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As a Western reporter, I was never given a visa to enter Syria. So we developed close contacts with people on the ground, civil society groups that we trusted. Doctors, nurses, teachers, people who were really stuck between these two warring sides and people who were increasingly terrified as the government advanced on East Aleppo. This was an absolutely horrific time where you had more than 100,000 civilians trapped and documenting it as it unfolded and getting desperate messages from people who were genuinely in fear of their lives and trying to tell that story was just a very overwhelming and harrowing experience. The hardest part about doing the Yemen story was just getting in. So difficult. Access is very restricted. We waited for months to get those visas and the local authorities don't make it any easier because we were trying to show the war crimes, alleged war crimes committed by both sides.  Kidnapping is a high risk. On the roads we travelled, we were 20 kilometres from a front where ISIS was. Poverty is just so incredibly overwhelming and just to meet these families whose kids are dying because they just don't have enough food to feed them. I feel that what we do is really important and we always strive to be the ones who are there bringing that story home for both the audience and for the powers that be. Yes, it is incredibly beneficial now to have social media and get stories and videos from people on the ground, people who you trust, but I still think that there's an important role for our correspondents' play in gathering that information, presenting it to the audience, providing that analysis of what it means and being able to vouch for that, verify it and say, this is what's going on in this place. Even if we can't get in there, we've done our best to try and show you what is going on. Thank you.


All right. What's up traders? This is Tosh. I go by T Bradley 90 in the my investing club chat today Joe Kelly one of our moderators in my investing club chat has a very special video on Recognizing a pattern and developing criteria for that pattern. So today we're gonna get into some data tracking with Joe and I hope you enjoy the video and While today is just a preview if you want to watch the full-length video or any of our exclusive content then come over to MIC and become an exclusive member Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another episode of trading basics. Here's what we're going to talk about today We're going to talk about recognizing a pattern and Developing criteria for that pattern over the last week or so You got a lot of questions and I got a lot of messages about members that have been Struggling to profit or struggling to keep the money that they made the last couple days and So on it's that it's the typical struggles of a newer trader the first bounce Everybody likes that pattern because it's a long strategy and a lot of people struggle with going short because either they can't find the Borrow's or they don't really like the risk involved. That's fine So let's take a look at the first bounce strategy if you guys have seen Harry's video on this It's very very valuable. I highly recommend everyone watch that you get very familiar with this There's one thing I want to add to this and that's this We talk about the criteria of the pattern the criteria of this particular pattern is that it is Now This is criteria. Okay. There also needs to be a price range for me I would say anything between 50 cents Dang it 50 cents 20 20 bucks Whether that becomes our final criteria or not. We don't know yet as a member of MIC you have access to that video that Harry made which gives you several several stocks to start to look for the similarities the first stock is AORM on 313 Hey traders, this is Tosh. I go by T Bradley 90 in the my investing club chat Just wanted to reach out and say if you have any questions about MIC Joining MIC, maybe you're a member already you have three ways to contact myself personally and through MIC You can hit our social media You can hit me through PMs in chat or you can contact us through my email at Tosh at my investing club comm That's Tosh at my investing club comm I will get back to you in a timely manner and I'm saying this because I'm here to help and I don't want Anybody to be afraid to reach out and ask any question that they have we are here for you guys. Alright. See you guys


Okay, so what do you love about OrcaMedia? I love that it's here in the community and it gives us grassroots people access to the airwaves and also learning about media and learning about the cameras and it has just been a wonderful experience for me and I really appreciate being able to come here and learn how to produce and I got a series going on right now, it's called Moccasin Tracks and I've been a volunteer radio broadcaster at community radio stations for about 13 years and doing video and learning about the TV and cable network has been like the next step for me so I've been trying to use them both you know because the technology is overlap with zoom and internet and all kinds of things that we can use and put together to really make some interesting videos. Let's talk about a curiosity, if you can make any TV show really any genre any budget about anything what would it be? I think you know I think what we're missing here in town is our shows about movies that would be great like a show that critiques movies, some new movies, old movies, movies in the past and kind of show clips of those movies I would like to see a show like then and then I also think I would like to see more shows about art specifically music like there's a lot of musicians in Vermont I would like to see shows that have the interview musicians to talk about their creative process have them play a song or two and kind of get to know what our local music scene is that's kind of what I would like in terms of a show. Generally about like the creative process and where people find inspiration that would be great I mean again we have so many good artists here in in Vermont that they work in different mediums and to have people talk about their work and to be able to see their work I would like I would definitely see a show like that I would love a show like that yeah it would thank you well thank you very time. And when did you use Orca Media in the past?  So the show is All Things LGBTQ and we talk about local issues, national issues and international issues having to do with the LGBTQ community. That's awesome. And we have a second version of the show that every air weekly now and one week we do interviews with people locally, nationally, internationally who are making important contributions to our LGBTQ community. That's super cool. Yeah so what do you love about Orca Media? It's like kind of in general what's a couple main things you love about it? I love that it's accessible and that you know you can have an idea and if it flies you can do it and you can be creative and enjoy what you're doing so I really appreciate that about Orca. First what do you love about Orca Media? Like what do you enjoy about just it being here? Well Orca is a way to give people voice and an opportunity to create and culture in a way that's not corporate distributed. Awesome. Yeah so okay this question is a bit more broad just a bit just have fun with it. What if you could have one show it just produce one show one movie one some sort of film production out of any genre with any budget any talent anything what would be? Just came to mind like a like a road trip show like maybe going from state to state and visiting all the access centers because some states have robust infrastructure for community media and other states they're the way their states their state houses that voted have just dried up the funding so you'll go to some states and they'll have like what was once this functioning media infrastructure community media infrastructure is now just like the skeleton of and like just actually getting on the road and meeting people who are part of those all of those different world that would be a lot of fun maybe get like camper and just well I like that it is here for us as a community you can walk right in you can request to use their equipment there's people that will be willing to help you do that show you how to do it I feel like there is people that are really available and and easily communicative with the public and I think that's a great thing


You can see the lower side of the plant, so you can know the time of the day. I can see this. Oh, good. Is it good? Good fair, good fair. From gene to farmer's field. From gene to farmer's field. Yeah, thank you guys. Yeah, that's good. Sometimes we will bring him to your lab also. Yeah, that would be great. What is your name? From gene to farmer's field. Who brought it to the farmer's field. B-A-S-A-N-T. B-A-S-A-N-T-A. I-U-K-U-K-U-M-A-R. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. R-O-U-T. Okay, you read later. Can you coach for a picture? Action please, from genes to farmer's field. Hello. You want to make one? Yeah, sure. Well, it can download. You can express it in the last three years. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How much is the camera? Ten times. All together, okay? This over here. You can move to other field. Okay. Okay, good, thank you. Adam, you have the right perspective. The difference between the field for this one and then the one in the back, that's the one.


