Book review. Main review. Book review. Main review. Book review. Ah! Geez. What's up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And yes, welcome to the Book Review playlist. And this is all about books that are meant to help you out with your mental health, just like my channel.  So, imagine that. But anyways, anyways, so I just wanted to do this quick introduction to this playlist. So, a little bit about me. I hated reading for a long time. When I was younger, I loved reading, and then I just stopped. I stopped for a very long time. And in the past, I don't know, three years or so, I've just been really into books, and mainly about mental health. It's where I get most of the content that I'm providing you with. Like, that's all I do. And just to clarify, and I mention this all the time when I talk about books, I don't read, read. I listen to audiobooks. Like, I just listen to them when I'm going to and from work, when I'm going on road trips, when I'm driving across town, whatever it is. I really advocate for reading. Like, I just want you all to know, like, I only went to college for a semester.  It is through reading and just learning. Like, I'm very passionate about mental health. So, like, if you want to get a better understanding of your mental health, like, pop the hood open, read some books, and find out what's going on in here. You know what I mean? So that's one of the reasons why I'm always recommending different books that hopefully you'll check out. But I get it some people don't like reading, but if you don't, that's why you subscribe to me. I make videos on this stuff. So anyways, one reason I wanted to make this playlist and kind of, like, announce how this playlist is going to work out. Like, I overthink things and I love all of the information I get from books. So I take tons and tons and tons of notes and I'm just always putting in, like, little bookmarks. It's like, oh, this would be a good video. This would be, dah, dah, dah, dah. And, like, it's so much. So I really wanted to just start doing, like, kind of my thoughts on various books that I read and introduce them to you. So mainly the videos on this playlist are going to be, like, kind of, like, really brief overviews of the books just to give you a feel for what they're about. So maybe if you're interested, you will check them out, too. But there's going to be a lot of side videos I do where I dive a little bit deeper. Like, if you check out the info card, I've done some other, like, deep dives into books on specific topics in the books that I find interesting. I think they'd be good to make videos about. But I hope that you subscribe and follow up with this playlist because if you find that you want to check out one of these books, I want you to let me know if there's maybe something in there that you want me to discuss or kind of unpack a little bit and help explain it a little bit better. So make sure that you're following along. And, like, I highly suggest that you check out these books. But anyways, for right now, if you would like, check down in the description below. I have a whole page on my website with all of the mental health books that I recommend. So if you want to get started, go ahead and check out that list of books, all right? But I also love getting book recommendations. Like, right now, like, my audible wish list is, like, very lengthy. But I want to hear from you guys. If there's any books on mental health that you think that I should check out or you would like me to do videos on, like, whether it's about depression, anxiety, addiction, borderline personality disorder, codependency. Like, these are all just ideas I have in my head that are things I want to read about. Like, if you have any suggestions on mental health books, leave them down in the comments. I'll try to check them out, okay? But anyways, anyways, thanks for watching. And if you haven't yet, make sure you click that little round subscribe button.  If you want to check out some other videos I've done, click or tap on one of those thumbnails right there. All right? Thanks so much for watching. Keep reading, and I'll see you next time.


Otherwise, what is going on? It's Brycat23 here with Xtrades. Today we're gonna go over a setup that I really like for both tomorrow and into this coming week. And that is Fastly. So the ticker is FSLY. Really what we have is just a nice consolidation phase on the one hour chart. We have multiple touches of resistance and multiple touches of support. So we have a well-established trem line support and resistance on this timeframe. All of the rejections and rebounds are evenly spaced out. So there's been a good flow of price throughout the pattern. It's a very full pattern, which is always nice to see. That can help you identify patterns a little more accurately and keep you from misreading a pattern when it could be something else potentially. So ultimately what we have is really just kind of, it looks like it's more of a symmetrical triangle because we do have these converging trend lines, but it looks a little more bullish to me. Again, judging by the steeper rising support line versus the less steep resistance line essentially. So I think that the buyers have a little more relative strength to the sellers in this case. And I also think that the trend leading into the pattern being that it was a nice uptrend, regardless is gonna give you kind of a bullish bias going into things because whether it's a symmetrical triangle or a rising triangle, triangles are typically continuation plays. So since we have that uptrend on good volume that leads into this triangle pattern, you're typically gonna be looking for a continuation of the previous trend. And so that's kind of a double check to make sure that even if we do think that this could be a normal symmetrical triangle potentially, we do have that strong uptrend which can help kind of confirm our more bullish bias taking a look at this, taking a look at this ticker. On top of the healthy uptrend, we also had a really nice crossover of the 50-day simple moving average. So it's also really nice to have dynamic support zones below price once you're kind of in one of these consolidation phases. So as you can see, there's been a little sensitivity to price even within this trading pattern of this 50-day simple moving average. As you can see, we consolidated both kind of above this 50-day simple moving average and below it recently over the last several trading sessions and are now trading above it nicely. But this area could act as a support zone if prices do end up rejecting for a fourth