I'm Teresa Eyring, Executive Director and CEO of TCG and I am so happy to welcome you to How We Move Forward, our final session of Convergence. Thankfully, this isn't really goodbye since we'll be returning in a few short weeks for the second part of the 2020 virtual conference convening, June 2nd to the 5th. You can find more information on that on the conference website. Hello, I'm Adrian Bedou, Deputy Director and CEO of TCG. Before we get started, it's important to show love for all the people who made it possible. Please share your love by writing in your message in the comments on Mighty Networks or in your favorite social media network using the hashtag TCG Virtual Conference. I also want to show love for our funders and sponsors without whom this week's event would not have been possible. I also want to thank TCG's board members who've been an essential partner in responding to this crisis and a huge shout out to all of the TCG staff members who've shown not only nimbleness and creativity and pivot in our programming, but have shown up in an incredible spirit of care for the field and for each other. I hope you've all felt the love from the TCG staff and if you'd like to return it, please post in Mighty Networks and let them know. I want to offer a special shout out to the conference's staff, Devin, Ann, Sam and Amelia, as well as Erica, Elena, Sarah and Ciara, who've partnered with them in the magic of this convergence. We also want to thank those of you who've been able to give to TCG during this time. Your support enabled us to provide this conference at no charge, which we know provides greater access for those who may not have normally been able to attend. The gifts you've made this week add up tremendously and allow us to make sure resources and programs like this one remain open. And to those who cannot give right now, we're so grateful for the many other ways you give to TCG and the field. Lastly, you want to say thanks to all of you for making time in your schedules and space in your hearts for these past three days together. Yes. Thank you all so much. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling a sense of renewal and hope from how we've shown up for each other. I know I enjoyed seeing and spending time with so many of you in real time. We don't get to do that enough, but now it's time to close convergence with some thinking about how we move forward from here. I still remember the first time we gathered for a how we move forward session. It was the 2015 TCG national conference in Cleveland, and we'd held this space to hear from personal affinity groups, many of whom had convened the conference for the first time. One after another, our colleagues spoke from the heart space, envisioning a more equitable, accessible, and just theater field. The solidarity was palpable, as was the feeling that something new was becoming possible. It ended with Kanisha Foster charging us to tweet one way we'd take action for equity as a form of collective accountability. And so we find ourselves here today, again, with a deepened feeling of solidarity, a charge of accountability, and a sense that a new way forward can and must be possible. I'm Elena Chang, director of EV&I initiatives at TCG, and we'll move forward by inviting three kinds of sharing. First, an affirmation to someone that you already knew or just met who had an impact on you during your time at convergence. Second, a request for your community to listen deeply to some truth or experience that needs collective witnessing. Third, a call to action for the field to hold a particular issue or community top of mind as we move forward together. We reached out on Mighty Networks yesterday to solicit some responses to these prompts. We ask you now to give our colleagues the gift of your deep attention, to witness the affirmation, truths and calls to action they'll share, and to do so in the spirit of grace and generosity that we invoked at the beginning of our time together. And I have a call to action. Nearly 33 million U.S. households cannot access the Internet. Digital opportunity gaps disproportionately impact low-income families, rural communities, tribal communities, and many more. I hope that we can advocate to Congress to accelerate the disbursement of already existing federal funds through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund so that funds can spread across America to everyone who desperately needs access now. Let's make theater whether digital or live accessible for everyone. I want to thank TCG for connecting us in this convergence. Hearing the hopes, the fears, and all the great ideas from everybody is inspirational. I'm Jason Najoum, managing director of synthetic theater, physical theater, company-based theater in Arlington, Virginia. And I've been reflecting a lot over the last two days on the fault line in our field between organizations and the artists that they serve. This has always been an issue for our field, but it feels particularly acute right now. I'm noticing that the artists that we contract with, that we employ, are in such a precarious position right now, and they're always in a precarious position. Much more than many of us in this conference are not only because of our social location-based privilege, but just because the system is set up so that managing directors like me have a job consistently, even through crises like these, when the first to be laid off, the first to not get government support are our artists. So what can we do to more consistently provide a safety net for our artists at the organizational level so that they're not wondering where their next rent check is coming from? Hi everyone, I'm Jennifer Wincer, artistic director of theater at COCA, Center of Creative Arts, and my call to action for our field is to uplift young voices and to center them in the art-making process. They are the future of the American theater. My name is Briang Schwartz, and I facilitated the LGBTQ affinity space, and one call to action that I would ask my community to consider is who wasn't in the room yesterday, whether that be their racial identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity, just to be mindful of who wasn't in the room and who may not necessarily feel welcome or have access to a space like this. From all of the little faces I've been seeing in all of the little boxes, I love all of you. I think we have a vibrant, vibrant field, and I'm uplifting Lisa Mount for her fabulous facilitation. The woman is magic. She's a spider woman, and I'm just going to put my mask on now. And I'm done. Hello, my name is Adam Flores, I use he and pronouns. I'm the manager of community engagement and education at the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. As we move forward, I want all of theater makers, particularly those involved in institutions, to be holding up the way that we've embraced accommodation and accessibility during this time. We made wide changes to our programming and the way that we thought about bringing stories to our communities, and I hope that we continue to bring that and think about accessibility and accommodation, not as an add-on, but as the core of what we do as theater makers. I of course also want us to think about the ways that we come out of this in a more just, inverting space when it comes to the representation and the essentialness of all people, particularly those artists, audience members, creators, and staff that are marginalized by race, sexual or gender identity, physical ability, age, socioeconomics, or cultural grammar. These are the things that have always been at the forefront of our marginalization. This is a great opportunity to take time and not look to return to normal, but to return to something new and more beautiful because there never was a normal to begin. Thank you. Let's talk about designers. It's not just a pipeline issue. Designers from marginalized and underrepresented communities, they exist now. They're working as professionals now in the American theater. Actively search for your designers rather than just using the people you already know or the people who have only been recommended, maybe even post something, you know, a call for resumes where you could actually get to know people and then you could make the time to actually interview people for the shows themselves instead of just looking at a resume and a portfolio. New to your theater designers should be hired. Hire more women designers, hire more designers of color, hire more non-binary designers, hire more disabled designers, hire more designers from underrepresented and marginalized communities and identities. You can do it. Don't expect these people to find you either. You should do some work and find them. Look at who you're hiring now and who you've hired in the past, not just on your staff, not just on your stage, not just who's directing, but who designs and what story are those choices telling? Is that the story you want to tell? I know it's hard work and I'm asking you to do more hard work in the middle of a pandemic, but I know you can do it and I believe you'll do it because designers are vital. They're vital to the American theater and they belong in the equity inclusion, diversity, access, and justice conversation too. Designers deserve to be treated humanely. Abolish 10 out of 12s. Hi, I just want to encourage everyone to really start thinking about how we create theater in this time of COVID-19. I feel like a lot of people that I've talked to is holding on to the past. There's very much this question mark with how do we create exactly the same experience of what we're creating on stages in the past that does not exist right now and in an attempt to create that world with holding our imagination and our creativity. There's also this fear of turning into film. Live theater is not film. Live video presentation is not film. What is so great about theater is it asks audience to instigate and utilize a part of their brain that brings imagination forward, that they're imagining they're not in the theater, that the circumstances and what they're seeing is real and it's using their imagination to really get a story. So when live video is going on, we're activating audience's imaginations. There's awareness that there's a limitation, that there can't be a full-on change of set, that we are in a COVID-19 period. So how do we make it seem like people are sharing space, connecting with each other, talking to someone that is not in the space with them? That's something that I really want us to be able to embrace because I think video theater has the potential to be extremely accessible, not just in a replacement for live theater, which I don't think there is any real replacement. I hope once COVID-19 is over that we