Okay. Welcome back. We were looking at questioning skills and we had looked at productive and unproductive questions. We looked at what are certain characteristics of good questioning. Okay. I'd like to do a quick role play. All right. And this is so we're basically going to focus on asking questions. Okay. But that does not mean you don't use the other skills that you've learned up until now. The skills of attending, responding, reflecting. It's good that you use those skills, but focus a little bit more on how you can not just get information, but also come to a place of helping your counselling know certain thoughts or feelings that they have at this. Okay. So the idea, the idea is not to solve their problem. Okay. This is just we are very, very, we just want to know how we can help, how we can improve our questions. Okay. So would somebody like to, somebody like to, I need a, I need a Mary who's a 19 year old student who's worried because she's not getting on with other students in her class and I want a counsellor as well. I will be Mary. Okay. She's quickly taken on the role. Okay. So Jeffina is Mary. I need a counsellor. Okay. This is, this is only for learning. All right. So don't get scared and say, okay, I'm not going to, it's perfectly okay. You're not expected to be the best counsellor. That's not the idea. The idea is just for us to learn. Okay. So who'd like to be the counsellor here? This is the first time you're meeting with Mary.  Who'd like to, you can keep Jeffina as Jeffina. You don't have to call her Mary. Yeah. Somebody, Anita, Adana, Divya, someone, someone's raised the hand. Who's raised the hand? Divya? Okay. Go ahead, Divya. Yes. Go ahead. So it's just a simple talk, right? Just then exploring more on the problem she's facing. Yeah. You could, you could also, you could also help in reflecting and responding to her feelings. All right. It's just not a, it's just not information. But think of her as coming to you share something. All right. And the kind of questions you would ask to really elicit what she's going through. Okay. Sure. Yeah. So, so Jeffina will be here. When you're thinking about the situation, think, think a little bit more, you know, not realistically, but, but something that you can, you know, you can also build on so that, you know, if we need to ask you deeper questions, you'll probably be able to build on that as well. Okay. All right. So maybe something that you can think about somebody you didn't get along with when you were a kid or something and what you felt. So being more in the role will actually help in the situation. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. All right. Go ahead, Divya. Okay. Hi, Justina. Good to see you. How are you doing? Oh, hi, Divya. I think I'm doing good. I'm good to see you too. Uh-huh. Glad you're here. I would like to know what brought you here today. Uh, today? No, I just felt like I need to speak with someone. So I came here. Okay. That's great. Thank you for coming. And I would love to really know you and listen to how I can help you. Is there something that's bothering you? Um, I think you can help me. That's why I'm here, by the way. But yeah, there's a lot of things that bother me. A lot of stuff's going on in my mind. I don't know where to start. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Is it something to do with your family or is it something that's happening in your, in your college or school? What, what does, what does it really know? Maybe not family. I don't spend much time with them.  School. I think maybe at school or something. I don't know. Oh, okay. Since you mentioned school, uh, what course are you doing? Oh, that's cool. I'm in 12th grade. This is my last year at school. Oh, okay. Uh, what, uh, sorry, what was the course that you were doing? I'm doing computer science in 12th grade. This is my final year at school. I'll be moving to college next year. Wow, that's great. That's a very interesting subject. So how do you like computer science? Computer science? Uh, I was forced by my parents to be here. So I'm just trying to memorize the coding. Just, just that. Oh, okay. Okay. So, um, is there something that you like about the course that you're doing? Is there something that you, uh, makes you excited to go to the school? Something that? No, there is absolutely nothing that makes me excited. All my friends are at commerce and I'm here at computer science. Uh, and yeah, I don't feel like it's, it's my subject or, I wish I was in commerce sitting with my friends. Oh, that must be so hard. Oh, I'm so sorry about that. Even I had the same experience when I was doing, you know, my 11th and 12th. I completely understand how hard it must be. So you mean to say you don't have any friends in your school right now? It makes me feel better that you understand, like how I'm feeling because when I go and tell my parents how I'm feeling, they just tell me to study but school is not just about studying. I need friends. I need to talk with someone, but they just don't understand and I don't like going to school anymore. I wish I could skip the school 12th and just fly to college. Yeah. Got it. Got it. Uh, so, uh, whenever you come back from school, are you a day scholar? Yeah, I'm a day scholar. Oh, so you get to spend, you know, this eight hours, probably eight hours in a day in school, right? Yeah, but I don't do anything other than reading or studying or just looking around. I don't know anyone to speak with. Oh, that must be really bothering. So what do you think about even like, anyone that you spend time in the school like any, like even a teacher or anyone who seems friendly to you in the school? Oh, actually, no, but I have one of my friend, as I told, she's doing commerce. So whenever I have a break, I try to go and meet her, but still she has her own works and everything. I wish I had some friends in my class. I wish I could speak with them, but something is stopping me from speaking. Something is not right. Okay, I hear you. So do you mean to say that you're not able to relate to them due to something? I think so, maybe. What makes you think so? I feel they are different. They don't understand me when I go and speak, maybe. Okay. In what ways are they different? I'm not very sure about it, but I feel they are just, they just don't get me when, even my jokes don't get them. Oh, okay. So do you recollect any incident where you talk with your friend and they just had, you know, you experienced a negative feeling? Do you recollect any incidents? Yeah, so I was, when I went to school, I know my friend is not there, so I thought I'll make new friends. So I went, I approached them. But yeah, I just told them, Jeffy, now I didn't like how they looked. And I was just telling them about what I do, how I came into computer science. I felt like nothing makes them happy when I speak with them. I feel like they're not, they just don't like me. That's what I feel. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Is it done? I don't know where to end this. I can talk, but I might take a lot of time. Thank you, Jeffy, now for responding. Thank you. Thank you so much. That was a good job, Divya. I think you did such an excellent job. You did exceptionally well. That was wonderful. Okay. Yeah. So I think, Jeffy, now maybe I'd like you to respond as to what did you, how did her questions help you? I mean, she did a great job in responding and reflecting to your feeling. How did her questions help you? I felt like all her questions were similar to my responses. From my response, she's making a question. So I felt like we are not going out of the topic. So I felt like as she asked more questions, I was able to express more, express more of the things, not just what I, it was not the same thing being repeated, but I'm getting into friendships, family, and so many other things. I felt like I was able to express a lot. And I also liked when she said about her past experience, like I understand you, even that was helping me like, oh, find me someone understands and asking me questions. So if someone is understanding and they're asking questions, it makes me like, okay, I can share, I can tell this, I can tell anything. So I felt like that. Okay. That was good. So you've done, you did a great job, Divya. Yeah. So if you looked at, because this is, remember that this is, this is an initial meet, but let's say you're going on to something that's more deeper. Okay. And maybe that's, Jeffine, if you don't mind it, we can't play together because Jeffine and I in the same room, it's going to echo really badly. Would someone else be merry for just, just for me to probably help to help you understand how some questions you can actually ask to get them deeper to understand where they're at? So anybody else would just like to role play merry because Jeffine and I in the same room, if both of us are going to unmute, it's going to cause a lot of chaos over here. So somebody else, Divya, if you could be merry. Okay. I'm very bad at making stupidies. Or if you would want, you could, you'd like to, you'd want to bring up something that's more realistic for you. That's fine. Also, we don't have to take up this, the same thing. It was just as an example. So something you'd want, something very small, that you'd like to maybe talk about, doesn't have to be very personal. Something small. Would you like to do that? Sure. Sure. Okay. All right. Okay. So yeah. So hi, Divya.  How are you keeping? Hi. Yes, I'm keeping well. Yeah. Good. Good. I'm sure it took you a lot of courage to come here today and really share what you have in mind. Is that so? Yeah. I'm glad that I'm here and I can share some things. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm also really glad and really appreciate that you've come in here today.  You've had something in mind. I really want to know what were you hoping to get from your and my conversation. Yeah. Thank you for asking that. Basically, I'm going through a lot of stress right now. So I thought it'll be good if I can share and get good, you know, guidance through that. Yeah. It's more than I can handle. So I do see that being in the situation you are in where you're feeling stressed is not something you'd like to be. You want to be in another state of mind. Is that right, Divya? Yeah. I don't prefer to be so pressurized from every side. Yeah. I would love to be having some, you know, peace of mind and some for myself. So, so instead of feeling stressed, I hear that you said you want to have peace of mind, right? Right. Yeah. So if I were to ask you when you say you'd want peace of mind, I have two questions. You could answer them one at a time.  Yeah. If I think about that, yeah, I would say that some time for myself will be something that I'm really looking forward to and also quite a time with the family. It seems like I'm not getting enough of that. So if at least I get a portion of the day, for myself as well as a quality time with the family, I would feel that I'm having quite good peace of mind in my life. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for answering that. I think you've been able to really help me understand that you're feeling stressed for the fact that you don't have enough time for yourself and as well as for your family. So for you, a peace of mind would really look like getting some alone time for yourself and some quality time for your family, right? That's right. Yeah. So if you were to get that, if you were able to find quality time for yourself doing something that you like and also spending time with your family, how would that look like? What would it look like? How would you know that you've reached a state of peace of mind? What would be the evidence that you've reached that state? I think I would be much more joyful. I wouldn't be anxious like this. I would not burst out my anger towards the family, to the kids. Yeah. I think it would create a better atmosphere at home. Okay. All right. So you feel that you can, you would notice you're being joyful. You would notice that the atmosphere at home would be much more at peace. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Okay. So would you help me understand when you said joyful? Would you like to elaborate and tell me what would you be feeling? What would you be thinking? What would you be doing when you're joyful? How would it look like in totality? Be joyful? Oh, that means I'll be very energetic. I'll have the, you know, all my strength to be the roles I need to be taking on, like as a mother and as, if at all, like an employee or in all my roles, I would be very energetic. I'll be passionate about the day. That's what I think if I'm joyful. That's how I would be. Yeah. Okay. So I hear you saying that there are many roles you are playing right now, the role of a mother, a wife, an employee, and all of this kind of feels stressful. You would know that you are joyful when you're able to easily assume these roles, play these roles without much of difficulty. Is that right? That's right. Okay. So if, so among these roles that you spoke to me about, a mother, a wife, an employee, which is the role that you feel you're best at? The fact of the matter is I strive to be good at all of the roles that I try to do. But I would, I would love me to be a better mother. Yeah. Okay. So I see off the, sorry, sorry to be up once again. Maybe a better mother, a better wife, because I think those are much, you know, I need to give more priority.  That's right. All right. Okay. So what would your husband or your children notice if you gave it your best shot? Well, how would they know that you're fulfilling your role because they are the recipients to this role you're playing?  I don't think they have any expectations on me, but how I perceive it is if there is a lot of energy and joy and peace and, you know, everyone in good, you know, good with each other. I believe that is a, you know, I think that the family circles around the mother mostly, so yeah, when you're upset, the whole family is upset. So if I would love myself to, you know, to be taken care in a way that I can take care of in my roles. So you're saying that one, you mentioned that your family may not have many expectations or they probably don't think you're doing a bad job. They think that you're doing okay. It's your perception about how you're playing these roles. So you feel that if you can take care of yourself, then you are in a better position to take care of your family or your children or your husband, right? That's right. Okay, so when you say you want to take care of yourself, what would be some steps that you would see, you would be making in order to feel that you are doing that? What would be maybe let's say the first one or two steps you would take to show yourself that you are actually taking care of yourself? Maybe exercise. Okay. Another is I wish to, you know, I have a collection of books, but never get to finish any. So maybe reading is something I would love to do. Okay. Yeah, so yeah. Okay, wonderful. So I'm going to ask you a very different question here. Okay, so let's look at the scale between one to 10, one being that you aren't taking care of yourself too much and 10 being that, you know, you are adequately and satisfactorily taking care of yourself. Where would you place yourself on the scale? Maybe four. Okay. Why did you put yourself on the four? Help me understand why four? Basically, I'm looking at the time that is, you know, invest in a day for this. So if that's the case, then maybe a four. So what I understand is you are satisfied with the time that you put in and that's why you've placed yourself at four? Oh, you mean to say the lower rating was for? Yeah, one is where you're least taking care of yourself. 10 is where you're most taking care of yourself. Where would you place yourself? Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's what, yeah, I said a four. Yeah. Okay, so what is positively happening in four right now? But you've placed yourself at four, not at one shows that helps me see that you are doing some things right. So tell me what's going right at four. I feel like at least I have a wish to do exercise. Wonderful. Good. All right. So that there's a desire that you want to do an exercise, you want to take care of your physical health, right? Right. Okay, excellent. Now, if you needed to move to five, you're at four. If you needed to move at five, what would you see different? If you were to move up, but just one point now, what would you see different? Yeah, actually doing it. Like, yeah, planning and sticking on to the plan. Okay. So what does your plan look like right now when you're saying planning it and doing it? What is the plan that you have in your mind? Yeah, basically to do it consistently, not to just do it and maybe one or two days and then stop it, but just consistently. Okay, great. So you said being consistent at exercise, doing it at a regular interval rather than stopping, right? That's right. Okay. Is there anything else that will help you see that you're at five? Maybe investing much more on kids, academics as well as the activities. So what would that small step ahead show you that you are actually being interested in your kids' activities? What's the smallest step that you may need to take or change to show you that you are being interested in your children's school and activities? I think the smallest step would be at least talk about what's going on with them during a day, because most of the time, it will be how with your dance, it will be just a good. So to explore more on that, it's kind of challenging in the busy schedule. So yeah, I would love to see them opening up a little more than I'm able to be able to relate to them in a way that they share a few more things. Okay. So I see here that you have a very strong desire to connect with your children apart from the pleasantries. You really want to bond with them, so if you needed to take, if you needed to bond or if you needed to connect with them, what would be something that you would start doing tomorrow? I think spending more time with them in terms of playing with them or doing activities with them. Yeah, but not very consistent. Okay, all right. Now, if you were to reach these two things that you said, one is consistently exercising and spending some time bonding with your children every day and maybe talking to them, discussing some things with them, how would you begin to feel? Oh, that would make me so happy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. So, sorry, Sivya, once again. So much relieved. So relieved. So, is that some kind of a joyful state that you're looking at? I think I feel more of a sense of security if I can bond with my kids. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. So, you will find security when you bond with your kids. Okay. So that's something that you're hoping that you can invest in as time goes by being just able to bond and thus finding a security. What does the security in your children's life mean to you, Sivya? I think mostly to know and understand their struggles, what they are facing each day and if at all, you know, I can handhold them anywhere as well as maybe pray for them and even involve other people to, you know, in their lives to guide them as well. So, yeah, I would like to expand in those ways. Yeah. So that kids have exposure to, you know, different things and I can also be a contribution there. Okay. So, you are looking deeply connected with them in their areas of their lives, connecting them with other people, knowing what is really heartfelt for them so that you can handhold, you can pray for them. These are things that would make you feel secure in this relationship with your children, right? What would your children see as different? Sivya, once you, if you were to do this, what would your children see as different? I don't know. Maybe. What do you think? What do you think? I think they'll be more open to talking and because they know that I really care so there'll be, there'll be more open to discussing things in their life. Okay. Wonderful. So, Sivya, in the last five, ten minutes that we've spoken, I'm still part of the session so in the last five, ten minutes that we've spoken, what are you taking back that is useful for you to do to help yourself feel more joyful? Yeah, I could, you know, come to these two things like the exercise and the connecting more with the children, spending much time with them. Like I could, from the anxiety, the stress part, I could just, it got boiled down to these two things. So it was easier for me to, you know, pinpoint or this is the reason that I'm going through this. Yeah, so it was very helpful. Okay, great. So would you look for evidences and clues that you are doing something to get yourself to be more joyful in the next week before we chat the next session? Sure. Okay, good. Okay. So here's, now I'd like, so this was very, very specific to coming to a situation or a solution, right? We didn't go about a lot more into finding out what and all of that is specifically to the situation. So what, Divya, what did you notice? What did you experience through the questions? Divya? Yeah, sorry. Yeah, the questions helped me explore more on why am I feeling the way that I'm feeling and also to understand where actually the root causes of the issue that I'm facing. So when you asked me about, okay, you asked me about the roles, then you came to what, what is the different, what, how different it can be. So I was thinking more on what could be different in my day. So it was helpful for me to explore more and coming to a point where I can't understand, oh, this is what is making me so bothered. So really helpful to, it's like I got counseling. Okay, yeah. Thank you, sir. Any other comments about what you did find about the questions that helped Divya stay in, to get a certain structure or answer to what she was doing? Any other thoughts, any other comments? Okay, nobody. Right, so we'll just quickly move on because I have one or two more sections to complete. So remember when you're using questions, it's important to know, to understand that, you know, you don't question too much. It's important to be aware and cautious about over questioning. So sometimes asking too many questions can send a message to your councillor that the councillor is in control and may even set up a situation in which the councillor feels that the councillor has all the answers. Okay, so that's when you determine effective questioning techniques, it's important to consider the nature of your councillor and to help them move through that. Okay, so being careful that you're not over questioning, that you don't seem to be the one in control and not the one as if you have the answers, because finally they will say, okay, now you know all my problems, tell me what's the answer. Okay, so being careful not to come to a place of being questioning in such a way that you're looking at so many details and not really helping them to reflect and personalize the issue. Okay, sometimes councillors can feel interrogated, right, when councillors ask a series of questions in a quick succession and I'll show you a video on that. Now it is important to that the councillor softens questioning if you see that, you know, maybe let's say a councillor wants to respond at something, okay, to ensure that they are able to reflect on each response. So that's something that you need to take care of. I'm going to show you all a video and this is one of the first videos that I had shown you all earlier, it's got a part of questioning in it. For those of you who have not seen the video, you can just share that, just give me a minute. Joanne, how are you? Okay, I've been a little bit better. I am still do you mean like a lot better or just a little bit better or huge amount better or just not really that much better or what do you mean better? Better, I'd say just better, better. I can't quite rate it, but maybe maybe a little bit better, like just a little bit or like a lot a little bit or a little little bit. Well, I would say a little little bit if I had to say between all those options, yeah, a little little bit if I had to choose. But in any case, I am doing better, which I think is good. So my boyfriend has been actually trying to make more time for the two of us together. This last week he had something planned with a friend and I mentioned to him that I needed some time with him and he then canceled his plans with that friend and we were able to have a nice dinner together. So did he cancel the plans right away or do you cancel the plans? Like did you have to talk to him about it a lot or was it really hard to to to get him to respond or how did you handle that or you know what did you did you tell him how good you felt after that? So to answer the first part of that, which I'm having trouble remembering now. Diane, how are you? Well, I'm doing better. I would say better this week.  