Alright, well, we'll still have people come again, but I want to get started. So welcome everyone to the first NWA gives getting started webinar for this year. My name is Sarah and I'm a project manager with mighty cause and I'll be leading you through today's presentation. Just a quick few housekeeping notes before we jump in. I want to let you all know that the webinar will be recorded and it will be posted into the toolkit. Yes, so it'll be put into the mighty cause toolkit on the NWA give site. And of course, if you have questions during the presentation, you can always use your little zooms Q&A kind of chat or questions panel to send them in and we'll have a Q&A section at the very end of the webinar. Okay, so we'll go to the next slide. Okay, so I'm Sarah. I'm a project manager for NWA gives I'm also joined by my colleague Don or senior community development manager will be leading us through a short demo in a little bit. We also are joined by Chris and Laura from NWA gives. And they'll be joining us today. They've been working really hard to make sure that everything is a really great event for you all this year. So I'm going to pass the mic over to Chris so that he can say a few words. Hey, I want to welcome everybody to the first webinar. We are so excited about this year's NWA gives. This is the fifth year. And we know that we've just been able to generate a lot of momentum and excitement heading into this year we hope to really build off of that for all the nonprofits that are across Northwest Arkansas, and very excited to introduce to you all Laura Dietrich. She is our new project coordinator, and is handling a lot of things behind the scenes. She's joined by Carol, Martin Longmire as well, who has been our project coordinator and done a tremendous job. We're so encouraged by our new technology partner mighty costs, and the new features that are going to be available to all of us. As we reach out into the community to hopefully inspire generosity. And of course we're thankful for the Walton family foundation for their communications grant which makes so much of this project possible, as well as the sponsorship of first security, who has generously and currently provided our prize money for the event. And so, hey, I'm looking forward to inspiring generosity with all of you to meet the needs that are there in Northwest Arkansas, and with our vision to become the most generous community on Earth. And so thank you guys for joining in today. Awesome. Thank you. So we're super excited to partner with you all this year for NWA gives I'm really looking forward to providing you all the technical support you need. As all of you are getting ready for this big day of giving. So if any of our participants have any questions as you're getting ready, or if you find that one of your donors has a question. You are always welcome to reach out to our support team, and you can always email them at support at mighty cost calm. Just a little bit about mighty cause mighty cause is a fully functional organization fundraising suite that organizations can use all year long to raise money for their causes. We've been around since 2006 and we're one of the first platforms to host giving days so we've been running these giving events for quite a long time and we're just really looking forward to hosting this year as NWA gives. Alrighty, so we'll get to the agenda. So today we are going to be going over some of the basics for NWA gives giving day. Then we're going to walk through how to register and customize your organization page on the platform. This is where Don will jump in and she'll provide a walkthrough showing you how to edit your page and kind of displaying all the functionality here. And then we'll finish with a Q&A session at the end of the presentation. So if you do have a question while we're presenting, just hold on to those. You can type them into the Q&A section and we can get to those at the end. Alrighty, so NWA gives basics. NWA gives is a 501c3 nonprofit led by the NWA gives board of directors. This year's event will take place on April 7th. It's a 12 hour giving day that runs from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. central time and early giving is going to start on March 31st. So who can participate? Any organization classified as a 501c3 or a unit of government such as a library that is serving one of the seven counties of Benton, Washington Carol, Madison Crawford, Franklin or Sebastian is eligible to participate in NWA gives. Registration is required to participate in this giving day and there will be a registration fee for participation this year that's dependent on the size of your organization's annual operating budget. So this will range from $25 to $100. So what is a giving day? For those who have not participated in a giving day before, a giving day is an online fundraising marathon that aims to bring people together to support a specific community, a cause or a space. So the giving day hosts organize the event and they rally the organizations to raise funds for their causes. Organizations who are participating in the giving day can utilize all the resources and the tools provided by the host to reach out to their supporters to help solicit donations to secure your fundraisers and to work on really just kind of growing and expanding your network. So how do giving days work so as we noted a giving day is a unique campaign presented by a host organization that provides participants the opportunity to capitalize on the urgency of the limited time frame. So in this case, the 12 hours of the giving day, and you're to raise the most money for your cause. So giving days are really exciting way to engage your sponsors, your community partners and other peer to peer fundraisers to help spread the word about your organization and your mission and really try to raise funds to further your cause. The limited time frame around the event creates a real sense of urgency so donors tend to respond to this and plus with the various prizes that are offered during the day that is a great way to give fresh messaging opportunities to your donors. So what does your organization need to do to participate in this year's NWA gives you'll first want to register your organization if you haven't already done so. And then once you're registered you can customize your profile on the NWA gate NWA gives site and start planning for your campaign so strategizing. You can invite people involved with your organization to participate as peer to peer fundraisers. And then once early giving has started on March 31 you can really start promoting your campaign encouraging donations, but of course you will also really want to push your donation ask for the actual giving day on April 7. Alrighty, so we're going to briefly switch gears into the demo that Don is going to give you all on will be going over what the NWA gives website looks like how to register your organization and then once you're registered how to navigate your organization profile. So I'm going to stop screen share and don if you would like to screen share your words. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. So, as Sarah mentioned we're really excited to partner with the NWA gives campaign for this year. I'm going to do a platform walkthrough really quickly for everyone since everyone is new. We want to make sure that you know where to find things and how to access certain tools and features on your site. So, again, as Sarah mentioned first thing you want to do if you haven't done so already is register. So, when you go online you just go to NWA gives that work to the campaign site, click register now. I'm going to bring you to the registration page. If you scroll down, then you'll see the registration box. I am currently logged in and so it knows that I'm an admin for mighty cost foundation so it's prompting me to select from that organization. So, if you have happened to use mighty cause before, and you're already an admin for a nonprofit on the platform, you'll easily be able to choose the, the nonprofit to that you are an admin for in the registration form which is really nice. If you are not, or this is your first time using mighty cause, then you can easily enter in your organization name to search for it. It'll search through the database to find the, if I can talk and type at the same time, find the, you know organization that fits the name. So you can choose from organizations down here, or if again you're already an admin, then you just click that click select. The registration form for you to fill out so you can go ahead and confirm that the information right here matches your organization's information. You can answer all the questions that are on the registration form. And then if you need to, you can save and finish later. Otherwise click continue and then you can pay the applicable registration fee right within the system. The email that the confirmation that email that you get will include payment information for that registration fee. So, once you're registered and within the registration process you're also claiming your nonprofit page as well if this is the first time you're using the site. So, once you're an admin of your nonprofit, then whenever you need to access your organization page you can go to nwagives.org and log in. So, if you see here the login icons in the upper right of the page, you can click that enter in your username and password and then your login icon will appear you can upload a picture to it if you want. There's usually some sort of default image. Once you're here you can easily access your organization page through this drop down menu. So if you click on your organization right here it'll bring you right to your organization page on the nwagives.org site. So, I'm going to switch over to a nonprofit profile so I can go through your dashboard with tools, exactly how to customize your page and some important features like customizing checkout as well as disbursement information. So, when you've clicked on your organization within that drop down menu it'll bring you straight to the overview screen within your nonprofits account. So, on this overview screen. It's really just, you know, a quick look at some stats since you last logged in. If there's any announcements that you need to know about nwa gives that will be listed that will pop out on the right hand side you can easily pop it back in. If you want you can show announcements and these will be kept up to date. So, you know if there's anything that we feel like you should know, or you know, want to prompt or whatever then that'll show up on the right hand side. So, quick overview of the dashboard so this is going to be the tools associated with your organization's profile, you can see your organization name here. So, quick overview just a bunch of quick stats.  