will have live theater back, but I also hope video theater stays because it makes theater accessible to a younger generation. It makes us theater accessible to people who just have technology and need and are geographically stuck. And I also think it makes it accessible for artists, people who have not felt welcome in the theater in the past, specifically at institutions and places that have been predominantly white, that haven't allowed for people from different marginalized backgrounds to come in. So please start redefining how you view theater in this time. Gee folks, my name is Kristen Clifford. I'm the Associate Artistic Director at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida. And I would like to make a call to action to our industry to remember to think about our elderly populations during this time and how we can lift them up and engage them coming out of this isolation. Thanks. My name is Annalisa Diaz. I'm the Director of Artistic Partnerships and Innovation at Baltimore Center Stage and also a co-founder of Groundwater Arts. I wanted to take a moment to just offer something of a hopeful vision. I don't know about you, but I've been in a lot of rooms recently over the last few days that have been pretty heavy, understandably, with the collective sort of trauma that we're all experiencing as a collective and also as individuals. So I wanted to take a moment to just share a little bit about an organizing framework that Groundwater Arts has been developing over the last more than a year. It's called the Green New Theater and it's a set of six principles that is meant to guide the field both organizations and individuals toward a just transition and a just recovery from this current crisis that we're in but also the interconnected and ongoing climate crisis, which has been caused by 500 years of colonial capitalist violence. So I'd invite you all to check out the Groundwater Arts website and also our brand new Facebook page to figure out how you can get involved because you are all essential to a generative and just future for our field and I really mean that. Our friends at the People's Climate Movement often say to change everything we need everyone. It's an exciting time to be a leader of color in the theater. More doors to leadership have opened in the last decade than ever before. Our peers from all walks of life who have traditionally underrepresented in these institutions are skilled and qualified and we've navigated the same educational and professional training systems as our white sis-able peers. We were ready to join the wave of progress that's inspired us to become the best at what we do. I'm here in my position because of a comprehensive inclusive search process in which representatives from across constituencies at my company were brought to the table. We're spending a lot of time these days dreaming of a future for the American theater that is more just, more equitable, and more welcoming to more people but we don't get there without a couple of key ingredients. We need collective accountability for the ways that each of our organizations uphold and perpetuate systems that were designed to exclude so many of us. We need greater transparency in our decision-making at every level of our organizations including but not limited to the hiring practices of our executive leaders. In April 2015, 87 leaders had stepped into new roles as artistic directors, presenting an unprecedented opportunity for inclusion. These leaders were appointed from national searches, deep dives into the local community. In a study published by American theater those, those hiring processes resulted in only a 10% increase in artistic leaders of color, a 0% increase in the leaders from the transgender community, and there is a 20% increase for leaders who are women. The study also showed that as the budgets of institutions in the survey increased the diversity of their leadership also decreased. And when these positions open up it is an opportunity for transparency, for equity, and for openness. We have to demand that every process, every search process is just that. Empowerment is an essential part of growth. Transparency, visibility, and community involvement will help ensure these hiring processes are free from the historical biases of these mostly predominant white institutions. Additionally, it is important that we lead the charge by being an industry that walks the walk, the work on our stages, display a world reflecting our determination to create a just and equitable world. We must also demand that our practices and processes reflect the same. We ask that you create equitable, transparent hiring practices. It's going to be really hard work. I have every confidence that we can do it together. And together we're going to build a better future for our field. Hi, everyone. I'm Devin Berkshire. My pronouns are she, her, and I'm the director of conferences and field-wide learning at TCG. We are so grateful to the participants of Convergence and Beyond who just shared their powerful and provocative words with us. And I would love to encourage anyone watching to pick up that charge that Kenesha handed us five years ago in Cleveland at the TCG conference and take the suggestion that Adrian also made at the top of the broadcast and share out your own calls to action or affirmations or commitments to your community to listen deeply and be a witness to their experiences. You can share them on social media or if you're attending Convergence on mighty networks, we want to hear what you are taking forward from this. And we ask you to hold each other accountable for those commitments. If you're sharing on social media, use the hashtag TCG virtual conference. I want to express deep gratitude to Erica Lauren Ortiz, TCG's marketing director for her technical feats of magic making how we show up and how we move forward come alive among many conference contributions. As Adrian said, a lot of TCG staffers went above and beyond to make this work. And we are so thankful for their time and energy during this time that is stressful enough as it is. On behalf of all of TCG, I also really want to thank our incredible facilitators who held space for their colleagues throughout these three days from the convergent circles to the identity affinity groups and professional affinity roundtables and of course, the budget group roundtables, including our field's essential freelance workers. This was no small task to trust a group of conference producers who'd never produced a virtual conference, but all these facilitators signed on readily and enthusiastically and we are so grateful. They are to credit for the value of a lot of these conversations. So please give them shout outs or just a one on one thank you as well. It will be their insights, these discussions and your feedback in our postconvergence survey that will help us shape the next and last part of this particular adventure are convening from June 2nd to 5th that Theresa mentioned earlier. Convening will show up differently than convergence and while we'll have some loosely structured conversations like the ones we had here, there will also be more knowledge building and sharing, more social time and yes, more art. The agenda will be up on our website by early next week and registration is planned to launch next week as well. There will be more spots available than convergence, but like convergence, we'll be moving quickly and we'll continue to ask for your patience as we navigate this world of virtual convenings together. Between now and convening in June, TCG is planning more informational webinars and please do stay up to date with TCG's online circle community focused on COVID-related resources. If you're not part of that community, email Corinna Schulenberg to sign up and of course TCG led by Lori Baskin has been working nonstop advocating for the theater field at the federal level. So when you're on our website, be sure to sign up for the action alerts so you can join Lori in that advocacy. So friends, our hearts are full as we close this time with you and while we truly wish this all could have been done in person, we think this was a close second and now I will hand it back to Teresa and Corinna to send us off. I'm so excited to see you all at convening and remember if you're able to support TCG as we work towards theater's reemergence, please make a gift at tcg.org slash donate. And don't forget to join the staff of American Theater Magazine in our closing happy hour right after this session where they'll want to hear from you about your experiences and test your American theater knowledge with some trivia. Thank you so much again for spending this time with us and to close us out, I want to pass it to Corinna Schulenberg. Thanks, Teresa. I'm Corinna Schulenberg. My pronouns are she, her, hers, and I'm the director of communications at TCG. For many theater people, we like to begin and end things in a circle. That's one of the reasons TCG's logo is a circle and why we've called our convergence homerooms circles. That's why we're looking forward to continuing these conversations on our online platform, the TCG circle. And I would like us to collectively imagine a series of circles. First, there are the circles of our own bodies, the circles of eyes of hands, the valves of our hearts. Then there is the wholeness of our bodies, greater than the sum of their parts, perfect and complete as a circle. I'd ask us each to hold the circle of our bodies and silence for a breath. Then I'd like us to consider the circle of our families. We are, after all, meeting in each other's houses. Some of us may be living in the fullness of our families in close proximity and the joys and challenges those circles offer. Others may be feeling the circles of their families stretched over distance and lost. Whatever the case, I invite us now to hold those circles for a breath. Then I'd ask us to remember the gift of Amelia's opening invitation to make a promise to ourselves and the circles of our theaters and our communities. Let's please hold those circles for a breath. And now let's hold the circle of our planet, this beautiful and bruised earth, this pale blue dot amid the vast dark of space. Let's hold her close in our hearts for a breath. And as we imagine these circles, concentric and interdependent, we can also imagine them as a spiral, that most sacred pattern of nature embedded in our DNA and everywhere around us, from the tiniest snail to the forces of storms to the great dazzle of nebula, we can hold these circles growing up from the roots of our ancestors spiraling up to the generations to come. We can hold these circles as we move through these portals. We can spiral up toward our reemergence and beyond. Thank you and be with you soon.


