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So remember, every day Monday through Friday, chase your blues away with the wonderful daytime programs on this station of the NBC radio network. And now, Tales of the Texas Rangers. And now, from the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called Travesty. It is 10.30 a.m. February 12, 1951 at the Texas Rangers headquarters, as the commander of that company, Captain Stinson, is disturbed from his desk duties by an unexpected caller. Morton, are you Captain Stinson? I sure am. What can I do for you? My name's Phil Clampett. Come a long way to talk to you, Captain. Sit down, Mr. Clampett. Thank you. Now, what's your problem? Well, this is bigger than just any little problem of mine, Captain. It's a matter of catching some crooked cops. That's a mighty serious charge, Mr. Clampett. Sure it is. I don't mind telling you I'm plenty burned up about this. I'll try to keep my dander down till I give you the facts. That'll be just fine. A couple of weeks ago, my company moved me down from St. Joe, Missouri to our Texas office at Harper's Ferry. Yeah? Brought my wife and kids, of course, and I was driving them down to New Sedana bought for the trip. Stopped by a little driving on Highway 92 near a town called Corona. About 150 miles north-east of here. Yeah. And while we was inside eating, somebody opened the back of my car and stole a brand new spare. Sent for a deputy sheriff right away and reported it. That's the best thing you could have done, Mr. Clampett. Well, that's what I thought at the time. Deputy took down a full complaint and said he'd look into it. I gave this information to the insurance company, of course. When you filed a claim for the tire? Sure. Well, the insurance company made a routine check and the sheriff of Corona County wrote him back saying he had no information on file about a tire theft report. Ah, see? I was good and riled up about it. Because it sure makes me look like a sap. So I wrote the sheriff of Corona County myself and asked him what in blaze was going on. Well, have you got his answer yet? Right here in my pocket. Here. Here it is. I don't like his attitude at all. Look, says here, have interviewed all my deputies and we have no information at all about any report having been made of an alleged tire theft. Yeah, I see. How you like that? Alleged. Well, he's called me a blasted liar, Captain. Is it possible, Mr. Clampett, that you could have the wrong county? No, it ain't, Ranger. Don't have a tire stolen every day in a week and I'm not likely to forget where it happened. You're sure it was on Highway 92 near Corona? Yeah, place had a filling station right next to it. How could you be positive the tire was stolen there, Mr. Clampett? Because I stopped on the highway about a mile before we got there to get a blanket out of the back and the tire was there then. And when did you first notice it was gone? Just as soon as we'd finished eating. It was getting colder and my wife wanted another quilt for the kids, you see. We went to get it before we started and found the back of the car had been jimmied open and the tire was gone. Look, here's the receipt for repairs on the trunk, Captain. Tell me, do you remember the name of the deputy you talked to, Mr. Clampett? No, no, I don't. He was a young fellow, though, and I gave him a detailed report of the whole thing. Now the sheriff says he don't have any set report on file. Now, look, Mr. Clampett, I've known Sheriff Halstead of Corona County for a long time. He's considered a mighty fine officer. Well, something's fishy somewhere, because I sure talked to a deputy. And if you can't trust even the law nowadays, who can you trust, Captain? Now just hold on. We'll try to find out for you what went wrong over there. Johnson getting a KTXA. As soon as I get the radio station, Mr. Clampett, I'll have a ranger assigned to investigate this right away. Within minutes, Ranger Jase Pearson had called in, was briefed on the case, and assigned to take over the investigation. He proceeded at once to the county courthouse in Corona and was told he could locate Sheriff Halstead at the cattle pens of a local stockyard. Pearson contacted him there about noon. Sheriff Halstead? Oh, hello there, Jase. Can I speak to you for a minute? Sure thing. Well, what you doing over this way? Come on over here, we can hear ourselves think, huh? You bet. Oh, bud, I'll talk to you later. I got kind of a tickless job in my hands, Jim, and I'd like to ask you a few questions. I hope you'll bear with me while I clean up a little misunderstanding here. Sure thing. Far away, Jase. Okay, you got a letter on February 7th from Harper's Ferry, didn't you? From a party named Phil Clampett? Yeah, I did. Some fellow claims he made a report of a tithe after one of my deputies. And I understand you wrote him that you'd interviewed all your deputies, and none of them had taken any such report. That's right. Boys didn't know anything about it. Well, it must be some kind of a crank, I think. Well, I don't think so, Sheriff. He had a receipt for repairs on the trunk of his car, and Captain Stinson seemed to think he was telling the truth. Oh, so now he's pestering the rangers about it, is he? Let me ask you something, Sheriff. Yeah?  Nothing to speak of. Oh, about three months ago, a fellow was picked up for vagrancy and claimed Jerry Matthews emptied his wallet before he brought him in. Did you check on it? Sure, nothing to it. A fellow was plastered. Is Jerry Matthews a young fellow? Yeah. Yeah, he is. Nice, clean-cut kid. How long has he been working for you, Sheriff? Oh, six, seven months, a reckon. A good officer? Kind of hard-headed. Gives me a little static sometimes, but he's got plenty of nerve. Matter of fact, I'd say he's my best man, Jase. Well, Clampett's dead shirt was one of your deputies he talked with. How could he be sure? When he wrote me, he didn't even remember the name of the diner. There are dozens of chicken and burger joints on Highway 92. He's pretty definite about it being near Corona, Cap said. Do you know of any place on the highway with a fill-in station next to it? Well, sure, that's the roundup, but... Well, Clampett didn't tell me that. Who covers that area, Sheriff? Jerry Matthews and the son. The same fellow you had the complaint on before? Yeah, but look here, Jase. Might as well accuse me. I bet my bottom dollar is a straight shooter, that kid. Clampett said it was a young fella. I think I better talk to Matthews, Sheriff. Okay, Jase, I sent him up in the hills this morning. He's checking on the moonshiner. Want to ride up there? Yeah, I'd like to clean this up right away, Jim. The sheriff picked up his horse in Corona and loaded him into my trailer with Charco. We drove about 30 miles out of Corona and took off on horses into the hills. The sheriff knew where the still was supposed to be located, so we didn't have any trouble finding his deputy. Up there is Jerry's horse. Oh, there he is now, over there. Coming up from behind that rock. Hey, Jerry! Hi, Sheriff. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You find anything? No. Just another room right, Gaston. Looked all over, there's nothing here. Just come out on a wild goose chase. Jerry, there's Ranger Pearson. Jerry Matthews. Ranger wants to talk to you, Jerry. But that fellow claims he had his tire stolen. You mean the one who wrote that letter? Didn't even know where it happened? Well, we figure now he was talking about the roundup, Jerry. I told you last week I don't know anything about it, Jerry. Clampett still claims he talked to a deputy, a young fellow, who took down a written report. What do you want to talk to me for? Looking to accuse me, Ranger? Concealing something? I'm not looking for anything but information, Jerry. I told you, Sheriff, I never took no such report. Look, Jerry, the Ranger here's been assigned to clear this up. And while he's here, I want you to cooperate with him as much as you can. Forget one of the other boys. I've got more than I can do now. I can't send you out on anything else, Jerry. It'll get this cleaned up. Meaning I am under suspicion then. We'd just like to have you stick around and we'll get to the bottom of this, Jerry. In the meantime, just on the report of some crackpot, you're relieving me of my duties. Is that it? No, get a hold of yourself, Jerry. Remember, you're still wearing the deputy's bed. No, I'm not. I'm turning it in. Now, wait a minute, Jerry. No reason for you to fly off the handle like this. What more can I tell you, except I don't know anything about a tire theft? I suppose next you can ask me if I stole the tire. Well, somebody stole it, Matthews. We'd like to have all the help we can in locating who did. First off, we want to find out who took that report.  