If you've never been here before. We do have a quick walkthrough that you can go through on your own that kind of touches on here's where you can find this, and then it'll navigate you to a different part here's where you can find this. It allows you to go through this walkthrough to get familiar with your profile. So, organization page is where you can go to edit and customize what your public facing view of your profile looks like. We'll go through that in a minute. So, quick overview of your organization tools are going to be where you can find matching grants widgets campaign. So if you want to, you know, kind of go that extra level and do peer to peer, that's here for you as well. So you can see here if you click on this, it brings up the tiles within the site or there's a little period icon that you can see on the side here as well. So all of the grants are going to give you your all donations report, and you recurring donations you may have if you choose to turn those on retention report is very important and disbursements is always, you know, an important piece to. And then the checkout flow donation form you know customizing your donation form, customizing your thank you page, customizing your donation receipt. I want you to be able to really customize this whole process for the nonprofits, or I'm sorry for the donors that are coming to give to you during nwa gives and so this this section really allows you to do that. So basically settings is where you'll find you know general settings like your organization name, your URL, and then disbursement settings organization info and then admin so if you want additional people from your organization to be able to manage the account then the settings is where you'll go to add or remove those admins. So diving in a little deeper to each of these aspects organization. The organization page is going to be the first thing that you should focus on in terms of customizing.  You'll be able to see you know the edit mode that you can turn on enough. We are one of the things that we like you to be able to do is on page editing, because when I take away all of these I turn off edit mode I collapse the dashboard I scroll down. So this is essentially what the page looks like the public facing view of the page so if you want to see what your donors are going to see when they come to the site, then you're able to do that while still logged into your account. If you want to make any changes, scroll back up, open the dashboard back up, turn back on edit mode, and now you're back to where we first started. So this is very simple. You can see the places that you can customize by the little edit icons. If you wanted to upload a logo, you can click the pencil, you can upload an image. You're able to take images from any of these places local files is just your computer so if you have an image downloaded on your computer, click that upload it, and then it saves on the site. And if the banner image. If you aren't sure, you know what picture to use or let's say you're you know a small operation you don't have a lot of great pictures you can always choose from images in our gallery that we know look good. And then of course if you need help picking a banner image or anything like that. As you can see it's just a small portion of the site of the image that you choose. You know, if you need help picking one or you know how how you want it to look, then just let our support team know and they'll be happy to help. You can also edit the theme. So if you have branding colors or anything like that you can input those and update that and it will change the main buttons around the page as well as some of the, you know, the goal and the page metrics on the page if there's any links it'll change that too. Another thing I want to show you was the fundraise button if let's say this year you want to keep it super simple and just use your page as a donation site.  So totally up to you. The page metrics are going to be really nice for donors to come and see when they visit your profile during nwa gives, you can adjust the page metrics you can choose the amount raised you can choose to, you know, if you don't want to show amount raise you just want to go by donors or vice versa, you can do that as well. I just wanted to calculate overall time or start calculation on a specific date. So for example, a good date for you to choose would be the start date of early giving for nwa gives which I believe is March 31. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that's right. Okay, great.  And if you want to edit your goal or hide the section you can do that. The goal is you can edit that at any time. Let's say you're, you're, you know, you're doing really awesome on the day of, and you've already hit your goal you are more than welcome to raise your goal in the middle of the day.  So moving on lower in the section we have an about section which is where you can go to really tell your story about your organization and what, you know, why you're participating in nwa gives if you're fundraising for anything in particular program, you know, like whatever your mission happens to be. If you wanted to focus on a single story, like, for example, if you're an animal organization and you wanted to really highlight, you know, one or two of the animals that you're trying to help. This is a great place to do it. There's lots and lots you can do with this section, or, you know, if you wanted to keep it simple. That's, that's great to within the section you have a toolbar where you can adjust the font size the text color you can highlight. You can add paragraph headings. You can, you know, add quotes you can do indentations there's so much you can add you can hyperlink you can add images you can embed videos. There's a lot that you can do within this section so if you want to make it you know really comprehensive that's great add some pictures make it visually appealing. If you want to keep it super simple. That's, that's great to there's, you know, there's no right or wrong answer here. Within the edit mode as well on your organization page you can add different sections, or hide them. So, again, let's say that you're not interested in doing peer to peer. This section right here is the peer to peer campaigns that are supporting your organization so let's say that you, you know, would rather hide that section for now, then you can definitely do that. There's also other sections within your profile page that you can either see or, you know, hide so if you wanted to add a media gallery if you wanted to connect your Instagram or your Facebook galleries, then you can add those sections in. And then you can always read them at any time so it's not, you know, the page is very flexible for what you're needing it for at whatever time you're you're coming at it. And then of course if you wanted to see the page in the public mode, then you can scroll back up here, you can turn off edit mode, and then you'll see all those little edit icons disappeared. You can see those, you know, all of the media galleries are hidden. So you can't see those in the public mode.  At the very bottom there's going to be some organization data for, you know, just for transparency purposes so the organization or so donors can, you know, see information that you want to give them like contact information and things like that. Okay, so if you have any questions or if you need help editing your page at any time our support team is more than happy to help you. Their email is support at mighty cause calm. They are as you can imagine experts. So if you need help resizing an image or if you're not, you know, you want to see what other organizations have done to make their page look really interesting. So feel free to reach out to them and they'll be more than happy to help you. Okay, so my next recommendation after you customize your organization page is going to your checkout and customizing your checkout flow. Again, we want you to really own the process of, you know, your donors experience on the platform. So you have the ability to customize your donation form, your thank you page and your receipt. So as you so you can see again we have the on page editing on your donation form. So with the donation form you get the ability to do one time or monthly. If you choose if you would prefer not to offer recurring donations to your donors. That's cool. You can just turn that off.  You have the ability to put in custom donation amounts suggested donation amounts for donors to choose from when they come to the site. You can also add a description for each suggested donation amount if you want so totally optional. If you want more than four you have the ability to add in more as well. So my recommendation at the most would be six, you can add more than that if you want, but typically for is, is, you know, going to be the best six is okay. If you usually go over six donors start to, you know, get a little confused. So my recommendations for but you can add more if you want. Donors can enter in any donation amount that they want. So let's say they wanted to do $45. They could definitely enter that amount in as well. If you want donors to be able to add a dedication you can allow them to make that choice here, adding in a dedication will open up this section for them where they can choose dedicated on behalf of in memory in honor. And then they're able to put in their the information on who they're dedicating their donation to you will get this information in your donation report. And that way, you know, if your organization, let's say sends out handwritten cards to people who dedicate donations to someone, then you'll have that information to be able to continue doing that. And if you wanted to utilize your donation form and provide donors with designations, then you can do that as well. So, let's say you wanted them to be able to designate toward the general fund, just to be very clear, all donations made through NWA gives our undesignated if you will so you can do with them whatever you want. And if you wanted to give your donors the options of choosing between let's say programs or something within the donation form, then you can do that too. If you don't want them to, you know, have that option at all, then you don't, you don't have to provide it. So lastly, if you wanted to add an additional question on your donation report, or on your donation form. For example, like if you wanted to collect donors phone numbers, or, you know, the company that they're with or you know whatever you want to ask them. If you want to add that question in, you can add in a reference label this is what will show up in your donation report, you can choose an answer input type. So depending on what question you want to ask. Then you're able to quickly add that in there. You can make it required if you want. And then, you know, you can, there's additional settings that you can use from there. So the bottom part here is not editable, but it does allow you to see what the rest of the donation form looks like, as somebody's going through the donation form in general. And then of course, as with the organization page, you can see that there's additional information that you want to be able to collect. It's not editable, but it does allow you to see what the rest of the donation form looks like. As somebody's going through the donation form in general. And then of course, as with the organization page you can come up here switch it out of edit mode, and then you can see what the user will see when they look at the right here. So you can see that, you know, those other sections that are optional are now hidden. And then they have that that information here. And then the other nice feature on this page is this, if you click this, it copies your direct donate link. So if you click that, and that's what you send out to donors, and this is where they'll come straight away. And then you can bring them directly to the source. If you, you know, if that's what you want to do, or you can give them the link to your organization page, which, if you go back to your organization page from the dashboard. Then you would just copy the link right up at the top, so that you can send that out to your supporters as well. Check out flow, you can customize your thank you page by, you know, adding in a title as you can see it's the same formatting that we saw earlier you can add an embedded video. Some organizations that I've seen, like to have, you know, a little like peppy videos that they embed of their whole staff saying thank you so much for so appreciative, or if you have a video already made this is a good place to put it as well. But there's a lot you can do with the section to this, this page is what people will see after their donation goes through it's like the confirmation screen, and they'll see a direct thank you from you on that page. You can also add in an optional button as well. If you wanted like this one says learn more and it goes to the organization's actual organization website.  