So last week we learned that Joe Biden was reportedly considering current governor of Rhode Island, Gina Romando, to be HHS Secretary. And not only that, it seemed as if, based on numerous reports, that she was actually the front-runner to be his pick. Now, the reason why this is disastrous is because she is vocally against Medicare for all. She's attacked it on numerous occasions. But more importantly, this is an individual who is a shill for the health insurance industry and the private healthcare industry. Because she chose to unilaterally use her power as governor to shield nursing homes and long-term care facilities from legal accountability. Now, why does this matter? Well, because in her state, when it comes to COVID-19, a majority of the outbreaks have come from these nursing homes and long-term care facilities. So in the event, somebody wants to investigate and subsequently sue them for incompetence or malfeasance because they are contributing to a spike in cases and deaths due to COVID-19. They should, in fact, be held legally liable for that. But she chose, after she got a phone call from lobbyists, to shield them and give them legal immunity. Completely unacceptable, completely unreasonable. I mean, someone who did this literally should not even have a job in politics. She should step down as governor. She should be shamed out of politics, permanently disqualified. So the prospect of her being HHS secretary, I mean, to me, basically worst-case scenario in terms of a Joe Biden pick. However, thankfully, for whatever reason, she announced at a press conference, according to journalist Mad Holt, that she was not in the running. Now, I don't know if she was never considered, if the reports were false, or if she withdrew, or she just was no longer in consideration after Joe Biden heard criticisms. I have no idea why she's not in the running, but what I do know is that the fact that she's not going to be HHS secretary is really good news. But the question is, what ghoul did Joe Biden choose to put in her place? Actually, he kind of chose someone who's good. I'm pleasantly surprised by who Joe Biden chose. He has chosen Javier Becerra, current California attorney general, to be HHS secretary. Now, the first thing that I ask of an HHS secretary is, what do you believe when it comes to Medicare for All? Well, you're going to be pleasantly surprised to learn what Javier's stance is on this issue. Going forward, would you personally support something like what Senator Bernie Sanders has suggested, which would be a Medicare for All plan? Oh, absolutely. I've been a supporter of Medicare for All for the 24 years that I was in Congress this year. As attorney general, I would fight for that if we had an opportunity to put that forward in the state of California, because I think what we do is we give people that certainty that they're going to be able to access a doctor or a hospital. The worst thing we used to have with situations where young families wouldn't know if they should take their children to the hospital, because it could lead to personal bankruptcy. That ended with the Affordable Care Act. We can't go back to those days. And so, absolutely, when you give people access to Medicare and talk to seniors who have their Medicare, who say, keep your hands off my Medicare, I think it would have the same effect for most Americans if they knew they could depend on something like Medicare for themselves as well. That's basically exactly what I want to hear from an HHS secretary when they're asked about Medicare for All. That's a perfect answer. Now look, there's always room for criticism and improvement. You can say he's talked more than he's actually taken action. He could have done more. But just in terms of like what my expectations were for a Joe Biden HHS pick, it was not someone as good as Javier Becerra. I mean, this is close to best case scenario when it comes to Joe Biden. I mean, he wouldn't be my choice, right? If I were the president, I would be appointing someone like Bernie Sanders or, you know, Rosanne DeMauro, the president of National Nurses United, somebody like that who's really been a firebrand when it comes to Medicare for All. But for him to select someone who supports Medicare for All and who's been pretty consistent on this issue, I'm pleasantly surprised and I feel shocked saying that. And it's not just me because even progressives like David Suarez and Andrew Perez tend to agree. And in a report for Jackman, they explain, to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Joe Biden has selected a Democrat who has touted his support for Medicare for All and previously demanded the Obama administration take tough action against the pharmaceutical industry to lower the price of prescription drugs. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Biden is nominating former congressman and current California attorney general, Javier Becerra, to run HHS. The announcement comes after Rhode Island Governor Gina Romando abruptly dropped out of consideration for the job following our report on her agreeing to healthcare lobbyist demands that she provide legal immunity to nursing home corporations during the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently as 2017, Becerra declared, I've been a supporter of Medicare for All for the 24 years that I was in Congress and he said he would fight to create such a system in California where it was considered in the legislature. As HHS Secretary, he would be in a position to grant states waivers to create Medicare for All systems. As HHS Secretary, Becerra will also be in a position to take the action on drug prices that he previously urged the Obama administration to take, though it remains unclear whether Biden would support such a move. Back in 2016, Becerra was one of the 51 House Democratic lawmakers who signed a letter calling on Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary to use so-called Marchion rights to effectively rescind exclusive patents for medicines whose research and development was originally funded by government agencies. This year, Becerra was one of 34 state attorneys general to sign a letter demanding the federal government use Marchion rights to make the early onset COVID treatment remdesivir whose research and development was sponsored by the government more widely available and affordable to all. As HHS Secretary, Becerra will also be in a position to facilitate proposals to allow American pharmacists and wholesalers to import lower priced FDA approved medicines from other countries. Becerra voted for drug importation as a house lawmaker. Clinton's HHS Secretary, Donna Shalala killed a drug importation plan in 2000 after a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers passed it through Congress. So this is shocking because Javier Becerra is basically to the left of Joe Biden when it comes to certain health care issues like Medicare for All, Marchion rights, and as HHS Secretary, Javier Becerra can do a lot. Like we're not going to get Medicare for All with Javier Becerra as HHS Secretary. Let's be clear about that. But what he can do is take a lot of concrete measures, actions that would improve our health care system in the country. It's still relatively incrementally, but I mean nonetheless, with what we were expecting to get, Gino Ramondo, this is a pretty solid choice. I wouldn't have expected someone that I like to be named HHS Secretary. So it's not all bad apparently. Now it could be the case that Joe Biden is like playing 40 chess with us and he floated Gino Ramondo to, you know, make us feel relieved about Javier Becerra. Because you know, if you kind of set us up to expect someone who's a disaster, well then of course we're going to be excited to learn that someone who's less disastrous is HHS Secretary. But you know, either way, this is pretty solid. I'm happy with the pick. Again, I would have chosen someone else who's more firebrand in terms of supporting Medicare for All, but we have someone who supports Medicare for All, but at least in rhetoric, which is important in and of itself for at least shifting the Overton window when it comes to health care. But the things that he can do, the improvements that he can make as HHS Secretary and that he seems to want to make, this is a big deal. So I don't know how to say this, but good job, Joe Biden.  And whenever they actually do something good, it's a little bit of a shocker. It's surprising, genuinely so. Now I'm not going to count my chickens before they hatch because of course we'll see how Javier Becerra actually governs as HHS Secretary. But just in terms of the pick, it's good. You know this, you know this thing, thing.