time since we just rejected earlier this week. But at any rate, this dynamic support zone could kind of help us if we end up rejecting this price level again and the markets kind of falter tomorrow or into next week. So that's an area where we could have some dynamic support and then we obviously still have trend line support below that. But I am really kind of hoping for a breakout in the next day or two really. I think that we've touched support enough times. I think that we've touched resistance enough time where the sellers are likely getting a little bit exhausted and there are likely more buyers present at this point. And I think that we'll know for sure once we get above this 57-7 level essentially. So this is an area where there has been a good amount of selling, as you can see. We had most of our opens and closes essentially finished right below this 57-7 level on this second touch of resistance. And this is where we kind of had the beginning of the gap that formed after the earnings event. So this is definitely like a sensitive price level and it's converging with our trend line resistance. So once we get above that, once we get above both our trend line resistance and that 57-7 price level, I think that we're definitely gonna see a nice move and we'll definitely see some more volume flow in as well. So I think that there's potential for a strong move in price once we get above that price level. And then ideally, if there is like a low volume retest, that 57-7 price level should begin to act as a support as long as it breaks out with healthy volume. So ultimately really nice setup. We got dynamic support zone below. If we need it, we also have a trend line support. We have a really nice uptrend that led into this. We've already kind of gap filled essentially, but getting above this 57-7 price level is gonna be huge. And then as far as the actual expectations go, if we do get the breakout in the desired direction, the height of this triangle is right around $7.00. We're talking about 59 to around 52. So that's about a $7.00 height from the first touch of resistance. So the first touch of support. And percentage meeting price target for these is usually around 70%. I'm identifying it as a rising triangle just because again, I think it does have a little more of a bullish connotation to it based on the slopes of the two trend lines here. So I am giving it the benefit of the doubt in that case. So that's where I'm getting that 70% from. So that puts our expected move right around $5.00. And the trend line breakout area is right around this 57-5, 57-6 price level. So that really puts us at a price target based on both the height and the percentage meeting price target of about 62.50. And really I'd like to target 62 as kind of the full, fully blown price target. Again, you could try and try and go a little extra and go for that full $5.00 move and the 62.5. But essentially once we do breakout, if the breakout does occur, we're gonna have a low resistance at this 59 price level, as you can see, where we've had a lot of selling in the past at that first touch of the triangle resistance. And you can see there was some consolidation here. So there's definitely gonna be, that was kind of a higher volume node on the hourly chart. So that's an area that again, could prove to be a sticky price level. But once we get above that, the next area we really do have to watch out for is the 62 price level because that's where prices consolidated briefly and then gap down. And then when they tried to make a recovery before earnings, they really rejected this level pretty, pretty harshly. So that's where I kind of had my expectations as 62, 62, two, really having that be the full price target and not trying to grind out a couple extra cents unnecessarily where we could see a decent rejection of this price level, even if we do get that bullish breakout that we want. So ultimately, I really like the setup here. I think that it's a really strong setup. And hopefully obviously it depends on when it does break out, but judging by the trend, I'd say that it could take anywhere from three to four weeks for this trend to run the course in terms of reaching our price target. I think that that would be like the tail end. It could definitely happen in a few days if there's enough bullish sentiment and there's enough volume. But I think on the outside end, in terms of reaching this 62 price level or the 62 five price level, we really be looking at three or four weeks on the outside timeframe for trying to reach this full price target. But it's a really nice setup overall. And again, I would really just keep an eye out for this key 57, seven price level. And once we do break above that, I would be bullish above that. And that would kind of be a stop loss once we are able to break above that price level. So if prices drop back below that, then that likely means that there's some good selling pressure and that the trend is likely invalidated in your term. So definitely keep an eye as that's kind of the main area of resistance. And if we do break out, that is the main area of support and should be a stop loss. If you do look to enter a trade similar to this one, but ultimately really good setup overall. And I think it's a pretty high probability trade. If you go in once we do get the confirmed breakout. And I also think that it's a high risk to reward trade if you enter the trade properly. And I think that there's obviously a good distance for this ticker to run. Obviously, a $5 move right around this 57 price level, you're talking about an eight or 9% move in the underlying stock price, which is definitely a strong move in the underlying. So it's a good setup and it's a good move. And I'm excited to see what it does both tomorrow, hopefully and even early into next week. So keep an eye on FSLI. And if you guys have any questions below, please feel free to comment or just reach out to me in the chat. So thank you guys so much for joining. And I hope you have a great day. Thanks so much. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with another box of 2020 Bowman Baseball First Edition. Break 10, we skipped a few breaks. 