Meat boy is back and today we're making an easy, simple, delicious recipe you can do with pretty much any cut of meat. And the reason I like this so much is because it's gonna have a delicious sauce, gravy, whatever you like to call it, that you can put over whatever carbohydrate or vegetable you're having with the meal so everything is going to be super flavorful, complex and delicious. Let me show you guys the ingredients. For our meat, we're going to be using the boneless short rib from Frankie Syringe Meat. 100% grass-fed, comes incredibly nicely packaged. And guys, I can't speak enough about this. Usually when you have ribs, you have the bone, it's big, it's kind of hard to work with, but this is super simple. You can cut it in half, do whatever you like with it. To that, we're going to season with onion, garlic, thyme and bay leaf, everything organic. And you could put water in this and it'll still be completely delicious, but if you want a super concentrated flavor, use some beef broth and red wine. This is my preferred brand, although it still has some pretty negative things in it. I kind of looked at everything available in the supermarket and decided this was the lesser of the evils, but I'm gonna start making some myself because it's not perfect to have this in your diet and the wine's organic as well. Again, not perfect, it's not like I'm making my own alcohol at home, but that's what we're gonna do. The reason this is quick, easy and simple is because you could just throw all of the stuff in here, the Instant Pot, turn it on, that's it. I'm gonna sear the beef for a few minutes in the pan because it's not that much effort and you get a lot of flavor, but for this stuff, I'm just gonna peel it real quick and we'll be good to go. We have the short ribs browning nicely in our pan. So to the Instant Pot, I'm gonna put my onions, couple cloves of garlic, and you know, you guys don't have to peel or really cut any of this because I'm just gonna strain the sauce out afterwards. Two bay leaves, maybe a teaspoon of dried thyme. After our short ribs brown a few minutes, we're gonna deglaze the pan with some beef broth and then we're just gonna take the pieces of short rib and put them in the Instant Pot as well as those meat juices that we deglazed. So we got the meat in the bottom, all our garlic, all our seasonings and we're just gonna cover it with some wine and broth. So we'll do one carton of the beef broth which is four cups, one cup of red wine. So we're gonna do meat, high pressure, 45 minutes. I think that's gonna be fine. So it takes the Instant Pot about 10 minutes to get enough heat and pressure to start and 45 minutes of cook time which is 55 minutes total and then you have to either vent out the air or just let it sit and the steam will naturally dissipate and then you can open it up. So it's actually been about two hours since we put everything in here. First, I guess let's strain everything out. Okay, so we're just gonna pour this through the strainer, see how tender that beef is before it goes right through. Now I'm just taking the meat out and putting the meat back in the broth. You could have probably made all of those ribs but I mean, this is enough meat for a day or two for a normal person so. I don't exactly wanna make a week worth of meat at once. So we took half of one of the ribs out here on our plate. Boiled up some potatoes and this is our broth with the rest of the beef in it. And overall, this is an incredibly nutritious meal as simple as it sounds. Potatoes are an excellent source of potassium, copper, minerals, just good clean carbohydrates, feed your gut bacteria and then the broth we made is super high in B vitamins that we extracted from the meat that were also in the broth and the meat itself very high in B vitamins. Excellent source of protein amino acids and it's pretty calorically dense, perfect meal for the colder months. So I'll just spoon some of that broth on here. All right, let's give this a shot. Tender, delicious, flavorful. Could definitely add a little bit of salt to that broth but it really adds a lot of flavor to the potatoes and I don't really like slow cooked meat like this but this is good. I know a lot of people do enjoy this type of cooking so if you like your meat well done, this type of style, definitely try it out. I'm sure most kids would love it. For me, you know, I'd rather have this cooked even rare or medium rare but thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this helps you make a delicious meal for yourself or your family. You can check out frank-to-found-out.com for all of my businesses including Frankie's Range Meat where you can get these delicious grass fed short ribs outside of that if you could please drop a like on the video leave me a comment down below subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos. Therefore, as I said, check out frank-to-found-out.com to support me. Thanks for joining me guys and I'll see you for tomorrow.


everybody. It is Monday morning, November 18th.   Oh great, road work. I see a yellow vest ahead. Anyway, I have a bunch of stuff I need to do and including grocery shopping since I was gone a week. So I guess I better go get it done earlier in the day the better. So let's get to it shall we? What time it is? But I think it's late in the afternoon because it's getting dark outside. I think I have things up here mostly put away. The bags are off the debt table. I have some magazines in my hand that I need to go through for images. I have a stack of stuff on the scanner. There you go over my shoulder. Including an envelope I picked up at the North Carolina salvage shop of which I don't remember the name. I'll put it in the description below or insert the name here somewhere.  I'm going to scan some of them and probably offer them up for sale in the SE shop. They are super cool little like passport or yearbook photos. There's a whole bunch of them. So I'm going to make a sheet or two of people and there's a couple of images from the turn of the 20th century.  So we're going to scan those two and there's some Ringling Brothers ticket stub from like the 1930s. All kinds of stuff like that. So we're going to get that scanned and get that in the SE shop over the coming week or two. But in the meantime I'm going to go take the Etsy order that just came in and these magazines I need to go through downstairs and I am going to take some Tylenol arthritis for my knee because I didn't wear my brace in the airport yesterday because my knee felt okay. Only I was in an airplane for seven hours and I should have had my brace on because now it hurts today. I never learn. Anyway, remember I just said I didn't know what time it was and to be honest with you I turned the computer off because I figured it was pretty late in the day and the husband would be home soon to go walking before dinner. It's not even 3.30. Holy cow. Looks like 6.30 outside at least. All right I'll be back. Good morning. It's Tuesday November 19th I think just before 10 o'clock and the ring doorbell keeps going off and I'm not sure if it's because Bambi's outside the squirrels the neighbors I don't know but I'm gonna go check the deer corn bowl bowls and I've already been upstairs to check on YouTube comments and email and stuff like that. I have a lot less to do in the morning since I'm not posting on Facebook until after the 6th of December. It's a little weird but there you have it. All right I'm gonna go get the deer fed and I'll be back and in case you're wondering what the thumping is it's the dryer. I've got the last load of travel laundry and the dryer and we use alpaca balls instead of dryer sheets so it makes a thumping noise like if there were tennis shoes in the dryer. If you all remember the days of down jackets when you had to wash them you always put a shoe in with them to keep them fluffy. Or was that just me anyway. 3.07 p.m. I know it's late in the day. Can you hear the little feet? Where is she? Oh she's over there hiding in the corner. Come say hi to people. We're dogs sitting again. Anyway the cleaning lady was here today and I've been working on my YouTube channel. Try to set my channel so that I'm copper compliant. Yeah yeah I if because if you're not the fine per video will just bankrupt you. I'll take 24 videos and that's over a million dollars of fines. That's just yeah. Anyway so I'm doing what I can and we'll see how it plays out.  I've also added Not Suitable for Children to the title of every single video in my library that I can. That I can. Some of the titles are really long so I'm not sure right now how to sort and filter those particular videos out to change the titles. I may have to just mark them all and put them private for the moment. I don't know. I don't know. Lily wants to go upstairs. Maybe she needs to go outside so we're gonna go take care of that. So that's yeah a thing. So I've been working on all of that today not fun stuff. I did get some drawing done which I've already posted to Instagram and things but yeah there's actually creative art people leaving YouTube and shutting their channel down completely because of the whole copper thing hang on obnoxious afternoon sunlight in Oregon. Okay hold on let's get her outside. Okay so the problem with my channel is I have over 2,000 videos. So finding the particular ones that don't have the Not Suitable for Children in front now. I did sort of try to Google videos by keywords to see if I had anything that had like Creole 1 it or as far as I know I don't. At least YouTube search then couldn't find it. Oh yeah yeah I have a headache. Alright anyway I'll be back. Hey guys are you ready for the upcoming changes to YouTube? It's hard to get ready for something when you're not exactly sure what's gonna happen. Good morning everybody. It's Thursday morning November 21st 8 18 a.m. I've already had two cups of coffee I need. I think I need a third. I'm still thinking about the whole copper thing and changes for the YouTube channel. Do I know exactly what's gonna happen by the first of the year? No. Kind of putting a freeze on 2020 YouTube collabs for the moment. It doesn't mean they won't still happen but they may be happening on a different platform. Also the 2020 design team project. I'm not exactly sure