Hey, John Crestani here. Online marketer and tech entrepreneur. And I'm going to be showing you in this lesson how to start a business with no money. I'm going to be dispelling some myths that I've heard about starting a business. I'm also going to be showing you 5 business models that are the most effective business models to start if you have zero capital start. If you're just like nothing, you can do it with these 5 business models. Let's get into it. So, in this lesson, I'm going to be showing you how to start a business with no money. First off, what's the definition of a business? I'm just going to do it real quick. It's a person's regular occupation profession or trade. And this is important for what we're going to go over next. Which is I'd like to dispel some myths about starting a business. Maybe you think that the word business is too corporatey sounding for you that you can't start a business. How many of you think that you need an LLC or some sort of corporation or some sort of legal entity to start a business? False. You do not need actual like a corporation or an LLC to start a business. All over the world, you can start a business without any of that stuff. You don't need an actual entity. Another myth I've heard is that you need to... You know, a lot of my subscribers are based overseas and you think you need to be in the United States to have a business. Myth. You don't need any of that stuff. People are affiliate marketers. That's what I do for a living. All over the world. Any country in the world you don't need an LLC. All you need is an address for checks to be sent to. Another myth I've heard is that you need to be 18 to start a business. Myth. You can be any age and you can start a business. You can earn money and have it sent to you. Any age. Any age. Another myth I've heard about starting business is inventory. You need inventory, right? You need a product to sell. You need some physical thing that cost physical money to sell to start a business. Myth. Another thing I've heard is that you need experience to start a business. You need to have been working for years in an industry before you can go off on your own and do your own thing. Again, myth about it. And the last thing is that you need connections to start a business. Once again, that is a total myth. And I started a business without any of these things. As you'll see. Now I'd love to hear in the comments below how many of you believed one of these myths. Just say I did or something like that if you believed one of the myths. And name out the myth that you believe if you want to play along. You need to be 18. You needed a business license or something like that. Name it in the comments. Now 5 business models that you can start without any business license without any money whatsoever, okay? First one is consulting, okay? Zero dollars to start. What you're doing is you're selling your expertise. You're selling your knowledge for money. Many of you if you've been following my channel for the last year or two, you have much greater experience in marketing and understanding marketing and understanding how to get traffic than most other people in the world. That knowledge is worth money. You can gain knowledge for free anywhere on the internet. Everything you want to know is available somewhere for free if you just have enough time to learn. And you can sell that for money to individuals who want to learn about how to be an affiliate marketer or how to do marketing or how to market their local business. Whatever that is, you could consult with them and make some money. Another business that costs zero dollars to start is social media as being an influencer. One of my income streams is being an influencer on YouTube. I make over $20,000 per month just by putting up videos. And that's by sharing knowledge. That's by posting. You can put up videos on YouTube as well. As long as you have a camera phone or any sort of camera if you have a friend that has a smartphone. You are watching this on some sort of computer device. So you could record the screen. You could do whatever you want. You can do social media. You can post images on Instagram. You can post videos on Facebook or YouTube. You can post on a lot of places. And earn money on TikTok, etc. You can post and earn money just by being an influencer. Just by sharing funny things or by sharing knowledge. Great way to make money. $0 to start. Another business you can start for $0 is an ad agency. So, it's not very difficult. I show a ton of free traffic methods in this channel. You can check out my playlist free traffic methods if you want to learn more about ways to get traffic. You can actually do the marketing for local businesses or for other businesses. And help them do marketing. Small businesses, local businesses are being murdered by Jeff Amazon. He's just gunning them down. Another business you can start for literally $0 is drop shipping. You have to set up a