So I will be doing the functional group update. My time says five o'clock. So I'm starting right now and I will start with the screen sharing. Here we go. So welcome to this time's front end functional group update. I'm doing it together today with Philippa and it's a combined group update for the front end AC and DCT. What did we accomplish? We accomplished releasing 9.2. I'm quite sure that everyone is already aware of all the big features that we released with the multiple assignees, the auto refresh especially. Again real-time posting of comments which was already greatly enhanced by Cushar in the meantime so that we get more and more features in there. We have done a lot of optimizations in the search bar so that this feels way easier to use and with the coloring and etc. So what are our concerns over the last weeks and what we saw in this release was basically a problem with the turnover of front end changes. So with the last release especially upcoming to the cut-off date there was a lot of the master was unstable, the tests took very long, a lot of tests were failing simply just to failing etc. So even for small changes that just needed some texture changes or some small UX changes everyone needed to run after their pipelines and run after the tests etc. So what we want to improve in the future and we will come to this point later is simply that you reduce the time and have better and more efficient pipelines on that. Another thing that we will see in the future especially if now with the split of the two teams is that we need unified planning in deliverables and I think there is already a lot of discussions going on between project managers and also in the channels. So this is especially important as the front end ACTC team have focuses from their areas but on the other hand we are sharing a lot of deliverables in between so if we see that someone that the deliverable is not finishable we can pass it over to the other team if that has available resources what already happened in this release cycle. So we need to it's simply about that we have the same format of planning and deliverables all over all the different teams. The other big thing is that we saw especially with the last release was simply that we need to improve the merge request size and delivery. So what happened is simply that it's like a big harbour and on the 7th all the big ships are coming in and so that we make this in smaller chunks and that this is way better digestible over the reviews and also over testing and also over mergers between C and D. So what are our plans for the next release we will be finishing our work on 9.3 tomorrow. The ACTC team will be delivering a lot of nice UX and functional group dashboard improvements. We will have responsive tables over different areas. We are adding two more Prometheus metrics functions. We are improving greatly the Turo settings so you have now the capability of testing your Turo settings way better and this is a way better UX path. So we are doing we have done improvements with UX on the repo settings so they are much better readable and we have inline issue editing from the back end side for the enterprise version we will deliver the server audit logs and there are a lot of more search bar optimizations and features like having the pictures and other tiles and the names of the users in there which feels much nicer if you are doing searches and we do this a lot. For the DC team I'm handing over to Philippa because she can explain the way better than me what the DC team delivered this time. Thank you team. So for the DC team we are going to ship code climates metrics in EE. You'll be able to see it on the merge request widgets. You will also be able to see cross projects in the pipeline graph also on EE and on C you'll be able to see real-time environment stability should be updated real-time. Also some UX improvements and some parts of the job details page will be real-time as well as some parts of the pipeline's show page. We also have a com depth index that allows you to compare to instance of GitLab and it's also possible to search for multiple assignees and start a thread from a not-treaded comment on much requests. Back to you team. Thank you. What are our plans for 9.4 and improving a little bit our pipeline is basically to have a more balanced planning between all the different things that we currently do. So our idea is to have a balance between the deliverables that we are doing with the product managers that we on the other hand also schedule and that everyone is aware of these changes that we are scheduling also every release cycle getting rid of technical depth making efficiency improvements by example this time we want to replace phantom JS with chrome so that simply all our pipelines are running are way more stable and the tests are better in that area. What we also want to do is performance improvements that starts with direct performance improvements by replacing and upgrading bigger libraries perhaps with jQuery and ending with indirect performance improvements so simply that pages feel more faster and that they are not that you have the feeling that something is loading etc so that you are not waiting for a lot. Also this is a big point especially in this release we want to focus a lot on UX improvements and polishing especially based on all the comments that we got from Hekera news we are in very direct contact with the UX team to improve this a lot during this release to get better quality and polishing on all the different areas. We will also take a look if it makes sense to do a time box area fixing what is meant by this is simply that a person can totally focus on a specific functional feature in our product and simply fixes all the issues in that area and on top of that that we also think about the future that we work on POCs where we see okay this can make sense also with the product managers and future advancements and balance out all of these different topics over all our resources and have a better planning so that everyone is also aware of stuff that we are doing behind the scenes. Also that what we want to focus on is that we do in the future more API based similar page applications also looking at GraphQL and that we will do some POCs in that area so that we have perhaps more efficient pipelines because we have very detailed applications and that we are more independent on our tests and have a straighter pipeline for that. Another big thing that is upcoming also for the 9.4 release is feature flags so something that we want to introduce to test out the UX navigation concept which is by the way very very nice in my opinion but do not go for the full thing so that everyone can opt in on these features we will have these feature flags and implement these UX designs as soon as they are ready. Another big topic that we are doing in this release is internationalization so we will do some knowledge sharing so that we spread out the knowledge how to do internationalization so everyone can do it and it's like more of a swarm thing and that we especially do it on new features because then we can go back much faster with internationalization and as we seen in the last weeks the community is very very eager on this topic and is really helping out and wants to translate it in every language so we simply need to make this possible. Yeah that's it first of all I want to thank the frontend team for doing a great release in the last time I'm really looking forward to the next release and it's really awesome to work with everyone as this is especially my first functional upgrade update and yeah that's it thank you for listening and I'm coming to the questions. Tim thanks for the update regarding feature flags that's a functionality that we also want to offer as part of GitLab for the patients you deploy with GitLab are you open to discussing that with Mark Poonsek to see if there's something we can do there? Yeah what we did is as soon as we came up with the idea in the in the menu implementation we came up with the idea to not roll this out fully on GitLab.com but to do this step by step so we reached out to different people and the GitLab team is already working on on some things in there so we will take and reuse what they are doing and we'll closely integrate with them so to have the same feature flags and being able to turn off these things for the detailed things how this is going to work please you need to ask the GitLab team because we're just trying to reuse what they already have what we will need is simply feature flags so based on a user base and also on a group base that someone can turn on and off stuff and we have this on all code paths so that we have it in in Rails that we have it in the templates that we have it in JavaScript that we have it on the API and based on this we can do different stuff we have huge discussions on this in my opinion we should limit this just to really big things that we don't want to roll out heavily on every all the customers I hope this answered your question yep well we'll continue the conversation in the issue thanks any other questions no that was fast great thank you very much and have a nice day and see you in the team call bye take care