what we're gonna do. We have posted title changes for every single video. We have a new intro clip that's going in. I may also age restrict the entire channel which demonetizes the channel when you do. But the FTC fines are just not worth it. It's not worth taking a chance on bankrupting my family to do YouTube. I love you all but it's just not worth it. The next drastic choice is to delete my channel. And there are YouTube content creators in our creative arts community that are doing exactly that. We're getting a distinct lack of information that's useful from YouTube and the FTC. So it's like Facebook jail all over again. They just want to put you in jail but they don't want to tell you why. So I don't know what we're going to do but today that's the topic of conversation and I'm testing out some things with a friend. And we don't have any conclusions yet but I will keep you all posted. I think the new algorithms here for YouTube roll out on like the 9th or the 10th of December. I've made all the changes to YouTube at the moment I'm going to until that happens. And after that happens I don't know we'll see. I don't know. I'm not going to rush to any more changes but they may become and I just want to warn you. So you might want to make sure you follow me on other social media like Instagram and Twitter. I do have a Patreon. So I'm going to see about upgrading my Dropbox which is going to cost a fair amount of money. And putting some video in Dropbox that I share on Patreon. I'm going to restructure Patreon so that it's something I don't know yet. So don't quote me but either a dollar a month or five dollars a month. I don't know. And then you have unlimited access to whatever I post over there video wise and otherwise. So that is another option. I don't know. I like providing you all free content. So that takes all of those. Take that away. I don't know. If I can stay at a Facebook jail I can put some videos over on Facebook which is what we're testing this morning. I don't know.  Let me know. All right. I'll be back. What time it is? Let's say hang on. 1.18 p.m. Sorry for the weird lighting but I'm literally sitting right underneath the ceiling fan at the work table. I was working on today's daily drawings which I got done. I'm working upstairs because we're puppy sitting again and let's just say my couch. We have two sofas. Mine is the littler one and there's not enough room for me the daily drawing bag and Lily on the couch when we're puppy sitting. There's only so much room. Anyway. Hey guys it's about lunch time. Lily's here. I just thought I'd pop on really quick and let you all know that the YouTube changes continue and there's a bunch of us in the creative community. They're getting together and every time we find a new setting we should change. We let everybody else know. So I'm doing that. I have decided I'm going to use this as an opportunity not only to rebrand a few things, move a video around. I'm not going to any longer put everything on YouTube. Some older videos and group collaboration type videos will be hosted elsewhere. They may be over in Facebook in the appropriate Facebook group. The video itself may be in Dropbox and it's something that all my patrons over on Patreon have access to. There will be a number of videos that will be that way and some older videos here on YouTube that just don't get the views on my channel will just maybe be gone. I am going to use the opportunity to Lily know you can't have my lunch to clean house and change things around. So if you want to keep up with what I'm doing it may still be here on YouTube. I'm not leaving YouTube completely but I will also be posting things directly to Facebook directly to Instagram directly to Twitter and a lot of the content will be available to patrons over on Patreon. So the links for all of those will be in the description below. So check it out.  It just won't be as much as it's been because you know new rules and all. So anyway at least that's how I think it's going to play out. But I guess in the next few weeks we'll find out right. January 1st is the is D day right. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. All right. I'm going to go have some lunch and I'll be back. We're going to be careful how we shoot this video clip. Saturday morning November 23rd 10 01 AM. I'm at the computer so don't get excited. You can't see it. There we go. So I'm still loading some stuff to Dropbox. I'm going to be removing some video from YouTube. I am using the opportunity of Kappa and the FTC to do a channel cleanup. So it's something I've needed to do for a long time. There's a video on there that just should be taken down. I'm not going to lose it completely. It's going to be over in a Dropbox for people to watch over from Patreon. So I'll be linking it over there. I'm also going to be filming a new channel trailer this coming week and getting that up. Yeah, it's a lot going on. I'm using the opportunity of Kappa and the FTC to do some changes to my channel that I've wanted to make and as of yet haven't done. I didn't want to lose the views on the videos, the comments on the videos, the monetization. But at this point, I'm not so concerned about that. As long as I keep you all here watching the channel, and if I do remove something that you're like, wait, bring that back, I can always bring it back. See, I'll let me know if there's a video I take down that you want me to bring back. You can leave a comment on one of the vlogs or you can private message me over in Facebook. You can also DM me an Instagram and you can my email address should be in the description below so you can find it there. It might be in the link tree list of links. But there you go. So I'm going to be working on that for the next few weeks. It's going to take a while because I have over 2000 videos on my channel.  I need to not have that many on there. I also because of everything that's happened have gotten in touch with a number of friends who are all had the same concerns. And there is some exciting new collaborations I think that are going to be coming up for the next year. And new opportunities to support my other free content here on YouTube and over in Facebook and Instagram. So I am a working artist. So I do like to make a little money at what I do. Although I love sharing for free. You know, I do need to make an income. So there's that. There is a tip jar in the description below of all videos. But I am trying to look at the positive out of the thing here on YouTube and also being in Facebook jail recently and use it as an opportunity to rebrand to change some things I've been wanting to change for a long time. I probably won't start a new YouTube channel. That means I have to keep my old American greetings email address associated with this one. But oh well. But I am going to change what I can. And I yeah, I'm going to use the opportunity to create some new things. Hopefully so look forward to that. And I've got new ideas for new video series, not only for here on YouTube, but also over in Patreon. So it is going to be exciting. I think there will be some content that goes straight to Facebook groups. So if I'm in a group like art play through chronic pain, there is some video content that will go straight to that Facebook group. It probably won't even be on YouTube. So you might want to check out the video description below for different Facebook groups that I am going to be in are possibly going to be posting video in next year for 2020. And that way you can go join them and or join Facebook. And you see Lily there in the background. She's sniffing at everything. Because anyway, all right, I should go put some clothes on and take a shower and all that and I'll be back. Hey guys, it's Saturday evening. It's 6 21 ish. Ish? Ish. Well ish. We are headed out to the Moda Center to go see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and we did TSO. TSO, yeah. We created Lily. She wasn't too happy about it. In fact, she was crying when we left. She wasn't happy at all. You know, what are you gonna do? I just wanted to give you guys the scoop about YouTube. So regardless of what happens, I've been thinking for a long time about doing some closet cleaning, if you will, at YouTube. Taking some old content down that doesn't serve anymore, such as haul videos, which I really kind of don't believe in doing anymore. If I do a haul video, it's part of the vlog. Yeah, you know where you show all the stuff you bought? Oh yeah. I don't like doing them because then it makes you all feel like you have to have that stuff to do art and you don't. I also don't believe in doing giveaways anymore because I don't believe in bribing my viewers to watch the channel. So all of those videos are going to go away. There is some other content that is old or I think is better served on a different platform, such as a lot of the old Exploration To Me videos and the negativity smackdown, which are already as of today over on Patreon, very low monthly fee, two dollars people, and you get all access to all the videos, my old Crazy Island family classes, old Ustream classes that I had, and all the content that I'm removing from YouTube is going to be over there too. So go check that out, if you will. I will also be putting some stuff directly to Facebook groups that are appropriate for that group and I'm not going to even put it on YouTube. It's not about the money, the money is nice, but I want to get the content to the right people in the right place and YouTube isn't necessarily that place. So we're going to be working on that over the coming week, so look for some changes. There is some scheduled new content to come out along with the vlogs between now and January 1st, but other than that, I'm going to hold off on loading any more new content until I really have a hard think about where it should go and we see what's going to happen with YouTube. So that's it. We're going to go out for the evening and listen to some good music and have a good time. We hope you've all had a great week and you have a great evening and a great day, and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Maybe go out and listen to some music, go for a drive, go out to dinner, do something nice for yourself. Okay, see you later. Bye, guys.