If you wanted to add the button to continue to steward your donors, as they make as they go along in the process, you can also preview the thank you page as well so you can see, again what your donors will be seeing as they go through the process. And lastly, within the checkout flow section that I recommend in terms of customizing is the donation receipt. So you have the ability to add a custom message that at the top of your donation receipt. So after donors receive the confirmation screen, they'll receive an auto email with their tax deductible donation information. You can add the custom message to that receipt you can add it here, and then the receipt preview is going to be your organization's logo, the donors name, and then your custom message will show under the auto text at the top. So your message here and then the donation receipt with the tax deductible language underneath that as well. And then you can always send yourself a test receipt so that you can get the receipt and see what it looks like for for your donors. Okay, so the next item I wanted to point out to you within your within your account is your reports. I wanted to just make sure that you knew where to find your donation report. So here within under reports and donations you'll find your donation report, you can download that report here. You can filter by time period, you can do a custom date range if you want it has some prompts right here if you want to use those instead. You can search three port for specific donors. It gives you a quick snapshot right up here of how much that you've received within that time period that it's filtered by the default is 30 days so it's like, let's say, in June, you need to reconcile donations from April. You can always come back here and filter to, you know, the, the NWA gives timeframe. So here you can see the different donations, who gave them the amount. This is going to give you again a quick snapshot of, of those donations that you've received to get the full donation report that will include, you know, if they added any dedication information, or comments or whatever. Then you'll want to download that report. So you have all of the information associated their address, their first and last name their email so that you can, you know, do what you will with that information. And then the other piece that I wanted to make sure that you were aware of and you had to find is your disbursement settings. So it's under settings and then disbursement settings. So here is where you'll be able to see how am I getting my money. Obviously very important question. So, as you're setting up your profile, make sure that if you would prefer not to get your disbursements by check, which, if, if it is getting sent by check we're going to be sending it to the mailing address that your organization has on file with the IRS. So if you prefer to get direct deposit, then you can enter in your direct deposit information here within that disbursement setting. It's, it's easy. It's pretty quick. You just enter in your routing in your account number. So you need to attach a voided check. And then our team will verify that all the numbers line up and are correct and are good and then we will approve it and then you'll be able to get direct deposits. The difference between the two, besides the obvious is with check disbursements those are sent once a month. There is a 10th of each month for the previous month's donations. There is also a $5 administration fee for cutting and mailing the check. If you choose to go with direct deposit those disbursements are sent out twice a month around the 10th and the 25th, and there is no fee associated with those money direct to your account. It says the information right here, but I wanted to point that out, just so you can make the best decision for your organization. Okay, couple other items I wanted to point out within your accounts that you get. First, under the fundraising tools I wanted to just point out the matching grants. So you have the ability to create your own matches. And essentially what that means is you as the organization go out and collect, you know, some sponsorship funds to use for a match specifically for your organization. No one else has access to this match except for your donors. So we'll be talking more about matches in our next webinar. But for now, you can find your matching grant functionality within the fundraising tool section in your dashboard. And we have lots and lots of resources available with our matching grants tool to create a matching grant. You just go to that match section, click create, and then it'll allow you to create a new match. So there's lots of different settings you can choose and different ways that you can go about creating the match. So if you wanted to do a one to one match, if you wanted to do two to two match, there's different options available. You could make it as simple as you want and do just a one to one match every, you know, every dollar gets matched. Or if you wanted to have additional settings just to make the match last longer you can definitely do that too. At the end you put in an email for whoever gets notified. If your sponsor pays online, then you can add in their email address as soon as the match is met the system will send them an email that says your match has been fulfilled. Click here and they'll give them a very special link click here to pay your match online. They'll be able to click that link, pay their match online, and then the site will account for everything behind the scenes. So, so they'll be able to do that. And then nonprofits like to put in, you know, whoever among the, you know, whoever's working on this on your end, you can put in your email, and then you'll get the notification, and then you can let your math sponsor know and send them that link if you'd prefer to have the communication with them. Either way, works. Another fundraising tool I wanted to point out is our widgets. So if you wanted to direct people more towards your website on the giving day, you can create a widget to embed on your site. And that still runs all the funds through and W agents. So there's different widget styles that you can choose from. If you wanted to, you know, see what they look like. Then you can do that as well. The mini donation form is nice because then it has your suggested donation amounts on there as well. And then you can add a widget label and then the code is at the bottom, and you can put that in your website as well. So that is an option for you to be able to utilize if you want. So I just wanted to point it out. And lastly, before I hand it back to Sarah is I just wanted to go over a couple more settings options. So general settings is where this is where you can do URL customization if let's say, you know, you wanted to, you have a really long nonprofit and you wanted to shrink it down. You can customize your URL here. You can add in some alternate search names here as well. So when people go to search for your organization within NWA gifts, then they'll be able to, you'll come up in their search profiles, depending on what tags so typically what the search does is it will, it will like look for matching text or phrases on your organization profile page. But let's say you wanted to also come up in some alternative search options then you'd be able to put those search listings here. Typically, for most nonprofits, what text shows up on their organization page is enough. But if you know you have a couple different initiatives and you want to make sure that you show up if somebody happens to search them then within your settings, and the general settings is where you'll be able to do that. Same thing for search tags, as well as social sharing. You can add in some social sharing text that if somebody clicks share for your organization that will come up. And that way it's a nice way for you to kind of put in what you want them to say. And it's super easy for them to share. Now they're definitely welcome to adjust it if they want when they when they go to share to their social media, but it's a it's a great way for you to have, you know, some control over what people are saying about your organization when they share it on their social media. Organization info is where you're going to find your address, contact information, etc. If any of this needs to be changed, you can do that right here. If your legal name has changed since the, let's say, so a little bit of background, Mighty Cods is connected with the IRS in that we do a monthly audit of organizations so that we can make sure that everyone utilizing the site is in good standing with the IRS. So we do a one time import, and then we just check the status every month after that. If your organization, let's say, was, you know, imported many years ago, and you've since changed your name, then you can change your, you can have your name updated, synced with the IRS in this section. If that's acceptable. Same for mailing address. You can change that here as well. So we're going over disbursement settings, and then admins is the last thing I wanted to point out before splitting it back over to Sarah. So this section is where you'll be able to add in additional people to help manage your NWA gives organization profile. If you wanted to add a new admin, you just click this add new admin button type in their first and last name and email, their position. And then click send, they'll get an email that welcomes them to the site gives them instructions on how to sign in. And then, you know they can go from there if you need to remove any admins, then you can just click the X icon. And at any time I don't know if any of you have noticed if you did good job, but at any time if you have any questions on any of the pages that you're on so let's, for example, matching grants, there is a support icon in the bottom right of your screen. So if at any time you're, you know, need help with a page that you're on, you can click that icon, and you can browse our very comprehensive support forum. The site will suggest articles depending on which page that you're on so with matching grants you can see all about matching grants, matching grants that make you and all that good stuff so it kind of tries to help. And then so you can read those articles, if you still need additional help, you can click contact down here and this will send an email to our support team, and then they can respond answer your question, or if you need additional help, they're happy to help on a phone call. Or, you know do a screen share with you, if needed so our goal is to make sure that you feel like you know what you're doing. So, if you need any help whatever help you need and making sure that that happens, then don't hesitate to reach out and ask where we're more than happy to help. And with that, I'm going to stop my walkthrough I'll hand it back over to Sarah and we'll have a Q&A at the end where we'll be happy to answer any questions that came up I see a couple questions, but I haven't had a chance to look at them so we'll make sure to answer at the end, so that, you know, we can get