Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be all about finding time for yourself as a homeschool mom, especially when you're homeschooling and only, but just because you're homeschooling multiple, don't click away. There are still probably gonna be a lot of helpful tips in this video for you as well. When you are a homeschool mom, you are doing all of the things. You're trying to keep a house clean, you're trying to cook all of the meals, and why do those homeschool kids have to eat so much food? You are trying to teach the children, you're trying to entertain the kids, you are juggling so many balls that it seems absolutely impossible to find any time for you, and so you are always last. When you're homeschooling an only child, I feel like that is even more complicated and more amplified because you are there everything. You are the only one that they have, and so finding any kind of time for yourself away from them, just you is very, very difficult. Over the years, I have gotten really creative with finding pockets of time to use for myself. It's not always perfect, but it does work, and so I thought that today was the day I would finally share that with you so that you would know that if whether you're homeschooling one, whether you're homeschooling multiple, even if it feels absolutely impossible, there are still ways that you can find time for yourself and prioritize your mental, physical, and emotional well-being. The first way that I find time for myself at homeschooling an only is by utilizing shrewing. I have been utilizing shrewing in some form since Emily was probably in about preschool. Shrewing, if you don't know what it is, is a really, really simple. It is just leaving something out and letting your kid discover it. A lot of people call it invitations, but it is with no requirements from you. I actually have an entire guide to shrewing that's a free download. I will link it in the description as well as some shrewing videos up here in case you wanna learn more. But I've used it when she was in preschool in kindergarten to get a little bit more sleep. I used it as she got older to get caffeinated and become human for the day. And then now I actually use shrewing to be able to get my workouts in every day. So before I go to bed at night, I leave something out. That could be a puzzle. That could be new apps on our tablet. That could be a documentary on TV. It might be single-player games. It might be a workbook I think she would really like. It might be just books I think she would really like. It may be a new Lego kit. Who knows what I'm gonna leave out. It's whatever I think she's interested in and whatever inspires me the night before. I'm gonna always leave something out for her. Sometimes it's the same thing. Sometimes she gets really into something and it's left out for days. Other times she doesn't utilize what I've left at all but she still knows that I require 30 minutes in the morning of uninterrupted time. It's not always uninterrupted. She still interrupts me but she knows that she can't really need me for anything. Because I'm gonna take that 30 minutes, I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna get my workout in.  No, she still does but she knows that I'm prioritizing that workout no matter what and I utilize shrewing to make that happen. The second way that I find time for myself is by doing what we call learning lunches. This is another thing that we have been doing since about preschool or kindergarten. At that point, Kevin was working over an hour away from the house working 12 hour days and then with the commute he would be gone 14 to 15 hours a day. Sometimes even longer because he was taking night classes at the college as well. And so it was just Emily and I for 15 to 18 hours a day and there were days that by the end of the day I'm like I can't literally cannot go on any longer. Like my ears could not listen to anymore. I couldn't, I just, I couldn't function. It was horrible. And so we started taking lunches together but apart. And so basically I would sit around the TV to watch a documentary or educational show. Back then it was a lot of magic school bus and said the science kid and octonauts and wild crats. Now that looks a little bit more like podcasts and audio books and crash course kids on YouTube and things like that. But basically we will eat our lunch separate. She watches a show, she listens to an audio book, she listens to a podcast and it is 20 to 30 minutes that I do whatever I need to do to fill my bucket for the rest of the afternoon. Maybe that's clean the house or do some chores because maybe the house clutter is driving me crazy and making my eye twitch and I just, I'm gonna lose my mind if I don't give the dishes down or do the laundry. So maybe that's what I do. Maybe I sit in my room and read a book because I just don't wanna do anything which is also sometimes what I do. Sometimes maybe I didn't get my workout in for some reason and so I use that time to get in a quick workout, maybe just rebound or go to the treadmill, something simple depending on like I said, whatever I need I take that time for it. Sometimes it's just calling a friend because I just need to talk. But it's whatever it takes to fill my bucket and I will be the first one to tell you to do the same thing. Maybe it's not lunch for you, maybe it's dinner time, maybe it's breakfast time, maybe it's just a random 20 minutes in the middle of the day that you're like look, it is okay for me to use screen time because a happy mom is way better than that 20 or 30 minutes of screen time that they're gonna get. If that's what it takes for you to get what you need, I am 100% telling you to do it and take it. The third way that I get time for myself is for us, we live so far away that we're in the car a lot, like a lot. Like we live an hour from the grocery store, from the library, we're in the car a ton. So I utilize that time for me, not always, but sometimes. So if Kevin's driving, I'll read a book. If I'm driving, I'll say hey, I'm gonna listen to an audiobook or a podcast in which case Emily will probably put in earbuds or headphones and do her own thing. I'll use that time to call a friend. Again, it's kind of the same thing that I do during lunch. Obviously I can't work out though, but I do whatever I need to do. Now that Kevin is home full time, he does the majority of the driving, he was a truck driver by trade, so that's what he does plus I hate driving. So I do a lot of reading when we're in the car. I also do a lot of working when we're in the car because it brings me joy and I love what I do and that's something that I like to do and so I do that a lot when we're on the road. The fourth way that I find time for myself is by doing things parallel to Emily and I know that you were thinking that is not really time to yourself and you're right, it's not. When you're homeschooling an only child, sometimes you have to get creative because that's always gonna be the two of you. Like you're together 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can only create so many pockets of just you when it's just you and them.  It's not like they have anybody else to entertain them or play with them or do anything with them.  I still need to get my work out in. Why don't you come work out with me and that happens a lot. I got a little two, three and five pound weights out there for her and she loves them. I have, I fit things that she does on the treadmill all the time and I look like, hey, I didn't get my steps in. Let's go for a walk. I mean, she loves doing that. We do five K's as a family. So it's taking care of me with her beside me. If I really need to tune out or if she really needs to tune out, we will put on headphones, listen to music or again, audiobooks or podcasts, whatever. That's not always what happens but sometimes it's just a day when I'm like, we need to go for a walk and we need to disengage. So let's put our headphones on and just go parallel to each other but not do anything together. We also journal together side by side. We each keep our own journal and so that's something that we do, again, parallel to each other. And there are a lot of times when like, if we're not feeling great or I feel like we haven't read a lot or we're in a slump or whatever, I can say, hey, you know what, why don't you grab your Kindle, I'll grab mine and we'll sit on the couch together and we'll spend 20 or 30 minutes reading, just like, hey, let's just start our day with this instead of whatever else we were gonna do today. Let's have some downtime together. So that is another really creative way and that can work whether you're homeschooling one or multiple but specifically if you just have one, you can easily still find a way to take care of you and do it parallel to them. If you cannot find time that's just you, you can still find a way to take care of you and honestly you're creating better habits for them as well. So we have talked about self-care quite a bit in this video and so I just wanted to let you guys know that I will link my self-care series up here as well as in the description. At the beginning of this year, I did an entire series on how I am prioritizing myself mentally, physically, emotionally, all of the things because I am on a health journey to become the best version of myself. And so I really want to encourage you to make sure you're making yourself a priority. It is not selfish to do that. It is a necessity. The thing that I have learned over the past year and a half of making myself a priority is that it has made me a better person. It has made me a better daughter. It has made me a better wife. It has made me a better mother. It's made me a better homeschool teacher. It's made me a better entrepreneur. I have more energy. I'm in a better mood. Like the list goes on and on and on. So even though I really didn't have the time to find a workout in my day, like there was no time or hours to be like, oh, here, I'm gonna take 30 minutes here to workout every day or start eating more elaborate meals that weren't prepackaged and ready for me to just grab and eat, I didn't have the time for that. It's funny how when I made the time for it, I actually feel like I have more time in my day now than I did before because I have more energy and it's all of the things really, really have helped. So I hope that if you were one of those homeschool moms who just didn't have the time, couldn't create the time, couldn't find it, that this video helped you maybe, if it's not one of the things I mentioned, at least helped you start thinking creatively so that you can try to find some sort of pocket in your day to create that time so that you can do something to take care of yourself because it is absolutely going to be worth it. Now, I would love it if you would tell me down in the comments what creative things you do to find time for yourself and when you find it, what do you do for yourself?


