This is stock number 10307. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2014 Ford F450 Crew cab long box dual rear wheel. This truck has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel and from this HD video you will be able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. White platinum tricote metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person and if you'd like to check on more pictures you can go to our website which is in the upper right hand part of the screen right now just click that link and it takes you right to this vehicle on our website for full description and pictures. Anyways, we got polished aluminum rims, Hercules, TerraTrac, Cross V tires. These are LT 245 75 R17 tires and they have probably about 70% of the tread left. It has the Rancho shocks and the skid place part of the FX4 package. Didn't see any major corrosion underneath there. Front fender is in excellent condition Front bumper is in really nice shape Lower valence looks really good Has a nice bug shield on it. The hood, I didn't see any dents or dings on that and the passenger side fender I didn't see any dents or dings or scuffs or scrapes on there. Passengers side rim is in nice shape as well and as you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down You can still see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here So then when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises And if you wanted to buy the truck right online We offer the Summit Fastpass where you can apply for financing. Get approved Check out your trade put different amounts of money down to see what your payment is going to be That's right at SummitAuto.com. The frame and underbody is very clean as well as all the remaining Factory exhaust factory chrome step bars and down that side. I thought was pretty pretty darn clean The dually tubs are in excellent shape as well And the back rims are in pretty nice condition too back tires have just as much tread as the front tires And it does have the camper package with the anti-sway bars That's what this thing is right there and the frame and underbody looks really really nice didn't see Probably any corrosion. You always got to look at those box rails to make sure they're not corroded up because that's the first place it starts This one looks really good rear bumpers in excellent shape No major dents or dings on that full towing package which includes a four pin and seven pin wiring along with the receiver hitch locking tailgate with the tailgate step assist Has a shock down assist as well There's a step assist spray and bed liner and it has a an RDS Toolbox slash 91 gallon auxiliary fuel tank You can see it as a fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package and the seven pin wiring in the bed Tailgate shuts nice and solidly get a really good idea of that white platinum tricor metallic paint And down the rest of the side of the vehicle just as clean as that passenger side Once again take note of how nice and clean that dually tub is and for full disclosure This back rim is in nice shape as well and these tires have similar tread to all the rest Very clean down this side. It does have the driver side door code entry, which we do have the code for has the power scope Meers, so they power telescope out and power fold in they're heated and a built-in directional signals Inside the lariat package gives you the black leather interior. There are no rips There are no tears on these seats both these front seats on the outboard side are heated and cool and power Weather tech floor mats throughout auto headlamps and power pedals Power windows power locks power mirrors like I said, it has the power fold in mirrors So they power fold in like so and they do power telescope out and in Sony sound system and I was like showing that both mirrors are working and in functional order Inside you can see that this one has 40,493 miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean It does come with the leather wrap steering wheel Cruise controls and information center controls on the left Bluetooth and audio controls on the right No major scuffs or scrapes on that steering wheel comes with the six-speed automatic transmission turned out four-wheel drive traction control system And this one has the my Ford touch radio with the factory navigation can also do your Climate controls here. You got your heated and cooled seat buttons And you can do your radio AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities This is also where your backup camera shows up And if you didn't like your climb control up there You can do your climb control down here with the more tactile buttons And you got your factory brake controller and four auxiliary Upfitter switches sync for your Bluetooth phone 110 volt 150 watt plug-in that weather tech floor mat goes all the way over the hump there Passing receipt is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that and The headliner is in nice shape. It does have the power sunroof and The power sliding rear windows for your rear windows and your map lights We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood The back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips no tears back here Does have the power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost The lockable storage container underneath the seats and that locks with the ignition key right there And a weather tech format all the way across to keep your carpeting looking like new underneath Because it has a Sony sound system. It's gonna have the factory subwoofer back here as well You also have your latch tether anchors for any child car seats you may have Finally it does have the child safety locks on the back doors and we will take a look under that hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this HD video You'll have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood We have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine base very clean. It runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids Have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% Ready to go To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers Half tons three quarter tons one tons four fifties five fifties you name it. We got it. Go to our website www.summitauto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto comm and if you'd like to check out More HD videos you can go to youtube.com Slash summit auto remembers you like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second You'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one on your right If you have not been to our website on the bottom a link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out And we really look forward to helping you with this super clean 2014 Ford f450 crew cab long box tool rear wheel lary it Thanks again


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Your Majesty, it's always a pleasure for me to meet good friends on behalf of the American people. But welcoming you, a courageous and admirable leader, is indeed an honor. I've read of your many accomplishments, your commitment to your people, and your dedication to your ideals. And I've looked forward to this day when we could meet face to face. Your Majesty, the American people are deeply impressed by what you've achieved. Since you assumed leadership, your country's progress economically, socially, and politically has established your reputation as a compassionate leader who can get things done. In an inspiring commitment to the long-run interests of your people, you've built a modern education system of which any country would be proud. Similarly, the level of health care available to your people is testimony to the humane character and business-like efficiency of your leadership. And you are building the infrastructure of a modern economy, fulfilling the prerequisites for progress for your people. Your Majesty, we're pleased that as your friends, we were able to make some small but we hope significant contribution to your bold endeavors. In