I quit. Now, take it easy, Jerry.  You better be looking for a job than working for someone who doesn't trust me. I'm not taking any more orders from you, Sheriff. I'm through. Turning in that badge, Matthews, doesn't mean you're not still taking orders from both of us. What do you mean, Ranger? I mean, the sheriff and I are ordering you to stick around and be available for questioning until we figure this out. We're not through investigating this case yet. After we left Jerry Matthews, we headed for the Roundup Cafe to talk to the owner. We drove out to Highway 92 and got there a little past one. Mr. Charlie Reeves, he owns a place. I'd like to know if he remembers about that deputy. Hey, Charlie, you got a minute? Ranger Pearson here wants to talk to you. Sure thing. Wait and look right behind. Howdy. Mr. Reeves, do you remember an out-of-state car belonging to a fellow named Phil Clampett? Who? Phil Clampett. He claims he had a spare stolen out of the back of his car while he was eating in here. No, sir. I don't remember anyone having a tire stolen. When did it happen? A couple of weeks ago. You don't recall one of your customers sending for a deputy sheriff at any time? No, sir. I don't, Ranger. You know a deputy named Jerry Matthews? Sure do. You remember if he's been around here lately? No. Don't think he has. He used to drop in here for grub all the time before he got married. I haven't seen Jerry Morton twice in the last year, I reckon. Don't look as though you're going to be much help to us, Charlie. Sure. Sorry, Sheriff. Hey, maybe Vince knows something about it. Hey, Vince? Yeah? Take a face out that blueberry pie for a minute. Come over here, will you? Yes, sir. That's my brother-in-law, Ranger. Take care of the fill-in station next door for me. I'd be able to tell you something. Hey, Vince, this Ranger Pearson. Howdy, Rick. I'd like to know if you can give us any information about a tire theft. Tire theft? Yeah. A fellow named Clampett says it happened here, and he sent for a deputy. You know anything about it? Search me. I've heard anything about a tire theft or a deputy coming here, either, ain't you? Being outside, if a tire was stolen, it seems like I sure wouldn't own about it. Would you be able to recognize a customer if he came in here just once, Charlie? Well, that's hard to say. Off a lot of people, dropped by here in 24 hours. That should remember it. If anything like that, it happened. Maybe that fellow's pulling an insurance rack and pick up the price of a tire. Hey, how about that, Jayce? Good to be. Maybe we'd better get Clampett over here, Sheriff, and be sure we got the right diner. Right. So long, boy. You're sorry we can't be more help to you, right here. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, it seems funny nobody remembers anything about it, don't it, Jayce? Yeah, it does. And I'm feeling kind of bad now about Jerry Matthews turning in his badge. Tell you what, Sheriff, let's go out to Jerry's house and take him over to Harper's Jerry with us to talk to Clampett. Darn good idea, Jayce. Because if this does turn out to be a racket, Jerry might like to be on hand when we clean it up. In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jayce Pearson. It's all right to build castles in the air, but don't keep them there. To bring that pet dream, a home of your own, down to Earth, start saving. There's no easier way than through the payroll savings plan. That way, automatically, you'll build up that money you'll need. And what's more, money invested in United States defense bonds grows over and above the money you sock away in them, especially with the higher interest rate and quicker return that defense bonds now give you. 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He's gone out on an assignment, he says. Oh, yeah. Say when he'd be home? No, it isn't, Sheriff. I'm sorry about Skipper's car and Anso, but he ain't been very well today.  I don't know. I don't know if he'll come home at all, Ranger. Anything about his job, ma'am? Oh, no, he sure likes his job, Sheriff. Well, it's only we had such an awful fight today when he came home for lunch. Probably blow over, ma'am. Yeah, it's just nerves, I guess. You see, we don't either of us get much sleep nowadays. Baby's been awful fussy lately, and we've both been a path of night with him. You gotta go through that to raise a family, Martha. Sure. My guest today was mostly my fault. I was nagging at him about money again. Not having any trouble, I hope. Don't everybody nowadays? You see, Jerry's still struggling to pay off the hospital bill for Skipper and the washing machine and all. It's pretty tough on a policeman, Sounding. Gee, yeah. I guess I deviled Jerry about paying the rent on time. It's mostly because we're leasing from my folks. Kind of a stubborn point of pride, I reckon. Anything I can do to help, Martha? No thanks, Sheriff. I guess Jerry takes an awful lot from me. It wasn't about the rent nor... But today, when I pitched in to him about it, he just blew up at me and said he was getting out, and he wasn't coming back. It's probably not half as serious as you think, Mrs. Matthews. Gee, I hope not.  Well, see, I can't just recall now, Martha. I've been up to my neck lately. Well, ma'am, I guess we'd better be heading along. Is there anything special you want with Jerry Rachel? No, just tell him we were asking for him. Sure will. I'm hoping he'll cool off and head home for too long. Well, thank you, Mrs. Matthews. I sure hope that baby picks up soon. He's just kind of got a touch of colic, I guess. I reckon he'll be all right. Goodbye, Ranger. It was nice to meet you. Thank you, ma'am. Goodbye, Martha. Take it easy. Don't like Jerry's heading out of town like that, Jace, when you told him to stick around? I don't like it either, Sheriff. Looks like Jerry's getting a little too independent for his own good. Of course I hate to admit it, but if they're having financial trouble, maybe Jerry did have something to do with that tire theft. Maybe so. Wonder what he's up to now? Tell him, Martha, he's on an assignment when he's turned his bad game. I'm glad you didn't give him away, Sheriff, till we find out a little more about what's going on. I sure hope he isn't mixed up in this clampard case, Jace, with a new baby and all. I hope so, too. And don't think we can tell anything till we go get Clampard. Sheriff and I headed for Harper's Ferry to pick up Clampard. We got to the house about 5.15 and knocked on his door. No one was home, so we walked around the garage at the back of the house. The car is not in the garage. Probably hasn't come home from work yet. Yeah, what'll we do? Wait for him? Just a minute, Sheriff. What? There's a tire in that garage. A new one. Do you suppose that nervy so-and-so really is pulling an insurance racket after all? It sure looks like it, doesn't it? Oh, there's a car coming in the driveway now, Jace. There's the same as those on his car. Yeah. Mr. Clampard. Yeah? I want to talk to you a minute. You're here to see about that tire theft. Well, I'm sure glad you fellas are getting moving on this thing. Looks like we should have come to see you in the first place, Mr. Clampard. What do you mean? Maybe you can explain what that new tire, same issue as these on your car here, is doing in your garage. Oh, what are you talking about, Ranger? Mr. Clampard. This is Sheriff Jim Halstead of Corona County. I think he's waiting for a little explanation, too. I sure am, Clampard. What's that spare doing in there after you raised all this rampage? Accusing one of my deputies of withholding a report.  