Today we are having last Wednesday service of the year and The year has gone by really fast and but this year has been great for hundred generation for goodness Church It has been full of Exciting things we had a lot of great memories This year we've seen a lot of people people's lives being changed and and Many of you are here that you came this year and got touched too And today you are living witness and testimony of the things what God has done this year in your life this year We've seen how we grew in attendance with before we had as many People in attendance as my as many leaders that you've seen on our board there You know God has really done great things in our church this year He's done a lot of we've seen a lot of healings that took place through our prayer lines in our home groups Every time we went out and ministered to like pastor lot shared this Right after worship and so God has done a lot of a lot of great things He's done a lot of awesome things in our life. We've seen people this year People that receive healing from incurable diseases people that receive freedom from all kinds of demonic Oppressions nightmares of hearing voices and things of that sort We have much to celebrate for this year for what God has done Do you agree at church? Come on and You know we started we we released our album church album worship album come on put your hands together for Jesus this has been This has been a long dream of of ours to do that and we were finally able to do it and not only we just record We recorded one and it's available on iTunes and then Google Play and we also have physical copies where you can purchase after the service but we're ready in in process of writing and and getting ready for recording of the second album and We just came back up with our worship team From a retreat where we had a little writing session and just a little get away Spiritual retreat and we got some awesome awesome things where we were very excited to share with you So God has been good to us this year if you agree shout amen and so But I want to tell you that the reason why we we can celebrate and remember these great things the reason why we can see so many new faces this This evening sitting and and your life has been changed. God has healed you God has delivered you God has set you free God has given you a second chance in life Some some of you were here where you overdosed many times and you should have died and God rescued you the reason Why we can do that this evening is because vision Because of the vision because the focus wasn't broken because our pastor He had a vision to see people saved in tracities from all kinds of ethnicities and all kinds of backgrounds people from All kinds of problems where people will be set saved people will be healed people delivered and for many years He kept that vision he kept that vision alive He instilled that vision into us and today we're running with it and today we are by product of this vision and so if There will be no vision if we wouldn't have this goal if we wouldn't have this vision if we wouldn't have this This focus there that we have if we would have not held on to it for years year over year Even those years waiting when we only talked about the things that we experienced this year But we haven't but we've never really seen it Because it was the vision wasn't broken because we hold on held on to it today We're enjoying the things that we see today And it's very important in our lives To have a vision. It's very important for you and I to have a vision for for a personal life Because vision and dreams According to dr. Yungecho. He says a vision and dreams are the language of the Holy Spirit vision and dreams are the language of faith and If we want to be a man and women of faith if we want to learn how to walk with it by faith If we want to learn how to please God if We want to see things accomplished in our life If we want to see the hand of God the miracles if we want to see how how God will help us to achieve The dreams that he put on our hearts We have to learn how to speak his language. We have to learn how to walk and vision and dreams You know as a responsible person you As a responsible person you take time at the end of let's say at the end of the month You look over your budget. You see how much you spent what you spent on Money where things you can improve where you know where you can be tighter where things maybe you can spend on and then You make a plan for the next month, right? and as a as a people as a responsible people we have to evaluate ourselves this this evening and we have to check ourselves check the year of 2015 and begin to prepare and begin to set a vision for the year of 2016 and I'm not talking about a Just some list of goals or New Year's resolution because many times those we end up failing those things Statistic says one-third of people they quit their New Year's resolutions or goals by January and 77% Never see them accomplished to the end. Maybe they get it a certain point but but they don't see those goals and and and New Year's resolutions come to an end what I'm talking about and not just a New Year's resolution Or a goal. I'm talking about receiving a vision from God for your life where you want to be in 2016 and You have to have a vision Where you want to be in life Especially now this year's coming to an end and to an end as we re-evaluate a year We re-evaluate how much we've grown as a person and character how much we've grown spiritually How much we've grown in? Relationships how much our home groups have grown how much how many people we brought to Jesus this year How many people we help to? disciple this year as we evaluate our finances We we need to Cast a vision and we need to prepare ourselves for 2016 because I know many of us here in this place just like me I look back in 2015 and I see that there are certain things that I should have accomplished There are certain things I should have done better. There are certain things that I could have done better Certain things I should have believed for and I would have seen them achieved But I look back and I see because I had in certain areas. I had I didn't have a vision I didn't have a Direction I did not achieve or didn't get as far as I wanted to be so as I was meditating for myself and and and kind of thinking over This year and thinking of 2016. I don't want to make the same mistakes. I've made in 2015 I want to be a person that will improve and go further in 2016. How many of you guys agree on that? I Don't want to be a person that walks around the mountain In in 2000 and in 2016. I want to go towards my promised land I don't want to be a person that spinning the wheels or a person that's that's running a treadmill You know, you there's a lot of movement that has a lot of business that are sweat You know, there's a lot of effort, but yet you're still in the same place. You're stuck in the same place and so Today I want to talk a little bit a little bit about the importance of the vision and why We need vision You have to have vision for every area of your life the place where that the areas of your life Where you will not have vision is the place that will remain stagnant It was a place where is the place that will Go around the mountain is the place that will stay on the same place So number one thing that you have to have You begin to plan and vision and have a vision and have a vision for for your life is a spiritual growth You have to This year upcoming you have to learn you have to grow More with God you have to grow more in your prayer You have to grow more in your reading reading of the Bible reading of the spiritual material listening to things You have to grow your inner man This is the biggest goal the biggest vision that you can set for yourself as As a child of God as a Christian so that your spiritual life does not Stagnate so that you grow continuously to grow in this because if you don't purposely in If you don't purposely Begin to go towards the direction if you don't purposely begin to live towards that vision You will remain the same in your life. You need to know where you're going in your finances Maybe it's getting out of debt Maybe it's beginning to give more and be specific when you say you want to give more when in 2014 the end of 2014 go in 2015 when me and my wife were looked over the thing that We looked over our finances. We looked over how much we gave and we decided that this this 2000 year of 2015 We want to give the double of what we gave in 2014 And when I looked over when I looked over our finances this year when I look at the amount of the things that we gave And we even exceeded the double amount that we decided to give but if we in 2014 didn't sit down together looked over and We did not decided that we wanted to grow in our finances. We didn't want to go further We didn't want to we want to learn how to trust God more. We would have not been in a place where we're at now every if you want to Let me give you this example if you if you want to get to Seattle if you want to Drive to Seattle or any other destination. You don't just sit in the car and drive aimlessly hoping you will end up in Seattle That's not the way it works You get a vision that you need to be in Seattle and that vision gives you a direction They the vision sets you up to go Towards your destiny towards what You need to achieve but if you don't have a vision first Then you will not have a concrete direction The scripture that I want I want to read today comes from from Proverbs chapter 29 verse 18 New King James version says this that without vision People perish in another translation says when there is no vision People are set loose They're set loose they they don't have guidance and you have vision. They don't have a direction They're running aimlessly all around and so in order for you to achieve the things that God has for you You have to get Vision you have to see yourself doing better than you're doing now For example, if you struggle in your finances, you have to set a vision to be out of debt to make to make more money And set a set a goal for yourself to to get out to get out this this the cycle in your life of limitation And when you get vision God will empower you to reach that goal God works through faith, but it's impossible to have a faith without a vision because With you if you don't have a vision you have nothing to believe in You have nothing to hope for you have nothing to aim Therefore you don't have faith and if you don't have faith God can't work with you and with God We always quote these things that with God all things are possible but It is impossible to work with God without faith faith and ties God's hands to begin to help us To achieve the vision that we set forth for ourselves But if we don't have a vision in our spiritual growth in our personal growth If we don't have a vision in our family, maybe you have a family member that's not saved If you don't envision them saved if you don't if you don't set a vision to to see them saved and begin to pray for them and Begin to believe for it. Then they will not get saved today. There's many people in this place that that That got saved this year and they're directly by product of somebody's faith they're direct by product of somebody's prayer of somebody's vision and they they came to this place and they received Salvation because their mom was praying for them because their dad was praying for them because their family was member was praying for for them because somebody had a vision to see them saved and they They had faith and they work with God to see that accomplished the man God is only moved by faith So if you want him to move in your life, you have to unleash your faith through visions in dreams but the way as I've already mentioned is that the the language of the Holy Spirit the language of faith is Visions and dreams so that means you have to learn how to speak that language. I remember when first time When not first time when we were coming to United States from from Ukraine is immigrants to United States and so I didn't know much English when you high buying coca-cola and That was that was there's about all that three words that we knew and so I remember this very clearly It's about what 13 years old at that time. We're on the plane everybody's sleeping You know, they come in with the cart and passing out Food and so and you know how in the plane they always wait till everybody falls asleep before they start passing out the food And so this lady comes to me and she says, you know, she starts explaining everything they have Of course, I don't know anything.  