website. Usually people do it on Shopify store. Shopify costs $0 to start. And people ship another person's product to a customer in the US. Now, this is oftentimes done with Alibaba. Most famous drop shipping website. The only downside of drop shipping is that it takes a couple weeks for the product to arrive. But the great thing about drop shipping is you don't have to carry inventory, okay? Unlike Amazon, Amazon requires you to carry inventory in your store in order to sell it. You don't have to spend any money on inventory to start selling products. You can sell products and just pay the supplier when you get money in. And the last business which is what I do and I earn about half a million dollars a month doing this is affiliate marketing. This is how I earn my first million. This is how I earn my first 10 million. This is how I earn from my first 20 million dollars is doing affiliate marketing which is marketing other people's products and earning a commission when that product was sold. What's great about that is with affiliate marketing, you don't even need a site, okay? You don't even need a website. All you need to be able to do is get traffic. Post links and get people clicking on them. You don't even need your own social media. You can post on other people's social media. So, there's a lot of advantages of affiliate marketing that make it, I believe, the easiest business to start possible. And if you're looking how to get started affiliate marketing, I have another video that you can click on to get started with affiliate marketing. Now, let me know in the comments below what business model you're most excited about as a consulting, social media, ad agency, drop shipping or affiliate marketing. And if you're doing one of these, let me know what you're doing, okay? Because I'd love to hear sort of what businesses you're doing or you've tried out in the comments below. Also, make sure you subscribe to this channel if you love marketing and you want to learn more about how to do marketing and you like making money. This is a great place for you to hang out our release videos every single day. I will continue to be doing so for the rest of the year. So, make sure to tune in, like, subscribe, comment and also check out our communities. We have a discord chat community, we have a Facebook group and we also have a Reddit subreddit. So, you can interact with other members, make deals, learn, ask questions. I get 2 quadrillion messages a day. So, don't ask me. I get most common ones are, John, can you give me money? And John, will you be my mentor?  So, like, no offense to everybody watching them. But I'm not going to like fly to India and like, you know, help give you a confidence boost. I post everything up on this channel. If you really want to learn from other people, make sure to join one of the groups. And if you're looking to take your life to the next level, check out my 6-week marketing course called the super affiliate system. We have a bunch of testimonials. We have a bunch of success stories of people who have gone through my program and made a lot of money even become millionaires. So, we have at least 5 people who have become millionaires from going through super affiliate system and many more who have made a lot more money. Check out some of these stories. Make sure you subscribe and talk to you soon. So, it's been about 3 months since I got your program. It took me about a week to learn. Watch all your videos read through the 20 pages in your guide or more. And took my time. And here I am. Two and a half months later and I already made about $20,000 in affiliate commissions. You can pretty much apply your program to any affiliate program, any product, any niche that you ever imagine. You will never, ever go hungry again once you know how to apply. Basically, what I'm lacking right now is time. I can set up a new hours campaign for any product that I can imagine. I can start making money online tomorrow or today. So, I can definitely recommend and vouch for your program to anybody, either beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Get that program today and start double, triple, tenfold your income. Okay? Bye. Hey, what's up guys? My name is Sumit Harish. I just took John Crisani's course. It was like being pulled out of the matrix, to be honest with you.  Just valuable, valuable information. Things that we normally would trip over on in the market, getting information at conferences. All of that's good, but it doesn't really come together unless you're in a mastermind and getting that systematic information. One of the key things in the course was just getting together with the group of people to see how we would actually build out an affiliate marketing business, like right there on the spot, building out the system. So, it was just an immersion experience. I really think that everybody should have the opportunity to have. It was definitely worth every single minute.


