to use yay as often as possible and yay will happen when my tire will be flat yay because I retrained myself to celebrate seriously celebrate everyone here's what happens most of us something unpleasant arises in what we do yeah resist our energy goes away we judge it we judge ourselves we close and anytime you close what you're doing is closing to yourself closing to your creativity closing to your body closing to your own presence so yes is about re-changing ourselves so that something different arises and we just go I'm here because what's going to happen is your creativity is going to stand up you're going to show up and be able to go like what is this how do I work with this so stay connected to your authenticity in that way now this is super not easy this is like serious warrior dodging right because to be able to retrain yourself that something difficult happens and you open instead of closing we do that we do that by opening to our closures that's where it starts so again witness you notice yourself closing to something you go oh look how well I'm resisting you notice yourself judging wow my judge my judge my judge and you open to the judgment what we usually do is like I'm judging myself because I'm judging because I shouldn't be judging some of them are spiritual I wouldn't be judging so practice opening to the closures there's a funny part in the book where I talk about stepping in dog behavior in my new clean shoes and tracking it across the floor and being like closing in yay I get to wear new shoes that anything any little thing you can begin to practice on so when you practice on the little things what happens when the big things arise is it becomes more natural rather than close but it's a deep practice now we just had this discussion today I'm in the middle of this really beautiful 21 day giveaway right now online and I'll anybody okay check this out oh that's cool so if anybody wants to be on my mailing list and you jump into the work as 21 day giveaway we're two weeks in we have a week to go but it's really beautiful because I'm doing a little audio every day 5-6 minute audio and the teaching and the piece of art for the community that's gorgeous and all the information's there so you'll have access to all the stuff from the past as well so if you want to play I always forget to do this later so I'm just going to pass it around so if you're not on my list and you'd like to you know what I'm up to so I just lost my train of thought yay dog yay dog with the little things start with the small things smells I have a smell I don't like the smell closing through it I'm turning towards the smell seriously because it will retrain you so when the big thing arises you're like I'm here I'm present I'm ready this is true of everything you know people will say to me well how do I deal with it when I go home and my family's judging me and they're telling me that I'm doing my life how do I open that and I'm like too late to be practicing opening in different places in your life you don't have any hope of opening in this big situation does that make sense when my dad was having leukemia my dad was a Buddhist and when he got leukemia I remember just feeling so heartbroken for him because he had a practice and when he needed the most he could practice in here he got to work it for sure at that moment I was like right you can't wait until the emergency happens to expect yourself to then drop into the stillness or your authenticity or your yes or your wisdom it's too hard but if you practice in all the little ways you'll be able to just a tiny bit so in the grocery store this happened yesterday I'm on the train on the way up here and there were some really loud people talking and like joking with each other and they've been drinking obviously and I thought I should just move I'm in my sun zone I'm working on my book people are bothering me and then I felt into it I'm like no practice opening sweetie so I just opened my fields instead of like I don't mind them what are they doing I'm in my zone hello I just opened like they have as much right to do as I do and I can move but let me practice and it was great the moment I opened it's not fucking the skill that and grocery stores are your best products seriously so you notice something like there's somebody fighting in the next aisle over and seducing grocery stores all like the famous needle I'd be like anchor happening I don't like anchors I didn't now I can rate with it move towards and sometimes I would just move my car and just be like so you practice moving towards the discomfort I'd say one of the hallmarks of more you guys is that we're learning to move towards discomfort rather than away and it's not because we're sadistic it's because we want to be free it's because we want to be free and any place you're closing down is because you're free imagine this you should reflect you were raised in a family that thought blue-haired children were growing they were geniuses, they were amazing they were going to succeed in everything they did and that in your family it was also believed that green-haired children well they just weren't that smart they weren't well, your sibling is really smart like well you could get married or you could do like do something you could move to maybe imagine how the whole society feels that so you're the blue-haired child you've just gotten accepted to UC Davis it's your first job, lay on campus you're walking across campus in your life and someone comes up to you and says what are you doing on campus, you don't belong you get off campus, what would your reaction be your whole life you've been told you're going to succeed, you've got this green-haired child, what would your reaction be whatever, you'd be like they're having a weird day well, nothing to do with me and then you'd go on with your day and wouldn't create a blip because there's no resonance in your body that that is true see where we're going green-haired child somehow that in UC Davis parents would say somebody walking through campus the first day someone comes up to you and says what are you doing here, you don't belong what's their reaction to you you're right, so here's what we do we go one or two paths so I'm sure there's more but this is the two that I see one path is contraction, they're right oh my god, they saw me I'm never going to be able to succeed and either they're going to drop out immediately or that is going to go in and is going to dismantle it's going to infect because the infection's already there it's going to keep dismantling their confidence until they drop out at some point does that make sense so that's one thing or we do this I'm going to succeed, what are you talking about I'm fine, I'm going to make it happen we're going to rebellion we push, we fight the great thing about rebellion is that when we go into rebellion we will push through our own fears and our own barriers to get things done but there's a downside to rebellion we're not in our authenticity we're in fight mode all the time so at some point rebellion has to be unwoven as well because what it is did it change the primary belief so what you have is you have rebellion and yeah, green hair, beliefs right so that needs to get unwoven so this can get here so there's nothing outside of us everything's recollecting back beliefs that we have anytime you get triggered you can go it's them they're doing it but the truth is everything inside of you is resonating it might not be exactly the same thing but there's some old beliefs that has gotten lit up the good things anytime we go into discomfort what's connected to it is an old belief or an agreement every belief and agreement we've ever made in our life takes energy repeat that again because this is every