those questions answered. So, Sarah, back to you. Thank you Don, that was excellent. Let's see I'm gonna screen share again. So, moving into using NWA gives resources. I just want to make sure we mentioned the really great tools that are available to you all as you get ready for NWA gives, and this is the NWA gives trainings and the mighty cause toolkit. And the trainings are both located under the resources tab on NWA gives.org. So the toolkit is filled with tips and tricks and just a bunch of different support article links FAQs walkthroughs pretty much any info you need to help you get inspired and really start to figure out how to promote your campaign. So, both more in depth and starter info kind of depending on what you're looking for. This is also where you'll be able to find today's training which you can rewatch if you feel like it will also post the slides so you're welcome to review those as well. NWA gives has also put together some really great video resources. So definitely check those out if you haven't already and you can refer back to all of these as you're planning your campaign campaign and getting pretty much all set up so nice little graphic for you. All right, so as we wrap up, I just want to make sure that all the support contact info is here for you all to reference. Just as Don was saying our mighty cause support team was a really great resource before and during your giving day for pretty much anything campaign related so if you need help setting up your EFT or if you need help figuring out how to strategize around the time frame. Or even if just if your donor needs another receipt recent, you can reach out to support. We also have a full support library that, like I said is linked in the toolkit, but if you want to, you can also just jot down support dot mighty cause dot com. And then of course reach out by phone or email to the mighty cause support team Monday to Friday at 8am to 4pm central. And before we get into the questions, if you all you I see we have a bunch coming through. But I want to remind everyone about our next webinar, which is all about strategy it's happening on March 3 at 1130am central. We'll be talking all about strategy regarding tools within your NWA gives account, as well as email social media tips and tricks to help you make the most of your giving day. And you can register for that by clicking on the mighty cause toolkit. And of course, if you haven't already just be sure to register to participate in NWA gives super opportunity for your marketing and engagement for your organization. And we've all worked super hard to structure it in a way to make it super easy for you to get up and running pretty quickly. So we will move into the questions. Let's see what we have. Okay, so one question do early giving donations count towards the overall totals and prize money. So yes so starting on March 31. We'll be able to start to make their donations while still having it count towards NWA gives so online donations from March 31 April 7 will count towards your giving day totals. How does the peer to peer stuff work. So peer to peer campaigns are referring to the fundraising pages that were not created, most likely by an administrator of the organization so these are people who are trying to fundraise for you. So that was the fundraise button that Don kind of showed so you can you're welcome to also click that when you log in and you'll see what your, you know, your fundraisers your supporters would see. So it'll pop up with a couple different options and they can create a peer to peer fundraiser for you. And then also tune in because we're going to talk about a bunch of peer to peer stuff how all of that works at the next webinar. But their donation is matched. Yes, so if you have a live match, there will be a little kind of like sticker on your donate button I'm pretty sure that's where it is done. And it'll say like you have one live match. Yeah, and then once the match is met, then the, the tile will either disappear, or it'll like gray out to show that the match has been met. And then, which talking through it a little more I'm wondering if you're actually asking when a donor gives let's say the matches one to one when a donor gives $10 will the site show that their donations been matched $10. I think that's actually what you're what you're asking. So there's two ways that that could happen. We have a setting in the match creation tool that allows your donors match to get a donation to get matched like automatically. So essentially the site will go up by $20 if they gave 10. If you do it like that. I recommend making sure that your donor is going to pay online. So essentially, when they do pay the site will recalculate everything so that the like pretend match which you know obviously they haven't paid yet.  So there's a couple ways to do that. We have lots of information in our matching FAQs that if you click that little support icon in the lower right hand corner, you can access those FAQs, you can also talk through it with our support teams they are match experts. So you can definitely talk through all of that with them to just get a really good feel for what that looks like and then make the best decision for your organization. Awesome. Let's see if there are monthly donors do they keep giving through and they'll be a gives and this tool and then it looks like maybe it was answered. I think did you touch on that one dawn as well. No, but I can so. Yes, so if somebody happens to sign up as a monthly donor, or if that's what you want to pull people towards when they come to the site to give. Then their donation will just continue being processed through the end of you the NWA gives org site. So, you know, for as long as they have it live. The site is up year round.  But so if anyone does set up a monthly donation during the giving day, then their donation will just continue being processed through the site. So, yeah. Cool. And then this question, I'm not totally sure and it's been a little while early on setting up the organization page. There was a drop down menu toward the bottom where you could identify geographic areas, cities, etc. It would not take for NWA communities at that time has this been fixed and where is it now operable. Yes. Yes, so. I think I know what this is referencing. So, there was a setting that was not turned on in the back of the site. And so that's been updated. The geographic areas isn't active for the NWA gives site specifically. So it should be fixed now. But if you wanted to update anything else in that organization data section, everything is working properly. Okay, cool. Let's see if there's anything else. If you all have any other questions you can post them now. I do want to just mention that the last data register for NWA gives is a March 1. So, if you haven't done that, make sure you head over there and do that first. Let's see. And then I'll wait and see if anything else comes through. Okay, if not, I want to thank everyone for attending. Thank you, Chris, Laura, Carol, I see you popped on as well. And thank you, Dawn, for an awesome demo. I'll post the recorded webinar and the mighty cause cool toolkit next. Wow, I can't speak anymore. So you all can refer back to it. And of course, make sure you sign up for our next webinar, which is all about strategy. We'll talk prizes. We'll talk social media strategy peer to peer fundraising strategy. And that will be happening on March 3. And then, of course, one more time, we can't say it enough. If you need any help at all, you are welcome to reach out to our support team whenever you need. So thank you everyone for attending. Okay, bye. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.


The rigors start with the question. We didn't get to hear from you in our last session. So I hate boring conferences, and I can say this is certainly not a boring conference. I appreciate being part of this conversation. In response to my colleague, I must say I also agree on the importance of history. I think it's very important to talk about the sort of historical details, the sort of historical processes. In terms of the conversation, that ideas in rich history, that's of course an older conversation between Karl Marx on the one hand, and Hegel on the other hand to argue to the ideas piece. Now in both cases, of course, you have to account for the fact that ideas are never isolated. And ideas do not come from outer space. Like you said, they're not just coming from brains either. They come from real life. And that was Marx and Hegel's argument. So then we need to talk about ideas where they come from, who benefits and who doesn't. I agree. I'm worried about the history, the way you tell it, though, because it seems to be leaving out some of the key players. First of all, when you talk about the bourgeoisie, you translate the French term into middle class. The reality is that the bourgeoisie at some point, of course, is the middle class in the ancient, the ancient regime where you have still princes and a ruling class and so on. In our society, of course, the bourgeoisie has become the ruling class, and that needs to be discussed. That's not a disparaging term, but not to talk about a ruling class today, I think, is leaving a big hole in terms of talking about economics. Then to assume that it is the government that's basically accumulating the most profit, that would be hard to argue in the United States where the government, of course, is in deep debt, while at the same time, the wealth of certain individuals is growing. What we have to say, these are numbers. 60 individuals, or 62 between 60 and 70 individuals today, own as much wealth as half of the world's population. About 10, 15 years ago, it was still 300 people plus who owned half of the world's wealth. Now that number is smaller. So what we need to talk about, I would suggest, and I would like to welcome your comments on it, what do we do? How do we talk about the ruling class? How do we talk about the top? How do we talk about what's happening above the middle class? That's also a question for John List, in terms of education. If we simply measure the American standard and we want to live up to that, that's one thing. But there are things happening at the top where we have the top educational systems in the world, where we have the brightest students, the greatest research done. That's way above anything that we're usually discussing. So first question, how do we talk about what's happening at the top and who benefits from that? My second question is. No wait, maybe we better do it one by one, because I'm going to forget what you said. Would you like me to forget what you said or answer? I'm sorry. I'll just briefly answer it. The calculation you talk about is the Oxfam calculation. Oxfam is an English charity. And they point out, which is accurate, that in terms of assets, financial assets, ignoring human capital, by the way, which is the most important source of income in wealthy countries. But anyway, in terms of financial assets, this top 30, top 50, top 100, it doesn't much matter what it is, owns more than the bottom half or equal to the bottom half. But that's the wrong calculation. Wealth is not what we need to be interested in. We need to be interested in what I would call, and I keep trying to figure out what word to use for it, but maybe basic consumption or the consumption necessary to have an active role in a democratic society and have a full life. And this means access to medicine and adequate food and have a roof over your head and so forth. And that equality has increased in the world and in every country I can name over the last two centuries, over