What's going on everyone? Sam here with LaytonSportsCards and I am doing a 2021 Prudini Flawless Hobby 2 box full case break 65 tiered random teams. Here is the, I guess link to your results right here. These are under the, or on the website under the results tab as well as there is a link in chat. So good luck. Oops, main cam. Let's get started. This is going to be awesome. Not Ripped Flawless in a minute. We've got 3 of 10. Going to the Chargers. That is Keenan Allen. Nice one there for you Tim. Keenan Allen. Game worn on the Keenan Allen as well. Nice. Got rookie quad material showcase. 10 of 10. Kyle Pitts. There you go Falcons. Nice tier two hit Eric. We've got Mark Gastinot. 12 of 25 Jets. There you go Tim P. New York Sac Exchange. Nice Mark Gastinot. We've got Fearless Flyers. 8 of 15. Marcus Colston. For the Saints. That is Matt A. on a tier two team. It's really cool. I know he's in a lot this year too, which I really like. Yeah. Nice Ruby. We've got 12 of 20. Going to the Bengals. Boomer Asiasin. Two colored patch auto. Distinguished. There you go Mike T. We're doing personals all day tomorrow John. There will not be personals tonight. 4 to 12. Tomorrow there will be. We've got Jerome Bettis. Hall of Fame autographs 14 out of 15 Steelers. There you go Pittsburgh. Sheldon J. Picking up the bus auto. Nice one to end it. 17 of 25. We've got Kyle Trask. RPA. Pretty awesome there. Buccaneers. Colin M. Nice Trask RPA. We've got Dolphins. 9 of 15 to a tag of Iloa. There you go Dolphins. Harper B. on the encased sapphire. Nice two up. We've got two of two. Ravens. Rashad Bateman. Dual Nike swooshes. Congrats Harper B. on the tier two hit with the Ravens. Big fan of this card I have to say. Yeah I did see him Randy. I liked him a lot honestly. Nice Rashad Bateman. It's a ballads Invicta. That's valid. And then we've got rookie debut signatures. Justin Fields. Congrats Eric R. with the Bears. Six out of 20. Nice Justin Fields. There's a diamond guarantee. I don't see a diamond on this card. This diamond guarantee will go with the Tua right here. As the Fields does not have a diamond on it. Nice one there. That's so sick. Honestly. Diamond authenticity guarantee. Who thought this doing this was better than keeping the original swoosh intact. Also valid Gabagool. Right here we go. Starting off we've got the Cardinals. 19 of 25. Rookie showcase Rondale Moore. That is a tier two hit for Ryan L. Congrats on that one Ryan. We've got four days in a row now. Joe Montana. Six out of 15. Patch for the Chiefs. That's awesome. Honestly. Nice one there. Chiefs. This probably will be a random. We've got Broncos. Broncos and Jets. Tim P. and Eric R. This will be a random at the end. Steve Atwater. 17 of 20. Career progressions. Autograph. Broncos and Jets. We will do a random for that card at the end of the break. Nice one there. We've got Ruby. 14 out of 15. Fred Warner. Nice linebacker love for the 49ers. That's sweet. A little bit of a color match there too. We've got three out of 25. Run Ricky Run. There you go. Dolphins with the Ricky Williams. Harper B. Picking up a nice Ricky. Got 19 out of 20. Going to the Jets. Rondale Moore. One color three color RPA. Did I say what did I say? Elijah Moore. I don't know why I said Rondale. Thank you, Matt. Elijah Moore. Elijah. Here comes everyone correcting me now. Thank you, broken pirates. My bad. My bad. My bad. And to end off the inner nine out of 10, Sapphire Auto. Devonta Smith. Nice hit there, Eagles. James A. with that one. That is cool. Very clean, Devonta. All right, again. Empty, empty. Six of 20. That is Ruby Tyreek Hill for the Chiefs. There you go, Don G. Nice Tyreek. We've got two of 15. Tom Brady. Nice Sapphire.  On the Brady. And great way to end this one off. We've got 12 of 15. Mack Jones. Boom. Congrats, David G. Nice Mack on that one. Congrats, buddy. That is clean. 12 out of 15 on the Mack. Four colored patch there too. That is nasty. That will do it. Let me do the random really quick for the Atwater and the, for the Atwater Auto. Give me one second to set this random up. Random for this Steve Atwater. 17 out of 20 autograph between the Broncos and the Jets. Here is the random. Gonna roll the dice. See how many times we're gonna random this one. We are gonna go three and four. That is seven times. Good luck to the Broncos and the Jets. Got one, two, three, four, five, six, and oops. That was six, seven. There we go. Got the Broncos on top. The Broncos will grab the Steve Atwater Auto. Congrats on that one. That will do it for the break. Thanks again, everyone. Got 30 bucks, Sunday Funday, Immaculate mixer coming up. Matt will step in for that one and that'll be it from me tonight.


Welcome to a brand new series that I've decided to start on my channel. I want to start painting horror movies that I love. I always thought this would be a really fun idea to get stills from movies and paint them. I've seen a few people do this on YouTube where they find a scene from a movie and paint them. I've done it before. But I thought I would do it in a niche setting, so I would just do my favourite horror films and one of them is The Shining. I wanted to start off with this one because I think it is really cinematically dramatic and beautiful and there's a real sense and mood to it so I thought it would make sense for me to study stuff from a horror film to help develop my horror comic painting skills maybe? So yeah, that's why I've decided to do this today. And I want to begin with The Shining and then next week I might do Scream or something like that or whenever I continue the series if you guys enjoy this. The Shining is about a guy called Jack who is down on his luck. He is a hard-working man but he hasn't been able to find a job for a while. He wants to be a writer, that's his dream, so he finally gets his job at a hotel to become the winter caretaker for the Ovala Hotel. Now his son is kind of actually more of the story's main character because he has this thing called The Shining where he can hear other people's thoughts. So when he enters the hotel he also has this unique ability to transfer that to seeing ghosts and things like that. So he sees a lot of horrible things in this hotel such as ghosts and things coming to life and trying to attack him. I've also read the book so I'm kind of intermingling that story from the book to the show as well because I think the book is really really good as well. If you guys haven't read that then go ahead and do it. If you like horror, horror books that is. So Danny's visions become more disturbing and Jack you can tell that this hotel is evil and it's affecting him and from there the story develops. I don't really want to spoil it but I'm assuming that most people who've clicked on this video have seen The Shining or heard what it's about. Maybe you don't like horror films so I'm also not going to be doing anything scary here so don't worry about that if you're super sensitive to that stuff. But yeah it's just a film study, basically a cinematography study. I'll be looking at colour, composition and all those beautiful things that go into making a film because even though it's not the same as doing a comic I think that you can learn from certain things. Okay today I'm going to be using my acrylic, acrylic is that how you say it? Acrylic wash, it's Holbein wash. I think it's sort of like acrylic wash. So there's more like less on the watercoloury side if that makes sense. I've never really used them, I bought them in Japan and then I haven't used them that much so I'm planning to use them today. Obviously because I've been getting a lot of different paints like the jelly paints and stuff I haven't really felt the need to use these but I think they have a really nice colour set so and I think they kind of work well within the The Shining colour script as well so I want to try and use them and let's see how we get on. I also have my watercolours because I like mixing watercolours with this, I think they won't mix so well because this is acrylic wash but we only find out by experimenting. Recently I have been feeling pretty uninspired. I don't know what it is but I just find myself struggling to paint or draw and sometimes this happens, it's not necessarily art block as I consider art block when you just don't know what to draw whereas I know what I want to draw and I know what I want to do and accomplish but I just feel like right now I'm pretty much just stuck in a rut. I finish work and then I'm like okay I should do this, this, this and all I want to do is just watch Netflix or YouTube and just relax and I don't know why I'm finding it hard because I used to just be able to doodle in my sketchbook or draw or feel inspired to do something and recently no I'm just not feeling that that way so I'm hoping that this new series will help bring some life back to my my goals and help me continue on with writing the end of the script of the horror comic which I've decided on a name I think it will be called Dark Moon Prom Queen and I think that's a really fun name and it really emulates how the story will be and kind of pop-ishness of it if that's a way that I can describe what it would be like but yeah I think it's gonna be a lot more fun and story based than my other horror comic. My other horror comic I was more the first time doing something like that so I didn't really know what I wanted to do and I'm really proud of that comic but I think I want to build upon what my skill set was from that one to this one and maybe that's something that's holding me back a little bit maybe the fear of like not being able to accomplish the same thing again maybe that's weighing me down but I want to do it I want to bust through this this feeling and maybe it's just like summer grog that everyone gets you know when it gets hot so I just feel like really tired and that you know that summer grog anyway I'm digressing I felt that whilst I was painting these images as well they have that quirky style of like slightly off perspective and the textures that I like and I do at the base of it kind of like the way that these turned out but I'm not necessarily super proud of them I wish that I had had more inspiration going into it and felt more like when I first started I felt really happy to do it and inspired and ready to go and I wanted to create something that was really proud of and then I just kind of went and as the day went on I got a bit more tired and you know how it is when you're just reaching that point where you like this is not getting to what I want it to be so I have to say that I did kind of give up a little bit on these they are quote unquote finished but not to the degree that I wanted to finish them I think I could have powered through and made them a little bit better but I think sometimes if you just keep going and forcing yourself especially when I'm in this mood of like not feeling that inspired then I think I can be quite detrimental because next time you do something you'll kind of remember that like forcing yourself to do something and it's like the next time you want to get up and try and do that again I think you can be like okay this is what happened last time but it was really horrific so now I remember that so now it's even more difficult to do it I hope that makes sense to anybody out there maybe I should have just made myself continue but yeah these are the finished images and I hope this wasn't too negative but I'm trying to tell you guys that I'm ready to power through I'm gonna get on with it and finish the horror comic and yeah that's basically it these are the end results and I'm not particularly proud of them but I'm not particularly displeased with them either and I hope that you guys enjoyed watching this video and I want to continue on this series and maybe do a different movie next time let me know in the comments down below what movie you want to see next and as always I'd like to thank my patrons for their kind support they are Lucille, Charlotte and Tim, Jacqueline, Alex, Noxemba, Katie, Steph and Megia thank you guys so much for your support it really means a lot to me thanks a lot thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe and I will see you next time bye