10 for some reason sold out before a few others. So if you're looking for that, they still need to sell out. So for break 10, wait, I gotta make sure I grab the right list for break 10. Right, John down to John Samuelson. Right, yeah, so there you go. So there it is right there. Grab the break credit promo a little bit. At the end of this break, will be the break credit promo. All right, now obviously Bobby Whit Jr., Jason Dominguez are your big names that we're chasing right here, but all card chip because there's a lot of other solid names as well that could carry, maybe not as much value as Bobby Whit and Jason Minguez, but they'll carry some solid value. All right, good luck everybody. There you go, Dustin's, we were just talking about that five year stretch where the Dodgers had rookies of the years in the 90s on like bad teams, but it was Carroll's first, then Piazza, then Mike Piazza, then Raul Montesey, they all know more than Todd Hollinsworth. Did they also have four in a row from 79 to 83? Who were they? That must have been like the Bill Russell infield, that infield that was together for like a zillion years. Oh, never mind. It was the Sutcliff, Steve Howe, Fernando and Steve Sacks. That's not a bad quartet there. Kevin Bennett remembers being a kid, going to games in the Fernando Mania era. If anyone's a bit on the younger side, go look at Fernando Valenzuel's rookie year stats and just, he came out of the gate like, I don't think I've ever seen anyone come out of the gate that strong as a pitcher. Who's the next pitcher after Fernando to come out of the gate as strong as he did? I struggled to think of anyone in the last like 10 or 15 years. Maybe Don Trell Willis in the 90s, maybe had like that kind of run to start his career. Dwight Gooden, right, right, right. Doc. Well, what about last 20 years though, Dustin? This the Tuck Rule game, just the Tuck Rule game. All right, we'll watch Yankees at Rockies. Why are we watching Yankees at Rockies? What's the significance of this game? I don't know. It was Braylon Marquez to 50. That'll be for Jeff Ivison in the Cubs. Remember all card ship. Here's Josiah Gray, one of the Dodgers prospects there. Hasu Sanchez to 75. Joey Bart, one of the great prospects in there. Tomas, there was a CJ Abrams back there too. Logan Gilbert to 150. Collin and the Mariners. Ryan Rawlison for the Rocks. Can't forget about this guy, that's Jason. People are saying his base cards are going easily over 200 bucks. If you get a parallel 300, 400 bucks, 500 bucks, that's wild. But I feel like he kind of, it's the perfect storm, right? He's on a big market team. Number one international prospect, right? He's got a nickname named after Jason Giambi, you know? So the perfect storm ticks a lot of boxes there. But there's a lot of future good players. Julio Rodriguez, I've heard things about him. Joe Adele, Wander Franco, of course. Kieber Ruiz, Kellan X, Khalia Ramos, Bledet. Wow, that's sold out already? Yeah. We'll add that to the schedule too. I think I've got it on track though. Oh, okay. Well, here's an unofficial schedule in the chat ladies and gentlemen. Luis Robert, all right, nice. So the schedule is official now. Seth Beer, Diamondbacks. There's Christian Javier to 150. Mackenzie Gore, Alec Bonn. Curtis wants to know what we're doing for May the 4th be with you. Nothing, Nick says. What are you buying off of us, Curtis? What should we order for you? Oh, that's only two days, it's like two days out. You should have been asking us this question like a week ago. Then we would have been able to actually do something. Reese Hines to 150. And Clark Schmidt. Was yesterday our sixth year of the anniversary? Wow. See, we're not about that pomp and circumstance, folks. We just come in here, roll up our sleeves, and just grind. That's what we do. Anniversaries, these celebrations. Yeah, we don't pass jobs on the back. I mean, what's six years when we're planning to be around for like 26 years, you know what I mean? Yeah, so it's just like, yeah, we only celebrate decades. Yeah, Sam Huff. I don't know what we're doing on May the 5th either. What day of the week does that fall in? Cinco de Mayo. There's Bobby Whit Jr. Bobby Whit Jr. for the Royals, Richard Zitterman. Ryan Harrell, if you pressed your own Jaspie's T-shirt, would we be upset? Yes. That'd be a violation of copyright. And trademark, Travis Squire. And then we'd have to sue you, and we don't wanna do that. Right, it'd be like a Supreme shirt. Jaspie's Supreme shirts, woo. And there's Jaren Duran for the Red Sox. All right, there you go. All right, now, good luck, everybody. If you bought at least two teams, you'll get one entry for break credit. Brian bought two, John Samuelson bought two, Chris bought two, Colin bought two. Darren bought two, that's an entry. EA, two, that's one entry. Jared with two, that's one entry. Jeff with two, that's one entry. John two, Josh two, Matt with two. Matt F, Matt G, no, Richard with two. If you buy four teams, folks, that's two entries in the promo, six teams, three entries, so on and so forth. All right, so name on top after four, five and a four, nine times, name on top, 100 bucks. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And good luck, ninth and final time. Boom, Jeff Ivison, last spot mojo, 100 bucks break credit going your way. Joe for jaspiescasebreaks.com. We'll see you next time for the next break, bye-bye.


Welcome to the School of Arts. Studying art at SOAS is unique, as we are one of the only few global centres specialising in the historical and contemporary arts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. We offer eight programmes at postgraduate level, including MAs in Music, three history of art programmes, curating cultures and creative and cultural industries. As a SOAS student, you will be taught by academics directly engaged in the subjects of expertise through field work and collaborations across the world. Our unique expertise is what sets us apart from other institutions. For example, SOAS has the only music department in the UK dedicated to world music. And similarly, the Department of Art and Archaeology is the only art department in the UK covering specialist modules on visual and material culture, spanning Africa to Asia. We also offer a range of paid internships at the institutions we partner with, including the Venice Art Biennale and the Rittberg Museum in Missouri. In addition to our teaching, you'll also be part of a vibrant, diverse and remarkably creative community of researchers and students. Our graduates have gone on to careers in the cultural sector within and outside the UK, including organisations such as Sotheby's, the Vienna Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art and the British Museum to name a few. As a SOAS student, you'll thrive in an environment that offers enormous scope to hone your craft whilst developing the critical thinking, communication and vocational skills needed for successful career in the creative industries. We hope to welcome you to SOAS soon.