your 1980 national day address, you put forth a goal to your people. You said self-reliance is to be the keystone of all our plans for the future. With this as a guidepost, you have moved forward to diversify your economy. Now the people of Oman are able to rely on agriculture, mining, industry, fishing, and other commercial endeavors, in addition to oil, to support an acceptable quality of life. We applaud this farsighted approach and hope that we can continue to play a helpful role. But Your Majesty, as you are keenly aware, peace and security are irreplaceable ingredients for progress. It is no secret that vital national interests motivate the United States in the Middle East. We and our allies depend on oil originating there, much of it moving close to your shores through the Straits of Homoos. Yet unlike another world power, which encourages and exploits conflict, the United States sees its interests fulfilled in regional peace and stability. We are thus committed to work with those in the Middle East who need our help to secure peace and to deter outside aggression. To this end, we've made rapid progress in recent years, developing the capability of coming to the assistance of our friends wherever they may be. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you, Your Majesty, for your support of our efforts to deter aggression. The brutality we've witnessed in Afghanistan, the attempt to suppress an entire population, the debasement of its religion, and the use of chemical weapons and other crimes against civilization suggests that our concerns are well-founded. In recent years, you've made many laudable contributions to peace. We appreciate, for example, your continued support for peaceful accommodation between Israel, Egypt, and its other Arab neighbors. The United States remains morally committed to further progress in the direction of peace and security for all the peoples of the Middle East. The plan I outlined on September 1st last year is still on the table. While there may be bumps along the way, we will not be deterred from our long-term objective, which is a broad-based settlement firmly grounded on United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and consistent with the Camp David framework. As we speak now, radical elements are seeking to prevent an agreement which would permit King Hussein of Jordan to join the peace process. The choices facing the Palestinian leaders are clear. Either the status quo and the continued frustration of their people's aspirations or a bold and courageous move to break the deadlock. For our part, we will not permit the forces of violence and terror to exercise a veto over the peace process. Commenting about the conflict surrounding Israel you recently observed, people now want to see the problem solved once and for all in every respect. Your Majesty, that is certainly our desire, and I can assure you we will spare no effort to put an end to the killing and to bring this dreadful chapter in Middle East history to a conclusion acceptable to all sides. I look forward to discussing this problem and other important matters relating to Middle East peace with you today. Lasting peace will come when individuals of good will, though in disagreement at times, work together to prevent conflict. We have followed with interest your own efforts to foster regional cooperation, particularly the improvement in your relations with South Yemen. We wish you continued success in your attempts to eliminate the causes of tension and instability in the Gulf. Your Majesty, we are proud to be on your side in your quest for a better life for your people and your search for peace and stability. Relations between our two peoples have spanned a century and a half. I am confident that your visit today will serve to further strengthen the bonds between us. We are happy that you have come to visit. Welcome, Mr. President. I greatly appreciate the warm and generous words with which you have welcomed me to your great country today. It gives me particular pleasure that this, my first state visit should so happily coincide with the 150th anniversary of the establishment of those friendly relations which have remained constant between our two countries to the present day. That these relations should have stood the test of time with which constancy is hardly surprising for our two peoples share common and deeply cherished traditions which lie at the very foundation of our national existence. Indeed, it was these profound beliefs, intolerance, justice, and determination to defend freedom and to uphold the sanctity of human rights which provided the great impulse which brought men from many parts of the world more than 200 years ago in a pilgrimage to this beautiful land to realize their dream of a new life and to found a national which would enshrine those principles forever. Mr. President, over the years the United States of America has driven unceasingly to make this world a better place for humanity. But nothing you have achieved has surpassed the example of your steadfast championship of those principles often at great sacrifice and in the face of the most daunting obstacles. I and my people who have ourselves fought through many bitter years of struggle to maintain our country's freedom and will do so again should the need ever arise are deeply conscious of this. For me, for we know from our own experience that peace must go hand in hand with dignity and freedom that life, if it is to be worth living, can only be founded on justice and respect for humanity and that these prices are not easily won or preserved. I believe that the world has never stood in greater need for these values than it does today. In recent years, the forces of aggression, intolerance, and lawless ambition have increasingly sought to impose their will on mankind. The world has had no respite from the continuing threat of instability. Nowhere has this threat been more acutely felt than in our own region of the Middle East where we and our brother states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have pledged ourselves to work together in the closest accord to safeguard our peoples and our ancient culture. Mr. President, I welcome the constructive understanding your country is showing of the problems which confront our region and I am convinced that the measures you have taken will greatly contribute to the maintenance of peace and security there. I also warmly commend the endeavors you have made to help bring about an honorable solution to the tragic Middle East situation. Endevils which, as you know, Oman has unswervingly supported. It is imperative that efforts to achieve this solution continue not only in the cause of common humanity but because so long as the present situation persists then so long will it present a continuing threat to world peace and provide the opportunity for those forces which exploit the misery and dissension it perpetuates to further their own ambitions. Mr. President, I am sure that my visit will not only serve as reaffirmation of the cordial relationship that has for so long existed between our two countries but will further strengthen the mutual confidence and understanding upon which that relationship rests.


Okay, Lamar, what is this? This is my RP2040 tester for the RP2040 Feather. We finished this up and I want to show how the testing procedure works. I use a Tintzi and the USB host and this is really cool. I actually load the UF2 over mass storage onto here. This is my test jig, so I test all the pin connections. We just milled this on our other mill. I crank it down here and then press this button. It loads the UF2 file, does a serial test, and it finishes testing in two and a half seconds, which is awesome. Over here we've got the Eagle CAD file for the testing jig. You can see I test alternate pins that are not next to each other. And then this is the Pico SDK code that I load onto the Feather to do the GPIO test. This is in raw C, so it's really, really fast. So two and a half seconds is awesome. Yes, go test.