Hi everyone and welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're covering the latest stories, trends and innovation from leaders in global connectivity, real estate and the networks within. I'm Barb Mitchell from JSA joining you here today with Sanjay Bhutani, Joint President and Chief Business Officer at Adani Connects. Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's always a pleasure to catch up with you. Yeah and I know it's a busy, busy show for you. You've got multiple meetings and opportunities and conversations and how's the week shaping up? So for us, India is the market which is buzzing all over and we are in the right market at the right time and this is something which is very important to have data centers across and India is the market and India market is growing at a very faster pace, about 27-28%. 27%. That's so interesting, yeah. That's interesting and we and Adani and Edge Connects came together in 2020. Right. That was the time wherein Adani brings in a lot of credibility on an infrastructure side and Edge Connects brings in a credibility on a design-building operate side. I think this is a perfect marriage to have and this partnership is growing at a much faster pace than we had anticipated. The kind of collaboration happening across the team is incredible. Yeah, that's great and we love to watch these updates from you and your team and but I want to talk a little bit more. You said something before we get into that further. Curious about what you said about the growth rate in India, what's driving that? So it is multi-fold. Of course, India has a neocent stage to adopt cloud. We are still at 10-12% of cloud. Of course, government is taking a lot of initiatives to make sure digitization becomes a reality and UPI was the one which is, we are the world leader enterprises are adopting. Of course, there are a lot of action on the AI side of it and that is helping all over across verticals to grow the data center market. We hear a lot about AI. It continues to be on the top of everyone's minds and tips of their tongues but how are you, can you tell us a little bit more about that, how you're dressing that? So artificial intelligence is going to change the landscape of data center. People used to buy 5 kilowatt, 10 kilowatt. Now it is going to 30 kilowatt to 40 kilowatt or maybe under kilowatt. Of course, the design plays a key role in data center and we saw air cool data center so far. I'm sure with the AI coming in, of course we have to have hybrid data centers where an air cool and liquid cooling and water will come in a data center which is going to be key and both coming in and one facility which will be very interesting to watch out and of course AI needs a lot of scale and the Dhani connects is poised to cater to these kind of scale markets and we anticipated this. New technologies are coming in since beginning our partnership. We always believed in a story of scale and now AI is around of course the kind of scale what we built in last two years. It is going to help our customers in a big way. Of course, artificial intelligence comes with a lot of energy consumption and energy security is the key. Since beginning what we have told our customers and our action on ground is how do we secure energy while we get land, how do we make sure the power is available on the land side of it and green energy is going to play a key role and one of our shareholders Dhani brings in a lot of expertise on a green energy side of it. They have got a multi-gigawatt project already running. Of course, this is going to be benefited to our customers. All of these things you continue to do and all the ways you are positioning yourselves to be able to respond to the demands of the market whether it be AI or general growth and demand. When I think about a Dhani connects, people first is something that I think of that when I think of you guys. Talk about that a little bit, your approach to people development and why that is so important. While we a Dhani and EdgeConnect came together, we always thought how do we make sure this market becomes very unique? What do we do differently? Of course, people are the key element in data center and while we started our business, we started a philosophy of 30, 40 and 30. 30 lateral higher, 40 new college, new pass outs and 30 from a different industry and that has paid us well and what we did uniquely when the college pass out kids come, we always take them to a global platform to get them trained and those guys are getting a global exposure to make sure they get Amsterdam or Dublin, these kind of places where an EdgeConnect has got a unique facility where they can see design, build and operate all together. They're there for a couple of weeks, couple of months after that they come back and they are able to see the uniqueness what they've experienced there and they're able to implement. Not only that, actually the other part of the people is when people now you are talking about AI, actually we implemented safety on a safety side of it, artificial intelligence two years back and our customers are loving it. So artificial intelligence just because of people were very, very curious and they were excited and they got new ones from colleges. They are the one who actually participated well and artificial intelligence got implemented in AI. That's really interesting and what an amazing opportunity for the people that you're bringing into your organization to give them that exposure right away. I mean yeah good for you and I mean I feel like there's so much talk in the industry about how are we bringing these next people forward and you're clearly very committed to it.  They have no baggage in their mind and they are the one who are very innovative, very exciting time we are loving in and those guys are helping us to yeah in many ways these guys are helping in a construction, supply chain and they are thinking how do we do better ways to market. So one of the unique program these guys ran and in India Diwali is a main function like Christmas is. So those guys ran a very nice camp and wherein they were able to cater to a masses. The data center is getting discussed on a dining table and one of one of our kid is talking about how do how do what data center does whenever you talk about cloud people look up when actually data center is cloud resides in a data center. So that kind of masses are getting covered. I think these guys are doing amazingly well. Yeah that's so great and and so I guess just circling right back around. So again we started by talking about Adani Konex and the industry and how positioned you are given the huge growth within the market but so let's just talk let's finish by talking about that if you don't mind just how Adani Konex is uniquely positioned to be able to address some of the market trends that you're seeing both in India and globally. Sure so that's an interesting one of course edge Konex is all across the globe and the uniqueness what edge Konex brings in is design, build and operate side of it really that helps us to integrate teams. The biggest integration what we've done in last two years the integration among the teams. As far as the trend goes of course everyone knows India is growing at a much faster pace not only Adani Konex India the country is growing at a faster pace because people are adopting to a change and digital change and now AI coming in the trend is India has already touched about 700 plus megawatt capacity and with the kind of speed what we're going I'm hoping by 2030 we should cross 10 gigawatt that's our guess of course we have to contribute to that so we last two years we have created a lot of scale and that scale is with the energy security and energy security which comes with the green and customers love that sustainability part of it we have gone one step ahead of on sustainability along with the energy how do we make sure customers are able to use the the concept is the water neutral part of it water and water neutrality so that is also one of the key element we are we are working on a large concept to make sure along with the energy how can we make sure we become water neutral in our data center and we are able to help the community as far so a lot of initiatives going around and data center industry I'm sure want to go very very fast with the AI coming in and a lot of initiatives for the government a lot of initiatives by data center players so it's a growth for all yeah well thank you it's again I always feel like we could we could talk for hours but I know you've got places to be lots of people to talk to you but thank you and so for those folks that you know want to connect with you how would they do that from a data center side yeah yeah like if someone maybe are you is there somewhere at the show that people can find you here we're still here for the rest of the week I'm sure your schedule is busy but you know so what we do but our concept the business plan is we cater to a larger larger customers like hyperscaler yeah and the large enterprise and a whole scale so we have got a one facility in Chennai southern part of our country wherein we have got an enterprise team who does a lot of marketing and the good part of the story is last two years we are able to create a lot of full market yeah instead of a push side of it but team have done I missed amazingly well and a lot of enterprise and Adani is venol in India yeah of course the kind of good work done across industries as paying us and whenever we meet any customer it's a strategic one and in Chennai and other other side of other part of the country is whenever we approach any customer it's always a strategic partnership and of course when we look at it the partnership these partnerships are 360 degree right it always help both the organization to balance it and see it yeah and then make sure both are getting benefited right amazing well sunday thank you so much for your time today pleasure yeah thank you pleasure to speak with you we'll be talking again soon thank you viewers for tuning in to jsa tv and jsa podcasts happy networking


Good evening and welcome to episode 314 of the Private Property Podcast. I'm your host Osama Doma Komalo. If you're joining us for the first time, welcome to the only Daily Property Podcast in South Africa. And of course, we're here to help you along on all your property needs. So do make sure that you go to our Facebook or our YouTube page to catch up on all the great content that you've already missed out on. And to all our regular viewers on Facebook and Instagram as well as on YouTube, welcome to it. You know how we do every single weekday you and I have an appointment at 7 p.m. We're always in conversation with the property expert who helps us make better property decisions. It doesn't matter where in the property, your space you are, where in your property journey you are, you could be renting right now looking to be a better renter, perhaps even looking to buy your first property or of course growing or expanding your property portfolio. We certainly do cater to you throughout your journey. And of course, you know how we do it. This, you know, we're going to be looking at something that I'm very excited about. But before we get into it, you know that there's a whole host of other shows that you can look forward to, Private Property's social media pages. As it is a Tuesday, I do hope that everybody had a great long weekend. We're able to rest. We're not here last night. And you would have seen a great competition that we're running. I'm going to tell you all about it right now if you didn't see it on our Facebook page. Of course, you can catch, as it is a Tuesday evening, you can catch a wardening farmer on the farming podcast. And she's on your screens every single Wednesday, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. So if you've got agricultural ambitions, or perhaps just want to get a bit of sense of how, you know, our food is produced in the value chain within the agricultural sector, then that is a show that you can tune into. And every Wednesdays, Esther Klassen takes us through the First Time Homebuyer's show, which is always in conversation with people who've not only walked