It was really, really really nice. How did you feel after that experience with him? I felt so much more connected with him, especially with the fact that I voiced you know what I needed from him and he then responded and I'm not sure if he was really aware of that. So I felt just this whole weight lifted off of me. It was really great. How do you think he felt about him? I actually think he he showed that he valued what I what I had to say and I think he also felt really good about that time we spent connecting with each other. I think he thought it was a really positive thing. Did the two of you talk about it after? We definitely did talk about it a little bit. I think we're still kind of moving toward that place where we can be open with each other, but this was a really good first step in being open with our communication. Do you think there's anything you can do to encourage this to happen again in the future? I think so. I think if I you know next time I'm feeling this way I could definitely talk to him again and just let him know my needs and let him know I'm wanting to spend some time with you. Can you make some time in your schedule and we can have you know a nice activity or dinner together or watch a movie? So yeah. Okay. So the next thing that we'd like to look into and if you noticed in the video, the flawed part of it showed a different kind of question, right? There was a lot of what we call is closed questions and in the second one there was a lot more of open questions and that's what we'd like to look into. Okay. So closed questions and open questions. What are open questions? Open questions are those questions that generally cannot be answered in a few sentences, right? They are those that given that encourage the councillor to speak and it offers them a way to bring about a lot more of feelings, thoughts, instances, behaviours and this helps the councillor to gather not more information about the councillor as well as their concerns. So the best approach is to follow a response, is to give an open-ended question to the councillor. So as best as possible it is good to use open-ended questions. Okay. So especially when you're getting a response to follow it with an open-ended question, you know, you paraphrase it, you reflect the feeling and it encourages your councillor to share more and avoids this repetitive pattern of question-answer, question-answer. So it's good to bring about open questions following a certain response that they would have had. Okay. Now open questions generally begin with what, why, how or could. So there are some questions here. What has brought you here today? What, why do you think that? How did you come to consider this? Could you tell me what brings you here today? So these specific details, you know, comes after you have questions that focus on the how, the what, the where, the when, you know, it gives a lot more of details to that. So just certain examples of these open questions. The how question invites your councillor to talk about their feelings. Like for example, the example given here is how do you feel about the way your husband talks about separation all the time? It really helps you to see where they are at at their feelings. Okay. The what questions leads to facts. Okay. It brings about factual details. Example here is what happens when your son gets angry? So the response may be, you know, he gets very aggressive, he shouts, he throws things. So it emerges certain facts. The when that information is about timing or it gives you certain information about what happened before or after the event. So when did this happen? When do you wish to talk to him about your problem? Like for, for the VIF I would have gone on, I would have said that. So the when would you like to start exercising regularly? Or when would you like to begin your first, you know, sit up with your children? So I would, that would lead to that where you're actually getting them for an action plan. Okay. So that's when the when questions happen. The next is the where, where questions reveals the situation or place the event took place. So where does your child feel most comfortable, right? It reveals where is it that they are best or where do you think you'd like to be in your, in your feelings of joy? You know, where, what exactly does joy look like? Where would you like to be? Where is it that you will experience most joy? Okay. Why is it regards the reasons of the event? Like examples of why do you think your parents are unhappy with you? Why does this job make you feel special? So it, it goes into a lot more of intentions, a lot more of reasons, sources of the certain situation that they are actually talking about. We need to be careful about how we use the question why we use caution in using that question. Why? Because often what happens is they can provoke sometimes a defensive feeling in your counseling. And it could and encourages them to feel as though they need to justify their answers in some way. Okay. Like for example, the question here is why did you get angry with your husband? Right. It's when you generally ask that it's almost like a question that will put them at a defense. Or why haven't you been going to college? Rather, you could use something like you must have been angry with your husband, isn't it? So they say, yeah, I've been really angry and they may go on. Or what is it about college that you find challenging? So the way that you question with a why sometimes can, can make it feel very fault, fault finding. Okay. So taking caution when you're using that why question. Closed questions. Let's quickly look at those questions. It is it has its place. It's important. And it generally is used to focus on some very specific data or specific information. Right. And they're usually answered with a minimal response like a yes or a no or a not sure. So it can be very restrictive in its in its finding. But then it has its place. There are sometimes it has its place. And sometimes these questions are appropriate, especially when you're trying to clarify and understanding something. And these questions usually start with the is or do like for examples. Excuse me. Do you stay with your parents? Are you working? Are you feeling sad? So it's specific answers that are given. Okay. Now quickly just looking at the differences between the closed and the open questions. So open questions usually invite a counseling to view their feelings. And it is very, it is, it's a broad perspective that you get. Whereas in closed questions, it reflects a very small, narrow answer. And it's very specifically focused in open questions is a high scope for exploration that they're thinking deeper, they may find solutions. Whereas in closed question, there is very little for self discovery. Open question gives space to structure the client's answers. You're actually allowing them to structure it in a way they'd like to give you the details that they feel is necessary. Whereas closed questions are very factual, it can be very, very purposed. Open questions. When you give open questions, clients who are resistant can feel threatened with what kind, with what information to give. So it gives them the freedom to give as much as they would like to close questions for anxious clients may feel more uncomfortable. It's almost like it's a, you know, it's a, it's a format of question answer. The open question that the counseling is setting the agenda for the conversation. And you just follow through that. But whereas in closed questioning, it's the counselor that sets the agenda. In the open one, questions usually follow the lead of the counseling, and thus helps the counselor make the first, make the next response. But whereas in closed questions are constructed to lead, and sometimes to make a point. So the examples given here, you loved your father, didn't you? As against what do you miss about your father? You get a lot more of details just by getting into, into some of that. Okay. Just a last slide and then we're done. So you, these are certain examples that are there. Okay. Like for open questions is tell me about your feelings. Tell me about depression. How do you feel you're going to do the semester? Tell me about your family? How did they enter into your decision? As against when did you first notice you were getting depressed? Or do you think your grades will be lower or higher this semester? Do you feel your family is helping or hindering you with your decision? So if you see it, all of this, they're very focused at very small, it gives you a very small per view and not a wider one. Okay. All right. So this again, this skill is something that, that, that once again, you know, we need to keep doing to pick up. So in all of your communication with people, attempt to use questions that will enhance people to think rather than just finding factual information. And that's what you would do in an end counseling as well. Okay. All right. Thank you so much for your patience with my coughing and my cracking. But would somebody like to just close in a word of prayer, please? Let's pray. J. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for the beautiful classes that we had. God, we thank you for the people around us.  God, whatever we learn in this class today, I pray that you will help us to remember these things and to apply it in our lives so that we can be a blessing to others so that we can pick someone when they fall, so that we can comfort the people around us and lead them towards you, Jesus. Be with us and guide us. We are so thankful for the class. We are so thankful for everything that we learned. We give you all the glory and all the honor. I thank you for Pastor Jean and thank you for all my classmates. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Thank you, everybody. God bless. Have a good week. We'll meet you next week. Thank you. Pastor, are you there? Yes. Yes, Rosalind. Can you just give me a minute? I'm just recording.


Has anyone seen the show couples therapy? This is where couples go into like real life therapy sessions. It's hidden cameras, but I will tell you, it's pretty legit. Now it's always this way. She's pointing the finger at him and he's pointing the finger at her. It's his fault, it's her fault. It's his fault, it's her fault, okay? By the way, when you point a finger, there's always three fingers pointing back at you. So when you watch the show, you will witness women who are terrible at communicating their feelings on the show, I mean, habitually. And men actually tend to be more logical communicators and the therapist can track the man's because the woman's all over the map. She's telling the story.


Hello, I'm Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, and I want to thank all of you for being a part of Blue Star Welcome Week. I'm grateful to Blue Star Families for organizing this important event. The work they do is vital to ensuring our military families and veterans are embraced by their local communities and neighborhoods. After all, whether you are from a military family or a civilian family, being a part of a community is crucial to everyone's well-being. Like many of you here today, I come from a military family, a large one where I am one of seven. My father had an over 30-year career in the U.S. Navy. Growing up, I lived all across the United States, from Connecticut to Hawaii. I know firsthand that being in a military family can be extremely rewarding. You're part of something larger than yourself. You travel and learn different local and regional cultures, cuisines and dialects. You selflessly give to our nation and contribute to our national security. But I also know how difficult military family life can be at times. I know how tough it is to PCS every few years. Just as you feel you're getting settled, it's time to pack up again. Schools, jobs, neighborhoods and relationships are dislocated. That's why our military families and veterans benefit so much from supportive and understanding civilian neighbors. To our civilian partners and friends, thank you for joining us today and for all of your support. It enables our military families to thrive. The warm welcome that you offer, not just to our service members, but to our veterans, caregivers, survivors and their families, creates that real foundational community connection that says, you're home. And that is why Blue Star Welcome Week is so important. Each year, hundreds of thousands of military members and their families will PCS throughout the United States and become the newest members of communities all across the country. By raising awareness now, we can work to support not only the military families currently living in our communities, but priming our neighborhoods to ensure we are ready to welcome our military families when they arrive. And the benefits of this engagement go both ways. When a military family or veteran moves into your community, you are rewarded with new neighbors who are resilient, hardworking and service-minded. So thank you to Blue Star Families for helping us all come together to find solutions that strengthen all of us. To the civilians joining us today, I urge you to welcome and get to know the military families and veterans in your neighborhood. And to our military families and veterans, thank you for your service to our country. I wish you all the best.