Hello and welcome to Data Diversity Talks, a podcast where we discuss with industry leaders and experts how they have built their careers around data. I'm your host Shannon Kampa and today we're talking to Diamond Nwankwo, the senior engineer at Slalom Build. Ready to share your knowledge and network with your data peers? Join us in San Diego this June for the Data Governance and Information Quality Conference. Five days packed full of new perspectives, new colleagues and new approaches are yours when you register at dgiq 2023 west dot dataversity dot net. Lock in early bird savings when you register by May 5th. We'll see you there. Hello and welcome. My name is Shannon Kippen. I'm the Chief Digital Officer at Data Diversity and this is my career in data, a Data Diversity Talks podcast dedicated to learning from those who have careers in data management to understand how they got there and to be talking with people who can help make those careers a little bit easier. Keep up to date in the latest in data management education. Go to dataversity.net forward slash subscribe. And today we are joined by Diamond Nwankwo, the senior data engineer at Slalom Build and normally this is where a podcast host would read a short bio of the guest. But in this podcast, your bio is what we're here to talk about. Hello and welcome. Hey, how are you doing well, doing well, thanks so much for being here. So okay, so tell me, so you're the senior data engineer at Slalom Build. So what is Slalom Build and what is it that you do? Yeah, I guess like the best way that I can kind of say what Slalom Build is, it's a modern consulting company. So we kind of specialize, built specifically, specializes in like building solutions that are usually cloud based. So most of my job consists of some type of database migration, something to that effect. And that's what I do for various clients. And sometimes I get to work on internal Slalom projects, which is always cool to grow and like transform the business. So that's that's awesome. That's very cool. So I bet you're doing a lot of that with digital transformation happening, a lot of transitioning. Yeah, a lot of that. I actually just got to one client meeting before this. So yeah, it's always moving. I love it. So so tell me, Diamond. So when you were just a very, very young person in elementary school, did you say I'm going to grow up to be an engineer in a consulting company? Not at all. What was the dream? Tell me, what was the dream? Actually, when I was six, I wanted to be a comedian. I loved making people laugh. I loved finding ways to tell stories that was always engaging for people. And like it or not, my mom was a comedy fan, so she would watch some of the like Eddie Murphy tapes and different things like that. I probably should have been sneaking in and watching them. But hey, it helped me. I love that. Who's your favorite comedian? And Dave Chappelle, he's he's like up there when it comes to storytelling and really making comedy practical, funny, as well as you learn something from it. Like, I love him and other comedians like D.L. Hughley, who always find a way to tie in today's topics, whether that's political or what have you and make that something intense situations funny. That's always been a huge like thing for me is finding a way to take situations that may not be funny and find a way to get the comedy out of it. So people are able to release and laugh and not be bogged down by bad things. Well, I love that. That's a great skill to have. And I do love Dave Chappelle. I watched a lot of his specials. Yes, it's great. So, OK, so tell me, so you wanted to be a comedian. So what changed? Where did you go from there and, you know, in school? What did you start like developing a passion for as you grew up? Honestly, I was just one of those kids that did great academically, but I really didn't know what I wanted to do. It wasn't until I was around 14 that my dad got me my first one was trying to help me get my first little summer job. And I was selected for the St. Louis Science Center and they have this program called Youth Exploring Science. And essentially what it did was expose the inner city youth in St. Louis to STEM fields. So I got to do hands on projects to learn about engineering. What was engineering? Because prior from prior to me entering the US program, I had never heard of the word engineer and never came up in school. Never met an engineer. So I engineer. So I never knew this career field even existed. And needless to say, the Science Center, I was in that program for four years, four years of it from there. I got accepted in Sorolla, Missouri at the time of the Missouri University. Well, now it's Missouri University Science Technology. But before it was University of Missouri at Ralla got accepted there. My junior high school for my engineering degree. And it just kind of went from there. Wow, that's very cool. I love that that you are involved in science so young and outside of school. Yeah. That's very, very cool. So so so you got a degree in engineering. Mm hmm. And then and then what was your job out of school? Oh, man, my my first actually before I had my first job out of school, I had five internships and co-ops throughout college. And because I didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew that engineering was fun. I was one of those crazy people who wanted to do a major in like industrial engineering and chemical engineering. I would highly not recommend because you won't have a life because, man, it was tough. So I ended up dropping the chemical engineering because through those five internships, I was able to see that were really spoke to me as a person was process improvement and finding ways to like get the needle moving, finding ways to like work with operators and manufacturing processes to drive process efficiency as well as quality. So that kind of catapulted me into aerospace manufacturing where I spent the bulk of my career in the process improvement and quality sector really driving like AS 9100 standards. I saw 9001 doing those type of things. So that was like my first love, trying to understand how can you improve quality as a product, a quality of machinery, quality of processes as a whole and just seeing how multi layered quality is. It's not just this gatekeeper thing before, you know, something goes out the doors like, hey, is it a quality product? But trying to keep it ingrained in the product. Oh, I really like that. Um, and we'll get back to that in a minute. Yeah. OK, so tell me, you know, then, then what's next in your in your career? How did you how did you evolve and really get into into data and into the current role that you're in? Um, I would like to shout out one of my managers and her name was Laquanda Hoskins and I worked at Arconic and Davenport, Iowa. And one of the projects that she assigned me was to build a dashboard so we can look and better track downtime. I was like, what's the dashboard? What is this? And what essentially happened was I learned SQL. I learned a lot of different. So I built out this this dashboard in SharePoint. So I learned SQL. I learned access. I learned a lot of different tools that weren't traditional engineering tools, as well as like that dashboard visualization aspect of it and trying to figure out what's the best way to communicate our data storytelling at this point. I think that's what it's now called data storytelling. Um, and in that I have to learn how to get people who look at technology as something that's taking their jobs as a friend. Majority of the operators that I worked with, they were definitely terrified of it. They didn't want anything to do with this technology because they just felt like it's just going to take my job in trying to get them to see, you know, it's just a tool for you to do do your job better, honestly. It's a tool to help you see, like, what are you actually doing and how can we capitalize on these good practices that you have so that other people can perform the same way that you do. And from there, I essentially did more projects that did data visualization that led to us understanding how we're performing as a company. So I started using tools like OSI Pi, which is like another real-time data visualization tool. And I became the lead for the archonic site that I was working at. And from there, I ended up going to a data engineering or data analytics bootcamp. Sorry, I said that bad. I'm going to run it back. So I ended up going to a data analytics bootcamp and that showed me Python and different scripting tools. And from there, I was able to land my first data engineering job and be able to learn what's a data pipeline. How does these things flow together? Because I was so segmented to one aspect of it, which is just, OK, you have the data, tell the story of it. I didn't know what was before that. Like, how do you get these data from these different sources? How do you make it make sense? How do you normalize this data? None of that I knew. So that bootcamp really helped me understand what happened before. We make it all pretty. With a robust catalog of courses offered on demand and industry leading live online sessions throughout the year, the Dataversity Training Center is your launchpad for career success. Browse the complete catalog at training.dataversity.net and use code DVTALKS for 20 percent off your purchase. Oh, I like it. And so then and so then. And that eventually led you to slalom, right? Yeah, eventually. Yeah, yeah. And I know so talking about the quality again. So I know just because the way I met you is through you were recommended as having given one of the best data quality talks. One of our colleagues had, you know, I've never heard. So so we invited you to talk about data quality. So it sounds like, you know, that initial passion that you found in engineering of of monitoring the quality and why I want to come back to this is you also applied today. Is that true? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely understanding. It's a little different from traditional manufacturing and how quality was applied there. But there's still when you look at how quality has evolved, you have to have that base layer, audits, understanding what your process is, building out your current state to your future state. All of that still exists. But now let's add this twist of data into it. So what is data quality look like and how do you drive that? And man, once I learned about the different different applications of data quality or even, I think back then with Larry English, it was just like information quality management or something that just learning that and just like, wow, this is this is really impactful and it will help drive the future. Just understanding how do we apply quality to data and like get those same insights, but have it being a repeatable thing and making sure that now it's a data downtime movement when you look at data quality. So how can we make sure there's no data disruptions and different things like that? So I didn't know that quality even existed in a data space and finding that was just like, I think I found my thing. So cool. I love that. I love that story of how those all those pieces came together. And it sounds like just from initially what you were still talking about, you do use comedy in in your work. People part of it, which which is which is great. I do think we need more laughter in in everything that we do. Yeah, to quote the Joker, why so serious? Like everything doesn't have to be.  It's a real relationship and having that as a basis for it. It doesn't always have to be straight, black and white when engaging with clients or operators or whomever, like finding that way to become relatable and approachable. Even if it's using comedy, I did that a lot with the operator. So the guards will come down and they saw me as a friend versus someone telling them what to do. Very cool. That is really cool. I love that. So to tell me, so working with data so much now, what is your definition data and how do you work with it? Expand it a little bit more. Yeah, man, data is this obvious thing where it's like per per user almost, right? Because prior to coming on to slalom or even the job that I worked to prior to slalom and seeing what data infrastructure look like. I just thought it was making sure that we didn't have any no values. I thought it was just like the data being consistent. And does it look pretty in, you know, access table or Excel chart? But now it's like, OK, I'm building out this code. There may not be a pretty presentation to it right now. I'm doing straight back in data. So what does it look like to have quality in that? So now it's like, does my code actually get the results that we need? Is it helping the people who are in the web development space or who are using this data day to day to make effective business decisions? Is this leading them in the right direction? So that's how I view data these days. I still have that the same sense of making sure that when it comes to a presentation layer or something to the effect that it will make make or facilitate great business decision making, as well as support the business in a positive way. I still have that vantage point. But right now it's like, does this line of code functioning work? Is this scalable? Will it break if we go from this environment to that environment? So that's how I view data these days. Very interesting. I really like it. And as you work with a lot of data, especially with a lot of customers data, right, in a consumer role, do you see the importance of data management and the number of jobs working with data increasing or decreasing over the next 10 years? And why? Oh, man. I honestly see it decreasing. I see it being something where thanks to things like this chat, GPT and auto GPT, where these tools are coming in to eliminate various inefficiencies within data as a whole or tech as a whole. So I see this, I see the evolution of this being more in a data observability role somewhere between that data observability and data governance. I see that being kind of like the future state where it's like monitoring these processes, making sure everything is consistent, making sure it's reliable, the data is trustworthy. There is a source of truth. And having specific procedures and policies in place and people, of course, to ensure that these things flow seamlessly. But I think the days of having many people manage small aspects of a project may be gone. I see it being one person with more depth of how processes work than a lot of people would breath. I see it like alternating from a breath-based industry to a depth-based industry. And I like that you put a lot of importance there on data governance and the need for data governance. So do you see your customers struggling with that? I know we see a lot of people who still struggle to wrap their head around it. I think data governance is a dirty word. It's kind of, you know, it's just about adhering to laws. And, you know, but it's so much more than that. It is. And I think, like, that's the next step. It kind of takes me back to when I was working with those operators and trying to teach them these new things are your friend. I think it's going back to that where there was a mentality of like these new tools or technologies are exposing us. It's exposing what we're doing wrong versus like these tools or technologies making us more efficient. So I think once that clicks for various industries, then we'll see more adaptability like adaptability when it comes to data quality, data governance and data management as a whole. I like it. So if somebody wants to get into a career in data management, what do you what advice would you give them? I would say the biggest piece of advice I would give anyone is hone in on those transferable skills. Right now we're seeing a huge pivot with people who are, you know, walking into their second career. Most people are leaving, you know, I've seen a lot of teachers leaving nurses and going into tech. So I think the biggest thing is honing in on those skills because they bring a level of diversity that we are not accustomed to. So and it brings a refreshing perspective. And one of the things I often tell people who are looking at data is like you have a lot of the same skill sets. It may just be worded different or given a different title in this data space. But those tools and those technologies that you learned are still applicable. So I think finding that space where it's like, OK, I'm a nurse. How can I switch to data manage or do something in data management still in health care or I want to do something completely in a different field? Finding that way where those skills and the tools that you use are transferable and you lean into them. You don't have to wash away your past life or your past career. Just become someone and take take that and build upon it. I think if people see it as that way versus like I'm starting completely over. I think that would help more people see what data is, as well as land goods, good jobs with data, too, because you're able to bring your full self into this space. I like that advice a lot. That makes a lot of sense because you're right. I mean, and and just to kind of summarize, it sounds like, you know, the sounds like there's a lot of follow your passion, right? So yeah, so that you can use the skills and passion that you that you have from current experience to refocus it in a career in data management. Absolutely. Absolutely. I love that so much. Such a great message. So, Diamond, so tell me if somebody wanted to find you or how are you or how can slalom and get a hold of slalom? How would they slalom build and how would they go about reaching out to solicit services from slalom? Yeah. So for slalom, check out slalom.com. And this S is the sound Ella's and Lima as an apple. Ella's and Lima, Ola's and Opal, Amazon, Mary dot com. That's slalom. For me, I am on LinkedIn, Diamond, one quote. So my name and the spelling will be on there to connect with me there. But if you want to reach out to slalom, I would definitely recommend the corporate website just because I don't I don't know who could be the go to person for that. But for me, I'm on LinkedIn. I love it. And we will we'll post that. We'll post that link on the website with the podcast and we'll have the spelling of your name, because it's not as you would expect. No, yeah, yeah, it is definitely not. Because like when I got married, I pronounced it wrong for at least a good month. So I'm right there with you guys struggling. So I got it right now. I love that. That's that's that's awesome. It's it's beautiful. Well, Diamond, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us today. 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whooping parents with one-year-old children that they're going to cut their benefit. Who's going to suffer anyway? It's going to be the kids, right? So we already have a problem with child poverty, maybe a quarter of a million kids living in poverty. And so we start punishing their parents because we don't like them. John Key says, I don't like those people. They're bludgers.