the last half century, over the last 30 years. So this hysteria, I'd have to call it, about inequality is misplaced. Now you'll hear it on the TV and in the newspaper, inequality, inequality, inequality. That's mistaken. But you're right about me neglecting the ruling class. I'm often accused, and I would have accused myself back in my Marxist days, of ignoring power. The history of class struggle is the history of all the other two existing societies. But I think that a lot of these ideas were arguments within the elite. But I agree that that's a weak part of my argument. I'm not facing up to that enough. So those are your two major points. Now carry on. I mean, the main point about wealth, of course, is not simply the question of who has how much money, but who has the power. How does power flow? I know. That's right. So that is part of that conversation. That goes into your other point about power. And I'm prepared to admit that I don't talk much about power. So the other question then is, why would you want to deprive alternative forms of power that flow from the bottom up, say, from the working class, from the labor movement? And that includes not just working people. That includes suffragists that stood for women's votes. That includes abolitionism. That includes the civil rights movement. No doubt these movements made a difference. Here's what I'd say, that all those movements with which I totally approve. I'm a feminist first wave. I'm afraid. But anyway, I'm a feminist. And I was against Vietnam. And I supported the, you know, I wasn't old enough to support the sit-down strike in the 30s. But I would have done that. And in favor of, and I'm certainly in favor of transgendered rights, I'm in favor of all of these and I'm against slavery. And I want it to be eradicated.  And we ought to go in and make it stop. OK, good. Those are all liberal ideas. That's an extension of the idea that all men and women, dear, are created equal and are endowed by their creator, certain inalienable rights, which had become a cliche among advanced intellectuals in Europe by the time Thomas Jefferson, the driver of slaves, wrote it. But the Marxist line, the Marxist line of my youth, no. It's that's not what's it look. I think we could confine it to the question of, I don't know, working conditions. Is it essential that there be strong trade unions for there to be good working conditions? And I don't think so. I think good working conditions basically come out of increasing income that the workers have.  But in fact, in the 18th century, beating employees was commonplace among free people. Among the minimum here, I think we would agree that it's not just ideas that ultimately drive history. It is movement that are embedded. I mean, that goes back to the French Revolution, the American Revolution. So in that sense, you cannot simply say it's people having great ideas. The liberal impulse here needs to be shaped up at the bottom. That's what I said, dear. But you're rewriting the agents. The agents I want to claim are the people. Read the third book. And then you'll see and read the first, which has a great deal of theology. Let me suggest you read My Christ and Empire and then we talk again. I will. We'll make a deal. Make a deal. Look, we haven't done that in this panel. And that's what's been so good about it these couple of days. We haven't engaged in talking past each other. And the main way you can talk past each other is to not read each other, or to put another way, not listen to each other. So no, I'm listening to you. And I've agreed on the PowerPoint. You got it? Except not PowerPoint like this, but PowerPoint. The point about power. But PowerPoint, by the way, is an abomination, even when it's handled very skillfully. But OK. So yeah. Thank you. Let's take a question from our audience. Is crowdsourcing and crowdfunding the next iteration of people having a go to change the world? That's a wonderful thought. I think it's true. I think what do they call it? The sharing economy is another one, Uber, Airbnb, both of those, to take advantage of the net, the worldwide web, to trade information. My friend, George Akerlof, a long time ago, made the point that a lot of exchanges, such as used cars, are damaged by asymmetric information. You want to drop that at a cocktail party and see what happens. That phrase, asymmetric information. That is, both parties don't have the same knowledge and so in the matter of women getting worse deals on secondhand cars. But this technology, both of which you mentioned, are solving the asymmetric information problem slowly. So no, I'm all for it, the more the merrier. OK, another question from our audience. So what happened or didn't happen in China that was responsible for its failure to capital? Well, what happened in China, and I'm not an expert on China and the expert on China in this room will laugh at what I say, but it's the Ming dynasty and then it's the Qing dynasty, which were both the Ming at the end of its rule in the 16th and early 17th century. It ended in 1644, was overthrown by the invaders from northeast of China, which became the Qing dynasty. These were conservative. And to go back to this question about elites, what you allow, what the government or whoever it is who's got the power allows is often a matter of how secure or insecure the elite is. If the elite is very self-confident, as it was in Britain, for instance, interestingly, and doesn't fear a revolution from below much invasion from abroad, which was seldom a problem in Britain, it can be accommodating to the bourgeoisie or to inventors. Indeed, the English gentry, and indeed, even its very tiny aristocracy, was notorious for engaging in mining coal.  Another question here. The capitalist system is based on continuous growth. As a result, we are using the planet's resources at an unsustainable rate. Can a modified version of a capitalist system succeed or even exist with zero growth? No, that's all wrong. Where could I start? Of course, there are limits. But that's a mathematical proposition. It's not an empirical proposition. Of course, if we were, I don't know, to have 300 billion people on the planet in 10 years, we might face a problem of diminishing returns or air pollution or something. But world population, it's calculated, and I think we now have a quite good take on this, is going to peak at about 10 billion people. It's something over 7 billion now. And then it's going to start falling, as it already has in Japan. So, sorry, I have a sinus problem. So it's not, you can't do this kind of physical sinus projection into the indefinite future and see disaster. I can't persuade you of this immediately, except to point out the interesting career of a man named Paul Ehrlich, a biologist, who in 1968 wrote a book called The Population Bomb, in which he predicted that by now we'd all be dead, essentially. That by the 1990s, we'd all be killing each other to get food. India would disintegrate and so forth. In fact, what happened is that India became a net grain exporter in this period that he was talking about. So not now, my friend, I have all these friends I keep talking about. Bob Gordon is a very old friend of mine. He's a professor at Northwestern. And he just wrote a book called The Rise and Fall of American Prosperity. And it's a wonderful book. I highly recommend it, although I buy these first. Because Bob is pessimistic. He talks about headwinds. Towards the end of the book, he says some rather shocking things for an economist to say, but let's set that aside. But so have so many people said before. Malthus said it in 1798 that we were doomed by population increase. Marx said we were doomed by the falling rate of profit, which, by the way, didn't happen. Keynes said that we were doomed because of excess savings. And that became, under Alvin Hansen and so on, the stagnationist hypothesis. Most economists in 1945 thought that the Great Depression was going to restart. Most of them thought. Unless we massively continued spending as we had during the war. Instead, we closed the arms factories, stopped building tanks, sent all the people home. They got jobs. And the economy grew faster than it's ever grown in its history. So I think that this pessimism I've written on this, you should go to my website if you want to hear more of this stuff. Deirdre McCleskey.org. And I have this pessimism and the world, the sky is falling. For reasons ask a professional journalist this. Journalists know that people love to hear sky is falling stories. Isn't that right? Yes. They don't like to hear the world is pretty good. I have a friend, another friend. Boy, I have a lot of friends named John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State. And he wrote, this will work for this audience. 1999, he wrote a very good book called Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. If you guys know this, Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. If you can't find it at Ralph's, you probably don't need it. And the point is a bad title because most Americans don't know what he's talking about. But John's point was that American democracy and the American economy, if you want to call it capitalism, work pretty well. God knows they got problems. We got to do something about the schools. We got to do something about this, that, or the other thing. But maybe running after Utopia across town, the absolute perfection communist grocery store or the great nationalist fascist grocery store might not be a very good idea. I'm not sure if this next question was intended as a fastball under the chin or a hanging kerb ball. But I'll leave it to the panel to do it. If it's a hanging kerb ball, I'm going to hit a home run. OK. It says, then, is the whole idea of economics redundant if invention and technology control the economy? No, although that's a very deep point that whoever's made it make that, that's right. Because when I teach price theory, as I have for a long time, 45 years in fact, I teach allocated economics. The point that all these economists here, we all teach supply and demand curves. And in fact, let me show you. Here's what happened in modern economic growth. I'll do it from your point of view as though I'm behind the blackboard. Here we have some supply and demand curves over here of England per capita in 1800. And all the economists here admit to doing harbors, triangles, and efficiency and supply and demand. We're talking the same language. So that's over here. What happened in the two centuries after 1800 in Britain was that the supply curve and the demand curve moved out. Now, see what I'm doing? Over to here. And all that stuff we're talking about, static allocation over there, it matters. If you have an economy where there are no property rights, where people are not having any incentives to do anything right, then you're going to screw up the economy very badly. How do I know that? Take a look at North Korea or, for that matter, East Germany. So no, we still need to teach this stuff. But we really need, and here I joined Paul in wanting to get economics off of the static stuff as much as I love it. I just love harbors or triangles, and I've done them very extensively. As economists, we have to get off that and talk about what causes this. And growth theory, as it's called, isn't going to do it. Growth theory is capital, capital, capital in spades, redoubled and vulnerable. It's not to the point. As we're getting close to wrapping this up, would our other economists like to weigh in on the role economics plays that the rest of the world should be about to happen? I agree with a lot of what you said. I think that this