What did I do? I designed a phone. If you did not design it, Koreans would have done it. You tell me, is it important that you are a pleasant and wonderful human being? So, this question comes from Rim. He says that Steve Jobs was said to have a bad temperament. He often subjected his employees to profanity, fired them in public and pushed them to the extreme limits of performance. He's also considered one of the greatest innovators of our time. Is such behavior justified as long as one delivers results?  But I'm asking you, one thing is what we do, another thing is what kind of human beings we are. Is it important what kind of human being you are? Hello? I did something, what did I do? I designed a phone. If you did not design it, Koreans would have done it, Chinese would have done it, Indians also beginning to do it. Yes or no? There is a certain brand-building process in the world with which you can build a brand. And see, I want you to understand, you're a doctor at least, on the way. Does this body need oxygen or carbon dioxide? Oxygen. Oxygen. But people pumped carbon dioxide into your bottle and said the real thing, Coca-Cola. It's the largest brand on the planet, all right? More people drink, at least all these years, more people drank Coca-Cola. Then people did yoga or people did anything else. In the remotest part of this country, if you went 20 years ago, if you uttered the word yoga, they didn't know what it was. But if you said Coca-Cola, they knew what it was. So just because it's branded like this and marketed like this, does it become that your system has become such it likes carbon dioxide and doesn't like oxygen? Is it so? No. So you can brand things in so many ways. You don't go by these things. You tell me, is it important that you are a pleasant and wonderful human being? Is it important for you? Otherwise you look at it the other way around. Do you like to be shouted at right now? I can shout. You like to be shouted at? No. Then why do you think somebody else likes it? Hello? You don't want to be abused, isn't it? Would you like to be abused? Then why do you ever think that somebody else likes it? Then you don't like it. You know it is not nice to you. Why do you do it to this person? Why do you do that? You lost your humanity fundamentally, isn't it? So just because you made a lot of money, I don't think it means anything.  What does it mean?  Only a fool would call such a man as a great man. He just spent his whole life killing people and you call him Alexander the Great? No, they forgot his third name.  So please do not go by the standards. Somebody has this much money, so he becomes a great man. I don't think so. Anyway, you untimely death with cancer happened. You didn't pack all your money and go. There's no container service in the end. He went to the extent of saying that whatever at that time he had some 46 billion dollars personal worth. He said even if I have to use this 46 billion dollars, every dollar of it, I would like to destroy Google. Because that is a... They're not making phones, but they've become more prominent in the country.  Even if you lose all your money, there are people like this. Even if both my eyes go, I want to take one eye of hers. This is the crudest level of existence as far as I'm concerned.


's super pretty. I think this is some type of maybe shell. And then we have this cute little brooch. It is some sort of, I think ceramic maybe or clay. Maybe it's clay, but it looks really pretty with this lot. All right, we are gonna run this lot and we are starting it right now. It's running. Lee is winning at $9. Anybody else wanna come in? Thank you for your bids. Thank you so much. 18 is next. Thank you so much. Thank you, Seemso Vintage. You're keeping me in line here, honey. Thank you. All right, Lee is winning. Thank you. This is a great lot. Really pretty. And Lee, you got it. Thank you so much. Okay, that was lot seven. Okay, so did the one lot come back? Is C. Denny still here? C. Denny, are you still here? Yes. Okay, you were interested in the shell lot. I don't think it came back. So I'm gonna add it. And it is lot four. So we're gonna run lot four again. I'm gonna show it again. It's gonna start at $5. I called it lot. Now I gotta find it. Okay, lot four. Okay, let me show you guys this one again. It's this awesome, I think it's leather and then it has these shells on it. It's super, super pretty. It's a bracelet. And then we had this little brooch that I think is just custom made with this little creature. And it's made of shells. It's awesome. I'm gonna put that back in the bag here. We have this bangle. It is a shell necklace. This right here is a toggle clasp bracelet. I'm not sure if these are freshwater pearls or not, but it looks like it, but I don't know for sure. So sold as seen. We've got these cute little gold tone starfish. We have these right here. They're shell, I think. And they look great with this piece. And I said earlier, like I've not really seen any that have the other shells mixed in. It's got a barrel clasp on it. We've got this cute little brooch. And then this ring right here. And it has like an S in it. It looks like, I wasn't sure if it was a five or an S, but I think it's an S. I don't know if that's a maker's mark or what, but it's around a size 6.75 to seven. This is what it looks like. It looks really good. Not a lot of plate wear, but that's what it looks like. So that is what you're getting. And we are running this starting at $5. $5 on this lot. Thank you for your bids. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for your bids, everyone. I appreciate y'all being here and hanging out with me tonight. Guys are standing strong. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. All right. 18 is next. Yes, I have 18 in my hand. Thank you so much. Lee is winning. Thank you, Lee. And Lee got it. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Good deal. Thank you so much. Okay, lot 18. That's the blue lot. Lot 18, 18, 18. All right, here we go. 38 and 15. Okay. So here is lot, what was it, 18? Little bit of yellowing on these ones right here. So the colors are a little bit different on the stones, but that's what it looks like. You've got this cute little brooch. Looks like that. We have these clip-ons. They do need cleaned up, wiped down. They've got, I don't know. Who knows what? That's just a little piece that holds it against your ear. So these are TLC guys. They just need wiped down and cleaned up a little bit, but they are really rad. Here is, is this a mood ring? It's a mood ring. Look, it changes. What mood am I in? Ah, what mood am I in? I love mood rings. They're so funny. Okay, so this is a mood ring. It's a six point, about 6.5, okay? It was black when I pulled it out, man. It's got all kinds of color now. Fun, fun. Here is one of these bracelets that stretches like that. These earrings are so cute. They're little dangle pierced flowers. This is super pretty. No markings that I can see, but lots of bling on this bangle. Here's another one of these. This one's really great. The colors are awesome. And then the necklace. I probably need to put it on the bust for you guys. I love the necklace. Did I get it on there good? And that is your necklace. Super cute lot. And we are running it at $5. Okay, so you're getting the necklace and it clasped like this on the top. And you're gonna get these other things with it. So cute little lot right there. All one money. 24 is next. Thank you. Thank you for your bids, everyone. Oh, I love 24. 24 is awesome. Thank you, C. Denny. Thank you for your bid. Thank you, Pretty Peach. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yep, 24 is next. Yes, ma'am, thank you. All right, C. Denny, you got it. Nice buy. Thank you so much. You can play with that fun mood ring. Ha! You'll have to look up the chart and see what it means. I think they're just heat sensitive, right? All right. What number 24 is this yellow lot? Love it. Love, love, love this one. I still have mine from the 60s. Oh, that's so fun. All right, so we have these cute little dangle earrings. They say something. Let's see what they say. They say, Wells, 14 karat gold filled Wells, W-E-L-L-S. Whoops. Can you see it? Wells, 14 karat gold filled. So little cute earrings. That's what they look like.  So cute. It's got a butterfly, strictly costume jewelry, but at its cuteness. Oh my goodness. Love it. That. And then we have this fun piece, this fun bangle. Look at that. It's plastic with these like, probably plastic rhinestones as well. This is a super fun lot. Look at this stretchy yellow polka dots. Super cute. We have this. It says wherever you go, go with all your heart from the studio of Sandra May Salmon. I don't know. You guys can look that up. I don't know if that's like an artist or what. This cute little flower ring. It looks like it's got something right there that needs cleaned up. It does have a lot of plate wearer, but the color on the top of the flower kind of matches it. So we're just gonna run with it because it's super cute. It is a seven. And that's what it looks like. Okay, so it does have plate wearer, fire be wearer, plate wearer. This says, what? Fi or tiara, misu? I don't know. It's just a little stretch bracelet. It seems inexpensive to me, just like a little cutesy. This one has a little heart. It's a little stretch. We've got these yellow glass maybe earrings. Look at this fun thing. It's a rhinestone bear and it clips. It can be a clip or a brooch. Isn't it cute? It's got little feathers coming out of its head. And I have a gold tone flower for you guys. It's a brooch, a little gold tone brooch. That's what that one looks like. This is a necklace on a chain.  It's modern and it's just a little butterfly and it kind of hangs to the side like that. I think it's a butterfly. And then this is my favorite piece. Here is, it's just plastic, you guys. It's just plastic, but it's yellow and it says Hong Kong and it pulls out like this. And let me show it to you on the bust. So I think, you know, you could wear it with that in the back but you can also wear it to the side and show off that cuteness right there. That's how I would wear it. And it's yellow and I love it. So that is your bundle. That's your bundle. $5 start. Barb did is winning at 12, pretty peaches in there at 13. Thank you for your bids. This is lot 24, yellow delight. This one is fun, fun, fun. It's a great lot, lots of goodies here. The 14 karat gold filled, little earrings, the cute little charm bracelet. Thank you for your bids. Super, super cuteness. This does have the plate wear but it's a cute ring from the top. All right, thank you so much for your bids. Thank you everyone, 38 is next. Okay, you got it, 38 is next. Ooh, 38 is so pretty. Pretty peach, you got it. Thank you so much. Thank you guys, thanks for being here. Thanks for the support. It means so much to me. I really appreciate all of you being here. Did anybody come over from YouTube? I have it running on my YouTube channel. Has anybody found the show from that? You did? Oh, awesome, good. I wasn't sure if it would make sense. Cindalish did, thank you Cindalish. You bought something, awesome. Did you use the link to join? Were you able to get the $15 free money? I've got it and I'm watching both my phone and my TV. Awesome, okay, here's a lot, 38. Hopefully you got the $15 credit. All right, here we go. This is lot 38, let me find it. 38, where are you? There's not that many left. Oh, you're already a member, perfect. Okay, awesome. Well, I'm glad you're here. Oh no, you guys, I started running it. Ah, sorry, here, this is what it is. It's these bangles, it's this little choker. It's got these bracelets, ah, it's got an H ring. It's got this cool necklace. Sorry guys, I hope you looked at the picture. It's got this brooch and this, oh