Hello, I'm your host, Alex Friedberg. Thank you so much for joining me today. We will be talking about how I manage my time working roughly around 60 hours per week. And I get a lot of comments and messages basically asking that question, like how do I manage my time with a full-time job and all the other things I do, as well as having a family, three kids and a wife? How do I do that? And a lot of people who are asking that usually are in pretty similar situations and they'll watch, you know, one of my videos and they're like, I have three kids and a wife and a full-time job and I have no time to do anything else. So, you know, what do you do? How does that work? And so I usually try to give them, you know, some pointers or some tips on some things that I do that might help them. And that's what this video really is for. At the end of it, hopefully by the end of it, you'll think, you know, here are some actionable things or some things that Alex did that I could implement as well to help utilize my time. That's kind of what you might be able to get out of this video. So I have a lot of things we're gonna talk about. I have a new setup today. Usually I look like down here for my laptop because I do notes on the shows. But today it's down over here. So I might feel weird me looking over here today. But I'm gonna break down exactly where my time goes in rough estimates. Again, sometimes it's less than 60 hours. Sometimes it's more. But roughly around 60 is pretty accurate. It's a pretty average work week or not even a work week, just a week because some of these things I can't do during the week, I do them only on the weekends. So I'm just gonna kick it right off the bat. I'm gonna kind of break down where my time goes and then we'll go into a lot of other things. So let's start it off. How is my time broken up? Well, I have a 40 hour job per week. That is a full time job. So that I have, it's pretty standard. I think a lot of people have that. On top of that, I do about 10 hours per week on YouTube. And that encompasses a lot of different things, right? Making a video, like what I'm doing right now, it's editing a video, it's replying to comments, it's doing some SEO on my videos, which is search engine optimization. That's also updating my website, responding to various messages that I get. That's for the YouTube channel, right? They message me on Instagram or LinkedIn or Twitter or they comment, like all those things they take time to respond to. And I do spend a lot of time responding to those, about 10 hours for everything, for all that stuff. I do consulting, so I have a side business that I do where I consult with companies for analytics, either products that they're trying to create or things that they're trying to market and I help them with that. So I do some consulting on the side and I also do my mentorship program. A lot of you guys know that I do my mentorship. And again, that takes time. So that's about five hours a week. So that's where my time goes. So we have 40 hours for a job, 10 hours on YouTube, that's 50 hours, five hours on consulting, five hours on mentorship. That's 60. Again, it very much varies week to week. Sometimes I don't have a lot of consulting, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't have a lot of mentorship, sometimes I do. Again, roughly around 60 hours. Now, on top of that, I have three kids. I have a two-year-old, I have a three-year-old and I have a nine-year-old. It's about to turn 10 and three and the two just turn three and two. So that's a lot of things. And when I break it down like that, when I was typing up all my notes for this, I was thinking, wow, I actually do do a lot of things. It doesn't always seem like I do a lot because I do have some free time and I do get plenty of time in with my kids. But when I break it down like that, it does seem like a lot of work. And so we're gonna get into that just a little bit. Now, to preface everything that we're about to go into, I used to be really bad at managing my time.  Like I was just your typical kid out of college, right? I was pretty lazy, watched a lot of Netflix, gamed a lot. I played a lot of like, you know, games on Xbox. So a lot of just various games. And I used to spend a lot of time doing that. And so that was one of the biggest things was cutting that out and we'll get that a little bit. The other thing was, I just didn't, I didn't manage my time well. It just slipped away, right? It'd be like two hours here, two hours there. Just get away from me and I wouldn't do anything. Part of doing the things that I do is managing that time. That's the first thing we're gonna talk about, which is managing my time and actually putting an hour or putting a task to the hour has become really important to me. And usually I do that in a few different ways. So I do have calendars. I have two separate calendars. I have a work calendar. I have a YouTube calendar basically. And I usually have to sync those up. So if I have work, I can't do YouTube and I have YouTube. I can't do work, but work kind of takes precedence. So I always have to be syncing those up making sure I'm not double booking myself because that would be terrible. And that has happened, which is terrible, but making sure I know where my time is going is very crucial. And let me see. The biggest thing about having a calendar is that I know where my time is being spent. I'm not just on my phone scrolling, which sometimes I do mostly when I get messages on places and then I'm like, oh, I'm already on LinkedIn. Let me see what's going on for like five minutes. But the problem is that five minutes quickly turns into an hour. And I have to study a lot of reminders for myself to do certain things. Like if I know I have to post a video every Tuesday, which I've done for a long time, I have to record Thursday, Friday or Saturday to be able to get the editing done and all that, those things. So I have reminders on my phones to be sure to do that.  So reminders and making sure you have a calendar really, really, really helped me a lot. That would probably be one of the bigger things. The next thing is getting rid of distractions. And I laugh because again, I used to be, I used to have so many distractions. I genuinely love watching Netflix. I love watching Amazon Prime videos or movies with my wife. And I like surfing the web and like gaming. A lot of those things offer almost no value to creating something long-term. It's very short-term, right? I watch a movie, I'm satisfied for that moment. And then maybe I talk about it one time in the future. But it does not really build anything. And so getting rid of those distractions was really, really important. So in order to get rid of those distractions, what did I do? Well, the first thing was I got rid of my Xbox, which was somewhat devastating at the time. And I remember, I remember this was maybe like five years ago. I was like, is this helping me in any way? Like is this really worth it? Like, am I getting to where I need to go is this hindering me? And it genuinely was hindering me for me personally because I was, I game too much. And so I kind of went cold turkey. I was just like, I'm done, I'm done gaming. I'm not gonna do it anymore. So I went cold turkey, I got rid of it. And then I used to play some games on my computer as well. I got rid of them. And I purposely spent that time that I would be gaming or doing Netflix or anything at the end of the night. And I started studying. And I started, if many of you guys have seen my story, I used to study three or four hours every single night of SQL and Tableau and all these things every single night for like months. And it took, and then that's how I got my first job. And it took that kind of sacrifice that getting rid of those distractions, those things that I really loved and enjoyed, it took getting rid of those things for me to be able to make the time to do it. And that was a big excuse for me for a long time. I genuinely kept saying to myself, I just don't have the time. I don't wanna do it. And it was really tough to get rid of it at first. But then I kind of became addicted to studying. Not addicted, it just became part of my routine. It became a habit where instead of getting invested in all these shows and all these different things, now I'm becoming invested in studying and furthering my career and my future. And now that I've been doing this for five years, I find time to watch shows and to game a little bit like on my phone every so often. But it's probably about a 10th to a 20th as much as I used to. I mean, I used to game and watch Netflix a lot. It's a lot of time spent. So managing my time, again, I just say getting rid of distractions is a big one. So having a calendar, making sure I know where my time is being spent is very important. The second is getting rid of distractions to make sure that I'm not seeping into those hours which they add up, an hour a day is seven hours a week lost. Two hours a day is 14 hours a week lost and my viewpoint on these things have changed the farther I've come because at the beginning I was like, it's only an hour. Like it's only an hour a day but that hour sometimes leaks into two hours or three hours and so getting rid of those distractions has really helped me manage my time. The next thing I will say is setting expectations. So I have, again, I have three kids and I have a wife and I need to be able to spend time with them and I'm also working from home which is super tough when you have two kids that live and are always at home and a wife who sometimes needs help with the kids or wants to go do something when the kids are at grandma's or something. So setting expectations, not just with my wife but with my kids as well has been one, very tough but two, super important and it was kind of a growing process, right? Because at the beginning I would set expectations but I would break them myself. I would say I'm in this go spend two hours working and then an hour in I'd be like, oh, I hear the kids crying, let me go help. I've really had to and I've had to have several conversations because that was a me problem. That was not my wife problem. My wife can handle the kids crying. It was me who couldn't handle the kids crying. I wanted to go help but I had to set that expectation with my wife and say, hey, when the kids are crying, you know, I used to come, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna try to do that a lot less because when I get distracted like that, it's hard for me to come back. When I go out there and then the kids know I'm there, they want me there. So setting that expectation with my wife is really, really, it was really, really important. Excuse me. Then setting the expectation with my kids as well because it's a three into two year old. I mean, they don't really understand setting boundaries or setting expectations at all.  And so I'm just saying, hey, you know, when I go in here, I have to work.  And that's how I pay for our food is I go in there and I work and when I'm in there, my wife will have to be on the same page, right? Because if my wife is like, ah, it's okay, just let them in and I'm like, it ruins everything. So again, setting boundaries and setting expectations for my time and say, this is really important. Like what I'm trying to build here and what I'm trying to grow here is really important and I need you to respect that time. And that's, I can imagine that being very difficult for a lot of people because a lot of people, it's very tough to set those boundaries. So, you know, I would think about if I were you and you know, that's something that you struggle with. I would really think about if it's you, which again, it has been me or if it's the other person and try to be very specific when you're setting that expectation or boundaries with that person. If you even need to do that, you may live by yourself and then that's not a problem. But for me, you know, part of the setting expectations was for myself and part of it was for my wife and my kids, right? So setting expectations and let's see. The next one is being intentional with my time. Now, this one is probably one of the hardest ones to do, at least for me, because my mind is always going. It's always thinking and doing things and I'm always thinking of like a LinkedIn post and I have to write it in my notes. I'm always thinking of like a different video idea and I write it in my notes. Lately I've had, especially in the past like year, I've had to be very intentional with my time because as my YouTube channel has grown, my time has become much more limited slash not important but I've had to really say no to things, say yes to things, compartmentalize. And so when I was with my kids playing with them, I would be thinking about all these different things. And then when I was working and doing all these different things, I was thinking about my kids. And so I've had to be really intentional with my time and kind of turn off my phone when I'm working or not turn off my phone but kind of turn it over and just say, this is my time to work. This is when I'm getting this stuff done and if I don't, when am I gonna get it done? It's gonna push other things. And so when it's time to work, I have to be extremely intentional with my time. It used to be when I had all the time in the world, I just didn't get it done because I would procrastinate. I would just wouldn't get it done because I had too much time and now I have so little time. I have to be, it's forced me into a situation where I have to be intentional with my time.  