I haven't got no spare. I've been trying for weeks to collect from the insurance company so I could buy another one. There it is over there, Clampard. Would you like to take a look? I sure would. Well, I'll be. How in the devil did that get in there? Well, this tire wasn't in here when I left this morning. It is your spare, isn't it? It is. At least it looks like it. The one that was stolen? Yeah, but Ranger, I tell you, up till this morning it wasn't here. And I've been away all day. Where's your family? Well, my wife and kids are our business sister and Waco. Somebody must have put it in here today while I was away. I'll bet it was that crooked deputy of yours, Sheriff. Now look here, Clampard. I think you've caused my county enough trouble already. Ranger, listen, I'm telling you the truth. Somebody did put it in here. Well, look around. You see all the dust on things? This tire here is clean. You can see it hasn't been laying here long. I can see that all right. The tire is clean. There are a few fresh fingerprints on the casing. If all those prints are yours, Mr. Clampard, you're in trouble. If they belong to somebody else, then maybe we'll believe you. I got my kit and lifted the prints from the tire. Then we fingerprinted Clampard at the Constable's office in Harper's Ferry. We sent a copy of his prints along with the tire prints to the lab in Austin for comparison. Then we took Clampard with us in my car and headed for Jerry Matthews' house. We got there about ten after nine. You stay in the car, Clampard, we'll bring him out here. Come on, Sheriff. Jay, sir, times when I don't like my job too much. Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a feeling Clampard's telling the truth. Would have hidden the tire if he hadn't been. Yeah, Jerry's skipping off like that, telling Martha they had an assignment. Not too good with that tire suddenly turning up. Yeah? Oh, it's you, Sheriff. Ringe and I'd like to talk to you, Jerry. Come on outside. No use upsetting your wife. You're with me in a minute, honey. Now what do you want? I'd like to know where you were from noon on today, Jerry. When you told Martha you were going on an assignment. Look, I'm not working for you anymore, Sheriff. I don't have to be badgered with questions like this. Oh, yes you do. I'm here representing the county and Ranger Pearson represents the state. All right. What do you want to know, Ranger? Were you in Harper's Ferry today, Matthews? No, I wasn't. Where were you then? Not going to answer that. I don't have to. Listen, Jerry, you know we're just doing our job. Why don't you tell us and be done with it? I'm not keeping anything from you that's any of your business. Where you were this afternoon is our business. Oh, look, you fellas, haven't I any right to privacy at all? Why don't you want to tell us? Just don't warn with us all.  Yeah. It can't do anything but help you out of this mess. Now, where were you all day today? I was at my father-in-law's over in Junction. Had some things to settle with him. But I didn't want to tell Martha about it because I didn't want to upset her with skip or sick. You still don't believe me, do you? Just one more thing. Yeah? I want a fella sitting over in the car to take a look at you. What fella? Bill Clamford. Come on, Jerry. Mr. Clamford, is this the deputy that took the report? Yeah. No, for thee. He was a big fella about same size, but the one I talked to was kind of grimy looking. Dirty fingernails and all. Couldn't help noticing when he took down the report. This fella ain't the deputy I talked to at all. Thanks. Okay, Jerry. That does it. We'll go into your wife now. Thanks. To share? Yeah. Sure sorry about this morning. Didn't quite realize what that badge meant to me. I got it right here in my pocket, Jerry, if you'd like to have it back. Sure would. Thanks. Good night, Ranger. Nice kid. Yeah. I still don't know who did this. Dirty fingernails, huh? Wait a minute. What is it, Jayce? Mr. Clamford? Yeah, Ranger? Did this deputy sheriff you talk to have dark sort of curly hair? Yeah, he did. You mean you're beginning to believe me? Uh-huh. You'd been lying, you'd tried to pin it on Jerry just now. When were you driving out a minute ago, Jayce? Well, when we were talking to those people at the roundup the other day, couldn't help noticing how dirty that brother-in-law's hands were. Bench? Yeah, looked as though he might have washed them all right, but there was black grease under his nails. Bench could have done it all right. Sure, being right there in the fill-in station next to the parking lot, he's got a perfect racket, stealing tires off out-of-state cars. Most of them had never missed him for a while, either. Until they were miles out of the state. Mr. Clamford, did the deputy you talk to have kind of almond-shaped eyes? Yeah, he did, Ranger. Come on, Sheriff, get in. We got an interesting call to make. We headed for the roundup café on Highway 92. When we got there, the filling station was dark and the neon sign over the diner was out. The lights were on inside, and we could see Charlie drying a stack of dishes. Vince was leaning against the counter, can of beer in his hand. He got out of the car and went up to the door. Ranger, there he is. There's the deputy I talked to, the one with the broonies hand. I'd like to get a closer look. All right, sure, Wood. It's Ranger Pearson. Open up. Oh, I'm sorry, Ranger, I didn't know it was you. Hey, Charlie. Ranger and Sheriff want to see you. Stick around. We want to talk to you, too.  No, thanks. Friend here wants to say hello to you, Charlie. Ranger, he's the one that told me to call the deputy. What's he talking about? I never saw this guy before. This is Mr. Clamford. Claims he had a tire stolen here two weeks ago.  In which one of your hooks are tires? It would be kind of simple for you, wouldn't it? Do you know outside? Just to break open the back of a car and take out the spare? Yeah, and then if somebody discovers it missing like Clamford did, you put in a call to the gas station, Charlie. Overcomes Vince, the quick change artist pretending he's the deputy sheriff.  It's the same. I'd like to have you both come down to the Sheriff's office with us. What for? I want to take your fingerprints. You see, somebody got a little scared of the entire figure and this whole thing had blow over that way, but he didn't know he was leaving a nice fresh set of fingerprints while he was returning it. Okay, we'll be glad to come down with you. Oh, no, we won't. Hold it, Vince. Grab Charlie, Sheriff. You stay here, Charlie. No, you don't, Vince. You hold me. Stop that cleaver, Vince. Drop it! You all right, Jason? Yeah. It's all right for you, Charlie. You haven't got any prints on it, uh... Well, we've got a pair of handcuffs for him, just the same. Come on, get up, Vince. Now, let me tell you something. A badge is a mark of trust and doesn't belong on rats like you. 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And now, here are the results of the case you have just heard. The lab report positively identified Vince Wright's prints on the stolen tire. Faced with this evidence, he and Charlie Reeves made full statements concerning their tire theft racket and impersonation of a peace officer. They were arraigned before the district court on charges of larceny and fraud and were each given prescribed terms according to law in the state penitentiary at Huntsville. This is another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers. They will soon be seen in San Francisco's story, a Warner Brothers release. In the cast, you heard Byron Cain, Ken Christie, Paul Fries, Michael Ann Barrett, Jess Kirkpatrick, and Tony Barrett. Technical advisor was Captain M.T. Lone Wolf-Gonzalez of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by Betty Mears, and the program was produced and directed by Stacy Keats. 