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ients we do have a phone service a 24 hour phone service but it's the ph n's that go in at the weekend so we hope to be able to deliver that service ourselves over the seven days and then hopefully as Jessica said prevent the unnecessary admissions to ed for symptom management that we can take in and help people with their symptoms and we can also discharge again the husband isn't about coming in and you stay there you can come in for your symptom control yeah get that under control and go back home and live another length of time relatively well yeah and it prevents the overrun the hospitals and the long stays in ed which we all know you know our national problem yeah so you know that's a piece of work that we're looking at as well preventing the hospital unnecessary hospital admissions I presume and this is like but I mean I presume with even more resources much more of this work could be done and and much more pressure could be taken off I mean because we're talking in the context of the space that you provide or you have available to you I mean if this were scaled up if that were the will of the the government or the health minister presumably you know it could work even better in achieving all the goals that you believe could be achieved yeah and the government is looking at that and there are national groups palliative care groups nationally that are looking at that and we have been very lucky actually we just got confirmation a few weeks ago that we have been given another clinical nurse specialist to work in our community the government's going to fund that for Dunneagal and we have been given the remit to look at our strategy plan for Dunneagal and see what we need and that the HSC will work with us to build on that service and add more staff to provide that care. Dr Sway anything you want to add before we wrap up? I just want to thank the people you know for supporting us of this wall and we will work hard for the people of Dunneagal yeah okay Catherine and and and just reiterate thank the people of Dunneagal but also I you know want to thank the people the staff that have kept Dunneagal Hospice open and going for the last 20 years the clinical staff and the fundraising and the board you know Isabelle and Grace and the people that who are very supportive to us since we came and the nurses and doctors there who have been very welcoming to us and really really supportive and we're thoroughly enjoying our time here and he's both nice and settled in now absolutely yeah okay enjoying it lovely stop okay listen it's been lovely speaking to both of you that was Catherine Regan director of nursing at the Dunneagal Hospice Hospice and palliative care and consultant Dr Jessica Sway both of you thank you so very much indeed it's been lovely having you on the program and we'll be back with more on the 9th 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because uh you know i mean obviously your position is it's a lovely position and you represent the united states and but yesterday was particularly special for you wasn't it because you're able to it was a personal element to it you're able to sort of retrace retrace the steps of your forefathers yeah for sure my grandad came from dunny gall and i grew up my whole life hearing about dunny gall and how beautiful it was and my father loved it so much um my brother and sister had an opportunity to visit here before but i had not this was my first and to be able to come as the u.s. ambassador uh was just very very special and the warm welcome i received is you know i just can't believe it it was very nice wasn't it i haven't really seen something like that before it was a real welcome home kind of a situation wasn't it oh my god it was wonderful and then there were us flags and signs and school children came out and it was just a great day that i will never forget your grandfather was born and lived in it's a small village caromina yes okay so what were you able to do there yesterday so yesterday and historically if you were to go back to the caromina evictions my family was one of the 13 families that were evicted in the caromina evictions so yesterday we went we were at the caromina community center we visited the remembrance garden and you know i saw the plaque on the evictions which you know it really brought it home a little bit because it's only something i have read about before and of course my dad used to tell me the stories growing up and it's great and now you can say to your siblings beat that uh you think your visit was good look at the reception i received and what i've been but it is nice and something you want to explore a bit more is it uh your connections and and what have you yes and it's i said yesterday was like just the warmth of the welcome is you just can't put it into words and i met a woman there and it was really remarkable um her she was a descendant of one of the families of the caromina evictions and she was actually in the states and someone reached out to her and she was in florida saying we're trying to get some american flags to welcome the ambassador and they couldn't get them in time from amazon this woman flew from florida to philadelphia picked up the order of flags and flew here flew into belfast and came over to distribute the flags all through the center of caramina and i thought look at that effort that that woman made and the whole town made is just you know you just can't stop smiling thinking about it um clear how does one become the u.s ambassador or any ambassador for that matter but what was your journey um to become the u.s ambassador to arland sure there are two paths one you can be a career foreign service professional and that's one way the other way is to become a political appointee and i was nominated by president biden i first became friendly with president biden prior to his beginning the race worked very hard for him during the campaign starting actually before he had actually even announced his candidacy and over that period of time we got to know each other better and when the time came where he had to pick someone he put forth my name which was just the honor of a lifetime and do you think that's even more of an honor given the fact that it's clear uh you know he celebrates his connections with iran his irishness uh and so with that comes a bit of responsibility i think you know because the probably more inclined to ask you how we should trip to arland than he might trip to somewhere else perhaps is it a bit more pressure for you or a bit more of an honor actually maybe to come and get in a more positive uh approach it's both it it's certainly the honor of a lifetime uh but i always look at any job i've undertaken and ambassador is the same not as the title but as the responsibility because when you have a job like this there is a burden and a responsibility that goes along with it so i certainly uh desire to do the job well but knowing that president biden has this very strong love affection appreciation for all things ireland you know it probably just spurs me on to try to do my very best while i'm here and he is visiting later this year is that correct i don't know when he's coming i have seen that it's been reported in some news cycle um i did have a conversation with him on the phone uh a couple of weeks ago right prior to the shamrock ceremony and he did say he was visiting but i didn't push him for the date i figured that he'll let me know when the time is appropriate yeah of course um so claire as uh in in relation to you know what you hope to how long is your term sorry is uh ambassador to arland uh i will be here as long as president biden likes me to be his gift okay and typically in the second term he would appoint a new ambassador i think that's generally the way it's gone in the past see how that goes but like what what do you want to achieve or what do you feel maybe you can achieve uh over the amount of time that you have in this position first and foremost uh to strengthen our people to people ties i mean we uh our ties between the united states and ireland go back you know and they're pretty much founded on ancestral ties but our trade and investment is the glue that keeps it together we have more than 900 companies that are in located in ireland but it's a two-way street uh in the same token ireland is the ninth largest foreign direct investor in the united states so those trade and investment ties are there as we move forward one of my primary goals is to create an open door policy for both the u.s. embassy and the deerfield residents uh so we began a program we've started it two weeks ago and it's for students in their transitional year that are right around age 16 and 17 and we know they're i've just missed out on this yeah you just missed it by what a year or two three or four decades okay but what i have done is we've invited students uh they come to deerfield residents i give them a tour of the you know the september 11th monument the gardens then we come in and i let them have the run of the downstairs take them around it's fun the kids you know they're doing selfies with their friends on you know the beautiful rooms in there and then we sit in the ballroom and we have a snack and basically it's you know brown bag with the ambassador and you know kind of a q and a i always tell them you can ask me any question you want and it's been fabulous do you think that it's sort of ties between uh can we presume the ties between the united states and ireland will always be strong you know i mean going back a