I can't be on my phone. I can't be responding to tweets or direct messages on Instagram or all these other things. I can't do that because my time is very precious with them as well and with my wife. So I set aside specific time, especially with my wife that we can spend at the end of the night before I start working, before she goes to bed, that we can spend together. Whether it's 30 minutes or an hour, sometimes you can even get an hour and a half in where we're just talking or watching a TV show or just relaxing, right? Being very intentional, that is our time. So I'm not doing anything else. That is our time. And so being intentional with my time has become easier with the less time that I have because it's forced me to be intentional. Otherwise, my job goes, I start spending too much time with my kids. I lose my job. I started spending too much time with my kids. I stopped posting videos. I started spending too much time working and my kids hate me. And so it's just very delicate balance. And again, just being very intentional. And let's see. Let's see. That really sums it up in a nutshell. Only 16 minutes in. That really sums it up in a nutshell. And to all the people out there who have a ton of time on their hands and don't feel like they're accomplishing anything, I get it. I really do because that was me for four years, five years in college. I mean, it wasn't college for five years. I was in college for four years, but I get it. It's just that you have so much time on your hands. You almost don't know what to do with it. You're like, I could study. I could do all these things, but I'll do it later. And then on top of that, when you do start studying, you're like, I don't need to do this now. I don't need to get this done at this moment. I can just do it later. And what happens is you start pushing it off and pushing it off and pushing it off. And the habit that you create is pushing it off. That becomes your habit. And that was me for many years. And so that was kind of that fundamental shift of, and it really was when I got married. I would say that was the biggest factor of everything. And so I highly recommend getting married. One, it's a beautiful thing. Two, I recommend like, you know, having a goal, having something that you want to accomplish because it forced me to really say, if I want to accomplish that, if I want to get there in my career and with, you know, in a relationship, if I want to get there, I need to buckle down and actually do this. Otherwise I'm not going to get anywhere. And that's helped me not only with my relationship, my career, but also my YouTube channel. I just have to do it. That has been the hardest thing for me as I, you know, got older and got out of college. I was like, hey, everything's on me now. I actually have to do this. And so when I got married, it kind of forced me. I was like, I have to provide for my family. So I have to do this, right? So yeah, that's some advice for everyone out there who has too much free time. For people who don't have any free time, they have kids, they're in my type similar situation. It really is about sacrificing. It's before when you have nothing, it's about making sure you're using your time wisely and not pushing it off and being procrastinating. When you have too few hours and you have a lot of kids and nothing, it's about really making sure you make, being intentional about your time and making sacrifices because you're gonna have to cut something out somewhere. When all your time is taken up, you have to cut something out. For me, it was gaming and Netflix for you, it might be go to the gym five days a week, instead of seven days a week. You know, stop watching Netflix at the end of the night for three days out of the week, right? You don't have to go all the way like I did. I really went cold turkey on a lot of stuff. I've got over the years, I've gotten more lenience because now I've gotten into a really good routine, but it might just be for you is being very intentional with your time. Don't watch enough like seven days a week. Watch it four days a week and spend those other three days studying and those things add up, it compounds on itself. That would be my biggest advice to all of you. So again, if you're here in the video, you watch the beginning, you watch the after the beginning and then you're here, which is actually probably towards the middle. I usually have a lot of stuff even after this. It's that everybody in some way can do it. It's just finding out how you do it. And so again, if you've watched this whole video, hopefully you've got something from that. That is my schedule.  I have a lot of things that I do and I love doing all of them. That's why I'm not really willing at the moment to give much of that up. I have a lot of things on my plate, but it really is about all those things that I just talked about managing my time, being intentional, getting rid of distractions. Those are the things that's really helped me do all of these things and having a fantastic wife who's been very supportive and does a lot of these other things, right? That I don't have to do so I can focus on these things because she does a lot of the cooking and the cleaning and the laundry and all these other things that I would have to do if she wasn't around. She helps me with those things and she makes my life easier. And in turn, I make her life easier by having this job and all this stuff. So shout out to her big time. With that being said, this is come to the time in the show where we kind of get off topic a little bit. And I want to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of this video and that is all of you. You guys are the sponsor of this video. Congratulations. If you want to support the channel you can check out my Patreon. You can provide money if you'd like to. You don't have to. I never force anyone to do that. But if you want to, I appreciate it. 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I'd still do it because I really enjoy it. But since there's more people, I like doing it even more because you guys are fantastic and you guys comment and I feel like I know you guys. And so you guys are what makes this channel happen, especially these alextheanalyst episodes.  You're just listening. That's what I like to imagine. It's a beautiful thing. We're just enjoying coffee together. Just having a chat about life and how tough it is to manage time. The next part is one of my personal favorites before we get to the vegetable of the week, which always comes at the end. It's the question of the week. And this one is in reference to my very last video, the things I hate about being a data analyst, which I have a lot of good feedback from. A lot of people really resonated with what I said. This person particularly is a particular question about something that I mentioned in that video.  Again, it's really from the heart and it's really true. There are things I don't like and this person kind of talks about that a little bit. And so the question is, he says, so is it a bad career path for someone who despises meetings? And that's in reference to me saying, I get very drained from being in meetings.  Lots of meetings. So he says, so is it a bad career path for someone who despises meetings? I've been working in a job for about a year where I had one 30-minute scrim call a day and even that ended up being unmanageable for me. And the scope creep was enough to give me nightmare, to give me nightmares and I've quit the job without another one in hand. Can you recommend a job profile and which does not have the requirement to sit in meetings for too long? Now, I am not a therapist. I am not a counselor. My wife is. So I have just a little bit of saying the matter. But generally from what I've read, this sounds like some type of social anxiety. And I would not categorize myself as somebody who has a social anxiety. I just get drained. I'm more of an introvert. The way you've categorized is that 30-minute meetings have become unmanageable, just daily meetings. And to me, that sounds like either anxiety or some type of social anxiety. Those might be the same thing. Again, I'm not a professional, but my advice is to seek out a professional. I'm more like, hey, I know, I understand what you mean. But that's kind of like almost another level, right? It's very much this overwhelming feeling during meetings and even short meetings, like 30 minutes, that's a short meeting. I would recommend just talking to somebody about that, getting some professional perspective on your situation because that might be something that you can work on and get better at. I will say that, and your question is, is it a bad career path for someone who despises meetings? Yeah, it really is. If you can't take a 30-minute meeting, it's gonna be really tough. I mean, there are days where I have like six, seven hours of meetings, and they're broken up, right? It's a 30-minute meeting, 30-minute meeting, hour, hour, hour, 30-minute meeting, 30-minute meeting, hour gap somewhere in there. But you have to do it. You can't just not show up for meetings and you get a lot of meetings. So it's kind of a, the data world involves meetings. Any career-involving data I can't imagine there won't be meetings. It's just how things are built, how things are structured. You're gonna have scrum calls. You're gonna have agile methodologies where you're doing sprints and all these things and you need to give updates. And so unless you find a very niche industry that doesn't, or company that doesn't do meetings, you're gonna have a lot of meetings.  I just recommend talking to somebody who can help because there may be other people listening to this and they're the same way. They just can't do meetings. It terrifies them or they get drained and it's unmanageable like you were saying. My recommend is talk to a professional. I've talked to a professional in the past. Really helped me with some stuff. And so I recommend you doing it. And that's how I'm gonna answer that question. More of a healthcare counselor awareness pitch. My wife works in that field and I've seen the really good that she's done and the good that I've gotten myself from doing it a few years ago. And so I highly recommend, oh, this is like, that was like six years ago, but I recommend it. It helps and it's not something to be, not something to be embarrassed about. I'd recommend it, definitely. With that being said, we're here at one of my favorite times of the shows and that's The Vegetable of the Week. And I have like 20 plus of these episodes now and I'm running out of vegetables. There are only so many vegetables out there and some of them are unrecognizable to me. I've never heard of some of these vegetables. I don't intend on doing it, but I have a running list of the ones I've used. And I haven't used this one. Or if I have, I did not write it down. That's my fault. This is a good vegetable. Something that I cook with all the time, whether it's omelets, soups, some sandwiches even, The Vegetable of the Week. If you got this far, if you didn't get this far, if you're somehow listening to this and you didn't actually watch the video, do not write this in the comments, but if you got this far in the video and you wanted to improve your life, you wanted to manage your time like I managed my time, which is perfectly, no, it's not true. If you got this far in the comments below, type in onion, right? From Shrek, the layers, right? It's a beautiful vegetable. There's so many, it's such a visual vegetable and it also makes you cry. And I'm telling you, the onions that I made, the onions that I cut, my wife was cooking a soup. I can't remember what type of soup it was.  