Hi, welcome to theCUBE. I'm your host, Lisa Martin, and we are on the ground at Google in Mountain View, California with the CloudNow organization. Tonight is their fifth annual top women in cloud innovation award event. And we're so excited to be here with one of the award winners tonight, Tara Hernandez. Tara, welcome to theCUBE. Hi. It's great to have you here. Tara, talk to us about what you're doing here at the CloudNow event tonight. What's the big driver for you to be here and talk to us about what this award means to you? Well, first of all, it was a complete shock when I found out about it. I got an email from the organizer saying I had been nominated from someone I had done an interview with many years ago. And so it was very startling. And then I looked in more to the organization and was like, wow, this is really cool. I'm a big fan of cloud as a technology. I think it's unbelievably enabling for a variety of reasons. And so it's very exciting to be part of an organization now where we're using cloud as a means to advance women in technology. Fantastic. Talk to us about the project for which you were nominated and how is that really, how are you seeing that help advance not just your own career, but those colleagues of yours? Well, I was nominated for two reasons. One, I'm for a long time, I've been involved with continuous delivery and integration and deployment, infrastructure engineering as a general rule. And my interview was based around that. And so it's, I've done a lot of open source advocacy. The cloud really has advanced open source in a lot of ways because the cost of entry to spending a few bucks in AWS versus having to go down to fries and maxing out your credit card to buy a server. There's a big difference there, right? And then combined with, I've been very blessed in my career with a lot of great support and mentors. And I feel like I need to get back to the industry and I've done a lot of advocacy in the last couple of years for women in technology in particular. And the same thing, if you're coming out of school or a bootcamp and you need some servers to work on your projects or you want to do some developing some entrepreneurial opportunities, there's, you can spend a few bucks in AWS and get a lot farther on your own without having to go through a lot of cost expenditure or having to go through the VCs before you're ready, any of that stuff. So the barrier of entry gets lower, which means more people, including women have an opportunity to get started. Speaking of barriers, we're all familiar with the statistics of only a quarter of the tech industry is made up of women. Only 16% in technical roles. I actually had to look that up not too long ago. Okay, interesting, that's very interesting, which is quite low. I'd love to understand, yes, there are barriers, there's, you mentioned VCs. It's extremely challenging for female CEOs to not just get funding from a VC, but to even get a meeting with VCs. So we understand some of those obvious barriers, but one of the things I'd love to understand is your career path. How did you get to be an award winner today? Where did you start? Were you a, as a kid, this is what I want to do? I love computer science, or did you take maybe a more non-linear path? Oh heck no. When I went to college, I was fully intending to be a double major in history and English literature. Wow. I had no interest in the sciences and my parents said, we want you to get a job when you graduate and to them that meant a math or a science degree. My alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, so, go slugs. They had what they called at the time the open access computing model. Anybody who wanted an email account could get one, which was unusual at the time. I met a whole bunch of other people who also had email accounts, and when I went to figure out, do I want to do for a major? I'm like, well, I'll do computer science because I've met some people and they're nice. That is literally how I got into computers. Wow, interesting. I had no other background. Did you just fall in love with it immediately? No. Okay, so talk to us about that path, and who were your influences? Both female influences and male influences when you were at UCSC. So I really struggled. I didn't have the background. I felt that I was always going to be behind all of my classmates who clearly had done more leading up into the program. I had a couple of professors in particular that were really supportive. One was Daryl Long. They're still there. Daryl Long, it was one, and he was very famous for, if you fell asleep in his class, he was unerring in his ability to get chalk in your mouth. Wow. It was great for that. And then the other one who was really inspirational to me was Professor Tracy Larabee. I went to her office hours so many times just ready to quit and she just simply would not let me. And so I started to get better about figuring out, like, don't have to study by yourself. Get a study buddy, work in project teams, collaboration, and that really led me into a lot of great success in my career because I realized you can't do it by yourself. And let's just face it. Women do better in groups, I think, on average. And that's really interesting that you had this non-linear path, which I think is such an important topic for girls, whether they're pursuing STEM in middle school or high school or not, to understand that you don't have to have everything figured out.  Oh heck, I still exchange emails and Facebook messages with a lot of them. Fantastic. And I'm sure they're very proud of you for this award tonight. You mentioned advocacy is very important to you. Talk to us about what you're doing for advocacy for women in technology, maybe other minority groups. So I'm primarily related to Women Who Code, which is a 503C headed by Elena Percival, who's this amazing powerhouse of a woman. I've also done some work with Chick-Tek, which is targeted at getting high school age girls, and maybe middle school too, engaged in STEM curriculum. I also have been doing some work, and I hope to expand more with an organization called Code 2040, which is aiming at Latino and African American students and getting them into high tech. So it's, you know, try to be very open-minded about who I talk to, and look for opportunities in a variety of ways. My current boss and company, Lyndon Lab, have been really supportive. We've had conversations about, you know, unconscious bias, interviewing and job descriptions, and other things that make that process more likely to include more diverse candidates and hires. You know, there's been a whole discussions around just language, you know, and the type of products that we have also lend itself to that. We're trying to be a product that anybody can use, literally, and so the more diverse our company is, the more diverse we feel we'll be able to reach out to those consumers. Speaking of your product, can you tell us a little bit more about it, and how you are leveraging it to expand diversity? So Lyndon Lab is primarily known for a product called Second Life, which is a virtual radio platform. It's been around for a really long time. We have a new product that's gonna be coming out next year called Project Sansar. And what it is, is a place for anybody to go do whatever they want to do, virtually. And we try to support that creativity with monetization, so if you're an artist, you could create, you know, a new building or artwork or clothing or an avatar, and you can sell it and make some money off of it. And there are people who do quite lucrative things in there, we hope to replicate that in Sansar. The biggest difference with Sansar, of course, is it's more modern graphics system, there's a heavy emphasis in virtual reality. But I think the biggest thing is that Second Life and Sansar will allow you to be whoever you wanna be.  And I've heard some very powerful stories about people who realize that they were gay or trans, or there was some belief that they really had no way of expressing, and they met other people like them, and it really gave them a very powerful community to get strength from. There's downsides as well, you can take that same opportunity, there was this last election, there were Trump supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters in Second Life having full-on warfare. It was fantastic, I was like, wow, who knew? So yeah, but it's kind of like real world, but better. So in terms of kind of like next steps here, you talked about the project that you're working on, we wanna congratulate you again on being one of the top women recognized by Cloud Now for your achievements in cloud technology. We wish you the very best of luck in the future, in your career, and as being an influencer to other girls in tech. We thank you so much for joining theCUBE. Thanks very much. Thank you for watching theCUBE. I'm your host Lisa Martin at Google headquarters with Cloud Now's event, we'll be right back.


Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in I titled this video is Walmart's stance on ammunition and open carry a bad thing Initially, we thought it was there were videos there were Website articles that made the mainstream media everybody touting Walmart's decision and although I think that it was disappointing It's not a crisis. This is a huge uplift for local gun stores and online animal stores. They are dancing At the thought that Walmart will not be selling Handgun ammunition and sporting rifle ammunition anymore and that they will no longer allow open carry now They don't care much about that But the one part that confuses me is that Walmart says they don't want to sell Handgun and sport rifle ammunition in their stores anymore So you would think if they felt that strong about it that they would pull the ammo off of the shelves But they're not doing that they said well, we're going to sell the remainder of it We're just not going to order any more. So this is really about saving lives Or is it about pandering to the left And I find this very interesting now What's most disappointing is that the CEO of Walmart is calling on the government for bans They're saying we need to ban those rifles You guys need to do something and we're calling on other companies to follow suit You know, just like dicks boarding goods just like Levi's Just like Buffalo Wild Wings, you know, I can go on and on and on And now Kroger decided to follow suit. Okay. Is this a bad thing? I honestly don't think it is especially the ammo sales because the local gun stores and online gun stores will flourish from this But the thing that cracks me up is that The the liberals out there are now saying Walmart's been enlightened. Isn't this great? It's time to celebrate that Walmart has been enlightened Well, isn't it Walmart the corporation that you hated for years? You accuse them of of destroying Middletown America shutting down mom and pop shops not unionizing low wages part-time No benefits. You hated Walmart But now when Walmart comes out with this and says we will not sell these ammunition types because they are dangerous You say they're enlightened and then the liberals have two fists in the air pumping their arms saying Victory because Walmart now joined our side Walmart didn't join your side. They certainly didn't join our side But they didn't join the Walmart is on the side of profits. Okay. Let's get that settled right now They're on the side of profits. So although You know liberals are now cheering And at the same time the local gun stores and online ammo stores are cheering You and I we're going to be just fine Matter of fact, I think You know one door closes another one opens there will be more than enough ammo to go around at Better prices where we don't have to physically go to a store or support our local gun store Which is what many of us should be doing to begin with so I find the whole thing rather entertaining at first I was disappointed, but this is not a crisis. It's actually entertaining because the more Middle America the the people on the fence see this this push back from one way push Some of them put two and two together and say hang on Wasn't there some real crazy people in Walmart shooting up the place? Like I recall in the parking lot that uh people were carjacking And shot a man in the neck where good guys with guns went and shot that criminal killed him and end the situation And in that in that scenario, they said well, it could have been so much worse if it wasn't a good guy with a gun So our argument And the whole gun debate is based on facts And in a history of how things turn out when good people have guns. We just need to keep our Voices heard we need to continue to share videos and we need to not get down and never feel like we we lost the battle because of Walmart Most of the people really didn't care for Walmart to begin with They're a clothing store. They're a grocery store if they don't sell ammo big deal Disappointing yeah a little bit because they're trying to get other companies on a crisis No way because although they will not stop shooters They will stop shoppers and those people are you and me if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


I want to welcome you to the first session of Life in the Spirit. Like I said this morning, my name is John Boll. You have been working for the university for the past 20 years, just celebrated by 20th anniversary this past spring, which was quite a milestone. Other than being married to my wife for 33 years, it's the longest I've ever done anything for anybody, which is very exciting. I graduated from Francis University in 1989, spent 15 years doing youth ministry in different places across the United States, and came back to the university in 2003. When I was a student here, I had a pretty good friend and roommate, Father Dave Pavanka, who's now, as you know, the president of this joint, which is kind of nice to have somebody that awesome as a friend for life, as well as leading the charge for the university right now. He's the right man at the right time. My experience in ministry over the last close to 40 years now, yeah, because I did my first ministry in 1983, when I was a missionary with net ministries out of St. Paul, Minnesota. I traveled around the country doing retreats, and that was in 1983, so it's like my 40th year of doing some sort of ministry for the church. And this last year, God saved a lot of the goodness for this year for me. Like I said, I celebrated my 20th anniversary. I think last year, if you were here last year, how many, how many came to this retreat last year? Raise your hand. All right, we got a handful. And how many, so the rest of you, let me see hands who are first time here at the, excellent. Last year, I was sharing with the men that were here that my daughter, Catherine, got married in Christ the King Chapel in May of 2022. And on May the 2nd, I became a grandfather for the first time, which is a really cool vibe that I'm loving. I haven't met her yet though, because in between the time my granddaughter was born and today, my father passed away. He had been sick for a number of years, and so there's been a lot of going back to Michigan to be with my family and funeral arrangements in the funeral itself. So I'm gonna be making it down to see my granddaughter soon. And the other big thing that it was a part of my life, and it's interesting to be a part of this retreat. It's like my eighth year at a row that I've been a part of this team and I love it, is in January, I started my own personal journey for the Dices of Steubenville as an aspirant for the Permanent Diacomet for the Dices. So God willing, in five years I'll be a deacon. And that's exciting and scary, because they do your best in your aspirancy to scare you into not wanting to be a deacon. So if you stick with it, you know you're really called. Like they just say, well, the bishop will tell you what you can do, what you can't do, and the minister and you know, and then they also told me that my wife could pull the plug on it at any time, which is, you know, not scary, but kind of cool in a way, but anyhow, for me, what I've come to realize through this all is this profound need for us to be at this time in the church more than ever surrendered to the power of the Holy Spirit to have the Holy Spirit alive and active, not only in our souls, but in the souls of those we serve. I think there's going to come a time and it's not very far away where only those people who are fully in love with the Holy Spirit and fully activating the Holy Spirit will still be in our churches. And I don't know what the future holds. I don't have any kind of prophetic sense, although I would be more inclined to say what would be the fruit of your life in the Holy Spirit would be not necessarily turning the whole church around. Probably won't happen in my lifetime. Probably won't happen in your lifetime, but perhaps what might happen in our lifetime is somebody loses their life in service of the gospel in our country because I don't know if you've noticed it out there. It's getting pretty divided, pretty full of hate and pretty crazy. The attacks against the church are ramping up and are becoming legitimized by our government. And that becomes a very slippery slope. Who knows where we're gonna be in five years and 10 years. We have to be ready. We have to be prepared as the Holy Spirit that gives us this grace. This is why I think starting off at this seminar, talking about life and the Spirit for you is a great joy to me personally. Very exciting because since I was 18 years old, it was the work of the Holy Spirit in my own soul that made me the man I am today. I wouldn't be here without the Holy Spirit. And I love to preach about the Holy Spirit. I love to share. I love to pray with people to receive the Holy Spirit. And in order to do that, John Paul is gonna be helping us out today and tomorrow leading some worship. So he's gonna right now just gather us in with a song or two of praise as we enter into the God's goodness and just ask the Holy Spirit to come. How's that sound? Let's stand, let's praise this worship. Just be with us now, Lord. That's where we just open our hearts. Breathe the life of Christ into us. Breathe the hope that we need into our hearts. Breathe the life of Christ into our souls. We trust in your power, Holy Spirit. And Mary, you are spouse of the Spirit.  How much more blessed mother do we need this overshadowing, this covering, this indwelling, this filling with the Holy Spirit do we need? Blessed mother, you who are spouse of the Spirit, pray for us now that our hearts would be set on fire with divine love for God alone above all things and divine love for one another. Blessed mother, wrap your mantle of love and protection around each one of us as we pray together. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Amen. Please have a seat. I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit when I was 18 years old. I served as the youth minister for a charismatic community for four years while I lived in Dallas, Texas. I'm currently on the board of directors for Pentecost Day USA. I've seen the Holy Spirit do amazing things, miraculous things. But when I talk about life in the Spirit, I'm not saying let's gravitate to the extraordinary, the huge, the amazing things that God can do and those are real and those are powerful and those are good, but for me, life in the Spirit is not an eccentric spirituality, an extreme spirituality. For me, life in the Spirit is what fuels every spirituality.   And we gotta be open to it all because the Holy Spirit wants to come to us and lead us in this life in a particular way to guide us and empower us for the particular call and mission that's on each of our lives. And the best thing that we can do in our lives, in our spirituality is deepen our understanding and docility to what the Holy Spirit wants as he wants to guide us and lead us.  It was the Holy Spirit that came upon her, gave birth to her mission, Christ and his baptism, the Holy Spirit comes down upon him. The voice from heaven confirms, this is my son with whom I'm well pleased. The Holy Spirit then sends him into the desert, leads him into the desert to do battle, to begin the war that would end all wars that would culminate with Christ's death on the cross. With his words, Father into your hands, I commend my spirit. And in between all of that, woven through all that is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Revealing himself in his fullness in a new and powerful way, not resting upon people like he did in the Old Testament.  