I often wonder how I went from someone who was so anxious and depressed and I was even suicidal. I was like this for so long and I wonder how am I someone now who loves life and wakes up every day excited and happy to be here. I look at it and I'm like is there something I did? Is there some kind of formula that I found that I can maybe relay to everybody out there to potentially help them? The answers that I've been looking for might be found in the new book called Lost Connections by an author by the name of Yohan Hari and in this video I invite you to join me as I try to find out if there's a secret formula for overcoming depression. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focused on the solution and I just finished the book Lost Connections by Yohan Hari and in this book he talks about the sources of depression as well as solutions. So I wanted to do something kind of interesting with this video and use myself as a test subject for an experiment and put his solutions to the test. Part of Yohan's story is that he was on antidepressant medications for about 13 years and he found that they never really solved the problem. He would start taking them, he'd be depressed again, he'd go back to the doctor, they would up his dosage and he would be depressed again and then they would up his dosage again and this is a story that is far too familiar for a lot of us who have taken antidepressant medications. So what's going on? So in his book he challenges this story that we've been told about depression. This story that if you have depression then there is something chemically wrong with your brain. Here's a medication, this will fix it. It'll take those low serotonin levels, it'll raise it back up and you will be fixed but like I mentioned a lot of us have a much different experience with that so he spent all this time gathering as much data as possible and put them all into this book to see if he could find the real sources that led to some real solutions. So Yohan believes that there are nine primary sources of depression alright and in this video I'm going to be breaking down those nine sources of depression. I'm going to share a little bit of my experience as well as what they are, see how they relate to me then I'm going to talk about his solutions and see if maybe this helps come up with that formula that I've been wondering about to see if there is actually something out there that can help people like all of you live much better lives overcoming your depression. My hope, my hope by doing this experiment is that Yohan Hari is right about the real ways and solutions to overcoming depression so make sure that you share this video because even if you're not somebody who struggles with depression share this video with somebody because that might be able to help them out. Alright so let's get this thing started. So first like I said we're going to go through the nine different disconnections as Yohan Hari calls it we're going to talk about those and what I want you to do as you watch this video I want you to ask yourself questions as we go through these different disconnections ask yourself these questions do you feel or have you felt disconnected from these different things alright let's get started. Disconnection number one lack of meaningful work so the biggest study on work was done by Gallup and according to their studies 13 percent of people love their work 63 percent of people sleep work and what they mean by sleep work is pretty much you just show up to work to collect your paycheck then 24 percent of people hate their job. I did a video on this recently that you'll find linked above in the info card but when you figure that 80 percent of people don't have meaningful work and it's where we spend most of our adult life this is a huge factor for becoming depressed. So for me personally my first real job was in the car dealership industry and it was one of the most stressful depressing jobs that I had basically it was my job to be the guy who you yell at when your car breaks down and you got to bring it into the dealership alright so spending my days getting yelled at by customers but also my paycheck was 100% based on commission so it was extremely depressing and extremely anxiety-ridden okay and if I'm being honest this is actually when my alcoholism started to progress every night I was going home trying to get blackout drunk so I can leave work behind and then it progressed to a point where I started taking shots of booze before going into work because I knew how bad my day was going to suck so yes I was in a job for a very long time that was fueling my depression because I didn't feel like I had meaningful work and it was also making me extremely anxious disconnection number six disconnection from other people when you feel alone it makes you feel both depressed and anxious we often forget that based on our evolution we're tribal people we've survived by being here for each other and helping each other for hundreds of thousands of years now in the age of internet connection we're more disconnected than ever before I want you to ask yourself a few simple questions so I can try to prove my point to you do you feel uncomfortable if a stranger sparks up a conversation with you do you find it uncomfortable to start a conversation with a stranger now even strangers aside how many close friends would you say that you have why is it that when humanity has risen to the top of the food chain over the course of 200 000 years by sticking together that we feel so uncomfortable just simply talking to other people on this planet now growing up as a child of an alcoholic mother one of the symptoms of children of alcoholic or addict parents is is this feeling of disconnection to other people throughout my childhood I felt like nobody understood what I was going through and I often wondered why can't I be like them why can't my family be like them and I always just felt uncomfortable in my own skin so as I got older this really progressed even worse so even in high school even though I was a triathlete playing multiple sports I had a ton of friends I had girlfriends in high school all these things I always felt like I was not part of normal society and for some of us this is even our family some of us feel like that black sheep like we don't even belong in our own family disconnection number three disconnection from meaningful values we live in a world where we're constantly being told that we're not good enough and the only way to feel good enough is by having things did you know that the average person experiences about 5000 advertisements per day this comes in the form of tv commercials radio commercials brand logos that you're seeing on clothes as well as different stores that you pass by every single day in this book yohan makes a very good point in the chapter he says that literally the worst advertisement in the world would be to tell you that you're perfect just the way that you are and you're loved by everyone who matters like think about it if commercials told you this would you ever buy anything of course not so our value system has been screwed up because we're constantly being told that we're not good enough and we need things to make us good enough the problem with believing that things are going to make us happy is that we're never going to be happy because we're constantly moving the goal line there's always going to be a better job there's always going to be more money there's always going to be a nicer car a bigger house a better girl to date or guy today you know what I mean all these things that we're trying to chase after they're constantly moving not only that but this constantly makes us even more depressed because we're constantly basing our insides the way that we feel based on what other people have that's one of the reasons why social media can be so depressing that we're constantly looking at what other people have and what we don't and I can definitely relate to this one because this is how most of my life was