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Boom, what's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host Alan Saki and we are at the transformative technology conference We are now sitting down with Boris and Mike from Conscious. What's up guys? How's it going Alan? Thank you for coming on to the show and talking to me appreciate it. Good to meet you. Yeah. Yeah, it's such a pleasure I'm excited to talk about this this so-called This wireless biofeedback system that can help increase state self-awareness I'm really excited to talk about this Before that, let's talk about who you guys are. So how did you guys even get to the point that you're at today? I Think maybe Mike could kick us off with that one. Cool. I'll start so about four years ago I was an entrepreneur working at Lulu lemon in their tech department and Basically, I ended up leaving there because it was less meditation and yoga and too much work so I ended up becoming an entrepreneur and deep dove into two specific kind of Jobs or industries one was romance publishing. So publishing books about romance. I didn't tell the pink shirt, you know Yeah, yeah, yeah, I honestly know nothing about that industry. It's just business. I became one of the top romance publishers in the world at one point And then I dove into e-commerce and ended up being one of the top Facebook marketers in the world I was spending about 30 to $50,000 a day on Facebook advertising And so I made a lot of money in that and now Here's conscious and essentially the vision of conscious came to me as I was meditating with Boris down in LA I think at the time about eight months ago and I had this vision of really just Liberating people on all levels and what that means is paying people to essentially meditate and be rather than do And so this is our passion project and now we're working on it full-time. So okay, okay, cool. Cool. Boris. Let's hear about yours I have a lot of questions. Yeah So yeah, my background coming, you know from my professional background is in psychotherapy. So ever since Ever since I kind of started diving into this understanding of how do we you know How do we heal and how do we optimize the human experience? It really Grabbed me and so I went through various different trainings healing modalities looking into body work looking into breath work looking into neurofeedback and Seeing what what is it that really makes for that liberated human experience? When Mike went into e-commerce, I kind of followed him Down that path and we both had some really great success in e-commerce But it was also very Draining for me because that had nothing to do at all with what my calling is what I felt I was here for and so You know when when this opportunity came about when these ideas started to kind of Ripen in in our minds. It was very exciting to just dive in and to really serve from the heart and to put all of our Skills to use. Yeah. Oh This is awesome. Okay, so Alright, so it seems as though, you know a lot of entrepreneurship a lot of high tech sort of figuring out the cutting-edge tech stuff a Lot of psychotherapy and then so then this this moment of aha, we're gonna start to Pay people to do to be instead of do. All right. How does one get paid to just be? Yeah, so this is kind of the initial concept of why this vision came to be since then It's obviously just like any startup taking a lot of twists and turns now The ability to pay people comes with cryptocurrency in the blockchain So as you know for the first time in human history with the blockchain We're able to create shared value economies and what that means is if mean you share a value in this case Let's say we say meditation is valuable or alleviating stress is valuable Then we should be rewarded in some way shape or form And so now we can literally just create some sort of trust mechanism between me and you and then we can flow currency or cryptocurrency back and forth and so this trust mechanism and this is how we kind of gotten the quantified self movement Was how do you determine if somebody's meditating so we went down that path and we found the key metric which is HRV So then we started looking at quantifying the self essentially So the eight so the HRV ends up being more varied when someone is meditating rather than correct I believe it goes into higher states of Yeah, when you analyze, sorry, yeah, this is the same. There's a couple of patterns So when you analyze HRV on the power spectrum, you can see You can see specific frequencies light up one is called the meditator's peak So when somebody's actually meditating you can see that in the change in their physiological biomarkers, which ones are you measuring so specifically it's HRV And so as well said the meditator speak is when you're doing an analysis of HRV on a when you plot on a graph You can see a very distinct Signature person is meditating what's happening in their heart when they're coming into a meditative state and that meditative peak Is that because I've seen some of these analyses before and yeah, there's for sure a distinct peak Now is that distinct peak is that a state of them really getting to a Peak of what would you say that is? This is a really good question. So this peak is associated with a state called Popularly, it's called coherence Scientifically, it's called respiratory sinus arrhythmia, which sounds like a disease Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, which means that your breath and your heart are synchronizing into a coherent Singular wave that starts to entrain this starts to entrain your entire body and all of your organ systems So your body comes into the most efficient state both in terms of your mental performance and your physiology interesting. So Respiratory sinus arrhythmia Means that my breath and my heart are coming into sync and therefore my physiology my all my organs are kind of they're all synced coherence rather than the high beta just Running around just Through stuff and that way there's no real rhythm when you're doing that versus so that peak is that is that state of complete Coherence or rhythm that you can have us. It's like a cadence of life cadence Almost if you can keep that as long as possible throughout your life, then you can likely Live longer healthier happier and be more kind to people. There's lots of yeah Good things that come from this so okay, so that's like a lot on the science Yeah, go ahead. I wanted to just tag on to what's one thing There's one more important correlation when this state occurs when we can see this HRV marker and that's that at that point The brain also goes into alpha. So as you were starting to mention like that this kind of a rhythmic beta So when we start to see coherence, we actually start to see heart-brain coherence as well So we really have that peak. It's the underlying Physiological state of flow. Yes, that's what happens when we start to feel really in the moment really tuned in Yes, yes now All right, let's go back to the blockchain stuff. So and then actually I also want to talk about the bio feedback How you're actually connect collecting it wirelessly? So On to the blockchain stuff quick Give me the breakdown of why I How I meditate I accrue some sort of Currency that has some sort of worth and there's some sort of accountability between people to be so yeah Let's let's unpack that sure. Yeah, so I mean the blockchain right now as many people know is in a weird state Especially cryptocurrency where we had that huge rush last year and we see many projects get funded and then instantly fail or shut down so We are taking a safer approach and I recommend this for any startup company right now is really to create an Economy where you have a large amount of users our goal is 1 million users to start that are going through your in-game economy gamification token or basically your points system and Ensuring that that is sustainable before you implement blockchain into it because what we're seeing is people are launching these ICOs With poor tokenomics models that are not sustainable And then it's just it's not just not gonna last so really you need to create a real core company or product Have blockchain in the back of your mind. Yeah, and stay on top of it And then when it comes time you just turn it on so you're a centralized ledger for the first hundred percent a year or two or Whatever it requires until you get the million Users that are frequently using the platform and then you see you've proved your concept and then you can decentralize it And you can move slowly towards decentralization. Yeah, we still don't believe in a fully decentralized system Especially in this wellness space. We don't yeah, it's it's maybe it's not even necessary at this point Other markets why financial markets? Yeah? Yeah, you're not trying to capitalize on people meditating You're you're just trying to help people meditate. Yeah, there's an yeah I guess it can sense and ideally I think in the in the next year or two or maybe five years. We'll start to see Specifically blockchains related to wellness and right now. We're not really seen We have one-off projects like high-vibe network, which are paying people to meditate also We have shivom, which is storing DNA on the blockchain and stuff like that But really nobody's proven anything at this point So it's really too early and this is why we've we've taken the concept of blockchain put it in our documents letting people know That this is on our radar, but we're not going to turn it on till maybe next year We'll see how the market goes, but okay, and then let's go back to the wireless biofeedback system So how are you collecting HRV wirelessly? Yeah, so in the beginning we also Just as you see at this conference you see that many people are creating these different wearables different things to basically have a Sort of hardware that you interact with the the product through and this is what we were thinking too in the beginning But when we started to do more research realize that there is Technology available technology really comes under the name of computer vision So computer vision is a way of using cameras just like the cameras we have here, but pulling them through signal processing Algorithms that filter it to such an extent that for example when I look at you. I can't see your pulse totally, right? but Computer vision can through filtering in a certain way We can actually see how the blood goes up each time your heart if it's not as your face If it's that acute, right? It's got to be really sensitive. It's well pick up even the like commercial Consumer-level cell phone front-facing camera can do it. So it's really more about the filtering algorithms What it's really doing is it's looking at the minute change in color on the pixels that are Representing your face on the on the video stream and when you magnify those when you magnify the difference Our eyes can pick up the difference, but when the computer is magnified then you can see very distinctly flush flush Yeah, and so we can that's really Distinct, I mean that's a very smine new difference. It's so it's a hard distinction to make That if I that's a really sensitive technology that I would have to pick that up It's just it's just interesting to me that this is now coming out with even a front-facing camera on a stock Cell phone that can yeah, they can do that 94% accuracy compared to ECG or EKG, which is the gold standard for measuring 4% of the front-facing camera. Yeah Hmm. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's pretty crazy Yeah, that really frees us up from having to have that barrier to entry of having to buy more hardware Hardware and wear it. Yeah, so you can use any computer or any Tablet or any cell phone to actually practice and to get feedback that you're really getting progress that something's really happening You're not just sitting there listening to a playlist, but you're really seeing that things are changing as you are training or meditating. Yeah Interesting Damn so so then it's okay, so you're wirelessly collecting it so then you conscious So I would download conscious is that how I would do this and then okay, so I would download conscious And are you on both stores right now? So we haven't launched yet Okay, but the way that we are launching is that there is this underlying core technology of contactless biofeedback That's really its goal is to optimize for stress reduction. That's what it's essentially looking for So as you come closer to the flow state, of course the corollary is that you're coming out of stress states, right? So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be launching it as Multiple applications one is going to be a multiplayer Meditation application and another one is coming under the umbrella of conscious games where you're going to use the same exact mechanism Except now we can put it into Categories such as kids games where simply that you know They're progressing on the screen based on very simple exercises to get them into a little bit of a higher coherence So they're learning self regulation as they're playing Okay, so For now you've just tested the technology and tested your your games and your your processes with with people and then You're aiming to launch this soon. Yeah, yeah, we're I'm not sure I think it was definitely be in 2019. So right now we have the prototypes ready We're optimizing them for accuracy We're kind of putting the skins and the beauty around them because this is a very important aspect So to be able to present something beautiful polished and clean. Yeah, yeah okay, and There were things there were things you just mentioned this both this group this group meditation And this the gamification of modern meditation So what would that what would that look like for for me to? Turn on conscious on my phone and then to just prop it up against the wall And just sit there in front on a cushion in front of the front-facing camera and just meditate and then accrue points in game points that could potentially be useful for Something as long as other people found the valuable Yeah, do you want to say more on this or do you want me keep You know Yeah, so we have two other products which might give you a better use case and really since we are we have four products on the road map We're really looking for our investors So we're opening a seed round of two million dollars at this point to give us guidance and really see which one of these products are Attention should really focus on one of the products which Boris didn't mention was something called the conscious plug-in Which is essentially a plug-in in your browser Which will allow you to then see what you're consuming on the internet and how that's affecting your your nervous system essentially, right? So people can start to see let's say they're on Facebook for an hour and they start to see their coherence level start to go down Well, then we can warn them in real time, right? So that would be a probably a bigger use case for the masses. That's kind of interesting can use it from facing camera on the laptop Yeah, exactly, and it's the more stable than the smartphone, right? So there's certain challenges We are getting it to a point where we have motion detection, so it's very accurate So even if you are kind of moving the smartphone, it should still be able to track it accurately Damn, I wonder what percentage of Time spent on social media actually increases coherence or decrease totally And this is what we're seeing in the kind of cultural trend, right? That people are becoming more and more aware of what they're consuming fake news all this stuff So just making it people more aware of it. Yeah quantifiably. Yeah Yeah, it's actually quite rare that I think I I leave the social platforms Feeling more coherent, I think it's it's it's The only times I leave it feeling more coherent I guess is when I see that you know Maybe the Dalai Lama tweeted something and then I really liked the tweet and I retweeted it or whatever And then I got off the platform right away something like that, right? Yeah, you spend just a minute on it and you know you go and see someone that said something about someone's you know Like they're they're so grateful for something and then you're like, oh, that's great And then you're really grateful for a moment and then you get off the platform So like though that's like really good experiences, but whenever you see the the firefights that are going on and stuff That's never increases gratitude. It never increases coherence. It's just Firefight and we're really riding a huge wave. We're not the only ones We just saw apples releasing some headphones that start to track on your HRV just using the headphones So they'll be able to link that to the next music playing or whatever and seeing how that your consumption music maybe So does that their next iteration of those wireless headphones? Tim was showing us that yesterday with the headphones that had Sensors in them for but he wasn't doing HRV. He was doing Measuring neural activity around that region and then it seems as though we are All of the companies are trying to move to a place where they have additional data to work with so biomarker data, so Okay, what's the fourth one that was those three you've listed now So it's the fourth one the fourth one is a workplace app So just like many people are working on corporate SaaS products We also have that in the roadmap and that just makes sense Although based on a lot of the feedback from the program a lot of people are saying don't go down the B to C route first Start with ours don't go down to the B the B route start with B to C. Yeah So what do you what do you quickly just what would you? Go through go through all four one more time again sure so we got the multiplayer meditation app We have something called conscious games and then we have the conscious plug-in and the conscious workplace app And the difference between the first two again is the meditation app and the games So the meditation app is really for people that are using let's say headspace and calm Existing meditators. Maybe we'll catch some new meditators just with a lot of the uniqueness of our product And then conscious games is you can think of it like so we can explain one of the games Which is on our roadmap, which is called beautiful minds Essentially you're using your coherence levels to open a flower Yeah, that's right. So that targets people that may not necessarily be interested in meditation per se But they're interested in maybe the novelty or if something beautiful opening. Yeah, yeah, we also just talked to Peter Freer from freer logic and he's he has a meditation game where it's about coherence opening a flower beautiful Yeah, yeah And there's so many use cases it doesn't have to be around mindfulness to we can race Rocket ships, for example, yeah, yeah to the moon or whatever. So again our goal is to reach a billion people Just like many companies here. Yeah, and with our marketing backgrounds. We think we can do that in case to widen That's right. Yeah, the yeah the The science mixed with the business is very important to actually get it out to people, you know I guess one thing that I'm starting to realize is that There's this there's this trend that occurs with Companies that I have the opportunity to discuss with or or mentor and one of them is for example at Indie bio Which is the largest seed stage biotech accelerator when I'm talking to entrepreneurs there a lot of them are building out some sort of a Therapy to some sort of a problem within the human body and that they want to solve that problem take example like cancer or whatnot and I'm constantly trying to press them to find what is the golden solution like what is the thing that could potentially wipe it all away and With this there's a lot of silver keys being developed in a sense And so I think that might same thing might be true about transformative technology There might be a lot of silver keys being produced, which is great because we're learning we're figuring things out There's different markets for different things and I just I do feel there is some sort of a gold standard for Transformers technology fork for edging people closer towards coherence that has yet to be I guess Manifested and scale to a billion people, but it could be you guys It could be the some of the other people that we've talked to it could be how you guys share information and share Communities that they get there. It's all that's that's just a repeating pattern that I guess I'm seeing and that it's it's interesting It's interesting to me because it goes across these different nodal networks of impact across Sciences or yeah fields. I love that Boris and I were talking about that on the walk here It's essentially it doesn't matter what the the how is it just matters that we set our our vision really and Have faith that it's gonna happen and the technologies like you said with the silver keys will appear Yeah, and yeah, we'll be able to solve this. Yeah, Boris. You wanted to say anything? Yeah, I mean one thing that I just wanted to riff off of what you were sharing is like What are we doing here as humanity, right? Because you're talking about this golden key right this golden thread that ties everything together We're all trying to solve problems, but what is that core that is like? What's that well spring