that first time homebuying journey, but have gone on to grow their property portfolios from strength to strength. And of course, Mondays and Fridays, Chad takes us through the Home Shuckless Show. It always gives us a great tour of incredible properties that you can find on www.privateproperty.co.za. So to continue engaging with us on social media, watching the shows and certainly for the next few weeks, you stand a chance of walking away with some cash if you do just that. Now, I did mention that we're running a great competition where we are doing a build up to 1 million followers on our Facebook page. We certainly have big ambitions, not only 1 million followers. We're also looking at 10,000 comments because we absolutely love hearing from you. And of course, 5,000 shares. So every single evening, I say to you, keep sharing the lives as you're watching them, because we want to make the property circle bigger. We want your friends and family to see not only what you're watching, but of course, also get great value from the content that we put out. And as I was saying, you stand a chance of walking away with 500 grand as we build up to those big goals and certainly reaching 1 million followers. And all you have to do when we share the competition details also on our Facebook page, all you have to do is essentially continue engaging with us. You can share, you can comment and certainly rate our page on Facebook. And the more you engage with our page and with us, the higher your chances of winning that cash prize. Now, the rules are simple. I'm going to go through the rules because this is one where we all want to make sure we're on the same page. Now, you can comment as many times as you want on the post, as I was saying earlier, and do tune in every single weekday on the private property podcast with myself as I'm going to walk with Malo every single weekday at 7pm for the winner announcement. And the winner will be given until the end of the podcast to claim their prize. And the money will carry over to the following episode if the winner doesn't claim the prize. So you have to actually be watching us live in order for you to claim the prize. So do make sure if you entered, you've commented, that you actually tune in in the event where you are the winner. Now, the winner is selected randomly and the winner will be selected using the comment random collector. And so this is essentially, if you comment the more times you comment, the more you essentially spend a chance of winning. So do make sure that you continue engaging us in social media and commenting because, of course, you will spend a chance of winning that money. Now, I will be announcing, you know, the winner shortly, I will be announcing the winner in the halfway mark, so do watch out for that. And of course, they also have an opportunity to claim their prize. But before we get to all things once, so really the big thing we're counting down to a million followers, and of course, growing our reach on Facebook, especially on our Facebook page, this competition was on our Facebook page, so do make sure that you continue engaging with us. Our conversation this evening is one that I was saying, I'm very excited for looking at opportunities for women in real estate buying in the current environments. Now, we're going to break down this conversation from, you know, if you're first time home buyers of women, if you're looking to upscale or upgrade your current lifestyle, perhaps you've been living in an apartment, whether it's a one-bit or a two-bit, you're not looking to move into a cluster or a house, you know, what should you be aware of? What are some of the do's and don'ts? And then also looking at the savvy property investor who's probably got two or three, you know, individual units as their investment, and now looking to go slightly bigger, right? Where you're probably wanting that small block of flats, because you also understand that you don't want to buy it off more than you can choose.  What are some of the do's and don'ts once you're at that level of managing your property portfolio? There's some of the things that we're going to be looking at this evening. Remember, do continue engaging us down here below because you stand a chance of walking away with that 500 grand in cash. Well, my guest this evening is Vilna Havinga, who's a property specialist at Auction Inc. Vilna, good evening. Thank you so much for joining us on the show. Good evening, Zamo. Thank you for having me. It's such a pleasure to have you, Vilna, especially after the long weekend that we've had. I kept saying to the viewers at home, even when we started off from this month that for the month of August, we're only speaking to women throughout the month. So our guests are only going to be women because we know that they're women in real estate who are authorities on all the different topics that we have, and we want to hear from them. And as much as we already always have women on the show, but we say for this month, we're going to be delivered for only having women on the show. So it really is a pleasure to have you with us on the day after women's day. Now, Vilna, I think this topic excites me quite a lot because we're really going to be helping women at different stages of their property journey. From those who are looking at buying their first property and are probably very intimidated, as many of us typically do tend to be intimidated with buying a property and signing on a 20-year-long commitment, to those, of course, who've been at it for a while and they're looking at scaling their property portfolio and perhaps even buying a small block of flats within their property portfolio. But I want us to look, firstly, just holistically, before we sort of look in those pockets of the different women, holistically, when we look at the buying environment, what should we be aware of before we even decide to wear that buy or even sell a property that we currently have? Because I think I want us to first just look at a holistic picture before we then go specifically to the first time home buyer, the one who's working to upscale and then, of course, the more savvy property investor. 100%. Just repeat your questions, Amal. So my question is just from a holistic perspective, can you just share the light for us in terms of how the property landscape or the environment is for those who are currently looking to buy or those who perhaps may be looking to sell their property at this stage? Yes, look currently you're sitting with an absolute buyer's market with the interest rate being as low as it is. So anybody that can afford to buy that's renting should really reconsider and purchase a property if they haven't purchased the property. So that's the first thing. We're sitting with one of the lowest interest rates in a year. So it's an absolute buyer's environment. It's not such a great seller's market because of that. So there's a lot of stock on the market, but the price is because there's a lot of stock is very competitive. And so I think we've covered in the previous conversation we had as well, but your buyers that's buying because they're going to live on a property is probably going to spend a bit more than an investor. But again, there's such a lot of, there's a huge scope. Are you going to buy a piece of land and build or you're rather going to buy something that has been built and developed because might cost you a little cheaper at the moment. We can buy something bigger, but there's pros and cons to both of that. So current and market environment is absolutely a buyer's market. And then one of the great things with it being a buyer's market and I can already assure the viewers will look for a different episode. What you can do in the event where you're looking to offload your property because I think as Vilna's pointing out it's a buyer's market, not so much a seller's market. And some sellers are sometimes struggling to get the price point that they may want. So we'll probably do a very different episode along tips and tricks of selling your property during a buyer's market, especially where you might be desperate to offload that particular property. And it might be your desperation because of your finances, or because there's another property that you're eyeing. So you really do need that off your books as much as possible. So do watch out for that episode. We're definitely going to have it because I know there are a number of people who have also just struggled to sell their properties. So then of course, Vilna, when you look at the buyer's market and how buyers are fundamentally spoiled for choice right now, let's zoom in on the first time home buyers who are women and are looking to buy that first property. And perhaps they are renting, perhaps staying at home or have been staying with friends because I think one of the things as professionals that we do is sometimes you stay with friends and you do a house share. But now you're really ready to enter the property market as a home owner. I think what would be some things that you would warn a first time home buyer who is buying right now during this period with the historically low interest rates? What would you warn them about? Because I'm sure they're excited. They want to take advantage of the low prices. But there are of course certain things that they need to be aware of before they kind of go head first with their purchase. Yes, of course, I think the biggest thing always to start with is finance. So make sure that the affordability of the property keeping in mind interest rate might not stay where it is for the next 10 years obviously. So keep in mind that the prices might escalate. But also keep in mind that if you buy a property, there are other expenses that you need to consider like your levies, your rates and taxes with the property depending if you're buying in a estate or private property or a freehold property. That's something that you need to consider as well.  So there might be garden expenses. It was not an estate maintenance issues on a property. So I think that's the first thing I would say to a first time buyer is to keep in mind the expenses that you have to incur when you buy a property. It's not just the bond that you have to repay, but there might be other expenses. So make 100% sure that you are covered for that. The second thing I would say to a first time buyer is where you're going to buy this property. Are you buying again? Are you buying in an estate? And what are the pros and cons to being in an estate? They're just a freestanding property.   