I always thought if I could just make a little bit more money I'll be happy if I could just date that girl I could be more happy if I could just buy these things I could be happy but I eventually got to that point and I was making a lot more money than I ever thought I would make but I was actually more depressed than I had ever been because I was completely disconnected from my values disconnection number four disconnection from childhood trauma this seems like a no-brainer but it's one of the biggest factor when it comes to depression as I just mentioned having a traumatic childhood myself I felt disconnected from other people in the last video that I did it was found that some 55 percent of people in an obesity study were victims of sexual abuse and even more people in that study were victims of other forms of childhood trauma research has shown us time and time again that various forms of the most common mental illnesses are purely based or largely based on the way that we were raised or what we experience as a child and yes we're talking about things like depression anxiety PTSD and even ADHD there's been some recent studies that show children that spend more times with their parents are less likely to develop symptoms of ADHD we need to start realizing that as a society mistreated children turn into mentally unhealthy adults disconnection number five disconnection from status and respect we live in a world of social hierarchies and numerous studies have been done that show we're the most anxious and depressed when our status is low or is threatened we feel low because we're told that the most important people in this world are rich and celebrities so much so that we currently have a reality tv star as our president of the united states and we get our political advice from celebrities studies have shown that in countries like norway where the status gap is much smaller people are less anxious and depressed countries like the united states with much larger gaps we have more people struggling with anxiety and depression we're far more depressed and anxious when we fear our status is threatened so if you're like me i've constantly worked at jobs where there wasn't much job security if you meet certain numbers or goals you're fine but if you don't your head might be on the chopping block so this means when you combine this with disconnection number one lack of meaningful work this means that 87 percent of us are either depressed or anxious because of a job that we don't even like 87 percent of people are depressed or anxious due to low status or a lack of respect at a job that doesn't even give them meaning in life i can personally really relate to this all right when i had about a year and a half sober the closest i've ever come to relapse was after i got fired from a job that i hated like let that sink in for a minute right like i talk to clients all the time like the depression that hits them from jobs that they lose that they never even liked from in the first place like it's such a sick and twisted combination disconnection number six disconnection from the natural world as humans we're extremely egotistical beings so much so that we forget the simple fact that we're animals the more disconnected we are from nature the more entitled selfish and self-centered we become depression feeds off of us being stuck in our heads and believing that we're the most important things in the universe we're costly thinking about our wants our needs and our desires as a woman named isabel in the book explains it's hard to think you're the most important thing on earth when you hear the roar of a lion and realize that you're just lunch this this book is not recommending that you move out to the africans of vanna and live with like wild animals but the point they're trying to make is we're extremely disconnected from nature and part of our depression is forgetting how not only are we a very small part of everything in the universe but we're also connected to everything else on our planet as well as the universe aside from that countless studies have shown that people more connected with nature are happier and less anxious this is why it really bumps me out and when i'm in mental health support groups on facebook and i see people post this meme it really shows you how the pharmaceutical companies have us exactly where they want us the more that we're thinking that natural remedies cannot help our depression or anxiety the more money that they get to make like think about that for a second all right all right i know i know this sounds like some crazy kind of tinfoil hat conspiracy theory but make sure that you're subscribed to my channel because i will do a much more deeper dive into the pharmaceutical industry as well as antidepressant medications okay i promise i'm not crazy i guess that's exactly what a crazy person would say though right anyways subscribe stay tuned disconnection number seven disconnection from a hopeful or secure future when we're depressed it's hard for us to imagine any type of future under than what we're currently experiencing one of the most common symptoms of depression is a feeling of hopelessness there was an interesting study done at a psychiatric psychiatric ward for teens they had two groups of teens one of the groups of teens were there for anorexia to the point where they'd have to be in a psych hospital and the other group of teens were there for severe depression or suicide attempts they each read a christmas carol as well as another book that teaches powerful life lessons to the main character and teens who were there for anorexia were easily able to explain how the main character might change and have a different future based on the lessons that they learned when the teens who were there for severe depression and suicide attempts were asked the same questions about how the main character might grow and change in the future they couldn't answer this question they were even a little bit puzzled by what the question even meant and yes this was one of the disconnections that i had when i was at the lowest point in my depression and i was extremely suicidal i had no possible vision of the future nothing looked different everything looked the same and that's what gets us into that hopeless state disconnection eight and nine the real role of genes and brain changes throughout the book yohan harry pointed out studies that the story we're told about low serotonin levels being the source of depression isn't entirely true as i mentioned before this isn't just some crazy theory i will make another more dedicated video on this okay i promise you in one of the previous videos i did i talked about these studies that were done where it talked about how only 37 percent of depression is based on your genetics okay most of it is dependent upon our environment situations that we get in trauma and all those things so of the vast majority of people experiencing depression it is not the genetic component see one of the reasons why this is so dangerous this is dangerous thinking to think that we just have a broken brain is that it puts us in a situation where we think i'm chemically imbalanced things can never get better i'm always gonna be like this but there have been so many studies in neuroscience on something called neuroplasticity i will link to another video i did called the science of hopelessness but science has discovered that our brains are constantly changing from the day that we're born until the day that we die so no matter what's happening in your life right now no matter what's going on with your mental illness science has proven that it can change all right enough about the problem let's get into the solution because that's how we do here at the rewired soul so now i'm gonna take a look at yohan harry's solutions and see if this is some type of formula that maybe i can relate to and this might be something that can help all of you out there or someone that you know all right so let's get started there are seven reconnections