little bit of time a lot of people elected to power in in the united states uh would have been maybe irish or second generation irish or what have you but i think there might only be one uh now currently there and the world's changing so much i mean do we have to work on maintaining sort of that bond between the united states and ireland or do you believe it will always be there i believe it will always be there but it you know it might need a little love and affection along the way i mean someone gave me a statistic that one and i i hope i'm saying this correctly but that one in four children that are aged six in ireland have a parent from a different country yeah probably right yeah so that shows that ireland's becoming more diverse so the ancestral ties are becoming somewhat diluted and that's why it's important for the younger generation and that's you know one of the primary reasons we did start the open doors program but also you know the j1 visas well now it's bridge usa uh but i you know i'm older i it will always be a j1 visa to me uh but to see the students come over and come to the united states build their own connections and you know the reality is this ireland is the only country in the world that has a standing meeting uh with the t-shock and the president of the united states only country in the world and that's significant but let's not forget geographically ireland is you know as a result of brexit you know while there is some short-term pain there ireland is now the gateway to the eu in the same token it's the gateway for the eu to the us so ireland is positioned very well certainly and that relationship that already exists obviously that's that's a great leverage it's a great advantage yeah sure to benefit as much as we can from that yeah terrific and in terms of obviously companies american companies working and and operating in ireland i mean that seems to continue to go from from from strength to strength there was concerns about uh you know i'm talking about tech here there was some concerns that uh our adjustments as it relates to you know vat rates and what have you it's not vat it is anyway the the rates of tax them being adjusted upwards might have a negative impact but i know from uh the head of google recently they said that they don't believe that will be the case that they'll continue want to operate and expand and grow and invest in in in ireland sure and that global minimum tax rate um that was certainly corporation tax it is yeah the global uh that was certainly a u.s policy but it is one that what we find is the tax rate is really just one factor yeah the companies consider when they come in there are many many more reasons uh for businesses to want to invest in ireland you have a highly educated workforce an english speaking workforce proximity the e u proximity to the us uh there are far more reasons and in the comments by uh google you know just show that that's only one factor and i think maybe the threat the uh changed corporation tax might have on the economy here might have been somewhat amplified amplified by the media because most of the commenter i was hearing from government they were playing it down uh but if you were reading about it it was going to have this devastating effect but we we've yet to see yet to see but from the people that make these decisions i'm hearing the right noises that it won't impact us too negatively yeah i i agree let's not forget it is a minimum it's a it's a floor not a ceiling okay a caller asks everyone wants to claim you now i think a caller asks is the if the ambassador also has relations in the green castle area now maybe that has yet to be explored yeah uh so you know we began in caramena uh or as far back as we can uh connect uh but yesterday i had the opportunity to uh go to belly macArthur which is in i was able to view the actual home that my grandfather left uh not exactly sure about green castle uh but there are an awful lot of mcglocklands up here and i mean really all we could all we'd have to connect is your grandfather to a relation in green castle and and that's how it works isn't it uh well hi greg we had a fantastic day yesterday welcoming our new ambassador to caramena well done to anthony and all who helped him get caramena looking beautiful for the visits and we saw the efforts and we heard from the ambassador the efforts that went into that uh which is is amazing um i mean people might lobby you on certain things say for instance you know the undocumented you know there's probably 45 50 000 people from arland uh are living there they've got families in america they pay tax in america uh but they feel they can't come back to say attend a funeral or a wedding whatever might be for fear uh of um them not being allowed back in and being banned from returning is that something that your office can sort of lobby on or do you have representations made to you on issues such as that and then you can relate them relate them on to the the powers that be sure uh it's an issue that i am very familiar with uh i come from boss the boston area and we certainly have neighborhoods in the boston area uh that have many individuals from island many of them i know personally so i i can appreciate this problem uh greatly as an ambassador you know we always uh try to spread uh the word to congress about what we're hearing in this country certainly your irish elected officials uh this is a decision for congress and and there will have to be comprehensive immigration reform that it's not specific to ireland alone which is a congressional issue and one thing i can say um many of your elected officials here are really doing the job of you know fostering the ties in in ireland um in the us you know we have many delegations go over for st patrick's day recently minister covney uh was in boston and in washington dc as well so those conversations are happening uh what impact an ambassador can actually have i don't know but i certainly uh share the concerns whenever i have an opportunity and i think that's what it is isn't it it's about another voice saying you know this is what i'm hearing obviously you know we talk about the the ties and the supports between the united states and ireland and we talk about you know our cultural connections and uh gateways into europe and all that's very important how significant do you think it was uh the the us working with ireland as it relates to the recent really is a mind blowing press conference down in dublin as it relates to uh law enforcement in the united states working with ireland and others and others uh in relation to sanctions being levied against the the the um the kinhan organized crime gang i mean that was something else there was a i felt a real significance to that not just of the subject matter but that cooperation there it was very significant and it was uh something that had been being worked on i believe uh it began with the u.s customs and border protection uh but that is a prime example of the ways in which our country can work together with you know there was a effort by united states dea customs and border protection the treasury department the sanctions that were put against the kinhan family but we also you know this was something we worked on with uh interpol or europeo and the law enforcement within ireland and it was a really strong transatlantic uh great partnership that i believe will have a very significant impact yeah i don't think it's going to be necessarily on on on uh that organization i think going forward this changes things this change this disrupts this type of activity i think when people say i mean really at this stage there's not really a hiding place you know if company if countries work together like that i mean there's no hiding place for these people yeah and we recently saw the united arab Emirates came on board with their own sanctions as well so this is it will make it far more difficult to engage in these activities that have such a horrible impact on so many people um some reports that uh in that case against the three principal named individuals that the way the system works that charges may already have been uh instilled documents may have already have been levied against them we don't know having do you don't have any insight into that do you i do not i know that uh there is continually work being done all right um do you say all these nice things about everywhere you go uh ambassador i wonder are we getting special nice comments here in beautiful donnelly gall i mean what's not what's not i'm going to be monitoring your future into what's not i'm actually originally from kerry no i'm saying that's what you might say at a kerry radio station no no uh well you know i do have other strong feeling uh ties you know on my granddad side it's denny gall and you know what's not to love about denny gall but i do on my mom's side uh my people came from cork gallway and county claire so all beautiful counties yes you're you're from very i think i've got a good chunk of the map covered yeah you're from very good stock what's uh what have you got planned now i won't delay you any further what have you got planned now for the rest of your time your rest of your visit uh well we've got a good day ahead uh we are heading to kelly bags we are also i don't want to put you on the spot but you've got a quite night in a row kelly bags is beautiful and the weather's going to be beautiful for you as well there uh claire thank you so much thank you it's been lovely having you in like and chatting to you and we really appreciate your time because you have to go out of your way to come here so it's it's uh very nice it's my first time but it's not my last yeah that i can assure you but even to come to this radio station is really what i meant but claire listen it's been lovely having you likewise and we'll chat again soon i hope i hope all right that's claire cronin you ambassador to arland enjoy the rest of your time thank you all right we'll be back with more on the program after the break at magies.ie you can create gallery quality art on canvas from your favorite photo direct from your phone laptop or pc simply upload your favorite 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event uh to be located uh in donagolison it'd be great that crowds will be able to attend is it getting the platform the attention do you think that it deserves well first of all it's a massive event as you said greg for the downing area and there's a second year now the road has been there well far to the last year because of the restrictions with covid people were not allowed to attend it and uh thankfully paul meganley's managed to take it back to to the bit resort and downings the bit golf resort that is down there with three magnificent golf courses and um has come back down the middle of of august again and i had a motion on the council the end of last year that