from which all the problems are sprouting and we're like, okay I'm gonna get this one and this one and this one and you get that one But what is that and so, you know, this is kind of how we also in this inception of this company We're thinking about this more as a movement like what is it that we actually need to change for? Humanity to be different right and so we started looking at what is the commonality of the core commonality is that we all want to Be happy we were all seeking a better feeling, right? Okay, so but what's happening day to day? We know exactly we actually heard this in the conference We know what to do science tells us all the time if you do this and this and this you will be better Yeah, we don't do this these things So what is it that's blocking us day to day that does not allowing us to feel the gratitude that we know We can't feel to meditate to go out for a walk in nature to to commune with them with our loved ones Right what's stopping us and so what do you think stopping us? Yeah, so this is this is it So like in public speak if we say something that is very easy for everyone to understand I would say that it's stress is essentially stress if we can go down levels and we can talk about it more as Really, it's a lack of self-awareness Like we're just not aware of what we're doing. What is it that's like what it like taking this action will create? What result we don't really know we think we do but then oh it turns out wrong and it's also the secondary part of it is lack of self-regulation like again, it's We have all of the tools to apply it right the emotion is happening inside of our body You're not making me feel any way. This is the fundamental reality. It's proven by science It's been taught, you know through the wisdom traditions Nobody's making you feel any kind of way the feelings are sprouting here based on your how you're reacting to your own Sensations now. What if we start to train and put attention on this area and we start to say wait a minute if I am the source of my happiness of my feelings of how I feel well then maybe this is An area to focus instead of focusing out there. What can I do to change out there? So I feel better What if I change something in here and I feel tremendous? What if I discover that wellspring within me and this is essentially, you know What we're building this technology around whether it's you know contactless by feedback or something else that comes along in the future Doesn't matter what matters is how do we? point attention to this area for for the greater Human collective so that we can start to really make some difference at the causal level instead of at the level of all The different effects that sprout from here. Yeah You point to something that I found really interesting You said that if you could make an easy word to describe it would be stress What's holding us back from coherence and I like that. It's really simple and Self-aware the lack of self-awareness those those two things together Makes it makes a lot of sense and then So I just came back from my fourth ten day meditation treat Vipassana Yeah, yeah, and so you know when you realize that you are The sensation happens and then you react or you observe and then you kind of like you start Understanding that you are the source of how you feel and everything to the outside world and then When when you kind of start mastering that process What's nice is that then it makes it so that you can vibrate on a state of bliss No matter really what's going on around you and then Then if we can build the communities around the world that also helps so that the when a children's born They don't have to be born into stress They can be born into a community that helps the child get the the inward growth and flourishing so So yeah All right, so it seems like you know, we covered a decent amount of Conscious so you're gonna be using the front-facing camera on either a cell phone or computer and you're gonna be Having people play either group meditations or they're gonna be playing individual games or they're gonna be you're gonna be observing the browser Activities you're gonna be using blockchain technology is down the line We're gonna be building up this base through really strong marketing You're gonna have your own Value currency that keep can exchange. What are they gonna be able to use that for? Yeah, so this is again as you see what we're doing here is we're taking it step by step and experimenting Since we're both coming from the background of marketing like our mind always goes to like a B testing Market survey like what is actually going on? What do people actually want and how what are they using not using so one? very basic use case I would say is This app sweat coin right sweat coin. Have you heard of it? No, I don't think so It went up to number one in Europe and the States on the top three apps Okay, and what it is is it's a walking app now. We've had step counters for how many years now Oh my god, okay, right? There are more. Yeah, okay So why is this happening now what they've done and they're not a blockchain They're also experimenting and playing in this field, but they each time you walk They give you a portion of a sweat coin, which is like a cryptocurrency, but it's not it's not a true cryptocurrency It's just an in-game, you know, it's just like in any other game and what you do with the sweat coins And so what you can do is they have their partner offers. So for example, you can Perhaps if Muse is on there, you can say, okay Maybe a month subscription of Muse you can get for free. So or you know, they have other other different Since their focus is like a solid chain and you can exactly you see different like health foods You see different athletic gear different things like this that are relevant to that So you're basically trading steps for the other value in the world. Yeah, so that's pretty cool Okay, so then would you be similar to that so we could explore we can start exploring a similar model So we have partners for example that hosts retreats So offering at least partial scholarship to the retreats as you're meditating right things that are relevant to people and also Connecting with yoga studios connecting with so this is kind of looking at a mutual network The mutually beneficial network that can support both, you know, the client and our partners and And ourselves to be able to offer something really cool What's it called? What's your coin called conscious OS? What's the coin called? I think in the beginning and we can just call it conscious coin. We had it It's quite cool. Yeah, we had it as wisdom coin in the in the beginning. I like that That's cool. Is there something else about conscious that we should know as we Finish up our conversation This is where I like to close my eyes and just meditate on Something you should know about conscious You're gonna start to see it everywhere Is I think you're gonna start to see it everywhere and it's gonna be beautiful and it's gonna be so beautiful that you're gonna Want to try it for sure. So I think just be on the liquor you can check out conscious OS calm Yeah links in the bio. Yeah, yeah, check them out. Nice. I do see that I do see that I see a very bright future of a more aware less stressed communities. Yeah, I love it flourishing It's a beautiful place Transforming technology conference beautiful people like yourselves. Thank you for what you're working on. So bless. Thank you so much And this has been a this has been a lot of fun. I really appreciate you guys. Thanks for worse Mike. Thank you Thank you both. Thank you. Yeah All right, thanks everyone for tuning in we greatly appreciate it give us your thoughts in the comments below Let us know what you're thinking about what this technology could look like what we could do by decreasing stress around the world and increasing self-awareness and Go and create go and build the future go manifest your dreams into the world much love everyone You


so much for keeping it a circuit I want to give a very big shout out to admire apparel for my angelic look you know I look like an angel I've been told like two times today and remember you can follow us on our social media pages Facebook Instagram and Twitter at a circuit like comment and we'll be sampling your comments as the show goes on so today the next artist I'm about to introduce has been through quite a lot and he'll be telling us why Karibu Big Ken Yo yo yo what up Fittisana Thank you for the I feel Fittisana So What's your name? Majina Akiusani I'm Majina Okay I'm Majina Kenneth Maora Majina Akiusani I've been through a lot so to tell you a story that led you to come into music Ha ha ha When I show you my story I feel like I'm throwing my hands off because I've been through a lot of things but all in all God I'm faithful. Okay, first of all, first of all, I'm born again. I was in the place of the end occurs. I was in the place of the end occurs. I was in the place of the end occurs. I was grazed and I was in the place of the end occurs.  Okay, so, Kim Ziki. Kim Ziki, I learned from... I learned from 2016. And she was leading the music and especially gospel. I'm a leader. As in life, I'm a business designer. I have two points. I have A, I have a plan B, I have a story. I pay to church.  You can dress, you can dress, and all that. I'm a marketer. So wait. I think I understand. You say you're going to turn to Christ. You end up in gospel music. Okay. I think when I get wrong, you're going to turn to Christ. You're going to turn to Christ. You're going to turn to me, you're going to turn to Christ. I think in my life, I'm going to live. I'm going to turn back. It's going to be the end of me. I'm going to live. I'm going to see my addiction. I'm going to live. I'm going to live. I don't care. I'm going to live. I'll be able to come away. I'll be able to live with my wife.  To an extent, I'm going to be able to live with my wife. Outside the country. Outside the country. So, As in, is all life experiences out here? This is when I find I come, I catch in. Actually, I'm not selling come, I preach here. I'm the one who, I'm the one who passes, I come show. Eh, manzeh. Me, manzeh, I'm better. Me not a co-co, me not a co-jo God, no no. Cause, I guess, I get fed up, no yo. No yo life in here, the other world.    Why is that?  