Hi, it's Fridja. It's a welcome to Above Life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today, we're going to be talking with a couple in the afterlife, Christopher Weves and his wife, Dana. All right, so let's bring them in. I could feel his energy and he's been requested. I've had other people that have requested him. And he was already on my list, so I would like to chat with him. Plus, I'm feeling very philanthropic. I feel the energy of the incredible movement in the world for more kindness and for supporting one another and coming together to support ourselves and our communities because we cannot expect the government to do that clearly for us. And so it's time for us to do that. So I wanted to, I'm really feeling mellow. I didn't feel like that before I started this video. So the energy of Christopher Weves is very mellow. Let's just see. I'm just going to close my eyes and let the... Yeah, okay. I'm going to describe to you how I'm seeing him. You know that when I connect here at Above Life channel that I use a variety of psychic gifts, different ways to connect. Claire Boyance, the gift of sight, is one of my dominant tools. So I can see him. He walks in with his wife, their arm in arm. He does have a cane though. He's walking with a walking stick or something. There's like a stick, a walking stick. He's very tall. He's very tall. Okay. And he's dressed as you would expect, I think. Like a khaki pants and like a navy blue, like a sweater that's navy blue and it's like a v-neck. And then there's a dress shirt underneath. And he's got a knot where the tie is. He's got a white shirt with navy blue pinstraps and a navy blue tie. But it's a sweater. It's a sweater. It's kind of Kennedy-like, a little bit to me. A little of that New England vibe kind of thing. So I feel the energy of his spirit is incredibly calm. He says, and he comes and he sits down with his wife. Hello. Hi, yeah. He says, I wasn't always this way. I wasn't always that calm. I took a great deal to come to that point. Chris, we, oh Christopher, I'm sorry.  Absolutely, he says yes. Absolutely, yes. He says yes. Of course, he says yes, of course. That's what he says, his words, yes, of course. We know that you had a tragic accident resulting in you being in a wheelchair and having a tremendous amount of need for support and reliance upon others to your wife, which created advocacy and speaking opportunities and all sorts of things, the two of you together, such a dynamic duo, Mr. Superman. And I'm just really, wow, I just, you guys, you have to feel this energy. I hope you feel it. It's so mellow is the best word, like it's this calming tenderness. It's like a balanced, a really level energy. It's nice. It just makes me feel calm instantly. He says thank you, thank you. He says we are proud is the best word. I think we're proud of the legacy of what we were able to create. He says many people could look at our situation and feel sorry for us and think that life is over. My life was over. I have no regrets. There is no remorse.  That could have been the end of me, but I chose for it to be the beginning. And he leans over and he kind of, he holds their arm in arm, him and his wife, and they're sitting and he reaches over and he just holds her hand. He reaches his other arm across and holds her arm. Like she is my strength. And when someone believes in you and loves you so much, how can you turn away from that? How can you just simply deny that? That kind of a love and some would see as loyalty, but he's helping me to feel like I feel, I see them connected. I see like an infinity symbol, which is like an eight, the number eight, but it's on its side, an infinity symbol with the two of them connected. And he said, without her, I could not have began. The most important part of my life was the gifts that I was given. And the times of my greatest trials, that true strength is not from the body, it transcends the body, but it also conforms to the body and the limitations that you set for yourself, whether you're an athlete or an actor. The things that are human about me, it's rather ironic. The superhero part of me is my wife without her. I couldn't have continued to exist in any kind of quality. We knew that my time would not be long. There was likelihood that infection or illness and my sensitivities would take me out. Again, sort of an irony, isn't it? Being the image of such a strong force and in body, it really is an image. That's a very true fact. I would really like to hit that one home. That the image, what there's so much to be said about the image and there is so much to be learned about true bravery and courage and the ability to change the world, regardless of how you look, what kind of car you drive, what kind of house you live in. There are really no more excuses. That's the one, one of the many powerful things that I learned. I don't want to downplay the role that my family and my parents prior to my becoming known, being a public figure of celebrity. I can't quite get the word public figure, public celebrity. I don't want to diminish at all the first half of my life and the opportunities that I was gifted and the luck that I had, I know that I created it and that I didn't do it alone. That seems like a oxymoron, I created it, but I didn't do it alone. It seems a bit hard to understand that until you've lived that, unless your beliefs allow you to believe that that it is you and many all at once, I consider myself very fortunate to have the life that I had and the opportunity to impact the lives of so many others, especially kids, is something that I, he says I will never forget, that is something I will never forget, the impact. There's a legacy aspect, of course, but it's not something that we were striving to create. It wasn't as though the clock was ticking and I had to do something to leave a legacy. It was something that naturally unfolded and my wife couldn't speak more to that and the legacy that we both have. And he says, he looks at her, oh, there's so much love, you guys. I can feel the energy like my eyes, like a motion, I feel. And he looks at her and he just, this loving adoration, just this such a respect and appreciation and he says, I'm so proud of her. I'm so proud of what she was able to accomplish, what we were able to do. She says what we did. And she says there's no, now his wife Dana is speaking. She says, there's no other option. You have to choose hope. You have to choose hope. And I leaned a great deal on my faith and I prayed a lot and I recognized that in my darkest moments, in my, it's not fair. This isn't right. I have children. Why is this happening to us, to our family after Chris died? And I feel like she has cancer. Did you have cancer? She has, she's struggling with something here. I can feel it. It starts in one spot here and then it's all over.  I'm not sure. I'm not a medical intuitive. So it's hard for me to tap into the exact something here. It's almost, oh, it's almost as though you died of a broken heart though. It almost feels like when Chris died that there was, you know, not much to live for. Aside from your children, I feel like she has boys. Does she have two boys? I don't know. She just says family, family and I feel like there's kids. And so at least, there's at least one for sure and he looks like his dad and it's a boy. I can see that. I'm in the energy flow. So I can feel the, there's a subtle power in you. There's a subtle power in you that speaks to your incredible perseverance and that's something that I don't think any of us could even begin to understand the kind of courage and bravery it takes for you, Dana to, or Dana, I'm sorry.  And I feel like you have a sister that's really loving and supportive. If it's not your sister, it's your sister-in-law because there's a woman that's really supportive that feels sister-sister. And thank God for her, she's giving gratitude to that, to her sister or sister. And then Christopher says, he says, he's saying boy is like multiple. There must be two. And he's saying, I knew, he says, I knew they would be okay. I knew they would be okay. They have a strength about them and they have so much love around them and family to support them. And I know that they would be okay. There's no other choice, really. You've got to believe in the best possible outcomes. And that's, I think, where a lot of people find, what a lot of people find difficult. This is Christopher Reeves talking. Where a lot of people find difficult is to really let go of what the circumstances are telling you and choose a better outcome. Choose a higher, more ideal result. Even at the circumstances, say, completely the opposite, or where everything is, you know, the cards in the deck are stacked against you. You've got to see beyond those limits and those restraints and really open yourself up to as Dana said, a higher level of hope, a high degree of hope. It's not, and Bridget, it's not so much as inspiration. It's a different type of feeling. And I hope you can discern that. I hope you can identify that. It's not even a motivation either and an action, a need for action. But it's much more of a faith, a belief in the universe and the power of individuals to really have an impact and the beliefs that we have and let that energy lift us up and move us forward without us taking a single step. That's the point, I think, of this whole process, this whole experience, what it has been and to share that with others and to recognize that everyone, absolutely anyone, could be in our situation, anyone, any family and to not have the means to be able to afford access to the support that is needed to live healthy and even a minimum of equality of life is an incredible burden for many, many, many families and that's something that is not, it's not acceptable and to be a voice