every agreement you've ever made in your life takes energy what that means if there's an obstacle in your life that has this much energy and you have this much energy who wins the obstacle right but if the obstacle has this much energy and you have this much energy what happens you don't even notice it's an obstacle right or you're just like ah I could settle that that's easy hop quiz who will put the energy in the obstacle we did the good news is the moment you recognize that without judgment without blame and yes did you inherit obstacles from your great great great grandmother from your culture yes but the moment you take it on it's yours we take responsibility for that we can do something we don't take responsibility for we're helpless and as much as I would like to be able to control everyone on the planet to do what I want them to do obviously do you ever notice this people just don't behave and all that energy we spend on making other people behave and stop it there's only one person you can change and commit to begin to pull the energy out the obstacle arises because what you're seeing the moment an obstacle arises is your energy it's where your energy is locked here's another way to see it how long do you have time it's about eight times awesome that's everything awesome anytime you set an intent you get clear I want a new job I want to love more whatever the intent is whether it's really tangible or very broad what you're doing I believe is planting a seed into the universe and saying hey universe I want more of this and I feel the universe goes awesome that's cool and then something is synchronicities allies start showing up you get all the support that starts to show up and or the obstacle starts to show up so everything between you and where you want to go starts to show up all the obstacles and what we've often been trained to do is an obstacle arises and we go I didn't want to go there anymore oh see I don't deserve it or it's not fair it's my mother she impressed me longer I wouldn't have this obstacle whatever we do with it to blame or judge to feel victimized by it or to blame but we're spending energy we're used to incremental belief that's causing the obstacle to present and it's going to be awesome and it's not saying if you do this right there'll be no obstacles in your life no you might notice you're in a body you might notice you're probably staging you might notice people die people abandon people change just because you show up present doesn't mean that all everything's going to go away and that means you're doing it perfectly that is spiritual nonsense we are going to be broken open our hearts are going to get broken because every time we really feel into that tenderness of being human and let ourselves feel our grief and feel our life there's so much power in going to rewards and discomfort and opening to it and listening to what's the obstacle from here is always going to be our perception because life's just doing life and I love there's one of my favorite quotes by the flier and Katie is you can fight against reality but reality is going to win only when you've suffered a time an obstacle arises what I pray for all of us is you go you are a worthy obstacle and you go wind here's the wind awesome this is going to make me more resilient, stronger more present, more compassionate you can use everything in your life to benefit you you can also use everything you have against you and most of us have learned to use everything against us we read a spiritual book and then three days later we're judging ourselves because we're not doing what it said we're inspired by someone and then we're like yeah but I'll never be I think we like to serve you no matter what it is when my first book Sorry I told my cat came out and a big, big break in my life so it's funny now my dear friends that are here know it was not funny but I knew her many late night called so this book comes out the book's about change that week my business partner my beloved, my husband my father of the community that we had created we moved out of the house and so I'm like I just gave up to a girl and I just lost my beloved in one week and I remember picking up the book and opening to the first page and the first paragraph says have you ever had your life turned upside down in a moment and I slammed it and was like you have her great I wrote a book for myself now I have to figure out how to live this really hard time there was a moment in that when as I was going through it it took a long time it wasn't right for many, many years I'll just say that, it took me two, three years for it to get right for all of that there was a moment I realized wow I feel so broken right now and so terrified around love that I could close an armor in my heart that that would be an easy path and I just was like and I don't want to do that I want to use this the most difficult thing that's ever happened to me to date, to open me more and that was just my command like I don't know how I'm going to do that but I just set that intent in that commitment I want to use this to open me and it did I'm so grateful now because I was willing to look at what do I actually want here how do I use this for me I believe there are a lot of music against me but that's what friends are for so wisdom authenticity, yes the wisdom is that as we have experiences we deepen we learn, we grow and wisdom isn't about being perfect wisdom is actually about embracing how that life is all the parts of us and that all the different parts of us also contain wisdom and I like to think about is that we each have a wise child self this innocent like play wise child and we all have a very wise elder self as well we need both of them we need that crazy play fun energy innocence and we also need that wise I've been through it all we're all going to survive authenticity that it's not something we strive to find it's something that we become by unlayering by looking at what does not feel like it's me, let that go and that there's ways, one of my favorite ways to work with that is stillness practices and also using our senses going back into our senses, what am I smelling here what am I tasting the moment we come back into our senses we become more authentic because we're actually here in the present moment if you really want to have a scare experience I invite you to sit still for ten minutes with a piece of paper with the word past present and future written on it and every time you haven't thought about the past put a little check to the little part any time you haven't thought about the future put a little mark on it any time you haven't thought about the present what would have thought about the present be like what you'll most find it is oh my god did I turn the oven off I don't know if I'm doing this right but other people meditate so much better maybe if I keep meditating I'll be, I mean I'll find that your mind is balancing past so using our senses helps us come back here and then yes learning to open to everything and opening to our closures opening to our fears opening to our judgments there's beauty that happens when we start to open to everything and move towards being somewhere and that brings us back into our ways so this place of celebrating is a radical act I believe especially at this time and also the need for us to be real to be vulnerable to show up with each other


Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great. And for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today, we're going to be continuing on with our Series 8 content. Big shout out before we get into the details of today's team because I did ask on Saturday's video about if you'd like to see Series 7 slash Series 9 or if you'd like to see out Series 8. The kind of consensus coming back was to see Series 8 out. We've got a couple of weeks left, so we may as well do it. Have a bit of fun while we're doing it. I did mention this a while ago. If you've got rental teams that you would like to see featured on the channel, let me know down in the comment section below and I will try and feature them. There was a bunch that I didn't get to feature in the last kind of segment that we did of rental teams. So I would like to see if I could approach that again, get those featured and give Series 8 a good send off. So today we're going to be featuring a restroom team. It's from a Japanese player called Kuro. I will leave all of their socials down in the description and their blog post about this team in particular, but they finished 75th overall in the PC4 qualifier as well as the Japan National Championship qualifier as well. So really good rating in the end. And a really interesting team. Some interesting picks. You've got the Landerous incarnate form. You've got the Milotic as well, which we very rarely see. Togekiss as well, kind of underplayed, but the restroom as well. That's not commonly seen too much, but predominantly here for kind of the sun matchup you would imagine. Heatwave, Draco, Meteor and Earth Power. Lots of nice options there to hit opponents with and do some big damage. Looking forward to playing this team today. I hope you enjoy the episode. If you want to try the team out and if you do, definitely let me know down in the comment section as always. We'll have a couple of games of the team now. We'll pilot it, show you how it plays and then we'll feature the rental at the end of the episode. So without further ado, friends, let's get into this first one today. Also, friends, if you noticed in the intro that I have this huge bandage on my finger, it's because yesterday I had a bit of an accident when I was putting some fence posts in my garden and there was a sledgehammer involved and it involved jamming my finger in between that and a steak. So yeah, I probably really damaged my finger. I'm kind of hoping it just gets better on its own, but I'll probably have to go and maybe get it scanned later this week. We'll see how it goes. But if you were wondering why I've got them wrapped up like crazy, that is why if you want to see a gruesome picture of the finger, I'm sure I can work that out. Let me know. I might drop it in the next one. But I'm fine. But yeah, it's it's pretty painful, but that is the reason why. Anyway, we've got a first opponent of the episode up. They are playing a team of Tornados, Oshifu, Rotomheed, Lapras, Landeras, Therian and Zashian. So it's kind of your standard lapdog team with the exclusion of having the Tornados in there, which gives you like really good speed control, especially with the lapras that you would assume on this build is kind of probably going to be weakness policy. Maybe, maybe. But yeah, it's going to be difficult to kind of manage speed control. Isn't something that we've got like an abundance on this team, because you know, it makes it very difficult to kind of utilize really. I'm going to be important for us and I think I think Reshiram is quite important for us in this one as well. You know, yeah, yeah, let's go Reshiram. Let's go Reshiram. Let's go Reshiram. Let's go Malut. Did we go Malotek? Malotek? I like Malotek here. I like Rillaboom and I think we need Landeras, you know, for the end game against Zashian because of the scarf there and the lack of speed control that we've kind of got on the team. You're relying mostly on this team with a lot of the priority that you got from like Rillaboom from the Oshifu. You got the scarf and the Landeras as well. So that gives you a kind of good kind of speedy mode to the team with the priority. You got the redirection which helps out a bunch and then you're kind of relying a bit more on something like Reshiram to function just because it's kind of like that anti meta pick at the moment. So we do see Zashian come out with Tornados. So there's likely going to be a tailwind here. Now we could initially just go for like a Max Wyrmwind isn't the worst player because it weakens the Zashian but at the same time, we've got to think is it worth getting rid of the Tornados at this point? Probably not like now because we then give my opponent kind of like that free switching when they get the tailwind up which is probably what they're going to go for. Although taking them down to the Zashian isn't a bad idea and then we could potentially just go muddy water and the Zashians are going to be hating as hard. Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. Let's do that. Let's Max with Reshiram. Okay, so what's coming in? Okay, that works out even better that we're going from muddy water then and we're going to see the Tornados Max. Okay, well that I didn't expect that you know on the Lapras team especially with stuff like Rotom Heat you kind of think well they're probably going to be the Pokemon that come they're probably going to be the Pokemon that Max but not the case. We're going to see an airstream though. I'll be into Milotic. I would imagine maybe Reshiram but they're not going to do too much damage to Reshiram and it is going to be a problem for my opponent to deal with of course because you know you're looking at things like Rotom Heat that aren't really going to be able to kind of damage super well like Reshiram and so it's going to kind of be one of those Pokemon that you want to remove as soon as you can but yeah the Milotic going to be there the big target here for the Tornados. The muddy water is just a big damage that we want on to the Rotom Heat and being life-holded as well we should be able to well it depends how much damage this does. I don't expect this to be getting close to a knock up but you never well okay okay it's not bad it's not bad. Let's see what this Milotic can do can surprise us I'm sure but they lack of speed control from my opponent. Wow we actually nearly take down both Pokemon. I mean that's that's pretty incredible that is pretty incredible. The thing to watch out for here I think is like I really want to go max woman into the Rotom but they could easily switch a disaster and back in here and I think what are we better off doing are we better off preserving I think maybe we go go into the Tornados. We just go for another worm wind hmm probably not and I think maybe protect Milotic here because otherwise Milotic just goes down okay if they nasty plot here that's gonna get a little bit tough but I don't know if they do oh they're just gone all around protects. All right well a round of protect it kind of it works out all right because yeah this this works out fine because we need to deny the tailwind from my opponent that's the one thing that makes it difficult to utilize lander us and if you get a weather up here as well definitely helps us out yeah we'll just we'll just get rid of I mean they've got the room here where they can nasty plot for sure they can go ice dream Milotic nasty plot not really oh huh they go after restroom getting damaged there which I guess makes sense oh okay hmm okay they're life or I should have really picked up on that in the previous turn because we could have just why I'm ended because I don't know if the Max Flair is going to be enough to get the Rotom obviously resisted but it does set up it does set us up is actually enough okay the restrooms just that that good that good well okay so we've got lander us to come in helps us out a bunch against the session is she a force this earth power going to be enough at this point the thing is we could bring in really boom here which definitely gives us a little bit more leeway and means that we got a clear a target to kind of a