my goodness. I love these star earrings. These star earrings are the best and they're all wrapped around here but they hang and dangle and they're stars. Oh my goodness, it's so cute. They hang in your ears like that. Isn't that cute? Sorry guys, I completely hit start. Here's this little bracelet. This says faith, hope and love. It's a bangle and yeah, there's some other bangles. There's a little star bangle and Noelle won. Noelle, you're so sweet, thank you so much. You guys, if you're not following Farm Girl, Scavenger Noelle, what are you doing? She is a Bolo Finder, she's awesome. She has an awesome YouTube channel. Check her out and she's also here on what not. Oh, and it also has the little owls, Noelle. The out earrings, sorry, I didn't get to show it. I really messed that up in an H but these little earrings are my favorite. I'm gonna put those in another bag so they don't get broke. Got you, got you cat. What's that? Oh my goodness, I can't believe I did that. I'm so sorry. Oh, Cyndalish, thank you for following Noelle. She's amazing. Number 15, okay, that was a lot, 38. Thank you, Noelle. Lot 15, okay, this one's awesome also. I love, love, love this one, so this is Lot 15. Okay, let's look at it. These are really cool. They're just, they might, are they leather or pleather? I don't know what they are, but they're a great color and they go with this lot. I don't know if that's supposed to have something in the middle or if it's just supposed to look like an eye but that's that. Here is this little stretch bracelet that looks like this. I don't know what it's made of but we were going for this color right here. Love it. This is a rounded beaded type thing. I don't know, I love these bracelets. Cute little turtles here. This is an older vintage piece. Oh, I think it's signed. Hang on, you can tell I really looked at stuff good when I was making this. Oh, it's trifari. It's crowned trifari, huh, it's old. Can you guys see it? Here, let me turn it this way. Trifari, crowned trifari, evil eye bracelet. Look how old this is. I don't know what it's made of. Huh, I had no idea. So crowned trifari on that one. This little pin is awesome. It's by Rossi, R-O-S-S-I. I do think that there might be maybe a little dangle missing from the bottom of this. I'm not 100% sure but it's a stick pin. I've sold an ornament by this designer but it's super, super cute. It's a stick pin. Here's this ring and it does have plate wear also but it's still, it just, it pulls it off. So I included it and it's adjustable. It's pretty small, it's like a 4.75 but you see the plate wear, buyer beware, plate wear. See it? It does have some issues but it's pretty. It's still pretty. Here is a Friend's Stone and it's a key chain. How cute is that? Oh, thank you so much, Cindalish. I appreciate that. It was a lot of work. Here is just a plastic necklace. The only thing I can see where it's linked together is with this and it's not, it doesn't detach. So it's just a funky cool necklace. This is a choker style necklace and it's just got the great colors that go with the pinks and the blues that are pulled out of everything. And this is your clasp and then it just has these little things on this wire. Blue tones, just a bracelet. This one I believe is also juicy and it tightens and loosens like that and it's got the little crown and then we've got these cute little stone earrings, dangles. And this one is stuck to it. Let me get this off. It's a little bird. It is so stinking adorable. It's stuck to my hand.  Look at these birds, aren't they cute? Little birds. And then this has a barrel clasp and it looks like that. So all these like blue and pink tones. Oh my goodness, so much work. So much work, but so much fun. It was fun. It was relaxing. So I think I'm gonna try to do this maybe once a month. I was thinking twice a month but I don't know if I can keep up with twice a month. Okay, we are running at 30 seconds on this beautiful lot. Thank you so much for your bids. I have one scheduled for the 30th. You guys can, there's eight bundles available right now. That's all I've gotten to. I think they all have pre-bids for $5 but they are really great lots. There's this one yellow lot over there that is incredible. Yeah, bookmark the 30th. And then I have a whole bunch of shows scheduled. I just went ahead and scheduled them so you guys can bookmark those. Thank you guys so much for your bids. I appreciate it. But yeah, the 30th will be the next show like this. And what it'll say in the title is bundles styled by Bolo Buddies and that's how you'll know it's a special show. Thank you, Ms. Jamie. Thank you so much. Thank you for your bids, everyone. Is that vintage Traffari something special? I know that this brand can do well also. It's a cute lot. The colors are great. Great lot. Lots of pieces there. I mean, if you divide it out by the number of pieces, I mean, great deals, great deals. And super fun. If you guys like to wear jewelry, I don't know if you guys noticed but I put on this right here and it matches my hat. And this is a vintage piece that I just pulled out of one of the bags that I was gonna sell. And then Flip and Hot Fine sent me these adorable out earrings. So I'm sporting some jewelry tonight and I don't normally sport a whole lot of costume jewelry but I'm starting to like like it. Okay, right here, these are leather earrings and they were asking $12 for those. So there you go, Ms. Jamie. I didn't look at the back. I wasn't sure if they were leather or not. I guess I just need to read. Okay, lot 12 is next, right? Lot 12. Bundle 12. Okay, here we go. Okay, this one is silver tones. This one's really cool also. And this one has some owls, okay? So first off, I just wanna say this ring is rad. It's just plastic but it is glittery and fun. And look, it's a size six and look how fun it is. It's so cool, I love it. I don't know.  All right, what is this? This has the tag on it. The original tag says, well, somebody wrote 12.50 on it. 46 to 49, I don't know what that means. Carl, Carlisle. It's smooth, so I don't know. It's just a gray tone beaded necklace. Let's, oh, these earrings are so cool. First, I'll show you this necklace. This is a beaded necklace that looks like this. I like these knotted necklaces. I think they're pretty cool. Look at these earrings. How funky are these? Check those out. There's two of them because you have probably two ears. So there you go. There's that. We have this that is kind of like a choker necklace, black little rhinestones. Here's the back of it. I don't think it's vintage because of the class but who knows, I could be wrong. Here's your little out earrings. Can't believe I'm giving these away. They're so cute, super cute. But they go so well with this lot. Who loves it? Anybody else love owls? I can't keep all the owls for myself. Look at this brooch. I don't know what this is made of, but it is so cool. It's like wire and something. But how pretty is that with this? Love it. This says, stay strong. And it's a little bracelet. We've got this big old chunky silver tone with this like black pantyhose over it. It looks like bangle. It's not really pantyhose. And this one, look at that. That's cool. And on the inside it says, my dear granddaughter, may God always protect you and give you strength. So anybody that has a granddaughter that would be an awesome, awesome gift. Super pretty. And it's by BCBG. Or you could sell it if you don't like it. Or no, I'm sorry, BGE. Hold on. I thought it said, it's BGE. Anybody ever heard of that, BGE? I'm glad I caught that. This one is by Marisa's. It's got a $16 tag on it. It's super cute. It's one of those magnetic bracelets. And you know who loves these as MacPack reselling? She loves these bracelets. And that one right there. Look at this bling. It's a bangle. This lot is fabulous, you guys. It's an awesome lot. Look at this. This is a stretch bracelet. It is so cool. So cool. This is just a little choker. It's by American Eagle. So this is just inexpensive but cute and kind of goes with the theme. Then we have this little piece right here with the beads. And here is this. I don't know what's going on here. I don't know. But that's what it looks like. So, all right, so there is your lot. Oh, awesome. Okay, here we go. We're running. It's at 15. Thank you. Thank you for your bids. Sendalicious winning. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Bear Sparkles in there. It's a great lot, you guys. Does anybody have a request for another lot? We have eight more lots left. Thank you for your bids. We are doing great on time. Thank you guys so much. Pretty peaches in there. Super awesome lot. The colors are fabulous. Just grab one. Sure, I can just grab one. I will do that for sure. And Sendalicious won. Thank you. That is an awesome fun lot. I love this brooch. I just don't know what it's made of, but it is so cool. Never seen anything like it. Oh, and the fun ring. Super cool lot. Thank you so much, everyone. Pretty peach. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. You guys, I put a lot of heart and time into these. So it means a lot to me that you guys like them. Okay, let's grab, how about number 13? Okay, here's number 13. This one is black and whites. Vintage filigree flower brooch. Okay, there you have it. Noel is so smart. You guys, please follow Noel on YouTube and whatnot. Oh, no. Uh-oh. Wonder if it fell out or if I missed it. You guys, this one's missing a rhinestone. Womp, womp. Darn it. Okay. Well, I can't do anything about it now because I already have the lot built. So we have these feather earrings that are super fun. Pretty peach. Thank you so much. Have a good night. Thank you, thank you. And then we have this little, I don't know, rhinestone. What'd you call it? A rhinestone bracelet. Super cute. Black and white, just fun bracelet. Well, that one's weird. That one, that one, that bracelet, oh, that one's meant to stick out further. That's kind of cute. This is some sort of, I don't know. It sounds like glass. So there's that. Look at these dangles. How cute are these? Cuteness, so cute. So we've got those and we've got the little alligator. Look, and it does have some plate wear down here. It's a stretch ring.  I just love these little rings. I think they're so cute. So you got him. And then this is, I don't know if this is just plastic or what it is, but the colors looked good with it. So I put it with the lot.  It's a multi-strand necklace. Here's your clasp. Here is another brooch. Just kind of has that color tone to it. Bracelet, let me make sure all the stones are in that. Now I'm like, eek. Here's a black stretch bracelet. And then we have this just white beaded necklace that just goes well with it, all right? And buyer beware. I'm gonna include it, but it's missing a stone. So you'll have to replace that. I don't see it in the bag, so I have no idea. I may have just missed it when I built the lot, okay? So we are gonna run this, and this is lot 13. And we are running basket case rare sparkles in there. Basket case fab finds had a pre-bid on it. Thank you for your bids. Rare sparkles winning at 13. Thank you so much. It's a super fun lot. I love those dangle earrings. These are so cute. So cute. Thank you for your bids. Thank you so much. Thanks, Noelle. Thank you, Farm Girl Scavenger. I appreciate that. And Cindalish, you got it. Awesome, awesome.  These are super fun. Those earrings and that necklace would be super cute. Look at those feathers. Woo-hoo. It's party, it's party. All right, all right, here we go. The next one, let's do lot 19. All right, lot 19. Yeah, Noelle, this normally isn't my type of thing either, but I've found that I really enjoy it. It's kind of weird. So we've got this wood bracelet and look at this ring. It's just plastic, but oh my goodness, it's so cute. It is a size about seven and a half. It's like a gold and teal color or aqua. Look at these earrings. These earrings are awesome. Where's the other one at? Look at them, they've got like squiggly gold on them. They are cool.   