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Yn y cychwyn i, mae'n byw ddweud i'r cyfrifio'r ysgol, yma'r hanfod yma fel y cyfrifio? Yma'r hybrid o'r cyfrifio oherwydd unrhyw. ac y cwestiynau yw'r fath o unsiwg, ac mae'n dweud i gwybod i yna'r awdraeth, ac yn ffynol y gulfau'r mae'n dweud i'r fath o'r fath o'r fath. Yn y fath o'r awdraeth, o'n gwybod, yw dweud o'r awdraeth, eich dweud i'r awdraeth? Ac mae'n dweud i'r wath o'r fath, mae'n dweud i'r wath i'r wath i'r wath, a'n dweud i'r awdraeth, ac mae'n dweud i'r awdraeth, That bigger profile address. I in fact play the mini driver because of the same principles that we're gonna apply here. Short of shaft but still a relatively big club head gives me confidence address in terms of the size of club head But more control in terms of the shaft. So what I'm gonna do is this. I'm gonna take the shaft out of the hybrid And I'm gonna put it into the five wood. And I'm gonna see how much greater control do we get in terms of dispersion in terms of me finding the middle of that club face. How does it impact on performance and could this be another club that could be a massive help in the bag of many average golfers? Right so we'll start with the first and most obvious thing and we talked about was length of shaft and Roughly speaking I would say and I am got the technical information on this but putting them head to head There is about two inches difference between the shaft That you would find normally on the five wood and the shaft that I've got in which is the hybrid shaft And it's a significant difference in length and control Is all right at least I think one of the big things in terms of control of much rather It's a pitching weight in a three eye and that's largely due to the fact that I've got a much shorter shaft in hand So surely that same thing is going to apply in terms of hybrid into five wood and What difference will it make I have no idea in terms of performance and I will get numbers for both So we've got some kind of Comparable at the end of all this but the whole point is and I think it goes back to almost like the Dishombo the cobra one length issue Is by having these shorter shafts how much greater control does it give us and for me Without swapping the shafts back out straight away standing over this club with that larger profile because the bigger deal for me is Why put the shorter shaft in the hybrid and not into the five wood in terms of all vice versa? Why have the smaller head in the hybrid? What's the logic in the smaller head? Maybe a bit more versatility maybe a bit more playable from rough that kind of things But for me if I'm looking to play this from a T Or from a tight lay on the fairway a long shot Then for me that club sat at address I know when I say club their head profile the bigger their head the more confidence it's giving me the more Chance that I think I ain't going to miss this thing I'm going to put at least get club head on ball, but that's sure to control I mean it's it's a little bit as I've said with the With the wall length stuff It's a little bit weird to get your head round that bigger head On top of the shorter shaft, but once you've done that I mean to me it just feels like I don't know I don't feel I can do too much wrong with this, but uh It's a ball and I always start off the very first ball on the camera. I don't know whether I just get time in Slow things down just get tempo a little bit nicer That was a really nice struck ball and that's the big thing for me I'm going to hit a number of balls and obviously we'll get data and see what it does Because that's the thing with this one. It is going to be data led, but it's also Aside from that it's a mental thing, isn't it? It's how much we can take from it in terms of confidence If this ball is I'm expecting it to be in around the 200 mark And if this ball is carrying 200 but I've got confidence that I can hit that ball that I can find a fairway That I've got control then maybe it's not data led maybe it's all about what's in between the ears, but uh first ball was fantastic You'll have to say that about your own golf shots Well, it was um kind of get a ball to bounce on the tee So, yeah, these are from uh, that's another point to mention playing from a little short tee at the moment What it feels again so much confidence That bit of gear neck Maybe in the bag this thing out there on top of one of the trustee Uh, really easy there great ball flight But the biggest thing at this stage is about confidence stood at a dress short club in hand How would I feel stood on a tight par 4 with that in hand? I can tell you already I'd be feeling pretty good and feeling pretty confident But how much do we lose in terms of numbers and what did I get with this Compared to what I get with a five with the regular shaft in I'll carry on it in some golf balls And then we'll compare the two bits of data and could this be a secret weapon That could find its way into many average golfers bags Based on them two shots The answer will be yes Let's see if we can get that through a hat trick I've got no words for that Jesus I've impressed myself Right, we're going to finish this one off back in the warmth because there's no way I'm staying in there any longer than I have to It's blinking freezing anyway This is Part data led but then I think there's an element of it that we've got to consider Which is about what's between the ears as well. So I think there's two elements to this and there's no right or wrong But here's the data first of all The numbers that I achieved using the shorter shaft in the five wood head What I like about it is taking out shots number two and three two and three being number one at the very top so two and three Ball speeds very very consistent as was club head speed as was spin number as was carry We get the picture as was pretty much everything Um So it's very very consistent in terms of its performance. So spinning at three and a half thousand reps 205 carry on average and there was not a lot between them at all Like I said shot three in particular dropped out a little bit And we got a little bit of extra club head speed on shot seven which meant it got up to a two twelve carry But I think the numbers like I said, this is not about numbers This would have be about in terms of the number it would be about where does it fit within your bag This for me is more about consistency of strike control and confidence at address But let's compare to what I would have achieved So I then put the the regular shaft back in if you like into the five wood And he's straight away that club head speed goes up naturally because of that longer club Length shaft length that is uh, so we're getting quite considerable sort of four mile an hours um Ball speed went up then up to almost touching 140 and again very very consistent I mean it's a great performing five wood This is another option for in the bag. There's no doubt about it Three six spin again very good that carry so all this club head speed ball speed is relative then to the carrier 215 Um and the launch angles and land angles and peak heights were similar. Um And again relative I would say to all those other numbers So we've got a difference in yardage We've got a difference in ball speed or club speed rather and then into into what is ball speed But that's already come from the shaft length So we've not seen anything but the final thing we've got to go into is dispersion and that was the key one for me So there's a dispersion chart in front to you now Um these purple dots is that of the obviously the longer is of the five wood with the regular shaft in I mean I wish that had carried on hitting a few more of the five woods to be honest with you because I sort of obtained data That I was comfortable with um and then moved on to hitting the with the shorter shaft so It was kind of I think there would have been a wider spread you can see there's two down the left hand side Uh with the five wood But there's a much more compact area using the shorter shaft, but there was a lot more shots hit I think if if we'd have hit more balls I think this would have broadened the gap a bit wider to be honest with you because obviously I hit a few to warm up And believe me Although I think the consistency is relevant in the numbers that you can see there in terms of the dispersion chart I think it's actually would have been perhaps a bit broader if we do use the broader set of numbers But to be honest with you It wasn't as vast as I thought it would be I also think that this is key to The second element of what I've mentioned throughout it's about confidence. It's about confidence at address That's a major major thing for me because in the numbers I was comfortable using either club to be perfectly honest with you Um however when I stood at address and I mentioned it as soon as I put it in my hands at address During the testing it's a game changer in terms of how confident you feel I mean, I don't really know why this club doesn't exist So that's sure to shaft but bigger head profile and in some ways the epic flash hybrid the avati ddunna It is a much bigger profile It is a bit of a beast in terms of how it performs in terms of yard is distance as well And it's gone closer to becoming more of a fairway wood if you ask me So it's more about I think what the test tells us is yes This is a great club that you could have in your bag sure to shaft in a five wood head Um, but it's all about what fits in the bag. What gives you the most confidence And again going back to the videos that we've looked at of late Uh, what is it for me 205 carry on average is that a club that I'd want to put in my bag if it is and it fits Then this is a great option and another great option I think for average golfers in general looking at shorter shafts greater control More ability to find that sweet spot. That's what it's all about I think that I've learned in these last few weeks with the likes of the hybrids the seven hybrids the seven woods Five woods with shorter shafts It's all about clubs that are more suitable for our ability and gives a better chance of finding that centre of the club face Anyway, as ever, thank you for watching I am going to warm up a little bit more have a cup of coffee and I'm on to video number two. I'll see you soon