I'm Nicola Proxton and I'm from Ireland and I've just recently completed my PhD at the Open University Business School and my thesis was based in strategic management. So my research is focused in the area of non-market strategy and it looks at how firms use their corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity as a means to improve their overall performance. So more specifically my research looks at how firms can act irresponsibly and whether or not these actions can then impact on their financial performance. My research found that firms may feel a negative impact in the short term, but this tends to fade then over time. And interestingly my research highlights that firms who have a history of doing socially irresponsible things and they tend to spend more than on CSR and lovely governments and this essentially is to show that if they are doing good then they are avoiding bad or perhaps they give more to spill more. So I used to work as an event manager at a convention centre in the United States and they had an extensive CSR programme and a commitment to sustainability. So I witnessed here first hand how organisations can use their CSR to behave more strategically and that improves their performance and overall efficiency. And then my interest grew further then when I did my master's in international management at the University of Bath. So not long after I finished my master's I looked at doing a PhD and I came across the one advertised in the OU and the project that I applied for had a lot of similarities to my master's thesis and it seemed like a really good fit. So after my first interview then I met my supervisors and we just got developed a really good rapport and so knew then that this is what I wanted to do. Well I didn't really know much about the OU beyond it being committed to distance learning. So I asked around and I got some advice and some information from friends of mine that are working in academia and they had really good things to say about the OU that it had an excellent research programme. So I decided to pursue my PhD. I would say think really carefully about it. It's a really big decision to make. It's a huge commitment and it will take up a lot of your time. But I really enjoyed my PhD programme. So say if you're interested enough and you love your research topic and you're passionate enough about it then go for it. I know for me coming from a previous career that it's a big change in lifestyle. You're going from working in a job that you really enjoy with a good salary and then you're going to moving on then to living on a research stipend and that can be a big change. But it is worth it. So my plan is I want to stay in academia. I'm looking right now to publish papers without my supervisors that are being developed from my doctoral thesis and I'm looking to pursue roles in full-term roles within academia.


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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states we have 12 years to limit climate catastrophe. 12 years took up most of our emissions. There's fortunately a broad agreement that a green transition would boost our economy. But reluctant governments and our undemocratic establishment in Brussels are favouring big business tax cuts, letting the few hoard the profits, while imposing austerity on the many, creating job insecurity and Europe's lowest investments to savings ratio since World War II. We say there's an alternative, but it can only be realised if we stand together across the continent. It's time to listen to the people's demands and create a new green investment plan in favour of workers and our environment. We propose a green new deal for Europe. Its main objective? To spend 500 billion euros annually to fund the green transition we need and boost the economy of Europe's working and middle classes. And this is how we'll fund it. The European Investment Bank is going to issue bonds. The bonds are bought by investors and the public. The money is used to fund green development projects and the profits are distributed among bondholders. The European Investment Bank issues bonds all the time. It will issue bonds to the tune of 500 billion euros every year for five years, conducting the green transition in energy, transport and agriculture, and secure a massive increase of unionised jobs across the whole continent. This is all possible within the existing EU framework and doesn't need any new law or treaty to be created. In fact, after many weeks of climate strikes in Brussels, the EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker promised that in coming years, billions of the EU budget would go to fighting climate change. That's a start, but not nearly enough. We need a truly transformative plan which secures workers' rights and is paid by secure investment and the EU institutions that are supposed to work for us, not by further taxation of the people. That is why we, in collaboration with the progressives across the continent, have created the European Spring, Europe's first transnational party, to run in upcoming EU Parliament elections and implement this programme. The European elections will happen between Thursday 23rd of May and Sunday 26th of May. Go to europeanelections.eu to find out your country's procedures and dates. We're at a crucial moment in European history. At the same time as faith in the EU is waning, we see a rise in misanthropy, xenophobia and toxic nationalism. That is why we have come together, despite our diverse political traditions. Green, radical left, liberal. To work to make the EU a realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity for all Europeans and to make sure our continent is taking its part to create the future we want for our world. Read the rest of our programme at europeanspring.net