obsession with institutions, I think there's a real confusion as to, I try not to use the term institution. I think of rules. They're the things you write down on paper. And they're easy to write. And they make some difference, but they're not Nirvana. And then there are organizations which are teams of people. Yeah, you're right. And what motivates those people, that's a complex question, because it's not just incentives. I don't think you would say it's not just incentives. There's a complex mesh of mental constructs that people have in their heads, which generates that motivation. Now, I wanted to make one distinction. Your growth story is, of course, absolutely right and massively dramatic. But what we've now got is some countries are there, and others are there. And so we've got two very distinct growth processes that have to happen. One, the countries that are at the frontier will only grow if there's innovation. Yeah, that's right. And so it's a story about this wonderful idea of ideas having sex, that's actually, it's a vulgar image, but it's basically interactions between ideas. That is why the future is so deeply unpredictable, because we can look at what the research is to say, ah, these are the ideas that may go through in the next 10 years. If they go through, they'll then interact in ways that's hard to understand. And then that's the next 10 years. Then the third 10 years is interactions between things that we've not even dreamed, interactions between them. But that's the countries over there. The countries here, their growth process is a different growth, it's a process of catch-up. It's a process of catch-up. And so mental constructs will drive that process, but the mental constructs that really, really matter are not the new innovations. I agree. As Professor Rigger says, it's often a matter of power. Egypt is badly off because the army is taken over the economy, not because Egyptians are incompetent or something. Let me just push back on that a bit. It's obviously true. Political science has utterly bought into that over the last 25 years. It's the only act in town in political science why are poor countries poor because elites are abusing power. And that is, there's a lot of truth in that, but it really isn't the whole truth. That it's not just some place. But it is part of the story, and we are not talking about it. And it is part of the story, and we do need to talk. This is a serious issue that you did not address and that was not addressed in this conference. So I think there is some reason to go to that point. Yeah, there is. Fair enough, except that political science has been talking about nothing else for 25 years. So it's not a neglected topic. It might be a neglected topic amongst us now. But if you get to a country like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which isn't democratic, isn't a republic, and has recently rebranded from Zaire. It's like the Holy Roman Empire. Yeah, quite. It's so poor that an explanation which says that it's poor because some people are doing very well is pushing it. Some of these organizations are so dysfunctional that everybody could easily be much better off. And so for that, to understand that, we've got to go beyond power to people trapped in mental constructs, which are deeply dysfunctional. Well, I've written a great deal on mental constructs of this character. I started this by talking about the rhetoric of economics in a book called That, and then in a book called If You're So Smart, about the stories that economists tell each other within their science. And my friends, like Ariel Klammer, kept saying to me, come on. Apply it to the economy. I said, no, no, no, I want to go on doing supply and demand curves and harbor triangles. No, don't tell me about ideas in the economy. And finally, I was dragged kicking and screaming to this conclusion that I've come to, which is very similar to yours, that ethics matters. Look, the traffic laws in Berlin and Rome are the same. No jaywalking in both places. But anyone who's been in Berlin knows that if you try to cross the street against the light, oldies with umbrellas will attack you. If you do the same in Rome, they'll go, but they'll say, there's a word. I can't bring back the Italian. I don't think it can. Il furbo, I think the word is, means the clever one. Il furbo, I can't quite get it. So there's this deep difference. A English journalist who lives in Milan and has since 1991, he teaches at the University of Milan. His name is Parks, and he writes on Italy. And he's very informative about this because he says that from when an Italian child is told to go to bed, now let's do it the other way. When an English child is told to go to bed, and undoubtedly this was your case, he goes to bed. Time to go to bed, Paul. You can remember this. Go to bed. Yes, OK, I'll go to bed. Parks tells me that an Italian child is told to go to bed, and he starts bargaining. He goes, oh, mama, cattiva, oh, and he goes to papa, and he talks about papa and papa, and he negotiates, and he ends up staying up until 1130. And this attitude towards those written down laws that you talk about is characteristic of Italy. Deidre, I finally understood my family problem. My wife grew up in Italy. Ah! And I'm going to ask you all to be English, and we're going to put this to bed. So thank everyone very much for joining our conference. Tonight, if you are not attending the banquet, you can livestream Chris Ferrell's talk at 730, correct? So thanks again, everyone. We look forward to seeing you again next year.


So after 14 years of medical training, I have finally accepted my very first job as an attending, diagnostic, and interventional radiologist. Cue the applause. So it is a very special day for me. I finally accepted a job and I wanted to kind of come on here and tell you all about it because not many people talk about their first job as an attending with the exception of like, Antonio Webb, my boy. I wanted to kind of follow suit and talk about my job as an attending and keep this whole medical thing transparent because that's what I try to do on this channel. So let's go ahead and talk about my job. So first and foremost, where is my job located? Now I'm not going to give you the specifics yet, but I will say it is in the tri-state area. And for those of you that don't know what the tri-state area includes, it includes Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Mostly New York City. Now, I won't tell you exactly where my job is located or the name of my practice, but I will say that I will be regretfully moving out of Manhattan. I just got up here in June. I think I just posted that video of me moving back to New York City, like in June, link up here if you haven't seen it. I actually watched that video with Angelana last night because I kind of missed our old apartment in North Carolina and we wanted to kind of look at our old apartment in North Carolina and I show that apartment in that video. But nonetheless, I'm moving out of New York. Maybe for good. Who knows? So why did I take this job? For one, I was looking for a job that was ultimately close to family. Now my family is spread out as you know, or maybe you don't know, my family is spread out all over the Eastern United States. I was born and raised in Georgia. My mom still lives in Georgia. My father lives in Ohio. You've seen me visit him on a prior vlog. I filmed it, link up here as well. My younger brother is in radiology residency in Chicago. My older brother, the neurosurgery veterinarian, link up here to his channel. He just moved from Chicago to Rhode Island. So all of my family is kind of everywhere. However, Angelana's huge Croatian family is all in New York City. So ultimately we had to kind of choose one family group to be near and we wanted to be near her family because eventually we're going to start having kids and raising a family and you want to be near your family when you start to do that. So you know, essentially happy wife, happy life. Ultimately I wanted to kind of stay up here as well. I am moving out of the city but I'm staying in the tri-state area so I'm not gonna be too far away. The second thing I wanted out of location was I wanted a job close to New York City. Ultimately I do a lot of social media type stuff and social media is thriving in Manhattan and I wanted to be near somewhere like Manhattan where I could go and film or go and do collaborations or even do TV shows for all I know. I'll do some reporting on the news channel, I don't know but I just wanted to be near where all the action was. I didn't want to move to straight up like middle of nowhere, Kansas and not have any access and have to take a plane to go to like LA or New York or all that stuff. It sounds super superficial but it was, you know semi-part of my decision-making. So before I talk about the nitty gritty of my job I'll talk about how many interviews I went on or how many jobs I applied to and ultimately I really only applied to one job. I treat jobs like dating.  Not that I'm, this is kind of bad analogy because I'm married now but I treated dating and job hunting the same way. I'm not going to waste my time going on an interview or waste my time dating someone if I didn't see a future with that person or with that company. So I treated job hunting the same way. I wouldn't reach out to a practice unless I thought it was something I would be really interested in or something that fit my lifestyle and what I was wanting out of a practice. I hope this is making sense. So ultimately I called this job on a whim over Christmas break because Andrade wanted me to because it's close to family around New York City and I was like, okay, well I'll reach out to him and see what's going on. I've never even heard of this location in my entire life and I sure as hell didn't ever think I would move here but nonetheless I reached out to them had a fantastic conversation with one of the guys in the practice. We ended up scheduling the interview over New Year's I believe. Went on the interview, loved it, loved the hospital, loved the practice. Ultimately everything kind of worked out and I accepted the job. Now I did email a few other places just trying to get some information on them but I didn't actually pursue them because I wasn't interested. So now let's talk about my job. So the reason I took this job is for many different reasons but the main thing is it fit exactly what I was looking for in a practice. For one, it is a private practice with a short term partnership track which means you are a salaried employee for two to three years depending on the practice and then once you hit that partnership track you can be accepted into a partner of the practice and share in everything of the practice together. So all the partners make equal pay depending on how well the practice does or how poorly the practice does. So this had a short partnership track which I was looking for. Secondly, it's a private practice and it is going to be handling kind of the mid to lower tier complexity which I've talked about on a prior video when it comes to complexity of treating patients. I'll link up here as well when I compare it academic versus private practice. I kind of think of this as like the general complexity of what I'll be treating.  