wind condition where we've got we don't need to concentrate too much down on the session this turn because we've got the fake out pressure and his restroom going to be able to take a wicked blow that's the big thing here because our main goal now is get rid of the ocean food and then lander us potentially just beats beat session and you would think if you're my opponent you probably want to protect session I mean the big thing that we got here is his heat wave so we don't really need to choose a target it's just who do we kind of fake out I think I think I think we fake out like I want to figure out she put it's got the sash so it feels like I'm going to fake out session because my opponent might call a bluff here no they do not they do not call a bluff they just double protect okay well that's fine we can't really protect in front of ocean food so we can potentially double into the ocean food here with a grassy glide in the heat wave but I don't suspect that we'll be able to get our attack off unfortunately you know yeah I think we have to just heat wave and grassy glide I mean we could would have we could have wood hammered into ocean food we probably got room to wood hammer this turn because I think all the attention from my opponent is like so directed over to that restroom it does give really boom a little bit more room to kind of function here and maybe a wood hammer plus grass glide would be the ticket to where to get rid of the ocean food but to grassy glides will be enough we know that you know we survive have they doubled up into us have they and it's a crit as well restrooms a beast restroom is actually a beast they have doubled up so that's that's fair play to my opponent that ocean field go down next turn and an earth power like you say should be enough to get the session I'm hoping I'm hoping that's the whole plan of this team you know but I think even if not I think earth power and then grassy glide will be enough so I think we're going to be all right regardless so it's like having that that plan for the end game with the lander is always helps out and I do really like it is a kind of a tech a tool share force is just ridiculous ability coming off you know same type attack bonus earth power of a decent attacks that anyway so sitting here they're the ocean food I think the the zashian is going to try and go after really boom here potentially but not going to have the chance not going to have the chance because that is just a ridiculously strong move yeah and now and now grassy glide it probably picks up the knockout but the games kind of over now because there's no way I should be deals with both of these by itself so yeah it's it's really like I really love this team built like the build of this entire team I think it's really unique and it's not something that you kind of like see that often because it's not packed out with speed control it's not packed out with like support tools and things like that it's got very kind of direct ways to dealing with Pokemon and kind of like I don't know getting a good return on whatever you lose you know in situations so very good game to my opponent and we'll jump into our next match of today game next we've got a whimsy caught a shadow right a calyrex a cinderace regi a lecky a tapu lele and a lander as theory and form a really nice looking team I love this concept I love the cinderace in there to protect the the shadow right a calyrex it's got sucker punch it's got a lot of utility it's very fast Pokemon in general got the regi a lecky which helps out a bunch the whimsy caught obviously there for the speed control with tailwind taunt helping hand the list goes on tapu lele and these kind of builds is generally specs so we've got to be very careful around that because it can hit like an absolute truck then you got the intimidate support from the lander as well which is normally a solvest right how are we going to approach this one because this is this is obviously very difficult we do have urshifu and I think urshifu is a nice Pokemon but I don't think it's the one that we bring I mean you can lead it but there's so many things that are faster than us that make it very difficult to utilize you know I think let's go melodic let's go melodic and now let's go melodic and yeah let's go melodic urshifu restroom and I think boom boom big old boom boom to round off the team yeah let's see how it goes all right well you know like in the episode I said series 8 we've only got a couple of weeks left it'd be interesting to see if you all would like me to go through the restrictives that I haven't featured yet you know this there's ones like Requiser this don't don't wings the cross mother's a bunch of them that I haven't featured on the channel so if you'd like to see me feature those going forward for the remainder of series 8 let me know it could be quite a lot of fun right with me and Cinderella's like that the main reason I wanted to leave melodic was we kind of we're able to get a light screen up and my opponent's big thing here is they're going to go hard after the urshifu with the wimmy and the cinderace and we don't necessarily have the best switching and I don't really want to bring restroom in it's so early I mean the other thing is you know we could just go max max geyser into cinderace and go sucker punch because they potentially are going to go they're potentially going to go tailwind here and they're not going to expect the melodic to max and I think the melodic gets a completely free turn here there's no way they concentrate down on the melodic at this point you know they have to go hard they have to go harm into the urshifu here because they know the sash is there they need to remove it to the car X has a way easier time at the end of the end of the game the problem would be obviously here is fly but are we going to see a fly maybe not if we do a bounce I mean I jump kick doesn't miss doesn't miss because it's the dodgiest move ever it's gone the curse of the commentator here we go once again if you're bad I love cinderace so much but you love to see it happen you love to see how it's so evil so evil okay yeah I'm sorry I apologize apologize let's step back a minute because I know how I know you know why I laugh so much is because I know how annoyed I get in those situations when it's me and it gives me that like you know I'm totally relating to that player but also kind of finding the funny side of it where I'm like I am like so annoyed so annoyed like it's kind of funny I don't know if you get that yeah I do feel yeah you got to feel for your opponent when these sort of things happen and I mean the Lele's in it and an awful spot isn't it because we're just going to switch in boom get rid of the terrain get rid of the Lele and yeah because like a life up guys there's no way it's not picking up the knockout on Lele unless it's Lele Max's but I think at this point you probably wait and max the the cowax when it it's a field so there's a big help and I mean it is specs so you've got a the expanded force is going to come out isn't it what's eye shock still there's a fat chunk of damage doesn't it not quite enough please we get to max melodic in this one you know I do I do love melodic it is it's a very cool Pokemon it's a very cool Pokemon it's very underused and life orb you know I've got a real affinity to the life or variant and the first regional where was it where was it where was it with Borkum somewhere in Germany of Sword and Shield that I went to manage to get out to it and I played life of melodic and it was so good that tournament and barely missed X2 X2 finish and just was just just missed and I mean what we'll do is we'll go Hailstorm and we'll go for a fake out yeah I mean we may as well stop the whammy here