so let's break them down one by one we'll take a look at them and i'll share a little bit of my experience and see if these are reconnections that i've made that might be the answer to why my life is so much better and i have far more good days than bad days and i am no longer severely depressed so reconnection number one is to other people so i personally started reconnected to other people for me personally it was through 12 step programs but for all of you out there if you are not a drug addict or not an alcoholic if you're somebody who just experiences depression or you've been through trauma like the point is reconnecting with other people what happened to me was i started to attend these 12 step groups and i started to realize like i'm not alone i'm not alone in this struggle there are other people out there who understand what i'm going through but the beautiful part of what i experienced was is that we're all there to pick each other up uh one of my favorite sayings is thank goodness we don't all have a bad day on the same day so through different types of community groups that you can get in with like you start seeing that you are not alone it will it will begin to reconnect you with other people number two social prescribing so in the book lost connections there was an interesting method in england that was introduced to people who were depressed they were put into groups and they had to go around to various parks or they were assigned a park and their job was to clean up the park plant flowers and get it all nice and beautiful for the neighborhood and through this experience what they found was not only did they start connecting with each other so that also solved the disconnection from other people issue but they also found that they were now having meaningful work and they saw that they were actually doing more to contribute to the society they constantly had people from the neighborhood coming by and thanking them or bringing them food and everything looked amazing so part of social prescribing is basically working with a group towards a common goal of making this world a little bit better of a place and yeah i can definitely relate to that today i am surrounded by people and i choose to be surrounded by people who all have the same goal of making this world a better place from everyone from my mom my mom is not only is she in recovery from addiction she works at a drug and alcohol treatment center she goes in every day helping people overcome symptoms of mental illness as well as their addictions to drugs or alcohol then i have amazing people in my life like my beautiful girlfriend and my son who get involved with everything that i'm doing to help promote better mental health and increase awareness and stop the stigma and then my best friend brosney she is one of the kindest people that i know and she is constantly trying to make this world a better place which is also constantly influencing me to try to make this world a better place so the social aspect of what i'm doing today is much different than what it used to be reconnection number three meaningful work of the 13 percent of people who love their job 63 people who sleep work and 24 percent of people who hate their job i can definitely say that i fall into the 13 percent man working with my clients who are struggling with various forms of mental illness as well as trying to overcome a drug and alcohol addiction like i love my work i love my work like man i almost hate talking about it because it feels like i'm like gloating about it but no like i want to let you know that it is possible to find a job where you find meaning in your work i wake up every day excited to go in and see how i can help people today and maybe just maybe making a small impact in their lives like if we're being completely honest here i love my work so much that even though i work five days a week and i'm on call throughout the weekend i then come home and make this youtube channel so i can keep trying to help people in more ways you see what i'm saying i love what i do so let's work on making that 13 percent a much larger percentage it is possible reconnection number four meaningful values i would say that this is probably the number one thing that has helped me overcome my depression and it it's so hard to explain it to people like when i explain it to people they look at me like i'm crazy and for me like through through my experience it it just really shows me how really disconnected people actually are from their values like i no longer judge myself from what i have or don't have i'm not going around in social media basing my happiness on whether i have more stuff than the next guy or a bigger house than that guy or a nicer job or anything like that like i used to think that i would only truly be happy until i got a nice big house and i eventually got to that point and now if i'm being completely honest with you like i pretty much live in the hood and i am happier than i've ever been like one of the best things is i'm no longer just this mindless consumer who is costly running towards the next shiny piece of electronics or the new clothes or the new car or anything like that and like it's hard to explain but it's this truly liberating feeling but i still like stuff of course i like stuff i'm a video game nerd i love playing video games i love seeing all the new comic book movies with my son i love like building legos with my kid these are all great joys but because my values have changed i can honestly say without reserve that if i were to lose these things if i were to lose that stuff it would not fuel my depression because what truly makes me happy now is the value system that i have i found that in this day and age with all of the advertisements and everything constantly being shoved down our throat it's very hard for us to separate our wants from our needs but good news is i plan on making a video about that very soon and with this exercise that i teach my clients it'll really help you get back reconnected with your values number five sympathetic joy and overcoming the addiction to the self for a lack of better words we have become haters we get upset over other people's success how crazy is that what are the points that they make in this book is that we walk around acting like happiness is some sort of scarce resource something in our brain tells us that if other people have too much happiness somehow it's going to take away from our happiness like i want you to sit back and think about that for a second that is a crazy way to think but it's something that so many of us naturally do like i'm definitely guilty of it me this guy right here i used to be the biggest hater and it was throughout my life throughout the time i grew up like me growing up with a single dad not having that much money and all my friends have these nice big houses and all these other things like i would get mad that people actually have a mom and a dad who are still married i got mad when my friends got more presents than i did i got mad about these things and it progressed into my life like when my friends were getting married and getting better jobs and making more money i was so upset like i was mad at them i was like i deserve that i deserve these things right like it's crazy and it's really no way to live if we're being honest it's exhausting so what they're talking about was sympathetic joy this is actually another word for a mindfulness meditation called loving kindness and i will do some videos on it if you check out my video about self-compassion that is a form of loving kindness meditation but because of this book i will be doing a video about the loving kindness meditation that they talk about in this book that relates more to sympathetic joy like now as a result of being more connected with others not only do i feel another person's pain when they're in pain when they're sad or when they're down and i go and i reach out and try to help them but i also feel joy when other people have good things happen to