Hello, everybody. My name is Shannon O'Zourney. I am the head of Youth Services at the West Vancouver Memorial Library. And it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 16th annual Booktopia Literary Arts Festival for Young People. And the first ever virtual Booktopia.  We can't wait to see you all again. In the meantime, we're so happy we can still serve you like this remotely from far away. Before we begin, I want to acknowledge that the library has its home on the traditional and unseated territories of the Coast Salish peoples. And in particular, recognize the Squamish, Slewa-tooth, and Musqueam nations. Booktopia is a very special partnership between the library, the library foundation, and West Vancouver schools. I want to give a big shout out and a huge thank you to Director of Instruction, Mr. Ian Kennedy, for helping us bring virtual Booktopia to you, and your teacher librarians for still being so, so excited and passionate about Booktopia during this really challenging and different time. Also, our community newspaper, the North Shore News, for sponsoring Booktopia every year when we could actually meet together in person. So the format for this video is I'm going to very shortly turn it over to our presenter, Ashley Spires. Ashley is going to show you some cool stuff, chat with you for a little bit, and then I'm going to pop on at the very end and ask some of the questions that you've sent in in advance. I'm so excited that you get to talk to Ashley Spires today or that we get to talk to Ashley Spires today. Ashley is coming to us from right here in British Columbia, but her books are just loved and cherished by kids all over the world. Her picture book, The Most Magnificent Thing, has sold over half a million copies and was turned into an animated short featuring the voice talent of Whoopi Goldberg. Binky the Space Cat was one of the very first graphic novels that I ever read and that I really ever fell in love with, and it's now an animated series on Treehouse. Ashley will talk to you a little bit about that. And Ashley's latest book, Berry Science, is all about the power of inquiry and the scientific method. Finally, Ashley is also an amazing friend to animals. She fosters kitties in her spare time, the little spare time that she has, and if we're lucky, we may see a furry friend naturally walk into frame in the background. We'll just have to see. You'll have to keep watching. So Ashley, if you're ready, I'm going to turn it over to you. Thanks, Shannon. Hi everybody from Ladner. I wish I was there in the room to see all your happy little faces. And I know you probably would love to see your friends right now too, wouldn't we all love to see our friends. But I'm so happy that I get to reach you guys somehow. This is the way we do it now. This is the world. So I'm going to be talking to you guys today. You can kind of see that I'm in my studio here, but I'm going to show you a bunch of pictures of here where I work and my animals and where I get my ideas. Because that's the first question usually I get from adults and from kids is, where do you get your ideas? And I kind of get them from all over the place.  So let me just switch over. I'm going to share my screen with you so that you guys can see my slides, which all just takes a lot longer than you think it's going to. There we go. There. That's me. There's my my furry family in an illustrated form. You can tell I have a lot of cats and you're going to see pictures of them in just a moment. So you see my studio behind me and here's a picture of it. If you were facing my computer. And so this is where I work and I work on this big computer here and I draw on this one here and as you can see I usually have some friends and some snacks close by. These little friends I like to introduce to you because who doesn't like to see animals, right? So let me introduce you to my lineup. I have Fran and I have Penny whose tongue isn't always sticking out like that, but often. I have Mina, the cat who looks like a lemur, and I have Scott and Tess. And not to be outshone by the kiddies, Gordon the dog. Now I love again showing you guys pictures of my animals because animals are so important, especially right now overall at home what wonderful company they are. But they also inspire my stories so much so that Gordon and Gracie have become actual characters in my books. So here's Gordon here if anyone's read Binky the space cat. He is up here and he's actually based on my sister's cat and I put my pets in there so Gordon is the technological wizard and the reason I did that is because I live with dogs and cats. So I see the cats can do all kinds of awesome things. They can jump up on counters, they can leap through the air. Gordon just can't quite keep up. So I decided that in the books he's going to use his mind instead. And so he builds robots and he hacks computers and he even builds a time machine. And my Gracie up here, she's my cat who sadly passed away a number of years ago, but I love that she's in the books because that means she gets to live forever. And now a lot of kids see that dogs and cats living together. Not everybody knows that dogs and cats can actually be really good friends. There's Gracie there. Dogs and cats can be fantastic friends. And in my house, all my cats love Gordon. And they are, again, how can you not be inspired to write a story about that? And now another thing that inspires me, as Shannon mentioned, are kittens. Now I foster kittens for my local shelter and that means that when there is a group of kittens who for whatever reason can't be with their mom anymore, they come and hang out with me until they're old enough to go to their forever homes. And so I've had a lot of kittens over the years, at least 51 kittens that I've fostered so far, not all at once I would have lost my mind.  And they are such like I said, a source of inspiration for me. And sometimes things happen like you fall in love with them. So Scott and Tess that you saw at the beginning, this is what they looked like pretty early on when they first came to my house. So their brother and sister, and I found manly in love with them because they're a little bit special. So they have asthma, which a lot of people have asthma. I didn't realize cats could have asthma too. And I think there's a lot of people out there who don't know their cats kind of asthma. And so I kept these two and I have to give them a popper every day just like everybody has asthma. And I decided I was going to start making a comic about it. So there's this comic that I created called The Asthma Cats. And so I have some informative comics that are like this one where it tells you the kind of symptoms they have. They make little gaspy sounds. So they sound like Darth Vader. And when they sleep, they snore. So you always know where they are. And when they play really, really hard and chase things, they start to pant like dogs. And test her. Her asthma is a little bit more severe. So she can't even purr, but that just means Scott purrs twice as much for her. And so I created these comics. Sometimes it's just about them being cats because, you know, they are cats after all.  And this whole little comic that I started, now it's going to turn into a book. And so in a few years, The Asthma Cats comic book will be coming out with tender books. And all of that came from me just opening my heart and my home to some little kittens. So as you can tell, the animals in my life are a huge inspiration for my work. There's them again. Scott likes to wash Tessa's face like all the time. She's not always okay with that. So when I was your guys' age and even younger, because I think you guys are grade two and three. So I have been, as soon as I can hold a pencil, I love to draw. And I think a lot of kids think that if you're an adult and you draw, it probably means you've always been just so good at drawing. But that's not the case. I've had to practice my whole life. I still have to practice. And to prove it to you, I thought I'd show you some of my early work. So here is my early drawing of Humpty Dumpty, as you can see. But I like to point out that I'm a person who makes a lot of mistakes. And I've always been a person who makes a lot of mistakes. Because as you can see, even though Humpty hasn't fallen yet, he's already missing a foot. So his day is going to get worse, but it's already been pretty bad. And I kept practicing drawing as I got older because, like I said, you've got to practice to get better at it. So I was drawing cats. What a surprise, right? So out of character for me. And I was creating different characters all the time. But I would look at books and I would look at cartoons and I would think, why can't I draw things that look like that? I want my drawings to be better. So I taught myself how to draw by copying drawings that I thought and still think are very good. So as you can tell, Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorite things to draw when I was younger. And I copied Garfield and I copied Beatrix Potter. I copied all types of things because that helped me learn how to draw. And I especially loved copying Disney.  Hands are really hard to draw. Faces are really hard to draw. And I found that by copying how other, oops, sorry, sensitive mouse, how other artists would draw hand and draw different facial expressions, that's how I learned how to draw different faces too. So I was also the kind of kid who just loved making stuff. I still am. I love crafting. I have to be careful. If I let myself get too far into crafting, I won't get my work done. And so when I was younger, when I was your guys' age, I loved something called Fimo or Sculpey. It's the type of colored clay that when you bake it in the oven, it turns hard so that you can keep it forever. So that's why I have all these little creatures here that you see on the screen. I made all these things when I was a kid and I have really, really tiny things like that little bear right there. It was about half the size of your pinky fingernail. Yeah, he's so tiny. But what I thought was really neat when I pulled these guys out to show you is that I discovered that at your age, I was creating characters that have stayed with me my whole life. So this guy here, he looks an awful lot like Binky the Space Cat, the cat you saw in the slide earlier.  So this little guy, even though his name wasn't Binky, he turned into Binky many, many years later when he got his very own book. I also love doing anything to do with felting, which I still love felting. And these are some finger puppets that I made, and it turned into the very first book that I ever wrote and illustrated, which normally when I'm in the room, I realize I would hold it up. So if you have a cover, yes. I was going to say, normally at this point I have the book in front of you and I can point to it. But I'm not there in the room, but here it is Penguin in the Cupcake, totally inspired by the little finger puppets that I made earlier on in my artistic career. So for me, when it comes to sitting down to creating a story or creating a character, often what I do is look at the things that I've already made in my craft work and see if maybe there's a story or a character in there. But drawing is still my favorite thing to do, and my favorite thing to do is doodle. And I bet most of you guys who are watching love doodling too. My favorite place to doodle is in my sketchbook. These are a couple of my sketchbook drawings. And I'll tell you why I love the sketchbook the most is because in a sketchbook, I don't have to worry about making it perfect. I get to play, I get to try things, I get to do a lot of things wrong.  