So that's also always making a list on making sure of exactly what you want to achieve and what are you looking for. And then the location, the area that you want to buy this property is very important. For me coming from an auction house, auction bank, it's always good to know that if you want to buy maybe a property that either distressed property or just the private sale, which is a faster process, again, we said the funding must be in place, but that you know exactly what you're looking for. That might be for someone that is already a property owner, but that wants to expand their property as it's a bit more challenging for someone to go through the auction process if they don't understand it. So I think that would be my shortest advice at this stage. We are of course this evening in conversation with Vilna Haverga, who is a property specialist, who is a property specialist at Auction Inc. And we are looking opportunities for women in the real estate, in real estate buying in the current environments. And we really have been focusing on the first-time home buyers, some of the things that you need to watch out for before you buy that first property. Because it's such an important one and as much as it's a buyer's market, you want to make sure that you don't make mistakes that can potentially cost you money. I think time is probably a different one altogether. Certain things can cost you a bit of time, especially if you decide to buy land to build. And I always say to first-time home buyers, try to not do that as your first property purchase. Because building is quite stressful. I think building as so many components is very stressful. You typically wouldn't want that as your first property experience. And so I think that one aside, you want to make sure that you're able to be as cost-efficient as possible throughout your property journey. Now then Vilna, when we look at women who already have bought a property, perhaps a living in that particular property and are looking to upgrade, as we're saying, we're looking at really great interest rates. Perhaps they've owned this property for a few years and they're looking at upgrade. What mistakes should they avoid? Because at the very least, they have a good sense of the costs associated with home ownership, whether they're living in an estate or it's a free-standing property. They know that to either paying levies, you're paying rates, utilities are to your own account. So they've got that aspect. What should they be particularly aware of right now as they look to upgrade, whether you're now moving from an apartment or cluster, or perhaps even a house as opposed to an apartment? Yes. Again, the experience that comes along with the upgrade of the property, if they're buying a second property that they're going to rent out as an investment, it's very important that the rental agent or that they maybe work with the rental agent to assist them getting the right tenant into that property. For them, obviously they want to look at return and investment. Make sure that the tenant that they put in that property is someone that's reputable, that's got a good track record, that's got good finance, pay their rents monthly because it could be very challenging. If you sit with a new property that you have to pay and you've got a tenant that's not paying the rent, can you afford to cover that for two or three or four months? Because getting someone out of a property might be very challenging. It's not that we want to be negative about it, just try and cover your risks beforehand by making sure you've got a rental agent, maybe that's registered with TPA, which is a body that looks at the track records of the tenants in there. If they want to live in the new property themselves, also make sure that the maintenance in that property is up to date, make sure that the electricity bills or utility bills are up to date so that they don't get surprises when they buy this property and they might have costs that they did not expect. Out of all that from you at home, women who own property right now or women who are looking to buy property, if you're a woman who's about to be a first time home buyer, what are some of the key things that you are slightly nervous about when it comes to home ownership? Perhaps you're currently renting and of course looking to make that lead into owning your property or buying a property, what are some of your reservations about buying a property? And to the women who already bought a property for and who are home owners, what were things that you learned after you bought your property that you only realized after the fact? So do share with us down here below. I'm in conversation with Wilner Haven, I was a property specialist at Auction Inc. Now I did say earlier under the beginning of the show that halfway through we're going to be announcing the lucky winners who of course are going to be walking away with that 500 grand in cash. But if I play this quickly before I announce those lucky winners, of course these winners are chosen as you will see via a record. So the more times you comment the higher the chance of you walking away with that 500 grand in cash. As well as Oriabbe 3-Mashishi, congratulations and order to be able to claim your prize before the end of the show. So do stay tuned for tomorrow's money back and see if you're the winner of our one million Rand followers on Facebook. So you do need to claim that prize before the show down here below. So do make sure that you get to it so that the team can reach out to you once you have claimed your prize. So we do have 1000 Rand in the money bag in the event where we do not get the winners to claim their prize. Now of course I'm in conversation this evening with Wilner Haven, the property specialist at Auction Inc. And we're looking at opportunities in real estate for women and how the current buying market is like. Whether you're a first-time home buyer looking to upgrade your property portfolio or rather looking to upgrade your to a new home or of course looking to expand your property portfolio. And I really like the insights that you shared with us Wilner when it comes to understanding costs because I think this is one of those two big areas that catch so many of us off guard when we buy a property. I've seen it a lot with first-time home buyers. I've had the same issue. Sometimes people don't know that you're going to be paying for levies and rates. They think you know and I know this is a thing that also happened to me while I knew about levies. I didn't know that I also still have to pay rates in addition to paying levies. I thought well the levies pretty much cover the money that you know is paid to the municipality. Only to later find that no actually I also need to pay the municipality in addition to the levies. So not having a good understanding of these things obviously catches up with that. Especially if you are with buying that first property or upgrading. If you buy that property sort of at the tail end of your affordability these costs that you don't budget for will certainly lead to lifestyle creeps. So you really want to be aware of them as much as possible perhaps even factor in a 10% increase in those costs and see if you're still able to be comfortable in your budget. So as I asked earlier I want to find out from you at home if you're about to be a first-time home buyer what are some of your reservations about making that leap into home ownership. Do you share with us and of course the women who have already bought property or properties before. What did you learn after you bought your first property that you absolutely do wish you had learned prior to that first purchase. Now Vilna I want us to look at the third sort of category of women right. So these are the savvy investors. We certainly do have quite a number of them who watch the show from Mimata Shinange, Gleed Chirinda, you know Queen Bee Mabunda. There's quite a number of them who watch the show. They're property investors and they're obviously looking at different ways to grow and scale their portfolios. When we're now looking at women who've got a few properties under their belt that they're managing and they're looking to say for example buy that first block of flats. So it's a slightly bigger purchase and it's certainly got more you know beds to cater for and the whole other things to look out for. What should they be firstly aware of when it comes to buying that kind of we'll call it asset class when you're not buying a block of flats and it can be multi you know multi-use where it's the let's say 10 units and perhaps the ground floor you've got two you know two shops. So there's a commercial component to it as well. What should they be aware of when they start making those kinds of purchases or adding those kinds of purchases to their property portfolio? Sure Zama yes I think the hidden costs could be something that they need to look at which you know we've discussed it as well with your first new second-time buyers but when you buy a property that's either got commercial rights included or just a block of flats you want to make sure that for every square meter of that property there's an income related to that square meter specifically on the on the retail side so make sure that there's no wasted areas and that you can capitalise as much as possible or utilise as much as possible off that building to turn it into a money generating asset for you. On the blocks of flats you know there's various options you can either rent out the flat to long term tenants or you can even subdivide some of the flats for example the student accommodation or for lower budget housing but you can put more people in a flat if you rent it out per room which is also popular in certain areas so depending on where the block of flats is situated you know you sit with various options to increase the income of the property so I would say that it would be the biggest thing for any third-time investor to look at is what can I do to optimise income of this property and obviously utilise you know we've seen so many times that your electricity bill if you put prepaid meters in for example that's something that's very easily doable but the cost is much less for you and it's much more cost effective when you've got prepaid electricity and even possibly prepaid water meters so it can bring you know the administration of that could be much easier but they don't go as well and then the maintenance with the management of the block of flats are you going to do it yourself if you're going to get someone to do it you must also factor in the cost involved for a management agent to do it for you these pros and cons to both of it doing yourself or getting someone to do it for you with advantages to both sides so those are things that you know for you to consider when you buy the block of flats and then obviously