We are recording this meeting. I'm so thrilled to be here with all of you and to welcome you to the early show. And right now I'm going to introduce my co-host, Winnie Vane, and our special guests, Lee Miller and Stephanie Pierce, and I'm going to let them tell you a little bit about themselves. Hey everyone, my name is Winnie. I work at Spark as the open education ambassador and I'm happy to also be on the conference team. Hi, I'm Lee Miller. I'm with Barton Community College as the director of innovation in clients and I'm also a part of the steering committee. Hi, I'm Stephanie Pierce. I am a librarian at the University of Arkansas and I'm on the future of Open Ed committee and I also organize the Open Ed Southern Symposium. Welcome. We're so glad to have you here with us, Stephanie and Lee. Today we're going to chat a little bit about our day yesterday. We're going to talk a little bit about some work, virtual life balance, and attending a virtual conference. And we have a couple of other topics. We're going to talk a little bit about reflective leadership. But first we are going to start with our show and tell. So everybody brought a mug today to show. So we're going to put our mugs up for you to see. And then we're going to take turns and tell you a little bit why we picked these mugs. So I don't know if you can see mine clearly. It has quotes from Shakespeare. I have two Shakespearean mugs. I have one with Shakespearean insults which I couldn't locate this morning. So I had to go with the, these are quotes about love from Shakespeare. So here's one. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of size. So I'm an English major. So this is my nod to all you comp and lit faculty and lovers out there. What did you bring today, Winnie? I have my typical dog mug.  And this actually looks exactly like my dog, my second dog that I got after I got this mug. So this mug did some financial damage to me. And then this is what it says on the back. I work hard so my dog can have a better life.  So this is the mug I bought for show and tell. That's perfect. I should just also say there's a fantastic open ed pets channel on Discord that everybody should go check out. That's right. Keep my spirits high. Lee, what mug did you bring? So I brought this one. And to be honest, this is my only fun mug. I mean just transparency. But I brought this one and somebody gave it to me because they thought it looked like me with a mustache. And I was like, okay, you say so. So there we go. How about you, Stephanie? So I brought my NASA mug. It's actually for NASA aims. I brought it because I used to actually intern there in their history office.  And they think it's always from Houston. And I'm always like, no, it's the one in California where Google lanes their jets. So I got to see all those rich people take off all the time. And Stephanie, do you have a affinity for science? So no, actually, I was a history major and an anthropology minor. But when I got into librarianship, they were like, hey, do you want to take the sciences on? Actually, you don't really get a choice. So you're going to start being a science librarian. And so it kind of went that way. But I actually really love it now. I can understand those people. And I help them like translate when they're like get to in the weeds. I'm like, whoa, whoa, let's go to some science communication. Let's break it down. Help me understand what you're trying to say. It sounds like you provide an excellent service. Oh, you know, it's some need it some don't, you know, so my job is just to help those that need like a little bit of help, but explaining what it is that they're wanting to say or find. Because sometimes they're just like, give me like the chemistry equation or chemistry breakdown and I'm like, I don't know what that is. I need to, I can pick out silver and I can pick out graphing, but I need to know what the other aspects are. So it really is interesting though. Well, I just want to also remind you all that you can get a fantastic. I'm still working on this whole virtual background camera thing. I hope you can see my open education conference mug with the open ed graphic that we are so proud of. And you too can get your own open ed swag if you visit the online store so if you're missing all of that it's out there for you. So, so be sure to check out the website and and look at look and see there's some great items to for your pet. Yeah, I saw the pet hoodie and I was like, I am, I've got to get that. Yeah, so we have some really exciting social programming today to announce and we have a tea time with Mahabali and Mia Zamora that's right after the keynote so right after the keynote you're going to be able to talk or plenary and you're going to be able to talk with them in the tea time and then there's a V connecting at tea time at 130. So again, using be connecting and then we have Tuesday tea time trivia so you're supposed to come play and you can actually win a prize in trivia. And it'll be open at trivia. And then I'm super excited one of our steering team members Tiffany is going to be doing taco Tuesday so taking a recipe that one of the conference attendees put in the recipes discord channel. Taking one of those taco recipes and