Thank you everyone for the follows. We have this leaf. If you're watching on YouTube, come hang out. Silver tone leaf. This is by Neiman Marcus, it's a clip. So I don't know if this like goes on a tree, but you could also hook this to like a necklace. It's kind of heavy or pin it to your shirt, but it says Neiman Marcus, it's really cute. Look at this ring, how cool is that? It does have plate wear guys, but this ring is awesome. Size seven, isn't that neat? It does have some stuff. I mean, it's got some issues, it's not perfect. You may be able to turn it into something else if you're crafty, but it is really cool. This one says dream and it is by BCBG Generation and it's a snap bracelet. Here's this cute little bracelet. I think this is glass, look how pretty that is. And then we have these earrings, these dangles that look like that. They're great, super nice. We have this little bear, little brooch bear, he's super cute. And then we have this, I think it's, these are wood and then I don't know what this is made of and here is, it still has the string on it. I'll take that off and then it's this little bead and that's how it hooks in, but look at the colors on this. It is great. So this may just be plastic and wood, I don't know, but it's pretty, it is pretty. Did I pin this one? No, I didn't pin it yet. Okay, this is lot 19 and we are running at 30 seconds. Yeah, Cindalish, you can pick it, you can fix it, honey. It looks like you already fixed it. Okay, Lee's in there at $6. Anybody else wanna come in on this awesome lot? Look at these earrings, super cool. This is a great bundle. Kitchy woman is in there, thank you so much. There's a lot of pieces here guys, a lot of pieces. Thank you so much, appreciate the bids. No, Cindalish, it happens. It's because what not charges you for each transaction so it confuses your credit cards. And Kitchy woman, you got it, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for your bids. I appreciate it, awesome. All right, you guys, let's do the next one. How about number three? This one's pink, who likes pink? Number three, all right, here we go. This one's hearts. Okay, so it's got this cute little crown ring. And it is a size seven and it looks like that. It's super cuteness. This is a cuteness lot, you guys. Look at these earrings. Oh my goodness, these big old bling hearts. Oh, what do they say on the back? I think they say sugar fix, sugar fix, those are fun. And this is just a little stretch bracelet that looks cute with it, nothing expensive. This is by, is this Hallmark? Yeah, this is Hallmark cards, look at it. Oh my goodness, it's a love bug. So cute.  This is red, so you've got the reds and the pinks matching up, this is a little, what do you call it? Cuff, but look at the bling, pretty, pretty. Here's a cute little wire wrapped ring. It's about a five, probably somebody made it, handmade. Just really cute, goes cute with this lot. Here's another little cute ring, it looks like a knot. And it is a size 5.75, just probably an inexpensive just cute ring guys, nothing fancy there. Look at these fun earrings. They're a little scuffy, they're not perfect you guys, I think they're probably vintage and they're just super fun. This is just a fun, fun lot. Pink bangle, again just a metal pink bangle, nothing super special about it, just cute. Another bangle, and then we've got these heart earrings. They're screw backs, super cute. And then, let me get this out of here. I love this necklace, so let me pop this up here. So it's got this cute little clasp, but look how long it is, it's three strands. So you can flip this around and double it up and wear it like this. It's all plastic, it's really cute.  And I don't know what this is made of, but it's got some red tones to it. So everything is kind of red and pink, kind of reminds you of Valentine's Day, super cute lot. And we are gonna be running. And right now it is at $6, little hallmark, cute. The heart screw backs, I love these pierced earring hearts. These are the best. And lots of fun, it's a fun lot. Thank you for your bids, thank you so much. You guys are awesome, thanks for being here. Thank you, thank you. All right, this one's for all you Barbie girls. You know, somebody said, is there a Barbie movie coming out? Did somebody say that? I feel like I heard that in the Facebook group. Somebody said something about pink being hot right now. I don't know, I can't remember where I heard it. I don't know if it's true or not. Lee, thank you so much, I appreciate it. Barbie movie, yes, okay, that's what I thought I heard. I think I saw it in the Facebook group. If you guys aren't in my Bola Buddies Facebook group, you can check that out. It's a madhouse, there's like 90,000 people in it. Oh my goodness, okay, here's lot 40. Lot 40, here we go. Let's dump it and see what we got. We have this little brooch, I think it's just resin. And look at this, it's a little hair clip. I'm sorry, but I had to put it in here, it is adorable. Look at it, it's vintage, it's cute, it's cuteness. This has a little heart and then these, maybe glass, I'm not sure. Noelle, you missed it, I had a big old strand of amber. That was fun, I had no idea. This is J Crew, you guys, this is awesome. I love J Crew, so this is what it looks like. Look how pretty this is. And it is super, super long, super long. And it has this little anchor and it says J Crew on the tag, okay? So we've got that and I don't know if that's glass or what it is, but man, the beads are so pretty, it's awesome. Okay, we have this little ring and I don't see anything signed on it. It is a size, what, four and a half. There's a little bit of plate wear, that's what it looks like. We have these cute little hearts, little heart study rings. They look like they say something on them. I'm not sure what they say, let's see. All right, they are signed something, cute little earrings. We have this little just necklace, it's just beaded and the colors just look good. That's why it's in here, it's just cute. Costume jewelry, look at this one. Doesn't it look like bubblegum? It's so cute. Maybe I should turn it like this. Here's another little fun ice cream cone. They'd look good with those little heart earrings. They kind of have the same bling. Those would be cute together with this bracelet. This is just a cute little costume and we have this little bracelet which is not in very good condition. So this is not very good, sorry guys. I messed up on that one. So that's not too great, sorry, sorry. Here is a little heart bracelet, it stretches kind of like a rubber band. I think this is shell, super cute. And then we have this, which is just a beaded little stretch. So these are all kind of like pinks and peaches. This is a key chain and it says Kathy, Ireland maybe, is it Kathy art? Kathy something, maybe not Ireland. Kathy, can you guys read that? It says Kathy something. But it's just a cute little key chain. We're gonna put that in there. It's got the little heart. We have this cute little necklace. It's on this little hook clasp. I don't know what it is, plastic maybe? I don't know if it's plastic or not, but it's really, the color is great. It's really bright and pretty. Here's another pair of these cute little earrings, little dangles, cute. Here is another ring. There's some plate where I don't see any markings on it. It measures about six and a half. This is what it looks like. Here is a wood necklace, which is just cute. It's not perfect.  It's got a little, some marks on it and stuff, but the colors match, just plastic little stretch. And this one is just, I think it's vintage, but it's got the great color, the pink. And I don't, that beads a little wonky, but it's all together. Maybe that's just the piece that it doesn't come apart. So there's no hook. So here's your lot. This is a costume jewelry lot, and we are running, and it is at $6, all one money. Oh, Kathy Van Zealand, maybe, I'm not sure. That could be bubblegum. That would be a good name for a pink bundle. Yes, Nancy, I agree. Super cute. It's a dangle for a purse. Okay. Hey, Toyota Jody, thanks for coming in. Hey, Styler. Hey, everyone, thanks for being here. All right, Rare Sparkle is winning. Thank you so much, you got it. All right, we are gonna keep going here. You guys like this? Do you like it? Do you like it? All right, that was lot 40. Let's do lot 39 at the end. After I do these three bundles, and then I may run some like miscellaneous brooches or something like that, I'll see what time it is. I feel like I'm doing good on time. And it seems so vintage. If you have to go, you are fine. I completely understand. I mean, wait until at least the giveaway is over. All right, we got three more here. This one is vintage. It's got some wear. I don't know what these are, but it's really, really pretty, okay? So we've got this vintage necklace. It does have a little plate wear on it, or scuffs or what do you call that? Whatever that's called. I am getting a little tired because I can't even talk. This is a brooch and it's a beaded brooch. Check that out. Is that fun? That is a fun brooch. We've got these earrings right here. They are missing the backs. They are pierced. They're not in that great a condition actually. Let me see if I can grab. Let's add these in. These are butterflies. We're gonna add these in too, okay? To make up for those right there, because so you got these cute little butterflies, dangles. This is a great lot. It's still a great lot. So look at this ring. It's a stretch. So it'll stretch all the way down to 11. Look how cute that is. So you get that ring. Here is the clasp. These are knotted in between. It feels smooth. So I think these are just faux pearls, but they look good. This I absolutely love. I have not seen anything like this. It is faux pearls, I believe, but look how the thread is blue and cream. In between, whatever it's strung on. Isn't that pretty? I just think that is super neat. Yeah, super cool. And then we have this awesome heart shell necklace. Super pretty. This is just a black modern choker necklace. It goes up around your neck. And then we have this one that is just a black beaded necklace. It doesn't have any clasp. It does look like it's, no. It's not even, it's just plastic. It's not knotted or anything special. It's just black and will look good with this lot. This one says Savvy Bling. I had one of these earlier too. This one, I don't know what it's made of. Here's these cute little dangle earrings that look great with this lot. Here's this. It's got a pop of red, little bracelet. This is, is it hematite? It's got a hair on it. Hematite maybe? Nice bracelet. Here is this. It looks like a little locket. And this is like hollow. It does have a little bit of plate wear. I don't know if it's supposed to look like that, but it opens right here. It's kind of cool. I don't know. Oh, because of this. I'm like, why did I put this in here? Cause this has blue and white. This does need cleaned up.  