if we can the calorex is going to max you know it's coming but against a good old Urushi Fu I don't think you're going to be able to beat it because we've got the sash there so we've got like all the security in the world we need because one wicked blow is going to be enough and if you get the Hailstorm up it just means that you know we broke a potential sash on on the horse because we haven't really seen it anywhere else yet so helping hand boom boom boom it's fine and we're not going to be able to stop the whammy this time but we do do a nice chunk of damage to it and the max mind stone coming out now this is not what we want to see no no okay that yeah that's not not ideal because now the Urushi Fu is in a terrible spot where we can't get our terrain up I don't think can we we still got three Pokemon right so we can we can switch around switch around doing stuff there's a grim near coming out and that makes things difficult and we still got three Pokemon so we use yeah we we need to keep the problem is like getting Urushi Fu in yeah I'm going to bring Reshiram in and I'm going to switch Rilla Boom out and I'm going to bring Urshi in for Rilla hope that Reshiram gets knocked out and then we got Rilla Boom Urshi Fu with a terrain up to kind of close the game out that's what we want but it's quite it's quite predictable because I think my opponent can kind of kind of see into that you know we'll go for a heat wave in the rain not the most ideal scenario the worst sit the worst possible outcome here is if they go the double up into this Urushi Fu here with like a moon blast max phantasm yeah and it's happening isn't it it's happening like a dazzling gleam that would be that would be so bad that would be so bad because there's the crit it's almost like do you leave Rilla Boom out in the field at this point you know yeah that's terrible that is actually the worst I mean we're going to get the heat wave and remove yeah the yeah okay well yeah I don't really think okay well they have to go for Max Mindstorm here and I think they go into the Rilla Boom so do we grassy glide and just Draco Meteor because I think that combination probably will be enough to maybe enough to get it maybe I don't think it will be I don't think it will be grassy glide you see if we've still got the grassy terrain up this next turn then we're in the money but I don't think we're going to be able to it's all about this Draco Meteor isn't it from what I felt was like a super good place we're in a super bad place and this is the danger of this team you know that's like Shadow Rider Calyx come on Reshiram let's just nuke it with a Draco Meteor that's that's prove that you are there I think we're going to get it you know I think we get it yes come on Reshiram that is a way to end this match 100% over excited over excited but very nice with and against the very scary team indeed so yeah good game to my opponent so for our third and final upon the episode this could not be more fitting really we've got a very similar team we've got nearly a mirror match here with a Rilla Boom Incineroar Whimsicott Togekiss Reshiram and Glastria so I'm thinking like our best kind of lead maybe like Reshiram and Togekiss they've got speed control which gives us like it puts us in a massive disadvantage for sure but it's not like we can lead something like like Rilla Boom into Reshiram you know I think the redirection definitely helps us out a bunch do we want a run Rilla Boom like Rilla Boom is always good I think just for the fake out and then the grassy glide pressure that can kind of put on it's kind of what it comes down to is our last Pokemon that we kind of utilize is going to be something like Urshifu something like Landeris it feels like it could be a very good in an end game situation particularly if the speed controls kind of been lost from my opponent so I'd preferably go with Landeris it feels like it's going to be a difficult match for sure but I always feel like that with this team like we've covered like the way that the team doesn't really have too much in in regard to speed control and I feel like when you come up against teams with like heavy speed control like that immediate speed control like with Whimsicott or Tornados or something like that it feels like you're at a complete disadvantage straight away but we're going to see the same lead from my opponent is what we're going with they got a nice shiny Reshiram I don't know if I like I think I'd prefer regular Reshiram to the shiny one the gold bands are kind of cool but it's the all white the all white is just just nicer isn't it and right well we do we can't really go for follow me I mean we can we could help in hand hmm do we just follow me and just try and blow up the the opposing the opposing talk is because it could go up in hand but there's the all I think there's the chance that they set the sun for us which could kind of come back to bite them but whether they do that or not because I think their best option is going to be max flaring into our talk is trying to get some damage onto it to remove it from the field but I don't know if they're going to I don't know if they're going to go for that it looks like they're faster than us as well so potentially they do and then I might give us a light like if we can remove the talk is it definitely gives us a bit of room no problem would be the next turn if they bring in like incinero and then you got the fake out to get to get around or follow me okay let's see how this plays out like the best case scenario for us is they go max flare into our talk is they redirect we go max flare into their talk is but we got the sun kind of boosting us allies which coming out they got the exact same talk is kind of shenanigans going on that's not ideal maxi flair yeah well they're going to set the sun up for us but I mean wow wow that does just ridiculous amounts of damage they're not able to remove us so we do get a little bit of a we do get a little bit of room to kind of function see what this does nada like literally zip it does nothing and it's probably worth can we make a call can we make a call because I think they've got to go max flare again they've got to go max flare again they don't know we've got allies which either and I don't know if they got allies which here do they go allies which again because I'm kind of tempted to allies which let's play them at the wrong game and then go max wormwind but there's always the fear that they're going to just redirect and things go pear shaped for us whereas if we get rid of the talk now I'm going to go for it you know I'm going to go for this and and say they're not going to allies which I don't think they are on a wee allies which I was like oh no we've done it we've done it it's went bad okay they dazzle they're faster than us that's like the worst case scenario the togs cast faster than ours okay that's not good yeah and now we're done we're done oh no we survive okay this is like legit a very good restroom and now we're going to be able to remove their restroom which makes things a heck of a lot easier but we are in dazzling game range because the talk is is oh no no no no no no no no not so good okay well hmm Landorus is like a savior and where's rock slide when you need it okay we're going to be relying on stone edge and I think we've got a we actually just attack here because I think like the restroom goes down to recoil damage regardless so I think we just go max flare and we double up with a stone edge into yeah talk kiss because then really boom has a way easier time when it comes in yeah so the restroom max guarding so if we can catch this talk kiss with a stone edge pick up the knockout that's huge it's not enough now the dazzle is going to get us hmm okay but