making it live tonight from 730pm to 830pm all of those times were Eastern. So if you want to participate you will have to join discord so I will actually post the link to join here. Down here. And you have to join discord. Tiffany will be going live on discord and I believe Tiffany's here if you want to talk a little bit about it Tiffany. We'll actually have a zoom room to and it's in sketch. Oh, great. Yeah, so but yeah I mean share your share your taco recipes your favorite taco recipes and like the ones that you think would be the most fun to watch me make. And the one with the most likes or reactions is the one that's going to get made tonight. So I'm having mystery taco night tonight. And you know another thing is if you're not feeling social today which totally fine. We have a bunch of lightning talks to visit so we have some view anytime sessions about probably about 100 or so in there that you can view all of them are about 10 minutes or so. So plenty of content for you to go through and amazing content might I add, I will go ahead and post a link to that in the chat as well.  Oh yeah. So like this has been one of the controversies of the conference. So I'd like everybody to weigh in. Is it sketch. Is it shed. Is it shed. So like what, how do we pronounce this. Oh yeah there there was a whole Twitter poll and everything. Personally I go sketch but this is like the lip guide live guide debate in the library world so what are some of the other controversies. There was a cheeto controversy. Okay there was this conversation. Oh look we've got some sketch for sure. And then judge and then shedge. Oh we have a shedge. Yeah so there was cheeto controversy people were arguing about puffy or crunchy, and they were saying which, which, see crunch I go puffy. I have to do puffy but I don't do regular puffy I do spicy puffy which is different. I don't think it's going to be the spicy version. The jalapeno cheddar crunchy is good but there's nothing that be just a regular crunchy cheeto. Except the puffy. I'm an equal opportunity cheeto eater, I will eat all the cheetos. I don't like the spicy ones as much. The best use for puffy cheetos is for starting fires. Like if you're ever stuck camping and you need to start a fire and you have cheetos. Light them up. They're the best kindling you'll ever find. Crunchy cheetos are for eating. Puffy cheetos are for starting fires. That's an excellent survival tip, David. Make sure you have cheetos when you're out hiking. Just in case. Yeah. Stephanie, do you want to talk to us a little bit about how you're managing attending a virtual conference and are you. Yeah, thanks, Amy.  I'm going to find it hard to, and maybe it's just me because I'm like a Virgo and love to be in control of everything, but kind of hard balancing, you know, being physically and mentally in tune to like the virtual conferences and webinars versus being distracted by my email and feeling like I need to just answer people like immediately because you don't want anybody to wait or anything like that. This week, and I was telling Amy and Lee and Winnie earlier that I think, you know, yesterday I did not put an out of office on my email but I think for the rest of the week.  I'm just going to put that out of office on and just act as if I was in Denver like we originally thought maybe we'd be. But yeah, so it's been interesting and again, I've been tackling this for like months now and I think that, you know, Winnie brought up also a good point that people know where you're at we're not like just out like at a coffee shop working or another office we're at home so they know we are a like in a one specific spot and they're like, Why wouldn't you be answering so I think it's important. You know, to act as if you were actually at a physical conference or in person face to face on this because it's just so easy to miss all the great content that we have on our conference if you're just like okay let me go check my email because if you're like me it's easy to check one email and then it goes to the other he's been 15 minutes checking email and you're like oh I just missed that session that I really wanted to go to. What are others thoughts on this and you know how are, how are others handling. Are you an out of office person, whether you're in face to face or virtual or do you struggle with managing that aspect like I do see struggling I see email beckons email forces my hand Jeff yep. Out of office. Because yep, I see others are definitely. Hey Carrie. Carrie and I were in the open ed. Oh my gosh. Oh we are leadership fellowship program smart. My brain is not working this morning coffee is that which leads in now to but I'm glad you requested that time. How about you do you do you like venture up to the kitchen and get lost in your kitchen sometime. I try really hard not to. By the time I come back I will realize I would have really missed the session I would have wanted, because I forgot you know what time it was this stuff. That's the thing for me is is trying to keep track of schedules because you go from one to the next to the next and you know it's four o'clock it's five o'clock or it is. And I was so thankful I think it was Haley that I was like, she sent out a text remember to eat. So I remember remind everybody because there's not a ton of space in between remember to eat, because that will help. Well and the good thing is that we are going to post the links to the user. The sessions are recorded and we're going to post the links we're getting those up this