Yes, manzeh, I feel, you know. Oh, great. Long story short. It led you to being. You are actually, what was that message me. In your opinion. What makes a good artist? OK. In my opinion, what makes a good artist? Me, depends on what is driving. Let me talk about the gospel sector, because I'm in the gospel sector, so no. There are some people who are good at rapping, singing, and famous. There are some people who are good, because there is inspiration and push. There are some people who are good at pushing, there are some people who are good at sending messages. Because music is not all about recording, especially gospel music. I talk about Jesus where else I don't have that Jesus that I'm talking about in my heart. So, I believe that gospel music is more about your work with Christ. So for me, I say that I have my own music, my own experience, and I try to be God and minister through me, especially in my youth. I hear that I'm cool, I'm dope, I'm a wiser, and I'm not going to be a good person. So that was the motivation behind your work with Christ. That's what I motivate as a doctor. I hear that I'm not going to be a good person. I say that I'm not going to be a good person because I'm not a good person. I'm going to be a good person because I'm not going to be a good person. And I'm saying, for real, I'm not going to be a good person. Personally, I don't want to be a good person because I'm not a good person. I'm not going to be a good person because I'm not going to be a good person. I expect people to say that life is boring at the moment. So, life is boring. I'm the one who's good. I also try to go through life. Not to recouping you guys, because what I say is that I'm not good. You know they go out. That is the way of having fun because kids are mostly going out and having fun in that kind of way. What we're going to do is we want to have fun. Okay. We want to have fun. Okay. We want to represent. We want to have fun. I said, okay, in terms of people who go out, I'm going to send them to school. I'm going to treat them. I'm going to take them to school. As in, okay, see, I believe. See, I just said you're not going to end up out. I'm not going to tell you what you're going to do. See, I just said you're not going to end up out but I'm going to thank God because me So let's talk about your music. What was the motivation behind your song? The title of the track, Sinner Stress. I was trying to figure things out on my own ability. I was trying to figure out things on my own ability. I was trying to figure out things on my own ability. I was trying to figure things out on my own ability. stress, I guess if I knew anything you work, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? But to give you stress because it's your point, will you change anything? No, no, no. So the main reason I live here is because of my stress. It's because of the stress. It's because of the stress. To make it obvious that you have stress. It's because of the stress. I'm not going to get stressed out because of stress. You have the power of the tongue. Even if you talk to God and say, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to get distracted. I'm not going to be stressed out. This is the situation. This is where I stay. Because of the power of my tongue. So the main reason I live here is because of stress. I live here because I don't have stress. I knew I may receive you. trucking me positive feedback. because I dropped like three weeks ago. I like to sing along. I say to the bomb. I have a feeling I'm poor because I guess I couldn't So I want to ask you, are you signed to any label and if not, are you planning to get to any label? Currently, I'm not signed to any label. I'm a freelance. But it's said that I have plans to sign to any label. Why? Because I'm independent. But I want to plan to God. I want God to know that God has a plan. So I want to hold up and say that I have a label. I don't have the opportunity to get to any label. As long as there are two boys who have a talent, and they're willing to work for more people, they can draw. Of course, I want to get to any label. So, you have a chance to collaborate with God. You have an industrial gospel. You have an industrial gospel. You have a chance to collaborate with God.  Yes, sure. So, I have a chance to collaborate with God. I collaborate with Mr. T. Mr. T is a Bamba cause. I'm a spiritual crown. I want to be a gospel artist. I never mentioned. I want to be a pitcha. I want to be a pitcha. I want to be a gospel artist. I want to be a gospel artist. But I don't have the opportunity to collaborate. So I want to be Mr. T. I want to be a pastor. I want to be a pastor. I want to be Mr. T. I have a chance to collaborate with God. You can't do it by yourself. I am not doing it by myself. I am not doing it by myself. Ah, ok. So, I want to ask you, and also Mr. T Mr. T Mr. T He is actually a bit. Can you please go on social media? Facebook, Instagram, Youtube. On all platforms, I can go via Big Ken.  Youtube Big Ken.


All right, let's play this here a Couple of presentation thoughts that I have here. There's no sounds. I'm gonna play this again, but there's a longer slower walk there and You chose to do a walk cycle kind of a generic walk cycle and do the second one using the same poses But trying to achieve a heavier feel by just adjusting timing spacing overlap Without doing massive changes in the poses. All right Let's go back here. First of all, I would change the camera so that we are not losing the characters so much at the bottom and Then the top for the other character just kind of reframe things and I mean you could also show a you know a front view and then a side view Just to make it clear kind of look at things and you can always do you know a front side and then Three-quarter if you want But I mean it is also going from A to B now that it's not a treadmill But just just that's a general thing for presentation apart from that They would love to see a bit more on the hips because what I'm feeling right now is that the top part feels a bit stiff. I Don't think I'm seeing a lot of hip Involvement as on like on the passing pose all the weight is on this leg So the hip will go down. Don't forget why rotation on the hip as well You probably move the chest and why just a bit more. It just feels a bit timid on the upper section and I feel like you can On the passing I feel like there's a the legs just feel mostly bent And I think we can just go a bit more on a straight on that on that plant It's not always like this and there's a bit of early movement here and lifting on the toes on that peel But I don't see any you know crazy pops or bumps at least that that feels pretty solid I would sell on something like this. I would love to see like a straight, you know front and side This means nothing. I know why I do this This is the head and these are these are my legs. This is my drawing skills Yeah, it just seems like there's it just seems a bit timid it's overall Up a part and even how the legs how the legs are always bent. I would also reduce the The drag on the wrists.  It's the character just I mean you're mentioning here heavier feel but I would still probably go into Boom like a bigger impact on the chest and on the head I'm probably not super extend those arms and keep those a bit more on the bent overall overall somewhat bent and Still the same idea of extending those legs a bit more on that step You also have to think about in terms of well if I do this is this kind of the scale reference meaning that This is the character and this is a giant next to it or are they the same size? You know, I mean you also have to look at that if this is a giant it could be you And a much more impact and potentially just overall more of a curved Light of action in the upper body is half, you know, it's almost like I have more questions than critique Also watch out you're gonna have to have some smoothing out like as the knee comes up kind of pops into a Stop and it's same thing here as this comes down That stop and going forward. There's some smoothing out there that you could but seeing this up close now I really don't see much involvement in the hips.  I'll go a bit further Involvement in this a bit loosening up of the upper area here same thing on this.  This just seems a bit a bit stiff That makes sense But I do want to ask you in terms of you know Is this one character the other character just as a giant and this is the scale relationship? Or is that the same thing and you I don't know I don't what like what your presentation idea is and what your thoughts are on that if you want to do that Maybe you want to both at the same time That's kind of that's kind of my question there. So let me know in the email Maybe you know as we discuss this you update can reflect that You can always submit it like this, but then still have a front and side Just for more a proper look at it. All right. I'll leave it at that. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


In my last video, I was asked if gouache can be painted on cardstock, so I decided I would try some cardstock This is Nina 80 pound the desert storm color and it seems to have worked pretty well I didn't have any problems with warping But then again, I'm just painting the bouquet didn't paint a background because I didn't want to saturate the paper and Risk getting it all warbly, but I painted the dark colors first I didn't want to have red flowers, but I wanted the red for the base underneath of the pink said I'm gonna paint on top of it the green stems I painted right through the strings and then painted the red on top of it I figured the red was strong enough could handle being on top of the green color and then started building up the lights with Wash you go in the reverse of what you may normally think of watercolor or markers and things you Put your lights on top at the end It's a very strange thinking process if you're used to the kinds of mediums that I am But it worked really well It's gonna be a great Valentine card to send to my own mom So I'm putting a heart on the little tag I'll put links to the supplies in the doobly-doo as well as a link to the auction that's still going on till Sunday


The CRT, or Combat Repair Team, at Fowl-Balton in southern Afghanistan, plays a vital role in the ongoing operations. Part of the CRT's mission is fixing one thing that could save your life. Your weapon. I like to think we have one of the most important jobs, just because your weapon is your safety at all times and it's your protector. Your weapon goes down, that's bad, that's bad news. But the good news is Specialist Landrum is an ace when it comes to fixing weapons. But he doesn't just stop there. When he's not maintaining weapons, he lends a helping hand in other areas of the CRT's mission. If possible, and I had time to work on the vehicles, I, well, I was trying to learn new things. It's a lot of work, but you know, it gotta get done somehow. Reporting from Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, I'm Army Sergeant Carl Greenwell.