at the same time it's kind of alright because really booms going to be able to come in grassy glides going to be able to to get the restroom stone edge gets the talk is we're just kind of locked into stone edge for the rest of the game which is not ideal and I like switches obviously an issue but I mean I like switch doesn't really help my opponent in this situation because they just I like switch and they don't do anything you know like they're clicking the I like switch button which is fine but you're pulling your restroom into like a stone edge damage and your talk isn't doing any damage so yeah it's not it doesn't really work out too well and for you I mean we could fake out here I don't think there's a need to I think we just grassy glide so tough this is so tough so tough and you know it's it's harder when you don't I'm not making excuses for myself but it is all it is always the case where you know when you pick up a team to play and you you don't know necessarily the the initial reasons why some things like got that speed stat for that specific reason it always it does it does get like okay well I mean if we get a crit if we get a crit star edge here we could and there's no sash no crit okay no crit not ideal and we just grassy glide again I mean they're going to tailwind right they're going to tailwind but everything so low health at the minute it's kind of alright like we just need to get rid of the talk is and the restroom so low health that'll go down to rest glide so they've got to stall out these the grassy terrain turns but by doing that they kind of lose their their tailwind and their son there's a tailwind we get another just free like this is where you really want the star edge crit to kind of come in like if we want to get a star edge crit ever ever in this game this is where you want to get it I'm wondering whether or not as well like it would have been better to lock into like sludge bomb here because sludge bomb probably would have picked up something like and the restroom would have picked up it would have dealt with the talk is just as well and then we ended like that that's very sad that's very sad that my puns done that but okay well we'll take it we'll take it and we'll jump across now and get that rental code for you all my friends right friends here is the rental for today's team a little bit sad about that last one but I mean that is three for three we did ask we put ourselves in his best position we could in that last one it would be nice to see it played out and if my opponent did have connection issues then that is a shame but I hope you've enjoyed today's episodes and if you do try the team out I do suggest giving it a try I think it's a really nice build it's a little bit different from your normal kind of constructs of teams and I think it does a really nice job in the current format as well so restroom is always a lot of fun to play it's a beast of a Pokemon and it's got a really good supporting cast if you do try it out as always let me note down the comment section below I hope you've enjoyed today's episode hit me up with teams that you'd like to see going forward it's always something I would love to hear from you all and we'll wrap it up there and I'll see you for another episode very soon like I say I got lots planned for this week so hopefully you enjoy all the teams it will be featuring and but until next time friends take care of yourselves and bye bye


for finding better methods for better conclusions or more reliable conclusions with better methods. And that's the basis of how ASCII works. The way how we can do this, and I'll break this down with Tim, who you saw in the video. Again, we have our person, we have our method, and we have our conclusion. The kind of questions that you ask are really important, and you want to make sure that you're not targeting the person, which I show in blue, or the conclusion, which I'll show in red, but the method don't agree. So if you got a question, for example, like, I know God's real because, you know, I went to sleep, and I just felt like I was touching and speaking with God in that one moment. It was a real personal experience, and I can't deny that. You can ask a lot of questions about that, but you want to make sure that you're targeting the right thing, not the person, not the conclusion, but the method. I'll show you what it looks like when you target the person. This is an example of questions that will trigger a person, make them more dogmatically closed. So for example, I know God's real because of my personal experiences. Okay, well, your personal experience doesn't make your God real. People say that all the time. Why are you any different? You're not making any sense. Like at the tip of a mountain, echoes, stuff like that. None of those questions are a great way to open up the person. You want to ask questions that continue a conversation rather than shut down the conversation. You want to ask questions that are like an open door rather than a closed door. The path to SE to work efficiently is when you will let the interview partner do a lot of the heavy lifting, do a lot of the thinking, and by asking or by making responses that cut them down or shut the conversation short, they'll be less open to reflecting on how they arrived at the belief. And then they'll be not, they won't be able anymore to question the method that they use to get to their conclusion. Let's look at what happens when you question the conclusion. It's the same thing. I know my God's real because of my personal experiences. Well, that's not good evidence. I've said that before a lot of times. It's a judgment and it's also an opinion that I'm throwing out on top of them. The goal of SE is to peel back the layers that get to the conclusion, not add more layers on them. So try to keep, if you have a bias, you know, like I, for one, I agree with the point, but it's not a good way to get the audience who is the person that you're talking to to also be with you. And if your goal is to try to help them think, don't try to shut them down. Here's some other things that I've been guilty of saying. Well, you know, with all due respect, I don't believe that we like talk about maybe something else or like, I hear what you're saying, but I'm not getting there. These are again, judgments that the person will pick up on when you're challenging their conclusion, they'll treat it as a personal attack and they won't be able to be open about thinking about the method that got them to the conclusion. That's the goal of SE. Here's another example. That doesn't make any sense. Okay, so I think we get the point now, not to attack the person, not to attack the conclusion, but the method. What does it look like when we question the method? I know my God is real because of my personal experiences. Personal experiences could, is it possible to have a personal experience that might lead you to a false conclusion? It's a fair question to ask. And you'd be surprised how open people are to talk about that when you're not challenging them or their conclusion. Is the method that they're using reliable? If it's not reliable, that's a discussion to continue to have. And it's something for them to think about. How much confidence are they putting on a potentially unreliable method? Here's another question. Is there a better way to reach that conclusion? The personal experience? Another great question. You're already, you're not making any insinuations. It's a fair question to ask. If they say no, this is absolutely the best method. That's another fair question. I mean, that's a very fair topic to bring up. Okay, so what other ways have we used personal experiences to come to truth conclusions? Is that better or in scientific world or engineering