code. And our plan is to have a record of everything and upload it to a YouTube platform so eventually it will be out there accessible and if you do miss the first 15 minutes you can go back and have a chance to to recap to that session and do that session. So that is one advantage of running this conference in a virtual setting. So, so we do you want to do you want to talk to us a little bit. Lee and I were chatting the other day about reflective leadership and I just thought this was such a wonderful concept so I would love to hear more about it. Yeah, so this actually came up with a conversation that one of one of our deans presented I just thought that'd be something kind of a good point to make here and just remind people because we are so busy and the conference is so full with so much content. I think one of the chat pieces somebody you know said there's an option of being overloaded right, but you still want to be able to take as much as you can from the conference and then when you go back, you have stuff to read to, you know, you know, recharge your memory in terms of what happened and the takeaways that you want to keep and be able to do something with so one of the things in terms of just taking time to reflect specifically so I'm a big note taker so I usually take notes throughout sessions, but then after the session, especially if you'd like just to focus on what you're what you're doing. Take a moment either after the session or at the end of the day to do any of the following just in terms of what you may like. So, you know what ideas were you drawn to specifically. Why do you think you were drawn to the idea and then you know is there any way that you can turn that idea into action is there any application in terms of what you can do for that. So, you know, recognizing your thoughts and takeaways reflect on what happened in that specific presentation, and then are there future actions that you could do with that or applications, are there new new people you want to reach out. Most of the comment or a sessions I've been in, they are almost always ending and even some of the lightning rounds that that I've watched, they, they say you know full free to reach out to them after the session or after the conference. So that's something you're really interested in you know is that something you want to do later and make that make that knows like you know follow up with this person and write down that presenter's name and stuff like that. Highlight strengths and or weaknesses within their presentation, not necessarily so much to share for them because you're coming from a different perspective, but that way you kind of have a place of remembering where your thoughts are when you're in that session, and then where, where can you add to the conversation right where would be something that you can go because open ed is still, you know, growing by leaps and bounds so fast, same things with positive and negatives just in terms of your perspective. And then why do you think those are, you know, one thing I always recommend doing, or that I try to do is perspective shift.  Just kind of as a last note. I truly believe that the sharing of ideas and working across disciplinary lines and having meaningful productive conversations can lead to innovation and innovation can lead to change. So kind of take note of where those ideas are that you have from these different sessions, and where can that be it you know innovative work as we keep moving forward. So I just want to ask you guys as thoughts on on what do you guys do during sessions or after sessions. How do you guys kind of make sure that you can take some stuff away after you've gone to a session or even a big conference like this. One thing that I've been doing is I reached out to everybody from my institution who's coming to the conference and we've got one big Google Drive for all of us to take our notes. Each one of us has our own folder and at the end of every day. We can go and check out anybody else's points and do that kind of guide reflecting your talking about on our own stuff but also if there's a session that we really wanted to go to that we couldn't make it. We have that that option if somebody else went to that so that way we can kind of pool our resources and it's, it's like we almost have that that Harry Potter time turner where we can make it to the two sessions at once. Nice. So that's a great idea. Yeah, time turner. We all need a time turner. When you were talking about an exercise that you were participating in. Do you want to chat a little bit about that. Yeah, so we have a different perspective each day, writing a member of our communications team. We kind of just sat down and said, oh we want to do some reaction blogs for each day. And then we realized that every single person in the communications team had a completely different perspective. We had new attendee faculty librarian we had international perspective we had student perspective. So we wanted to hammer out which day would be what, and each day there's a reflection piece written by one member of the communications team that talks about, you know, their experiences in the conference what they learned what sessions they attended with sessions they want to go back and watch. So, you know if you're looking for that reflective piece, they have some reflections from the conference on the website on the news section, and we send it out in the morning emails as well. You can access and read your blog. That's wonderful. We have about four minutes