living in South Africa security security might be a very big thing for you not to consider to make sure that your your block of flats is secure for the tenants and obviously you don't want to turn over in your in your tenants that live there so I would factor a cost for security as well into that and that you know will now we could probably have a whole episode when we're looking at buying you know buildings that can be for commercial use as well and and we're actually well I'm going to promise viewers that we're going to do an episode on that because I know that increasingly more and more people want to venture into that someone to build so looking as we're saying earlier you know buying a piece of land and rather building themselves from scratch so that they they know that they're putting in those prepaid meters from the get go prepaid electricity from the get go as opposed to having to you know buy a building where those were not put in and now you have to have the extra cost of sort of almost redoing certain aspects of the electrical supply and the water supply which can be quite costly and especially the bigger the project is the more costly and it tends to be when it comes to buying those kinds of properties well now what have been some I'll say common mistakes that you've seen people making especially the newbies who've never quite bought you know a block of flats before any mistakes that you'd like to share that you've seen purchases making when buying blocks of flats yes I think that was that must keep in mind because it's a block of flats with or without a commercial component it will be a commercial deal with the banks so let's consider that it's not somebody that's buying a property cash they need to put a deposit down and the the payback period for a commercial property is much less than with a residential property so for anybody that wants to venture into properties doesn't matter if it's your second property that you're buying or if you want to venture into commercial properties it's very good to build a relationship with a business broker or a bond originator that can maybe do both residential or commercial or you'll get your specialist that only do residential or commercial so do your homework and make sure that you understand 100% how it's structured with the banks because often the banks are going to say to you you have to put a 20 or a 30 sometimes even a higher deposit down on a commercial property and your payback might to be 10 years instead of 20 years so that's something that that you need to consider also make sure that when you do your due diligence on the property that you make sure you've got up-to-date plans of the property and everything associated with that the zoning of the property the zoning rights all of that the plans that's approved by city council because if you have to do it on application or it could even cause you to lose a deal if it's not in place so make sure that all the paperwork is being handed to you when you sign that offer to purchase and it's up-to-date well now before I let you go any final tips for you know women particularly women who are going to be buying during this buyer's market whether they're first time home buyer they're looking to upgrade of course the savvy investor any final tip for them that can help them on their property training yes I think again location is very important go on private property as much as possible and look at what the properties in a specific area are selling for so that you know you was always keep in mind that whatever you buy you have to resell that property at some stage so make sure that you know the maintenance of that property needs to be taken care of 100% and that whatever you do you don't overpriced a property so that it's difficult for you to sell that property that you've got a growth factor worked in to the the cost for it say you're going to keep it for five years or ten years or even maybe in a family trust but that this is stable growth so don't overcapitalize on the property so do your homework do your research in an area go on private property and look at what properties and that area in relation to what you want to buy is selling for but we'll now we're going to leave it there this evening thank you so much for joining us thank you Zamaf I appreciate and that is we'll now having those property specialists at Auction Inc wrapping up the Tuesday edition of the private property podcast with myself as I'm doing what malud has been a pre-recorded interview I'll be back on your screens tomorrow evening live to bring you the latest installment of the private property podcast with myself as I'm doing what malud until then hoping you're staying home and staying safe


We're back here live in Santa Clara. This is the Velocity Conference by O'Reilly Media. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon, the CUBE, our flagship program when we go out to the events to extract the signal from the noise. We have been world-win. We were in Las Vegas for all the shows last week. HP Discover, IBM Edge. We're at the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco at the GE Industrial Cloud Internet of Things event yesterday. Now we're here with O'Reilly Media at the Velocity Conference. Two days live coverage. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and I'm joining with my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org. Stephen Ludin is here. He's the chief architect of Akamai, focused on site acceleration and security. Stephen, welcome to the CUBE. Thanks, good to be here. So we heard one of your colleagues up giving a keynote this morning on Akamai.io. And you guys are obviously focused on some of the big problems in the web and regarding whether it's routing data or securing data and so forth. So talk about your role and then we'll get into some of those challenges and how they've evolved over time. Sure, at a super high level, Akamai is split into two main focuses.  What you think of as a traditional CDN. And the other side is the performance aspect. Think about commerce websites, websites, web delivery, small objects, which is really what Velocity here is all about. So my role has been for the past number of years really working on trying to figure out how to get the bar to go faster and farther when it comes to the sort of smaller object delivery to get to the point where everyone wants to be, which is instant page rendering. Yeah, so you've got a session tomorrow and you're going to be talking about performance, particularly from the standpoint of what the user sees, right? Talk about that a little bit. So tomorrow's session is actually where we are, we have Moby test coming out. I don't want to steal too much thunder from the actual announcement, but it's going to be talking about how the advances you've done over Moby test, something that we're giving back to the community to help with web page test and acceleration of your own properties. So maybe you could talk a little bit about just performance in general. I know you don't want to give away, show too much leg on tomorrow, but talk about why web performance is getting so much more difficult. I mean, obviously complexities on the rise, but what does that mean? Maybe unpack that a little bit for us. Well, there's a couple of things going on. One would think with bandwidth getting bigger and bigger and more broadband, you would see a lot, performance would be, that problem would be going away. But what's happening is everyone's expectations are ratcheting up as well. So you look at a website from 93, 94, that's going to be an instant render site, but no one wants to go to a website from 93, 94. So in order to produce the experience that people expect, the technological needs are so huge. We have to deliver more and we deliver faster. Now, in addition, the variety of networks you have to go over is huge. So for example, we have traditional broadband to the home, that's easy, but that same website needs to go to someone's 3G handset as they're on a train traveling to work. So that's where the challenges come in and trying to address those situations and sort of have what we call a situational performance solution is so critical. And this is where you have all the front end optimization, all those things, are technologies that come to bear to help deal with that ever changing internet. Stephen, go ahead. Obviously the expectations, you mentioned the expectations. Talk about the two areas. Obviously diversity of traffic. I mean, obviously, traffic's like data, right? It's never going down, it's kind of going up, right? And you have issues around borders of certain service providers and networks. You got to deal with policies and different routing capabilities. There's like network issues. And then there's also just overall traffic diversity, mobile versus web, having certain content formats change based upon the devices. So we had internet of things, the edge of the network. So you have a mega trend of explosion of at the edge, which is throwing off data and packets in certain form factors or containers. And then you got traffic issues. Software defined networking has completely turned the networking world upside down, east, west, north, south. So you had explosion and two really mega trends in your world, packet management, policy-based routing, management of packets, load balancing, virtualization on networks. And then you got the application edge. How are you guys making sense of that? I mean, because you're in the middle of it. You're like at 35,000 feet and you got to change out the engine of the airplane at the same time. Right, well, that's a great question. And this is why we have a different focus on the very different traffic types now. But in the end, it's a lot of the same software and infrastructure delivering both. It's how we don't go ahead and apply those technologies to the different problem at hand. One example is when it comes to video, you want to figure out how to go ahead and handle a constant bandwidth for a sustained period of time over these less than perfect networks that we've talked about. When it comes to a website, you're talking about a huge burst of traffic that has to get down instantly, otherwise your customers walk. So with those two different things, one of the consistent problems is though the edges of the internet, whether they be origin or consumer, are exploding in size. That central sort of tier one part of the internet isn't growing at pace. Congestion isn't getting better, it's getting worse. And so anything that has to travel through that central point is going to have problems. Now this is where the Akamai idea of having points of presence close to end users, a network hop or two away, is something that's so critical to getting this sort of real time experience that everyone expects these days. So web app guys like Facebook have really done a lot of pioneering work by building their own stuff because they couldn't buy off the shelf stuff. But you're also a supplier to them on the network side. What are you guys offering folks that are looking to tool up in the off side that want to be the next Facebook? Well, it might not be that kind of scale, or let's see the same example.  