I was weeping. I tried every trick in the book. I put like a wet cloth, wet paper cloth next to it. That was it actually, that's the only one I did. I tried the trick. It didn't work and I was bawling. Like I couldn't open my eyes, I was crying so hard. In like managing time, sometimes I weep like a child. That is my plug. That is the true story for the day. Now, you guys have watched enough. You can cut out now. You do not have to keep listening. But for the few that are still here, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for spending your time with me. I have analytics on how many people usually get to this part of the video and it's roughly around three to 5%. So after I've done like my main content, it's usually at like 30%, 40%. That's just how videos work, right? Some people click on, they click off immediately. Some people listen for two minutes, they click off. So the numbers is like 100% at the beginning, quickly goes down to like 90 at like five seconds. Some people just aren't interested. Then it goes down to like 30% after like the main part of the video. The people get to usually like the vegetable of the week, it's only like 10%. And then to get to the very end, to keep persisting, even after I'm like, get out of here, is usually like three to 5%. So I'm always, it's always really interesting. So for example, if we had 1,000 people, it would only be about 30 people who've gotten this far. If I have 10,000 people, it's like 300. My number's wrong on that. I just said those numbers really confidently. But I did not fact check this at all. Let me see, if there's 100, it'd be three. So if 1,000 would be 30. If it's 10,000, it'd be 300. That's right. My math is sound. I should never have questioned myself. And so I always like, it's always really interesting to me, some people who are in the comments and will talk about something at the very end, so I'm like, that's one of those 3%. That's one of like the very few people who stick around this far and I like that. Because I'm usually a person who sticks around to the end. I'm usually that person. But if I really like like a YouTube channel, and shout out to one, it's called Good Mythical Morning, I've been watching them for like six years. And I still to this day, almost watch every episode. Usually in the morning as I'm like eating breakfast and my kids have all gone either to school or to daycare or which is grandma's or out with my wife. I eat breakfast and I start working. During my breakfast morning routine, I wash them almost every day. So I am one of those people when they're done, when they have that Good Mythical More, which is their second show, I watched that whole thing. I usually spend like 30 minutes watching them almost every morning. I just, I've been watching them for so long. I feel like I have a connection with them. That's usually who I think like these people, not these people, you people are. Who are people who have like a connection with me and enjoy my content much like I do Good Mythical Morning. So if you watch that show, put it in the comments. I'll know you both watch my show and you like Good Mythical Morning, which would just make my day. Because I have like T-shirts. I don't have all the Panera prayer for now, but I have a T-shirt and I have stickers, stuff that my wife bought me, right?  They're like working out. They don't feel like pushing the button to get rid of me. Or two, you like, really like the show. Which again, if you're this far, that means a lot. And I say that almost every episode because I genuinely mean it. You guys are pretty awesome. What's something that I can show you that's special? This is a snake plant. This was the first plant that my wife ever bought me for the show. Or the first thing that my wife has ever bought me ever. I'm just kidding. But for the show, she bought that snake plant for me. And fun fact about the snake plant, snake plants are apparently one of the best air purifying plants. Like this thing, if you have like 18 in your house, you don't need like an all oxygen in the world went out. I'm making up completely random numbers. Maybe it's like 30 plants or 100 plants, I don't know. But these plants specifically are crazy good at recycling air. So like as you breathe, they take in that carbon dioxide. What is it? What do we breathe out, carbon dioxide? Guys, I am not a biology buff here, okay? So just roll with me. And they spit out oxygen like crazy. This thing's probably like keeping all these animals alive. The single plant. It's an amazing plant. And my wife wanted to keep me alive so she got me it. What else can I show you guys? I just now realized, I never took this out of the background. It's a charger for my camera battery. It's extremely embarrassing. And this is a monitor that helps me know if my kids are asleep. And I didn't even mention this in the entire show, but my wife is in Texas this week. I've been with the kids for two days now by myself. No help. I had to take off some time from work. And it's day two and I'm doing well. I'm still here. And so I usually haven't had to have this as much as I used to, but I have to have this now. And so my time has been crazy. I'm literally living in my wife's shoes right now. And it's tough, although I enjoy it. My kids are fantastic, but they are feisty, especially with each other. They're two and three. My nine-year-old is in Texas as well, but they're two and three, the ones that are at home. They are feisty. And so I got to like watch them and keep them off of each other. And so yeah, that's what's going on in my life. Everyone else who clocked off earlier, they didn't know. They didn't know. I'm struggling over here. And no one is here to support me, except for you. And my wife, who texts me every day. But more importantly, you. So thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. So yeah, let me see. Let me see. Do I got any cool photos to show you? Because some of you guys are getting like, oh, oh man, I gotta post this. I haven't posted this yet. I haven't posted this. I'm gonna show you. But I took a Myers-Briggs test the other day. And I have literally been asked to take this test for like over a year, by a lot, like hundreds of people. We're like, Alex, what's your personality type? You always say you're an introvert, bup, bup, bup. This is my personality type. I don't fully understand what it means, but I'm gonna show you. Because you might know what it means and you might find it useful. But I'll post this in the next couple of days. But this is my personality type. Oh, INFJ-A. That's what it says. INFJ-A. I think the A means like assertive. I really, I didn't fully understand it when I took it. I'm not a healthcare professional, thank goodness. I would benefit nobody. So that's something that nobody else knew about. Let me find, let me see. You know what, let me find one more. Let me find one more for everybody. You guys deserve it. If you're sticking around this long, I mean, again, this is probably like the one percenters. I'm gonna find something good. I don't care what it is. Let me see if it's a picture of me. That'd be great. The last thing I show you is just a picture of me. Give me a second. Give me a second. I'm gonna go, you know what? I'm about to go way back in the, oh no. Oh, that's cute. That was just me and Rosie when I first got her. I'm going way back in the archives, guys. Let me see if I can find something. All right, hey, look, you held on this long. Are you gonna stay with me or are you getting rid of me? Wouldn't bother me. All right, guys, I'm about to show you something hilarious. I don't even know if you'll be able to see this. I'm gonna show you. I once did a photo shoot with a friend and he wanted me to be kind of like this commercial businessman and then I was at like a table. That's actually the headshot that I have for my profile is that from that thing, it was like five years ago. That is from that photo shoot. It looks very professional. But then at the end, we were just goofing off having fun and he handed me his gun. It was not loaded. I checked. And he had me do some like James Bond poses and that is what I'm about to show you. And so I'm gonna now come around to the camera and make sure you can see this. So if you're not looking at your thing, I'd recommend it. For like the five people still out there watching, you just gotta see a photo that literally nobody else outside of my wife has ever seen. There's no reason I didn't show it. It was very fun. It was very fun to do, but almost nobody has ever seen that. And so I am just rewarding you for sticking around for no other reason than I just enjoy your company. And I feel like you are the kind of person I can show that to. I didn't show it earlier in the episode for good reasons because all the people who were earlier, they wouldn't have understood, but I know you get it. So yeah, with that being said, I'm done. I'm out of here. So I guess I'll see you. I mean, I'm not doing these every week. Trying to do them about once a month, but I have so many, I have, somebody asked me the other day, or somebody commented on my video and he was like, I knew you were gonna do that, that type of video. You're running out of content.  They're like, you're running out of content. Believe it or not, I have almost two years of content already written out. I plan ahead almost two months, my contents written out like fully scripted everything. So I have like eight videos ahead of this one already fully scripted out, ready to, I could shoot it tonight if I wanted to. I don't, I usually do one a week. I could genuinely do that. I have two years of content.  That is like in and of itself is like 80 videos, which I do one a week. That's over a year of content just with tutorials. Then I have ton of other things, sneak peek coming up. I'm gonna be doing what is a database versus what is a data warehouse versus a data lake. You guys are getting all sorts of things here. You guys are getting, this is a gold mine. Geez, this is probably the best after the show, just gibber jabber that I've ever had. You guys are getting like insights that nobody else has ever had. But one of my upcoming videos, it's data database versus data warehouse versus data lake. I'm gonna try to provide some visuals. I'm more of a visual person, but when I make videos I just like to talk. It's a lot of work to add the visuals and I'm so bad at editing. I'm like genuinely terrible at editing. So I do like the bare minimum, which is very lazy of me, but if you look at like Luke Barouse's videos, that man spends like two weeks on a video because they are fun, the quality is probably like 100 times better than mine. The quality over quantity, I provide the quantity, he provides the quality. So yeah, I just, I don't do a lot of editing. So I will try to provide visualizations for that, but that is one of my upcoming videos. Again, I mean, I can go look right now. Let's see what some of my upcoming videos are. What's my video lineup? I plan out my next eight videos.  I was managing my time, I just recorded this one. Power BI tutorial lesson one, that is the next week's video. That's gonna be how to install it, how to set it up, what the different things are before we actually get into the tutorials and then we'll have a project at the end, right? Just like how we did Tableau. What is a database versus a data warehouse versus a data lake? SQL versus NoSQL and then Power BI Tutorial lesson two. You just got my whole lineup for the next several weeks. I'm not just, I'm not running out of content here. I have so many things we have not talked about. I mean, it is absurd how many things you would not believe are data related that are genuinely good things to talk about on the channel that I'm like, people need to know this. Do you know what SQL is versus NoSQL? I do. I think it's important for you to know as well because you might work in a company that uses NoSQL. Again, things that you probably, a lot of people don't think about or don't even care about because they've never heard of it, but once you know about it, it's important. And that's important. Again, I try to provide value. I try to provide my content needs to be valuable to people otherwise why put it out? Like this one, at the beginning of the video is valuable. Now it's just gibberish. Again, we're running long. I've given you so much in the ending of this video. I can't even describe how much I've given.  That garbage, just conversation. Today you're getting something. I mean, kudos to you for sticking around. But with that, I am done. So let me sign off. Thank you for coming. If you are at this point, I'm not even gonna ask you to subscribe because I already know that you're subscribed. I can already tell that if you got this far, now I'm doing a lot of things with my hands. I can already tell. I'm looking at myself on that.  I can already tell that you. Okay, this is gonna be the weirdest ending to a video ever. I can already tell that if you're watching this still, you're already subscribed. I'm not even gonna ask. But what I do ask is for you to go put onions in the description and then comment on something I've said at the end of this to let me know that you made it as far. All right, bye guys. Take it easy. I'll see you in a couple of weeks. I will miss you. I'm not skipping an episode. I'm just gonna be doing one of my regular episodes where it's not as fun. It's just learning, instructional. This is content. This is real content. All right guys, I'm out of here. Take it easy and goodbye.