I just turn the page and start fresh somewhere else. And that's the best way to get better at something is to just let yourself play.  So this is a drawing I did in a super old sketchbook very long ago. And I drew this because drawing pirates is super fun. If you haven't done it, highly recommend it. They have fantastic outfits, and they have bad teeth, and they have warts and stink lines and unibrow. There's just so much to work with. And so I started with this drawing, and then I kept drawing pirates until this little fella popped out of my head in another sketchbook. And as you can tell, even though he's dressed like a pirate and he's clearly a pirate, he probably isn't the best pirate. So for some reason when I drew him, I made him very cute with big glasses, and he was fighting with a fork instead of a sword. And I thought, what kind of pirate would fight with a fork and look that happy? And then I got this whole idea for small salt, which I changed from the original name because two S's sound good together. And he got Stépaul in French, he's Petit Paul. And so small salt started with that one little drawing that I did in a sketchbook. And it became this amazing event for me in my career a few years ago because small salt was given to every single grade one student in all of Canada. So over half a million kids got a book that I created, and it all started with one little doodle in my sketchbook. So I like to say there's no such thing as wasted creative time. Every time you sit down and you create something, you just never know where that creation is going to take you. So we had a little technical glitch there, and I've come back the next day and I'm finishing the presentation for you because all of a sudden I froze and you could be here or see what I was trying to show you. So we're going to just jump right back in where we were and I'm going to share with you now how I illustrate a lot of my books. So with things like small salt and with Binky, I paint the books. And that actually looks like this. I don't actually paint this quickly. I wish I did because I would just churn out the books like it was going on style. But I paint the books with watercolor paint and I do layer upon layer upon layer. So in this video that you're watching right here, that's actually about an hour of work, maybe an hour and a half actually. And you'll notice at the end of the video that she's not even finished. So that was an hour and a half of work to do this one little bit of a drawing and I still worked even more on it afterwards. So painting is extremely fun, but it's also really time consuming. So I like to work on a computer now, a fair bit, and this is sort of a setup that you could see in the original image there of my studio. And so I draw on this huge screen that's actually right next to me right here and I draw on it with a special stylus. And it's how I illustrate a lot of things. In fact, pretty much everything now. And here's a quick video again of how I do that. So you keep an eye on her arms. I decided I didn't like her arms to be like this. I wanted them to be like that. And you know what it's like when you're drawing on a piece of paper, right? When you erase something and you can only erase something so many times before the lines are kind of there forever, right? Well, it doesn't happen as a computer. There's always an undo button. There's always some way to erase it and to start over again. So for somebody like me who makes a lot of mistakes, it's really great to use a computer because I can try something and if it doesn't work, I can erase it. And that goes for the actual drawing of the character. That goes for the background. That goes for the color. Everything can be changed. So like I said, paint is really fun, but it's really permanent. Something like the computer is something that was a place where I could always play and try new things and make mistakes without being too worried about how it turns out in the end. Because I can change it. Now what you're looking at here again is a quick doodle of something I did for fun. But it was actually again about two hours of work. So it's great because you can fix your mistakes, but you can also spend a lot of time going in and fixing and fixing and tweaking and tweaking.  It takes just as long as painting. I'm almost done there. I think again, this is just a doodle I did one day. There he is. So this style is how I did the most bangles in the paint, which you've probably heard about. But in case you haven't, it's a story about a girl who wants to make something just right and she makes a lot of mistakes. Gee, do you think maybe I wrote it about myself? So I wrote this book because making a book means that I make a lot of mistakes. It means I have to try over and over and over again to get things right. And so I thought I'd show you the many stages that go into making a book and show you why I'm the girl in the book. So when I write a story, it looks really boring. It looks like this. And so this is all what's called a draft. And this is my writing. And so I write all the words that are going to be in the book, but I also describe in blue here all the things I'm going to draw in the book. And now I write it and I share it with somebody called an editor. She's kind of like what your teacher is to you guys. She looks at my work and she helps me make it better. And so what she does is she sends it back to me with all these little notes on it. And she says, well, maybe this could happen later in the story or I don't fully understand what's going on. But I'm going to keep doing this scene a little bit more. And so we go back and forth. And I keep tweaking the draft and we keep perfecting it until it's finished, which means that by the time a book is published, I've usually written that story somewhere between 10 to 20 times. So I have to work on it for a long time to get it just right. Just like the girl in the book, right? So that goes for my drawings as well, not just my writing. So the first time I ever drew the girl from the book, she looked like this. And my editor took a look at her and she said, oh yeah, she's really cute. But maybe she could look just a little bit more modern. So just like the character in the story, I drew the character from the story over and over and over again, trying all different ways to make her better, to make her different. This is four different ways, but I actually, I remember drawing at least eight to 12. I think some of the files got lost in the many years since I did this. But these, as you can see from these drawings, I was the girl from the book. I was trying her to draw her over and over and over again, all different ways to make her better. And so we decided we liked the girl in the polka dot co great. So now I have my draft and now I have my, my character. All I have to do is draw it, right? Well, I don't just sit down and draw and color at the whole book. And then it's done. It still requires a lot of go back and forth with my editor. So I do the whole book like this. It's sketched out. And I give it to my editor. And like I said, she looks at it and she says, well, you know, maybe we could move that spot over here, maybe clarify her expression here. Sometimes it's start over. This isn't, this page isn't working. So I draw the whole book like this. And then I finally get approval to start adding the color, which is kind of my favorite part. So I get to start to add the color and get to see it start to, to take shape. And I add the shading and everything. And then I think at this point that it was done. So I'm going to go back to my editor and she still has more ideas. She says, well, maybe mom could be a bit bigger and maybe the, the buildings could spread out there. And she said, Hey, what about maybe adding some trees? And so, or sorry, some color to the trees. And so I did all those things. We even added a parked car off to the side here. And so I did all those things and sent it back to her. And she liked all the changes, except the park car. That one came back out again. So that's how much work goes into one page of a book. And there's about 32 pages in your average picture book. So you can imagine it takes a long time to make a book. In fact, a picture book from start to finish for me takes anywhere between nine to 12 months. So it's like the whole time you guys are in the grade that you're in right now, that's how long it takes me to write one book. So I do like to say that if you are reading a picture book, maybe slow down, maybe read it twice, you know, it takes us a long time to make these things. So as Shannon mentioned at the beginning, the most magnificent thing is now a short animated film. And it is so beautiful. If you have a chance to see it, it often airs on YTV and tele-tune on sort of special weekends, like the International Day of the Girl and Thanksgiving, they aired it. It's also available through Prime. If anybody has the stacked television, it's up there to stream all the time. And so this is a still from it. It's very beautiful. And I was so excited to see my characters run across the screen, especially dog. You have no idea how exciting it was to see dog, peon stuff on the big screen. Because in my head, he's been peeing on stuff for years. And now you guys get to see him peeing on things too. It's an illustrator's dream. There's another still from it. And now Binky the Space Cat, as we mentioned before, it's also a television series. Binky is actually a series of five graphic novels that I created. And then I have spin-off books like this one, Gordon Barks the Future and Fluffy Strikes Back. And I created all of these books in this whole world. And how exciting is it that they get to go from their graphic novel to television. So Binky is airing on Treehouse on the weekends, I think, in the mornings. And it's also available, like I said, through Prime and through the stacked television. And I'm just going to show you guys a quick clip from it, because I just think they are just the most adorable things in the world. So let me start this up. Sorry about the numbers and stuff. This is just from my screeners that I get sent. He's on a space station. We've got to get it out of here before it changes into something huge and terrifying. This is a mission for first. I love showing that to you guys, because when I was your age and even though I'm a little bit older, I really wanted to be an animator when I grew up. And now the characters that I've created are animated. And they're on the screen, they're on the big screen, they're on the little screen. And remember at the beginning when I mentioned there's no such thing as doing something creative and it being a waste of time. I created a book about a silly cat who wanted to go to space. And now there's television series about my cat, my dog, and everything else. It's an absolute dream come true and it's just incredible what can happen if you just let yourself create because that's what you love to do. I'm hoping that things are going to get a season two. We don't know yet, but if it does, I'm going to be writing some episodes that are actually already written an episode for season two. And hopefully we'll get a chance to write more if we get to do that.  