She's 11 months and she's beginning to learn things She's beginning to learn to say some words and beginning to learn how to ask for certain things But because she knows little of our language my language She has limitation of what she could ask she might want to when she might want many things She she could probably ask for for many things, but because she's not able to express Through English language or Russian Ukrainian language She is not able to have The things maybe that she wants and sometimes she'll boy walking around and just crying and And whining and whining you kind of give her this and she doesn't want to give her this She doesn't want to give the other thing Fine, until you find what she really wants and then she stops whining But because of the because of the bare limitation the barrier in language She's not able to have everything that she wants so she can have And this same thing works in our relationship with God There's many things that we might desire There's many things that we might wish for but it only remains an idea or a wishful thinking Until we learn how to speak the language of God, which is the language of faith and begin to request according to According to how God wants to be According to his language according to how God wants to be addressed Because you have to understand that God works through principles and he said his principles How he works how he answers prayer and unless we learn that language unless we learn Language of faith Then we will not be able to receive all the things that we desire and we will not be able to accomplish everything That God has promised to us and so the abc's Of language of faith is the word of God And so that's why we have to every single every single day We have to go into the word of God. We have to learn the language of God. We have to learn What how God speaks we have to learn that God doesn't speak a language of defeat that God doesn't speak a language of negativity That God that God doesn't speak of Language of oh, I'll never amount to anything. I'm not good enough We have to learn the language that God speaks so that we can have what God has promised for us to have His language is a victory His his language is I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me that God can fulfill the desires of my heart when I am biding him And so we have to learn the language of God so we can communicate with him so that we can achieve The full potential that God has called us to achieve And so that 2016 will be a year of greater miracles of greater things that 2016 will be a best year So far of your life no one Falls to the top people fall down And so if you want to reach the top if you want to reach everything that God has for you in 2016 If you want to reach everything that God has for you in your life, you have to cast a vision you have to Set a vision what you want God to do so that and God can make That happen in your life so that you can learn how to work with God and can bring that to past And work with him in Jesus mighty name amen Moses He was a great man of vision and moses comes to people of israel and he received a vision from god of setting Israelites free bringing them to the land of milk and honey bringing them to the promised land and he comes to He comes to israel and he shares this vision says god sent me to set you free and take you out of the egypt and And and deliver you from the slavery and bring you into the land of milk and honey bring you into the promised land Everybody gets excited everybody likes that idea because who likes slavery who likes being in bondage Who likes being told what to do every day of your life who likes to not have their own will? and so Israelites they get excited. They're like, yes, you know, we want to get out and And moses goes and talks to pharaoh. He performs the ten plagues He he he performs god's miracles He takes them out of the land of egypt now. They're finally free pharaoh continues to chase them god splits the red sea They just walked right in the middle of the red sea God then drowns the pharaoh finished closes the chapter finally. They're set free everybody's rejoicing everybody's having fun everybody's having a good time and everybody likes that idea of Of a promised land but the moment the hard time scheme the moment they ran out of water the moment that ran out of food They begin to complain and murmur and they say we want to go back to egypt This shows me that They never got the vision of the promised land in the first place They got excited by the idea of being free. They got excited by the idea of not being slaves anymore They got excited of idea that they will have houses that didn't build and vineyards that didn't plant But they did not let a vision have them And at the moment at the hardest moment of the life At the hard moment in our desert the first trial first temptation first hardship They begin to ask to go back to israel to to egypt they begin to say we would have been better for us if we stayed in In in egypt they would be better. We want that onion we want that bread we want instead of Keeping a vision alive They begin to complain and murmur instead of keeping a vision of a promised land alive They wanted to return to egypt and this shows to me that they never took hold of the vision They really never really made a part the the vision of a promise and a part of them And that's why they all died in the wilderness and they never possessed a promised land see lack of vision blames god and others for their problems Blames god and and and other people for their unfortunate situation blames god and other problems for their hardship But people of vision they continue to trust god and And trust his process and follow his process What if israelites When they ran out of water and they were thirsty instead of coming to moses and saying Blaming moses and blaming god. Why did you take us out of egypt?  You know god performed great miracles. He delivered us god split the red sea And he drowned our enemy and we're free forever if god can do that Why don't you pray to god that god will give us water in the desert? We believe that god will can give us water Since god brought us out of egypt.  So he has a provision for this problem Let's pray and let's ask god that he will provide water for us Or same thing with when they didn't have bread or they didn't have meat If they would only approached it if there would have been people of vision They would have approached it instead of blaming moses and trying to kill him every time And blaming god they would have approached it from a different way And they will partner up with moses to believe that god has a provision because god Gave a promise land as a vision for them to reach lack of vision Will eventually take you around the mountain But having a vision Clear cut will take you to your promised land When you live a life, whatever area it is in your life, maybe it's in the area of your health Maybe you're you you're experiencing sickness or some kind of chronic disease or or you're facing some some troubles in your health And and instead of blaming god instead of blaming other people or instead of blaming the world If you get a vision For your for your health If you get a vision of the cross that in his stripes you are healed Then god you can begin to work with god that god can bring a healing into your body And you can be healed instead of and you can reach your promised and instead of walking around the mountain Struggling with that sickness and eventually dying in that sickness Whatever area in your life it might be whatever area in your life you're struggling in Whatever area in your life you want to advance further Maybe you you grew up in a in constant lack in constant shortage Just poverty from generation to generation never enough or barely enough just to pay bills and hand to mouth And and and you today you're listening to this message and you You're getting inspired you want to get a vision for your life where you live a life Where there's more than enough and you not only you're gonna have more than enough for yourself To get the things that you need and have the things that you want But be a person that will be giving Giving money giving cars giving blessing other people with it But it first starts with the vision it first starts is that i want to Improve i want to go from this place to the next place and you have to have the next place the next step Marked clear cut you have to have a vision that's clear cut so that god can use that vision To produce faith within you and work with your faith to achieve the desired goal that you set in your heart amen without vision The danger of not having a vision Is that you will walk around the mountain You'll be stuck in one place You'll be busy working hard Striving to achieve it spinning wheels, but still on the same place when you get a vision You're able to move forward and move into a direction of a promise and amen Um, and i'm just gonna share three three things Of how to get a vision And how to achieve the promise the land that god has for you the promise land can be different for every person For some purpose for some people the promise land could be having their health restored For some person that their promise and could be seeing their family restored seeing their kids Come to jesus Seeing there may be maybe family the family completely restored the relationship marriage restored The promise land can be for each person the promise land is different But god can help you achieve the things that you desire and help you to get into the promise land in jesus name So first thing Is vision comes from god moses Goes to the mount he wanders around the mountain And he sees the burning bush and he goes up Up the mountain and he comes to the burning bush and he has a conversation with god And god instills a vision in his heart Which is to save and rescue israelites and bring him into the promise land Moses struggled with a vision he He didn't see it possible He didn't see it how in the world one man can go against an entire empire the strongest empire of that day Without an army without a sword Without a shield without an army and bring out three some three More than three million people out Of the egypt He said god, it's impossible. I'm just a single man. I can't do it But when you receive the vision from god regardless over how big that vision is If you can accept it if you can embrace it and god will be able to come make it come to past maybe in your situation you know The things that you you you want to see come to past maybe your family come to know jesus maybe Your marriage restored or maybe getting out of that financial trouble that you're in or maybe getting Healing in your body and it seems like it's impossible because you already prayed before maybe You know you went to the doctors and doctors said this is what you're gonna have to live with Whatever the situation is it might seem impossible But if that vision is from god and you embrace it you make it your own God will make that vision come to past.  