You know, Geeks don't do speeches regularly, so I'm going to have some notes with me. I have to tell you, so first off, thank you Mayor for your tremendous leadership on this project, thank you Mark. The Google Fiber team were so excited. I'm a little biased because I really can't think of a better location to have an announcement like this than at Geekdom. Our mission at Geekdom is to create an ecosystem, a tech ecosystem where the next rack space can be born. And that mission statement is really about the next 7,000 jobs. And so when I look at the roadmap and the trajectory of Google Fiber, I know that we are talking about the same thing. There is a lot of work to be done, as Mark alluded to. The Google Fiber team is going to be very busy. As someone undergoing some construction, you've got to get your permits in order. If there's anything historical, yikes, but it's definitely worth it. You know, this is not the first time, though, that something game-changing in technology has hit San Antonio. This has happened before. And about 10 years ago, in a little data center a block away, the first servers of YouTube came online. We have rich internet history, rich internet tech history in our city, and this is one of those game-changing milestones. And I'm super excited to be a part of it. So when you think about Google Fiber and you think about the San Antonio tech scene, they really do go together like two peas in a pod, or if you're in San Antonio, like beans and rice. So Geekdom currently has over 700 members and over 400 companies represented here. And I believe that one of the reasons that these entrepreneurs choose our ecosystem is because we are a city on the rise. San Antonio is a city on the rise. It's a city you can build, and very few people get to build a city in their lifetime. And when you look at what's going on here, it's something really exciting that people want to be a part of, and that is really what is getting compounded with the introduction of a service like Google Fiber. We talk about the ecosystem, and what we live to do every day at Geekdom in 80-20 is to expand and accelerate the ecosystem. It is one of the top priorities for Graham Weston. And in order to do that, one of the ways that he decided to help accelerate that was to create the 80-20 foundation, which is a private foundation that gives money to public charities in three key areas, STEM education, entrepreneurship, and the redevelopment of downtown San Antonio. So when I look again at Google Fiber, its trajectory, its mission, I realize that everything they're doing hits our three cause areas. And I want to walk you briefly through one example of each one of those. First, entrepreneurship. There's a really great story about Google Fiber going into Kansas City, and when they implemented their service there, there was a house that got connected to their service that had a couple of entrepreneurs living in it. And these entrepreneurs called themselves the Kansas Startup Village. What a great name. I would have totally stole that if I'd heard it first. And when they did this, they realized that this was a game-changing service. They realized that they were able to iterate and innovate faster than they had ever done before. And so they started spreading the word, they started telling their friends and colleagues, and the village began to grow. And today over 25 companies are now housed in this Startup Village in Kansas City. And now there are companies that pick up and relocate there, partially for the Google Fiber service, but mostly to be a part of this entrepreneurial ecosystem. And that's exactly what we're building here, and that's exactly what's going to happen in San Antonio. The next is STEM education. In San Antonio, there are dozens of local nonprofits, including Girls Inc., the Geek Bus, San Antonio Prep, and Venture Lab that are dedicated to helping our youth learn science, technology, engineering, and math. Google Fiber could help this work along, not only by developing partnerships with some of these groups, but also by providing affordable internet access to students at home. In many of the Google Fiber cities, they've developed unique programs to help spearhead affordable internet access, including the Connect Home program that was recently launched by Secretary of Housing Luliana Castro. At the 80-20 foundation, we are very proud to be one of the founding sponsors of that program to help bring that initiative here to San Antonio. I know that the Google Giving strategy looks very different in every city, depending on the unique needs of the community. But they have already hired someone local that is going to figure out our community and the best ways to be a part of that. Today, I want to challenge them and other providers to bring the best that they have to San Antonio. I think that you will find that we are willing and ready partners. The last thing I want to talk about is urban development. For the past two years, our team at 80-20 has published a report called San Antonio Underground Construction. And the premise of this report, which dovetails really well with what Mayor Taylor was saying, is envisioning the future of our city. Steve Jobs once said, imagine a thousand songs in your pocket. When we release this report, we want our city to imagine the San Antonio of the future. When you look at all the construction projects, all of the renderings that are out there, you can see the San Antonio of five years from now today. What an exciting project. What an exciting time. Google Fiber can be the connector of all of those projects. It could be the backbone tech that brings all of these to life in a way that we never thought imaginable. So it's clear to me that Google Fiber brings a lot of potential for impact to our city. But at the end of the day, it's up to us at San Antonians to determine how gigabit internet and any other resources can help make our city even more vibrant than it is today. And that's what I'm the most excited about with this announcement, that once again, we get to come together as a city using this resource and continue the momentum we have in becoming a city on the rise. Thank you very much. That's all for the official formal part of our program. I want to thank Mark and the Google Fiber team for their hard work. We couldn't be more excited to be partners with them. I also want to thank Mayor Ivy Taylor for her tremendous leadership in this. We're so humbled to be a part of this. I want to thank City Council for your leadership as well. We have such an amazing team. It's great to be a partner with an outstanding A-team like we have down at City Hall. I want to thank the city manager as well for all of her leadership. Such a tremendous asset and we really appreciate it. We have some instructions for the press before you leave. So if you're any reporters that want to stay and do follow-up questions, we have some protocol for you. And Levente from the Google Fiber team is going to give you your instructions. Thank you.


We're in the iconic teal blue underground platforms at the Alexanderplatz station. A cool tidbit for you is that this station was completely closed during the Cold War because the trains from western Germany would come through here and go back out west. Therefore the eastern Germans had no access to this station. Double-decker bike parking is such a great idea, but I rarely see these outside of the Netherlands. In Berlin I'm surprised there's not more because some of the bike parking, especially around the train station, is quite packed. The whole bike parking situation in front of Alexanderplatz is a bit of a mess, making it quite difficult to find the bike parking space when you're looking for your train. You know, this place could use some double-decker bike racks right here. It would really clean up the space and allow for more bike parking. And now I'm going to unlock one of these rental bikes from Donkey Republic with my phone and we'll take you on a ride through Karl Marx Alley.


Welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger. Pleasure to be here with you today because today's show features a mirror hall and she's gonna show us how to reset for manifesting. We all love that. And yet manifesting, it's in a whole new place. We're in a whole new place on this planet. Our skills are in a whole new place. We're being ascended as we speak. Many of you feel it physically, emotionally and so forth. So that's gonna be the conversation and way more of what she's capable of. This show, Dare to Dream with Debbie Daschinger won the COVR Award for Best Radio and Podcast Show, top ranking and self-improvement on Apple Podcasts. Also, Welp Magazine listed it as one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year, nominated for two People's Choice Podcasts Award and a Webby Award. This show is sponsored by Dr. Dane Heer and Access Consciousness. They do energy work. You can take a class or become a facilitator. Got a Dr. Dane Heer, H-E-E-R dot com. I'm Debbie Daschinger. I am a coach for spiritual messengers. I'm a book writing coach and I show you how to take your book from its idea to its completion and have it published. Also, I turn your book into an international guaranteed best-selling book and my company does all the work for you. And finally, I teach you how to become your own publicist and not only learn how to book yourself on podcasts for great visibility, but also how to become the number one authority in your field and it's everything, including the coaching when you're on the show, what to do after the show and how to get a yes and where the right shows are for you. I've got a free gift for you so you can learn how to become way more visible in all of these realms now. Got a Debbie Daschinger dot com slash gift. That's D-E-B-B-I-D-A-C-H-I-N-G-E-R dot com slash gift. So indeed, my guest today is Reverend Amira Hall and she is a manifestation mentor, a near-death experiencer, author, speaker, psychic medium, medical intuitive and healer. She is definitely multifaceted and she has overcome adversity to become a spiritual guide and a medical intuitive, Amira's expertise in metaphysics. Combined with her unique combination of talents and experiences makes her a valuable resource for those seeking spiritual guidance. She's an accomplished author of five books. One of them is Love Up Your Life. Another one is Manifesting Miracles. Aren't these beautiful? I love the colors. Manifesting Miracles 101 with practical advice and guidance and I'm gonna give you the other one because it's just so pretty. And this one is Vibe High Mad, and watch the magic unfold. I mean, oh my God. So this is everything. For everybody who needs to stop working so much and just like it's got beautiful sayings on all the pages and you can color them in if you like or your child could or you could act like a child and let your inner child out. If you wanna learn more about her you can go to amirahall.com and that's spelled A-M-I-R-A-H-H-A-L-L.com. And with that, I welcome the amazing Mira to Dare to Dream. It is so great to have you finally here on the show. It's my pleasure. Thank you. I've been looking forward to it. We connected so long ago and so this has been a date worth waiting for. I wanna get started with the manifesting because I know people love this conversation and I'm interested mostly in the new way, right? Not the goal setting way, which I know you're not about anyway but really about what is the new manifesting method technique, how can we as ascended beings work on it in a 5D new modality? That's a great question. You know, I'm working on it every day. Yeah. But, you know, as the planet and the consciousness and the vibration is rising, so are we, correct? And then what happens is our spirit is actually separating from the body in a way, especially if we've got unfinished trauma or emotional baggage or any kind of fears or worries or uncertainty, all those low frequencies, those low vibrations actually not repelled but it pushes away the spirit. The way I see it is we have to, we're learning in a work in progress, it's a constant practice to clearing those energies, bringing the spirit closer to the body, being grounded and present, being aware that we are this human having this experience, but we're the spirit. And so when those two parts of ourselves come together closer and we can be fully present in the moment, that's where the magic happens. That's where the thought creates and you can have instantaneous experience of your manifestation or within minutes and it's an exponential process and it doesn't take really any labor. It doesn't take even knowing all the skills I talk and teach people to because we're so fully in alignment with our higher self and our guides. So what you just said, you said what you teach to people and I know you have clients and groups and so forth. So how do you help people manifest what they want? So let's say somebody comes to you, gosh, there's so many examples, right? Somebody, there could be a career somebody wants, maybe they wanna shift their finances, maybe they wanna shift what's going on in their body health-wise or maybe they want a relationship or they wanna write a book like you did. So of all the things they come to you and they say, Amira Hall, I need help. I really wanna manifest this. What would be the steps you'd show them? What are the techniques that you work with? Well, the most interesting thing that I picked up when you just said all those different experiences, almost every single person that comes to me and says, I want to create this career. Funny enough, its spirit guides me to actually clearing energy that's not related or so they think to why they wanna create. I would say that a hundred times out of a hundred we need to clear something that's impeding our ability to manifest. There is some energetic block. There is some energetic, call it a mental or emotional, call it a fear, call it mom's energy, call it something from our experience from birth to now or even a past life. That energy has to be cleared. And quite honestly, I don't do really anything other than help people release. Help people release some of the unconscious energy that's preventing them from stepping into that alignment where the magic happens, where the miracles happen. Every day, every minute. And so it's a flow. I think the more we can clear, release, let go what we're not, we can step into that superpower, aligning and trusting and knowing and keeping the vibration high, that is the secret. So, the very, very, very, very first thing we learn because nobody knows how to do it is grounding. A lot of people that I encounter say, oh yeah, I know how to ground, I ground. But meanwhile, they're thinking of 15 things. They put their keys down, went into the bathroom and forgot where they put their keys down. They're not present. Yeah, I wanna address what you were saying before just to concur when you were talking about the first thing you do and somebody comes to you because the obstacle in manifesting is something that's going on energetically within us. And I would say like four months ago and before as a metaphysician working in this world, I would have said, yeah, and I would have gotten it here. But now I can't even believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually four months through my shamanic university school. I have two more months to go. And it's been so profound because I'm learning these processes to do on people exactly what you're saying. It's everything from extractions to cord cutting to way deeper. And I'm seeing things that are amazing in people that I'm taking out to help them. And of course I get to work with other students and they are doing the same for me. And I'm seeing, I'll go a whole week and all of a sudden realize, there are huge changes happening for me. There are tremendous shifts because of that exchange I did with that other student and what they removed from me. And I am loving this process. So I have to say, I know intimately now in a different way what you're talking about and how important that is.  You're trying everything right. Exactly. And the pattern repeats. And I just want to say with great love, it's often, it's way beyond subconscious.  Somebody could have been sending hatred your way or anger or trauma that somehow got crystallized or embedded in you or an entity. Interdimensionally is accurate because as multidimensional beings of light, we are crossing many barriers. And so a lot of healers don't really understand that. I don't think they can really, I know a lot of people are being like time jumped into understanding this. But quite honestly, this whole awareness of being grounded, I've worked with many people who've been long time on their path. And even after we finished my 10 weeks of mentoring and then a month or two past that, there'll be, I don't know, vacuuming or doing some dishes and they went, oh, I just felt it. Oh my gosh. Now I know what you're talking about. So it's not something that is really, that you could talk about it and talk about it till the moon is blue, but it's an experience. And again, it's all about clearing unconscious levels way beyond like you imagine an iceberg. It's not at the top of the iceberg, which most of us in metaphysics have been dealing with, maybe an inch below the water level, but this is going way down. One of my interesting issues right now with manifesting is, and I think I have gifts in manifesting like grill cook creator gifts, but I get in my own way. And so this is just a, for instance, cause I have a feeling lots of people will resonate, but to pull back the curtain, I'm going to be doing this webinar coming up on how to be interviewed. I work with spiritual messengers. Now doing the webinar, I love, I love, right? Connecting with people, I love, I love, but the whole backend stuff, uh-huh.  You can't just show up for an hour and you know, you have to know where you're going and what you're going to share. And I want to give people a gift for coming. Like there's all these pieces. Then I know once that's complete, I need to figure out copy, right? For a landing page. And so people can register for it. And I got to write that up and then I got to hire someone from Fiverr. And then, right? And then what happens here is I'm like, and I'll push it off every day from my to-do list. Would you like some help right now? Yeah, and I want to say I've already- Okay. I had a shift recently where I felt, I just shifted into the finish line. In case this helps somebody, I went to the finish line and felt what it will feel like all the benes I will get, all the new people I'll meet, possibly new clients, all the people I'll get to help. Once I got in the excitement of that, I'm like, I can do one thing at a time. And I have been making headway. But I would love more. So I'm a yes. Yeah, so let's create this little snapshot of creating anything. This is a foolproof tool that I use day in and day out, okay? So imagine putting your masterclass, that whole concept that you just described, of everything in it, okay? And I like to use symbols. I prefer a symbol that's universal and that to me is a rose, right? Everybody can relate. And I've got clients around the world. So when I say a rose or a flower, they get the same picture. So let's just, let's everybody think, and everybody who's listening, think of something that you would like to manifest. In your case, Debbie, you've got it real crystal clear, but how you want to help them, the program, more or less, okay? We got that whole thing. All right, so then beside it in your mind's eye, imagine a gauge, and it could look like a fuel gauge or an odometer on your car. And that there's a little needle on it from zero to 100%. And ask yourself, and no cheating, what percentage does that mock-up of your desire look like you can have in this moment, that you could receive it? So it's really funny. It looks like a car that's sputtering. It's going from the little dial goes to 50 and then sputters up to 75 and then moves 50 and 75. It's shaky, right? It's on shaky ground, but now, and it could, yeah. So I could analyze that for you and tell you why, but that's not even relative, right? It's like, I like to bypass all of that analytical part of where we all get tangled up. And you're no different than me and everybody else, right? We get in our way. And so with that in mind, it's not at 100. So looking back at that rose or that symbol, whatever symbol comes to your mind, begin imagining you've got a psychic sponge and you can start absorbing any energy on there from other people. It could be other people that are- I'm sorry, can I get clarity? Any energy from the rose or from what am I sponging from?  