for and advocate for those families, families like ours, it was an honor, it was an honor to be that, to make that conversation be heard, it was the least I could do and to give me a platform for hope and to continue to have faith and to live the best I could live as perhaps and maybe a role model for others but more a voice for the families. That's so important to us and Dana interrupts this, that's so important to us, the voice for the families, that's so important to us, so important to us. There's so many things every day and Dana talks about this, there's so many things every day that you take for granted, that we take for granted as humans, that we think, things that we do that are so easy for us to do because we have hands and fingers and our bodies are functioning and we can walk and move we take things for granted, simple things for granted and we've got to start becoming aware of those around us and the community members that we have that are in need that have different levels of accessibility and it's very important for us to recognize that and to put money behind it and to be a voice for that, to be a voice for change, whether it's changing laws, legislation, going before your school boards, whatever you need to do to advocate, not just because you're in that situation but because there are so many others who are and who can be and for those who come into of community centers and public buildings and schools, it cannot be a difficulty and cannot be something where they have to limit their participation, they've got to be just like all of us have the right to be included and if that means we have to invest in accommodating and use creative means to invent or come up with ways that we can include everyone, then we need to do that. We need to do whatever it takes, research-based and she's showing me like creative processes and research-based things and especially like kids like I say classroom stuff and I say community stuff and family stuff and I see not just I see education, education system but including that in the communities I see a lot about kids, you guys, that's what I see. So, wow. So do the two of you have any advice for the viewers here at Above Life Channel? For us, for our lives, do you have any advice that you would like to or words of wisdom that you'd like to share with us? And Dana says, go ahead, Chris. I feel that the most important thing is to get involved, is to not wait until something happens to say something, to be a voice. The things that you believe in, the things that make communities strong, you've got to recognize and support in a way that don't wait until something happens to you, things that are really important, common values, core decency, are things that we cannot we cannot ignore. It's so important for you to stand up for what you believe in and to help others when they're standing and being an advocate for those same values. Everyone has a everyone has a value and everyone has a right to live their lives to the fullest, the fullest extent that they can. Speak up. Speak up. And when others are speaking up, support them. Speak with them. It's really about that coming together and that not being afraid or of not wanting to be inconvenienced, it's really it needs to be important. It needs to be really important. And Dana says, I would Dana, sorry, I would echo those sentiments, but I would also say that it's beyond your family. Think of your community as your family. And we have to start being more aware of the inclusion of those around us and the needs of others and to invite people into conversations that sometimes are really difficult. And it's okay to not know answers, but the important part is to be open-minded that's when we can come up with creative solutions and possibilities. It's really about working together and coming together. And like Chris said, common values common values and beliefs that they're everyone has value and speaking up and supporting each other as you speak up, even if it doesn't directly impact you. When someone is speaking up and you see the courage in them, rise up, stand right behind them and support them. As they are having the courage to speak. That is powerful.  Emotional energy with Christopher Reeves and his wife Dana. Thank you so much. Thank you both so much for being here. It's so just a beautiful energy of calm and peace and very positive heartwarming messages. Thank you very much for being here. And thank you everyone, viewers here at Above Life Channel. Thank you for watching today. I hope that this video has inspired your spirit. This conversation has been so filled with hope and inspiration today. Now it's your turn. Remember, this this is your life. So live it. Just live it. Thanks for watching.


Okay, so what is this paper all about? So this paper is about crowd-sourced innovation and We are actually dealing with the other side in a sense that we are not concerned so much about the crowd workers But we are concerned about how the manager the community manager Can actually contribute to a crowd work and what he or she can actually do and Just to give you a brief wrap up what do we mean by online idea crowd sourcing? So what is it actually? It's it's an organization or a tool that helps you to develop new products or services in collaboration with your potential or actual users customers or employees and It could be one of these groups or it could be all of all all of them at the time or at the same time and so it's it's very diverse how this can take place and So a group of individuals whose very diverse skills and abilities is then trying to to solve a problem a solving test that that was developed by an institution or organization and then they are doing that and Before that can take place. There will be a sponsor. Usually this will be a firm or a company that has been identified by this sponsor and That will be posted on a platform and how the platform looks like and also be very diverse There can be platforms that are set up by the firm itself or there can be wide label solutions that are developed by software companies That help you to set up this platform. So any form you can see in practice So but the key idea is that a group of people is developing a new idea Okay, so just to make this clear in terms of what we are talking about There might be multiple categorization of how on an idea crowd sourcing takes place But one form how it takes place is crowd contests So that means that there is a specific problem that will be solved and then the sponsor offers a price to those Workers who have actually solved the problem and most of the other workers will probably don't get any price at all And they just walk away without getting paid for that. Then we have crowd cloud Complementers, which are for instance Platforms where you can develop further applications the most prominent examples probably an app store where you have an iOS system And then in an app store others can actually provide Software add-ons or something like that and they can also complement the original platform Then we have collaborative communities Collaborative communities means that there is a group of people who are jointly working on a problem or solving a Puzzle or they are using the same service. So you could also think about drive now or car to go For instance, there are people just sharing the same car And they are using the same platform for that and then we have this micro tasks where you're working on a very specific small task for instance renaming a file or something like that and The platform I'm looking at or the platforms I'm looking at they are mostly located in this collaborative community domain But they're also partly located in this crowd contest domain Okay, so what would be a typical example for an online idea creation tasks? So for instance Ford came up with this with this Competition where they said welcome to this ideas competition ideas for the vehicle interior Where everything revolves around the future or further development of the car? Use your experience and creativity to submit your own innovation approaches and discuss them with other members The best ideas are determined and awarded by a jury Below you will get a brief overview of the most important information and completions and then they will tell you what you get for the Participation in this competition for instance So then what happens is on the other side you have this people this diverse group and they come up with ideas For instance, they say it's something like that something that my wife is rather small and always has the problem that the Sun wizard Doesn't reach far enough down a downwardly extendable Sun wizard would be very good And then they say lowering the sill so the part of the car where you access the car is certainly useful But from a static point of view very complex So it might not work larger windows on all four sides would be nice So you can actually see better and then you say a dimmable interior lightning it would be nice When we are traveling with children often the lightning inside must be turned on when it's dark outside But this bothers you while you're driving, okay so then they come up with all of these ideas and the question is how can you actually motivate them to come up with these ideas and so our study is about how you are actually from the sponsor side so from the side of the Crowds working market, which could be considered kind of an supervisor or something like that How you could actually motivate the crowd to take part and we are interested in first of all how the sponsor can help to Yeah to to have people participate and The question is how they should behave so how the sponsor should behave that people are taking part in these activities And we are also interested in crowd dynamics because we know from other markets For instance