So I have my fingers crossed that that might work in our favor. So Fairy Science is actually my latest book that I have. And it's all about Esther who's this fairy right here. And I created this story because I like writing stories about characters that are just a little bit different who look at the world a little bit different than everyone else. And I thought there's nothing more different for a fairy than not believing in magic. What if this fairy actually thinks that science is the way to go? And so I'm going to read you guys this story. There's the cover there. And if you do like it, I hope that you will do the experiment that's at the end and also keep your eye out for the second book that's coming out this September. Fairy Science Solid Liquid Gassy, it's called. And it's all about the water cycle. So let's meet Esther and see what her world's all about. And do keep an eye out for Albert. He's the little bird up here. He's in every single scene. And he's her assistant. Esther does not believe in magic. This is unusual because Esther is a fairy. And fairies are all about magic. They use magic wands. They mix magic potions. Some fairies even make magical fairy dust. Esther is pretty sure that's a standard. She is the only fairy in Pixieville who believes in science. Esther prefers facts, data, and hard evidence to wishing on stars. And you can see here, she's changed Esther's room into Esther's laboratory. And Albert's nest is now Albert's observatory. So he can look at the stars. Unfortunately, the only thing they teach in fairy school is magic. Class is very frustrating for Esther. Miss Pelliepedal, her teacher there is saying, fairies were born when a drop of rain passed through a rainbow and landed on a flower bud. When the flower bloomed, the first fairy took flight. Class is also very frustrating for Miss Pelliepedal because Esther now stands up with her piece of paper and says, as you can see from this chart, it is more likely that fairies as a species evolve in response to influences such as environment and diet. I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty sure your teacher wouldn't be super happy if you got up and contradicted her like that. Esther can't help observing the world differently from everyone else. Where other fairies see a path to hidden gold, Esther sees light and water colliding. The fairies pointing to that rainbow and she's saying, follow the rainbow. And Esther's saying, the water helps us see all the colors that are hidden in the sunlight. That's just dispersion, people. Where they see a dangerous omen, she sees condensation. She's pointing to the fog and saying, when the temperature is just right, water droplets are suspended in the air. Albert's having a bit of fun there with them, though he's going boom. Where they see faces of the spirits, she sees erosion. They're all looking at these rocks, oops, sorry, seeing the faces. Rocks get worn away by water and wind, says Esther. The faces are just your imagination. Albert whispers, I don't think they're listening. Esther can't wait to teach the scientific method to her fairy mates. The scientific method is what you have to go through to figure out if your idea or guess is successful is right. So first you have to ask a question. Then you have to do some research to find out more. Then you make a hypothesis, which is Albert says it's just a fancy word for guess.  So there's a lot of steps to go into the scientific method, which is why your fairy friend here says, or you could just do magic. It does sound a lot easier. She shows them the periodic table. This is a list of all the elements that make up the whole universe. No, not all of them, says the other fairy. Where are dreams and wishes in sunshine? She even demonstrates gravity. Gravity is why things fall down instead of up. But the other fairies can fly, so they're saying, but we can go up so we must be magic. Esther's getting frustrated. They just don't get it. She kicks the rock, pings off the tree, and whoosh, all those leaves land on her. That is definitely gravity. And there is definitely something wrong with this tree. It's wilting, she says. The fairies do their best to help. They cast spells, they make magic talismans, they even do a mystical moonlight dance, but nothing works. The tree keeps on wilting. Esther asks a question. Why is the tree wilting? She does some research. She's got a little list there and it's saying, what I know about trees, they have leaves, they have roots, they are pretty, and they grow out of the dirt. Next, she makes a hypothesis. She tries some experiments. You guys probably saw a cat go by in the background there. I can hear her eating now. She can't miss out on story time. So Esther tries some experiments. She studies her results. At last, Esther draws a conclusion. Eureka, the tree needs more sun. She flies up through the trees. She bursts through the leaves and lets the sun come in on the little tree. But while she's doing that, her teacher has showed up. Ms. Pelleypedal. And she's saying, Simbalahoo, Simbalahee, I'm doing some magic to save this tree. Now, she waits for the sun to do its work. But it looks like she's going to have to wait a while because if you can see there, she is waiting all day and all night. And then she even waits through the spring, the summer, the fall, and the winter. I'm hoping at some point she got up and had a snack because I'd be pretty number if I had to wait around for a year. It took a while, but the tree is looking positively perky. You can see all the new buds starting on the tree. She did it. Esther has proven the power of science. Oh, but wait, the other fairies are saying, Ms. Pelleypedal did it. Magic saved the tree. At least she thought she proved the power of science. She might not have changed the other fairies' minds, but Esther has inspired some questions. Her friends have shown up there and they're saying, how did you do that? Can you teach a science? And asking a question is where every good scientist starts. So now she's showing her friends Fig and, what's their name? Fig and Clover. Sorry. They're how a photo synthesis works. And if you want to know how photosynthesis works, like I said, there's an experiment right at the end of the book. And you can grow your very own seed at home and see how water and sunlight will help grow a plant. So I would love to answer some questions. And I did answer some yesterday. I'm trying to remember what they were. One had, it was a great one. And it was how do you focus your brain so that you can sit down and create, especially when we're all stuck at home right now. And I have to say that the most important thing to me every single day is to go outside and get some exercise. So that for me means going for a run and going for a bike ride and walking my dog. So I get outside at least twice a day to clear my head and help me be a little bit more focused when it comes time to sit down and do my work. Some of the things I think you guys had asked, I had hopefully answered in my presentation, which is how long does it take to make a book, which was nine to 12 months, sometimes longer because I'm working on a project right now that I actually wrote the very first outline for six years ago, but I'm actually working on it now. Hopefully it will be finished within a year. And I'm trying to think of what some of your other wonderful ideas or questions were.  Hopefully you guys had heard the answers to your questions. And if you hadn't, if you would really, really need to know the answer to the question, you just send me an email. I'm on ashespires.com and I would love to answer your questions if you guys have any, because I can't be in the room with you, but I still wish I were. So thank you guys so much for listening to my presentation today. And I hope you guys all stay safe and stay well. And thank you West Van Public Library for inviting me to booktopia. And I'm so happy to be here with you guys. Almost there with you guys. So hopefully you all stay well and I will see you all soon. Bye.


Hello! Today I'm going to teach you how to use a Zoom audio recorder. Let's start by identifying the different parts of the Zoom. At the top, there are two microphones used to record audio internally. On the front, there are three knobs. The knob at the top is used to adjust internal audio. While the knobs below the screen are used to adjust external audio. Under that, there's a variety of buttons. The four labeled L, R, 1, and 2 are used to select if you're recording to internal or external microphones. There are also stop, play and pause, fast forward, and rewind buttons. Finally, this is the record button. On the right side, there's a remote input as well as a lever to navigate on-screen options and the menu button. There's also a slot for your SD card here. On the left side, there are two outputs, one for line out and another for headphones. There's also a volume control. Be careful with this because it only adjusts volume for your headphones, not the recording volume. Next to that, there's a USB port to connect the device to a power source and below that we have the power button. At the bottom, there are two XLR ports to attach external microphones to. To turn the Zoom on, press and hold the power button on the left side. The screen will light up and you'll be greeted by a welcome message as the device powers up. The first step is to place an SD card into the slot on the right of the Zoom. Next, we'll format your SD card to prepare to accept audio. We'll do this in the menu. Press the menu button on the right side and use the lever above it to scroll to SD card. Select this option by pressing in on the lever and another menu will appear. You should select format and then press yes to confirm that you really want to format your SD card. The Zoom will show a loading screen for a few moments before taking you back to the menu. Press menu one more time to exit the menu screen. Now it's time to decide which input to use. You can either use the internal microphones at the top or attach an external microphone at the bottom. The buttons labeled L and R represent the internal microphone, while the buttons labeled 1 and 2 represent the external microphones. If you're not sure about which input to use, think about what you're recording. If you're recording a voiceover for your project, you'll probably want to use the internal microphone. If you're recording audio from a performance, you might want to use the external microphone. Today, we're going to use the internal microphone. Now you've probably already noticed the two moving bars along the center of the screen. These bars represent your audio levels. For the best audio, try to keep the bars between negative 12 and negative 6 along the numbered line. You can test this by bringing the Zoom close to your mouth and speaking at a normal volume. Use the knob located at the top of your Zoom to adjust your internal audio levels. The higher the number is, the louder your audio will be. Make sure you're wearing headphones to test for audio quality. Once you're happy with the sound coming through your headphones, you're ready to record. Press the record button on the front of the Zoom so it lights up to show that you're recording. Another way to check that you're recording is to look for numbers counting up on the screen. This tells you how long you've been recording for. Once you're done using the Zoom, you can press the record button again to stop the recording. If you want to listen to what you just recorded, go back into the menu and select file list. Then hit the play button to check out how you sound. If you're happy with your recording, press and hold the power button until you see the words goodbye, see you, flash on the screen.