From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. This episode is brought to you by the audiobook True Tales of Haunted Places by G. Michael Vasey, narrated by Darren Marlar. Here are a free sample at MarlarHouse.com. Walmart has apologized for a gun display urging customers to own the school year like a hero. The display drew such a negative response that the company spent a full day repeatedly apologizing to outraged tweeters. Now, while I do agree this display is completely inappropriate, we don't need to make it a norm to apologize to outraged tweeters. If we did that, the country would get nothing done and eventually we would crumble 140 characters at a time. 68-year-old wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Rick Flair has been hospitalized and admitted to an intensive care unit in Georgia. Coverage of Rick's battle in the ICU will continue this weekend on CablePaperView! Just kidding, Rick, I'm sorry, we wish you all the best and get well soon. In Texas, the guy with the gun went into a convenience store and demanded money, and he was given money. He told the clerk to open the safe. The clerk said he could not open the safe, so he demanded two lottery tickets and some smokes. The clerk gave the man a pack of smokes and an entire roll of lottery tickets, but the robber took just two. Police caught up with him a short time later, and by only taking two lottery tickets, I'm going to bet he did not win enough money to post mail. In Virginia, someone broke into a man's apartment, cleaned it, and took nothing. Completely cleaned the place. Where are these criminals? Would somebody please give them my address? Cynthia Nixon of Sex in the City fame is reportedly thinking of running for governor of New York. Although, if she plans to jump into politics, I would suggest changing her name to something other than Nixon. Pope Francis has warned Christians not to put their trust in horoscopes. Eh, well, what else do you expect from a Sagittarius? Beryl Hamilton Jr. decided to propose to his girlfriend, Rihanna Lopez, on a recent plane ride over Fresno, California, where the fruit trees had started blossoming. Hamilton has seen on video showing Lopez the ring and asking, will you marry me? But seconds later, he succumbs to motion sickness from the flight and throws up on the floor of the plane.  The White Ford Bronco used in the O.J. Simpson's slow speed chase is up for sale. Low miles, not driven very fast, very, very, very clean. Halloween is still more than two months away, but that did not deter three people from putting on costumes to shoplift at a Pennsylvania Walmart. One man was dressed as a bull, one as a werewolf, and a third as a gorilla. They stole more than $560 in merchandise, but they were caught. They tried to blame it on the bull market, calling it guerrilla marketing, but police weren't likened to that explanation. Down in Orlando, Florida, a couple was injured while transporting a barbecue grill in their SUV. That's because they had the grill in the back of their Kia Sorento and was turned on, with the propane tank wide open and connected. When the wife lit a cigarette, I'll let you guess what happened next. Okay, I'll tell you, the SUV exploded and the couple was burned, but fortunately their injuries were non-life-threatening. The life of the SUV, on the other hand, is over. Police in Crestview, Florida have arrested 32-year-old Matthew Horace Jones, who allegedly caused more than $100,000 in damage to a liquor store under construction at the Crestview Walmart and to construction equipment. He reportedly used a forklift to damage the building under construction after breaking into the fenced-in construction site. The building under construction was completely destroyed, along with a city fire hydrant and water meter. When police arrived, Jones aimed the forklift toward officers who stopped him at gunpoint. Jones then told the officers his name was Alice Wonderland and that he was told to commit the offenses by a hookah-smoking counterpillar. He also told detectives that he had a problem with Walmart building a place to sell alcohol. Well, it may not be alcohol, but this guy was definitely on something. A warning has been issued for a chemical found in hand sanitizers, so after you use a hand sanitizer, remember to always wash your hands. A California man allegedly broke into a woman's home and fell asleep on her couch, naked. That doesn't say it here, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say that alcohol was involved. Cole White lives in Berkeley, California, but apparently he felt it was important enough to travel all the way across the country so he could participate in the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Well, I hope it was worth it. He now will not have a job when he gets home. The top dog hot dog chain fired White. Yes, his name is kind of ironic, isn't it? They fired him after he was identified on social media as one of the white nationalist protesters. Top Dog issued a statement reading, effective Saturday, 12 August, Cole White no longer works at Top Dog. The actions of those in Charlottesville are not supported by Top Dog, we believe in individual freedom and voluntary association for everyone. White was one of several protesters identified by the Twitter account YesYouAreRacist after users were asked to name people in photos from the Charlottesville rallies. So, can they legally fire him? One legal analyst says yes and explains that the First Amendment only protects you from actions by the government based on your speech. It doesn't protect you from actions by your private employer. She says it's also not a discrimination issue because going to a rally like Charlottesville doesn't make you a member of a protected class. The singer of the weekend is reportedly considering changing his name. Maybe this time he can choose a name he knows how to spell. A study says yellow taxi cabs have significantly fewer accidents than cabs of a darker color because the yellow cabs are more visible. This study brought to you by the Center for Studying the Obvious. A Russian spy plane was spotted recently over New Jersey, so we know they didn't see anything of consequence. A secret elite section of Tinder has been running for at least six months. Now, if this is the first you've heard of that, you are not one of the elite. Tinder Select is by Invite Only and it's aimed at CEOs, supermodels and other hyper-attractive slash upwardly affluent types. So, in other words, all the uppity conceded people you would be miserable dating anyway. Scandal and Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes has signed a deal with Netflix to produce some shows for them. First up, Anatomy of a Scandal. If you're already an official weirdo, please share this video on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media to help get the word out. If you'd like to become an official weirdo, simply click that subscribe button and notification bell. And while you're at it, click that like button to let the world know you're a weirdo.