Let's put our hands together for Brandon as he's coming up. So Brandon got saved in Armenia about five months ago, and he was invited by his friend, Manny. And so, Brandon, can you please share your first experience when you came to church? What did you experience? I thought it was crazy, like everyone was praying out loud, and none of the churches I've ever gone to, no one's ever done that, and I thought it was weird. What happened to you when you gave your life to Jesus Christ and you came up on the stage? I felt really warm and happy and just super excited. You felt the touch of God in your life at that day? Yes. Can you please share, how was your life before you gave your life to Jesus Christ, and what were the things you were struggling with? I wasn't happy. I was depressed all the time. I was addicted to pornography and tobacco, and I just wasn't happy. I was a Christian, but I didn't live a Christian life at all. I thought that I didn't need to go to church to believe in God, which is true, but still. Okay, so what happened afterwards after you gave your life to Jesus Christ to rededicate it to your life? How is your life different now? I'm not depressed at all anymore ever. I don't have any problems with pornography or tobacco at all. I have no cravings for any of it, and I'm just happy all the time, and I've got a better relationship with my family too. Hallelujah. Let's put our hands together for God. Thanks, God. I know you mentioned to me earlier that when you came to one of the prayer lines, that's when the tobacco addiction was broken off of your life, and can you share with us what were the things you're trying to do to stop smoking and you could not succeed? I tried the Nicorette gum stuff. I tried the patch. I started when I was 14 smoking, and so I've just tried a whole bunch of things and they never worked, and so it was just God that I needed. Amen. And God set him free completely from addiction to smoking. Let's put our hands together for God one more time. And Brandon, can you please share a word of advice to people who might be struggling with addictions or they have not given their lives to God yet? What can you tell them? I would say to give your life completely to God, and if you already have and it's not working, just give it more time and trust in him and he will set you free from it. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing.


I mean, nothing special. We were just, you know, running our gaps, got knocked off the ball. It was a bunch of different things. It was uncharacteristic for us, for sure. We just got to go back to the drum board and then fix it. And we just can't play like that. I just came over from Bired Zoom and he was saying he felt like you guys had a good week of practice leading into it, but whatever was accomplished didn't necessarily translate.  Yeah, I mean, one week we're up, one week we're down. If I just go, we don't fight too good. Our biggest thing is just being consistent and going and then doing our job. And today we didn't do that. With the penalty that Rashawn had when you guys about to get the third down stop, is there anything you say to him as a teammate in that situation to kind of get his head on straight or whatever the case may be?  And that's something I've been able to preach with every day in the meeting room.  How easy is it to move on from a game like this knowing what you have ahead of you and the stakes that are involved for the playoffs?  We have a huge game next week and we have to come ready to play. So the faster we can shrug this off and get back to the drum board and get right to Houston, the better. But I mean, you can't like this to deter us knowing where we are right now in our division and knowing opportunity coming up.  Thanks, Daquan. We'll wrap up with Greg Bates. What does the snow and the conditions kind of affect you guys, especially on defense? I mean, for me, not too much. I mean, it was snowing, but I mean, it wouldn't really stick to your cleat for me. I mean, I don't wanna see them make excuses about the snow and that's the reason why they did what they did. I mean, we just didn't play good enough. And I don't think the weather had much of a factor for me personally. I haven't watched the film yet. I mean, I guess we're gonna see, but I don't think the snow would be the issue. Are you guys upset at all? You had a chance to clinch the division tonight. Obviously you weren't able to do that upset. What's kind of the emotions after this? I mean, yeah, I have more pressure that we didn't get the job done. We know what we could do tonight with a win and you can get it done. I mean, it sucks, but at the same time, I gotta shake it off and do it for Houston.


years ago actually I was in college and I was already getting my degree in exercise sport science and it was my last year 2011 and you know I was kind of sitting there what do I want to do with this a lot a lot of other people were going off the physical therapy school nursing school that kind of stuff cardiac rehab I hadn't really quite decided and then I saw it was actually on ESPN sports science they're kind of talking about different training styles and the science and philosophies of based on the type of kids they get for University of Oregon versus Auburn football because they were the teams playing the national title that year with Cam Newton so that kind of I loved working out love sports and I was like oh cool you know like maybe I'll go into athlete training but still not really knowing what I was going to do because the first main thing you think of especially that segment is coaching for a college or a protein so started looking at that that's what I decided to do I had an internship left over to do spring 2012 after I graduated and I was able to meet my mentor Sean Dassey and he had already done division one strength coaching pride performance in California and he had actually relocated into my area of Texas and so I began to do my internship under him and I mean that was 10 years ago and he's still he's still a mentor to me this day we actually live in the same city still still talk back and forth so we kind of work together for a little bit and then we went our own directions and then the corporate gym goals Jim didn't work out for me working for somebody else I decided once I left there to go on my own and you know I've been doing independently under my own name so performance training for seven years now good awesome so for those for those watching you do you specialize more in in sports performance correct right yeah I mean in a nutshell get stronger build muscle you know uh speed vertical agility all that stuff that um away from the sports skills basically okay cool so tell us a bit about your business then uh so uh like I said it's been seven years since I started it uh been on my own uh I'm in San Antonio Texas uh mostly what I do is uh one-on-two training and so uh since I get mostly volleyball and football players then it's pretty easy to pair them up uh you know they bring teammates siblings and everything like that uh right now I rent out of a gym um here in San Antonio and I share space and so uh but outside of the training I also handle nutrition because I'm all about the total uh you know human body performance uh not just the physical in the gym so I handle uh nutrition anything from simple guidelines to you know not eating as much fries and candy to um yeah to you know game day snacks uh that kind of step through critical times of the year and then of course like