So that's your mock-up. And so what we're going to do is absorb or clear off any energy that other people, other than yourself might have on that rose. It could be your tech team thinking about what work there is. It could be people that would like to attend, but the timing is off. It could be people that attended other trainings and whatever the, it could be so many factors. Just, we just wanna clear or absorb, pull out any energy from other people that are interfering with your desire, coming into fruition. And you just let me know when you feel like that's complete. Yes, it's complete. Okay, good. Now I want you to clear out with another psychic sponge so that you can let that sponge disappear and then another sponge to absorb and remove any energy you have on that desire. Your fears, your worries, your, all the work. Oh my gosh, some might work. Oh, when am I gonna have time?  So it's not about negative or positive. They're all feelings that are impeding that creation. Wow. I just literally saw my mouth open. It's coming. Yeah, that's so cool. Sometimes we see some real funny pictures doing this. It's really cool. And you know, to be playful with it, to pretend we're in kindergarten and there's no coloring outside the line or there is lots of coloring outside the line. Yeah, we just get to make it up and follow spirit and have fun with it. When we, the less serious we take this, I think the more powerful it becomes. Great, I'm complete. Great. Now looking at that gauge that you had earlier, where's the needle pointing? Ah, now it's going between 80 to 100, 80 to 100. So it's still wobbly, okay? So give that gauge a cord or a tube, hook it to the center of the earth, just in your mind's eye and see that grounded. There's that word, grounded. And what happened? This is amazing because you always think of grounding yourself. I never thought of grounding energetically something I wanted to create. Hey, I ground my taxes every year.  So I put them in an imaginary bubble in the side of the room and I just ground them so I discharge all the energy that blocks me from getting to it. Yeah. So what happens to the gauge, Debbie, as you do that? Oh yeah, it definitely creates stability and I like calm in the, in its space. So it's not quite looking at 100 now.  We're not impeding on anybody's free choice or forcing anybody to do anything that we don't want. But you can ask the gauge, is there something that the gauge wants me to give to it? So rather than taking away, is there something that we would deposit in that gauge to bring it to 100% and what do you see? Wow. So first of all, that is so brilliant, Amira, because I teach my book writing students the same thing. Every time they come into a block, I have them connect with the book and have a conversation and they love this exercise. It was a big breakthrough. So I so get it. What you just did is brilliant. So it was like, and I think I intuitively knew this anyway and this is the problem also, creating an agenda. There starts being a boom, boom, boom. Like I'm not a stiff person at all. I'm a very free flowy. And so it said you, you. Like you're doing a great job at copy and you're doing a great job at, you know, knowing technically where you're going and all this stuff but really what it needs is you, right? And being present. Yes, with it. Being present. So you can drop in the letter, you know, Y-O-U into that gauge. You can drop a picture of yourself into that gauge, whatever that looks like to you. Beautiful. Oh my God, that's so good. And then we're gonna roll up that gauge and we're gonna drop it into that rose or that symbol. And this is where you can step into it and feel it. Like it's a room and you just walked into it and experience that gratitude and experience that joy and the fulfillment and the applause. And you can also give thanks to the creator at this point for having this creation right here right now. Oh my God. This is beautiful. I hope everybody out there is doing that for your own dream. Yeah, my heart's just. It's very cool. And so then we wanna step out of it. So this is like in real time, you created this and the quantum field, it exists. You brought yourself into alignment with it. And so now as you step out, you can do a couple of things. Sometimes I bring it into me. I reach out and bring that symbol right into my body or I snip it off and I let it rise up into the manifestation realm. I let go. This is the other key component is letting go. And a lot of people just keep digging it up and rehab. Well, it hasn't come yet. It hasn't manifested. And you can't, I caution you not to dig it up and redo it and redo it and cancel it and make another because you're not trusting the universe. You're not trusting God. You're not trusting yourself. Instead, if it doesn't manifest within a real, let's say in a week, you don't see some progress, I would clean it off. It's simply calling back this already created manifestation and just do the whole exercise again with the gauge and cleaning it off and release it again. Sometimes that happens. Yeah. That was so beautiful. And I am very, very, very grateful. I really felt that so strongly and it started to connect with another manifestation in the rose, by the way, favorite for flower, true story. And I've been asked to speak on some huge stages and they're coming to me and asking and it involves travel and it's a big deal. I'm very honored and I'm gonna be speaking because I've always spoken about visibility but I'm gonna be stepping into the UFO, the metaphysical, the shaman and that's the conversation I wanna deliver. So there's a lot of new stuff for me. And before we started, you said psychically, I already got that you're reaching for the stars and that you're really changing a lot and thank you, because it's so accurate. And so that was also in the rose. It just showed itself to me that moment and it was more owning, was no effort. It was just like embracing. Being all of you and being in that grace of receiving. And so I often look at the having gauge as we looked at that, but there's also another component to this and that's receiving. A lot of us can't receive our good. And there again, it comes back to what do I need to clear? What trauma, what belief system, emotional baggage we're hanging onto. Like you, I'm gonna be speaking on a stage, this summer, I was invited to speak at the International Association for Near Death Studies. So at their annual conference. And I've held myself back from speaking on stages, but it's, I think no matter what, whether you've had a near death and you've taught, you can connect whether it's in the shaman, shamanic journey, as we're advancing, as we're elevating our consciousness and the frequency, we have to learn how to manifest in a whole new way. And that more than ever is requiring us to be present. Because we can get this out real easy. Are there different tools manifesting in a new way? Are there a quantum energy tools that can be used also for the health, the wealth of relationships and so forth that are different? It comes back to grounding. It comes to us being present. The next tool that I teach in terms of tapping into our intuition so that we can see clearly is being able to be in the center of our head and knowing how our spirit, if you think of Hawaii, your spirit just goes there. As you talk at the UFO conference, we all just went there. The International Association for Near Death Studies, we just went there in Washington, DC. So, but we have to learn how to stay present because our spirit is adventurous, it's creative. It wants to explore, whereas our body needs to feel safe. So as a human, having this spiritual being, having this human experience, they're not really talking to each other unless we've got that click and the body feels safe enough to then trust this new information that's coming in. So whether it's for our channeling or for its manifesting, we're kind of being held at a higher level of responsibility. As you soul sisters and soul star seeds are here to have this experience of a spiritual being having a human experience and stepping into our superpowers, how can we do that if we're not aware or present? How does it really translate to fulfilling our heart's desires? And this is the thing that I see struggle, so many lightworkers and healers really struggle with is truly manifesting. Yes. Because it's not, they tend to be hit and miss. It's not a consistent pattern and that's why. And nobody's taught us how. So, we're learning. We're learning, yes, absolutely. I know also you talk about the importance of visualization and I wanted to ask you for people, my visualization is hit and miss. I don't think that's my strong point. Certainly sentience is my strong point. And possibly, well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what my strong points are. But my visualization sometimes, I got nothing. Like it just doesn't happen and sometimes it does. So for people whose visualization, that is either not a sense that works for them or also is not their strongest, is there a way around visualization that we can still create this potency? The way I see it is we have all of these gifts, all of these abilities, every one of us. And you can write, you learn to write in school, I learned how to write. My handwriting might be prettier than yours. Why is that? Did I spend more time? Was I more creative? I'm not saying that is true, but we can develop this. And that's the problem. Nobody's taught us how to develop. You visualized a rose. You simply closed your eyes and you saw that rose. That is clairvoyance. Now, the point of all that is most of us, it's very, very common, clair sentience, which is clear feeling. That's using our second and third chakra. The claircognizance is also very common, clear knowing. It's the clear audience, the clear hearing and the clairvoyance that most people haven't developed. And that's exactly what I teach people, how to get to those levels. I feel clairvoyance is one of the highest abilities, not only for healing, because we can dial into it when we can see specifically what we're looking at and use a particular tool to advance it or give us more information. In fact, remote viewing is basically clairvoyance. That's amazing. But it's usually, I think it's also using more analytical, whereas in the work I do is, I don't know, I'm gonna say it's university level, but we play like we're in kindergarten. So when we can relax and play and have fun with it, our spirit communicates in pictures. That's it. Got it. What is your success rate in helping people who feel they're non-clair? I haven't had anybody in my trainings not develop their clair. In fact, one student I had from Saudi Arabia, I was living in Dubai at the time, and he approached me, he was already a healer, an energy healer, and he wanted to develop his clairvoyance. So we did the whole program, and we had our consult after, and I said, so I don't feel like you're happy. You're not really content with the results of this training. And he goes, yes, that's true. He was very polite and sweet. And I said, well, I think we need to give it a week or two or a month, just let's simmer because the way I see it is you're in such an incredible growth period, all the moving parts are still settling and you're still growing and settling and growing. So I got a call back about three weeks or so after that. And he says, Amira, you're not going to believe this. I'm seeing the organs in my client's bodies like it's a video. Really? So his perception of what clairvoyance was gonna be for him, he thought he was gonna see like I saw. And quite frankly, every person I work with, it's a little different. And I can teach you tools and step by step to expand it. But at the end of the day, it's you just like with singing, Debbie, you develop your voice, right? You develop your style in presentation and delivery and how it works for you. And it might dovetail, let's