we're trying to arrange organize a festival for that week off events and downings and we've heard very little back since as far as council is concerned that's been a motion on for the day that the council to get updated and informed of what exactly is taking place there and uh look you're sure you have the reply in front of you there and it's very positive you'd be surprised i don't what is what is the reply councillor well give me a moment to get onto it here no problem uh and whilst you do that how does that this work is this about supporting people in the community or the resort itself to organize things or is this something the council would take a uh a lead on uh leon well i was hoping the council would take a lead on that and you know the council gives maybe a lot of bad press times about things that they don't do but i think the reply here to this motion and i'm getting a more updated report on it again later on at the meeting at our other meeting is that um the reply here states that council's tours and market and unit on the economic development division has been working closely with event organizers european tours on the organization of the festival and golf to coincide with irish legends tournament presented by the pal mcginley foundation at the russia panel tailgolf resort from the 16th to the 20th of august 2022 as a proposed to host live music entertainment on the friday and saturday night time expect to be nice and the headland acts in the coming weeks the team is also engaging with on the gov food coast as well as local businesses to set up a bespoke to go out food village village during both the tournament and the festival of riding a strong authentic dunigolf food offering to visitors the team are also working closely with the local community downings including the local g8 club the tiny towns committee and make arrangements for the events as well as with the council environment team to ensure that the event is as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible an upcoming meeting is planned with our local service providers including council roads teams and garters have gone on a civil defense in the coming weeks the communications and marketing plan is currently being prepared and this will work hand in hand with the marketing activities of the irish legends tournament an update report will be included in the report today that's for really positive isn't it i mean it sounds like there's a there's a great deal of intent i mean if that all comes off it's it's really going to add to what's already got huge potential for the area yeah the opportunity is there and the potential is there and i think it's something can be worked on and the council is working hard on it and i have to thank the council and the economic development team and the tourism team has working on that and uh it was it was a huge opportunity to make a massive thing out of this legend tour and downings and i think that they're working hard to try and achieve that yeah and the thing about it is this is the long game as well at leon because i mean obviously the 16th to the 20th of august it's to make sure people enjoy themselves but it there's going to be a lot of visitors from all over the place peak season beautiful weather i'm sure you know you hope that people come and learn more about than a goal return and that's where the that's where the real benefits for the you know outside the golfing community for the broader community that's where the benefits are really felt that's where the benefits felt and maybe a couple of years time down the line you know before you will realize that the people came to a tournament enjoyed the the few days that stayed there that much that they've come back down the booked uh holiday home or the booked hotel rooms that booked whatever because they enjoyed themselves that much when they were here and they enjoyed the place and hopefully that will be a bigger spinoff down to the next couple of years to the whole community to all businesses and the area and also to what they could do this year what they couldn't do last year and has changed since i spoke to you and i think you sort of hinted at something was in the offing is access has been put in place for murder hall that you know that it's almost world famous at this stage that beach well there's a landowner put an access there there to the beach and are you happy with that that relieves well you're happy that there's access to it because it relieves a lot of pressure was on there on on local people that could not get out and there's businesses there that people could not get out on emergency service couldn't get enough they were needed because of the amount of people and many cars coming and parking on roads and abandoning cars and blocking roads and it's great to see that somebody's taken initiative and went ahead and done that and i'm hoping now that that will be worked on and it will be improved on and make as another great facility for people coming in holidays for someone else for them to do and an access for them to get out to the murder hall that is known plenty wide at this stage and a lot further yeah it is i mean and i mean it's it's not access for everyone i mean you have to have a bit of a pep in your step to use it but i suppose it's a half a loaf is better than no bread at all well it is it is a walk out it i was out on it and i'm sure someone can be worked on for people maybe that's not able to walk out it could be maybe made more friendly for people that aren't maybe is able to to walk at distance but that's someone has worked on down the line and as i said already i hope everybody can pull to you and to ensure that that has improved on and the access has improved on and that the experience that that everybody comes the visitors who comes there to see the experience that they have will be improved on as well all right councillor leigh and blaney thank you for joining us great just just one all week quick thing and you'll be interested in this as well that's and it's been good on mentioned now for a number of years go back to councillor leigh great he's the first person i've heard didn't mention that uh joe mcqueen john adal and myself about the footpath and carry yard to the to the downings and thankfully last year that was eventually at last pass been boarded by lala and uh the problem then was identifying funding for it and i identified funding at the motion in the last meeting that would apply for oris measure three funding which is five hundred thousand for to do that road and i'm just out of meeting here the minute and i'll be very positive from the feedback we're getting here that that's just one there's only about one application allowed per 20 for for this oris funding and uh i'm hopeful that at this stage that the downing is going to be applied for this year and it's going to be a big boost to that as well to get a footpath on from there from the bridge at carry yard right down all the way down to meet up with the footpath that has come up from the downing state and maybe improve that footpath as well all right great news for the area and if you're optimistic it's the only application in and that if all goes if the wind blows the right way the money will be there for to begin that sooner rather than later i'm very hopeful about that that does teach all right okay good stuff great stuff indeed great great boost for the area councillor liam blaney there with a round up of the downing's community notices but we do appreciate liam using the opportunity to give us all that information there the tram on historical society were delighted to have met the ambassador yesterday and want to thank her for coming i probably should have referred to his ambassador rather than claire that's my mistake i hope i didn't offend anyone but anyway i'm forgetful with titles greg i think more power needs to be handed over to the gp in terms of pain management prescriptions i've decided to not opt for chemotherapy i and others i believe would benefit of gp said the power to prescribe more natural pain relief such as cannabis oil okay i mean that's a big decision you made there and maybe if it's something that you you wish to talk about it might be of interest to to other people to hear your experience and reasons which lots of people make similar decisions okay just something that jumped out at me from the newspapers today and it's buried in it and it upsets me i don't know why well i might i do know why but the treatment of older people in this country something that i think should be put above an awful lot else you know we talk about big spend on defending the country you know having an army that's almost 10 000 and having tanks and aeroplanes and stuff and i think yeah i mean let's have that discussion but please let's do it after we get the basic rights the basics rights and that's making sure that older people aren't waiting for hours and end in eds that they aren't feeling isolated that they aren't you know struggling to make ends meet these are the people that we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for uh but anyway i'm ranting a little bit this is off the back of a headline i read which upset me greatly almost 16 000 cases of elder abuse have been reported within health service executive funded services for older people over the past five years 16 000 cases in in um services funded by the hsc really is what i'm saying so five into 16 you can see an awful lot that's happening and and how many reported versus how many go unreported the number of abuse concerns relating to over 65 increased from 3029 in 2016 to a peak of 3412 in 2020 the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic the number of cases reportedly uh strongly underestimates the true level of elder elder abuse according to the sage advocacy it's a group that campaigns on safeguarding uh issues these figures are just the tip of the iceberg according to sage deputy chairperson patricia rickard clark who pointed out that they do not cover abuse in private nursing homes hospitals or other services such as homeless units or addiction centers the most common type of concern reported the hsc over the period involved psychological abuse which accounted for 35 percent of reports in 2020 physical abuse accounted for 23 percent of cases in that year while 19 percent involved financial abuse according to the hsc's national safeguarding office neglect was involved in 15 percent of cases and self-neglect four percent of cases a total of 4 379 cases of physical abuse of older people were reported over the five years and 665 of sexual abuse the figures were provided to finnegale td fergus old dad in response to a question about the number of investigations carried out within hsc older persons services the most uh horrific uh uh claims their allegations uh and uh findings 16 000 cases of elder abuse over five years that is i mean it's i don't see it anywhere else it's in the middle of the paper and fair play for the paper um fair play to the paper for reporting it but like when how could that not be front page news um i don't know right a couple of comments as we head towards the end of the program this caller says it's great that the irish legends tour is coming to rosa penna but the problem is that the local amenities cannot cope with any more people in the area as a local we often lose water when the place is busy and the sewage system can't cope either these issues we need to be upgraded before more people come but look i mean you know this is the first time i've heard this claim but it's everyone's not going to stay you know on sides you know people will stay in letter kenny or stay in milford or wherever accommodation might be available and travel into it but i take your point and maybe it's uh i mean obviously it's an area that's grown in popularity but uh have the amenities grown at the same pace i don't know all right listen that's why we have to leave it on the program today we're back