There will be a new way that you'll experience the Holy Spirit. He'll well up inside of you. Out of you will flow a living river of grace. Baptism begins this life in the spirit. That is where it all begins. Through baptism, we are brought into this life of grace. I wanna start by looking at the catechism. Articles 1996 through 1999. It says, Grace's favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God. Yes, at that moment of our baptism, we are adopted into the family of God. We become a child of God. But it's also a call to respond, a call to respond. I think the other day at this Power and Purpose conference, Bob Rice said, well, worship is a response to what God is doing in your life. And I would say everything that we do as Christians that produces fruit is in response to God's action in love and grace. Even to the point where St. John says in the fourth chapter of his first epistle, we love because he first loved us. Like nothing comes from us. Everything comes from the Father. He is the Alpha, he is the Omega. Everything comes from him and everything is for him. And Grace is the favor to respond to his call to become children of God, to make that indelible mark place in our soul, a lived reality in every part of our lives that we would live as children of God. To be partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life. So our eternal life begins here on earth when we begin to take on the divine nature and participate in the life of the Trinity as God's children. It says in 1997, it says by baptism the Christian participates in the grace of Christ. He received the life of the spirit who breathed charity into him and who forms the church. So this life of the spirit is a term that is found in our catechism, is found in scripture. That God wants us to experience this new life in the spirit. It says in the next article, it says the vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It depends entirely on God's gratuitous initiative for he alone can reveal and give himself. And we don't, none of us stand before God saying look what I've accomplished for you God or look what I've found God. You know, we were lost and he found us. He does, and when we find ourselves in him, that's a great experience when we know we're filled with his love and we have the Holy Spirit speaking and revealing to our own hearts the goodness and love of God. It says, like I said, this vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It's above our nature. It's above human nature. And I think most people try to serve God out of their humanity. I've talked to a lot of clergy. That's the way they've grown is I used to try to serve God out of my flesh out of what I thought was good and wise and out of my ability. But I kept coming up short. That's what I've found in my life. I can always tell and I just got convicted in prayer two days ago. The Lord is like, you are not praying enough to sustain the work that I'm calling you to do right now. And okay Lord, teach me what I need to do. It's like, I just want to be what you want me to be. I just need to be what you made me to be. There's no happiness if I'm trying to go down another path. There's no fulfillment in life if I'm trying to do what I think is best and not what the Lord is calling me to be.  It's like, no, God is calling me into something new into something deeper. Like he's saying that this next chapter of your life you're gonna have to up your prayer game. Not because the burdens are gonna be so heavy that he's gonna try to crush me if I don't but because he wants more of me in the midst of it. And I need more of him in the midst of it. If it says it finally in article 1999, it says it is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in baptism that is the source of the work of sanctification. And we know this, this grace that we receive, this Holy Spirit is what makes us holy. And it is one of the universal calls. Every one of us from the Pope on down is called to love like Christ and to be holy like the Father is holy. These are universal to all Catholics. When you're baptized, that's your marching order to love like Jesus and to be holy like the Father. That's the call. In what it says in article 1699 of the Catechism, it says, life in the spirit fulfills the vocation of man. This life is made up of divine charity which is love of God and human solidarity, love of neighbor. It is graciously offered as salvation. Life in the spirit fulfills our vocation because it's not a theological concept. It's not a theological philosophy. It is a lived reality. The greatest gift that the Holy Spirit gives to each one of us is himself calling us into the very life of the Trinity to commune with God, to understand the heart of God, to be able to understand the love of God. The Catechism teaches in article 260, the ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the entry of God's creatures into the perfect unity of the blessed Trinity. That is it. God is calling us. The end of all this is not a particular mission or accomplishment. The ultimate accomplishment that God wants for each one of us is to enter into perfect unity with the Trinity. For we know where mission flows from and this is so key. When we think about wanting to put the church on mission, mission flows out of identity. Who are you? Do you know who you are in Christ?  If that's not in place, it doesn't matter how well-equipped the laity are. It doesn't matter how equipped you are. If we don't move from a place where we know that we belong to Jesus Christ and that we are His beloved sons and that He will never forsake us, that He has called for us, this calling us to do everything that we do, if that's not in place, we won't have the power to use the tools correctly in a way that's gonna transform the world around us and identity flows from relationship, prayer, sacraments. And who's the one who reveals the Father's love to us? Well, it says to us in Romans 5.5, the Holy Spirit, God does not disappoint, hope does not disappoint because the love of the Father has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who's been given to us and this is why we pray to the Holy Spirit. We don't figure out God. The Holy Spirit has given to it. It is God's gratuitous gift, His initiative. He is the one who started this and He's the one who won't give up on us as long as we keep surrendering to Him. He has so much more for us. In that last part of that Catechism in 1699, it says, it's graciously offered to us as salvation. This life from the Spirit is offered. It's not forced on anyone. We all have a door on our heart that needs to be opened fully to God, fully to the Holy Spirit, but the only handle on this door is on the inside. God can knock, God can say, hey, I'm here, I have something for you. If we don't open our hearts to Him, it doesn't matter. It won't touch the deepest part of what needs to be touched in our lives.  To understand exactly what we're talking about and how the Holy Spirit wants to work with us, we just have to look at the words of what Jesus said at the Last Supper about the one he called the Advocate or in the Greek Advocatus, which literally translates to he who's called to your side. And I love that, because Jesus, this is how Jesus used that word. He says, if you keep my commandments, I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to be with you always. Another advocate to be with you always, another one who will be at your side. So I think Jesus is saying I'm your first advocate. And he reminds us of apostles of this when he says, look, I'm gonna be with you always, always.  God has been present to you. Christ has been present to you. The Holy Spirit has been present to you, maybe not perceived, but present.  And they were walking with you and suffering with you. When you were succeeding, they were cheering you on. When you were in a place of sadness, they were mourning with you. But at every point in our lives, from the time we were baptized to this moment today, the Father has been with us, the Spirit's been with us, the Son has been with us. He's freely given to us as advocate. And we sometimes refer to lawyers as advocates, right? And what does a lawyer do? Well, a lawyer defends you. You know how a lawyer defends you? He even defends you if you're guilty. He's sworn to do that. And a lawyer says, I might believe whatever sent in my heart that this person's guilty, but I'm gonna give them the best defense I can. And I'm gonna help them win their case. And when we find ourselves in sin, and we're feeling that familiar sting of shame and guilt, and we wanna hide from the Lord, and we wanna hide our sin from the Lord, the Holy Spirit wants to take us by the hand, go before the Lord and say, this is still your son. Forgive him and the Father will have him. And if we participate in that grace and say, Lord forgive me, even if it's the 1,000th millionth time that we've had to ask forgiveness, and say we're sorry, we will be defended and we will be saved. A lawyer is someone who gives counsel. The Holy Spirit wants to direct our very movement, our very words. Even Jesus said, look, don't worry about the words you're going to say. The Holy Spirit will give you words. And I can't imagine, oh, actually, I did this for a while during COVID, right? I did a daily reflection on Facebook in case people were really spiritually hungry. I did a little bit of research. Do you know that like half the people in the United States who couldn't go to church developed a new spiritual habit during COVID? They were really looking for new and different ways to grow in their faith. They might not have come back to church yet, but I still think there's still this hunger for God out there. And people were seeking God. And so I started this thing on Facebook and getting 2,000 or 3,000 people to gather every morning. But then I felt all this pressure like, ooh, I better deliver something worth listening to. And it would be like a 20 minute reflection with a time of prayer. And then I realized this is how hard it must be to be a priest. And I'm just speaking into a camera when I'm doing my thing.  Some are really tuned into what you're saying, and some are just glazed over. It's just got to be the hardest thing in the world to feel, without the Holy Spirit to help, the ability to get up there and deliver an inspired message over and over again. Yeah, exactly. I'll know more.  But the Holy Spirit wants to act on our behalf for our good. Basically, I love this. He wants to be our personal spiritual life coach. But he wants to walk us through this life and equip us with everything that we need. Jesus continued to teach about the Holy Spirit when he says, the advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything. I love that. Jesus wants to make it very clear that there's no part of your life that the Holy Spirit doesn't want to touch with power. He will teach you everything. Well, what, everything? What do you mean everything? Well, the definition of the word everything is everything. What is the Holy Spirit not gonna teach me? No, he's not gonna teach me nothing. He's gonna teach me everything. I just think we need to get it through our heads that there's no part of our life where God wants you to feel orphaned or abandoned or unsure or unclear. He knew the apostles weaknesses going into this. Like he knew that Peter was a denier. He knew that James and John were fighting about who was gonna be the greatest. And he knew that Judas was a thief and would eventually betray him. He saw through these men. He saw into their hearts. He knew exactly who they were. He knew exactly what he was getting when he called them. Nothing surprised him. Nothing caught him off guard. And he knew that he would have to do a lot of teaching not just during the three years he was with them but keep teaching them. After he left, how to start a church? I mean, it must have been somewhat of a comfort although they fully didn't realize it when Jesus said go make disciples of all nations and they all looked at each other like, we got a manual for that? We have a pastoral plan. Has it been, do we need a committee? What's a committee? I don't know what we need one. We need lots of them.  