There is nothing that's impossible to you amen The vision has to be clear-cut It can be So general that you can't point the finger at it. It has to be It has to be clear and cut it has to be exactly what what you Exactly what you want to achieve in life the story of dr. Yungi Chung a lot of you guys know is that when he began to pray and he been asking god to give him a bike a chair And a desk and he continued to pray and pray and pray about it and he got disappointed And so he said god, I mean i've been praying for like six months Why is I still don't have a bike chair and a and a desk and and he was really Anger with god really and upset with god and god said well I want you didn't you never told me what kind of bike you want more kind of chair you want And what kind of table you want said there's many different kinds of bikes There's many different and shapes and types of kind of desks and chairs And so through that through that experience god taught him how to have a clear-cut vision So he asked god for a specific kind of bike Specific desk and specific chair and two or three months later. He received exactly what he was praying for So our vision when we receive vision when we get vision when we set our vision the vision has to be clear cut It has to be exactly what you want to see so that when god answers it, you know that it's from god And your vision Start from small things You know, um, if you want if you if you don't have a car and you your your goal and vision is to get a car for example Don't shoot for a lamborghini or mercedes s6, you know s5 50, you know this great You might get there one day, but if you've never gotten a geo or civic Maybe you want to start with that? Okay, make the goals that make those goals learn Learn to work with god learn to see his faithfulness in your life So that your faith can grow eventually for a mercedes a lamborghini or whatever else you want. Maybe a jet who knows But set the attainable goals that you can reach with god The the the problem why the the problem why so many people get discouraged and in their vision is that set those huge goals They they never um, they never achieved small things with god They never built that history with god They never built the ark of faith and then they get disappointed when they're on received the bigger things The story of david comes to my mind is that before david tackled goliath.  He came to goliath without any shame without Any reservation he said that i'm gonna cut your head off and i'm gonna feed your body to the birds and that's that's he said Clear cut and that's exactly what happened and god helped him to achieve the dream because he Already knew how to work with god. He had an experience with god So when you set your vision start with small things learn to receive answers from god of small things And then we want to bigger things and number three start now don't put it off till tomorrow Don't put it off till you're more holier or till you feel like you deserve it more Don't wait till um you you pray certain i'm gonna be consistent in my prayer Then i'm gonna set the vision and i'm gonna pray for these things Start today start working with god Faith pleases god not your works not your deeds righteousness comes from jesus and based on those things you have to Work with god and receive Your promised land number two is don't let go of a vision when it gets hard Don't let go your vision when it gets hard Vision is really tested in the hard moments in hard times. We see that Joshua and calip while they were a part of the same crowd that left egypt But they allowed the vision to come into the heart They embraced the vision and every time they faced a challenge They declared that they can overcome the challenge with god They saw the vision clear cut They they they they knew where they were going and what they want to achieve They saw the promised land which was flowing with with milk and honey the houses That didn't build the vineyards didn't plan that wells that didn't dig they saw it clear and they were holding on to that and even the hard times They kept on their faith and kept their vision They went through the same thing that everybody else went they were hungry They were thirsty They faced the snakes that everybody else faced in the desert But yet throughout all these years They did not let go of the vision and they went and conquered and received the promise of god That they had And number three Is confess positive outcome You can have a vision and you can pray for the things that you want to see But if you don't begin to Speak positive things speak promises of god if you if you will not begin to confess positive outcome of your situation You will make your 40 days This is how long the israelis was supposed to it was supposed to take them 40 days to get your promise land But because they murmured because they complained because they always doubted god because they always spoke negatively because they thought negatively They turned that 40 days into 40 years and eventually even died in the desert Confess positive outcome in your situation see God's solution in your situation See god's hand providing in your situation and begin to confess with your mouth What you want to see bible says there's a power Of life and death in our mouth Jesus said if you tell this mountain To be moved and cast into the sea it will happen with just small faith But it requires speaking Jesus also said if you When he spoke and cursed the tree jesus said if you if you have small faith You will be able to do The same thing when you speak In joshua moses commanded he said let this book of law Not depart your mouth What he meant by it. So let this book of law let this promises let this vision Let it not depart your mouth continue to speak those words continue to declare god's promises Continue to declare positive outcome He says and he said moses uh moses said to josh that you will be prosperous in all of your ways All of your ways will be blessed Anytime we face hardship anytime we come short in our finances anytime we feel the pain in our body We should not confess What we feel at the moment we should not confess how we're feeling we should confess the promise of god We should confess the positive outcome because god is on your side and he can He can make a way where there is no way He can even bring a dead body to life He can restore every situation There is no certain circumstances that you're facing There is no hold that you find yourself in that jesus can pull you out But he requires you he requires your vision. He requires your faith He is willing his able and he is waiting to partner up with you To take you in 2016 and accomplish great things in your life But he requires you today and requires your faith requires your vision Give god give the holy spirit material to work with give him your visions give him your dreams Give him your positive confession Give him your steadfast faith unmovable unshakable that trust god that trust god despite Of what you're going through the trust god despite of your limitation your lack That trust god despite of your pain in your body Trust god despite of maybe things are not going well in your family Give god something to work with in 2016 So that you can look at the end of 2016 and see god's miracles See god's hand see god move And see what god has done for your life God created his world by speaking into it Today god gave you authority and power to create your world by speaking into your world Begin to speak positive things begin to think positive things begin to declare That everything will be okay that the situation that you find yourself in will get resolved That the core case you're facing will get resolved in your favor That poverty that you lived in for so long and limitation and and that that will be Put to end and you're stepping into new year new era new level with god where there's more than enough Give holy spirit material to work with which is your visions and your dreams and your positive confession there was this man named by famous preacher cannot haggen and he was a christian he was a christian man young man and he had He he had deformed heart and blood disease Deadly blood disease and he was paralyzed from his head down and he was laying in bed And there was no hope for him and he was pretty much suffocating and dying and there's nothing Doctors could do for him and so he asked his mom to open a bible to mark chapter 11 verse 24 which says whatsoever you desire And in prayer believe that you receive it and you will have it and he continued to recite it He continued to read it and read it He was so sick to the point that his mom would have to come and put up his bible when it would fall because he couldn't even Use his hands to lift up the bible To to to lift up and hold the bible and he said one night he knew this was his last night He was dying he said I felt like I was dying and he's like barely through this dim eyes Blurry vision I was continued to read continued continue to read the scripture and continue to declare that whatever you ask in prayer If you believe it you have it and he declared it and confessed it and declared it and confessed it as He was dying that night And when god came and visited him that night as he continued to declare and hold fast to the vision of him being healed seeing himself healed And continued to declare that he's healed right at that moment. God healed him immediately He had he he he was healed of deformed heart So his heart was completely normal had a regular beat everything was fine He was healed of a Deadly blood disease and he walked out of his bed and started walking and And started became a preacher and started preaching the gospel And today he is known as a as a preacher of faith and preacher of positive confession declaring god's work And so and as he learned this principle He began to apply the principle into every area of his life in the area of finances in the area of marriage in the area of Family and he applied the same principle that whatever if you can believe it And whatever you ask you will have it and he continued to confess god's word in his life And he received what he he always received what he confessed. So today As we're gonna hear in a minute.   What's the vision he has for you? Regarding your career your business Where does he want to take you next year? It might be scary.  Don't let it go. Doesn't matter how ridiculous it looks Don't give up when you hit hard times And continue to speak god's word continue to speak god's word continue to confess positive outcome continue to confess god's faithfulness Continue confess like john haggie Continue to confess despite of how you feel and how Things look around you and I promise you one thing god will always remain faithful God will always come through to those who walk in faith in jesus matrimon. Did you receive anything?


Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines. We are broadcasting live from the beautiful Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in the Pioneer Plaza in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence and finding greatness. Today's special guest is a local girl who previously worked for NBC Palm Springs as an anchor, reporter, and producer and earned an Emmy nomination. She has come full circle back home to Hawaii to anchor the K-Chuan Tu News, which ironically was where she first interned at. She is Lauren Day, and today we are going beyond the news. Lauren, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. This is awesome. I love your setup, and it's what an honor to be asked to be here. Thank you for having me. Well, I'm excited for everyone to get to know you. Okay, let's start. I know that you're very popular on the news, and they might know who you are, but they don't really know you, so today is the day that they get to know you. I'm in the hot seat. Yes. Be gentle. So, Lauren, tell me about your experiences growing up in Hawaii. I was really blessed, I mean, what better place to grow up in, to be in a melting pot of cultures. I think that was something that I hold near and dear to my heart, especially when I went way to the mainland later on. I really started to appreciate growing up here, but I went to Hanaholi for elementary school.  They have this culture at Hanaholi school about making kids feel like their motto is joyous work, so loving what you do. And I think that's kind of why I went into a field and I knew I wanted to do something that I love. So after Hanaholi, seventh grade, I went to Hanaholi. Nice. Graduated from there for high school.  Hanaholi was, it was hard, like homework, all of that, you know. It wasn't easy, but I really enjoyed my time growing up here, going to school here, learned a lot, all the, you know, from Mayday, you know, Makahiki at Hanaholi.  Totally. Yeah. Lauren, what's the first job you've ever had? Ooh. The first job I ever had on my breaks when I was a freshman at Hanaholi, ninth grade, I worked at the cafeteria. Great. So they paid me, you know, minimum wage, but I was helping the aunties serve lunch to other students, and I made maybe 24 bucks a week. Yeah. And I think that, you know, really, it made me appreciate them, and it made me, like, realize what it is to work a little bit. You know, I was a ninth grader, and then from there I slowly started to do. I was a teacher's assistant in the summers at Punahola for summer school. And yeah, those were my first actual paychecks. I wonder if I still have the stuff for $24. Did you ever have a chance to work at Punahovision? Yes, I did. Really? Punahovision was, man, like, looking back on it, I think I have to credit them for everything. Punahovision was sort of my hobby, and it was kind of like a club for students that were interested in film. So we got to go, you know, film the football games, we got to film the Punahola alumni luau's make documentaries. And I really just did it for fun. It was awesome that Punahola actually paid us, because we were kind of doing these promotional videos for the school. Yeah. But I think that was where I really started to love editing. I loved filming. I loved talking to people, telling stories. And I didn't realize, hey, that was what I was going to do for work years later, right? But yeah. Great. Now, Lauren, you went to Tufts and then USC for college. Tell me about that. So my senior year at Punahola, I was wanting to apply to a lot of different schools. I wasn't sure, to be honest, if I was going to be able to leave Hawaii because it's so expensive. Oh, yeah. So I really didn't know. And I happened to get the most scholarship and financial aid from Tufts University in Boston. Also happened to be where my dad went to school. So I chose Tufts. It was probably, I guess you could say, maybe the best school that I had gotten into. Yeah. Based on rankings. I now realize many years later that really doesn't matter. But so I went to Tufts in Boston. It was freezing. I think that was really hard for me as, you know, moving away from home in a city I've never lived in and then going from Hawaii to Boston. I can't. I didn't really love it. I was missing home so much. I like, I remember being a freshman. It was snowing outside. I had an eight a.m. calculus class and all I wanted to do was just counting down the days for winter break back home in Honolulu. So from there, I just wasn't really happy. It was a computer science major, believe it or not. Like coding. Some people, they're great at it. I wasn't. And I just, it wasn't something that made me happy. And my, I called my college counselor at Punahau, Mr. Arakawa. So thank you, Mr. Arakawa. But he told me, why don't you apply to the Annenberg School of Journalism at USC? Great. Transfer. And I did. And then a couple months later, I got in. At that, at that point, I wasn't really sure if I still wanted to transfer, but I was still kind of unhappy. And I visited USC and I saw what the Annenberg School had to offer. I saw the student newsroom. I saw that it was, wow, this was like, what a vision. This was like what I've been doing for all these years that I loved. And kids are studying that to, you know, do that as their full-time career. It was that moment when I saw what USC had to offer that was like, I want to go into journalism. This is what I've been doing. I just didn't realize it. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah. And Lauren, I want to know, by the way, congratulations on your recent engagement. Thank you. So tell me about your fiance and your cute little dog. Well, hopefully we have a picture, but yes, all there he is. So this is Kyle and our dog, Benye. Benye has more followers than me on Instagram. Yes, he has an Instagram and a Facebook page. Instagram is baby underscore Benye. No, but they are both. They're just the reason that I, you know, want to do well and very happy. Fantastic. Congratulations. Thank you. And Lauren, I met your mom a few months ago and she she read my book and she did a great like book review and posted it on on Facebook. Tell me about your mom. So this is my mom. This is Rhonda. Everyone says we look alike. It's funny when I'm not with my mom, they don't like don't put two and two together.  My mom, I think my mom is the reason why she like she works so hard. She's always, always working, if you know, my mom. And I think she was the one that kind of instilled that in me from when I was little, like, you just got to work hard. I mean, she she was also the person that was like, if you don't ask, the answer is no. So I think that like really helped, especially in journalism, when you're, you know, doing reporting, it's like, I'm not afraid to ask the question because the worst they're going to tell me is either I can't tell you that or go away or but you know, like, if you don't ask, the answer is no. So I think that's kind of yeah, my mom's a hard worker. And I definitely got that from her. So your dad, what's the biggest thing you've learned from your dad? My dad, my dad is someone who he could go to Starbucks. He would just, you know, go to Starbucks or, you know, sit down with me out in the patio and think that that was the best day ever. I think he really instilled in me that you don't need to go buy a bunch of expensive things. You don't need to like the little things are what matters. You know, like me and him, he used to take me to the beach and that was the best day. You know, just him and I didn't cost anything. It was free. I think he made me really appreciate it. I think the little things in life that just, you know, being with someone is what matter. Yeah, it's all about the little things. Lauren, I find it interesting that you did an internship at Cajun two years ago. Tell me about that experience. So after I got into the journalism school at USC, when I came home for summer, I knew I wanted to have an internship to really see, like, is this what I really want to do? So I was lucky enough. Cajun was my first internship in news. And that's crazy to me. Like I'm with Howard and Marissa as an intern in that picture. And now I'm doing it for real. So yeah, so H1 was my first internship. I remember on the first day I was so nervous. I could do not I had my dad drive around around the block where the station is by Alamwana three times. I felt like I was going to puke. I was so nervous because this was like what I wanted to do. And it was like H1, like the studio that Joe Moore was on, the station that we had all, you know, all of us, like rope watching. Yeah, my first internship, I was very lucky. The station kind of just they let me do a lot. They let me go out in the field. I got to shadow reporters and then I was really like, yeah, this is what I want to do. And I did it. Well, you did it for sure. So what opportunities were you presented with after that internship? I think because I worked so hard at the internship, I showed up every day. I treated it like I want to get hired here out of college. So I treated every day of that internship like this is my this is my job. Yeah. And I, you know, built a resume, I built a reel, some of the photos when I was an intern, helped me build a little bit of a reel. Enough where when I went back to school, I would have been a sophomore at UC or junior. And I had enough on my resume where I was able to get another internship. But second internship was with ABC seven in Los Angeles. And from there, kind of just built. And then once I had two of them, I got an internship with Fox News, the network. Wow. So it was sort of like the building blocks. So K-H-O-N was kind of the start. And then you you previously worked at NBC Palm Springs. And that's where you received an Emmy nomination for your coverage of the Wildfires. Tell me about that experience. So NBC Palm Springs was my first job out of college. I started three days after graduation. This is a photo of me in a mountain area called Ida Wilde in Southern California. I was covering the Cranston fire. It was a fire that just sort of blew up over a couple of hours. It was actually someone who was an arson when started it, which is the worst part. But the mountain was basically, you know, you could see the smoke from miles away. I could see it from where I lived two hours away from that mountain. So I, you know, was the morning reporter on it. I was up there for 16 hours a day. You know, we came back wrenched in the smoke smell. We were inhaling that, but that was really hard. I think seeing, seeing people's homes burned, being like they lost everything, you know, like all that was left is their chimney in their homes. That was like, I think that was the hardest part was covering that, knowing like, this was people's everything. Yeah, for sure. And it was one of those areas in California where it's very tourism heavy. If you can imagine that really, really hurt that community. And I just felt for them so much, but, you know, I was very active on social media. And I think that's when I really realized that this is when journalism matters. You know, I was people's eyes and ears, whether the street was on fire, whether their homes were on fire. Yeah, people were asking me to go door to door to check on their homes.  