that crowd dynamics are very particular for instance in Crowd investing people get very excited about a project, but at some time they are less excited And then nothing takes place in the internet anymore because attention disappears over time So that's actually also our theoretical Underpinning we have so one thing we are saying is that you know It's very difficult to get people excited in the internet in the beginning They might be very excited, but at some point they are just not excited anymore And they think let's do something else and if you think about the community manager on a crowd sourcing platform Well, this is actually the person who could help to get people excited again, right? But then the question is what should the community manager do to get people excited again and get them back on the platform? Because the attention of the crowd you could consider as a very scarce resource and the question is how you can tap it actually and So what could the community manager do to get more attention while he could or she could for instance ban specific Contributions so if there is HB hate speech on this platform saying like Ford never worked You know, it's just a shitty car then he might eradicate this this comment from the platform and if there are a lot of positive comments and these positive comments are very similar He might just simply merge the comments So you don't have to read all the comments all the time that you have seen before So that's what a community manager for instance could do So here's our hypotheses and we have three in total So first is if you think about a work environment usually it's like that social exchange theory very far back Would have told you that the experience you have at work also determines your outcomes, right? I mean if you if your work experience is pleasant if you go to work You think it's a great job then you might be actually more excited about it and you might actually contribute more and If you recognize the performance of the workers that might be a good thing for them for two reasons I mean if you recognize what they're doing then that might feel good like for psychological reasons They might simply say well, thank you very much On the other hand, they might also feel well if you recognize their performance Then you might think well, I'm doing a good job and if you do a good job, you might get paid better later on So for that reason that might be also good if you recognize their performance So community managers could also provide valuable resources in a sense that they could actually provide more information So they could actually say well, you didn't really understand the interior what we mean is only the front part It's not the windows or something like that and you could actually tell you what is actually meant by this task They are supposed to do But on the other hand if the community manager is too active and it's just making its own suggestions Then the crowd might not have to engage anymore because if the community manager is doing their job Then the creative process in such a platform might be reduced So for that reasons, we have two Hypotheses the first one is to say a community manager is actually a good tool to engage Crowd participation, but on the other hand, you shouldn't engage that much because if he engages too much Then there might be crowding out and the crowd might simply not participate anymore On the other hand, we are also Arguing that the content that the community manager provides a place of role So it's not only that he's present and says like well, that's a great thing that you're all here So it's a quite a matter of what the community manager actually says so and from psychology literature We know that there is this transformational leadership model for instance, and that means if you try to stimulate your workers intellectually or if you actually Consider them individually then that might be a good thing and they might respond more often But the thing is if you think about a crowd community It's very unlikely if you touch it each an individual Crowd worker individually that is a huge task And if you only approach one individually that might not transfer to all the other guys so if you are very friendly to one person and You consider this person individually and approach that person Others might not start to to work more or come up with more ideas Because they are not targeted by the community manager So what we are saying is that intellectual stimulation might actually crowd out to other workers But if you consider them individually that might only work in small groups because you even have the time to consider them Otherwise if you have 1,000 people a day that might not work in the first place Okay, so here's the data where you're using we have 22 large and medium-sized International companies from 2011 till 2016 who have posted their projects and these are all crowdsourced innovation projects and The data comes from large software vendor So most of the papers we have seen so far looking on innovation on the internet are looking mostly on one particular platform But due to the fact that we got it actually from the people who developed the software for these platforms We got 22 of these different platforms and So but we cannot tell which software whether that is Then we use the data and what we do is we aggregate the individual activities and look only on the daily level So what we are saying is like we're interested in how many activities took place on a specific day on a specific platform by a community manager or for instance by the crowd and so on So how does it work? So most of the platforms or we are observing you in the beginning have a suggestion phase so in a suggestion phase everyone can make suggestions people can make comments and So they can suggest whatever you want like you have seen before For instance with this Ford automotive examples everyone can make a suggestion Thereafter Once you made the suggestions and the community manager might engage with that then you have to vote on these particular suggestions And then either a good idea came up or it didn't and if there came no good idea up Then there will be another suggestion phase and can make again suggestions and comments And you have again a voting phase and then it goes on and on and on and at some point the platform will stop it And we'll say well the sponsor is satisfied Let's just stop it here and then the process ends. So how do these Suggestions look like well, they're all user written well It's not like with Alexa or Siri or something like that where you can actually talk to the system but you you have to type it in and comments are usually as The name already says like comments on other people's suggestions So you can comment on what other people said when they say like four windows would be great Others might say well, that's a great idea But let's do five windows or something a bit and you can also upload media files So you can actually make a picture or something like that You can upload a video and you can explain better by this video or by this media file how your idea actually looks like and Yeah, and in the end there's always a voting phase. So what are we looking at? We are interested in two dependent variables. So what are we trying to explain one is the number of user activities? So that is either do they make suggestions? Do they make comments? Do they upload media files and then we look at all of them individually So one is just how much activity is taking place and then what kind of activity? Okay So our explanatory variables or what we think is actually explaining this user activity is obviously the manager activity so how much is the manager doing and How much contributions are they doing in which phase are you currently or you can only make suggestions or can you only vote? during a certain phase and then the user activities in the past So if the community is very active in the last period It's very likely that everyone else will be also very active in the next period if nothing is going on then Apparently also in the next period will nothing nothing will be going on We also have a couple of control variables So we control for instance for the specific project So for instance we would consider if there's a cash price or not that would be considered by our controls We checked the different platforms because there are multiple types of platforms on these From the software vendor you also look at the weekdays So is it Monday Tuesday or Saturday and we also check what period of the project it currently is Okay, so what we do empirically is that we have to specify a specific model and we use account data model Which is a negative binomial model in our setting and so it's a fixed effects model So it's taking care of any unobserved time invariant factors Okay, so let's come to the empirics law How does it look like as I already told you there are 22 projects in total? We observe more than 1,000 days where people were active on these platforms and the breath the platform or the project length Varied between 16 and 122 days. So an average people engaged in such a crowdsourcing activity 72 days and then they found a solution for this particular problem They also varied in terms of how many people participated in this campaign So in some of the campaigns only 16 people participated in other campaigns we had a lot of people participating up to eight hundred and seventy three users per project and In most of the project we observed that there was only two Suggestion phases followed by two voting phases and then they stopped the project and they most likely found a solution to the problem they had Also, if you look at the periods the suggestion phase usually took 19 days and the voting period was shorter So in seven days one week they voted on