Jesus, how about we just evangelize the backyard?  And remember the advocate, the Holy Spirit that I'm sending to him. He will teach you everything. He will teach you what it means to be a foreign mission and what you're going to need to do in order to build the church. He did not leave them unequipped.  He didn't give them a building. He didn't give them a manual. He said, I'm going to give you the only thing that you need in order to be successful to achieve the mission that I give you and that's the Holy Spirit. And we see that in the fulfillment that the Holy Spirit comes on the day of Pentecost and the church is born. Mission is born, hearts are renewed, men go forth. The men who are locked behind the doors and afraid bust out, ready to change the world around them. And Peter who was probably up to that moment was probably, I'd imagine there were a lot of jokes that went along with being an apostle. Like, you know, every time Peter stuck his foot in his mouth, James would go, there goes Peter, the rock, crumbling again, way to go, this is good. And yet, when on the day of Pentecost, Peter became that rock, right?   He found courage, he became the rock. But what will the Holy Spirit teach us? What will the Holy Spirit teach you? What does the Holy Spirit want to teach you? For me, I feel like right now, the Holy Spirit is teaching me how to let go. Raise your hand if you're like me and your patience seems to be constantly tried. I can seem like I'm the holiest guy around until I get behind the wheel of a car. Does anyone get behind the wheel of a car and turn into a complete a-hole sometimes? Because somebody cuts you off and you find yourself like dropping a word or two on them, you know, a very graphic word or two on people that just, for really, you're never going to see them. They don't hear you, but you're getting all worked up over nothing. And it's just this constant like me, me, me, I gotta get where I'm going and don't get in my way. And I'm like, okay, God, I gotta slow down. The Holy Spirit is calling me like, what is the root of this unrest? What does the Holy Spirit need to teach me here? It's not about me, calm down. Calm down, it's gonna be okay. Because I put myself under this pressure like I gotta get so much done and every little second counts and if I'm behind somebody who's doing two miles an hour slower than I wanna be driving at the moment, they're keeping me from getting where I wanna go by about 22 seconds. And I can't let go of that. I'm like, oh God, I have that. The Holy Spirit wants to teach me so much. I think He wants to teach us too. He wants to teach us how to love. It says in the Catechism article 221, St. John goes even further when he affirms that God is love. God's very being is love. By sending His only Son of the Spirit of love in the fullness of time, God has revealed His innermost secret. God Himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and He has destined us to share in that exchange. How many of us have made it their goal to enter into that exchange of love as much as the Spirit of God will allow us? Like your number one goal in life is I wanna enter into the life of the Trinity. Forget what's going on in this world. Forget what's going on around me. Forget my own dreams and ambitions, desires. Forget my sinfulness. God, I surrender all that. I just wanna enter into your love. I wanna disappear into your love. I wanna be consumed by your love. I wanna live in that love. I wanna detach from this world with all its falseness and all of its lies and all of its disappointments and live in the thing that doesn't disappoint, which is the love of God. For that's what He's destined us each to do, to live in that love. But we're not gonna get there without the help of the Holy Spirit. He'll teach us how to enter into that. When I think about the saints and just the ecstasy and the joy that they had of entering into this mystery of the divine and how I'm still so attached to the world that it's hard for me to enter into that and remain there for any length of time that I know I need more of the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit that has spoken through me, the same Holy Spirit that has spoken to me wants me to be quiet and He just wants to lead me somewhere I can't get by myself. Deep into the mystery of God and His love, the Holy Spirit wants to teach me how to forgive, how to serve my family, how to serve my wife, how to serve the people I work with, how to serve the church. I'm gonna be learning a whole new way of serving the church through my formation which is exciting. And it's also scary because I know with that comes the flip side of that call of love which is that call to die to myself. Sometimes we're old dogs but can we learn that new trick? Can we learn something new at this age about entering into God's love? Can we let go of something that we've carried our entire lives that we might receive more of God at this point?  Your faults are yours until you stand before God and or you spend a couple centuries in purgatory and they're burned away. And Jesus is like, no. You think of someone like the woman who for 18 years was hemorrhaging and spent all of her money looking for a cure and thought she'd hit the end of her rope and was about to give up but in this moment of desperation she collapses, she touches, she goes, I just want to touch the hem of his garment. So where is she? She's down on her face as Jesus passes by just reaches up and grabs the hem of her garment and Jesus just walks by but he perceives that power has gone up because of her faith. Perhaps the Holy Spirit wants to teach you a new level of humility and trust and surrender. Whatever it is that the Holy Spirit needs to teach you he's the one that will teach us how to stay pure in this impure world. How to spiritually lead our parishes. How to celebrate the mass more fully. How to do all those things that we need to do. Literally everything. There's nothing that the Lord won't do. You know, the earth is covered with 70% water which means it's kind of weird that we called the planet earth because it's definitely in the minority. It should have called it water I guess but somehow the earth won that battle and so we call it planet earth. And in this ocean there's like 1.5 million different creatures that have been identified. 1.5 million different types of creatures that live in our ocean. Fish, crustaceans, small, big, large some of them could fill this room with whales but scientists estimate that there could be as many as 50 million more that need to be discovered that have yet to be discovered. Because most of that life, 90% of the life in the ocean exists below the abyss which is two miles or deeper. And in some places the ocean goes down seven miles. Also floating around in the ocean are 20 million tons of particulate gold. I mean like if you had a giant sieve and you just like could like sweep back and forth and if you don't have a retirement plan this might be it might take you a while but for the big sieve you could like maybe collect enough gold to retire and as much as we've explored we've explored less than 10% of the ocean. And for me that's the perfect metaphor for who the Holy Spirit is. He is this deep expansive mysterious person teaming with life but life that you have to go deep to find also loaded with riches but they will pass you by if you're not very intent on getting them. What's in the ocean can sustain all life on earth what we have in the Holy Spirit can sustain our lives and the lives of everyone on earth. The fullness of life that Jesus wants to give can be everybody's. The Holy Spirit in short is a life giving lover and a life loving giver. Like he wants to give us life he wants to give us happiness he wants to give us joy he wants to give us love but just like going down to the beach and putting your foot in the water doesn't make you an expert on the ocean just dabbling in the Holy Spirit is not enough. And yet for most Catholics the Holy Spirit remains the great unknown. They do not know his power they do not perceive his presence they have not released that grace in their lives. And just like in the world 80% of all the world's population lives within two miles of the ocean. So do most Catholics live very close to the Holy Spirit but not in the Holy Spirit. So we need to go deeper. We need to let the Spirit teach us lead us and power us and send us forth to send us on mission. You know Jesus says when the advocate comes I will send you from the Father the spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father he will testify to me and you must also testify because you've been with me from the beginning. We need to be testified we need to be proclaiming the goodness of God in word and indeed. And I've led countless retreats and parish missions and been a part of life in the spirit seminars on conferences and I've done them as stand-alones. I do work with our students here on campus. But what I've learned is that those things don't matter unless the mission is my life. Mission is not an occupation. Mission is who we are. It consumes us 24 seven. We're never not on mission for the Lord. And I remember I was going to the beach with my wife a few years ago and we were driving through West Virginia and we decided to spend the night in Berkeley Springs. And found this nice little hotel went in checked in went to bed and in the morning I woke up and I wanted to go down to the lobby and get a hotel waffle, right?  They're kind of a pain to make though. I mean because like you first you gotta first you have to own a waffle iron which I don't own and then you gotta have waffle mix and then you gotta do all that.  Then you gotta waffle in like two minutes. That's perfect. I love that. So I went down to the lobby to get a hotel waffle and they didn't have a waffle they didn't have breakfast they just had coffee. I was so disappointed. Nothing more heartbreaking than waking up in the morning wanting to waffle and you can't get it. But what I did discover when I went down to the lobby there was one of the workers at the hotel her name was Vicki she was cleaning up and putting out cups and making sure the coffee crass were full and all that. And I walked up to get coffee and I felt the Lord nudge me as I walked over there and I go make sure you say good morning to her. So as I'm getting my coffee I'm like good morning how you doing? And she said oh I'm doing all right. But the way she said it you could tell she was not all right. And so I just asked a second question. I said that was like the worst all right in the history of all rights. What's really going on? And without any other prompting she starts sharing about how her sister had gone to the hospital the night before with the brain aneurysm that she was in the emergency intensive care because they were afraid it was gonna burst and they were looking to do some surgery and try to fix it before it burst. That was gonna be very tricky that the possibility she could die. And she was a hundred miles away at a hospital I think in Charleston. And she was like I gotta work to the end of the day when I get off I'm gonna have to try to get over there to see her and I don't get paid till next week and I only have like $5 and I'm just like freaking I don't know what I'm gonna do. And I just said can I pray with you? And she said sure. So I just put my hand on her shoulder and I started saying Lord Jesus just come with your love send your Holy Spirit and give her peace. Just let your presence be known to her heart right now Lord Jesus and give her peace. And I just prayed that way for like a minute and then I started to intercede. Lord we ask your Holy Spirit would fall upon Vicki's sister, the doctors, everyone at the hospital.  