You know, I just felt for them so much that I, you know, in between like reporting and writing and doing the live shots, I walked up the street to see was their home. So yeah, it was definitely emotional. But I think probably one of the most I learned a lot from it. And I also like I made a lot of friends after, you know, it was all said and done. They had a saying called Idlewild, Idlewild Strong. And I went back to the community after it all, you know, they had this big fundraiser event and it really like I felt like I was I felt like I was home. To be honest, it was very much a Hawaii community. Well, and then now you've come full circle back to KHON2 as the official news anchor. How did that all happen? So I think it was a lot of it was timing. So I had spent two years at NBC Palm Springs. I was starting to figure out, OK, what's my next step going to be? You know, where do I want to go?  And it just so happened that Marissa Yamane decided to leave KHON. That's when I got the call from the station. Are you interested in coming back? Of course, I was interested. So I thought about it for a little while and I was looking at a couple of other offers and just ultimately like, how could I turn down coming home? Sure. Well, Lauren, we're going to take a quick break. And when we come back, we're going to continue going beyond the news. Awesome. Sounds good. You are watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my special guest, Lauren Day. We will be back in 60 seconds. Aloha, I'm Stan Osterman, Stan the Energy Man every Friday here on Think Tech Hawaii. If you're really interested in finding out what's going on in energy, especially here in Hawaii, but also all the way around the world, and especially if it has to do with hydrogen, look into Stan the Energy Man every Friday, 12 o'clock, Think Tech Hawaii either. Aloha. Aloha, my name is Duretian. You are watching Think Tech Hawaii. I will be hosting a show here every other Wednesday at 1 p.m. and we will be talking to a lot of experts and guests around sustainability, social justice, the future here in Hawaii, progressive politics and a whole lot more. So please tune in and thank you for watching Think Tech Hawaii. Welcome back to Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. My special guest today is a local girl who is the very popular TV news anchor for Keiqo N2. She is Lauren Day, and today we are going beyond the news. Lauren, tell me about your experiences working with Dash, Bridget and Justin. Oh, we have a good time. I'll just say that. They're awesome. I feel like Keiqo N2, I feel like I was welcome into a family. Yeah, like truly it's such a good work environment in that sense. Good work life balance. But also we have potlucks on holidays. I feel like Dash is just like a friend and same with Bridget. You know, we talk about stuff outside of work, but it's just a great environment. I don't feel like it's competitive or anyone's trying to put you down. I feel like everyone there tries to build you up and that's really what, you know, that's what I think everyone wants in a working part. Totally. It's healthy and fun. Yes, that's the most important part. Yeah, we have fun. So, Lauren, what do you really like about anchoring? Oh, I think anchoring. First of all, I think anchoring and reporting are so very different for me. I love both of them. I think anchoring allows me to connect a little bit more with the viewer, which I really appreciate because then when I get to meet them out in the field, I just feel like they kind of get to know me better. I think that's that connection that I really like. And I think it's also being in more of a leadership position as far as in the newsroom goes that I enjoy. As far as reporting goes, I like meeting people. Yeah, I truly that's where my heart lies. And I like storytelling. I don't like it when it's a bad story. That's that's the worst part of the job, to be honest. But I love meeting people. I love telling the stories that make you boost bumps about people in our community. I think those two very different things. And I love both of them. Well, you're very personable. And, Lauren, you definitely go beyond the lines. And in my book, I talk about, you know, leadership and creating a superior culture of excellence. What is the culture like at KHON too? I think the culture is when things are crazy and when there's breaking news. This is what I love most about the station, that we all come together. We're all pitching in. No one's just sitting in the corner, not knowing what to do or not wanting to help. And I think that's when it matters most is when there's so much chaos. You know, the things are going like haywire. But we managed to keep our cool and we managed to get it done. And no one's like, again, no one's putting each other's down in those moments. I think that's what really matters. That's a great culture to have. Lauren, besides the wildfires, what's another exciting story that you covered? Well, I think there are many. And it's so hard for me to remember all of them. One thing that was really exciting for me was when I was in Palm Springs, I went down to the US-Mexico border to cover a story on dental migration. There's actually a lot of people. There's this little town on the border of California and Arizona called Los Algonona. And it's a dental town. They have hundreds of dental offices. Seriously, like that's all they do is dental offices. And a lot of people will drive down to the border or they'll fly in from Canada to get their teeth done because it's cheaper. And I think that was really exciting for me because I didn't travel much growing up and there's a lot of preconceived notions about what Mexico is like. And I had no idea what I was walking into. So it was sort of this culture shock. But I just remember being so excited for it and getting to go there. The tacos were so good. We love tacos. Yes, they were amazing. We need better tacos. Yeah, I know. I see that. Someone bring a good taco place. No, but I think that was really exciting was just learning. I enjoy learning about other cultures and getting to see what it was like in a different country. Lauren, you know, in recent times, some journalists are getting criticized for kind of their reporting opinions, their opinions versus facts. What are your thoughts about that? Well, for me personally, I put being a reporter first. Yeah. And I believe we need accurate and also compassionate journalism. So for me, I don't believe in inserting my opinion. I don't think that's my job. My job is just to report the facts and what I know. And I think that's I think as a reporter, that's that's good journalism. Totally agree. Totally agree. So, Lauren, what is some what's something that you would like to improve about yourself? There are many. I think the biggest thing is just not being so hard on myself. I feel like I've always been that way. You know, ever since I was little, like even at Honholy, even at Putahoe, it was always hard on myself. But more so being as someone who's in the media on TV. I feel like it's really hard when you have everyone watching or your mess up. And just for me, it's just being able to let it go. So even if I if I stumble, I will remember that and it kind of bothers me. But then I have to remember, OK, like we don't all talk perfectly in our everyday conversations, right? And it's just it's just being to be a little less hard on myself. I think is something that I need to work on. So in terms of anchoring, is that like the biggest challenge for you as an anchor? Or what would it be? Biggest challenge. Yeah. Yeah, I would say so. I think being able to just know that we're not perfect and that we're human too. And I mean, I would hope that the viewers can see that as well. So I and I think it's kind of a double-edged sword because I think being hard on myself and being a perfectionist is part of the reason why I was able to be so successful and reach my goal at such a young age, but at the same time, like emotionally, it's hard when sometimes I know that I'm too hard on myself. When I know somebody watching or someone else would probably be like, oh, it doesn't matter, you know? But for me, it's like, I messed that up, you know? I know what you feel like because I'm the same way. Yeah, I guess that's the problem when you just you want to do really well. That's just for me. And I know it's like I care a lot. So it's like I want it to be perfect, but we're not perfect. So it's I have to remind myself that a lot. Don't be too hard on yourself and don't let it bother you too much. I need to like print that out on like a piece of paper and put it on my desk. So, Lauren, everyone defines success in different ways. How would you define success? That's so true. It's different for everyone. I think success is achieving what you want to do. So that, you know, for you is different than it is for me. For me, it being the best reporter, being the best anchor that I can be. And I think at one point it was getting to a specific city or market and to do this, but not everyone wants to be on TV. Not everyone wants to be a journalist, you know? So I think it's once you reach the goal that you want to do, that's whether it's you want to own your own business or whether you, you know, want to work in finance, whatever that whatever your goal is. And once you reach that, I think. And Lauren, you've been involved on, I mean, in many teams at different stations. And in terms of leadership, what do the best leaders do? Leaders, I think the best leaders are kind. Yeah, they're kind. They're just good people. And I think they show good work ethic. And I think the best leaders are the ones that other people watch and admire from afar.  