say, with your shamanic background or some of the other healing modalities. All of a sudden things start whipping around and you just take it to a whole new level. That's what that's about. Yeah, thank you. That's so right. That's really a nice thought too. So you can, you have 100% success rate. You can turn this on in people. However, it manifests differently. Our blueprint is different for however the Claire is meant to be. Well, because of the perception of how we believe what is true or the way we see things. If we all look at a painting and you say to me, well, I see the reds and the blues and I'm like, I see the yellow, right? We see things different. So that is naturally going to be translated also into the clairvoyance space. Is there such a thing as selling, manipulating energy? And if so, how can we use that? I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean? It was something I read about on your website about selling, manipulating energy. Does that make sense? Well, what I don't, I guess I'm going to perceive that is when somebody's selling something or if there's a program out there, that they can use energy to manipulate and whether or not you can see that, that it's a, let's say an advertisement that everything looks great, but in reality, there's some underlying energies that are trying to get you to do something but it might not deliver what you want. Does that make sense? Absolutely, yes, yes. And I see a lot of that. I see a lot right now, especially within the spiritual community. There's a lot of wonderful healers that are coming online and package up some trainings to go out into the world, but it's not all what it's being made out to be. 100%, I work the Conscious Life Expo, which is girlfriend, you've got to go. You've got to come. I've been, yeah. I mean, you need to present next February. It's amazing, 15,000 people through the door and they're all us, right?  I know some people may love it. There's like, so for instance, there's a psychic, whatever he is, who is there every year. And I finally thought, this guy's here all the time. There's always a line. I got to experience him and he was a chunk of money. And I threw it down right away just to get on his calendar. I have to tell you, Amira was one of the worst readings. I was sitting there, he was so sure. I looked just like one of the housewives of Beverly Hills. I don't remember the name because I don't watch those shows. And from that, he said things about me, but there was nothing that was full of detail or it was so milky toast. And I sat there and went, what a waste of my time.  And there's so much of that. And I have people calling me. One lady said, my God, this person wanted me to send the $1,000 and they needed new drapes and new TV.  And I'm just like, oh my goodness. Amira, I had a hairdresser once.  And she was working with someone who was milking her dry. And I remember this years ago, she was working on my hair and she was telling me what she was paying this person. And I was like, stop, stop right away. This is a scam, my friend. Oh my gosh, she realized it.  And I call it a guru game. And I don't mean, so the way the game works is if you become a teacher or a healer, you have an energetic cord to your students. And it connects to the crown chakra, crown chakra. And so what happens is then you have this following and they don't know that they're being directed by this crown chakra and under the control. Like you have to do everything that they put out. You have to buy every book. You have to go to every event.  And so what happens is they're not helping you in that case, access your higher self or other higher levels beyond your higher self even, an ascended master, you're having to go through them for your answers. And that's unconsciously, of course, but that's how they control you. Right, so come see Amira or me and we'll do some cord cutting for you so you don't have to go through that anymore. And more than cord cutting, what I teach people is how to get to the core. There's a picture, there's a seed that's been planted and that's how the cord keeps creating. If you don't know how to clear the actual seed where that cord attached, you might have to continually repeat and cut and cut and cut and cut. Yes, and if you have an affinity for it, that's the other thing. Somebody can completely clear you, but you still have an affinity for that. You can recreate.   Whatever the picture is, is still there. I call it a picture, it's a snapshot. And so that energy continues to create. And then what I also do is go through the timeline and connect up any of the points that are interrelated to that to get all of it. I love, oh, okay. Again, and that may take two or three goes because we're interdimensional beings. And so multifaceted, you know. So back to the guru game, this is what is going on too. And people just get sucked in through the misinformation of the, what I wanna say, like back to the website or programs or underlying manipulative energy. That's a manipulative game. And so people aren't learning or being able to access their true higher self. So in my trainings, I teach people how to separate their energy from their teacher. I'm calling my energy back for my students all the time. I pop in, they might say, gee, Amir, I felt you standing right next to me today. They feel it, I pop in and I pop out. I'm very attentive to keeping my energy clear from them because that gives them space to develop their own spiritual strength and presence. If somebody else is in your energy field, you can't be present. There's only room in this physical body for Amirah. When I'm acting out or having weird behavior, then it's because there's other entities plugged in or other energies that aren't mine.  A drink, yes, ma'am. You notice how your personality changes. Our spirit steps aside. Our complete soul self steps aside. That may be another aspect to us.  Because then it's like a rotating door and they're going, hey, Amirah's had a drink, party on, I'm down at Amirah's, yeah. So that's what, and drugs too. So just like, yeah, we'll leave it there. Okay. That's a big wrap. That's a deep rabbit hole. Yeah, it's a deep conversation. You communicate with entities beyond this reality, is that correct? Yes. Can you say who or what the entities are? I communicate with the Arcturians. I call, it seems to be a collective to me, but I identify it as a singular. So I call, and all I could see was blue faces. So I just call it blue. That's my, like, our familiar name. And so, yeah, they first came to me when I was walking a golf course in Dubai. And it seems like that would be my little secret time where I would connect to go, okay, I need a sign.  And what is that relationship like now? How do they help you? How do you connect with them? Are they your family, your star seed family? I, you know, I always felt like I was from Sirius. That's where I kind of kept them at bay, just sort of like looking at this, you know, trying to figure it out, what exactly do you want from me? But it's all about teaching. It's about teaching humanity. I feel like they've been with me since my near-death experience. And I feel like there's others. There's the Syrians. And I have a being that, well, this famous, you know, Lee Carroll channels Cryon. Cryon Energy has been with me since 2000. And that's the, Cryon comes to me as a healing master. So whenever I have a loved one or somebody in my life that's struggling, I send Cryon Energy. And so, it's incredibly powerful, but I don't channel it the same way Lee Carroll does. Truly, truly for healing. That's spontaneous.  Sometimes I'm channeling, I would say a collection of light beings and several times they've come through and they haven't given a name. They just told me that they were the brothers of the galaxy, that they were helping facilitate the shift in energy. So, you know, I kind of say that the big part of my work though has been to help people have what we've come here to create. Not to get, I love talking to extraterrestrials, ascended masters, but I'm constantly being reminded that the work is happening here for us to integrate our spiritual essence and awareness to manifest here in the now. When we connect with many of them, we leave the body and we leave present time. And so, that's the part I struggle with. Yeah, my curiosity, it's a fascination, but it's also very seductive. And it takes me anyway off of what I'm supposed to be doing here. You had a lot of life-changing, being altering experience, your near-death experience. Will you unpack that a little bit? Will you share generally what happened before, during, and after and how you became who you are right now? Sure, thank you. Before, you know, there was a moment when I hit rock bottom. Have you ever hit rock bottom? A few times, yes, ma'am. It's not fun. My dad died. I was going through divorce and that was all within a few months of each other. And then I was diagnosed with the chronic fatigue syndrome. My doctor told me, this was when I was living in San Diego, to go home and prepare my affairs that I was dying or I would end up the rest of my life in a wheelchair. And so, and I was pretty low, pretty depressed and then when I thought that things couldn't get worse, I got fired from my six-figure job. And so it felt like my entire life was unraveling like a thread in a fine sweater. One, you know, just completely destroyed. So what happened is that I spent the next seven years making drastic changes in my life from my physical health and I started studying the ancient mystery schools and that's, but there was a fascination for me about what happens when we die. And so I then was nudged to go to Egypt. And so I went on a spiritual journey to Egypt. Now, at the time I had a six-figure job. I was in, it's easy for me to say, technical sales or sales and technology. And I went on the spiritual pilgrimage and it was there outside the Valley of the Kings where all the ancient Pharaoh's tombs are that I had my near-death experience. And what happened was I felt myself hurling through the cosmos towards a familiar blue small planet was off in the distance. And it was the sound of these Arabic voices that were working served like a beacon that was showing me where I left my body. And it was really, it was very difficult. It actually felt like I was trying to put on wet clothes. It was unsettling and it was painful to try and get back into my body that I struggled with. And thank goodness I had an Egyptian friend with me that day that nurtured me until my body and my energy was restored. But the whole time I was just feeling this incredible bliss and love, pure love I was tethered and I was untethered at the same time, if that's possible. But at the same time, I was starting to see these otherworldly beings and hearing things that and seeing phenomena that defied explanation, it felt like I had stepped into the cantina scene of Star Wars. So it was a very unsettling time. And slowly I made my way back to the U.S. that day actually. And it was that part that was actually the most shocking to my body. As it started to wane, however, I started to see things that other people did not. And it was very unsettling for me. I could hear things that other people couldn't. And so previous to this, you didn't have psychic abilities at all? I would say I was intuitive. But keep that this in mind, it was in 1998 and I was in the corporate field. So I would have intuitive hits. I'm a canceran. I'm probably one of the most psychics in Pisces and Scorpio, but it wasn't validated. It wasn't validated. In fact, it was more invalidated for me going through all my work career or growing up. Now I had a grandfather who used to read his tea leaves every single night after dinner. And you know, that was never ever discussed in my family. Oh, grandpa's just looking at his tea leaves, right? But I did have visions when my great, not my great, my aunt passed away. She was a nun, she would come back to me and say, just tell me that it was gonna be okay. Before my grandfather died, I was getting visions of him in the dream, showed me that he was gonna go one way on the path and then I would be taking another. So I had a lot of experiences like that, but there was nobody in my family that validated it. Oh no, you're just imagining. Oh, you've got a great imagination. That was how it was validated. Yeah, so I was really good with art. I was really good with people. I could sense things and know how to do the right things at times, but it was sort of just a hit and miss. It wasn't, I didn't realize how strong it was perhaps. And you had an experience of the all that is in the milieu of everything that occurred for you. Can you share that experience? Yeah, so what happened? It was like as I came back to the US and I was really freaked out, I withdrew.  