Thank you. Thank you so much so daughters to developers training teens to WordPress this talk started because I started an agency and had daughters who were at the age where they were learning to work and So they needed jobs so WordPress since it was so prevalent in my life was something I wanted to pass on to them and and That's that's the whole reason behind the talk was I wanted them to have a job where they could Take it with them where they and where they didn't have to be tied to retail or selling burgers or Selling flowers or something. I wanted them to have something that they could take with them on their laptop So that's the whole reason behind the talk and now I'm going to get started Do you remember when you were a child? Good good. Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? Yeah Okay, well, maybe some of you are not really far from that age actually But for the rest of us it could seem like a long time ago and When we were young we tried to plan out our lives didn't we I know I did Yeah, okay. Well, I knew what I wanted to be Like most girls my age I wanted to be Wonder Woman However, I didn't realize the amount of time talent height and fitness required for such a dream. I Also lacked the magical glider that would lead me to the Amazon and with that realization. I had to look for a plan B Many people like me and maybe like you learn to adapt their life plans to their particular Circumstances we learned school of skills of thought Skills and schools of thought and we develop habits and then we apply them to the circumstances that evolve in our lives Not all of us can train to be Amazon warriors We need to be open to the changes that life presents and always be ready to shift into a new plan Recognizing this and embracing this has helped me in my life Oh, whoops wrong slide. There we go And it's helped my cup the people in my company the individuals around me and it's helped my daughters And we're gonna be talking about that today and how because they've seen me have a life that shifted They understand that their lives will probably have similar things happen and that they need to be prepared in the event of whatever comes But first I want to introduce you to a 17-year-old girl She had started at a university as a music major and she desperately wanted to play in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Her grandparents had both played in that orchestra She was young and full of energy and she had drive and dreams She had an example to follow because of her grandparents her great-grandmother was born in 1886 and broke all the social barriers of her time to pursue a career playing the violin in Los Angeles This girl spent three to four hours a day practicing her instrument Anxious to impressed and truth be told keep up with the other students at the university The first month of college was busy and hard, but she kept at it carefully balancing the Time it took to have a social life as well as a school life and One night while driving home from a friend. She was in a car accident The car flew in the air World around and ended up in a tangled mess She was able to walk away slowly and in pain But all in one piece without serious injury. So it seemed a few days later. She was still in pain though So she went to the doctor She was told that her injuries would require several months recovery and maybe several years and that She needed to continue with physical therapy The doctor explained that her injuries were being worsened by playing her instrument and that for every hour She played she was going to have to do two hours of physical therapy to undo what she'd done She questioned what would she do and the doctor gave her some great advice The doctor said you have other talents. I've heard you say you'd like to write you should try the local newspaper See if they need some help and so she did So that 17 year old girl was me and I took the advice of that doctor. I Moved to my plan C The next day I went to my local community newspaper and asked if they had anything I could do Sorry, I lost my mouse here That's gonna take me down there and Luckily, they were looking for someone they Looked at me and said we need a man on the street And I was surprised and wasn't quite sure how to react to that and they said here. Here's a camera Go and interview people ask everyone the same question and come back and write your story It wasn't glamorous, but it sure was fun I took pictures of everyone I could interview and kept asking questions until I had a variety of answers to write the story That one day helped me realize a lifetime passion. It inspired me to a love for community. I Found new purpose and asking people things about things that matter to them and about their community Within a couple of weeks. I was covering real news for the newspaper I was given my own desk and the opportunity to write about the police log and Building permits and I especially liked my column up on real estate transactions I Was interpreting data and writing up stories and remember I was only 17 years old The publisher took a special interest in me He liked my work ethic and he loved that I cared about the people I was working with and what I was doing Because of that he began to teach me everything I would need to know to later run a group of community newspapers In many ways he prepared me for the rest of my life Which led to me accepting plan D? At the ripe old age of 22 I left my career as a journalist to become a wife and later a stay-at-home mom The excitement of staying home lasted about three months and Before long I was itching for the thrill of the newsroom again. I started working from home With a non-profit publishing their monthly magazine out of my spare office It was a lot of work, but I loved it and I loved that I had the skills to make it happen Skills that I had built up over a lifetime all from my own home Skills that I had learned from working at the newspaper Skills that I had learned from producing their monthly dining and entertainment magazine These things came back into my life my husband Jared was a programmer and he provided that non-profit with their first website Since he also had a full-time job at a large corporation I Ended up having to do a lot of the management for that website. I learned how to make updates and design changes and Was shocked to find out how much it really was like running a newspaper and building a newspaper My husband became ill and began and so I began to manage the website exclusively I'll lay enough. I found myself prepared for that because he had taught me step by step the process of how to continue the website and what code to use and what places to put things and I was grateful and I was also sad because during this time. He actually got very sick and his illness progressed and he passed away Which brought me to plan E. I started consulting small businesses and Through that found a job as a writer Only they referred to me as a blogger. I blog several times per week for a company called today.com and This gave me the freedom to work part-time from home all the while surrounded by my children I didn't have this many children at that time But this is a photo of me and my family. You'll notice that there are Let's see one two three four five six seven eight children my husband and I I'm the arrow and that four of the girls have circles around their heads I'm the arrow. I'm in the middle always in the thick of things in my family and With a large family when I remarried. This is what we ended up with I was always in the center of everything and so Working from home was ideal because it gave me something to do while still being able to Help my family to grow When today.com decided to change their pay structure in 2009, I had to find a plan F And I was recruited to a website development company that needed a blogger who could write community news It was a perfect fit and I began writing all of their custom content It was here that I used my previous skills It was here that I realized that plans a through F had prepared me and had worked together For this position and it was here that I recognized that I needed a plan G so after in So after six years, I decided to launch my own blogging company and I launched a website at need someone to blog.com Back then I only had five clients and one assistant writer However growth occurred quickly and I realized I was going to need help to deliver the quality. I expected at the end of my first year My business coach suggested I hire somebody because we've gone from five clients to 35 clients and It was more than the one writer that I had as my assistant and I could do together So I reached out to friends to see if they