I am James Swannick. Welcome to the Alcohol Free Lifestyle podcast. I love it when past clients show up and tell me that they're two years alcohol free or three years alcohol free or one year alcohol free. It's incredible. And today we're going to be talking to one of those clients, Janice Swales. And this is a unique episode actually because I recorded the following episode live on one of our project 90 client calls. Project 90 is the program that I run that helps folks like you quit drinking for at least 90 days and get long term power over alcohol. Whether that means quitting forever or whether it means quitting for at least 90 days and doing moderation. The idea or the goal at the end of it is that you have ultimate power over alcohol for the rest of your life. So you get to listen in now on a P90 call. Yeah, this is like we do. Well, there are six available group calls per week inside of that program and you're about to listen to one of those six calls. You're going to hear existing project 90 clients ask our past project 90 client about her experience being alcohol free. You'll get a feel for the, I don't know, I guess like the culture that we have in there, which is very fun and aspirational.  We try to be very uplifting and positive and friendly. So I hope that comes across in the audio you're about to listen to. If you would like to get my daily email, I do run, I do write a daily email that's 365 emails a year. There's a description in the description of this podcast. You'll see a link to my guide alcohol free lifestyle.com forward slash guide. If you click on that, you will then get access to my daily email. You'll also get my guide, which is the process that I give to my project 90 clients on how to get long term power over alcohol. So if you want that free guide, the link is in the show notes. And what else do we talk about? I'm not sure. I'm just going to play it, I think. I think that's it. Yeah. Details are in the description. Here we go. Have a listen to a project 90 group core where we celebrate Janice Whale two years alcohol free. Here we go. All right. We are doing a P 90 a project 90 group core. So if you're listening on the podcast, welcome everyone. We've got project 90 clients here and want to say hello. Say hello. Shout out. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. All right. And today we are celebrating and interviewing one of our project 90 alumni members who joined project 90 two years and one day ago. And now she's two years alcohol free. And her name is Janice. Janet. Am I allowed to say your last name, Jenna? I am actually. I am. Janice Wales from the Yukon in Canada, which is amazing. And Jenna has actually been interviewed on the podcast previously. I'm just going to show I'm going to share my screen here with our project 90 clients. You can see here episode 23 of the alcohol free lifestyle was called Janice Wales quitting alcohol may have saved my life. And it was released on when was it was about a year ago. Let's have a good. Let me just go back here. What was the actual date? August 11, 2020. And now here we are again of 2021 and Jenna is two years alcohol free. So first of all round of applause for Jenna for being two years alcohol free everyone. Good job. If you're listening on the podcast, that's the sound of nine people clapping their heads for Jenna. Hey, Jenna, why don't you just introduce yourself a little bit, tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from, what you do, how you came to join project 90. Two years ago and what life looks like two years. I'll just give you the floor to just kind of share whatever you want to share and then we can do some Q&A from there. Well, that sounds good. I have to say I'm really pleased to have done the pandemic alcohol free. I think that that that was just a wonderful kind of side benefit from this whole thing is not to have had that or deal on my plate as well. So that was just, yeah, that's just a positive upside of the whole thing. But yeah, I live in the Yukon next to Alaska for so it's not snowy all the time. It's right now it's really hot actually and I was saying one of the things that I was proud about is about 10 minutes before this call started. I was screaming into my driveway with my truck or the camper on the back just getting back from the lake. I'm all sunburned at weekend with my son it was really fun. But in my work life I run a museum, and I think about all the big questions of history who are we what does it all mean, all those kind of things how do we make sense of place and sense of self. And how I came across P90 two years ago, I was just, I am endlessly grateful for this group because I was saying just before that that I really like the idea that I'm an awesome person and I want to be even more awesome and I like that thread that runs through this I think that that's a wonderful, fulfilling thinking about your future trajectory. And that was true for me at the time but it was becoming less true, my trajectory was changing and it was changing for the worse because of alcohol and I wasn't quite sure what to do a few stressful life things going on and I wasn't dealing with things very well and and through happenstance I came across two things at the same time. One was this P90 which I joined and the other was cold water swimming. And both of those continue. So both of those are kind of a two year two year old thing that I've been doing now. And what what were you drinking habits a couple of years ago, Jenna, like what were you drinking how often how much I would say I was drinking something most days and generally I'd have some kind of a hangover once a week, which means I'd be kind of drunk, at least once a week, hangover worthy drunk drinkiness, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. And how was that compromising different areas of your life. Well, as I was saying to, to the fellow I was just talking to, when we're in the rooms. I did a whole bunch of stuff in the last week and a half. An unbelievable amount of very awesome stuff and some part of that would have had to not happen to fit drinking in for sure. Because it did take up space and now that space is taken up with doing really cool fulfilling things. At the museum we know offer open air cockpit rides on a vintage biplane, which has just come together in the last week and a half. And I think the amount of insurance and rigmarole to get something like that off the ground that that would have taken longer if I had to do some drinking along the way.   That is a good question. Why do I think I was drinking. I have learned how to prioritize better. What I would do, I think is I would have really a difficult time ranking one thing over another or kicking something off the list. And if I could come up with kind of a passive aggressive way of being right if I could come up with some way of not being able to do something instead of directly saying I couldn't do it. Then, then that was, I guess what alcohol gave me is it gave me a little break because I couldn't make a break for myself, which is so sad. I'm really glad I'm not doing that anymore.  Like now I just do sometimes if I feel like it. But before I had to have a horrible headache or something or else I would not. So, yeah. Was there a particular incident or were there incidents that made you come to the realization or I've either a got a drinking problem or be I want to get this drinking situation under control. Um, yeah, well, I think my social circle became kind of more more centered around drinking than it was around socialness. Certainly, some of my friendships have changed in the last two years. Oh, Dave, Dave says I'm loving myself more. Yeah, or just totally. So, sorry, what was the question again? I guess I was asking whether were there incidents or was there an incident or incidents that kind of got you to the point where you wanted to take action around your drinking. Yeah, totally. Okay, so it was like, it was a social thing. It was a work thing to I think, I think it's initially very awkward to not drink at work things when people are drinking, you know, you feel like you're going to ruin the work deals or the ideas or some kind of thing. I found that before this group impossible to think about like how would I, how would I avoid that with drinking. There's other places in the country where drinking is a big part of work and social lives and the Yukon is one of them I think we're like the number one drinkers in Canada.  