world, can I use personal experiences instead of math and science to come to truth conclusions? You might be onto something potentially really useful. We should write a paper about this. Let's get a Nobel Prize. Don't go that far. But is there a better way to reach that conclusion than a personal experience? That's a great question to ask. It's just a nice, simple way to get them to continue to think about the reasoning that they gave you. And here's another good one. Would a different personal experience affect your belief? Are you at that foundational level of their belief? Have you picked the right belief or the most important one to the interview partner? Because if it doesn't affect their belief at all, if they had a different personal experience, that's not the belief or the method that you want to talk about. You want to find out what's behind that. So if they say, no, it won't affect my belief either way, regardless of whatever personal experience I have, I'm still going to believe in the Scott. Well, then what's the real reason that you believe in the Scott? Because it's not personal experience. It doesn't seem to have an effect at all. Let's dig deeper. And that's the goal. You don't want to change the mind in one simple step, one quick phrase. You're, you're chipping away at the armor, you're peeling back layers. And what they'll be more open to do is refine a reasoning and change maybe the aspect of how they reached their conclusion rather than the conclusion all at once. So you'll say, they'll say things like, well, maybe it's not personal experience, but I do know that there's a lot of science that proves my God. So I know I came to my God belief because of science. I think there's a lot of good evidence out there. And for things like this, I generally just like to ask clarification questions. What do you mean by that? Sometimes it's good enough just to rephrase what they're saying, because when people are speaking, they aren't processing it within the same way as if they were hearing it. And so I've had people say, I believe in my God because of science. And I'll respond back. It sounds like you're saying that there's, you have, you believe in your God because of science. And they'll say, no, no, no, no, that's not what I meant at all. I meant that there's a lot of scientists that believe in my God. That's completely different thing. That's a very, very different claim. And it's worthwhile to just rephrase and get clarification because the way how people talk, sometimes they don't even hear the words that are coming out of their mouths sometimes. So it's also a nice way to just slow down the conversation and get the expectation set up that your goal is really not to like judge them to understand how they came to their conclusion and determine whether or not that method that they use to get to their conclusion is reliable. Here's another one. Is science a reliable way to test a supernatural? I typically like to ask people the nature of their God and as much as specific terms as possible before we begin. I also use something like a confidence test. I'll ask them like, so like, could you talk to me about this God? Like, you said Christian, but like, is that a specific domination? Is he like, all powerful, all this like, okay, sounds pretty supernatural. Is that fair? Yeah. Okay. We'll have the conversation. We'll get to the science plane. And I'll say things like, well, is science a good way to test a supernatural? Do we have a science detector? Like, do those things exist? Or like, do we have a means of testing that? They might show me an ad on Amazon and they'll be like, yeah, there's a science detector. I got a detector right here. I'll be like, I can't buy that. I want to see it. And if they like, again, you want to be open to whatever they're saying, if they do have a way to test a supernatural with a scientific plane, be open to it. Research it. Be an open mind.  Set a good example.  You want to ask questions that open the conversation. And ask me if science is a reliable way to see supernatural? Fair question. Because now you're just comparing different methods with each other. You're staying focused on the method. And again, if science is not a super, a way, a reliable way to test a supernatural, what does that leave you with? If science is limited, what's the real foundation of this belief? I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm saying there's something more important to you than science. If we can both agree that science is in a good way to test this belief, right? That's when you start to get towards the fundamental reasoning. So the fundamental methods. Fundamental methods sound like, well, without faith, I couldn't believe my God. Without X, I couldn't be just as confident in this position. I can't come here to this belief without X. Whatever that X is, typically it's faith. That's the foundational claim. And the questions that you ask at that point, once you realize that it will affect their competence, those questions trying to be a little bit different. What you want to do is clarify, again, still engage with them, still think about like how they reached it, but also ask them the questions, questions about the words that they're using, because just because I have a definition of what their foundation is, or like things like faith doesn't mean that we're sharing the same definitions between the two. We might have the same vocabulary, but different definitions. So make sure you're on the same page. If they have faith as a reasoning, ask them, you know, is faith a reliable way to reach a true conclusion? Is your X a reliable way to reach a true conclusion? Can it ever be wrong? Do other people utilize it and get to wrong conclusions? If that's the case, how reliable is it? If it's not as reliable, are there other ways that we could use to try to get to those same conclusions? And if not, how confident are you really that, you know, this being exists, or that this belief is true if we don't have a reliable way to get to that conclusion? If they say they don't know, if they say they're thinking about that, these are all fantastic responses. In fact, there's a number of really good responses that you'll get, but just asking simple questions that target the method. Some of them are like, oh my gosh, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. That's the perfect answer. You want people to think about stuff like this. That's an interesting point. I never thought about that before. I had a lady say that to me. It was like, maybe like, I won't lie like about 40 times during the conversation. It was a little weird, but it's good that they're acknowledging that the points that you're making because it shows that they're being open. And it's not necessarily a defensive statement. It's, I never really thought, I never had a chance to think about that. That's a really good point as we've seen in the video before. Well, I don't know. I don't know. In my opinion is not just an out, but one of, or by that, I mean, not just the thing that people say, but it's literally the best place to start learning from. And when you can get a person from, I'm 100% confident that this is true to, I don't know if that's, I don't know. I don't know. Pause. Thinking time to think. That's, that's, you've done your job. That's the best thing that could happen in a conversation. You also want people to think, you also want to give time for people to think. So if they are pausing, just give them the time to do so. You want to just have the opportunity for them to critically think about how they arrive at their method and determine if that method, the analogy that they're using is reliable. I want to show an example in its full, you know, form. Let's see how.