Here is, look at this. I love these clasp. Pops in like that. And it's a little faux pearl bracelet. This is a big lot. This is cool. It's got the hematite and then the little stones. Pretty, pretty. Here is a Marvella, a Marvella necklace. I don't think it glows. It's maybe some sort of glass. It does have this little issue right here. This is an old necklace, an old vintage necklace. And it says Marvella right here. So you may have to fix that one up a little bit. And then this one is, I'm not sure what this is. Some sort of, I don't know. Do you guys know what that is? There's no beginning and no end. It just looks like that. Oh, it's right here. This is where it's on some sort of wire thing. So probably handmade. This lot is massive, okay? And we're running it. We are at $7. Thank you for your bids. Thank you everyone for being here. Uh-oh, what's going on? Who's freaking out? Thank you for your bids. Uh-oh, is everything okay? Seems so vintage. Thank you for your bids. Oh, nice buy. Wow, that is a great deal. There is some really beautiful stuff in there. Okay, all right. Message me if you need to. Yes, I know $7. Wow, is right. Yes, Marvella, yes. I've heard of Marvella, yes, I've heard of it. That was a great buy, Cindalish. Congratulations. Okay, honey, let me know if you need me. I wasn't watching the chat, so I don't know what happened. Yes, congratulations. Okay, this is lot 35. 35. I feel like I robbed you. Hey, you know what? It happens sometimes. Here is a little red hat made in China. Here's another red hat and another one. Yeah, I don't know what happened. I don't know why maybe people didn't know it was running. I'm not sure. This one is super, super cute. Look at that, isn't that adorable? It is getting late. It's when you get the deals, right? Look at that. Look at that. That is incredible. I will say that this bead right here is a little scuffed, but there are some great beads on there. We have these clips, clip-ons. Another red hat. This one I think goes on and holds your glasses. So you wear it as a brooch and then it holds your glasses. Super cute. We have these little dangles, darling, and the little red hat bracelet, cute. This goes around your neck as like a choker and it dangles down like this and it's super cute. You can see it in the photo and then this is just a cheap little fun thing. I mean, look how fun this is. It's like, I don't know, it's fun. Okay, this one is just costume. It's like 5.25. That's what it looks like and no markings and we are gonna run this lot at $5. Hey, boys, thanks for coming in. We are running at five, we're at six. Tracy's at six. Where's Tracy been? Tracy, are you actually here or did you pre-bid? I haven't seen you all night. Thanks for coming in. Yes, Red Hat Society. Yes, they want their broaches back. Yes, you think it's a pre-bid? Oh, it probably is. Maybe she couldn't come tonight. All right, Lee's taking the win. Lee's in there. Thank you, Lee. And you got it for $10. Nice buy. Thank you so much. Cute lot. Whoops. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. All right, we got one more lot and then we're gonna do the giveaway. Chosen Goods reseller. Get out of town, Carissa. Carissa is in the house. She is up late tonight. This is lot number two, guys. You guys remember Carissa? I was on YouTube and left you a super chat. You did? Oh, let me go look. Oh, you did. Thank you so much, Carissa. I appreciate that. You're so funny. I just saw your message on whatnot. Okay, so this is black and I don't know what color you would call that. It's not really gold, but there's your necklace. Look at these earrings. Bling, bling. How fun are those? And then we've got this vintage brooch that looks like this. This metal bangle bracelet that is just funky cool made in India. There's a Made in India sticker down in there. Do you guys see it? How cool is that? That is a big bangle. We've got the dragonfly. It does have something right there, but it kind of goes with this lot, the colors. It may or may not come off, but it's a cool dragonfly. Check it out. And then we have this cool bracelet. I said, I don't think that matches and my friend is like, yes it does. And I'm like, okay. She's like, it doesn't have to match match. It just has to go. And I'm like, all right. So I let her win on that one. What do you guys think? This is a size six and a half and it's kind of got the same colors in it. It's different. It's a different ring. I don't think it has any markings. And then these earrings are funky cool. I don't know what they're made of, but look. Aren't they neat? And here's your other one. All right, that's your lot. That is your lot and we are gonna run it. Here we go, $5, $5 and we are running. Hammered, hammered look. And Barb did is winning at $5.  These two items right here are worth more than $5. Super cool, super cool lot. Lee's in there. Thank you, Lee. Thank you all for being here. See Denny's in there. Thank you. Thanks so much, everyone. Yeah, Chris, I'm running it on YouTube. So people know that I'm on whatnot trying to bring some people over from the tube. I am gonna, I'm at the end of my bundles. I'm gonna run my giveaway. And if people wanna see more stuff, I've got stuff everywhere so I can run some more stuff. Just miscellaneous, pull it from everywhere stuff if they want. Or we can call it a night. So kind of whatever you guys wanna do. So that was number two, lot two. Thank you so much, Lee. Let's run this giveaway. And then if you guys wanna do more just miscellaneous items, I've got earrings, I've got lots of fun stuff. So here is your giveaway. It's this bracelet right here. It's really pretty. And then this necklace. And then we've got this earring. And this earring. All right? So everybody is gonna enter the giveaway here. And you guys can start putting in your entries. And does anybody wanna see more stuff? Let me know if you guys want me to run more stuff. I am happy to do so. Let's see here. Yes, Nisi says yes. Love the earrings. Okay, do you have any other character stuff? Ooh, good question. I'll stick around for more, okay? All right. So I'll let you guys enter the giveaway and I'll see what do you mean by characters? Let me see, I've got a bag of like, I don't know if there's any, I mean, I've got some like cute little brooches. I don't know if there's, there's not like Snoopy or any cartoons. There's like some Christmas and Halloween. Yeah, I don't see any of that. I do have some Christmas stuff. I have that Jodi. It's from a movie. It's Disney. I'm gonna look in here. I don't think it's anything special though. Any earrings like you have in this giveaway? Probably somewhere. Let me look through some of these bags here. I've got a whole bunch of earrings.  Okay, we've got 15 in the giveaway. Anybody else want to enter? I'm gonna run the giveaway, run the giveaway. All right, we're gonna draw it. Last call, I'm gonna count down from five and then I'm gonna draw the winner. Five, four, three, two, one. That means 15 people are awake out of the 23 that are watching.  Who's gonna get it? Seems so big. You got it. My moderator got it. She worked hard for that. She worked so hard for that. She sure did. Awesome. Congratulations. That is so funny, I love it. Okay, let's do some earring bundles. You want to? Oh, Johnny, yay. Okay, let's see what we got here. I have these earrings right here. We're just gonna do a bundle and see how it goes. See if you guys are still wanting to buy. There's some, I don't know what these are. Some sort of earring. Oh, we've got some pumpkins. We've got some pumpkins. Karissa knows all about pumpkins. There's a pumpkin pumpkin. All right, we have these cute little yellow fun, super fun yellow hoops. We're gonna put those in there and how about these little Christmas annoying earrings that you can annoy your friends and family with? They're actually kind of cute. They'd be great for Christmas. Look how cute they are. All right, so we're gonna put those in there and let's grab one more, one more something cute. Let's see, how about these little red ones here? And then we're gonna put these little red ones in here. Okay, so we've got five pair of earrings and we're gonna start the earrings at $1. Uh-oh, I'm under the wrong thing. Auction, ad, earrings. This is lot number 82. We're gonna start them at $1 for all of them, all for one money. Night, so thanks for coming in. Five pair of earrings, $1 start. Thank you for your bids. Oh, Choosing Good's reseller. She wants those pumpkins. She said it's a pumpkin pumpkin. That's an inside joke from a video that we did a long time ago. We did a video together and we were unboxing something and we were fighting over whether or not something was a pumpkin. So we have like this inside joke about pumpkins. I'm like, that is not a pumpkin. She's like, it's a pumpkin pumpkin. That's a good video. I thought about re-releasing that on my main channel because that's on my second channel. That was a fun video. We were going through some stuff that my husband found at a state sale. Okay, that was lot 82. Lee, thank you so much. All right, let's run some more earrings. We've got these little cuties and the backs do not match, okay? I'll try to tell you guys if they match or don't match. All right, how about these craze? Whoa, this is like crazy town here. Whoop, whoop. You guys ready for this? Like this is a little bit, I don't know what this is, it's stuck. Okay, hold on. This, wow. Okay, hold on. It's got another earring stuck in it. These are kind of interesting. Look, look at those. They're hoops. They're dangle hoops with spikes. Look at that. Wowza. Who likes the spikes? Who likes the spikes? Anybody into spikes? These are funky cool. They're big old long dangles. Look at them. All right, I almost feel like let's do something. Let's take these out because those just don't go with this. I don't know if anything goes with this. Should I just run these separate? Let's just run these for a buck. You had something like that in junior high. Let's run them for a dollar. They are funky. Here we go. Oh no, what'd I hit? Ah! No, stop. Is it running? No, it's not. What did I do? Okay, here we go. All right, one dollar. And I'm gonna change it to 20 seconds. Sorry guys. Anybody want these funky earrings for a dollar? Cyndalish does. She says, I will take those for a buck. You got it. Oh, it's at two dollars. Madonna, Madonna, Bamman, Bama Mary. What's up? Thanks for coming in. Rihanna wants her earrings back. Is it Rihanna? Did I say that right? Oh, Woodhouse Vintage is in there. Look at that. Hey, Donatella's back. Donatella is back. You guys follow Donatella. She has an awesome whatnot. What not? Bamma Mary, you got it. Five bucks, five dollars. All right, let's see what else we have here. Let's do another small lot. Those were kind of heavy. Okay, let me get them in the bag here. How about these? Look at these. Pretty, that's what they look like. Is that one missing a stone? I think it's missing a stone right there. Let me see. Yep, that one has one. So you'll have to replace this little stone or it's not super noticeable, but if you put them side by side, you can see it. So that's that. We'll put these two back in, different backs. Guys, you'll have to fix the backs. Let's see, we're gonna make a bundle here. A little bundle, a little bundle. Okay, hold on. They're all hooked together. Here, these are pretty. These are little dangles, silver tone, dangles. Can you guys see them okay? How about these, oh my goodness, get off there. These little flowers, there's the backs. How about these gold tone teardrop looking things? Put those in there. This is all gonna be one money, guys, one money. And how about about these right here? Put those in there and we're gonna run it. All for one money. This is gonna be number 84, $1 start. And we are running at one buck. Cindillish, have a good night, thank you so much. Thanks for coming in. Oh, thank you, I appreciate you coming back. Bamma Mary likes it, thank you, Bamma Mary. All for one money, guys. Just Pretty Things is in there at seven, thank you. Thank you for your bids. All right, you got it. Thank you so much. Let's do another earring lot. Thank you, thank you. How about some pretty little poison A? There's like poison A, these are pretty. A little bit of plate wear on the back, so we're gonna do those. How about this, if I can find the match? These little earrings pierced. We're gonna do these earrings, whoa. They got some bling, gold tone. Here's some hoops, just some