I can do those in my sleep at this point. So I wanted something middle of the road and that's what this practice has. So private practice with short partnership track and the complexity that I wanted. It also has a mix of diagnostic and interventional radiology as well which means I will be doing approximately 60 to 70% of interventional work which means I'll be doing procedures about 67% of the time but I'll also be reading diagnostic imaging the other 30 or so percent of the time because sometimes after you're on your feet for 12 hours a day wearing lead you just want to break and just want to sit down frame through some CTs, X-rays and MRIs and finish the day. And what I tell everybody that's going into interventional radiology and looking for a job afterwards is that you never want to lose your diagnostic training. Diagnostic radiology is a huge component of interventional radiology and you never want to give that up because it's very hard to pick up once you've left it. If I were to go join a practice that was 100% interventional radiology and I didn't do any diagnostic for like 10 plus years it would be extremely difficult for me to come back and try to crank through studies again. I never want to lose that skill set and I've already kind of lost it because I haven't done it this year. This is why it's so important to me and furthermore on that subject once I get older in my career of interventional radiology maybe I'm 50, 55 years old I won't want to be wearing lead all day long cranking out cases. I want to be sitting in the chair having a nice predictable schedule and just read studies. It's a great skill set and you should never let that go. Another huge plus about this practice is that I get a ton of vacation time which is very important for me. And it's not because I don't like working obviously it's because I run this full social media business on the side and it's very important that I still maintain time to devote to this business as well. So I'm a diagnostic and interventional radiologist but I'm also a part-time YouTuber which sounds crazy to say that I'm also a YouTuber but facts are facts and I do this part-time and I'm going to keep doing it because I've loved what I've built so far and I'm not just going to give it up just because I got a new job. So another amazing thing about my job is that I absolutely love the people I work with. Well, I haven't worked with them yet but I've talked to a lot of them and they all seem very similar to me and I think similarly to me and our goal is to just grow, grow, grow this practice and make it huge and everybody has a nice business mindset which is very hard to find in medicine. And the next best thing about this practice is that my co-fellow Matt also went and visited this practice and signed for a job as well. Matt is my good friend in fellowship. I've known him since intern year where we did our internship at the same hospital at Lenox Hill. Now we did fellowship together here in New York and we are both moving and working at the same practice together so we will be colleagues potentially forever which is awesome. So now let's get into my thoughts on the job market. I remember people telling me I could kind of get whatever job I wanted in whatever location I wanted but that didn't really hold true. I think everybody can probably find a job after they finish fellowship but there are vastly different jobs out there across the US ranging from super complex, RBU based jobs all the way to 100% IR jobs and academic institutions. There's such a wide variety and everything from vacation to salary is vastly different among all of them. I think that's why I didn't really pursue other places because I wasn't really interested in what they had to offer until I found this current job. I do however think the job market will continue to grow going forward so I wouldn't be too worried if you're a future or budding interventional radiologist. I will say though if you plan on joining private practice later on down the road you will likely have to do some sort of diagnostic radiology because there are very few private practices that will allow you to do 100% interventional work. It's just the way it is. So what are my overall thoughts about the job? Well, I'm thrilled. I literally am thrilled. I couldn't have asked for a better job. It is exactly what I was looking for in every aspect. I'm super pumped to start working. I still have two months left to fellowship but nonetheless I'm super excited but I am a little nervous to move again because we just got here. Now I have to move again but the good thing is now I can do a full apartment tour before I leave and I think so many people have been requesting that video since I moved in the first place. And since I'm moving out of the city it is also time that I get a car and I have no idea what car to get. I just sold my car. I sold Angelina's car right before we moved up here like eight, nine months ago and now I have to go and buy two new cars and I have no idea what car to get and I would like your input. So comment below what car I should get. I'll probably go car shopping in the near future and if you want me to take you along for the ride I will as well. So to sum all of this up I got my very first job as a diagnostic and interventional radiologist and I have never been more excited. 14 years of medical training has all culminated to this and I'm officially almost an attending. What can be better? So on that note, smash the like, subscribe button, follow my Instagram and TikTok if you don't already and I'll see you all on the next video.


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Why is Japanese and Korean culture considered way cooler than Chinese culture? Doesn't everybody just think we look the same? What's going on, everybody? Welcome to the Hot Pop Boys. We got a spicy one from Reddit for you guys today. The name of the thread is, Why is Korean and Japanese culture perceived to be so much cooler than Chinese culture in the minds of many people? Yeah, David, I feel like this is a question that we have wondered for a lot of our life. And it's really funny that Reddit brought it up because there's a lot of answers. Everything ranging from the modern day answers to having to do with anything past the cultural revolution. Some people mentioned some ancient answers, but ultimately we also want to talk about like, what is like the future going to be like, you know? Yeah, and we got some anecdotes from our own experiences, guys. So if you like these type of controversial topics, you're not going to hear them anywhere else. But the Hot Pop Boys, make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, Andrew. Let's get into the modern day reasons. All right, David, what's the number one kind of like answer that can kind of sum up why Japan and Korea are considered cooler than China right now? Well, they are way tighter with the US and Western society that has dominated the world for the past like 300 years than China is like way tighter. In fact, you can almost view in modern day 2022 China as oppositional to that. So one's basically homies with the US and one's almost like the rival enemy of the US. Now we're going to break down the mechanics behind all this. Okay, so Andrew, when you're the homies of the big dog, Andrew, there is something called cultural reciprocity. Now cultural reciprocity means that the US is the big dog, right? Or UK, you know, UK to Japan, the US to Korea. So they're sending over like code words, right? Like a coding language. And there's the streams of the coding language going over there to be learned. Then they're putting it through their local processing plant. And if they learn it good enough, Andrew, Japan and Korea can then produce products using the Western coding language that even the West is impressed by. Where the West is like, I never even thought of that. You guys took what we taught you guys and made something even cooler because you guys mixed it with some other stuff. Well, for example, let's just use Japanese car brands. Toyota, Honda, obviously cars were invented in America by the Ford company. But then Japan over time was able to develop these super reliable, super efficient cars, better and more efficient than American cars. And then also now, obviously K-pop, which is a product of kind of fusing, you know, Western pop music and styles with Korean culture. I mean, the Korean language, you know, a lot of people, they can't really tell the difference between certain styles of songs. So that K-pop is being sold back to America in the form of like BTS. Andrew, you cannot also forget about cartoons and comic books over there becoming animes and mangas. And of course, you know, some AV. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, also, I would say the Korean corn dogs, for example, such a blue collar American food, something that literally not even every American eats, but just like it's just carnival food. But now it's being sold back to America as a Korean corn dog because it's like upgraded. It's like the souped up super hot dog. Yeah. So basically when Korea and Japan are essentially like the little homies of the U.S., right? Not only are those pipelines to have cultural reciprocity be open, but I do think the one thing where you could argue is they still had to have that cool processing plant to even like process the coding language once they got it. So I think long story short to compare it to the situation that China's in, Andrew, not only are those pipelines way thinner and way more filtered, but you could argue the processing plant has just a lot more restrictions and you could even argue that the ancient processing plant is not as cool, you know, at a baseline to even spit back the products in cultural reciprocity.  You know what I mean? Like we don't need to get into all that. I think all that stuff is like, you know, there's like 500 other channels you could get to that. So let's move on to Andrew, some of the more ancient reasons that were not discussed in the red of threat. I would say that even speaking on the ancient side, like the historical side, obviously there was a period starting back in the 1400s called the isolation period of China, where basically they closed themselves off to the rest of the world being like, Hey guys, we're pretty advanced. We're pretty good on our own. We don't need nobody else. We don't need to go off and explore it. And during that time, they actually fell behind in development because they were so just enclosed and they didn't see like other influences and how other countries were developing. And that is actually one of those like kind of stains in Chinese history when they look back and say like, oh, we could have made progress back then when everybody else was. Yeah, I think that China is a much, much older civilization. I do think Japan is also quite old, but obviously Korea not as old. But I would say that, you know, Japan and Korea, they almost have the mindset of like the kids. And you know, the kids always want to be up with the cool trends, but the mom or I think you could even on a timeline historical level argue that China, Andrew, is the grandma of the of the like Confucianism or the East Asian cultures. You know what I mean? In terms of the, you know, the other cultures took a lot of ancient influence. But the grandma cultures, Andrew, it's almost like your grandma, that's why the cool viral grandmas on TikTok always like get spread around so much because your grandma's probably not like that. Well, because grandma's literally represent the ancient culture. So if you're talking about China is like, let's say the grandmother culture, but then Japan might have been the grand kid or the kid, and then Korea is definitely the grand kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would say like there feels like Korea is like that grand kid who joined like an American frat and is like super pumped up and just super cool right now. Yeah. The super buff Asian guy in the white frat and then Japan's