a lot of coaches uh we know tapping more into the the mindset inside uh you know get the mind right and everything else will kind of follow usually yeah so how is it working with athletes from different sports them uh it's as far as how is it like how difficult is it because they're different sports or is it kind of different in terms of working like with a football athlete and a volleyball athlete uh it can be but to simplify it no matter what sport you uh train if you're in the performance side is you gotta think strength to strength powers power jumping higher getting faster is getting faster um so I I lay the foundation from a general athletic standpoint y'all don't have any sport right now um lay the foundation uh the way it would be uh if they went to college and their strength coach you know took a hold of them uh so everything is pretty simple in that way and I do like to uh train the same sports with each other if I can uh you know 99% will be that way and um and then as they go through the season uh less like you know club you know volleyball players they play club right over the fall and so I will have them in that major time of the club season for like you know seven to eight months and so then I might get a little bit more specific uh to uh their sport but a lot of that uh you know even then 90% of programs still gonna be the foundations of athletic performance what makes you a better athlete their coaches uh whether it's the ones they go to clinics for or their team coaches at school or in club they're the ones who are going to take care of the more technical side so mine is just to supplement that uh with my training okay cool so it's actually really simple but it can be seen pretty complicated uh you know break it down right so it when you when you do workouts with your athletes do you focus more on like specific movements within that sport um strength and conditioning or I mean the the strength side uh even with uh football players who are known to be just bigger and stronger than everybody else um I still keep it uh once again very foundational uh but obviously with volleyball compared to if I have an offensive lineman uh in football then the volleyball player will need a little bit of everything a little bit more agility a little bit more uh broad jump and sprints a little bit more vertical the offensive lineman he can still benefit from that but um it's definitely in a shorter space so then yeah then within all those there's degrees of change uh based on what they need but that's also why I continuously evaluate their agility test um their vertical uh their their sprint test uh during sessions cool cool sounds good so you've been in business for over five years now so tell us talk to us a little bit when you first started what what was your biggest obstacle you faced uh biggest obstacle um I will still like I said right now I rent out of facility and I wouldn't say the biggest obstacle uh in the you know in the grand scheme of things was the fact that I was training out of a football field plenty of people go to the field and train um the biggest obstacle is how do you get people to notice you if you're out of field versus a public gym that always has traffic so I had to figure out um who to talk to and that's your youth coaches of different sports uh other trainers you know like uh guys like Ben were doing soccer training another guy I know uh named Yale he does quarterback training getting to know other trainers who don't quite do what I do but we can supplement what each other do um to get noticed uh knowing how to use social media properly um a lot of my friends and family they all my social media they you know they didn't have kids in sports yet now it's totally different it's seven years later a lot more of them do uh to where I get my eye uh more eyes on me on my you know everyday friend list but uh back then I had to learn to find where that was instead of just trying to like you know DM and you know click uh friend requests on everybody so I so I found Facebook groups uh that actually solved a lot of the problems that put me um in front of a lot more people in my community so um but through that time uh learning how to get more uh money up front which something you know we talk about in this program um so there's it always starts off sessions okay that's what the first thing we're ever taught is sessions so in the beginning I was getting people who were just kind of dropping in money okay there's a risk to that um and then it's the next test would be uh either getting more per session or more sessions together and then uh you know learning later on uh getting more of a monthly amount and then they kind of come up to a certain amount per month so everything kind of progressed that way um and in Texas I would say the biggest obstacle you can't control is uh the heat yes yeah we had over uh I think we had over 100 degrees starting like in April this year so that was pretty so luckily I was training inside yeah yeah yeah with with air conditioning I'm guessing no yes very awesome so at the moment in your program what's what's the minimum commitment a client is is making with you uh the minimum is um one time a week and I actually sell the most of those because uh once again I have volleyball players they have they go to they go to privates clinics for all their skills they play for schools so they have school demands they play for clubs they have those nights uh and uh weekend afternoons they have to go to they have siblings who are in sports and other curricular activities mom and dad have worked so uh the one time a week is like an extra credit tutoring uh you know level that ties in everything else I sell the most one time a week summertime they'll usually upgrade the two to three times a week though so I take advantage of that um you know usually May through mid-August I uh take advantage of them bumping up and upgrading um a lot of them will do um month to month and they'll they'll do that throughout the you know usually October or November through um you know mostly through mid-August I'll retain them and then there's those people recently um uh in the last year Ben taught me how to uh get more months up front you know the different the different ways to do that you know they save a little you get more up front it's secure it's in the bag and then you kind of move on to the next so I get a mixture of those you pay six months up front those who will still do month to month but they're still waiting for nine months yeah yeah so for for many coaches that are watching that aren't too familiar with say more the performance aspects of sport right because a lot of the trainers we work with are more skills development right and performance goes along like it's it's more than just skill and so for you what was what's like one or two um like problems your clients face when they come to you um well just like it's a common problem uh even when they hire a lot of other coaches like y'all who take care of the skill side is they played for a school mainly that um it's overcrowded they don't get enough reps the camps they might have gone to not enough reps they don't have control over the the itinerary at club practices to get more reps more one on one attention uh at times and so for me um they say okay I need more uh help getting faster and you could be like well you just got to go to track practice and everything like that you got to play faster but there might be something technical they need uh just to learn okay once again just