knew anyone and found three more writers All were women who placed their priority on child rearing But sought out part-time methods to share their ability to write and research Like I had done years before And it was very satisfying to know that I was helping other highly educated women Stay at home and find their plans B through Z It was rewarding and energizing for them to and it propelled all of us to really move forward as a team as Opportunity came we had to be ready for it I developed a training program to make sure the writers followed our company standards in all content I went from being the all-star writer to being the head of quality control I read everything before it went on a client site to make sure that it represented our brand and provided feedback to my writers Together we cleared up questions and fine-tuned the process and I launched our in-house certification for some of our clients So that they could have a do it a self do it yourself approach During this time we continued to grow as a company two of my sister-in-laws reached out looking for interesting work and Decided to come on as social media managers Other friends came to me as well a friend's daughter reached out needing part-time work as a receptionist So I wrote an if-then script on different scenarios and had her memorize them in our community voice and Hired her part-time though. She was only working 10 to 12 hours a week She kept our clients happy because they heard a voice and not voicemail And this allowed me to have some downtime during the weekday hours because from that picture we saw before of all those kids My time was very busy And I needed to have some downtime What I found was that I had unknowingly tapped into a local workforce of people who needed and wanted to be employed Pretty soon. It was time to hire more writers And it was also time for my daughters and my niece who happened to all be excellent writers to start earning their own money at 16 and 17 years old Remembering that when I was 17, someone saw the value in me. I wanted the same for them. I Recruited them to work for me So hoping that I'd accomplish more than just gaining new labor. I wanted to deepen their understanding of what I did Who I was and bring a different dynamic into our relationships. I Secretly anticipated that they would love the work I do And that we were doing at the company and that they'd want to be more involved As I was ready to be less involved in the day-to-day operations Because you see when I first became a mom of little girls I'd read a book called see Jane win by dr. Sylvia rim The premise of the book revolved around being intentional when raising daughters and shared examples of parenting gone. Well One of the biggest parenting takeaways for me was to be a coach not a judge And I set out to do just that as a mom My parenting was not perfect But I knew that same approach could be successful when training my daughters on job skills I had to balance the role of being a mom and Being a boss which meant I had to have definite expectations of timeliness respect Vacation sick days and I also needed to explain and really show them through example that sometimes work is tedious and sometimes Even the best work has to be redone and we had to learn together That a critique of the work was not a critique of the person and it wasn't a personal criticism of them I Trained my daughter and my nieces on the key, uh, sorry my niece only one nuances of keywords and phrasing I Taught them the value of the story and we had discussions on website content and social media posts lots of discussions Then I taught them something even more valuable. I taught them to rely on other women for help To reach out to the writers content curators and mentors on our team and in my personal business circle Rachel carry Bridget Siri Jennifer and more in doing so they were no longer just working for mom or aunt Jenny They were part of an organization of strong women who could lend support They saw others besides me who were managing remote work and realized it really could be done They watched us as Bridget and Elizabeth and I launched women who WP and as it developed and felt the support for my tech friends in WordPress in some ways witnessing the growth of that organization It may have had more influence on them than working for me Of course, I also taught them skills I showed them what options were available with websites and encouraged them To learn about and launch their own blogs in WordPress. I Showed them how to log into a site write a blog post add an image and check their writing with my favorite plug-in I Showed them how to share that post on social media and how to build an email list and Suddenly it wasn't just my daughters Who were helping me write and build websites? Their friends of all genders became involved as well Some days we gather at the local cupcake shop and I teach new skills to whoever wanted to learn whenever and wherever we were I Accompanied my one of my daughter's choirs on a trip they were singing in the Vatican and on that trip we ended up on With one of her friends Morgan who later worked for me on a transatlantic flight and I'm teaching him how to Create some designs on my iPad so that we could use those later We went through an image mapping phase where I taught 17 and 18 year olds That one skill for several weeks and then had them apply it to dozens of websites when needed. I Taught others how to link check a website then it was page building and some HTML For very specific projects and I discovered that any time I took the time to train or create a training video It freed me up to explore ways that I could grow the business or work on my own writing and projects Plus as my daughters and their friends went on to study at their universities They had part-time jobs working on websites writing blog posts reviewing SEO and website pages creating graphics and logos and coding for companies that weren't necessarily owned by me Once I started creating those videos of needed tasks the world opened up literally The world opened up literally who world I was able to hire a full-time assistant in the Philippines Her name was Ash. She was amazing and Ash assisted me in multiple roles and she loved her job She learned my voice and began answering my emails She created artwork to be used in social media She searched for stock images that would work well in client blog posts as well as on our websites She proofread and link checked and navigated spreadsheets and project management tools like a pro She backed me up on projects when Time was short and freed me to take extended trips like this type of a conference She set a standard that I use when hiring other virtual assistants and staff members I Including my daughters. I now have a distributed workforce of 16 talented people As you grow as a company, it's critical to develop plans and use tools that make sense for your organization And you have to be flexible whether you're in one office or spread across 12 countries You have to have a system that works for you A Google Drive for document collaboration and several project management tools made this easier for all of us Most communication was done through these tools or email and Facebook messenger I tried to implement a Slack channel, but it wasn't as natural to my newfound staff You know part-time tech people they didn't want to learn it and so we use tools that work better for them Since specific skills were taught and timed it was easy to attach a monetary value to the work that was done And I could pay very well since my staff was now skilled and able to replace my time on projects Much more than money was gained from this experience though. It became a lesson in self-discipline team collaboration team management marketing entrepreneurship business Friendship and trust Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Connie Schultz said we must carry as we climb in this life And I like to think that's what we did and continue to do These are some of the things that the people the the young teens that worked for me found that they learned Work can be fun part-time work can pay well Job skills can translate into career skills You can work work into your life adults have to learn to Tech doesn't have to be hard Coding a website doesn't have to be hard and it's possible to Google or YouTube to learn new skills They also learned