the suggestions that had been made and The first indicator that managers actually matter and you have to think about these platforms They don't have a professionalized process and how they come up with this manager, right? I mean it's it's pretty interesting in a sense that if you have an employer and then a supervisor they think very carefully about who that should be and For this crowdsourced communities, you know, they might come up with a person or another person or not no person at all And but you can see that on days when the community manager is active Then you have a hundred and nine sixteen user contributions and when he's not or she's not active Then you have only 31 contributions. So apparently it's it's quite useful The first thing we looked at is what happens if you have different periods What you see in the top here is that if the project goes only one month two months or whether it's a very lengthy project So this project might have taken a lot of months seven months or something like that Then you see the contributions by the users and you see the number of contributions by the users Increases in the end. So the most contributions take place in the end and then if it's a long project then it's the other way around and this is actually in line with Collective attention theory saying that you know in the beginning you have a lot of tension and then the attention just disappears But it's surprising to see here's the other way around actually here The attention only decreases really in the end and if you think about it This is a phenomenon you see for instance on eBay where you have phenomenon like sniping You know, you want to be the last person to make a bit, but a thing is it doesn't really make sense here Right, I mean it's it's not that you keep your last idea till the last second And then you you put it on the internet and you say like listen This was my idea and then they implemented because you also want to have comments on your suggestions And if you look at the managers, you see that there's actually no big correlation, right? I mean you see a year it goes all to the end here It's starting in the beginning but the managers what they're doing is pretty erratic no matter how long the The campaign lasts if you look at the time of the day here you see the user contributions on a certain date of the time of the day you see at midnight and then it goes up to 10 o'clock at night and the red bars tell you if the manager was not active and the blue bars tell you if the manager was active What you can see is first of all if the manager was active all the time Then you have also more user activities But you can also see that when these users are active they mostly get active during the regular workouts, right? I mean it shows you kind of that You know at 6 in the morning the first contribution start and then it goes on until 10 and at 10 it decreases again And there will be less activities So here are our first results our main results So the first one and I walk you briefly through this So it shows you that if a manager is one time more active And this is so-called incident rate ratio So it tells you that if a manager is active once more then users are active 1.7 percent more So actually users are also getting more active if the manager gets active and Then you could actually ask well does it matter how often he gets or she gets active and you could simply say well Is he active or is she active? Yes or no and you can see on a particular day if the manager is active then user activities Increase by around about 50 percent So if the manager is active at all then users also get active more often Okay, so that is the most important finding from that slide and you can see So it doesn't matter whether you're in the voting phase or whether you're on the in the regular suggestion phase that this effect remains What you can also see is that if a manager was active the last day So if he was not active today, but yesterday then this also still has an effect on the user activities today So user activities still increase but not as much as if the manager was active on a specific day Okay, so what happens if the manager gets active more often on a specific day So what you see here is if a manager gets active once twice three times four times five times a day How does this affect user activities and here you see again? This is again so-called multiplicative effect. So two means they get active two times as often three times It often and so on so what you see is if the manager is active once or twice a day then not much happens So it's not statistically significant a different from from one But what you see is if the manager gets active three times a day, then you have a significant effect and actually the manager Induces the crowd also to become active But what you can also see is that you know getting three times active on a specific day is not better than getting four times Active on that day only if you are active eight or nine times, then you actually increase crowd participation more So what it tells you is that the more Active you are the better it is for the attention of the crowd But you should get that active because the more active you get Also the less the attention of the crowd disappears which makes sense. I think which is perfectly Makes sense. So what else do we find? So the next thing we are looking at is I mean, how does manager activity? affect the attention of the crowd and what you can see is that it matters whether a manager makes Suggestions comments on the crowd activities or does it matter whether he uploads media files and you can see for the number of Contributions the crowd makes the only thing that matters is The number of contributions in terms of comments the manager makes on other suggestions So the manager shouldn't make its own suggestions It shouldn't upload media files so that the number of user suggestion increases means the manager must comment more on what the users are doing And the next thing we are looking at is we are interested in how does the manager activity Influence the specific content of the users So do users make more comments? Suggestions or do they upload media and what you observe is that if the manager makes suggestions him or herself That doesn't affect the crowd at all. So what the manager should actually do is he should comment or she should comment on other user suggestions or if he or she uploads media files explaining the things more better or better Then this has actually positive effect on other on other community users Okay, so what else did we do? We also looked at the type of content The manager actually provides so the manager could for instance Appreciate user comments and saying like, you know, that's very valuable valuable what you're doing and managers did this quite frequency So in four or three out of four times he appreciated or she appreciated the comments of others You also clarified and gave feedback. So that was very rare. So in 13% they provided feedback They provided new information quite frequently and they motivated the crowd to incur or encourage them to participate more and Finally, they also did this intellectual stimulation where they said well, this is a very intriguing idea Could you do this in some other form or could you do this better or what is the idea behind that? Okay, so what did we find well We actually found that the most important thing is that there was intellectual stimulation If you intellectually stimulated the crowd then they engaged much more than if you did something else What was also important if is to provide information or to motivate the crowd But we didn't find that providing specific feedback or to appreciate the work of a specific crowd worker was important And I think this makes also theoretically sense because if you appreciate an individual person that doesn't trigger a lot of people to Participate more because they might not even realize that you appreciated One individual person. So what's the the core of our results? So the core of our results is that First of all, the community manager has a positive impact So and this is interesting because most of the time if you look at these communities It's not that they have a Specific rule how they select community managers or they often come a talk with a suggestion Who should do it? Maybe some person out of the crowd could do it They know as a lead innovator for instance and then they make this very erratic in terms of who should do it But we know it's important actually We also see that the community manager should be active, but very stably so meaning that the community manager should be active At least once or three times a day But then doing more hardly has any effect on crowd participation So if you're there like every day and you do three times a day some commenting on other users then this will be actually a good thing and The question is what you should you actually do right? I mean should you provide more information or what should you do and what we see is that if you can Intellectually stimulate these people which makes sense in a crowd-sourced innovation context, right? I mean you should innovate something so in if you intellectually stimulate them. That's a great thing And you can increase Community participation But if you individually consider someone as for instance in a regular workplace where you might do this to to encourage people to To work better or to to come up with better ideas But that actually doesn't help in a crowd-sourced innovation context and finally What we also observe is if you look at the people when they are working What you see is that they are working during regular work hours and most of the time when they are doing it you see that This work hours You know, you don't know what they are doing actually So you don't