What's good chargeable Ross back again with another video. So we got to check out what OSHA Jackson jr Recently was talking about On Twitter he had a I guess he had a interview with Chris van Vleet and they posted like a clip of it Basically talking about how AEW can better itself and you know and grow from where it is right now because the general consensus Is right now it's kind of in this stagnant place. They're not gaining as many Newer fans to the product that they should be And it could be better just like WWE could be better as well There's always things to work on but he was just giving his personal opinion on what can make AEW a little bit better And he's had a few opinions wrestling related. I didn't even know he was a big wrestling fan So I saw him posting different takes on Twitter and he would get a lot of backlash for his different Opinion so we're gonna check this out because Ultimately what he ended up saying I'm guessing it didn't go too well Because wrestling fans started acting like wrestling fans and start saying some very disrespectful stuff to him and his father Ice Cube so we're gonna check this out. You know, it's gonna be very interesting to see with some of the AEW fans have to say this was On this particular tweet Oshay Jackson junior on AEW fans And what's missing if I'm watching someone on AEW and I ask who is this guy? I don't need you to tell me. I'm not a real wrestling fan. Just off that quote alone Yeah, you'd be surprised how many people be like, oh, you don't know this Wrestling legend from New Japan. You don't know this person. Oh, you're not a real wrestling fan No, maybe it's just I didn't watch wrestling in this part of the world It doesn't make me less of a wrestling fan because I don't know this particular wrestler But we're gonna check this out. See what he had to say someone if I'm watching Someone on AEW and I asked who is this guy? I don't need you to tell me I'm not a real wrestling fan to tell me how could you not know such and such?  That's something that I feel like is missing when you Conan when I was on his podcast He brought up when you watch UFC and they give you a little backstory about this dude backstory about that dude What this guys had to go through what he's done and vice versa Then they put him in the room and they cuss each other out and then by watching those videos You've picked a side of who you're with it's missing from that what what they have is this This this niche group of people who watch all of these wrestling shows and they're already in the know Yeah So when they see these names together it is a dream match for them But you're trying to sell this to American television, baby you got and see he spot on what he just said there He's very spot-on. You're trying to sell this like I was just saying The product has gotten stagnant in the sense of they're not trying to grow Their audience they're cool with the audience that they got which is fine But if you're trying to compete and grow your business You should be wanting to grow the audience more who don't know about what's going on in AEW You know, you want to bring in newer people to know let me check out AEW Let's see what's going on here And it's kind of hard to do that if you got all these wrestlers that are popular elsewhere But the mainstream consumer doesn't know who the hell they are So you got to kind of explain why you should care about this person got a movie that up a little bit You got to give me some some cinema to follow, you know, some something to hold on to besides the announce team Running down a list for me while this dude's walking down the ramp Yeah, and I feel like that's missing and when you are Trying to get involved and and trying to really give something a chance and when you question it even a little bit And you give 80 no-faced account Coming at you.  Y'all like it. I don't and I don't want that. You know, I have people over there That are that I'm cool with, you know Hey, man, that's that spot on what he said there was very spot on the moment You say something and this goes on the WWE side of things too.  That's that's fine I'm okay with not knowing every wrestling Legend or every wrestling personality or every wrestling hold move I'm okay with not knowing that because that's the whole purpose of life to get to know more information than you did before so and to his point they need to do a better job of Setting things up where This foreign wrestler or this independent wrestler that's been doing crazy on independent scenes Build them up to a point where hey, we're gonna have this person on the show in the next couple weeks Let me let's give you give you a background of who this guy is the same thing with WWE and what they've always done Sometimes it's not to the success of the talent that they're trying to bring up from NXT NXT has a niche audience of people that watch it. It's a developmental ground for the main roster You want to get people involved in who this person is as you're bringing them up? You want to create these vignettes and video packages or really start just easing them in before they have a first match? Because at the end of the day, you're not only trying to sell this person to the live audience You're trying to sell this person to the audience watching at home So that way they may want to say hey, this guy is good. I want to see this person live. Let me buy a ticket simple and I think AEW has a tough time doing they just they just kind of hey This guy's a legend if you know you know and if you don't know then you're not a wrestling fan It's like that's that should not be the case, but let's go into some of the backlash she received So this is from Julian Weeks on his Twitter I guess he reposted the screenshots of some of the backlash he was receiving OSHA Once again, AEW fans have gone too far Pissed off ice cube tagging that man's dad was lowest fuck, but I'm not surprised one bit So let's check out the tweets in question man I never wished at ice cube pulled out more in my life than when this sped was conceived Wow Damn, that's kind of fucked up bro. Whoa. Why what do we do it? So that's that's the tweet he sent To his dad.  Like what's what's happening here? Why is this a thing? What's going on here? like You wrestling fans man, and I'm a wrestling fan too, but some of y'all Y'all are just y'all take it too far, bro. You can disagree with his point, but OSHA just proved Why?  You can't say you do Because if you wanted it to grow you would take some of these criticisms as and look at them like okay Well, I want more people to watch, you know enjoy the show that I'm watching and If you really care about wrestling your show being seen more then you should want that You should want your wrestling show to get better.   Let me know. Do you guys agree with O'Shea's comments and criticisms of AEW? Not doing a very good job on Explaining who some of these wrestlers that not many people may know other than the hardcore fans Do you feel like his comments were justified? Could they do a better job of doing that? Do you feel like that O'Shea is wrong in this assessment? Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love support you guys showing on channel rotoN50k And I'm still young speedy you to wrestling champion the world appreciate y'all kicking with me. See you next one. Peace


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