almost like the genius kid who kind of tested in the MIT but could be a little twisted. Anyway, guys, that's a video for another time. I think, Andrew, there's some Wu and Wen masculinity things. I think that, you know, that's like a whole another thing. It switches off every 500 years. But like China right now, Andrew is in a period where they like they really think like the cool scholar. It's almost like the librarian from Buffy the vampire slayer or valuing Q and James Bond actually over like James Bond himself because he's too Wu and like brutish. I think that that's obviously something that doesn't fully vibe with the West. I think in Japan and Korea, they have a little bit more of a balance. I'm not saying that they don't have the Wen side to which is more K-pop, but they definitely got the Wu side to which is more like K-dramas. Yeah. And I do think it's changing a little bit in China, especially with like the Wolf Warrior type movies where they're trying to have like they're going through their Chinese Rambo stage right now. Yeah, they're trying to show a little bit. Obviously, the whole policy of like make Chinese men like I guess men again kind of thing, you know, how they're like banning certain like Hey, man, we're not supporting. We just saying. Yeah. No, I'm just saying what's going on in China. I'm just saying that it's it's like kind of being more of a balance now. I think for a while though, it was when because there was no need for the Wu because there weren't as many wars being fought. When it's wartime, you need Wu during, you know, you want to develop and develop scholar time. It's when. Yeah. Yeah. I think that if we the Wu had been more consistently cultivated though, I don't know if the Mongolians and Manchurians would have been able to like take over China all those times. David, you saying you saying they don't want to mess with the Wu? I actually think a lot of large countries suffer from a cool issue. If you look at Russia, that's the one theoretically white country that's like nobody like thinks is cool, right? Not considered cool. Mexico imports a lot more music culture from Puerto Rico and Columbia than it exports to Puerto Rico and Columbia, right? Jay Balvin and the Bat Bunny goes in. It's not like they're necessarily exporting, you know, the other music outside. Yeah, I would say India too. I mean, India is the next biggest country next to China and I wouldn't say that India pop is very popular outside of India or outside of like Hindi speaking areas to be honest. Heavy, heavy domestic consumption and even just so people can understand what we're talking about like outside of talking about these like crazy countries that like nobody really like thinks about on a cool level. Even Japan, their J-pop music, which is like 1970s, 80s British pop focused, influenced has been a struggle to export outside of like the video game geek world because it's so domestically consumed. It's not necessarily necessarily in step with global charts. The way K-pop is almost like really in step with global trends like, you know, we have auto tune hip hop R&B in America. You're gonna have auto tune R&B hip hop in Korea. Yeah, I mean, I think again, like there's so many historical reasons that I beg people to never like overlook history. Maybe history should not define you, which I don't think it does necessarily, but it for sure gives a lot of context for modern day decisions because you have to understand countries are not like individual human beings that are like, oh, you know, I did that back in high school and I'm past that now. It's like, no, countries like they really remember this stuff and they really hold on the history, especially these world leaders. But David, let's move on to like talking about the future. Like the future predictions. How do you feel personally about it? I'll share my own feelings. Go. Yeah, I'm going to get into the future predictions first and then I'm going to get into some micro anecdotes that I have about this my future predictions are pretty much that you know, obviously China has like the worst pipelines for cultural reciprocity as well as a lot of restrictions on what it can produce internally, hip hop band, et cetera, et cetera, certain celebrities getting disappeared if they violate whatever, whatever. So I think that that whole process is going to be a work in progress and I it's going to be a slow climb up. So what are you saying? I can't imagine that it gets any lower than where it's at right now though. So like I know a lot of people are you are you giving up? No, no, no, no, no, Andrew. I'm not giving up because I still care sort of but I just I just am not counting anymore. I can't stop counting. I've stopped I don't want to make it a scorecard game. I know in Japan and Korean or they're still in they're like close enough where they're still like a scorecard like boom. I got anime. I got manga boom. I got kpop. I got kdramas boom. I got squid game boom. I got whatever if there was like tally marks in the cool game China's way behind now. I think you can argue what is cool and why do you want to be cool and why is only the West defining what is cool. But that's just where the word cool comes from. Well, they sort of like created the concept of literally remember growing up and her dad would be like cool. What is cool? Dude, they would that my dad literally said. I think he said, you know what I think is cool man. I think doing a math problem is cool. Like he's not wrong. He's not wrong. But in a Western sense, that's just simply not how the system works. We we have to go by just what is the current definition guys. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm not saying you have to buy by this, but if you do play this cool game, there is one definition of cool. Yeah, and it is very difficult to understand. It's like almost like so culturally contextual. You have to grow up here to fully grasp it or just be from a certain generation. I'll say this. I think it's really interesting because on a micro level it probably does affect your life, but a lot of people don't like to think about it. You know what's interesting and I was talking to my Southeast Asian friends about like these battles between East Asians and they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kind of for you guys because I think a lot of people in America don't even know what a Southeast Asian is and we almost like have no hope to be a part of that battle. So to be honest, we lend about like 0% of our time thinking about it. Yeah, no, for sure. I think it is a conversation of media. I mean, especially when it comes to representation of Southeast Asians, like it's it's interesting because Southeast Asians actually have a sizable population in America of the Asians, but they're not well represented in the media. And that's partially because obviously East Asians have that motherland industry that's pushing everything, whether that's Korean movies from Netflix that are getting popular, the K-pop industry, obviously Chinese movies and the influence of that market and everything. So yeah, it is it is a East Asian argument. Now I just want to be honest like I'm not taking this argument like emotional. I think it's kind of a fun conversation to have. And I think that's why we have to have this conversation on video because a lot of people like feel this pain like deeper and maybe we have at certain times in our lives, but I'm just like, yo, we just got to talk about it now. This is like therapy for some people. Also, yeah, the truth is guys and we always say this like every other video, everybody lives in the micro, mid and macro differently. Everybody distributes their IRL daily life experiences at a different exposure level. Like some people are literally not tapping the macro at all. Andrew, I would say a lot of girls have this ability to disconnect to themselves from the macro and just focus on the micro. My last story is I'll say is that like I do think it affects Chinese guys in a sense that we're like always going to K-Town to party and though even in the city like New York City where there's like 4x the amount of Chinese, Koreans still have 4x the amount of clubs, which means statistically they're trying at least 8x harder to be cooler whether that's some combination of, you know, natural inertia plus their own, you know, willpower and drive. Andrew, 8x? Andrew, if somebody's out trying you at something 8x, that's pretty significant. Yeah, no, I mean, you could say simply that like Japan and Korea for whatever reasons they chose to put in the work and Chinese just don't try as hard. I would say my final clothing closing statement is just like, hey, I think will China or Chinese culture ever be cool like Korean or Japanese culture? I would say probably not for a long time, but Chinese culture is going to make its impact. I think that it's going to be cool in its own way depending on what you value like if you value like the difficulty of learning Chinese or the beauty of the language, you know, that it is very beautiful but also very difficult at the same time. The complexities and the illustrious history things like that and you know the maybe the economic power behind it, which a lot of people that's why a lot of people are learning Mandarin is is almost more for the understanding of this even though they're kind of learning Mandarin almost like somebody studies like ancient Latin. It's not like for pop cultural coolness. It's for a little like hyper usefulness or a lingua franca. I will say this Andrew. I've flown Japan air. I've flown Korea air. I've obviously flown China air and I will say this. It's really funny. When you look at the foreigners on the flights to Tokyo, they always have a manga in their hands or something like that. When you look at people on the flights to Korea, they're always like Korea booze and they always have like k-pop or k-dramas on an iPad or the tablet and literally I's not making this up guys. You guys might think I'm making this up. I've seen mad foreigners on China Airlines Andrew with Dungeons & Dragons books like they have a love for just like ancient like super old things from like 500 600 years ago like esoteric things. I do think the people who dive into Chinese pop culture very deeply are different than those we a booze and Korea booze. Yes, but yeah, I mean, let me know in the comments down below what you guys think because I didn't we didn't want to list all the reasons because there's a lot of them but you let us know what you think about this question. Is it important to be cool? Is it important to be Western cool? How does it affect your life and what are the reasons why Chinese culture is not considered as cool as Japanese of Korean and I think there's a lot of great sub discussions that we could have had that stemmed out of this whether that's, you know, Southeast Asians feeling like they're left out of the macro Asian narrative or just like a bunch of like crazy ways that people deal with, you know, their macro culture not being considered cool and trying to adapt to other things. Oh, also another interesting thing is Andrew Andrew if you are a young kid and you want to be a superstar in Asia right now Andrew, you better learn Korean because that almost became like the NBA of Asia. Yeah, you know what I mean?  It's not saying that you'll never release an album in Thai, but like your first couple albums are going to be in Korea. Yeah, or be a Westernized elite kid from Indonesia. Anyways guys, we're going to just end this video here. Thank you so much for watching the hot pop boys and please let us know your thoughts down below. Until next time we out. Peace.