She had this peace about her and she just looked at me and said thank you so much. She says I've been hurting all night and even kind of coming to work this morning it's just been awful. But you know I feel like the Lord's got this and I said yes he does and I took $20 out of my wallet and gave it to her I said I hope this helps for gas money I'll continue to pray for you and your sister and have a great day. And I walked away and I don't know what happened after that. I don't know what happened to Vicki I don't know what happened to her sister. All I know is in that moment the Spirit said go pray be present. And God did the rest. Most of what we're going to do that makes a difference in the world and impacts people are gonna be things that we didn't devise, conceive of or plan. It's gonna be those moments when we are overwhelmed by God saying I'm gonna work through you right now will you do the great things that I'm calling you to do in the simple way you live your life will you do great things for me. The blessed mother could say without hesitation my soul magnifies the Lord because he's looked on my lowliness and the mighty one has done great things for me. And because Mary let the mighty one of God God do great things for her she was able to do great things for God. She never wanted the titles she never wanted the praise. When the angels told her you're gonna be the mother of God he's gonna be great and he's gonna be called holy and all this and she's like I'm the handmaid of the Lord thank you but I'm the handmaid of the Lord and I surrender who I am to God's design. It's not me, it's God. When Elizabeth says who am I that the mother of my Lord should have come to me which is interesting that she would say that because it must have been the Holy Spirit that leapt from Mary into her womb that caused John the Baptist to jump up and down in her womb that revealed in that moment that what was before her was not her cousin Mary but the mother of the Christ.  That's the power of God and it is because Mary let God do great things for her and each one of us being created in the image and likeness of God are created to do the same great things. We do not serve the Lord by selling ourselves short and thinking that I'm not anything I'll just cover the light with the basket. I won't put myself out there. I'm not called to do this. We are all called to do crazy things for the Lord to walk on water with Jesus. That comes because we first let Him do something great in us.  For if I do not go the advocate will not come to you but if I go I will send him to you and when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation. Sin because they don't believe in me. Righteousness because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me. Condemnation because the ruler of this world has been condemned. You see what's gonna happen? I'm gonna make this known not just in your hearts. You're not just gonna perceive and hear my words and have your heart moved. It's going to be written on your hearts now. The Holy Spirit will be there convicting you of this truth that the ruler of this world has been defeated that I'm with the Father and that my spirit lives within you and I can do this not just for you. I can do it with everyone that you pray with and lay hands on and preach to. I'm gonna give my spirit so that I can be intimate with the whole world at one time so that every man, woman, and child can come to know me the way you have. For the Holy Spirit makes real today the Jesus Christ that we proclaim and believe lived 2,000 years ago, but we know lives and it's the Holy Spirit that makes it real. The people you serve need to know through the way you preach, the way you live, the way you serve through your life in the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ is alive and that they're called to that same glory. Like I said, Jesus Christ says in John chapter seven, verse seven, I'm sorry, verse 37 and 38. It says, on the last day of the feast, the great day Jesus stood up and proclaimed, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me as the scripture has said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.  There's a lot more that can be taught on the Holy Spirit on the use of charisms and word gifts and speaking in tongues and all that, but I honestly believe that that stuff all flows from an understanding that we're loved by God. And so we're gonna wrap up here by singing a couple of songs, just calling upon the Holy Spirit, calling upon God's love to be stirred up in our hearts. And when we get together tomorrow, about half the time that we're gonna do tomorrow is gonna be spending prayer. I'm not gonna, I'm just gonna share my testimony, share a couple of brief thoughts and then we're gonna take it to prayer. And we're gonna pray for the Holy Spirit to be stirred up in our lives, that the love of God would be poured into our hearts and into it in a new way. And for those who've never received baptism in the Holy Spirit, we're going to be praying, we're gonna be praying for you to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. And I'll explain what that means exactly tomorrow, because I know that even that statement can cause a lot of people to go, wait, what, baptism in the Holy Spirit? What, don't worry, it'll all come together. But for now, I just want us to wrap up. I put in our hearts before the Lord and say, okay God, apart from you, I can do nothing. I want to trust in your love. I need to trust in your love and power right now. Just take my heart, I surrender it to you. So John Paul, if you'd be so kind.


In every young man's life, there are three major events. He's born, the day he dies, and the day he challenges your boy Pizza to a game of Mad Man.    That's one, two, three, four, five. And you know what, I probably threw six.  E.A. remote. My whole life has led up to this moment. This moment that we sit in right now, ladies and gentlemen, as you watch this video, everything that you have done has led us to this. I'm finally doing it, you boy pizza, if you are confused, trust me. I am too. I challenge myself to an upload streak. And I said if I lost that upload streak that you guys would determine what I have to do if I lose that streak. Now I lost that streak.  It's not gonna happen. It's not going to happen.  The next most requested thing was to challenge your boy pizza to a game of madden.  Sounds weird coming out of my mouth. Your boy pizza. Do you have a different name that you go by? YBP. Is that a thing? Let's call you pizza.  I'm challenging you to a game of madden. You set the stage. No, wait, no, no, wait, wait, wait. I am setting the stage right now. You can set the rules. If you want to do a challenge with it, if you want to do a forfeit with it. This is the game of the century though. So make sure it's good. I'm just setting the stage. I'm throwing it out there. You don't have to accept. You're too scared. Why? I'm throwing this one game, one winner, one loser for the fate of Madden YouTube. The choice is yours, my friend. This will be bigger than the K-Sci Logan Paul boxing match. I hope you understand that. That's it for today, fellas. I await your response.


I have a mustache because I'm about to go and see Top Gun. I'll shave it after, calm down. Hello and welcome to a little bit of a different video. Uh, my buddy Brian, Ger Beagley. He and his girlfriend Morgan came to Maine. See the last video that he put out? I am Maine. They came to Maine to see my show, which was, uh, amazing. I- It was amazing that they came to- came to see my show. Not that- okay, calm down! But, uh, he did this video where he said, I visited Maine, therefore I'm an expert. Where he took different quizzes about Maine. So I thought, I thought maybe I could see how much of a Maine-er I am. How much do I remember? I don't know if I've done this video before. Honestly, I can't remember. But I definitely haven't taken this quiz before. So here we are. Quiz, are you a Maine native? See if you can pass this quiz. Are you my Maine girl? Are you a native Maine or do you live, work, or go to school in the state of Maine? Or are you just really passionate about the East Coast seafood and blueberry pies? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then this quiz of the state of Maine should be fun for you. All right, let's go. Which clothing company, LL Bean? Uh, practi- uh, is practically a part of Maine's culture? Yes, LL Bean. Okay, easy. Which moxie? Which soft drink is authentically made? It's moxie. If you're eating a delicious cookie sandwich with a creamy filling, you're eating a whoopie pie. Yes. Just like Georgia, wait. Are whoopie pies not a thing in other places? Whoopie pies are considered a New England phenomenon in a Pennsylvania Amish tradition. They are one of Maine's best known and most loved comfort foods. I didn't know that. I didn't know that whoopie pies were just a New England thing. That makes sense why I haven't seen a whoopie pie in a really long time. I usually can't eat whoopie pies because, um, because of my peanut allergy. Most whoopie pies don't have peanuts in them, but growing up I usually stayed away from baked goods because there's a large, uh, chance of cross-contamination. But I didn't know that. Interesting. Just like Georgia is known for its peaches, Maine is known for its blueberries. Yup, yup, yup. Blueberries for Sal, a great children's book. This, this Robert McCloskey. I remember this. I remember that book fondly. When it comes to authentic Maine desserts, it's common to see these two ingredients combine, huckleberries and sour cream, blueberries and molasses, oranges and bourbon. I actually don't really know this one. Probably blueberries and molasses because blueberries. Submarine sandwiches are best known in Maine as Frenchies, Italians, toasties, Italians. Maine roads are never icy. They're considered slimy, greasy, groggy. I'm just trying to think of a Maine-er. Roads are a bit groggy there.  I'd say probably greasy. Okay, you ask your friend if they want a piece of cake and you say just a diet. You, what? I've never heard that ever.  If East coasters say wicked big, Mainers say mad tootin' honkin'? But what, what do you mean? Mainers say wicked all the time. I'd say honkin', I think. A lot of people say honkin' goin' up. What's a red snapper, a truck, a candy, a hot dog? A hot dog. Rockport is known to be the birthplace of, oh, I don't know this at all, actually. Let's say that, oh boy, I don't think it's that. What kind of food will you definitely find in Maine? Uh, lobster of any kind. What kind of tree is displayed on the great seal in Maine and the Maine state flag? It's a pine tree. The city of Bath, Maine, is known as the city of ships. Mainers don't get sick, they get peckered. Which of the following amusement parks can you find in Maine? The magic kick, wait, hold on. Both. What? Wait, York's? Oh, it's York's Wild Kingdom.    