What are you guys offering those customers that in the traditional IT or app space? Well, this is where you have to look at the content delivery space with two different lenses these days. You have kind of the old school lens of what it was back in 99, 2000, which was give us your objects, we'll deliver them for you. Then the new school lens is really more about how do I get a bit of data from place to place faster without any caching whatsoever, which is what we call acceleration. We got into the acceleration space back in about 2004 or so. So we've actually been doing acceleration longer. We've been doing what we call traditional CDN. So when it comes to your IT folks, the ops guys, they have usually two tasks at hand. One is they have to go ahead and deliver stuff. It has to be fast. It has to be rapid. It has to be real time. The other part is they have cost considerations that they have to have to figure out. Do I need two boxes to serve this or do I need 2000? And for them, one of the things that Ockman comes in is providing incredible offload for anything that is offloadable. We talk about acceleration. We talk about cash. We talk about dynamic content. But despite all the dynamic content out there, there's still a huge amount of stuff that is still catchable. And that's where any solution for acceleration needs to both have a catchable solution as well as a pure acceleration getting bits from A to B faster. Steven, you talked earlier about some of the challenge, you alluded to anyway, the challenges that mobile brings. We were at GE yesterday and lost this big event talking about what they call the industrial internet. How will this internet of things generally and then specifically this machine data, which is going to generate many, many petabytes of data, how will that change some of the challenges that you face? Well, there are so many interesting things to think about there. One part, and I'll still start with a couple of whole list of problems. First off, every one of these things needs a name and an address. And we're out of addresses. So this is where moving to the IPv6 from v4 is so critical to making this internet of things a reality. Right now we're in a space where we are rushing forward in this direction without really a net to catch us. v6 is still out there right over the horizon. There are a lot of people moving towards that direction, but it's going to be some time. Right now I think Akamai has seen about one or two percent of our traffic is actually over v6, which is great, but we need to get to a point where that's, one or two percent of our traffic is over v4. Other thing around internet of things is just the pure connectivity aspect. We're not talking about a thing where there's a ethernet cable plugged into the back of your refrigerator or in your car, we're talking about mobile. So the networks themselves are going to get more robust. They're going to get more solid and reliable. I liken it a lot to back in 96, 95, when dial-up was a norm, everyone was like, well, how is this ever going to work because this isn't usable. And sure enough, things changed. The same thing is going to happen in the mobile world. Those networks will improve. There will always be a bleeding edge and people like Akamai will be at the edge. Is that bleeding edge trying to make it better? But things are going to get better. Yeah, and as you've written, there's a lot that can go wrong between point A and point B. Indeed. All right, so what's, again, the announcement tomorrow that we're all eagerly anticipating, what do you see over the horizon? What's sort of next beyond that for Akamai, some of the big challenges that you guys are tackling? God, there's so many challenges. Scale is probably the biggest one. The biggest challenge is, of course, the ones that we don't know about yet. The thing that this industry is so incredible for is, although a lot of us sit here and talk about what is going to happen six months from now, half the time, more than half the time, we're wrong. It's those surprises that completely catch us by surprise that are making it so interesting and fun to be in this space. Give me an example of something that really surprised you guys, that you responded to, talk a little bit about how you responded. So, this is going back in time, but I was truly surprised by the explosion of TLSSSL and people using the encrypted internet. And the reason, not because it was a good thing, but because it was really, really hard to do that, and it's hard to do it well. The whole infrastructure of it is kind of a collaboration that mostly works, and there's a lot of cost in it. And so, the fact that Akamai terminates probably about 20, 30% of our traffic that we do now is over TLSSSL, so we're terminating all that traffic for our users, that has been a huge growth that I personally did not expect. Now, one of the things that Akamai's adapted to that is we do what we wanted to call early termination. So, when you try to negotiate a TLS connection, the handshake, you have to go back and forth many, many times. In order to do this, you'll hear people at this conference, especially talking about round trips, round trips, how many round trips. There are two things you can do, you can reduce round trips, or you can make those round trips really, really short. So, with early termination, what Akamai is doing is we're getting the handshake to terminate very close to the end user, so then rather than 100, 150 millisecond round trips, you're talking about 15 millisecond round trips, and so they just, you just zip through them very quickly. Awesome. Okay, we got a break, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Obviously, Akamai, storied history, one of the most successful early web companies, and then just content routing is evolving, it's never going to go away, it's kind of like data. David, I always joke about storage, it's like the industry that never dies because no one, we need to store more and more things just like your business traffic and your evolving. Congratulations on your success there, and app acceleration, app delivery is not going away, it should leave the mobile. Thanks for coming on theCUBE, Steve, we appreciate it, we'll be right back with our next guest right after this short break. All right.


Hey everybody. JR Fisher here. I'm going to jump on here real quick and talk to you about five things that you may be doing that are holding you back. You're literally doing these things and that's what's preventing you from getting where you want to be. Oh yeah and stay in here because the last one I'm going to give you is the fatal one. If you're doing this one thing you're done. Okay and there's only five things but these five things can really mess you up.  Can't handle it. They don't know what to do with it. They just think oh my god this pressure this is so horrible I can't. The first thing they do when they encounter a problem or things going wrong is they quit. They just stop. They don't do anything anymore. You know and it's like the strongest trees they say don't grow in the best soil they grow in the what strongest winds. So that pressure against that tree makes that tree try harder and harder and harder and what remains is a really tough tough badass tree. Okay so that's what we need to think about and it's how you react to these situations too. I remember it was just a few years ago and it's taken me years to get here. You know I was not always the way where I would look at a bad situation to go yay this is great this is an opportunity. You know I didn't do that. It took me a long time to get to that stage but I remember I was going on a trip and my wife was going to give me a ride to the airport so we went outside and and I had one car parked in the street and I had one car parked in the driveway her car was parked in the driveway and we looked over at the driveway and low and beholder car was gone and I looked at her and I said your car got stolen we're going to have to take my car she says how do you know that? I said well it's not there okay so there's a clue but I said look at it this way your car got stolen but I'm telling you it's going to turn into a really great situation and I at the time she looked at me like I was crazy I said no you never know this could turn into a really great situation and low and behold what happened was the insurance company really took care of us she got a much nicer car she didn't really like the car she had only had like 15,000 miles on it but she didn't like it so the point is it's hard to do it in the moment it's really hard to do it in the moment where you say yeah you know this is a bad situation I'm so glad it happened because there's an opportunity but that really is what is going on in life that's how life does it and how you react to that negative situation will determine if you're really going to get a good outcome or a bad outcome out of it and if you react that yes this problem is an opportunity it gives me a chance to really double down and do something then you're going to do really well now the next thing that is really a killer this is number two is having a really negative self-image and this self-image thing you know this is something that you know do you develop over the years you know as a child you know as you grow into your teens as you grow into an adult and based on events that happen to you you develop the self-image okay now you know maybe you didn't have parents that told you you were the sweetest thing in the world maybe you didn't have parents you know maybe you had bad parents maybe you were abused whatever but you've got to understand that was their issue that's not your issue you know if if your perception is that you're not going to succeed and you don't do well at things and you're not that smart then guess what that's what you're going to get but if you start to say you know it doesn't matter what it is I'm going to try to figure it out and I want to back up a little bit because I was on the phone with a friend the other day and we were talking about him being able to sell some stuff online and one of the things he said to me he's as well you know a lot of that stuff's just over my head I'm not real smart about that stuff