And also within a week of that I rolled my car and my dog died. So I had these some horrible things going on and that's what I mean like the trajectory was obviously changing the wrong way and all of a sudden kind of suddenly. And it turns out putting drinking and swimming in really cold lakes. Yeah, was that the point where you saw maybe a Facebook ad for me and Project 90 and that's where you reached out and we chose to get accountability and support and coaching around your drinking for the 90 days was it around that around that time was that like the catalyst or were they the catalysts. Well you have a magnificent memory it was, it's funny because I, I had always wondered I think and I've said this to you before that you know do phones listen to you and target ads or whatever kind of thing. And I'll be endlessly grateful to my phone or to Facebook or whatever it was, because I had been just talking to my friend, and then suddenly my phone showed me a picture of you. And I was like, okay, let's do it. Oh good. Good. So yeah, maybe I was listening as those technology or something like you're talking about maybe I should quit alcohol was like James is in your phone. Yeah, yeah, no that was just great. Yeah. But what happened I mean it was two years ago now. What happened during those 90 days that really cemented you making this choice to now be two years alcohol free because which two years alcohol free today or at least yes, sorry yesterday. What happened during those 90 days that turned it around for you because some people can do the 90 days and then go all right I'm going to go back to drinking or I'll do some moderation like what happened during those 90 days that made it be okay I'm just going to continue on this alcohol free path. I think I'm a fairly motivated driven person and I did buy into the proposition of why don't you see if you can be more driven and achieve more without alcohol you know it's just that what if proposition hey what if you just take this out of the equation see what and and I just like how that equation is going so I am sticking with it I don't I think because I'm thinking about it that way I never even want to drink like it's not one of the it's not one of the choices of fun things to do anymore and it used to be like the choice of things to do oftentimes but but now but yeah I tend not to think about it at all and if anything I like now I think about it and I have a bit of a negative feel about it like I just didn't I'm like yeah I don't know why I would want to do that like you're attractively packaged poison that you talked about I'm like yeah actually that is kind of a weird thing to do. I can do other fun things with friends and I was saying earlier that that I still sometimes do find that conversation hard. I think if somebody surprises me they're like hey I bought some wine for us isn't that great and then there's an awkward moment right it's like who because I don't want to set people. But I'm getting better at that too and it just happened this weekend actually so I could be on this call and have failed like the day before the two years too bad but that's what my friend said she brought a bottle of wine on this camping trip she's like yeah isn't this great this is going to be so nice I was like oh yeah it's totally going to be nice you have that I have this other stuff. You know I stopped drinking a couple years ago and but still I find it a bit awkward I just wish people would not do that but whatever they do. So if you were to just before we hit record here on this podcast episode and this is for the podcast listener we've got about 12 project 90 clients on the call now on a zoom call this is how we're recording this we did a lot of exercise where. I invited our clients to write down all the reasons why they were awesome this past week you know like to be their own public relations company. And then people spent the few minutes writing those things down and then we went into little breakout rooms and and we shared with with each other why we're awesome so let me ask the question to you Jenna why.  The main thing is to do with truly enjoying myself more that's just a general. A general observation and I've always enjoyed myself I'm an interesting fun person and and I like that about myself but certainly me one of the concerns with quitting drinking is I thought maybe my creativity would go away.  But but it didn't it's it's gotten better and more thoughtful so I enjoy that and I continue to enjoy it more. I guess I used to always feel torn between work and my family and now I feel I feel like I can do both well, which is a really balancing feel Renee Brown has a note. She says mind the gap so here's where your dreams or goals are or where you think you should be and here's where you are now and just keep an eye on that gap and don't let it get too wide. And I think I had let it get wide which which for a time I tried to solve with drinking and that didn't work very well. But now it seems like it seems like the gap is shrinking and also my goals and my expectations of myself are growing and being more becoming more interesting. And so that's kind of cool. The bar is the bar is moved I'm doing I have much more expectations on myself than I did before and I'm meeting them quite well I feel and that just feels like magic. Beautiful. I love that. Let me open up to our project 90 clients to now ask you some questions. Jenna, thank you so much for answering mine. And just can I just invite project 90 clients when you introduce yourself. Just say in that your first name and then what how many days alcohol free you are so for example it might be you know, John day 52 for example and then ask your question to Jenna likewise if you want to acknowledge Jenna for something. Feel free to do so who'd like to go first. Question or acknowledgement cafe you look like you've got something to say. Hi, I'm Kathy. Miami 26 days alcohol free. I had a question for Jim she had mentioned about social.  No, I didn't. I've changed how I socialize I think I don't change I haven't changed my friends at all I do quite enjoy going to the bar with friends you know when the pandemic allows I guess and what I do these days is, and I know there's other costs to drinking than just the cost of booze but I figure I'm ahead of the game so I tend to buy my friends drinks and they really like that. So, the friends that are friends because they're my friends. Nothing changed with that. There was some kind of drinking friends that have that have dropped off I don't see them and it's because that's what we did right. So, I found it was, it was really cool being able to go to the bar and be able to not have that feeling like like you're some kind of a weird weirdo. Because you're not. And I really, I really like how a number of my friends when they have house parties, because I haven't really publicly announced this no drinking thing I tell people sometimes but they make my friends they know and they have started making these zero proof drinks and they've, you know, they care for me they make these lovely things for me so. Yeah, some of my friends have changed but it's because you know they weren't the friends that are the forever friends they're, they're still forever friends and during the pandemic I don't know I had no friends so that was no problem but I guess it's still the pandemic I don't know it's all very confusing in Canada with the pandemic.  But, yeah. Okay. I don't know does that answer your question. It was probably more acquaintances that dropped off and your true friends acknowledge and respect you and you didn't really have to make any changes of your true friends. Yeah. And, and do you know I think, I think probably, you know work acquaintances who knew me. I'm pretty sure they knew I was drinking a bit too much and I think they just quietly think that. Oh, it's kind of nice that, but I'm not so loud anymore. So yeah, yeah. I wouldn't say that I feel any negative outcome friend wise. I feel very supported. Great question, Kathy. Who else? Let's let's get some more questions. Well, I'm, I feel lucky because I actually got to talk to you earlier. This is Evan. And I'm curious about your, your son and maybe how I don't know two years ago how old he was then and if there's been kind of any difference in your relationship with your son. And since you quit drinking, I've got two young kids at home to and right and I'd love to get that place where they don't even remember their, their dad ever drank. So, yeah, that's really cool. I think. Oh, so in answer to your question, he's eight now. So he was six then. And so I think timing wise, it's quite good. I don't think he remembers a drinking mom. So that's great or a drinking sad mom, right? Oh, so sad. And so, as far as, you know, is it altruistic? There's a term altruistic selfishness, where, you know, doing benefits for yourself helps others, or altruistic self interest, I think is the thing. And that's how I feel when I picture my son's repercussions from this project. That's it. Like he is massively gaining from a mom who gets early on, you know, early on weekend days or I mean now I'm always the mom that goes swimming with the kids or that makes the pancakes in the morning or whatever kind of thing. And how lovely to be so wholesome and fun. And I certainly benefit from that. And he does too. Do you know what he called me the other day? He called me bro mom. I think that's, that's pretty good. Actually, it's coming from an eight year old bro mom. That's super cool. Very inspirational. Thank you. Evan, how many days alcohol free are you by the way? Five days in the program, 15 days alcohol free. Amazing. Congratulations. Round of applause for Evan. Thank you. Well done. Thank you. More questions or acknowledgments? Who wants to roll in with the question? Cody, Cody, we'll go with Cody first. Sorry, Cody, what day, how many days alcohol free are you, Cody? Day 50 with project 90, day 54, no alcohol. And we're rocking and rolling. Yeah. I'm over the hill now. I'm over. I went through my midlife crisis already. Just kidding because that's not halfway because halfway is that that's I ain't going back. So Jenna, your story is very inspiring to me. I have a 10 and six year old as well.  And I just want to acknowledge the fact that this is the longest standing person that I've had come back on and heard heard this from so it just feels really good to see it two years down the road and that glow and that zest and that spunk and that excitement for life. And like, I think at the very end of like your initial dialogue, you had said, you talked about the Brené Brown quote, like minding the gap with our bigger goals in life. But then you also kind of like brought it back to a personal level about having healthy expectations and really hitting that mark on a day to day basis. And that really resonated with me like, because sometimes we get so lofty in thinking about that that gap can feel so big in this moment right where we have very such a great scale of varying dreams and aspirations from character qualities to you know whatever it is to potential stability things and things of all sorts. But with the day to day stuff the small victories, I think those are sometimes the most challenging to appreciate and challenging to capture. When I was drinking, I never noticed them like they kind of would go all under the rug like the little tiny moments of magic of the day of just showing up earlier, or getting up before my alarm, or picking out my outfit for work the night before, or just having things doing dishes well before I was you know prompted by my better half like anything of that accord just feels you know the small small things I think are sometimes the biggest things and you know I really sense that in your stories so I just wanted to point that out and say that that really touched me so Thanks. Oh, thank you. Great observation Cody yeah the small things we can, we can so easily overlook, which is why we, which is why I encouraged all of our clients to be writing down the 20 things that we're grateful for each day, and for 20 reasons why we're awesome. So we can shine a light on those things and not sweep them under the rug to borrow your phrase Cody so great