You know what I mean? It's those are the best leaders that, you know, other people want to be like. They they set the example. And they have empathy. They care about their people. Yeah, for sure. So, Lauren, in terms of. Success, why are you so successful now? I think because I'm not afraid to work again. We talked about like I got that from my mom, but like my advice for other people and for other interns is, you know, show up early, leave late. Yeah. And I think the reason why I was able to reach my goal at a fairly young age was that I worked so hard. Like in college, it wasn't like I just went to college and then I got the job out of school. Like, I mean, I was seriously like in addition to the internships, I still had class. I was the executive producer of our student run TV show or news station. I had a half hour talk show and I was also reporting and anchoring for that new show. So every single day I had something every single day I was working on it. Wow. So that's why I got those internships and then that's why I got my first job and then that's why I'm here. So I think it's an even still to this day. It's not I stay late working on reaching out to people or even in the mornings before work. So I think if anyone thinks that it's just going to be an eight hour job and you're done. That's not the case, you know, you have to be willing to show up. You have to be willing to work hard. And if if you're not, I don't think you should expect that you're going to reach that goal. And that's why you have that Emmy nomination. Yeah, I guess so. You know, it's just and and to that point it was like for the wildfires. I would go home. I was done with a 16 hour work day, but I was still posting on social media because I knew that there were thousands of people watching my feed, wanting to know what's what's going on. Like did the fire move? Is it is it better? Did it grow? So it was, you know, even when I got home after that long day, I was still working in the one I woke up in the morning. I was still I would do that again. So it's you just have to be dedicated and not not afraid to work. Oh, you're definitely dedicated. So Lauren, who are some role models in the TV news world that you admire? I have a lot. And I think for different reasons, too. I really love Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. She's just so personable, writing wise. I love Steve Hartman. He's a CBS reporter, and he does these feel good stories about amazing people across the country. And I just love his writing. I will watch every single story of Steve Hartman. Every single one will give me goosebumps.  Oh, yeah. How would Steve Hartman write this story? So I think he's probably my biggest writing idol. Got it. Yeah. So who is someone that you look to as a mentor? As a mentor. That one's easy. Yeah. Leo Stallworth. I don't know if he's going to watch this. He better. Yeah, right. No, but I met him. He's a reporter for ABC 7 in Los Angeles. So I met him at my internship. You know, I got to go out in the field with him. And honestly, he's become a second dad. Like, you know, I text him all the time, not just about work, about personal things. And he sort of took me under his wing. He brought me out of my shell. I was not like this when I was, you know, in high school. I was, you know, more shy, I guess. Or, you know, I just, I don't think I found myself. I wasn't confident. That's the word. And he sort of made me, you know, he, he made me like, not only did he coach me through, you know, how to be a good reporter, how to be a good anchor, but he also coached me through life in the sense that he taught me that it's important to not always put a career, your career first.  Like, I'm a hard worker, right?  That's what matters. I like that you said coaching in there because, you know, that's really what mentors do as they coach. I think that would be my advice to other young people, too, is try to find a mentor. And I think if you just ask, so many people are willing to help. Yeah. But it's you asking for the help. And so, you know, when I first met him, I was like, can I, can I learn from you? Can you look at my stories? Can you coach me and can you mentor me? I actually asked him. It wasn't like he offered it to me. You know, I went out of my way to ask him.  I love that. Yeah. Lauren, it was so awesome having you on the show today. And you are someone that, like I said earlier, you go beyond the lines. Thank you. And I love that everyone got to kind of know you more. Well, thank you so much for having me, enjoyed being here. Hopefully it made sense. Yes, of course. Yeah. Thank you, Lauren. Thank you for having me. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKamori.com. And my book is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I hope that Lauren and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.


Chance to hear him live at the second art about which is a thing we do here every month And his name is AJ Hicks and he was just blown away. He's very soulful for I'm gonna say it for a white guy He's very so Very upbeat very soulful and I really got I bought a CD I enjoyed it so he is here today and he's going to be playing for us But before I talk to him once again, we I'll tell you why you're hearing my voice right now is we are here to donate If you're a fan of community radio, we are totally dependent on donations from you So go ahead and check that out, and I'm gonna talk to AJ. How you doing today young man? Yeah, so go ahead and tell us so It is kind of like ironic and it's perfect that you're gonna end this because I really believe that you're one of the few people If you want to tell us a little bit about your story I remember like the things you were saying earlier about the different influences and how you've been playing since you were a kid So if you want to tell some of us live tell us about yourself. I already forget, you know Don't worry about I'm glad he has bullet points, but other than that AJ Hicks, how are you doing today? I'm doing really good man. I'm happy to be back here in Davis I've been I've been playing up here for the last like two years about just about every month at least And since then since I started playing up here. I've developed this music project and it's called make no bones and It's been going really well. It's been it's been this really interesting shift you know, I've been playing and writing music since I was like eight and a half years old and You know for the longest time it was just me and my guitar right, but as time went on I was you know jamming with all my friends and forming different bands through high school through college and and even now and so You know it felt right to change it change the whole project to have a project name because it's so collaborative And there's so much going on and I love to do this like I don't mean to interrupt you But I love to do this when I find people who are just helping us out So do you have any upcoming gigs you have something that you like are willing to go on? With the social media these young people on the Twitter and the Facebook's and stuff like that So before we get into your music and more about that I want you to plug yourself because thank you for supporting us So go ahead and tell us the radio and the listeners something you have going on as well I'm happy to support. I mean community radio is so important. It is so refreshing You know some of my favorite music I've discovered And it would never be played on the popular station so um, yeah, you can find out about all my gigs at www.makenobonesmusic.com I make sure you get that music part in there and then facebook.com Slash make no bones music on Instagram. It's make no bones music on Twitter It's make no bones band because somebody stole that handle before I could get to it Yeah, and then so I'm gonna get out of his way But once again want to say thank you very much for helping us and supporting us and he's gonna play a few songs I'm excited about I'm gonna hang out over here a little bit But don't forget to make no bones music if you don't put music I hear it might go to a vegan website, so we don't want any part of that Once again, this is AJ Hicks. Thank you. This is KDRT LP 95-7 where the grassroots grow don't forget to KDRT slash or Donate and we are here for a good cause and I'm gonna leave this man to his magic and his beautiful beautiful music Thank you for supporting us. I'm really excited you guys Let's get it started All right, this first song is called so it goes and if you're just tuning in My name is AJ Hicks. I got a project called make no bones You want to find it to make no bones music? Com this is a special song And I promised I would tell the story before This song is about when I drove from San Francisco to New York and back a little while ago And we found ourselves in New Orleans About two in the morning and we pulled up to the Airbnb or the art hostel or the hippie commune Or the abandoned warehouse. I think all those names