and I said well of course you're not I wasn't either until I learned it you know if you don't know it how could you be smart about it's impossible so you got to try and you got to learn it and you can't tell yourself that you can't learn things or you can't do things because if you consistently do that you'll consistently not get ahead you'll consistently you know not be successful I know one thing and I jotted it down that Zig Ziglar once said he says you cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself so don't expect yourself to do great and be all motivated and pumped up and you know feeling great if in fact you have this low self in image of yourself and how do you change that you just do you just start telling yourself I can do things I can accomplish things I'm not going to quit I'm going to keep trying till I figure it out and believe me I'm not a quick learner on things you know a lot of times I'll get into like a new ads platform or some way of building pages or something and it's just like whoa this is so difficult I can't do this I can't do oh my god it's so hard but I just say to myself I'm just gonna keep doing it I'm gonna keep doing it and pretty soon I'll start figuring out parts of it and I'm not going to quit until I do and you know that's kind of what winners do they say you know well how many books would a winner read to be successful well the answer to them is as many as it took whatever it took they're gonna do that and that's the kind of the attitude you gotta get now the next one is number three it's how you play in the game losers play to not lose winners play to win okay so a loser has the attitude with man I hope I don't mess this up I hope this doesn't get screwed up I hope I do this wrong don't do it wrong you know I'm try but I don't know how it's going to turn out and with that attitude you're not going to do well if you say I'm going to try and see what happens you're not going to do well but if you go into it all in and you say I'm going to succeed at this and I'm going to do whatever it takes and sure I'm going to hit some bumps on the road I'm going to have some failures things are going to go wrong but if you do that overall you're going to do really well and here's the crazy thing about this this one little thing this all-in attitude really has to do with the entire way you handle stuff because you know you're probably you know if you're good at you know one thing you're probably good at a lot of things you know if you're bad at one area you know if you're overeating and you know over drinking and never exercising and not getting enough rest you know you're probably not great on your job so all of these little things do matter it is all of the little things that matter people say well it's a small thing it really doesn't matter it's just a little thing it doesn't matter it all matters it matters when you're cooking dinner how well you cook it and what it looks like when it gets on the plate and it matters when you're mowing your lawn and you know how good that lawn turns out and it matters when you go and stay in a hotel room that you leave it in decent order you don't mess it up because all of these things are building your self-image and if you're doing your best at everything you do whether it's brushing your teeth or combing your hair or dressing your body whatever it is or taking care of your kids or being responsive to your spouse whatever it is those things are going to spill over into your success how could they not so you know you need to have that attitude number four if you're counting here is um losers really never are committed you know they don't really commit you know people who are doing a lot of really great things and being really successful they have bought in they've done everything they need to do to buy in they they've committed themselves to do that and they act upon it okay losers keep researching and they don't really kind of get going they go well let me check this out let me do this and it's not you're not going to have this perfect plan of everything working out exactly the way you think you know sometimes a lot of people say to me well you know how did you end up creating a course on e-commerce and i'm like well it started off selling cell phone cases and then it went to selling survival products and then it went to having a survival food line and then it went to coaching a few people and then it went to you know writing some stuff and some blogs and doing some videos and then it went to the course so there's my straight line i didn't have one and it's more like ready fire aim okay in other words get ready and get going and you can always change your direction you can always change the direction you're going and and react to what's happening around you and in the market and what softwares come along and what opportunities hit you but you've got to get started you got to just do something even if it's not great okay this video probably not great you know maybe one in two or three years i do from now it'll be a whole lot better but the point is i'm just going to do it i'm going to get out there and do it you know communicate a little bit you know share with you i'm going to definitely do that but you can always adjust as you go you're not stuck with where you're at and then the last one which i think is super super important this is the one that kills a lot of people is they aim too low they aim too low based on what's already happened in their life or what they think their capabilities are you've got a you know if if your plans don't sound crazy to some people then you're not you're not shooting high enough you know some people just shoot so low you know elon musk said he wanted to colonize mars what you know uh richard branson said he wanted to take people in space for a vacation insane right but the average person doesn't shoot any higher than the ceiling in their house so you know if you're not shooting for the stars you know you'll probably hit the moon if you shoot for the stars we've all heard that if you're shooting really really low saying well if i could just make another thousand dollars a month i'd be happy if i could just do that how about you replace your entire income and make 10,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 a month you said well that's crazy i couldn't do that why not why not do that why not do that you know my wife and i have some goals now and we put little stickers everywhere so we can hit those goals to remind ourselves to do the things we need to do to hit those goals and we don't do little goals we do what we think are bigger goals for us and you know i think about it martin luther king what was his speech everybody knows martin luther king's speech right he stood in front of tens of thousands of people and he didn't say okay i have this smart goal sm art which is the old way of setting goals which is bs he didn't say that what he said he says i have a dream i've got a dream now do you have a dream do you have something that you want to do i mean you know here's your bonus and your bonus is this um sometimes you need to kind of step back from where you're at and people have a hard time with that i know you know i had a really good corporate job but i worked a lot of hours didn't like it have drove new cars every well i think six weeks or something like that and when i quit my job what did i do for a car i bought a five thousand dollar use car and i drove that for gosh first year or two i guess something like that we were lucky we did well but it was a step down you know it wasn't i didn't go out and buy a nice car and big payments on the car because i knew i couldn't do the payments because i was starting my own business i mean you start your own business you don't have that extra money to do that to this day i don't really care much about cars but the point is a lot of people will get the big house and they get all the bedrooms and they get the big yard and they're out there trying to impress their neighbors they don't want to step back at all but they're going to stay in a job that pays for all this pays for these extra dining rooms and living rooms they never ever go in and these extra bedrooms that they never use so that they can impress all these people around them their friends and family and say look how i live look how fancy i live i've got four wheelers out there and i've got a boat that i never get a chance to go on because i'm always at work isn't that cool and they spend the next 30 or 40 years doing that to impress a bunch of people they don't even like they don't even like that's that's a shame i mean that really is a shame to do that um what what if they were to just step back a little bit cut back their expenses give them some more time give them some more money invest in the business and they could grow it to something that would be a far greater than where they're at but they're afraid of looking bad to their friends and family and people they don't even like so they keep working that job they keep working those hours and then one day they die and then it's too late so that's my bonus to you step back a little bit don't be afraid to step back a little bit don't be you don't have to impress anybody but yourself you're not competing with anybody my wife and i were having that conversation the other night it's so funny how you always think you're competing with this person or that person and you're really not the only competition you have is right here okay and if you keep that in mind and you understand that the only competition you have is you that's it then you'll never be a loser at all because you're always trying to get ahead and even if you fall down you're falling forward right you're not falling backwards you're falling forward because you're moving forward you're doing something so anyhow i just want to share that with you today not real e-commerce see right it's not real online sales marketing stuff but sometimes you need to hear this so you can get into the online sales so you can get into selling more products so you can get into learning these other things so i hope you enjoyed the video if you did got some bonuses for you there's a free course i put a link in the description you can grab that that final is kind of messed up right now so it may try to sell you something don't worry about that grab my free course i also wrote a book on how to find a profitable product to sell online you can click on that link and go grab my book which is really cool you'll like that oh and do me a favor make sure you like this and share it you know the more you share the more you get back have you ever thought about that so if 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