know whether they do this during their work time or whether they do it as their work or whether they Do it on top and we think that is actually worthwhile to do further research. Yeah, that's pretty much of the results So thank you very much and I have to apologize that the technique let me down and so thanks very much Thank you. I was just wondering because you were proposing a inverted u-shape Relationship and I didn't see that in the regression table. So did you find a? like squared term squared interaction or so Because it would we didn't put it in the nonlinear estimator because the problem is if you interact Variable in a nonlinear estimator. You don't know what you're really getting out, right because you're Interacting two nonlinear variables or like curves and you don't know where you actually are so you shouldn't do that but what we did was we looked at the Number of contributions individually so that was a slide which still popped up before shut down And what you could see is that you know one contribution doesn't play a role So two didn't play a role three played a role and then the effect size increased But if you increase it even more and we didn't show that because they were very little Days where you had so many contributions But if you if you put this together and you say like, you know, they made 50 to 60 contributions You could see that the effect size again disappeared and became smaller So yeah, so we consider this as evidence for an inverted u-shape actually Um Thank you for sharing that with us. I was wondering more on a on an analogy type of thinking The results that you found for the role of community managers Are they? This is just gut feeling right. Are they similar to what you would see in other types of communities? Because I mean innovation contests are very specific a decade ago. We would have called it open innovation type of things and Back in those days there was always the the strong assumption that what you see there in this Social process is stable across types of communities. Is that something that you would assume to be true here as well? well, I would guess for a couple of the results so saying for instance this thing with the intellectual stimulation I would guess this The effect size I would say is probably larger for crowd-sourced innovation communities, right? I mean if you do a micro task, you know, how can you stimulate the people intellectually? I think it's probably very difficult to do it. I guess you could do it No, I was more referring to there are for instance communities around people with shared interests that Like patients for instance, right where it's not about generating something new or solving a problem where it's about sharing a Mutual topic or interest where you see self-help Activities that type of things right and that's that's a different type of community setting. So I was thinking is that similar? well, I mean you could think about things like Wikipedia for instance where you say well you make this entry into this online dictionary and I would guess Similarity is for instance in the fact that first of all if you do the work for the for the crowd, right? I mean they don't participate anymore. That's a almost trivial result, right? Because but in this context I think it's very interesting because you have to show what should the community manager do We all don't really know what they should do, but it tells you don't have them make Do too much and I would say in the Wikipedia context, you know if you would create too much context or content yourself that might actually result in a situation where people are not contributing anymore because they are saying it's no longer their thing and This we got to the kind of contribution the community manager makes like I would say for this individual consideration the same holds right and I had to think a Long time about this why we actually see this result, but I mean it's pretty clear, right? I mean in a Traditional work environment Well, if you if you talk to someone like specifically like you know you might for she might feel appreciated the same Yeah holds in a classical work environment, but in this online Communities like Wikipedia or whatever type of community would be must not be idea creation If you're tortured someone individually, there might be some crowding out because they might say well That's a nice guy having this individual consideration, but you know you only You only tortured one person, right? And so this this doesn't work in in this crowdsourced Communities I would say And I would say it generally doesn't work, okay, I would say Since we run really over time And the coffee is waiting outside if there are further questions do not hesitate to quest to ask To ask me and we have a break right now


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But at the end of the day, I think, you know, what all matters is this game coming up right now. That's the biggest thing. They on the high right now, they got theirself in the race one into the playoffs, trying to get theirself in the hunt, and we're trying to keep ourself in the head of the hunt. So the biggest thing right now is just, you know, taking care of business, taking them out the pitcher, and get ready for what's coming up next. And that's Houston in the next couple of weeks. It's hard not to look ahead.  But at the end of the day, we got to make sure we take care of this person in front of us, because if you look ahead, at the end of the day, you know, we lose this game, now what's ahead doesn't even matter. So we want to make sure we take care of this game right now and keep ourself in a good position, and going into the next couple of games and then out the season well. Coach mentioned how good they are in third down, mainly because, you know, they can run the ball so well with Jacobs. I know it's a priority every week, but just stopping the run, making their second and third downs longer, I imagine, would be... Oh, that's definitely number one key. We talked about it earlier, you know, we played a hell of a game in the last couple of games, against the coach and them, stopping the run. So this week's going to definitely be huge. We got some bigger guys across from us, but our job up front is make sure we all work them, our last them, and make sure we keep ourself, not letting lanes open up where this run back is great at, is finding open lanes and he can get down hill fast and he's a hard runner. Making God miss his yards at the contact is unbelievable. The biggest thing that's going to be us is making sure we game tackle it.  Don't let this guy keep on powering down the field. I know it's team bulls always. Oh, always, always. I thought about it at the beginning of the season. Thought I would have probably been hit the mark already. Definitely not the way I love the season to go out for myself personally, but as in the day, you know, they keep on powering on. As long as I'm here, I'm going to get to that record. That's the biggest thing right now. We're just trying to make sure we win these games. What does it mean for a team? It means a ton, man. It's so hard to get them from inside. It's hard to get them from outside. And knowing how many sacks I'd have missed over the career, just to still be sitting at that 49 mark is unbelievable. Just shows how much work and dedication I had to put into this game and how much more I'm continuing to leave out there when it's my time to walk away from the game. My mark should be left. How much do you continue to work with in the group of things? The biggest thing is just keeping them more so mentally, focus on everything, you know, keeping them healthy is the biggest thing. Let me know that you playing hell of a ball, but learn how to manage your days. Learn how to, you know, because every day he's going 110.  But, you know, when you're hurt, injured, playing as well as you are right now, thank the Lord, you know, you want to kind of manage that as much as possible. So that's the biggest thing right now is just getting the young guys to understand how to manage your body for a marathon and not for a sprint. Yeah, first back, first second, we get this big band. Actually, up in Pittsburgh against Stiller's, it was actually an amazing sack. I thought I was going to miss him. I hit him so hard. I thought I was going to dislocate my shoulder.  But with the second effort, end up getting him down. It's definitely, definitely was an exciting experience. Tyrell, last week's win really, really kind of ignited. The city's really excited about what you guys can do. For you guys, how much fun is this to be playing meaningful December football games because there are a lot of teams in this league right now that aren't? It's unbelievable. Especially after the past couple of seasons we didn't have a, not really having a meaningful game in December. This is everything. This is what you asked for. Being a pro, the game is about playing December ball, playing things, giving ball. You know, everybody in high school always look forward to that thing, giving ball.  Now it's about December ball. So, you know, all the big men show up at this time of the game. And this is where your star players got to show up. And we got to make sure we have those guys show up this next couple of weeks and put our stuff in the good running. How much are you looking forward to going out to Oakland and out with all the craziness that goes on out there with the crowd? Oh, man, always excited. Always excited to go out there, man. That fan, the stadium itself, the history that comes with the Raiders is always exciting. My whole family is all Raiders fans. So it's going to be definitely exciting for me to go out there and put a smack on them and have some clouds to go back and talk less. So it's definitely going to be big for me.