Hey everybody, this is Brett and this 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4xE is stock number 21J219. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used Jeep and Jeep Wrangler headquarters. This 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xE has the 2-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine combined with the hybrid system, puts out 375 horsepower and 470 foot-pounds of instant torque. We're going to go around the vehicle, inside the vehicle, we'll check out the original window sticker, we will check out all the styling cues with this particular Jeep and I'll explain some of the electric stuff on it. First off is your charging system, which is right here, that comes off like so, you just plug it right in, I hooked it up to the charger the other day, really easy. So it's going to be about to fully charge this vehicle, it's going to be about 2.4 hours on a 240-volt outlet and 120-volt outlet is about 12 hours. This one does have the LED lighting group with the LED headlamps, running lights and fog lights will turn all those on at the end of the video, comes with the satin black grille, the metal bumpers, of course you get all the blue accents because it is a 4xE, we'll take a look under the hood, there's the 2-liter 4-cylinder turbo engine. Now the average miles per gallon on just the gas engine is 20 miles per gallon, but we'll check out the original window sticker and show you all the electric ratings for it. Like that anti-glare sticker on the hood, of course all the blue accents, the Rubicon's blue accented as well as the Jeep and Wrangler Unlimited sticker there, you even get a blue Wrangler on your rims, painted and polished aluminum 17-inch rims, BF Goodrich all-terrain TA KO2 tires, these are LT28570R17s and what normally comes on the Rubicon, and this is a true Rubicon, has the sway bar disconnect, the locking axles, some of the little easter eggs on there, has the rock rails and everything as well. We'll take a look at the original window sticker, feel free to pause this, I'm not going to go through everything but the main stuff. 2021 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4xE, Sting Gray is the color, one of the hottest colors on the Wranglers that we've seen. Leather trim bucket seats, 2-liter turbo, 8-speed automatic transmission, comes with the Jeep Wave membership LED lighting group, everything on your left there is standard, the Alpine Premium Audio, the Uconnect 4C with NAV, 410 rear axle ratio, full-time four-wheel drive system, battery charge indicator, interior features those are all standard there as well. Sting Gray Clear Coat is a $295 option, this one comes with the Leather Trim Bucket Seats which are $17.25, gives you the premium wrapped instrument panel, oh I just noticed that it's got the leather one, normally these are the painted metal. Cold Weather Group is $995, gives you the heated seats, remote start and heated steering wheel, Steel Bumper Group is $17.45, Remote Proximity Keyless Entry or Enter and Go is $6.95 and then the three piece body colored hard top is $25.95. Satin Black Grille by Mopar is $325 and the body color fender flares are $6.95. Total MSRP on this one is $65.890 and you can see that it has a 5-year, 60,000 power train so that's engine and transmission and then on the hybrid system and the high voltage battery you get a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty on those. So the engine and transmission are 5-year, 60,000 and the hybrid system and batteries are 10-year, 100,000 and then of course 3-year, 36,000 bumper to bumper. So here is your fuel economy ratings, electricity plus gasoline, charge time 2.4 hours is 49 miles per gallon E, 68 kilowatt hours per 100 miles and your gasoline only is 20 miles per gallon. So all electric range, 0 to 21 miles, 22 and then your total for gas and electric is 370. There are your greenhouse gas and small ratings and it's not rated for crash tests at this time. Annual fuel cost is about $1,700 so compare that to the other Wranglers and I don't have another Wrangler window sticker in front of me but we could compare it. I'm sure this would be significantly less. We'll continue the walk around here. Notice the color matched fender flares and hard top. You do get the 3M tape on the front of the back fender flares and that's to prevent rock chips from rocks and road debris which is really nice to see. A lot of times on the used end on the JKs you'd see them all chipped up. Get the LED tail lamps, you get the blue tail hook back here, the 4 by E lettering and that E is actually metal flake paint on there so that's pretty cool. Get the matching spare, there's your backup cam back here. This is going to be your charger so you can see that plugs right in when this plugs into your wall. So that's the charger at home. It comes with a case for the charger, the alpine premium sound system with subwoofer. You still get the storage back here, door hinge and roof bolt and windshield bolt holders. It has the 3 piece hard top. You got 4 bolts on each side and then 2 quick disconnects. We actually did a video showing you how to remove your hard top on your JL. If you want to check that out it's in the upper right hand part of the screen. You get that JL badge back here, 2 door, 4 door, wheel base, overall length, water forwarding, where it's built and everything so that's pretty cool. And these doors on the JLs are a lot easier to close. Do like that color match and stingray. Like I said one of the hottest colors on the wranglers that we've seen. Heated mirrors, the enter and go system just have to have your key in your pocket and it'll open up like so. Inside you get the black leather interior with all the blue stitching, Rubicon stitched into the backrest, lumbar driver seat height adjuster, these front seats are heated, auto headlamps, tilt telescopic steering wheel and then this is where all of your electric hybrid and e-save, these are the different modes you can drive in. We actually did a video where we're driving in all the different modes. You can check that out. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen that video. Power locks, power mirrors and notice you get the blue stitching on the doors as well. So we'll turn the ignition on here. You can see it's just a little bit different. So we have your miles per gallon, 7 inch display, digital speedometer tells you how much battery you have left charged and then how many miles you have left on just electric.  So basically battery, gas side, pretty cool stuff. Blue stitching on the steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back. It does have the 8.4 4C radio. You get the factory navigation system on it. You also get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, heated seats, heated steering wheel controls. You can check out your backup camera. They've made these HD now so they're super clear, really nice systems and then you get that premium dash. So this is leather. Normally this is on the Sahara's, but they have it on this one. We'll get the blue stitching on there as well. Then you've all your different apps in here, including your off road pages. Those take a second to load. So while they're loading, I will show you, you get the audio and climate controls down here, the more tactile buttons, maybe lost but never stuck. You have your steering angle, sway bar, disconnect or connected, front axle locked or unlocked and rear axle locked or unlocked. You get your latitude, longitude, altitude. You have your accessory gauges here as well. And then your pitch and roll, which is pretty cool stuff too. Now the other thing that it has is projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. If you have a different nav system you want to use or just play music on the radio through your phone and control it all there. You can do that. We actually did a demo on Android Auto on a 4C radio in a Wrangler. So you can check out that video. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen as well. There's this button here that's specific to the hybrid. This is Max Regeneration. So you can turn that on and what it'll do is it'll use all the energy from the brakes and everything to recharge the battery while you're driving. So when that's on, you can actually feel the brakes charging up the battery. It's kind of crazy because it'll actually slow the vehicle down quicker using all that energy to charge the battery. Pretty cool. Check out the video of that where we're driving it and you'll see what I'm saying. AUG's USB, USB-C. And of course you can just turn that off by pushing that too. Here's your Rubicon stuff. Swaybar disconnect front and rear. Axle lock here or just the rear axle lock. You have your four-wheel drive shifter there. Notice you still get the blue stitching. 8-speed automatic transmission. Keyless entry. Remote start has the flipper key on there which is pretty sweet. It says Jeep on the back. Definitely a chunky key. And yeah, I really like the interior. Those hardtop pieces come off pretty easy. SOS and assist buttons and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll check out the back seats and then I'll do one more final walk around here with all the lights on as promised. Back seats are trimmed out with the blue stitching as well. This is your bag for your front hardtop pieces. You do get the latch child safety system. So these seats are a little different than in a normal Wrangler four-door because they come up like so. Your batteries are actually located underneath these seats so that's why it's a little bit different. They don't go down flat completely like the normal Wranglers do, but there are trade-offs to getting a hybrid so that is interesting to know. Something unique to this vehicle. Back here you get a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in, two USBs and two USB-C plug-ins back here as well. You can control your windows back here and then this comes down with cup holders in it. Do get child safety locks on the back doors and as promised I'll do one more final walk around with all the lights on in the sting gray here. Really like this color. Really like this Wrangler just spent about an hour driving it around testing out the hybrid system. Really a fun ride. Very comfortable and got some really good fuel mileage with it in the test that I did. And once again you can see that video at the beginning or earlier in this video. We linked it. It's also linked in the description as well. And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it we got to go to that website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. 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This is still one in the morning and we are on career talk talking about tapping into the hidden potential And for that we have been joined by Sarah Muni who wears many hats But for this particular conversation She is a life coach and we just want to know what she does You know we have mentioned so many titles and everything so we'll be having your Instagram page Just to see what you do as you tell us more about it how you started and where you are now. Yes So, well how I started on this part of career coaching and And in life coach so first of all I for me. I didn't know anything about this I didn't anything about coaching. I didn't anything about mentorship or anything about, you know I didn't know that I did a Bachelor of Science in IT and I was in the IT world Until I met a life coach and I went through a personal development program and from there I think the rest has been history and I think I would say I mean the years that I have seen most growth in my life has been, you know, after meeting that, you know After going through that process of personal development, you know And because it brought out so many things out of me, you know, it's just unbelievable And many people started telling me Sarah, I bet you are in IT. What's happening? I say, yeah, then I found my true north I found my true north. Yeah Okay, so would you say you are in the wrong career. Yes, I was in the wrong career I was in the wrong career.  