observation there thank you for sharing that. Who else, who else has a question Anna you had a question I think how many days alcohol free are you Anna. 29 29 round of applause for Anna great job. To our podcast listener, if you can't hear the round of applause because most of our clients are on mute at the moment, but maybe next time when we do a round of applause everyone can unmute themselves so we can fast in the in the glow of 12 people clapping their hands. Anna you had a question. I have a few but I'll try to narrow it down or at least I'll start with a two part question. Jenna think I'll just echo what everybody else has been saying thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us today I think for me and probably other people it's like a glimpse into our future. And it's just really great to see you thriving, you know, two years beyond. So, a couple of questions. One. What are the some of the habits that you learn in the P90 program that you've stuck with. And then the second part of the question which might be kind of the same is what routines do you use to the replace the previous bad habits that you had. I think those positive affirmations are what I had learned and I, I did get better with doing visualizations like I said I am a creative person and something really prize about myself, and, and I was able to use it as a tool to visualize what it's going to be like what it looks and dreams. And so I found that very helpful. It was Kevin who was the coach when when I was doing the P90. And Kevin always just, he was just so calm and gentle and like, was it Cody was observing interested in the little things and the little successes and the idea of what was he always saying like, lean into the lean into that, lean into that feeling Jenna. And, and I found that is something that I guess I've practiced ever since then and I continue to is when I have partly I think I was drinking too much because I have probably some kind of lifelong anxiety that I never managed very well but the whole, you know, when you get that feeling that when I get that anxious feeling, I get Kevin's voice saying, lean into that, you know, examine that feeling. What is it all about. Where is it coming from. And since then, I, I guess I feel like I'm getting better and better at doing that. And that is invaluable and I do that through kind of visualizing a visualized sort of surfing or something. So whatever I'm a surfer in a different way than other people on this call but yeah I just imagine like, I don't know catching a catching a wave and staying ahead of it and, and really enjoying the feeling, I guess. And I, yeah, I think, I think that perhaps is the biggest learning for me that's helped me with this, because perhaps this all crops up from some kind of lifelong anxiety that I can deal with better now. But there was a second part to your question. What was it. unmute myself. What kind of routines have you developed to keep you from returning to old bad habits. Have those been pretty solidified by now. See I just added in another question. Yeah. That's great. What James talked about is, you know, being cognizant of your eating and your health and your exercise. You know if you're working on yourself with the idea. So you're awesome. Can you be more awesome. So, first you think about the alcohol part of that recipe right and then exercise and diet and all those kind of things. So, I guess building that recipe about how can. What is the recipe that works for me to make sure that I have what I need to reach these goals that I set for myself, and sometimes also to question this goal thing right do I need to always set relentlessly bigger goals do I really need to do that and yes I do, but sometimes no and it's like you know what, let's, let's just put your son in that spot right and and let that goal go because it is actually not all that important so I think the the prioritizing is is extremely helpful for me. Thank you Jenna and thanks for the questions Anna. Who else. I have a question. Yeah, just introduce yourself by first name and and how many days alcohol free you are. We get to call you right. It's in though. Yeah, in no pressure. Yeah. So, I'm in no day five round of applause on yourself everyone. Let's let's get everyone a five. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to ask you touched on like how you haven't really made a public announcement and that's like, you know, for me I'm building you to the program and, you know, I thought about it a couple times. Just being around like my loved ones like my brother, my sister-in-law and, you know, I haven't mentioned it because for me it's something very personal and like, I don't know I just kind of doing it for myself really at the moment and so I just want to know like, you know, your, you know, time going through P90 like, how did you deal with like telling others for keeping it to yourself and like why did you choose one over the other. Um, yeah, I think I would certainly tell people if I had to like if they were handing a drink to me, or else I'd say no thank you. I did. I did talk to my work colleagues and requested their support really strongly, because part of the reason I was doing the project is so I could keep my job like I look like I said my trajectory was turning the wrong way and I really needed, like just all of a sudden. It was, it was quite surprising and I think sometimes things like that happened quite quickly. And so I had to just really kind of yank the wheel back onto a positive direction and I did need all of their help because what I needed to do was not have work stress for a little while and I just focused on this thing that was very new I found that when I did things kind of everything that I did for a little while I felt a bit like a debutante sort of, what is it called debutante sort of present yourself to society right I think it's a southern or whatever age and you present yourself to society. I felt like I was doing that and I sort of did it secretly, but I felt a bit like, this is the new Jana, you may not know that I'm new. I know that I'm new. And I'm just going to see what this is like, because this is really cool. And through that period I was just kind of setting new habits and and sometimes talking to people if I felt like it. You're right I also felt like it was a private thing. And I did also have. And maybe I still do there's some kind of shame attached to it. I try and think about why that is because you know how can you feel like you're totally awesome and have part of your part of how you view yourself have a bit of shame involved right and. So that's I think why I'm thinking right now, you know, what is the way I can say this because people that I have talked to a number of them have actually quit drinking and, and I have sent, like I've really taken a positive leadership role with friends and people that work in all kinds of, in all kinds of situations. And I just, I just, I guess I want to share it correctly, which I am pleased that James is turning this into a podcast because I may well just say like, we do. I'll be like what the heck. As far as shame stuff. I think it's to do with that I felt a bit out of control and I don't like feeling out of control and I don't like that I could get out of control so I don't really like to don't really like to say that there was any problem or something to something to improve. I don't know that's so, but also there's something quite brave I guess and recognize there's a problem and in changing it and and in improving so and again with that altruistic self interest, you know I'm benefiting myself certainly with this whole project, and everybody else seems to get a piece of that too which is, which is really cool.  It doesn't happen too often but then I, then I feel weird and I'm like gosh, what do I do now to, I guess it just takes time to figure out this stuff and and I think James just had like his, was it 10 years James which is pretty cool. And, and I'm looking forward to seeing you know your three and four and five and stumbling and bumbling my way through stuff. It's really, it's really great because, yeah, there you go. Thank you. Thanks for the question, Indo. And thank you, Jenna. Who else. Hey, Janet, Ian here at a day 90 day 90 for Ian unmute yourself everyone and do a big shout out. Thank you. Thank you. Dan, congratulations on your two and thanks very much for sharing your journey so far with us. And I have a two part of question as well. I wanted to ask you about day 91. Did you, did you know on day 91 that you were going to do day 180 day 270 day 365 year two year three or four year five. And how did it feel having, having graduated and going out there into the big bad worlds to do all these, reach all these extra milestones and having moved on from the 90. I think on day 91. Well what Kevin had said is, it's kind of hard to sign up for doing something forever, but you can have attainable bits of time. And he suggested, you know, as the 90 days progressed, that you just think of it as oh this is something that I'm doing right now for a certain period of time. That works well for me. I think I think I can start to think of drinking is just something that I don't do, rather than putting a time to it. And, and sometimes I might say, you know, well maybe it's something I'll do again but I think it's just not it's just not something I want to do again it. It's like a date gone badly. And so, I think I could just leave it at that you know it's okay well I learned what that's like and, and I'm just not going to do that again. So, I think that answers both parts of your question does it not. Yeah. Okay, great. Thanks, John. Just a little side question in as you're on day 90 now. What are what are your thoughts about what you're going to do from here. It's just incredible. And the transformation in myself from from day one to day 90. And the way I'm feeling now, like this could be day one. I have a plan for the next 90 days. I have a plan for the 90 days after that and for after that. None of those periods involves I'll call it off. I just it's. Yeah, I just want it to be part of history now. And I'm very, very much like Janet. No desire. No desire to drink anything. I was even thinking yesterday, you know, I could get another night today's Edward by having it by doing it. This is fun to drink a glass of wine. Oh, it's great. It's great to it's it's great to it's great to feel like that at the end of this at the end of this initial part of the journey. Thank you. I agree. It seems like it seems like I'm not so it's not something that I ever actively avoid it since I started this P 90 group, because it was a positive shift in thinking and so that seems to me that for me that worked and and so far it's stuck and it seems like it will for some time to come. Thank you Jenna thank you and someone else go to question. Yeah, Dave. How many days alcohol free Dave. God I need a calculator hang on. No for me two years in on February the 18th, whatever that was. So, yes. And I'll go for a pause and some woo hoo for Dave by the way. Great job. I say alcohol free because for me and this is part of my question Jenna, whether you felt this and how you would express this yourself but for me I never. I never really chose to drink alcohol. Someone or something or some society here in Australia or advertising or whatever it was might seem to make that decision for me so I was never. I never until I met I met James and he invited me to his alcohol free weekend in Venice Beach. Two years ago last February or March perhaps it was and up and I kid you not this is what happened. I met him and he said I said hey can I have a coffee with you said no I'm too busy for a coffee why don't you come to my event I'll send you a link. So he sent me a link. I clicked on the link and I kid you not. I looked at the screen. The screen said alcohol free living and I was looking at this thinking.  