Right, future Steve just put this towards the beginning. There's a lot involved with this So we'll just brush over the the basic stuff and I'll put links in the description So you can deep dive into this and read more into it But I'm a lot of a lot of buildings better to help you to and obviously architects should be helping you If you've got an architect involved on your job So let's press on There you go makes a show it up now. Oh, yeah I know when you're ready and I'll start talking ready when you are far away. Okay, so it's so conservation of fuel and power part L Approved document L. Yeah, that's the orange bit Don't change your glasses. No, you sure in the work once so yeah, we're not okay. We're good. Yeah, I'm just look smarter I'm not going upstairs. Okay We try to say don't look don't look good in my video. I'll play your glasses. I went like and spy kids George Clooney's guys is removable Eye blacker George Clooney He was the president in spy kids and then there's at the end of the first movie George Clooney. Yeah You sure? Yeah He was the president and he was there with blacked-out eyes And he takes it off because it's like glasses, right? Anyway That's a minute doesn't mean you need to get rid of already That's true. Yeah Go action Welcome. This is a bit of a different video to our usual ones We're gonna go through a little rundown of the building regulations for our extension work, which It's official name is the conservation fuel and power approved document L Also, otherwise, no way everyone's just pile building makes but these are the regulations that we've had for the last year now And these are this is what we follow and we're doing extensions from slab up to Our finished product. It's what everyone has to follow. Yeah This this video is no is like we know experts We're giving you information that we've gained over the last 12 months doing Extensions and stuff Which we've just muddled our way through basic because the last 12 months building inspectors have been doing the same as us and learning What all the new regs are and what what works what doesn't and then we're just trying to pass on what we've found out to other people Just to make it easy for other people and it's just an easy video What we'll do is if we give any information during the video will drop links into description so you can just drop in there and go on to there and that's where There's loads of information there where we've got a lot of our information today. So a bit of a backstory. I started in Middle to late 80s and back then During my apprenticeship. We're building houses. So back then we were doing 50 mil cavities We were insulating our cavities full-filled fiberglass, but a lot of places still went insulating the cavities. In fact, we're still using Anglion lintels and Timberlintels and concrete lintels in the early 80s. So Over time building makes change and Especially last few years it's become really with the climate change and all this plover It's become more and more important to conserve energy, which means more insulation Which means new regs bigger cavities thicker insulation wider lintels So we're going to go through a few of those little things with you and just say what we use what we don't use what's available I'm just trying to help you if you're Just starting off to give you just the rough idea Because obviously if you're doing a job by building regulations the inspector will be checking all these things And at least if you know in advance Some of these details you can go forward them without having to worry about Anything being pulled up. So after the part I was introduced I think I've seen it back to 2021 but 2022 also But it gave like a grace period. So it's actually started being enforced properly in June 2023 and if your Extension was passed for planning before that then you were allowed to build it with the old hundred mil cavity and back Then you value yet to hit was point two eight now since 2020 So since June 2023 that is now point one eight, which makes a massive difference That that's the that you value is a calculation of him heat loss Through the materials of the wall, whatever's the blocks bricks timber render, whatever, but that's worked out as the total So you whatever you're using that wall The the combined some of the u-value has got to be below point one eight. That's the magic number point one eight over low It's gonna get stricter Right some examples of meeting these new regulations as you may have seen some of our videos now when we're doing a brick structure It's brick a hundred and fifty mil cavity of insulation and then five light blocks And then if we're you doing block and render if it's a block and render extension We we have to use five lights on the outer skin and the inner skin because using concrete blocks is I'll just explain this a bit. You've you've got seven newton concrete blocks, which are used below ground and for structural stuff We used we used on an extension, which is going to be rendered We just assume this should be seven newton block and when the building specter spoke to us about it They said seven newtons are very very poor Structurally, they're great But certainly the rubbish they're very very bad the cold to let the cold through so What we had to do on that extension I'll show a couple of pictures or a couple of videos and clip them in but We had the block cavity block and then what the robby's had to put Battons and insulation on the inside and then the renderers had to insulate the outside So basically about the insulation block insulation block insulation So the wall ended up 250 mil anyway, so if we'd have done it Firelights 150 cavity fiber lights, then it could have been rendered straight on and Plaster board straight on So you can still use the concrete, but you've got to put extra insulation Which is kind of it's easy to build a cavity wider than at the extra insulation on the outside and the inside And alternatives as well is using different kinds of insulation such as Kingsman Yeah, you've got different Got extra firm Kingsman What we're going up here is we one of our local builders merchants They actually had a leaflet with the examples of what we're taking in clothes. Yeah, obviously We'll show a close-up of this in a bit and we'll tell you where you could possibly find any but That's that's like this is one of our main reference points as we've been going off. This has been so helpful to us That's it your plasma part L extension solutions to reach 0.18 and I'll put all this in the link in the description, but plasma they make the five light blocks So this thing they've given us it shows you all the different scenarios You've got the 100 mil cavity. What's involved? You've got block and render. You've got 150 mil cavity Obviously it shows five light blocks and all of them, but they there are block of choice because they've they're just as good as thermal lights They're probably cheaper than thermal lights They have the structural integrity of a concrete block, but they keep thermal in as a thermal light block wood Yeah, they look like concrete blocks, but I think they've it's blown clay And then the fired very hard to cut You'll never see cracks in here in a fiber light wall You'll always see cracks down the aerated block walls like thermal lights and cellcons those really light blocks Everyone knows what they're like Lovely to build with because they're nice and light but pretty useless when it comes to structural stability structural integrity but um Definitely worth trying to get older or or Going to the website That's absolutely fantastic. I think we use That's the one we use So you've got 150 canal of dry therm 0.32 now There's a lot of people a lot of other builders that don't like the idea using 150 cavity Because obviously you're losing 100 mil off your width and 50 mil off your depth You can't go with 100 mil with the fiber lights, but you have to use 60 mil insulated plasterboards which are A lot harder to install and very very expensive. So the costs sort of even themselves out other builders don't like The fulfilled stuff that we use the the mineral wall I've used it since my apprenticeship never had a problem with it. I personally like using it It's easy. It's easy to handle easy to cut. You're not taping it and also I've always done brickwork first and a lot of people do it the opposite way around I don't like doing blockwork first and if you're going to use the the pyr stuff or the foil stuff You can get that from 90 Up to 95 mil you have 95 mil insulation and then five mil cavity Which we did do with any didn't we I'll show a few pictures of that but um The insulation is expensive The tape is expensive and you've got the extra time And I'm always worried about getting the openings slightly out with the blockwork So you've got the extra time the extra expense On the subject of the pyr