Wait, I got all of them right? But Funtown, what? Funtown is, uh, what, no, no, no, no, no. It's York's Wild Kingdom. Why did I get 100%, that's not correct, it's Funtown. The answer is Funtown. Well, I got 100%, also if you're wondering why Anna Kendrick is here, Anna Kendrick is for Maine. She went to Deering High School. Quizzes, let's see what else I can do. Okay, here we go, another quiz. What is Maine's capital, Augusta?  Augusta, Augusta, Augusta, next? Fun fact, it used to be Portland. Portland, Maine is basically where I grew up. I grew up just outside of Portland, but it used to be Portland, Maine. But then it changed to Augusta because people got upset because Portland is so much more southern and so they wanted it to be more central. So they put it, they changed the capital to Augusta so it was more central. What is the state flower of Maine? The white pine cone, I think. Okay, what is the state animal of Maine? The moo, ooh, I think, I think it's the moose but it could be the black bear. This might be a trick question because it could be the black bear. What is Maine's nickname? The pine tree state, old line state, land of enchantment, the sunshine state, the pine tree state. Okay, what is the state bird? The chickadee, yeah, it's the chickadee. What is Maine's tree? The pinion pine, the stable palm, the white oak, the eastern white pine. I think it's the eastern white pine? I think, I'm not sure. What is Maine's famous food? Oh, okay, yeah, I guess it's the whoopee pie. Whoopee pie. Oh, that's the last one. So did I get it? See answers with a, I don't want an account. What? Oh, I have to, I did the whole thing, show the, I don't wanna, man, I'm pretty sure I'm right on all those. Okay, let's do one more, history, culture and more. Here we go, the answers are at the bottom so we'll keep track. I won't, you will. Okay, here we go. Maine quiz, general knowledge, questions. What is the two-letter state code for Maine? M-E. How many islands does Maine have? Oh, I have no idea. Let's say 3,000. What does Maine have more per capita in the U.S.? Breweries, oysters, lighthouses or mass holes. That's what we call people from Massachusetts. It's probably lighthouses, I think. I think it's lighthouses. What is Maine's nickname? The pine tree, state. What is Maine's state mammal? It's the moose. Which state is next to Maine on its southwest side? Which state is next to Maine, New Hampshire? What is the least populated city in Maine? Oh, I'm gonna say it's this one because I've never heard of it before. Which location is closest to the Canadian border? Caribou. How many lighthouses does Maine have? Let's say 95, because I said the other one per capita. Which of the following rivers does not run through Maine? The Androskogon does, the Penobscot does. I'm gonna say still water doesn't. Augusta has not always been the state capital. Who wore the crown until 1832? Portland. In what year did Maine's newest city, Sanford, become a city? I'm gonna say 2000? It's gotta be 2000. Who is Ellsworth, the gateway to Acadia named after? Oh, I don't actually know. Oliver Ellsworth, private donor of land, Eliza Ellsworth, artist and philanthropist, Anthony Ellsworth, or Senator, for Maine, Bill Ellsworth? Let's say the Senator. No, let's do the private donor of land, Eliza Ellsworth. What happened to Maine in 1947? The state burned down, the state was flooded, the state was attacked, the state suffered ice storms. 1947, we're gonna say ice storm? Portland did burn down, this is saying the state though, but Portland burned down. I don't know when that was though. What was legalized in Maine in 2012? 2012, I think same sex marriage. It was same sex marriage for sure. When was the inspiration from Stephen King's Pet Cemetery taken from? I think Mass Hope Cemetery? Muhammad Ali, through the famous Phantom Punch in Lewiston? Oh, but what year did this take place? I'll say 1971. The oldest continuous government in the world is said to be Maine, but where is it? Wait, I'm gonna say Passamaquoddy, I think? I don't know. What is the Blaine House? Ah, it's the residence of the governor of Maine. Colonel John Brewer's Home Museum, where the First Amendment Museum is located? Stephen King's writing retreat. I'm pretty sure it's John Brewer's Home Museum. Actually, no, I think it's the residence of the governor. I think, I don't know. I'm gonna say the residence of the governor. How does Santa arrive at Kennebunkport Christmas event? What? I've never been to the Kennebunkport Christmas event. Travels in by Village Trolley Train with the twinkle lights. Wives in using moose from Rangeley, no. Flies in private helicopter, nope. Sails in dental lobster boat.  I think it's the Village Trolley. Where is the only Basilica in Maine? Probably Portland? Where would you find the height of the land overlook? How many questions? There's too many questions here, guys. There's too many, there's way too many questions. Oh, wait, I'm almost done, aren't I? Yeah, I'm almost done. Okay, whoops. Where would you find the height of the land overlook? Rangeley Lake, Down East and Acadia, Greater Portland and Casco Bay, Kennebuck Valley. The height of the land overlook. Let's say Down East and Acadia. What peaks? Does the knife edge trail connect? I think it's Katahdin and Hamela. What is the Old Snow, the Western Hemisphere's largest haystack, the Western Hemisphere's largest snowmobile, the Western Hemisphere's largest potato? Oh, Old South. I'm gonna say the largest snowmobile. What kind of bridge is the Isle Sedgwick Bridge? No idea. I'll say it's an arch bridge. Okay, how did we do? All right, we got this, that's correct. Ah, I did say 3,000, right? Oh, I got this wrong. I said lighthouses, it is breweries. Okay, we do have a ton of breweries. It is the Pine Tree State, the Moose, New Hampshire, that was correct. The least populated is Eastport. I said Kalaeus or whatever that is. Oh, Fort Kent is closer than Caribou. Okay, whoops. How many lighthouses does this man have? 65, got that wrong. I got this wrong, I said Stillwater. Portland, I got that right. Why, wait, what? Sanford became a city in 2013? Huh, I guess it was just a town before. I was kind of thinking of when was it founded? Because I knew people that lived in Sanford, so I was like, I guess 2,000? I got this wrong, it's the founding father of Oliver Ellsworth, whoops. The state burned down? The whole state? Due to a long stretch of drought-like conditions that began in the summer of 1947, a series of subsequent fires destroyed more than 200,000 acres of what became known as the year Maine burned. I didn't know that. So Portland was definitely one of them, I think. Okay, what was legalized in Maine in 2012? St. Petersburg, got that right. Mount Hope Cemetery got that right. This I got wrong, I said 1971, it's 1965. I got this wrong because I said Passamaquoddy. I got this right, it is the residence of the governor. Oh, he does sail down in a lobster boat. Goddammit, because there's like a little river thing that goes through the town. Where do you find the only Basilica in Maine? Oh, it's Lewison, okay. Where do you find the highest range of little lakes? Shit, what peak? Yep, it's Katahdin, yep. Oh, it's the world's largest tidal whirlpool. I didn't even see that on the thing. I only saw haystack, snowmobile, and potato. Whoops, it was a suspension bridge. Well, well, well. Well, friends, I will leave some of the quizzes down below. You can take them if you'd like. Let me know how you did. You can let me know if you're a true gamer or not, or mainer, not gamer. Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to slap that like button right in the face, and I will see you guys in the next video. Love you all, stay cranky, bye.


2022 was an aggressive bear market and everything just went straight down and 2023 everything changed a lot of speculation money came into stock and I talk about this very often because a very very important topic is you guys need to understand that the small cap stocks that we trade small cap stocks that we play are mostly a lottery ticket to people they're like I'm gonna buy the stock at $1 and if it goes to $10 I'm gonna be rich forever and I'm gonna retire it's like a lottery ticket right and the thing is that people that buy lottery tickets people you know try to get rich quick need cash to be able to do it in 2022 we had an aggressive bear market and everything was going down and people were out of work and everything is horrible people have no extra money to gamble with but when the overall market starts to rebound when people start to have more money in their pocket the first thing that they do is they start gambling and speculating on these small cap stocks


It's hard to pick up a session, have the same level of energy and passion. But we have a great topic today. It's about the impact of a connected world and eventually some global governance to make sense out of it. I don't know if you're aware, but I mean most of you I'm sure are very aware of the hiccup this morning with the time because the time wasn't changed, it was supposed to change, so everybody's completely confused. Nobody knows when his flight is at. It's just a total mess and that's a recipe for a connected world. So it's a great way to start our panel today. Maybe some of you are aware, but according to IDC, our digital universe will be made of 180 zettabytes, that's a word I've never pronounced before, zettabytes by 2025. And what it means, a zettabyte is 800 followed by 21 zeros. I don't see if you see the amount of data that digital universe is and it would take about 450 million years to download it in one stream. So huge amounts of data. The more it goes, we all know that the more interconnected we are through our phone or mails or websites or social networks, but also public infrastructures such as a commuter train or even personal appliances like our toaster. Most of us, and me included, have given out freely our personal information in exchange of free services that we can hardly live without today. And this wealth of information has created, in turn, a wealth of new businesses and services. It can be better targeted advertising, for example, or specific services that have been developed thanks to artificial intelligence. We can also foresee that with the advent of new smart cities. So some see data as a new set of asset class. Some see the happening of an infonomics market, which would be led by how much data is worth. But a lot of yet is to happen. For now, we know that data tells a lot about each and one of us. And we also know that firms and governments don't necessarily look at it the same way. So to explore the wild, wild west of this connected world, we have this morning, our next to me, François Barrault, who's chairman of Idat Digi World. Mr. Chang Day-Wan, who's chairman of Make Your Media Group from South Korea. Next to him is Francis Gehry, the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Next to him is Patrick Nicolet, who's the group technology officer at Capgemini Sogeti. And finally, Tobi Simon, commissioner with the Global Commission for Internet Governance. So we're going to start with usage and François Barrault, how all that interconnected world really changes our habits and the way we're doing things.