the fact that they get in front of somebody you can make it more personalized and biggest attention that's what they usually get the advantage of so running faster uh they're in the weight room but sometimes you don't always get the the best attention or most attention in the weight room either uh and if you do you uh need to learn how to do it without um you know depleting yourself for all your other hours in a week with uh you know from us you know skills training club practices and all that so that's the biggest problem is learn how to work hard and smart basically yeah yeah yeah so in terms of like the nutrition side this is something that that interests me as well right how do you as as a coach keep your clients accountable to the nutrition first every time they come in I'm always going to ask what they've been having for lunch and dinner that week that's a very uh very simple easy going conversation um you know a lot of them know that they they don't always have the best options at schools sometimes they have very good options and so um so a nutrition I'm always quizzing them when they come in whatever they looks like I do have group text with parents they send photos of what snacks they're doing in between school practices and training they always ask me questions on what they can do especially when you're out of time crunch going from point A to point B all the time yeah um so that's uh that's the most basics of that um not keeping them accountable is just always asking questions like what have you been doing uh keeping an open door for the parents ask him how it's going um and then you know when they bring the problems up of why accountability is hard then you know then you try to once again like we always do create solutions for that all right yeah like that so where do you see the sports performance industry going in the in the next two to five years it's going right up with the rest of the youth sports industry it's uh it we're we're um I don't know if this ties into a next question or not uh but initially when I read the questions I said it's probably gonna double you know in the next three to five years and that was just a very honest answer but then I decided why haven't googled this in a while let me look up where youth sports is going and I know in the United States it said in 2010 2017 um it went up 55 to like 19 billion dollar youth sports industry that's just playing sports um and so automatically with y'all who do baseball basketball uh sports performance and all that on the side we piggyback with that okay that's not even including us I think um and so I was like okay we're gonna double that but I kept reading uh some research that even even though there was a slight dip in 2021 during COVID with some uncertainties in different areas of the world um in the United States that they still project based on research groups that and by 2026 it'll hit about 70 billion dollars in the United States so so sports performance is just gonna go right up for that that's like I don't I don't have an exact number but I know if that's going up and with my experience it's just gonna happen yeah yeah no I completely agree like every single day every single week you see more and more coaches entering this this industry this niche and 100% like for example I'm I'm in the UK and and I'd say we are we're about five years behind the US in terms of like private training okay um but once we've caught up in terms of private training I can definitely see a lot more parents investing into the the stuff that you do with the performance aspect and now with a lot of kids being um well on their tablets a lot sitting down for a lot of most of the week I can see a lot more parents now maybe looking at other alternatives options to get their kids more active more stronger and not just the physical side right the mental side as well right something you touched on so 100% agree with you I think it's definitely gonna continue to grow and hopefully the UK will we'll at some point catch up so perfect so you've you've been working with Ben so talk to us a little bit about how your business has changed since since you started working with Ben yeah uh so even so I was uh when I first met Ben I was slowly getting smarter while after a year in the gym my name had already built up so getting people in the door um because of some momentum the first two years athletes did really well parents uh loved my training that wasn't as hard um getting smarter and how I took payments so to where I'm not just like chasing after checks and credit cards um not having to do as much accounting work um that's where Ben came in handy uh so it was okay here's uh session packages and then it was okay here's at least getting automatic payments every two weeks four weeks that kind of stuff is what he did and so so so a lot of times I would sell um okay here's a package for one time a week but you know he told me a lot of the words is don't say sessions you do a whole monthly program at least it's monthly training you give homework you give nutrition advice uh an accountability service sell it as monthly coaching they're paying for uh at least month to month you just so happen to get one time a week or two times a week okay so you kind of flip the words and the model around a little bit so that was a big changer right there getting things once again automatically charging no matter how often you get them charged getting automatically charged to where you don't have to remind about checkbooks cash credit cards everything's a lot more organized and once it's automatic it's more organized going straight to your bank you don't have to worry about it the only thing you worry about is a few card declines but people's cards stay pretty active every three to four years so that's not a huge issue right there um so that's been the biggest thing is once you're not worried about you know working with them once you're not worried about people always having the money at the right time to repay you every time then you can focus on training smarter improving coaching services outside the sessions um marketing to take on more people okay so you you can just go back to what you love doing you don't have to you know be a money chaser anymore and then people stay committed longer because one less thing to worry about yes yes completely agree so tell us a little bit so what what's been your best month since working since working with Ben and being part of our program now you don't have to say financially what was the best month but in terms of like adding clients and your your business growing um so the first couple years working with Ben there was always uh my goal was to you're always going to have some kind of slow month my goal was to never have as slow as the other uh yeah like you know the year before so always try to grow percentage even if it's gonna be slower it's not as slow so um summers we're getting busier and then i would say this past year um a lot of things i did on my end and then you know luckily other things that other trades my area weren't doing correctly benefited me that i would say this whole entire year has just been really awesome it went from usually beginning of the year uh you know i got like 20 uh 20 sessions one or two kids per session i was hitting like 40 hours a week a lot faster than before and so when i went into the summer it was uh i had you know 80 percent of the kids that i needed already to be ready for the summer and then it was just a matter of can i fit more kids in where