left before we need to send you all off to the plenary session. I think we have some time to hear from a couple of community members. Just to time in on any of the topics that we've been talking about, make some space here. If you want to unmute and join in the conversation. I also really love the synergy. If you attended my house mad tea yesterday. It was a series of reflective questions and it was just it's wonderful to to have you know these these connections right that people were. It was kind of, it was kind of speed networking, but with a twist where we were really reflecting and sharing these these moments and it was lovely, and then to have the connection to to all of to what we was talking about to to to the music experience on the communications team. So it's really fantastic to see the synergy and the connections. Okay, so we have about three minutes. Anybody in the, anybody out there. We were talking, I don't know if y'all have seen this meme about teaching online that it's like a seance. Have you seen this. So when you're joining your room. Is anybody out there. Lee Lee are you joining us today. Give us a sign. That has to part of why I went back to face to face as soon as I could. I really couldn't stand the I got ghosted by students I know I got ghosted by students name plates up, but they're not there Doug. Doug do you need something classes ended. Doug. I've had the exact opposite to though, where I've been like in a class and gotten ghosted by the professor, like we have like 15 students sitting there and then all of a sudden just like nothing. It's the weirdest thing students are never complaining about it though, never complaining about 15 minutes and the main thing that holds all their classes at my institution crashed the first day of school, and actually got an email from one or two students saying thank you for the crash it was really nice it made me have an extra day of summer. And that was one of the most positive emails I've ever received. Yeah, I used to remember when we were doing when when I was in college, there would be students when the professor was late who just be staring at the clock waiting for the 15 minute mark I like right 15 minutes I'm out. I mean, it's from the professor side. We're like, that's a man. That's a man. There's no 15 minute rule. And you better be there. If I'm 15 minutes late. We have just one minute to wrap this up and so I do want to take a minute to thank all of you for being here today with us. We love coming on the early show I know this is only day two but it's something I've been looking forward to through all the planning. So we'll be here tomorrow will be here tomorrow bright and early at 830am central 930am Eastern time. And I hope that you'll all join us for the plenary session starting in six minutes. And don't forget to catch Emily Reagan and Haley Bob for the late show this afternoon. We're going to use Mentimeter to have some audience participation and it's a great opportunity to reflect back on your day and to share the wonderful things that that you experienced and we're we really want to hear from you. So thank you everyone for being here we're going to end recording and we're going to send you off to the plenary. Thank you.


Do you feel unseen or unheard when it comes to your parents and your depression? Oftentimes depression can feel like you're stuck in a maze with no idea how to get out. And sometimes all you want is for someone to hold your hand and show you the way. Some might hope that person would be a parent, the person who guides and nurtures them, helping them to get out of that dark place. But many teens don't have that kind of support and are instead faced with parents who don't quite understand their depression. They're instead dismissed and ignored, making their situation even worse. It can be frustrating, confusing, and quite lonely for a teenager. These years are a time of so much growth and change, and it can be hard to go through it without the support of your parents. The next few seconds have some stranger things spoilers, so if you haven't watched the new season yet, skip ahead. Spoiler alert. In the popular show, Stranger Things, Max, one of the main characters, shows signs of depression in the wake of one of the biggest traumas of her life. To make it worse, her mother is not entirely present and doesn't seem to understand or see what Max is going through. It is revealed that all she wants is some motherly reassurance and understanding, but she doesn't have that, which makes her feel even more alone. Many teens have situations parallel to Max's, with parents who don't quite see or understand. So if you're feeling lonely and ignored in your struggles, here are some signs you may relate to if your parents just don't understand your depression or have left you to fight it alone. Number one, your parents don't let you get professional help. Coming to terms with your depression and realizing that you're in such a dark place takes a lot of strength and courage. What takes even more bravery is admitting that you need help. Have you ever talked to your parents about seeing a therapist or a counselor, but they completely shut down the idea? They may not even listen to you or say you don't need it because you're fine. It can feel depleting and discouraging when your parents deny you of something that you know can make your life better. You may begin to feel out of place and like you don't belong in your own home since they don't understand what you need. It can also be dangerous