I feel best when I'm out there with people So I used to wonder why, you know, I don't like it. I never knew about personalities at that time So the career was not even aligning with my personality and that's why you find most people Somebody is an extrovert and then you are an accountant Rambas details. Yeah, very frustrated. Okay, so your personality should indeed go with your career Because you'll be frustrated if otherwise. Yes, and by the way, that's why we take that conversation even in high schools You know for students to know this is my personality and these are the careers that can go with my personality Okay. Yeah. All right I see you are public figure, life coach, social entrepreneur, servant, leader, leadership and change management Expert, international conference speaker and trainer, Pan-African leader, so many hats that you hold there Yeah, they couldn't fit Okay, talk to us about, just to mention, servant, leader and leadership and change management, expert Yes. So first of all, and let me say this, everybody's a leader Everybody's a leader.  Yes, because if you can lead yourself, you can lead others So I'm a leader in many organizations as well I have an organization called Youth in Africa and we do have presence in all the countries across the continent We do a lot of skills training for youth. I'm a leader in so many organizations I think I have my company called Lead ProAfrica Consultants, so many global business around table as well So I think for leadership, I don't just teach it because I teach and I train. I've experienced it You've lived it. Yes, I've lived it And you see the best kind of leadership is servant leadership. It's leadership by example You know, you are there to serve. It's not there for prestige To give orders in your area No, I give orders and sit somewhere on a high tower. No. It's work. It's serving people It's all about service and just to take you back to where you started You said it started all when you found it when you found your life coach and it started from personal development Yeah, it was through a process of personal development. Then I realized, you know what this is what I should do Again, I need to keep on learning this and I need to do this again and again And then as I kept on speaking to people, I'd go from high school to high school I've been to over 100 high schools just speaking to students I've done so many public lectures in universities that said, this is it for me. This is it You know, so it was not like it just happened to you know what this is what I'll do for the rest of my life If this is it was a process I went through of discovering and then I realized, you know, what this is it Okay, yes So talk to us about personal development for someone who's who hasn't heard about it before. What does it entail? So personal development is basically the process of bringing out your gifts talents and abilities out and You know, we have gone through in school We've gone through a process of being told things things being pumped into you The world is like this like this and like this you need to know that so personal development is a process of now bringing out The potentials out of you. You put now that potential is speaking about. Let me say this a lot of dreams I think I think the largest grave In the world is at the level of potential Okay, that's where a lot of dreams die at the level of potential and at the level of ability I can do this because most people are not able to translate that potential into action so that it can help, you know So that's why you need people who can actually push you a lot of dreams are lost and die it the level of potential I know a potential to do this. I had potential of becoming this. I had potential of doing this I know I can do this I can do that But you just don't do it and you don't even know how maybe to bring it out That's why you need to work with mentors and you want to work with life coaches or people who can just push you to bring that out So personal development is that process or bringing out the the best version of you bringing out those potentials and those gifts and abilities and Out of you so that they can be they can help you and they can also help other people Okay, and there's self-esteem inside personal development Especially when you're going through coaching That's one of the things you need to work on on a process of personal development And the people who are very low self-esteem because of maybe mistakes you've made in the past or things situations that you found yourself in the past So your self-esteem you need to have a very high service team and self-belief That you are enough and you can you are in the world at the right time if you're maybe working In a certain organization you to I mean the right place for me to bring out the best version of me I mean the best place to thrive, you know, and I saw a very nice good somewhere of you know I'm that says drive where you're planted and then it has a picture of like a plant Growing at the cleft of a rock in the very unlikely places. It's driving and it's growing It's going life. So you need to be somewhere where you are driving and you are growing And it's not always good to always complain that you know what this I didn't want to be here For that time that you are there give your best Okay, yeah, even if you're doing something that see it's not for you. You don't like it for that time that you are there Give your best even as you seek to if you really want you to seek something and give your best be known for excellence Be known for excellence don't give half-hearted service just because you don't like you study journalism You ended up in sales. So everything is since you hated everything is Give your best those people young. You have no idea where you meet those people that's here So you need to give your best in everything that even as you seek for your true north like me Just give your best as you seek your true north. Okay taking that home and now for someone now What I want to ask on still on so personal personal development. Yeah, personal development and self-esteem. So how does one? I Identify mentors because you said that there's a place for mentors. Yes in your in your growth How do you and it's identify mentors because for life coach? I know as for some they may think it's hard to get them because maybe of the pay and Something like that. How do do you identify mentors and even life coach if you can? Yeah, so for mentors you need to look for somebody who has succeeded in the area of your passion Yes, so lucky for you if you're a journalist you need to get a journalist who you admire who has succeeded you are The way experienced they are older the way experienced and somebody who has succeeded basically Succeeded in the line of your career or in the line of your profession or passion That's the person and it's good. You get somebody who you can be able to reach I know you can say or I will follow who I don't know who are the international journalists from BBC But are you able to reach them? You can observe them from afar You need somebody who you can also be able to reach that person will help you more in terms of being able to tell you You know at this point you can step on this You know stone step on that step on that make this step make that step, you know And you will go through your career with making with very less mistakes you make less mistakes You might make mistakes, but less less because I have learned from somebody's successes and failures Yeah, so get somebody who has succeeded in the area of your passion. That's a mentor and then even for coaches You need to get somebody who? possibly somebody who is able to Get out. I mean who doesn't you know the people who just praise you you're doing good You're doing so well you said you know you need to get somebody who can be brutally honest with you They have your best interest at heart You know, but they can be brutally honest. They can be able to tell you by the way I know you have you have this gift you have this talent you have this skill, but you're sitting on it You know and you need somebody like that someone can challenge you Yes, so you need somebody who can really challenge you if you really want to and that's what happens even in soccer I was just using that because I know many people know soccer The work of those coaches is to physically challenge those you know the players and also Just look and see the way you're playing I think now you need to sit down or I think you need to switch positions with this other person You know they are able to just Somebody is able to look at you from a vantage point and be able to say you have this strength at this time do this If you follow you will do a coach need not have the experience Those coaches don't play Those football coaches don't play you know see them on the field You know, but they are able to look at you and bring out say your potential is here your potential is here you play this number, you know, so Mentors the difference between coaches and mentors is that coaches don't have mean not necessarily have the experience that you have But the mentors have mentors do so you can have a mentor and a coach at the same time And for the mentors that are hard to reach, you know talking of BBC and all that And maybe even in Kenya, you know How how do you get to them? How do you reach them? Yes? You can actually it's very possible But it's good to follow them just to follow them on all the platforms there as much as you can and engage But I know if there is a platform that is very easy for you to even speak with them personally is a platform called LinkedIn those of us and please if you're growing your career Or you are a student or you're a job seeker or you are not a problem Please you need to have a LinkedIn account most people ignore LinkedIn and that's it I think the most professional network What you find a lot of professionals there you find CEOs that LinkedIn you're you you get the see I mean even if you're looking for a job You go there and go to somebody's inbox explain yourself. This is what I'm doing I need internship here and the LinkedIn you will get the decision makers It's easy for you to get you know communicate to those I mean the those people that you really admire and You're able to get the kind of her opinion from them Right on Twitter on other timing on Facebook and it can be a bit hard You know, but LinkedIn is very professional first of all send them a connect request Because when you send a connect request on LinkedIn, you can be able to send them a message From there now, it's very easy to engage. So yes, you can be able to do that But I think it's always good to have somebody who you can reach somebody who you can even meet in town And yes, it's always good you get more help Okay, and still in potential what happens or what would you advise for someone who has made it to a certain