I wanted to, so I kind of surrendered and just said, okay, I gotta figure it out myself. I'll just, but I came across one healer that told me, oh, Amira, you've got stuck energy. And I'm like, hallelujah, I'll do anything. What do I need to do? Right? I just, I wanna be out of this misery. I just wanna go back to my six-figure job. I was doing great, right? Career was great. Didn't quite work out like that. But anyway, I was actually in LA. I went to the book expo and I was on a massage table after a grueling day, perusing all the books. And I had a spontaneous out of body experience in that moment, I was given a tour of the all. They told me I couldn't stay, but because for a good year, I had been asking, where did I go? Where did I go? I wanted to know. And I even talked to a shaman, not, well, he's a shaman, but they call him a sheikh in Arab culture. And I said, where did I go? Did I die? Because this was before internet, really. There was no books on near death, you know? He said, my dear, he said, you didn't die because he thinks I'm gonna be underground, right? You went very, very, very far. That was his explanation. So I was getting closer to it. And then in this experience, I was shown where I went. And I literally, I remember seeing standing in front of this grand corridor with doors on either side of the corridor. To this day, I think it was like the hall of records and so I entered and my guide told me, you can enter any door you like. So I took the easiest path, don't we always? I went to the right, it was a gold door. I went through the door, I didn't open it. It was like I merged through it and I stepped into what was like, this is the best I can describe because words truly elude me for this. It was like a moving kaleidoscope of color and patterns. And I was merged into it and with it. It felt warm and it felt soothing and it felt protective. And I said, where am I? What is this? And my guide said, this is the fabric of all creation. This is love. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, say more. And of course I was told that I couldn't stay but I was just like, oh, just immersed. Imagine being back in the womb of your mother, right?   Then I was in the corridor one more time and I asked to go across the corridor, I stepped in through this pink door and it was this opaque emerald green. I said, well, where am I now? And they explained that and well, I actually got a review of my life. I saw a timeline with my life where all my emotions had literally created all my dysfunction, all the destruction and the dis-ease. And so I learned from that moment that everything was energy and it was emotionally attached and I had left a string of it and that was what was causing my current issues. And so I knew in that moment when I went back, I was to detox the emotions, detox the physical body and I was responsible for all that. And I was responsible for what I create that everything is energy and I create with my energy. Wow, that's all. Just hanging out with the vibration of love and God. And being given a review so you can come back and literally should you choose and you did, you healed everything. Oh my gosh. And what a journey that must have been to, because I have a lot of compassion. It's not easy. That's a lot of unwinding to do a lot of lineage as well. For anybody and we're all so different in how our emotions are. I'm a Cancerian too. So I feel so deeply and my moon is Scorpio. I feel so deeply. Oh, see, I knew I could see the Scorpio and the Cancer, yeah. Well, and so yeah, I didn't know that my emotions were a superpower, right? And so I, yeah, I was always told as a little girl to stop crying or quit, snap out of that mood. But unbeknownst to me, I was absorbing all the dysfunction in my family to heal it, right? As star seeds, as light workers, unknowingly, that's what we're doing. We're these little sponges and we're just absorbing it all. And yeah, so I had to unlearn that. And that's exactly what I teach people is how to be a sovereign unit, your own soul vibration and to separate from other energies in the way that you're healing yourself. It's not that you're separating and isolating from other people, but Debbie's energy for her body, Amira's energy for her body, right? And then we come together and we can appreciate all of the richness between us, but my energy will corrupt your hard drive in your body and your energy will corrupt mine. So if you think of it as a malware or a virus, it will think snafu and short circuit things. So then guess what? We're not manifesting what we want because these foreign energies are interfering and taking precedent. Yes, wow, especially when you're sensitive and empath. It's like, yeah, it's very powerful to maintain your own space and energy and sovereignty when someone else is going through something and you can sense it. Yeah. And so how do we navigate that? How do we not take it on and support them in healing? And so those are all the techniques that I teach is so that we're not losing ourselves rather than we're gaining yourself and being responsible for our power because when our energy literally goes into somebody else's body or aura that we're literally making them sick. Yeah. We can hold this base for them to heal. And there's power in that.  I know in 12-step programs, they say about somebody who is an addict, right? You can only help them so much, but at some point you have to completely detach because quote, unquote, this person, the addict, has their own bottom. And I think that is powerful at saying, I'm getting out of the way, they haven't hit it yet. And it's the same for whatever people are going through. You wanna love them, you're gonna support them any way you can to the exception of yourself, right? And your own emotional health and any toxicity is just not okay. When you have a very clear understanding of your own frequency as an empath, I know when something else enters my energy field, I'll feel off or I'll get confused or I'll get distracted and I can sense it, but I also have tools to release it.  That's absolute BS. Maybe it was our younger versions of ourselves that thought that we could do that. Energy's constantly moving.  In fact, what white light does is it's a giant pause button. It is so strong that our physical body can't hold white light for very long. It's a kind of short circus us. Now, gold light, yes, but that's the problem is people are bringing in this white light. Guess what?   Oh my gosh, I so understand everything you're saying. I love it, I love it. And my dear, I mean, there's, okay, the next place I wanna go is how can people connect with you? And if anybody, are these books on your website or should they go to Amazon and how can they work with you? Yeah, they're on my website that you can go and get those and also on Amazon. So yeah, they just Google the name or Amazon the name. And your programs too, they're on, so her website is Amira, M-A-M-I-R-A-H. Of course, if you're watching us on YouTube, youtube.com slash Debbie Daschinger, or if you're watching us on my Spotify channel, Dare to Dream with Debbie Daschinger, you can see us and our names are right there at the bottom and you can see how her name is spelled, but is A-M-I-R-A-H, Amira, hall, H-A-L-L, that's her website, amirahall.com. What does Amira mean? Princess. Ooh, were you born with that name? I was born with the name Deborah and Deborah was queen, right? Yes, that's my born name. So I stepped down. I stepped down and that was a big shift. It was a great shift because I thought princesses, I never did it for that reason, don't get me wrong. It was a spiritual name by a spiritual teacher that gave me the name. He said, you should be using the name Amira. I thought he was out of his mind, but just before I went to the trip to Egypt, I heard a voice saying that you should be using the name Amira. And that's when I used the name and everybody loved it and everybody met me by the name of Amira. And I received all these gifts from all the Egyptians. I'm like, I'm loving this. That's when I stepped into manifesting, you know? And so I thought, princess is cool because you know what? I don't have to carry around the burden of the world. I just get to live a good life. And everyone loves a princess, right? And the princess is always happy in the end. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, that's how it's- What language then is Amira? It's an Aramaic name, Aramaic, yeah. A lot of Arabs have that name, but there's Jewish people with that name. So it's Aramaic from the time of Jesus. Since I like to point out, I'm not picking favorites. And Amira Hall, what do you next dare to dream? This is dare to dream. What are your future dreams and goals? Well, I am launching a brand new training called Amplify. Amplify your intuition and manifesting. And so I'm gonna take people through the journey of not only learning how to read, using their clairvoyance, but also manifesting. So just as we did today, that's like an example. We're healing ourselves with every reading that we offer and every process that we're creating. So that's a new, exciting venture, the information's on my website under the training. What else? I thought I might be taking another trip to Egypt this year, but that's on the back burner for 2024. And I would say the next big thing is that National Conference for the International Near Death Studies. Yeah, we're gonna see all of that.  And who knows, maybe your Syrian family or the Arcturians will show up and help guide you. I believe- They've got their fingers in it. Totally, I believe that that's, I mean, that's what I got when you were sharing that, that it isn't actually taking off track. They are so helping you. Like this is a master team assisting you, not always consciously, but that you have a good team and you don't even pay them. So kudos. I would like to say that they paid me. And last November, we were in the Great Pyramid. We had private time for two hours. There were only six of us up there. And so as we're chanting, oh, in this mega amphitheater, like in terms of sound. So what was happening is, I really felt like we opened a portal. We were, I was just pouring my heart out in that space. And we were, I felt like we were all levitating. I mean, it was an incredible experience. We came out and one of the ladies had injured, fell and hurt her knee. She couldn't climb up to the top, to the king's chamber. She, about 5 36 o'clock, she opened her eyes and she looked up into the sky. And there was as clear as day, these golden stars in the shape of the Pleiades. And she snapped a picture right out of the bus. But I mean, I've never seen that so clear. And so it was like, we literally opened the portal and it was like them flashing their lights showing. Hey, you did it. You know, it was awesome. We did it and we're with you. Beautiful. Thank you so much for coming on the show. This went so fast. And I'm just grateful to be connected with you. Thank you, sweetie. So much for my all my heart. It's been a real joy. I end today's show with this quote from Steven Richards. All things that exist form an endless area of quantum energy with infinite possibilities waiting to happen. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation. Dare to dream with Debbie Daschinger like comment. I read them all. Next week on the show, Yari is going to be the amazing Rob Gauthier formerly known as Treb channeling. Rob Gauthier channels over 100 ET consciousness publicly including R.D. Treb as well as Archangel Metatron. If you love this show, tell your friends we always appreciate it. And remember, don't just dream dare to dream and then use the technique over and over that Amira Hall described earlier so you can help remove any of the obstacles from without and from within in order to properly manifest. Thanks for joining us today.