hoops. Let's do, oh, somebody was asking was that Cindalish Shucks? I have these, I don't know if that was her or not. I can't remember who asked for like the little bling. Here's this, we're gonna put these in here. Those are super cute. And how about these little pearls, faux pearls? They, one of them has a back, one of them doesn't. These do not have backs. These are enamel, super cute. And we're gonna run these. This is gonna be lot number 85, $1 start. And we are running for all of them 30 seconds. And I'm gonna change it to 20. I said that before and I forgot. Seems so vintage is winning, thank you. Hey, Shay, baby. And can't stop the process. I like that, Paula Lee, thank you guys for coming in. Thank you so much for your bids. See Denny's still here, thank you, see Denny. Gonna snag it for $2, there's a lot 85. Thank you so much, nice buy. Let's see what else we have here. Okay, how about these gold tone sand dollars? These are cute, gold tone sand dollars. What are these? These say Korea. Korea, huh, those are cute. Gold tone with a little stone or whatever it is. These are gold tone with black on them. I don't know, it looks like it needs cleaned there. So you're gonna get those. How about these big old gold tone hoops? You're gonna get those. And you're gonna get these little pink, oh, that's broke, nevermind, you're not getting that. Not getting it. How about these, these are rad. These are pierced, I do believe. So you pull that up and then, I think these are premier designs, maybe. What do they say? Yeah, premier designs. So the post comes up and then you put your earring through it. Okay, premier designs, okay, there we go, that's our bundle. One dollar start, number 86, and we are gonna be runnin'. It's a pierced, a pierced closure. This, is this what you mean? So it's pierced and then it goes like that. It just folds down. Maybe you can wear it both ways. That could be, maybe it's for pierced or clip-on. I don't know, they're definitely interesting. So nice little lot of earrings there. This is lot 86 and see Denny got it for $2, awesome. Thank you so much. Nice buy, oh, I might need a bigger bag. I think I need a bigger bag for those big hoops. 86, dual duty, yeah, they're pretty cool. That's a nice lot, see Denny, nice buy. All right, let's run another one. Let's just do the rest here. We got these little purple dangle. No, it looks like something might be written there, I can't tell. These are pretty, I like these a lot. Those are cool. Then we have these, and there's the match to that one. Look how pretty these are. Little birds, they need cleaned up, they're a little dirty. I don't know if these are the right backs or not, so. And then we have a little rhinestone flower. Woo, dangle, looks like that, whoa. And then we have these clip-ons. They're a little scuffy, in my opinion. All right, so that's your lot, $1 start. Number 87, and we are running at $1. Here we go, 20 seconds. Night seems so vintage, thank you so much for your help, I appreciate you. Night, see Denny, nobody on those? All right, no problem. Does anybody have anything they want me to run, or we just gonna call it a night? Is anybody on that I can raid? Night, Carissa, night, night. Is anybody know anybody that's on that I can raid? Let's see, create a raid. Okay, Donna, does anybody know anybody on, or should we just call it a night? I don't see anybody I know on, but it's hard to, it's hard to tell when you're like trying to raid. Anybody, anybody, anybody? No, no, no, raid antiquity coins, okay. I gotta figure out the raid again, okay. Oh no, I lost the raid button. Oh shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. Create a raid, okay. And, whoops. A, I'm typing upside down. And, okay, got it. Okay, all right, here we go guys. Have a good night, thank you all so much. I appreciate you all, and I will see you soon. Go bookmark my other shows. All right, here we go.


You need a Roth IRA and I'm going to tell you exactly why you want some of this tax-free money getting multiplied in your account in just a minute. Let's go over exactly how to get started, what providers to use and why the Roth IRA is the most powerful thing you can use to retire a millionaire. Man, I just I feel like I'm not earning enough money and I can never get ahead and nothing's helping me move forward man. It's okay. Get a Roth IRA. Roth IRAs are the most powerful instrument to create wealth if you are not earning over 6 figures a year and if you are relatively young in your 20s. So if that's you and the YouTube demographics kind of show me that most of you are kind of in that boat then you're going to want to listen to this entire video and understand exactly what this is, how to get started, what the risks are and why you need this. First off, Roth IRA it's pretty simple. It's tax-free money multiplied. And let me show you exactly what that means. So first let's start off with a basic definition of IRA. What is an IRA? IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account. This is your retirement account. When you're old, when you pass the age of 65, it's known as a 401k. Or if an employer sponsors it's it's called a 401k. Now a Roth IRA has limits. You can only contribute $5,500 per year max. Again, folks, this is made for people who are not making a lot of money. It is a gimme by the government to allow folks that are not earning a significant amount of money to make lots of money. That's why it's capped out at such a small rate. With Roth's, you can only contribute post-tax money. Meaning this is income that you've already been taxed on. When your employer takes taxes out of your paycheck, you can put it in a Roth IRA. But another thing you need to know is there's no penalty to take money out of your Roth IRA. Of the money you contributed, you can take any of it out that you want. So it's still yours to keep. There's not a problem there. But the benefit is it will grow and grow and grow and you won't be taxed on any of the earnings. Typical earnings are taxed at something like 30 or 40%. You can be taxed a lot for money you earn from retirement accounts, investment accounts, cryptocurrency accounts. All of that. But none of that will be affected with a Roth IRA. And the other thing you need to know is it must you must have income. If you don't have a job, then you can't contribute to a Roth IRA. Assuming you're still with me, let's go a little bit further. Now here's how to start. So first off, you only really want a Roth IRA if you're in a low tax bracket. If you're earning 6 figures or 7 figures or more, it doesn't matter that much, okay? Now if you're under 18 years old, you can still get a Roth IRA. In fact, I advise it. Your parents need to co-sign for you because you're not considered an adult yet. If you're 18 or over, you can sign up for a Roth IRA yourself. But where? Where? Where do you sign up for that Roth IRA? Well, there's a couple good companies that I mean there's plenty of companies that offer a Roth IRA. But probably the companies with the lowest fees and the best value and the best reputations are Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Vanguard. My Roth is with TD Ameritrade.  I have millions of dollars of investments at this point and I don't know. They handle that stuff for me. But if you're like most folks, you're probably in the same position that you're probably not saving because you don't feel you earn enough money and you don't earn enough money. Probably because I mean you can't take chances. You haven't saved enough to take those chances at building a big business, right? Well, first off, I would suggest you check out my free traffic method videos about how I made my money and how I make roughly $500,000 per month in my business and have been featured on every news station all over the internet and building software with a lot of people now in my business which is pretty exciting because of my affiliate marketing business. So check out those videos and links around here if you want to see it out or link in the description.  Most folks don't save money because when you're 18 or 20 or 25, you're just kind of like, you know, you just don't want to save money, right? It's not you're not disciplined enough. You're not principled enough about finances. But here, let me give you an idea of how you can retire a millionaire even with a minimum wage job if you're just disciplined. Now, if you are saving up $1,000 a year out of your paycheck from the age of 18, that means over the course of time, you will be you will have contributed $43,000 to your Roth IRA. And you will make $220,000 of profit by the time you reach the age of 60. Pretty cool. This is the power of compounding interest. Now, if you just contributed $2,000 a year from the age of 18, you would have grown your portfolio to over $440,000 a year by the age of 60. Pretty cool. Just $2,000 a year can add up to quite a bit of money. Now, let's take this a step further. Let's say you contributed the max $5,500 a year.  You always save up 20% of your paycheck. Now, what that will mean is that by the age of 60, you will have 1.2 million dollars in profit. You will have a nice fat retirement account with 1.4 something million dollars in it. Saving money is the most important thing you can do to allow yourself those options to do what you want. Most folks are stuck in their day-to-day job, in their lifestyle, in their relationship, in their house, in their area because they never gave themselves the opportunity and the freedom of having a savings account with money in it so that they could have those stress-free options of doing what they want. Now, in my business, my business has shifted from year to year. Exactly what products I've been selling and earning commissions from exactly what business I've been in whether it's training or software or books or what not has shifted over time. I've allowed myself the ability to shift my business because I've always kept much of my profits in savings. I've never had to reach that point of desperation of utter fear because I didn't have any money to fall back on. When I was young and I was earning $50,000 a month back in my early 20s, I would save up much of that money. I lived below my means and I was traveling the world, folks. I was you know, I was still having lots of fun and parties. 50,000 a year to a 23-year-old is a lot of money but I saved a lot of that so that I could do whatever I wanted. And if my business failed one month, I didn't get desperate because I knew I had months or years that I could live off of my savings. You don't afford yourself the stress-free life. You don't afford yourself the opportunities to start your own business to pick up and move to a different state if you don't save up money.  And money to me is an instrument to allow me to think longer and longer term. The more money I save up, the longer term I can think. So I can focus on making much bigger money. Tens, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars that I wouldn't be able to otherwise. My goal right now is to start a space company but I would never even get to that point if I didn't have a solid business and a lot of money and savings to rest back on. So I implore you, I encourage you, like this video and subscribe to this channel if you're looking to learn more about money. Not just how to save it but most of my videos are how to make it and make an abundance of it like many of my students have. I've released trainings to... I think we have... I have over 40, 45,000 folks who have bought my trainings at this point in time and we have many millionaires. We have many people who have just made absolute huge changes to their life and I hope to count you amongst them and be able to influence your life in some sort of financial way. Thank you so much for watching and talk to you soon. Bye.