Today, I want to tell you how you can be more confident, more clear, and more persuasive on your sales calls when you speak to parents over the phone. I truly believe this episode that I'm giving you here for free can be worth six figures per year easy. If you execute what I talk about first, I want to open this episode with a story. So a couple summers ago, I was out at the fields getting ready for my training sessions. And there was a boy that was in my program at the time. He was 14. So this was actually like four years ago, 14 years old at the time. And I get out there, I'm setting up, and I notice I look across the field. He's out there running sprints. And I always get out to the field, typically half hour, maybe even more, sometimes more before my clients show up, because I always like to prepare, I like to make sure everything is set up the way I want it to be. So this way, when clients get there, it's already organized, it's already detailed. And I look across the field night, and I notice one of the kids that I train is out there doing sprints by himself. And keep in mind, I live in Texas. The summers are hot, very hot. He's out there doing sprints, doing push ups. No one's telling him what to do. He is just on a mission at 14 years old. And I look around and I'm like, where is parents at?  And I ran over there, and I approached him and I said, hey man, awesome job. This is great seeing you here early. Why are you here so early? I knew why he was there, but I wanted him to tell me. And he goes, coach, I'm going to play in college. I'm going to get a scholarship. And I know I need to get fitter in order to do this. If I want to get recruited, I know I need to get fitter. I said, awesome. That's exactly what you need to be doing. So keep doing this. And I told him, I will never ask you to show up early.  Deal, shook hands, and off he went. Next week, showed up. Boom. He's there before I get there, ready. Keep in mind, I'm doing this for free. I'm not charging him. I'm doing this because I know how driven he is. And it was his decision, not his parents' decision. Now, fast forward to today. This is, you know, that was four years ago. He has a scholarship. He has a full scholarship. And it's because of the work that he put in. It was the reps that he put in. And here's the thing. If you're listening to this, I'm assuming you're a coach. And you always talk to the kids about getting reps. You talk to them about doing more. And the way that this story ties into you and into your business, it is because if you are not confident talking to parents over the phone, it's because you have not gotten enough reps. And you're not confident with your process. And the only person who can do that is you. For example, the kid that I just told you about. I did not force him to show up there. Never, never once forced him to show up early. And for four years, literally, he showed up every single day that we had our session, showed up early, doing more work. That extra half hour, 30, 45 minutes of extra time that he got every single week, separated himself from a lot of kids who weren't doing that. And again, he started doing that when he was 14. I see a lot of coaches that are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s that won't put the time in to get the reps on calls because they are afraid of rejection. And now this is like a very tactical type of message here because this is what we do in our program. It's coaches that follow through with this. This is why they are getting better at closing clients. So first, you have to know what your standards are as a coach. If your standards are really high, then automatically you attract people who are serious.  For example, let's say your program is overly affordable and you know it. Or parents are negotiating with you all the time and you're sick of that. Well, you don't have high standards right now. Or if people are missing sessions right now, your standards are not high. If they're canceling last second, if you don't have any policies in place, standards aren't high. And what that does is it messes with your head because it makes you not want to talk to new people. And it makes you not secretly, it makes you not want to grow your business because you're afraid of getting more bad clients. So first, you have to change your standards. You have to raise them. Then you need an agreement. You need something that parents can sign when they sign up for a program stating what their commitment is and what your commitment is and how your business operates when certain things happen. So this way, there's zero gray area. Once they enroll, they're in. All right. Now, uncommitted people, if they see an agreement, they're not going to do it. And my question is always, well, why would you want to train uncommitted clients? What's the point? You getting that extra $100 or $200 that month from one client who's uncommitted, that actually hurts your business because you could have spent that time working with someone else who is committed or you could have spent that time doing something that's more productive than that $200. Most people don't look at it that way, though. They'd rather just take the money and work with whoever. And the most successful coaches that I've spoken with, the most successful coaches that I have interviewed, the most successful coaches that I've worked with, guys that generate millions of dollars in their career of coaching. They don't operate that way. They operate where there are systems in place. So first, high standards. So we can attract the right type of person. Second, you want to have an agreement that states your commitment, states their commitment. They have to agree to it. Third, you need to be able to look at sales as a science project. And I really mean this. It needs to be like, OK, before I get on the call, how am I like, what room am I going to be in? And you have a routine. How am I scheduling this call? Who is calling who? Am I calling them? Are they calling me? How am I calling them? Am I calling them on Zoom? Am I doing it on the phone? How am I, what questions am I going to ask? What's the objective of the call? Is it for me to sell my program? Or are we selling an evaluation? What happens at the end of the call? Am I recording the call? Am I understanding what the objections are? Am I writing things down? Do I have notes? Do I have a spreadsheet? So all of these things that I'm talking about, we do this in our program for coaches that are serious. And it's amazing. If you follow what we do on Instagram, you'll see. Coaches that we work with, they're closing like 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, $5,000 deals. And it's not because of luck. It's because they're now getting more reps, but now they have systems in place to get higher paying clients. And I will tell you, you don't have to be the best person in the world on the phone. Sales is not about you selling anything. It's about attracting the right type of person and asking them questions and qualifying them. Because sales is not about you. It's about, can you solve the problem? Yes or no? And you don't understand what the problem is if you're just trying to sell on the phone. You understand what the problem is when you ask the right questions, right? And that's very clear. Like if you just get on a call and you just talk about the benefits and where you played college basketball and how you scored 45 points per game in high school, like no one cares about that. They only care, can you solve their kid's problem? Yes or no? And you don't know what that is unless you ask about what their kid's problems are, right? Or you already have this reputation that speaks for yourself and people are just hunting you down because they know how great your program is, right? And again, that happens as you get more results in this business and as you get more results, the word of mouth starts spreading and you would not believe the amount of people I've spoken to the last like two weeks that make over like 300 and $400,000 per year that don't ever run ads. And it's because like their programs are great. They've been in the business for a long time but they learned sales, right? They learned sales. Now, when I said approaching this like a science project, I mean it because the example I told you at the beginning of this call or the beginning of this message where I talked about that boy who did all the extra work. He has a scholarship now. That scholarship's worth like 160K, right? That's huge. He's not gonna be in any student loan debt. Like that's gonna change his life when he gets out of college. Like he could probably start a business and have zero debt. Like I mean, it's amazing, right? And it's because he put in the work. He treated it like, well, I have this extra time. I'm gonna do this. And the thing is the vast majority of coaches don't treat sales that way. They're just like, well, I hope I get more calls this month or I hope I get people on Instagram to message me this month or I hope I get referrals. No, it needs to be measured and calculated. And you need to know if you talk to 10 people, how many of those people can you close and have that down to a stat? So you know, all right, next month, if I talk to five more people, I know I'll close two more, all right? And again, if you do that, if you record yourself talking on those calls and you study it, right? And this is where it ties back into that example. When you do the extra work, when you study your calls, you improve drastically. Because you'll be like, oh my gosh, why did I say that? Or wow, that was a great question. Or wow, like I am getting better at this. Because like the only way you can actually measure this is if you listen back and do that extra work. And you will see. You will see, you will do certain things that you will pick up on, on those calls. And I'll tell you like, there are so many little things I've spotted. So I used to clear my throat right before I talked about price. I used to, when parents asked me about results, and this is a long time ago, I used to talk about, I talked too much about myself. My coaching, this is what we've done, right? Instead of talking about the kids. There's a lot of little things. I used to interrupt parents when they were talking about something that was important. I used to talk over people. I used to talk too much. And it was because I was nervous on those calls. That was the thing.  I hated rejection, right? And I had to learn. And so the only way for me to learn is I had to listen back and be like, gosh, I need to cut that out. So when I get to the next call, that's not gonna happen on the next call. Or like, wow, every time I talk to people, they're really busy and it doesn't sound like they're paying attention to me. So how can I get them more focused? Okay, well, let me switch it to this. Or wow, like why are these people keep calling me when I'm not even ready to talk? So let me have a better system. So this is why, I mean, I'm serious when I say this, one sales call that you have with one parent could be like a $25,000 to $30,000 call. Because if they sign up for your program, they're in your program for multiple years, they could literally invest that much money into your business over the course of multiple years. And you might not be thinking that way. So this is why I want you to approach every single call like it's the most important call. And you learn from every call and that's how you'll have the confidence to charge more. That's how you'll have the confidence to lead on those calls instead of just like, I don't know, do what you're probably doing right now which is negotiating or you're cutting down your price or you're not clear with your pricing, right?  And it's shocking. The guys and girls that we work with that actually do that. And you know where they listen to their calls?  