that work conferences can be fun especially WordPress or Word Camp conferences social media became more of a science than an art to us and They learned that tools exist to help and help work whether it's from scheduling posts to finding images in a stock account and They also learned that WordPress is an amazing tool My daughter Riggly is here with me Riggly She's an example of how all of this has come to life she graduates from her university in December She took the knowledge that she gained at need someone to blog and applied it elsewhere. I Started getting phone calls from her while she was away at school saying mom. I'm taking a Java course Or she'd send me a text with a link to a website. She just built In the last four years she's developed her skills as a designer because she actually went a little bit of a different route I thought it would just be a shoe-in. I thought she was gonna be a writer, right? No she Loves the look of websites and so she has gone from tell them what you've gone through loudly She started a web design And graphic design our education our education studio art back to graphic design and now Graduating in web design and back to graphic design before graduating in web design so she Incorporated really all the things that she had been given a glimpse of while working for me she tried them all out at school and then ended up back to web design and she's now ready to Leave her mark on the world Using all the information that she's been gathering since she was 16 years old And now Riggs attending word camps with me, which is really fun for me In her words word camp is opening up whole new avenues of communication and showing me a world of WordPress Beyond the computer screen I taught them and they taught me here are some of what I learned through the process Diversity is more important than gender It's reaching out to people of all ages and all walks of life It's banding together to bring out the best in one another and it's respect regardless of differences Providing skills to the next generation is more than just passing on technical knowledge Training teenagers requires artful management of time and a dedication to building systems and processes You don't truly know something and so you've had to break it down and view it through someone else's eyes When you can see each bit of knowledge as a piece of a larger puzzle Then you can reassemble it all and teach someone how it fits together I as a business owner and mentor was constantly learning and improving and Shifting to meet the needs of caring for my staff I found it drew my team closer when they realized I didn't have all the answers either Plus I didn't want them to always feel they were the only ones being challenged and I felt like I Was always learning something new because in this tech world Things are always being thrown at us and there are new things to learn every day and I didn't really understand Why it was so challenging for these teens who seem to go from thing to thing pretty easily to pick up new skills sometimes and so I decided that I needed a lesson in empathy really and I went ahead and took a class from Udacity on front-end development and This did definitely provided me some empathy because it was a lot of new skills that I suddenly was learning and it was good for my Girls my children and the people who worked for me to see that I still was trying to improve my skills and It helped me to understand what they were doing as they balanced home and school and work responsibilities because it was hard So it taught me empathy and it made me a better mentor My daughters may look and act like me but they weren't me and That's something else that I had to come to a realization of that I needed to respect their own skills and Their way of looking at life and help them to be the best that they could be Just because they were following my career path Didn't mean they were going to do it the same way I did So we all need to mentor one another and help those looking on our sons and our daughters our family and our friends as they discover their way in WordPress and beyond Thank you Any questions? Want to know what really is plan B is really what's your plan B? Plan B is work for someone other than myself So she Work for someone other than me or than herself, right? Because right now you work for me Yeah, so that's my plan B right perfect My number one tip what would be my number one tip for starting entrepreneurs as You're just starting out. It's great to have a vision and goals but it's really important to break it down and See like set your goals and then try to make achievable Milestones as you're you're progressing When I launched my business I mentioned I had five clients Five clients I could manage on my own, but I couldn't do that and manage my business And so that's why I hired someone to help And I had no idea we were gonna have 35 clients by the end of that first year But I set a goal to try to get three more clients every month and pretty soon I was at 35 and then the next year I thought okay. Well, let's see if we can double that We ended up with a hundred at the end of our second year and so and now we have much more And that's something that I would never have seen I couldn't have even Envisioned that we were gonna go from five to a thousand in five years, you know but once That happened Now I can look back and say well it was really incremental It was just bigger numbers than I ever anticipated and so sometimes just doing the work just getting started on That path and hitting those milestones gets you to where you hopefully will be Yes, yeah, I really like your story. It was very moving. Thank you. I also like your appeal on diversity and so on Thank you I was wondering how come that so many people working for you were women or girls and not that many men Okay, so he's wondering why so many people working for me are women and not men or boys I actually do have men and boys working for me, too The focus of this talk was daughters to developers because we're trying to encourage women to get more active in the word press space but my project manager is actually a male and my I Have website builders and I have I don't have any writers right now who are male. Do I I don't think so No, but I have in the past and It's just who comes to me part of The teenagers that work for you. Yeah, the teenagers because they were friends with my daughters They wanted to do whatever my daughters were doing, you know They they learned the business and it was very good But a lot of times they go off to school and then they're you know, once they're there they're doing their own I own agenda at that point, but yeah, Stephen right-hand person. So I do I do have a man in my organization Any other questions? Yes Thank you Do you have a regret within your career path that you took a road a plan that you created that you wouldn't later on Okay, why didn't learn any skills from that? I didn't take anything with me Okay, so his question is do I have any regrets or are there any traps that you should look out for as an entrepreneur? yes, I Get very involved in my work and I did not set specific hours in the beginning and so while my kids were young I Would work too much And I would balance it between their school schedules and their sleep schedules So it didn't affect them as much, but I didn't sleep very much for the first three years at least probably the first five And so that's something that I regret because I I don't know that I was as available in my off hours As I could have been with more sleep the other thing that I would say is that in the beginning I took every client and As I've grown up as a business. I've realized that there are some clients that Are not a good fit for me and it's better if I I usually know it right away And it's better if I just acknowledge that and respond to it before engaging them and trying to make it a fit then Then proceeding with it from the get-go Any other questions? Okay, how many of you have daughters? How many of you have daughters that work with you? good And how many of you because you saw this talk today are thinking a little differently about your word at press experience in Conjunction with those daughters anybody Good, okay All right, well, thank you so much for coming out if you have questions. I'll be here To answer them for a few minutes until the next speaker comes in so