who described this place pretty well And I looked at it and then I looked at my traveling partner and I said there's no way. This is where we're staying There's missing garage door panels, you know, there's broken windows and But sure enough we walk up we type in the code and we're in and right to the left of us is just A bunch of scrap metal and scrap wood just bunch of junk But you walk a little bit further and it opens up into this amazing amazing place There's artwork everywhere. There's bicycle wheels that are spinning over your head. There's there's they have peach trees growing out of old spare tires They had a they had this old 60s office chair and it said this is not a flotation device and Then on the seat of it. They painted a octopus on there And then two things really stood out to me that they're super important and have stuck with me ever since And one of those things was in the bathroom written around all the walls Spray painted like a mantra. I said I am not prepared to know why I am not prepared to know why I am not prepared to know Why I am not prepared and then the other thing that really stuck out to me was in the morning actually I Woke up and I walked over to one of the tables Written was a note It looked like a note is written by a girl to her parents, but she never sent it So I didn't read too deep because it looked a little bit personal But in bold at the bottom it said one day I'll settle down and someday I'll be what you want and At that point in my life driving across the country trying to be a musician that really hit home So this song is called the dream and my name is AJ Hicks And my project is make no bones and thank you so much for watching and for listening


So we've been talking about lots of different types of processes that we can now calculate various thermodynamic quantities for. For example, when we talk about isothermal processes, those are processes which don't experience a change in temperature. The change in temperature is zero. We've also talked about isobaric processes which don't change their pressure or isochoric processes, which don't have a change in volume. So there's one additional type of process we haven't talked about yet that turns out to be pretty important. And that's a process where the heat transfer in a process is equal to zero. So notice I don't put a delta in front of this because there's no q associated with the system that's changing. The q is the amount of heat flowing into or out of the system depending on the sign. So if there's no heat flow into or out of the system, then q is equal to zero. And we call that process adiabatic. So an adiabatic process is one where we don't allow heat to enter the system. If we have a system where heat is flowing in or perhaps in a different system heat is flowing out, that would be not adiabatic. In order to have an adiabatic system, what we need to do is take our system and somehow insulate it from the environment. So if I wrap it in an insulating layer, examples you might be familiar with would be a well insulated thermos that doesn't allow your hot coffee to cool down over the course of a day. Or in the chemistry department a doer flask that doesn't allow heat to enter and raise the temperature of the cold liquid that you've got inside the flask. If you've got a very well insulated box, then no heat flows from outside of the system to inside of the system. And any process taking place in the system will be an adiabatic process. So if we imagine what an adiabatic process would look like, let's say we want to talk about an adiabatic expansion or an adiabatic compression of a gas. So some sort of adiabatic change in the volume. I need to have, so before when we talked about volume changes, we've typically used a diagram like a piston. So we have some P1, V1 inside a piston and as the gas expands, let's say to some lower P2 and some larger V2, the piston moves upward to allow it to increase the volume. So same thing here except we just need to have a very well insulated piston do that gas expansion inside of a doer flask or inside of a very well insulated container of some sort. So that process is what we mean by an adiabatic process. If we think about what's going on in that adiabatic process, by definition if it's adiabatic, there's no heat transfer in the process. So the heat transfer is zero. So dU must be equal to dW. We know for a gas expansion, let's say in particular that we're talking about an expansion, we know for a gas expansion, the system is doing work on the surroundings. The lift of the box is being pushed up by the system. The system requires some energy to do that work. It costs the system some energy and we represent that with a negative sign on the PV work. So that means also necessarily the internal energy is also negative. So the internal energy of the system is going to decrease because if we don't allow heat to flow into the system to pay for that PV work of expanding the gas, the only place that energy can come from is the internal energy that the gas already contains. So in order to perform the expansion, the internal energy is going to decrease and what that means is the temperature of the gas is also going to decrease. So what this means is when we do an adiabatic expansion of a gas, its temperature will drop. And conversely, as we'll see in just a second without working through all these details again, if I were to do an adiabatic compression, if I compress a well insulated gas, its temperature will increase. And that's actually something you probably have some experience with when you let a gas expand, let's say out of a pumped up bicycle tire or out of a can of compressed air that used to clean your keyboard. The gas coming out of the nozzle is typically colder than room temperature. So let's say we're curious about exactly how much the temperature of that gas decreases. So let's do the same thing a little more quantitatively now. So still talking about an adiabatic volume change, we had gotten to the point of saying du must be equal to dw because it's adiabatic and dq must be zero. We know that the internal energy change is related to the temperature change, moles times the molar heat capacity times the change in temperature. And on the right side of the equation, the work is equal to minus p external dv if we do it irreversibly or minus p, the system pressure if we do it reversibly. So let's say we're doing a reversible adiabatic volume change so that I can write p instead of p external. And let's in addition say that we're doing this for an ideal gas. That will allow me to write this pressure as nrt over v and on the left side I've still got ncv times dt. So that's starting to look good. What I would normally do at this point in order to relate how much the temperature changes to how much the volume changes for a finite amount of changes, I'd throw an integral sign in front of both of these. But we're not quite ready to do that yet because this integral on the right hand side I'm integrating with respect to v and it's fine that I've got a v here but I don't like the temperature that shows up here. Likewise I'd rather have the temperature over on this side where I'm talking about the volume change. So if I just divide each side of this expression by temperature, so I've got ncv bar 1 over t dt is equal to minus nr 1 over v dv. Then I'm ready to do a couple things. I can put an integral sign on both sides of this equation, I can also notice that I've got an n on the left and an n on the right so I can cancel those two ends. And when I do this integral I find that on the left cv bar log of final conditions over initial conditions log of t2 over t1 must be equal to on the right side, don't forget the negative sign r log final conditions over initial conditions but now we're talking about the volume v2 over v1. So our goal remember was to ask ourselves how much does the temperature change when I do this adiabatic expansion or compression of a gas so I want to rearrange this equation and find solve for the amount of the temperature change as a function of the volume change. So let's write log of t2 over t1 if I move the heat capacity over to the right I've got minus r over cv molar cv log of v2 over v1. This term looks like a number multiplying this logarithm. So a constant times a log is equal to the log raised to that constant so I'll rewrite this, let's leave the negative sign out front, negative log of v2 over v1 raised to the r over cv bar power. And I'll use one more log to say the negative of a log is equal to the log of the inverse so instead of v2 over v1 I've actually got log of v1 over v2 if I use a positive sign. Log of t2 over t1 is equal to log of v1 over v2 raised to that power r divided by cv and now I've got log on the left, log on the right which I can remove both those logs essentially exponentiating both sides of that equation and then that will be our final result. So that one we'll put in a box and we'll use that again soon. What that tells us is the connection between the temperature change and the volume change for this adiabatic expansion or compression. If we know the heat capacity of the gas and if we know the gas constant then let's say if I expand the gas to twice its initial volume if I do an expansion so that v2 is larger than v1, v1 over v2 is a number less than one and that means that the result on the right hand side will be the temperature t2 will be colder than the temperature t1. On the other hand if I do an adiabatic compression and v2 is larger than v1 then we'll work the other way around and the final temperature will be larger than the initial temperature. So we'll use this equation to perform a numerical example to see how that works but at the moment what we've got is at least a qualitative understanding of why it is that when I do an adiabatic expansion the temperature drops and when I do an adiabatic compression the temperature increases. So the next step will be just plug some numbers into this and see how it works.