boards where you've got to do the blockwork first And then you get up to a certain height You've got to insulate it. You've got to put your frisbees on or fly saucers Whatever people call them the discs you've got to tape it tape all the joints some of it. Um Some of its Cuts so when you fold it around the corners it actually seals I've used that stuff before It used to be 40 50 mil and that's getting bigger and bigger so the cavities get smaller and smaller and then If you're doing Up to a party wall or up against a fence or close to an extension There's no way you can do the blockwork first. There's no physical way of doing it. So You've got to do the brickwork first and the only way of doing that then Is um You can't fix the insulation against the brickwork You never get as flat as surfaces the blockwork And then your insulation is actually touching the outside skin then So you've got to use the mineral because that's the only other way around it Um, if you know any different let us know in the comments So the only trouble with these new regulations is You have to dig obviously you have to dig a wider foot in and get wider Trent depends on how you do your Foundations we use trench blocks. We have to find wider trench block that'll have a 350 mil 350 So the dig We'd have to dig 650 So the dig is now 650 and we have to have 350 trench block and obviously It's getting better at the moment, but builders merchants are still trying to catch up with this so It's a case of just sourcing around which builders merchants have the compliant materials so that's like one of the Struggles at the moment It's not a struggle for us because luckily for us stewart at Fairwoods, he's We've talked about this about over a year ago and he got straight on board. So he he stocks the blocks He stocks the lentils not everybody stocks the lentils yet. He, um I'm not sure they stopped the insulation yet the insulation is harder to get old of and the The 150 cavity closers, they're hard to get old of get the one get the 100 mil and anywhere the 150s We've ended up using wicks for them Um, which are quite reasonable about 10 or 10 reach for I think three meters 2.4 and what they fit in the van anyway, I think must be 2.4 they fit in the van Yeah, and in so insulation like that said it's still a bit difficult to get a hold of so You can either get lucky in some builders merchants or you have to order it specially We actually use selco Because it's in stock all the time And it's quite handy to get hold of And just while we're on the topic of the insulation While you if you're using the cavity beds like we do The specific one you have to buy is the 0.32 because that is a denser and more denser right warmer is The 0.32 is denser and warmer because the one we used to use was 0.37. It doesn't meet the u-value. Yeah, it's given example It's um, it's probably half the price For the 0.37 and when you open a packet point 0.37 at 150 I think you get six in a pack Because it's not as dense so they can shrink wrap it down to the same size because the packs are all the same size But you open the what the 0.32 and you only get four sheets per pack so you've got to take that into consideration the extra cost and How many there are out per pack it'll tell you on the pack how many square meters in the pack And obviously when you work out you've got 60 brick per square meter So if you've got 600 brick that's 10 square meters So you need 10 square meters of insulation right next we're going to talk about steels because um, the big thing now is knocking the back out of people's houses And having big by-fold doors and also on a lot of extensions we do they have by-fold doors So obviously big wide openings So you need a big steel across the top so You can't get lintels quite big lintels, but It's very expensive And it's cheaper to do the steel but obviously steels Usually an rsj I'll click a link or picture With a plate welded on so you've got your rsj for your internal for your roof to go on to And then you've a plate welded on So you've got this plate welded on That's wide enough to go across the cavity so you can get your face work across the front or whatever you're putting across But what that means is you've got this piece of steel that can run from the outside through or see inside above the door That's a big cold bridge in itself Because obviously steel is a good conductor of heat and cold Now i'll put an obviously another link in the description, but delatoll carpenter He's come with a clever way of Cladding the steel instead of just sticking this plasterboard around it and plastering it He's uh, he uses the hardy backer that he's using bathrooms and showers and um wet rooms And that stuff is like a foam So in itself it's it's insulates And when he sticks it on he dabs it on so it has a little bit of an air gap around it So it can breathe to avoid condensation And then once that stuff's on you can um, clad it with plasterboard and plaster obviously But um, I'll leave a link for that. It's a really good video and definitely worth the checking out Because it's a good way of Meeting these requirements if you need to put a steel in yeah, because like you say sometimes It's a bit of a gray area that because it is a they're trying to cold bridging is the big is the big enemy moment and A steel is just a massive cold bridge and they're just Just trying to work the way around it. It's it's again, it's new rules. So they've got to find ways around them But um del's idea is really good and definitely worth a look Link in the description or Um that way And one last thing we want to touch on is we're going back down now back to below the slab. So obviously That's not the other big thing as well as making sure The gray your ground is your floor is insulated as well. So We used to use 125mm jub light for our insulation under the slab jub light is a brand name, but basically it's polystyrene Thank you. Um, but if we still want to use the jub light polystyrene insulation, we'd have to go to 160 minimum minimum And they don't make 160 it either do it. They do it in factors of 50 or 25s. So you can either go 150 and then it jumps up to 175 because you've put a 25mm strip But it's messing about and by the time you go into the really thick jub light it starts to get expensive So it sort of brings you back down to the same price as the 100mm PIR boards, which is the one we use now extra the Kingsband cellotex everyone knows that stuff So we use the 100mm PIR boards that obviously reduces the amount of insulation you need under We have had people in the comments tell us that they have to use 150 But up here it's still under at the moment But I could see it going to 150 eventually, but obviously the thicker insulation the more you've got to dig out To get you depth for your hardcore, etc And but one of the most important things when you're doing insulation is First off you have to have two layers of DPM one straight on top of your hardcore sandblinding and the insulation sits on that that protects the PIR from getting any dump and then one over the top because obviously that's where your hungry is being poured but in between Your walls and your Layer of DPM you need a cold bridging strip, which we just use we use 25 mil jub light insulation and we cut that down to slot 200 mil strips. Yeah so that it's um You've got the 100 mil for your slab and then 100 mil drops down below the insulation So when you put the boards in it clamps into place so it won't move We'll show like a picture or a video of of an example Yeah, we used to we used to cut 100 mil strips and you put it in it's just all fallen over But the the 200 mil strips it goes right down It also protects the end of the PIR board as well if you've got post down at the end of it And obviously that stops any cold Trying to come in through the outside with that bridge in the way I'm not sure they do it anymore, but um, I have seen a few times where the insulation When you start building from DPC on the superstructure the insulation has to drop I think 150 below below the DPC And I think I think the cold bridging strip is just another alternative to that I'm not sure he has to do both But we don't have to do that. We're not told to do that with the insulation It's obviously a bit harder to do that with um, mineral because it's it's it's Our first piece sits on the towers at DPC. So that's it So if you're going below DPC, it's a bit more difficult to hold it in position So it's pain in the arse basically And that just about covers it for what we have to offer obviously It's the absolute basics. Yeah, this is this is just the basics of how we These are just the rules we apply when we're doing our extensions if you need any more information like this We're going to leave plenty of links in description to the government website describing the building regulations We're going to leave one