them when i see my friends get promotions or raises now or they get married or they get a brand new car or they succeed i'm like heck yeah like anybody who knows me well like the most excited you will see me is when i see people in my life succeeding like i will be your biggest cheerleader i swear to you because your happiness equals my happiness you see what i'm saying you might not see what i'm saying but if you follow these guidelines you'll get there i promise but the other part of this is the addiction to the self and this is something that i've had to work on for a long time and it's really about breaking down the ego breaking down my selfishness and self-centeredness these are things that are kind of our default but we can naturally work our way to quit being so selfish and self-centered this is one of the reasons i make my youtube channel like like i just mentioned happiness isn't the scarce resource it is something that is available to all of you and everybody you know so who am i to sit back and hold on to all the things that have helped me and not want to share them with you i want everybody to experience what i've been able to experience number six acknowledging and overcoming childhood trauma so for me personally i was able to do this through my 12 step groups there are steps that are specific to this i was able to go through the things i endured as a child um but for all of you who are not addicts or alcoholics or not in 12 step groups there are other ways to do this um some of you might find it through church some of you might find it through other forms of support groups some of you might find it through therapy again if you're interested in checking out online therapy i'll have a ton of resources down below by the way but these are things that i was able to process and work through and let go of like one of the most beneficial things was being able to forgive my mom for being an alcoholic like she's 12 years sober now i don't know if i mentioned that but even for the first like five six years of her sobriety no wait let's run that back even for the first eight or nine years of her sobriety i had a lot of resentments towards her through this therapeutic process that i went through i was able to let go and forgive her which was really letting myself off the hook too because the other most beneficial thing is i was able to look back and say you know i was a child this wasn't my fault and for a lot of us who experience childhood trauma we carry around this shame or guilt like we could have done something differently to change this situation but imagine telling a kid that imagine you seeing a kid being emotionally or physically or sexually abused and you walking up to that child and telling them that they're in control of this situation it'd be crazy so part of this therapeutic process is letting ourselves off the hook and realizing that we didn't have control over the things that happened to us when we when we were children the only thing that we do have control over is the work that we do now in this new chapter of our life number seven restoring the future this is probably most the most difficult one and what yohan explains in this book it was fantastic but i don't think he had as much optimism as i do and i'll explain that in just a second so in the book he discusses a social economic experiment that was done in canada in the 1970s that greatly helped reduce depression and anxiety i won't dive too much into the details now but i will do a later video on it the problem with this idea of how to restore the future is that it's purely based on many factors that are completely outside of our control it's about the government spending money on mental health which a lot of us know isn't gonna happen anytime soon so when i share my story when i share my story of recovery with clients or other people anybody who wants to listen to it i share about how i got sober on my 27th birthday and i was furious i was furious with my mom that she gave me this ultimatum to get clean or i'd be on the streets of las vegas okay like the reason i share that with people is because i want people to know that even if you don't want help or even if you feel hopeless and there's no way that this is gonna get better i want to be an example that i felt that way over five and a half years ago and now i live an amazing life so i share that because i want people to remain hopeful because i'm living proof and the reason i found this the reason this this switch flipped was because i met a ton of men and women who were as low as i was at some point in their life they were hopeless they were down they were defeated they were depressed they were suicidal there were all these things but then they ended up living these amazing lives this was some hope that i could believe in i realized i'm like man if that person could do it then so can i and once i had that kind of hope in mind i knew i knew that i could attain it too and here i am i have so that's why i i somewhat disagree with that point that we need some kind of huge outside force to restore the future we need to start latching on the people who have been through some stuff and now they're living amazing lives okay because it really puts things into perspective we often think oh well you know that's okay for you but not for me but when we start reconnecting with other people and seeing what they've been through and the work that they did to get through it we start to actually believe that we could do it ourselves i often tell people that the only reason the only reason i'm alive today is because of one word one simple word and that's hope okay like hope is such a big deal for me i literally titled it the name of my first book like it is the only reason that i'm here today is because i found hope that the future could be better looking at yoan's nine causes of depression and the seven different ways to reconnect i think this experiment was a success i can honestly look at everything he listed and it really shows why my life is better today all of the things that i was able to be reconnected the moral of this story is that we can we can overcome depression and it's not completely dependent on antidepressant medications now because i didn't put this disclaimer somewhere else in here i don't want to make anybody think that i'm against antidepressants the studies show that antidepressants do work but they work very very minimally so what we have to do as people is start doing the work to reconnect in all these different ways so what we've discovered is overcoming depression takes work a community of people as well as a willingness to change but the good news is that it is possible and i am proof of that as well as so many others so again i've also provided a bunch of resources down below from the link to yoan harry's new book lost connections there's some online therapy there's some other information down there so make sure that you check out the description down below so i highly recommend that you go out there and check out this book or at least share this video share this video with somebody that you know and let's start seeing if we can start working together and restoring some of these lost connections okay and i want to end this video with one of my favorite quotes from the buddha himself which i butcher all the time and can never seem to find it on the internet but here's the quote that i wanted to share with you don't take my word for it go out there and try it for yourself if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you're new here i'm making a ton of videos to help you as well as everybody else out with their mental health make sure you click the little round subscribe button over there there are some thumbnails that you can click her top on check out some other videos on this channel again please share this video with people that you know so they have hope restored that they too can overcome depression thanks for watching i'll see you next time


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