can i fit them in and and next thing you know in the summertime when i'm already busy um i was hitting like even with two kids per hour maxed out my gym i was hitting 55 hours and four and a half days wow so and and my problem before with when i worked with ben was i was only selling one-on-one and i got so busy and i was like man i'm doing the same football players the same volleyball players like i don't need one-on-one attention i can cut that price down a little bit still make my money still get all the kids in that i want all the traffic coming in and i remember after i took his first time taking his advice i went from 55 hours a week uh one mostly one-on-one to the next year i made the same amount of money but that summer it was only um that summer i only did uh 35 hours a week but i was making the same amount of money so it was awesome i more free time more energy more enjoyment uh but now i've hit a ceiling where um i'm doing everything i'm supposed to i just have a lot more demand so this whole year has been like you know a flood gate mm-hmm so you made a great point so a lot of coaches think that in order to make more money they they need to work more so how you were doing 55 sessions per week and then you went to 35 but you were making the same amount of money doing this hours how how does that happen so any coach watching or listening tell us how does that happen um so i mean you get two kids per hour and if those two kids add it up exceed how much your one-on-one was trained before then um you know you you make more per hour and you have one more kid than usual and so um you don't always have two kids per session but um when you get busy enough you will um you'll force it into that way when you have control of your business like uh that you have been had taught us so uh you know everybody has their own balance uh some of y'all uh some of y'all's coaches have you know groups of six to eight but they've realized that same balance you know they can make two to three hundred dollars a day uh doing that at least versus trying to get more one-on-one clients and then the retention's a loss a lot bigger when we find that healthy balanced everyone correct yeah yeah agree so tell us a bit about your your current sales process then how do you sell and market your business where are your clients coming from uh so a lot of uh once again word of mouth from current parents and athletes that i have uh i've been getting closer to a lot of their uh you know the volleyball coaches are club coaches uh football coaches for my other guys at school uh some of them i grew up some of their coaches i grew up with and have known for years so i get a lot of uh word of mouth referrals between that you know very organic and then like i said i stumbled on to some uh community uh facebook pages and and one that worked really out for me was just for uh the one that i used for years where the was all at use for it but it was mainly football dads and parents in there overall uh this other one was purely just uh and it helped me a lot this year was just volleyball parents in my city okay and they are very good about uh they're like actually the best networking at if you want to sell volleyball skills they will tag you 10 times in a row like they're that good at referral networking tagging trainers um so i found a lot on there uh and then some people will find through the website also um i will get i will get people who are always google search and i guess i've been searched enough to where it's kind of popped up enough um on there and so usually depending on how they find me some will message me through social media some will email me depending on where they found me and so what ben has always taught us and i've done i've mastered a lot more is always pushed to get their phone number email and find a day and time to call uh if you just message them you respond right away hey this is my prices that's it it's a 50 50 chance so get them on a call uh sometimes you know get them on a call or get them in person meeting so that's so that's my process um and then you know working with ben getting more structured with your uh your interview questions with them um get to know the parents name the kids name what club they play for positions uh schools they attend or will attend their needs um relating it to other kids that you train and their problems and how you solved it and just showing you understand all that and this is how your program can solve it but also showing understanding that hey your kid is a little different here's what we'll look into to changing things up that way no matter if you train one on one one on two one on eight they always feel like it's it can be personalized to them yeah no uh that's the thing and then uh you know from there it's like uh you've been have taught for over the years is that alone will help you uh send them a link and then sell on the phone basically correct correct yeah so are you currently doing this full time yes i've been doing it full time for seven years good good so for anyone watching how do you get into training or how do you turn this this business from part-time to a full-time business what what do you need because it's not just about business right you've got to be also disciplined in your personal life right so talk to us a little bit how how do you go about starting it maybe as a hobby turn it into a part-time thing and then go and fill in and doing it for a living yeah i mean i would say even if your goal is to let's say you have an eight to five job and you just want to do it for an hour a day after you get out of your main job and you love it maybe one day you want to get into a full time i would say even if you're only going to do 10 sessions a week to start off part-time or you want to jump into 40 like you said you got to make your your lifestyle has to be a certain way um that's being more serious uh with everything uh the the seriousness that you would want your athletes to have you need to have also um taking care of everything else in life um outside so that way it doesn't interfere always looking to be more than on time being a great communicator um you know throughout the schedule each week is big um even if it's a hobby if you want to be taking it seriously like it may be 10 hours a week then you have to train serious you have to pretend like you know you're gonna do this to be the number one person in your area okay don't don't treat it like uh it's extra money you know let's kind of goof off and everything and you know i hope they like me and everything like go in it like you're gonna make this your full-time income tomorrow okay me my goal was always to make training my full-time income i just had to get better at sales uh and then i started taking more advantage of my free time every time i go to the gym the last five of seven years i always bring my backpack uh note spiral a couple books to read but then also my laptop i'm always there's always something you can do on your free time uh it revolves around uh talking to clients finding uh finding more clients uh improving your uh your training program and everything like that you have to improve every other area getting serious you can't just even if it is a hobby you don't want to treat like a hobby or it's going to end like most hobbies very soon yeah i like that one that's good so how how do you how do you balance like work and life um you know or is there no balance no there's a balance but it looks different uh person to person and it's gonna look