I've never even thought of that for myself like it was never anything that I even thought was a thing. And all of a sudden it became a possibility that I could choose not to drink as opposed to drinking. So Jenna, have you felt that you've now got a choice and this is a continual choice that you're making not to drink whereas before it was a situation that you never really chose. You just did it because it was some habit that was so strongly ingrained. How would you, how would you express that to someone else about the freedom that's come from now being empowered where you can choose or you can, you can choose to or you can choose not to. I think that idea of choice is very real because I feel like I didn't really have a choice before and I don't really know what the reason was. I think it was partly that I'd said habits, partly it was some a bit of armor, you know, we all put up our armor in different ways. And certainly going to something and having a glass of wine between you and the other people there's something about that that is that at the time I felt helpful and I didn't know how to how to not like how to not have that piece of armor but it turns out that life was more fun without that kind of armor. So, I think that word choice is exactly right, knowing that, well, knowing that you can do it without those, those kind of unhelpful helpers right like shitty helpers. So yeah, I think you're right and did you go to that alcohol free thing or was that the one that was canceled. Oh, you're lucky, you're lucky guy because there was the one maybe it was just the last year when that got canceled, and I was so excited I was going to go I was even going to go with a friend. And it was pretty. Yeah, I was very much looking forward to it and so I hope there's another one coming up I know that there's all kinds of considerations but I was so looking forward to that because I was like, man, it'll be so cool. So cool to meet all these people that I've met in person on these calls and then all these other people that are just circling around within this idea. So, sometimes soon, but I get to meet y'all here that's very cool as well thank you very much as well for having me here. Of course, yeah Dave attended the 2019 one, and then I have this weekend alcohol free weekend. Wellness weekend where we in Venice Beach, California and we took a conference for a couple days but then we also go out on the beach and do some beach dancing and we go for a hike up in the Santa Monica Mountains area and everyone gets to connect and it's a completely alcohol free weekend and. Yeah, it was a great experience if sadly I had to cancel it because of the pandemic in in 2020. And yes, we will be doing another one, soon as things open up a little bit so yeah. All right, well great well thank you so much for your questions to our project 90 clients and. Thank you so much to Jana for sharing your experience and your guide and having your guidance and your expertise on being two years alcohol free and congratulations. It's amazing I mean it's personally amazing for me to see someone become a client and then two years down the line just see how they are and their way of being being so much just so much energy and happiness and clarity and focus. It's just a real gift for me to see that. And I so appreciate you Jana for sharing with our clients and with our podcast listeners so thank you. Thank you very much. This has just been the best thing ever good couple of years and looking forward to the next whole bunch of years like this. Yeah, amazing. I want to just go around quickly if anyone needs to leave because we've gone over time, feel free to that's no problem but. I want to ask that would anyone like to share what they discovered or learned on this call what was like what felt valuable about this particular call if you wanted to share what felt valuable just unmute yourself and and share and we'll go around the group and maybe do three people. The clients are pondering they're pondering I can see their brains. Ian go for it. I just think it's so reassuring to see somebody like yourself is so comfortable in their own skin. Not drinking, because I'm sure I speak for everybody but when we start this question. There's an uneasiness that takes time to shake off you know there's anticipated own comfort about okay I have to go out next week and how I get over that for me. There was a couple of hurdles. I go out and meet my friends in the park how I go out with my workmates when we're sitting down having a having a meal at the end of the day and family reunions and things like that. But as as time goes on, certainly over these 90 days. Those hurdles just got smaller and smaller, I got more comfortable and comfortable and in those situations but just watching you and hearing you over the last hour or so it's it's quite clear that you're that you're very comfortable in your skin and you're very comfortable. Not drinking. Regardless of who you're with or what you're doing and I just think that that's very, very reassuring. Thank you. Thank you, Ian. Someone else want to share what felt valuable about this call today. Yeah sure I'll just jump in. Cody Cody out of Oakland. I really some of the some of your like phrases that you said in your stories were really stuck with me. Like altruistic self interest. I love that, because we talked about on previous podcast episodes with James like healthy selfish right being healthy selfish because it's like, no I'm doing this for myself I'm standing up and reclaiming kind of re empowering myself and making a choice for me. That's what I'm doing. And so I love this sense of altruistic self interest and I love that that that how you how you coined that. I also love how you coined phrases are my favorite thing so like language is one of my favorite things so attainable bits of time you're like, I'm not worried about it but it's just going to be forever it's just an attainable bit of time it's very casual and very achievable right then it's like I'm doing this right now and that's that. And it doesn't have to be this whole. What am I going to do when I go to a wedding five years from now or what am I going to do one day when I'm retired and I want to own a vineyard, you know, what am I going to do when I, all of these kind of ideas that come up in our head that alcohol is always there and showing its face. And I just like how you're like, no, this attainable amount of time, this bite size tangible thing that I can express myself right here today and meet that expectation. So again, Jenna banana, if I'm pronouncing that correctly is really wasn't honored to listen to you. Thank you so much for rockin and shining your light. And I'm going to do the same. That's all. I just want to say that really no question or anything just a sense of acknowledgement again. Amazing Cody. Thank you mate. One more one person want to share what they discovered or what felt valuable for them or acknowledgement one more. I think what Ian and I were talking about earlier about him showing up as a really good dad this last week, and his being five and six and Jan is being, you know, six and I think having older kids. I think that your young kids will only see you and remember you in this wonderful positive light and strong and I wish I could have had that but you know what, it's never too late, and I can start today, and I can go forward and I've already seen positive things in the past 64 days with my 20 somethings. And it's a big thing I think our families and our kids and our husbands and our spouses and our everybody the influence we're having on them. So I really liked you sharing that that was great. Thank you. Hello, and I love that what you said there you can start today. It's never too late and this is just for our listener on the on the podcast. If you would like to start today like to have a conversation about joining us in project 90. I'll give you a couple ways you can do that you can go you can book an exploratory phone call with one of our amazing coaches and the website for that is alcohol free lifestyle.com. There you go. Someone's got a cool little ringtone and background background there for dramatic effect. That website is alcohol free lifestyle.com forward slash schedule. You can book a time to speak to one of our coaches will ask you a few questions and then we'll call you. Or if you're in the US and you're on a mobile phone, you can text me at the number 44222. Just text me the word project 90, and I will text you back the link where you can schedule that exploratory call. Janet, thank you so much again for your time. We'll let you go now and we'll just we'll do a sign off here with without you just without without clients. But Janet, thank you so much again really appreciate you and onwards and upwards.  Totally totally let's do it. That sounds great. I totally can't wait to meet all of you guys at the beach disco in Venice Beach whenever it is. I'm looking forward to it. Cool. Thank you. Thank you, Janet. You can you can depart. I'm going. I'm going. See you Janet. There we go. All right. Wonderful. Well that was great guys. That feel good. I see lots of smiling faces. Yeah. Yeah, I love it. So what I'm going to invite you guys to do now is when we hang up here in a second just go on a Marco Polo and just share what felt valuable because obviously we've got clients who weren't on this particular call couldn't make it for whatever reason. Remember the fastest way to learn anything is to teach it. So I invite you to go and teach it right now by just paying up on the zoom call going on to Marco Polo recording a little selfie video and sharing it with our other members who weren't able to be here. That will both help them and it will help reinforce what you just learned in your own brain. Sound good. All right guys. 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