And they'll like, they will make mental notes and then when they get back to their computer, they're going to carve through that call again and understand where they messed up, what they did well on. And think about like, if you did that for 30 days, let's say you have five calls this month, which anybody could get five calls. Like I could go knock on five doors in my neighborhood and drum up five conversations in the next 10 minutes if I want, okay? If you drum up five calls and you record all those five calls, you will be significantly better at sales by the fifth call. Like it is shocking. And what a lot of coaches do though, is they're trying to learn all of these tactics and secrets about sales. There's no secrets about sales. I'm serious. It is you getting reps and you recording and you listening back and you studying and you doing that extra work that you're probably not doing, that is how you get really good.  Like right now, just to give you some perspective, right now my goal is to have like between six to eight sales calls per day that I take six to eight per day. So you can see I'm getting multiple, multiple, multiple reps in every single day, right? And the thing is I want to do that because I am confident in what I sell. And the only reason I'm confident in what I sell is because I have, I look at everything. I look back at the calls where I'm like, gosh, like why did I say that? Well, what were the questions that I asked before that? So I look at everything. I'm not gonna tell you to do something unless I actually do it, all right?  So that kid I told you about earlier, if he didn't spend that extra time getting fit, that extra essentially two hours per month over the last four years, that compounds, that's so many hours, that's multiple days worth of extra work that he put in, got his scholarship. And when you treat a sales call like, wow, this could be a 25 to $30,000 opportunity here because it is, if you have a great program and parents stick for a long period of time, it is, that is worth 25 to 30 grand. Then you'll probably take it more serious. And I think if you study back your calls, you'll start to improve and that's all it is. It's the matter of spending a little bit more time than you are right now. And if you follow the sequence of what I talked about earlier when I started talking about the tactics, then you're way more prepared on your calls. All right, now here's the thing. I know you might be thinking, well, I wanna charge more, I just don't know how much more to charge. All right. And a lot of people ask me that and here's my response. You could completely change your price on your next call with and have absolutely nothing to lose. If you know you're going to be getting more calls that month because if you approach that, like the only way to find out with pricing, can I charge more or not is by asking, like by going through the process and when you get to the price, you charge more. Like, and I faced that when I went from $15 per session to $30 per session, then I went from $30 per session to $50 per session. And then I realized, wow, people are not bringing me money every time. So then I went, flipped it over to monthly. And I was like doing like $200 per month. And I remember sitting down with a sales coach. He was like, he was like, Ben, this is so cheap. Like the results that you're getting are so much, so much more worth than what people are paying. Like he was like, you won't be able to scale this business with this price. And he looked at me flat out and he said, raise your pricing. And again, this is a sales guy. So I was paying him to help me with sales. And he was just telling me to raise my price. And I did, I just listened to the guy. It went from $200 to $400 per month. Then we went from $400 to $600. Then we went from $600 to $800. This was for one-on-one training. Then we had a separate offer for group training that was obviously more affordable. And that's how we significantly grew our program though. It was getting reps on the calls, getting more comfortable on the calls, changing my prices and being willing to have people tell me no. And here's the thing, in my career, there's a significant amount of people that I've talked to over the phone that have told me no. And at this point, because I track this, it's like right around 70% of people that I speak with say no. All right, think about that. That's every, for every 10 people I talked to, three move forward. Now, some of that is because some of those 10 aren't a good fit, and I find that out. Some of those people, they can't afford it. That's cool too. But the ones who do move forward, well, that's my focus. All right, that's my focus. And I know if you have those types of numbers, and let's say you talk to 20, and let's say you talk to 30, you have 30 calls per week, or sorry, 30 calls per month. That's one call per day. Like, that's so achievable if you're marketing yourself. If you're closing 30%, all right, let's take 30 people times 0.3. You're closing nine new clients that month. If you close nine new clients per month times 12, that's 108 clients in one year that you've closed. If you have it set up where your program is like between 200 or $200 and $300 per month, like you're gonna be doing like 200 to 300K per year. All right, so if I take 108 times 200, it's $21,000 per month times 12. It's 259 grand per year. Okay, and again, I know it sounds loose when I'm saying these numbers, but I talk to enough people right now that are in the sports training industry that do this sort of stuff. I've done it personally.  I've done numbers like that already. I help coaches do numbers like that. There are people I talk to all the time that do way more than that. And the big reason is because of their sales process, right? And once you master that, I really mean it. Like, you can take your business to a completely different level. And the thing is, is like, I don't wanna just relate this to money, but the problem is a lot of coaches are like, well, I'm so passionate about coaching and that's great, you have to have passion. Like, I'm passionate too, but like, I can't make a living if I'm just passionate about something. I have to, you have to sell. You have to be good at that. That's how you earn a living in this industry. And you can't just be passionate. You have to get good at sales. And I know if you're having problems with that, listen back to this episode, because I know it will help you. All right, if you have any questions, if you want like actual hands-on help with your sales process, join my program. That's what it's for. It's to help you create a great offer. It's to help you package that up, to help you talk to parents, help you market yourself, help you promote yourself and closing deals where parents are more committed and you'll have to change your program in order to make that happen. You have to change sometimes who you are to make that happen. And if you want more info on that, text me at<PHONE_NUMBER> or email me if you live internationally at buildmysportsbiz at gmail.com or just go to my website, buildmysportsbiz.com, click on one of the tabs. It's called the Accelerator Program. You can see a video there. You can watch testimonials. Right now, like the results are extremely good for coaches that are stuck into the program, all right? So that's it. And the only way you'll improve is by implementing what we talk about, studying it back and doing the extra work, just like the boy I talked about at the beginning who spent the extra time. Now he has a scholarship, right? And as coaches, we always tell kids to do extra work but a lot of coaches I see are hypocrites. They talk a big game to the kids that they train but when it comes down to their business, they turn a blind eye. And they're like, hmm, I don't need to do that. I'm chilling, I'm good, I have clients. No, you could be doing so much better in your business. Like you have no idea. You have no idea how much better you could be doing if you have certain things set up. So that's it. Hope to see you on a call and shoot me a text if you wanna set up a call, see you there. Don't gas, never stop, come deedin' If you break like glass, then this life's comin'


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Hello, this is Nicolas Fillon, so FAE at STM Colectronix and this lab, so I call it lab zero. We will save, you know, the original code that came on your board. So out of the box, there is a code that is already programmed inside the STM32C0, a quick demo. And we will save the content using our tool called STM32CubeProgrammer. And I also will show you how to flash, you know, your board using actually no tools.  So before we get started with the actual labs of this MOOC, we will save the content of the original code that was programmed on your nuclear board. So there is a pre-programmed, you know, demonstration code. So that came right there, out of the box. And we will learn how to, you know, read the flash and save it into a binary file using our STM32CubeProgrammer. You should have, by now, installed on your machine two applications, two programs. The first one is the STM32CubeProgrammer. So this is what we're going to use, you know, during this lab zero. And then you should also have the STM32CubeID. So at least a version 1.10.1. So in my case, I have a version 1.11.2. You should have also a nuclear board. So nuclear C031C6 and the USB cable, so micro USB cable connected to it. Now what you're going to do is plug your board or plug your cable to your machine. It will be enumerated. And it should be a solid red, you know, on the LED LD1 for the com. So this will indicate that the ST-Link has been enumerated and installed properly. So the drivers, the USB drivers are okay. Now we're going to open STM32CubeProgrammer. So double click on the icon. Okay, so this is, you know, the CubeProgrammer. So as you can see, I'm running a version 2.12.0. So you should have at least a version 2.10.0. Okay, so what we're going to do first, we're going to connect, you know, to the ST-Link. So press connect right here. This will read the content of the flash.  That's what we want to save. So this is the beginning of the address of the flash right there. To save the content of the flash, the whole flash, we're going to change the size to 8,000 in hexadecimal. So this is, you know, 32 kilobytes. And this is actually the full size of the flash. Or this micro controller, DSM32C031C6D6, in this case. But as you can see here, flash size, 32 kilobytes. And here you can also see 32 kilobytes. So now to save the content, we're going to go to read right there and save as.  So I'm going to save it in this temp directory.  So you can save, you know, some .bin, .x, or .srack.  And give the name that you want. I gave original .bin. And then press save. Okay, now we have saved, you know, the content. So we're good. We can restore it at the end, for example, of the book or when you want. I want to show you another way to restore, you know, without using any tool. So let's say that, you know, we're going to start from a blank or like a chip that is erased. So STM42C0 that has a flash completely erased. So we're going to erase the content of the flash. Okay, achieved. That's fine. So now it's completely blank. So if we go back here and read, it's all ff, which is, you know, the default, you know, values of the flash. So that means it's completely erased. Now we can disconnect.  Now open an Explorer, you know, window. So here, for example, I am in my C drive and go to the directory where, you know, you saved the project. So remember, you know, this original .bin. So find, you know, the file. And what you're going to do is drag and drop it to this drive here, which is called node underscore C031C6. Et voilà. You have your original code that is restored on your nuclear board. So you can play with it, you know, like if you press the user button, which is the blue button on your nuclear board, you will see that the LED is going to blink faster and faster. So the code has been restored. And now you have also the binary in case you want to restore it when you want.