different uh over the year um you know summertime uh kids are not in school you're gonna be working a lot more if you want to and uh and so you know for one thing go back to communication if you have a significant other and other family members that you have shared life with communicating how things will look in the busiest times how you project them based on the amount of calls the emails you get the better you do that the better y'all can solve as a unit um so and then you gotta establish what hours you want to work in person with athletes what hours you do or you don't want to take phone calls responding emails uh that's uh that's the hardest part for all of us is getting off our phone and responding because in the beginning we're we're very ambitious but we also feel like if i don't respond to this person right now 10 p.m on a friday i will not make the sale yes that's not always true that's not always true like they're sometimes they do that 10 p.m on a friday because they're bored i agree yeah so it takes just like with athletes getting better it takes practice it takes reps to slowly change one thing at a time uh so don't try to rush into it and make sure it's perfect because it won't be perfect but do try to put on a slow gradual efforts and everything do communicate with everybody in your life on how things are going what you foresee um you know if you have kids uh it'll be a problem that i have later on is how will we manage uh who takes the kids to school or daycare who picks them up who takes them to their sports that's probably my biggest nightmare later on it's a problem that i'm going to enjoy having is who's going to be taking my kids to sports if i give them like you know why be ready to step back some days to take them there um you know all that stuff um because i will have to tap into my kids the same way parents tap into theirs i can't be saying well no like you're going to figure that out i i want to be at their games but i at least want to be at one practice a week you know i do want to i do want to be able to go and just be dead so yeah i agree and a lot of that i would say um if you know trainers in your area that have mastered it have an honest conversation with them and they will open up about it for like several hours talk to the parents of the kids you train because they are doing it right now mm-hmm like they are they're doing it right now every single day and if you want to learn from somebody learn from those who are already doing it and understand you and they have the same goals and intentions that you do yeah yeah i can't agree more so jim tell us where where do you see your your business in the next five years from now uh so right now i am going to be uh i'm in the process with this partner actually looking to open up my own uh training studio in 2023 so by doing that uh my one on two where most kids are doing one time a week or sometimes two times a week uh three in the summers uh you know for that short time uh we will keep prices around the same but because it's a group and we have more eyes and we can deliver a uh a better experience with more kids at once um the prices will be the same but uh we'll be offering to where they can come in automatically three to four times a week in a group yeah and so um so that's my thing uh the amount an athlete pays will be about the same give or take but they have the chance to come in more times in a month that opens up so that is going to be great uh still deliver personalized attention and care uh that's gonna be the big focus while still being in a group and my business partner uh has awesome skills at that because he's worked at the collegiate level strength conditioning he's worked for a high school where he had to look over 100 football players but then there is the the school coaches who didn't know how to coach as well as him for the weight room and he had to make sure that they were doing a good job also so it's one of those things where if he can do that and i had the personalization skills we can build that together then you know one on 12 two on 15 or 20 is is a you know it's easy yes so so my thing is going to be moving into uh adding in those uh small groups to where um you know right now my ceiling um at the 55 hours and four and five days i was my ceiling was at two kids per hour however many hours i could allow myself to work now that ceiling's more open because even if i only get four kids per hour that's still double okay that's still double um everything is only increased we're not i'm not as fatigued um so there is you know it does become my own baby but the ceiling is higher because i could double every hour at minimum i can probably triple two of those hours after school and then the summertime we can run stuff even bigger and stronger so that's where i see uh the next three to five years and hopefully longer running that and tied into that will be a lot of stuff that ben has helped other coaches with with bigger camps whether that's something you want to do on a regular basis or just something to give back to like you know a three hour experience to everybody and you have other coaches kind of come in plenty of other guys like ben they do soccer they do football maybe i do my speed and agility thing and then they do a big a big camp on the side or those guys are already doing something and their athletes pay for just an extra 45 minutes on a saturday and uh that gets us the parents information to see what we're about we're going to talk to them while they work with other coach they know uh so that's probably where the next three to five years is just to be bigger and then you know hire some coaches underneath us good awesome all right jim well thank you for for coming on here sharing sharing your journey sharing your story with us and would love to to bring you on in 12 months from now see where you are and hopefully your business looks a lot different in a good way in 12 months from now yeah i'd love to come back awesome all right well thanks for coming on and look to connect with you in the near future all right thank you talk again see you


Operation Sunbird is a perfect example of how important it is to bring member countries together to conduct international operations and to connect countries to Interpol's databases. In this example, 10 countries from the ASEAN region came together for a specific operation. They sent staff into our Interpol Global Complex for Innovation to coordinate the activities and they conducted more than 10 million searches at sea borders, land borders, international airports and that at the end has led to some very significant arrests. We have been conducting similar operations in other parts of the world, for instance very recently the Operation Neptune Tew, specifically focusing on the Mediterranean route. Maritime security is the keyword in that context. We brought Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia together, together with southern European countries, Spain, Italy and France. The same approach bringing relevant quality information that is an Interpol databases to the front lines at relevant border stations. It's a perfect example how important it is that Interpol continues helping countries to collect relevant information, share that information by using the Interpol communication system that connects 194 member countries and making sure that this information is available at front lines of policing and Interpol would definitely continue in supporting countries in conducting these kind of operations.