because you're now left with untreated depression. So down the road, it's more likely to spiral into something more severe that can impact more of your life. Number two, they start to make jokes about your depression and manipulate your situation. Your parents might have told you before to open up and not be afraid to talk about your struggles. When you do though, you might find that your parents use your depression and problems as a spectacle for entertainment. A source of laughter instead of taking it seriously. They might unfairly bring it up in social situations in a humorous way to humiliate you and make you feel singled out. They might laugh and make a mockery of your depression with others. This shows your parents your situation as a source of fresh gossip and news to intrigue their peers, meaning they don't really take your depression seriously. They're using your real struggles as a way to direct attention onto themselves, somehow making it about them and leaving you to feel isolated and even more unsupported. Number three, your parents don't make changes in day-to-day life to support you with your depression. Do you live in a family that is constantly go, go, go? Whether it's different functions you all attend or extracurriculars, do you find that your family never stops moving? When you have depression, it's important to take a step back and slow down so you have time to heal. And as a teenager, it's important to communicate this to your parents so they can help relax your schedule. That way, they have more time to have meaningful conversation with you and see what you need. That being said, they might not understand the fact that you do need this break and instead continue to go about their daily lives. They may continue to drag and force you into these extra activities and are inflexible when all you really need is a break. When you're depressed, you're vulnerable, and this exhausting, strenuous routine can leave you feeling even more depleted and unfulfilled. Hicking breaks from your busy life is important so your body can reset and restore itself. When your parents aren't mindful of this, your busy life can continue to weigh on your shoulders and leave you feeling even more depressed. Number four, they make excuses for your depression. Have you ever actually reached out to your parents about your situation, only to be met with unrealistic theories as to why you have depression in the first place? It might seem like they're almost in denial, making up different excuses as to why you're feeling a certain way. They might say things like, no, you don't have depression, you'll feel fine in the morning. Or more commonly, your phone is making you sad, so put it away and you'll be happy. You also might be stressing about school and they'll say, we all have our struggles. These are all comments parents make when they don't understand depression and don't care to further learn what you're going through. They think that your struggles are just an act of drama and attention seeking or a strange teenage phase instead of an actual cry for help. We know that depression is not only directly caused by being on your phone and can be a product of other factors like trauma, chemical imbalances, conflict, stress, neglect, and more. Some parents refuse to open their eyes and look at the bigger picture of their child's struggle and instead stay constricted in the box they've spilt around them. Number five, every time your depression is mentioned they argue with you. Living with depression is exhausting and takes a lot of strength to overcome, so it's even more debilitating when there is added stress from conflict with your parents. When you bring up your depression to your parents, does the conversation somehow blow up into a massive argument and it's now somehow about them? They might even get offended that you brought up such a thing, saying that you're ungrateful for feeling such a way when they've given you a great life. They take the fact that you're feeling depressed as a personal attack against their parenting skills and argue with you about it. Even when you're dealing with the effects of your depression like fatigue, lack of motivation, and headaches, they might miss and not understand the fact that these are signs of depression and settle for the conclusion that you're lazy and bratty. This ignorance of your situation can spur anger in you and then escalate into an argument with your parents, and their lack of understanding can fuel your depression and further wear you down. Some parents may think depression is a choice and that the symptoms are a normal part of a teen's development. For example, they think a moody teenager is just a part of their growth. Due to this, parents may minimize concerning symptoms due to lack of knowledge. Sometimes parents are quick to assume teenagers do not have adult problems. Therefore, they think there are no valid reasons for teens to be depressed. They may be in denial because their image of a healthy child is being shattered, ignoring their child's depression because of feelings that they have failed as a parent. It's also possible that parents may be struggling with their own mental health problems themselves and can't take on their child's depression. Have you been noticing any of these signs with your parents? Do you think they struggle to understand your depression and instead fuel it and make it worse? If they do, try to reach out to another trusted adult or friend, like a school counselor, to get the support you deserve.