What's up? How are you guys today? I don't know if I'd rather be outside Getting absolutely cooked by the Sun because it's like beautiful sunny day 95 degrees or in this warehouse losing my mind and Evidently by this video you guys know which one I'm doing so if you've kept up with the Frankie's free range meet vlogs You'll know some type of ridiculous nonsense happens every week whether you know something breaks in here or someone's harassing me There's always something the most recent one last week Landlord terminated my lease called up the fire department to try to get me a violation And I was very irritated the day after that. I filed a lawsuit Immediately had him serve the papers. So now I'm in my I don't know what is it third or fourth lawsuit now? And this one is with my landlord so More legal nonsense. He was actually trying to drag it out saying like oh the papers weren't served It's just it's just I don't know what to say guys I'm trying to stay positive and if you guys are unfamiliar with the scenario basically Neighbor next door is complaining about the smell. I don't know why the landlord Leased a carpet rug company next to a meat company. That doesn't make any sense Especially knowing the HVAC systems and the building are connected and the landlord doesn't want to spend 15 20,000 Whatever it is to get proper ventilation in here. So That's where we're at now. He wants to kick me out You know, I mean I can't afford to relocate you guys are saying I should leave New York Hundreds of thousands of dollars my employees you hear it's it's just an unrealistic thing to happen It cannot leave or relocate at this stage in the business. So, yeah I guess you guys can understand why my mind is on a beach with some Latinas instead of being here But for now we are here and the only thing that is kind of irritating me guys is the meat suppliers and Distributors and I've been having a hard time getting stuff I was supposed to have beef liver and marabones back in stock last week But now it's not coming for another two weeks and and that's been the real Crutch of my business. It's you know one step forward two steps back. I'm coming out with new products every week I'm trying to make everyone happy keep everyone satisfied and excited and I can't get the basics in so now You know my sales have been down literally like 20 30 percent for the past few months Which is just you know, how am I supposed to grow the business and eventually get out of this space and be in a better position You know to provide people with higher quality products when I'm just Frustrated and and I think I've said this months ago the problems aren't getting solved You know if you're in a business and the same problems keep coming up and up and up And you don't have a solution for them. I think that's one of the worst things that can happen We do have the beef belly back in stock this week. That is the positive news So we're gonna have the beef bacon nice thinly sliced very popular product You guys purchased all of the Iberico pork bacon, which we will be out of probably for a few more weeks So just ran out of the pork bacon. I think we'll have some more bacon but the beef bacon which you guys like more is gonna be in stock with the reduced order volume my guys finished basically everything before lunch we got the Frankie syringe foods Wi-Fi shielding organ supplements orders all of those on the pallet for the post office a lot of you guys have Been asking about the water key for grains. We do have them back in stock now with larger sizes This is a 16 ounce jar. You can have plenty of these for probiotic health for the week You know eat them with the spoon in glass 16 ounces Much cheaper to Frankie syringe foods calm for the grains guys We ran out of the jerky last week But we have both in stock guys the flavored and the plain jerky if you're trying to order that Same thing with the pemmican and chocolate best bars guys those are back in stock So if you're trying to get anything on Frankie syringe foods for the most part We have it as I said the other week the college and broth and the chicken stock are now available on the meat website So let's hop in the freezer and just take a look at a few things. I showed you guys this last week We have the pork strip steaks available now as well as the pork rib steaks You know previously we were selling these by like the whole rack So this is much more affordable nicer portion each of them are about six ounces And we also have some lamb stew meat back in stock So you guys want one pound lamb stew meat portions and some of you guys might not know almost all of our meat is halal Obviously the pork is not halal, but all the beef and all the lamb is halal now We did run out of a lot of stuff this week guys. We're gonna have the caviar back in stock soon The beef liver and the marrow bones. Hopefully I can get them in about two weeks beef tendons I don't know but we do have the college and broth So I'm really trying my best guys to try to keep everything in stock, but You know the past few months the first part of this year was pretty good, you know We kind of had everything we needed now. I'm going back to the same suppliers. They're telling me they can't get the stuff So, you know, what am I supposed to do? I was able to send the Spice blends over to the butcher for the hot dogs the Italian sausage So I made these custom organic spice blends and hopefully we can have those products in in a few weeks and that would be a nice little boost in sales in addition to the eggs, but I'm trying to get a hold of these Amish people. It's not too easy as you guys know They do not have phones. We ran out of most of the cheeses this week But I will have them back in stock for you guys and the roast beef is freshly sliced So guys, please place an order today. You'll get the fresh roast beef Within two to three days. So about half the week. I actually have the roast beef myself for lunch and dinner and The other part of the week. I'll just have some steaks But it's really really nice and convenient because I don't have to cook We have been doing the liquidation on organ supplements for the freeze-dried beef powders You guys have been buying a lot of those on Frankie's naturals we have the natural bug spray available and the moisturizing cream which can actually be used as a tanning cream a sunblock very very very multi-purpose on Wi-Fi shielding there should be a lot of new things coming in soon Stuff to like shield around the house Some grounding equipment Hopefully we can get the bed canopies back in stock and the t-shirts and underwear as soon as all this fabric and stuff comes in So hopefully within one or two months we can have all that stuff restock. I remember I was sticking it out till Last spring well now we're kind of at the end of spring to see if I would get any grants or loans For my own operation and that that didn't happen guys that didn't happen and then my landlord's trying to kick me out So I'm I'm dreaming of South Beach Miami right now. Just I've had enough guys. I've had enough You know, maybe I'll address this in a separate video But I'm assuming they're just like gaslighting shills lying to me to try to get me frustrated one thing that was being said was That you shouldn't talk bad about the landlord because you won't be able to rent a new place Those people are saying that because they don't want me to expose how poorly I've been treated by this management company so I'm being very polite and Respectful considering what this management company has done to me at this point. I should be naming them Going into specific details that the thought because you know if a future person is about to buy a property from them They'll know what they're gonna do You know try to kick you out terminate your lease and call the fire department doing really sketchy shady stuff So those shills don't want me to say that because they're all in the club together And the second thing they've been saying is oh Frank you should move out of New York. You've got to leave New York guys the amount of equipment in this building and everything together is probably at least 150,000 and To get a lease on a space the deposit the insurance all that stuff is about 50,000 upfront so, you know, we're talking a few hundred thousand dollars just to relocate and That doesn't include my employees. I'm my employees going to be able to get to the new location I can't really I'm in training new staff and teaching everything would be ridiculous. So Those aren't really feasible options. I think the best case scenario is Try to make some decent profit in this space for another year or two or three And then maybe find another butcher shop or slaughterhouse for sale and then combine the businesses and relocate But I honestly really hope I don't last that long and I hope I end up Somewhere with a lot of Spanish girls before I completely lose my fucking mind Because I literally can't I can't I like can't function anymore guys I really can't the stress of the business and doing the YouTube videos every day and all that stuff. I just I'm going crazy But if you guys do want to support me, you can go to frank desk to follow calm to Check out all of my businesses guys. We have the meat company the foods Oregon supplements Frankie's naturals wipe by shielding very very interesting products If you guys haven't seen the websites and check them out But hey, hopefully hopefully the next few weeks are a little better. We can get some stuff back in stock and See how things go as usual if you guys can please drop a like on the video and leave a comment down below Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification But also they don't notify you of my videos Thanks again for joining guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow


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