level? But then self-doubt comes in you don't want to explore you are afraid rather to explore You know you can do more, but you're afraid to step out you see and now The successes we get in life. They encourage us to keep going. So if you reach somewhere and you feel down You fear for you need to speak to people. That's why mentors coming That's why mentors they come they come in or even a life coach or somebody or an accountability partner You need to be sharing with those kind of people. So they will tell you Even me maybe I've experienced this in the course of my career. This is what I did You need people to encourage you and this life you can't leave alone, you know There are those times you need to encourage yourself But the other times you actually need somebody to encourage you so always seek out for help for me if you Get into a low a certain low in your career or in life Please seek for help and know you're not the first person to go through that or whatever you're feeling or the problem That is there, you know the first person So seek help you will find help. So for me, I think that that's a thing always seek Well, no don't suffer alone whatever it is You're not the first one to go through it and you're even sometimes maybe somebody's even facing a suck You know, maybe you've been sucked and you didn't expect it And I can assure you you're not the first person to go through that but at that time it hits hard Yeah, it hits hard make speak to somebody who you can share with the problem shared is a problem Solved. Yes. So please seek out for help and then also the other thing I want to say Please don't lose hope just because you are filled once in something you are doing don't lose hope Don't lose hope. You know, that's the part of the great of the great Can we even speak about this guy of KFC Sanders At 65 is when he is making it having failed to do even just 22 You shouldn't be afraid to fail. Yeah, actually, this is what we say in your 20s. Yeah Feel all you can feel as many times as you can. Please work to succeed Work to success, but if you fail just know that's part of the process Difference is when you rise up again. Yeah, you just rise up like when you fall nine times wake up 10 times These are the time make the mistakes you can make I'm not saying you go ahead and make a mix But I'm saying don't be afraid to make mistakes.  You said You are you in your passion to help people businesses and organizations change grow Exile achieve their dreams and vision it inspired you to start change to excellence coaching program Yes, so this is a program that we do online and we usually because you see we don't just want to change We want to change into something change is just a process. So you want to change to excellence So this process is supposed to bring excellence in everything that you do and now that's a personal development program That that change to excellence a program is a personal development program So it take people through the basic, you know, sometimes when you ask people what is personal development? What does it entail? The world is self-explanatory Yeah, but what really are the areas that you need to work on so we look at areas of self-awareness and Identity look at areas of you know personality profiling with your personality, you know, and we then do tests We look at personal leadership. You can't speak about Changing to excellence or even personal development without personal leadership in self leadership. We look at personal branding We look at emotional intelligence.  And then from there we look at change and change management. How do you leverage change for growth? Then we look at public speaking and and presentation. Those are some of the course cues personal development is a lifelong process It's a lifelong process. So that one is just a program that we do for about eight weeks But it will give you the foundation for you to build. So yeah, it's it's usually and then from there We also engage a physical daunting task like Hiking so we actually hike because you know We climb a mountain because you know life has many mountains and we need to conquer You need to conquer the physical way We need to conquer physical one and it brings out so many live lessons by the way And then we do a lesson at the peak there like the other day we did Mount Kilimanbogo and You know from there We usually have a life club as well of people who are really Deliberate about working on their personal growth in their careers in their businesses in different areas that they are doing So it's really a very refreshing process everybody should go through You know, this is what we should have been taught in school in school I'm telling you to be a part of the syllabus. Yes It is part of the syllabus. Okay. Yes In case someone wants to reach you give us your hand rolls and I understand there's an event or something So we'll be doing a free event. It's online leveraging LinkedIn for career and professional growth Please if you want to really grow your career and I'm saying this is for job seekers for for professionals and for and for students if you want to really build a profile that can be able to help you leverage at least our attract Opportunities out there that you need. Please you need to leverage on LinkedIn and we'll be doing that program on 7th of September, it will be a Wednesday September 7th at 7 30 p.m So if you check my Facebook page or Twitter Sarah money the life coach and or even LinkedIn In fact, it'll be very good for you to take check my LinkedIn Sarah money I will post the details at I think visit by this evening They will be there and then we'll help you actually be able to build a profile on LinkedIn that can help you Be able to attract the opportunities that you need. So it's a free event and we invite you Okay, so also you can find me on LinkedIn as Sarah money you can find me On Instagram Sarah underscore money. You can find me on Twitter at at Sarah money You can find me on Facebook Sarah money the life coach and I have a YouTube channel Sarah money business and life coach Please like follow subscribe. Let's engage and please We want to make sure that You build a career that you don't feel happy. You don't have to feel like you're working to do it because it's fun Yeah That's how I want to that's what I want to help you do build a career that never have to feel like work You know, you're not working a day in your life. Yes, because it's fine Okay, yeah, so as we come to a close your passion is inspiring people to dream more do more and become more exactly Okay, exactly. Do you have a word that you find a word as we wrap up? So as we wrap up I want to say it's just what I have said If you want to enjoy your job Then make sure you choose a career that you love Okay, a career that you love you want to enjoy your job. Make sure you choose a career that you love Don't choose don't don't choose a career because of pressure. Oh, there's money There's this do something that you love then you never have to work a day in your life And for me, that's what I want to help you do it and thank you so much And I hope to engage with you more. Thank you for coming and giving us such amazing insights Thank you. I like to have you again and again. So carry Busan. Thank you. Appreciate. All right So that has been Sarah Mooney a life coach talking to us about tapping into unheeded potential She said make sure you make you choose the right career so that you don't have to work a day in your life Also a take home for me is everyone is a leader So make in any time you get the opportunity step up to it So we'll take a short break and then we'll be back with youth and politics and we have Ram Agoko for that. The hashtag to use is why in the morning at Y to 5 for a channel. See you on the other side


Hello everyone my name is Jeremy Hixon I'm currently the senior advisor over the Pasco Sheriff's Office Explorer program. Today we are hosting a FAPE or the Florida Association of Police Explorers Delegates Conference. Essentially this is a opportunity where Explorer posts from all across the state of Florida are coming together and participating in a joint training session hosted by the Pasco Sheriff's Office. So today we have eight different scenario stations planned and most of the scenarios are going to encompass in progress mocked calls for service where we're going to have the ability to evaluate the explorers on different types of skills including decision-making skills officer safety communication scene awareness and basic investigative law enforcement procedures. All this is in an effort to train them to teach them something about the career field that they might want to possibly know or at least have a better understanding of. This Delegates Conference affords them that opportunity to get some hands-on training and to really build that confidence to be able to make a more well-informed decision so when they graduate high school they know that hey this is a career path that they really are passionate about. Hello my name is Alyssa Jamison I'm currently a captain within the Explorer posts. So throughout the Explorer program I've been involved for about four years throughout junior explorers and then senior explorers. So during my time in junior explorers I learned a lot about teamwork and how to help each other out. When I transitioned to senior explorers I've gotten a lot more experienced with scenario-based training and just learned a lot more about myself. I've learned that I can do way more than I think I'm capable of. So throughout scenario-based training I've learned a lot about communication and how to help each other out when you're on scenarios. I've also gone on countless hours of ride-alongs which has prepared me for my future in law enforcement. Honestly if I wasn't in this post I wouldn't be sure if law enforcement was something that I wanted to do in the future. I wouldn't have the assurance that I needed but through this post I've seen that this is exactly what I want to do with my future. Well my name is Major Dylan Acres I'm with the Explorer Post 916 with the Pasq Sheriff's Office. As an explorer within the past five years I've learned just going out on the road and going on ride-alongs and just being an explorer out on community details you notice how people treat you or how others act and the biggest thing is to treat others with respect as you want to be treated. Something that I've noticed as a an explorer is you get to see all the different things within the Sheriff's Office you meet people and you get to build that relationship as well to know what it's like to be a good citizen because you get all these tips on building your discipline and your respect within the agency and the community. Through my career as an explorer I've gone through many different scenarios trainings and different activities within the Explorer Post and different law enforcement agents. These include delegates conferences which is based off of leadership exercises team building and a lot of drill and discipline. This helps a lot within yourself to build up your camaraderie and your discipline within your character and your personality traits to help you get to know others and to just build that relationship with other people. I want to thank FAPE I want to thank the district school board of Pasco County for allowing us to host the event at one of their schools and I also want to thank our Sheriff Sheriff Chris Nacko for his support and his admiration and yeah it's gonna be a good day.