hopefully for plasma for the There you go Get yourself one of these And if you can't we're going to leave the link to the script. We're going to leave a link to this I should imagine you can doubt. Sorry. Sorry, Alex. I should imagine you can download it off the website so Try and get yourself one of them Get one or download one Check your local builders merchants or material suppliers because it was it was from our local one We actually picked a few of these up and was handing these out to other anyone who wanted one. Yeah And we're going to leave some links to some of our other videos showing how we execute these Requirements in our extensions. We're going to leave a link for del the tall carpenter with his method of solving the coal bridging problem with rsj steels and Any other links? Oh stick them in when we have them when yeah, so For any extra information or any references be sure to check our link that all the links down below We'll have them labeled. You just click on the ones you need So that will be it for our basic cover of the part L conservation of fuel and power building regulations. Thank you very much for watching Thank you Do you want to change your glasses? No Are you sure? Can we work once so Yeah, we're not gonna work, are we? We're gonna work, yeah, talking about work Do you know I'm just look smarter I'm not going upstairs Okay What do you try to say? Do I look good in my videos? I'll play your glasses at once Like um spike hits George Collins guys is um removable Eye blacker George Clooney He was the president in spike hits And then there's at the end of the first movie George Clooney Yeah Are you sure? Yeah He was the president and he was there with blacked out eyes Then he takes it off because it's like glasses Right Right anyway That's a that doesn't mean you need to get rid of already So back then If I'm looking out there I keep looking out there and still looking there So so back then I did it again


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I know if a life is saved today That is just for today This is a constant battle that we suffer and deal with and it means a lot to me to get your support and That you share this with your friends and your family So thank you for watching got a great show today our friend Ryan Page From Access Direct Recovery Network is going to talk to us about his recovery journey and what he does today To give back to the community Let's watch some pictures of Ryan's journey and then we'll get right to it Hey guys, I'm here with Ryan Page from Access Direct Recovery Network Ryan I'm so happy to have you here today. Have it be a mic, you know, we've known each other for a couple years and watching your growth and The work that you put in to help the community has been awesome Thank you, you know There's a lot of people out there in the community that inspire others and you are one that inspires me And I'm grateful to have you here. Thank you feeling mutual. It really is and I believe you you know And you know, that's something that you know in recovery. We we speak the truth, you know We definitely appreciate the people around us and the work that we're doing because we know what it's like Yeah, can you tell us a little bit about your nonprofit that you just started Access Direct Recovery Network? so yeah, so my wife and I started a nonprofit called Access Direct Recovery Network and Our mission is to connect people suffering with substance use disorder to early recovery resources Those being things like detox Residential treatment sober living You know in a real amount of time What we found is that You know through through lots of experience with this right is that there's a severe lack of Resources in me and even the ones that are here, you know when we're out there and we're doing the thing man Like we don't understand where they are And it's you know, even simple phone calls for me early on was a monumental task And if I had to call a detox and then a treatment center and I kept getting told no every place I call bombing this really small window of trying to get help and you know where I'm willing to To do something to change my life Then if I get told no in that window, I know that You know I can go back to the street again Right and that's a lot quicker than the solution that that people are offering me plus we get to a point where I'm ready to change. I tried to change. I got the door shut on me So it's just not for me. It's never gonna happen and I was there So, you know, we started the nonprofit to make sure that That nobody has to be there. There's always a solution the network grows daily We started with just local network, right having you know, the detoxes and treatment centers in Maine But then realizing that those are really small and the waiting list to get into a lot of them is three to six weeks And we don't have that kind of time so we started a network out of state with facilities that were willing to work with us and take people from Maine and You know work around a Budget and and help scholarship and that's kind of what we do is just try to connect and direct people to You know to a solution for themselves, you just got married what a month ago. Yeah, December 21st Yeah, and tell everybody what your honeymoon look like on our honeymoon we we we took some time to go up and down the eastern seaboard and And while we were there we decided to reach out to facilities that you know that we could meet with and In view facilities and try to put them in network to try to save lives back at home so it was um, you know part pleasure part business and You know, but it's necessary. You know, we were down there and and you know My wife is is also a huge supporter of of all things recovery. She's an amazing woman. It's why I married her And you know, she's super understanding and you know, we have the same kind of passion to help people and so going down there was for us and you know At the same time for others. I think that everything we do kind of revolves around how we can be of assistance and help other people So that just goes to show that the recovery lifestyle. I mean that we learn to live in You know, we have to take our recovery serious. We have to live our recovery. We have to you know practice our Rituals daily, you know because even though we're out there helping other people, you know This this stuff gets heavy. Yeah You know and the work that we put in It's for someone that's not in recovery, you know, it you know They may choose to to go out and you know have a drink or use something To get it off, you know, yeah, we don't have that option You know, I can't choose to do that So we have to we have to do you know what we have to do and we have to deal with the situation Find a way to cope with it in a way that's healthy for us, right, but we have to take care of us first I mean So what are some of the things that you do for your own recovery because I know you're doing so much for so many others How are you taking care of you? So I I'm a 12-stop guy. I Work a program. I have a sponsor. I sponsor other guys and and I still know part of what I do really is really a core part of what that 12-stop program looks like which is You know, which is helping others to find a way to recovery So, you know, when I have struggles, I have those resources that I've learned through through the program that I've worked. I You know, I always have my sponsor to bounce things off of I I practice rigorous honesty, man I think that it's important to To know, you know, your surroundings and know your situations And I know that when it's when it gets too heavy that I can I can lighten the load man And I don't have to use a substance to do that Which is really one of the gifts of my recovery, right? This is because before That was the solution like things are getting heavy. I'm stressed. I'll just pick up and If I pick up it'll get better except it always got progressively worse So that solution became less of a solution over time So today I'm able to reach out and speak to people and let people know what I'm struggling because Ultimately, that's the most important time. All right, like it's it's easy to be doing, you know, the things You know, I posted something on Facebook the other day man.  And that's that's actually true. I mean Yeah, we actually we showed some some pictures of your journey. Yeah, and you know, we included in there graphic picture of you Can you Can you tell us what that experience was like and was that what got you into recovery? So that was what really pushed me forward into my recovery, and you know, I believe that recovery starts When you start thinking like this is enough like I've had enough. I think that's where recovery starts for us And and my path wasn't linear it bounced in all kinds of different directions and For a long time. I kind of thought I could handle things and manage them the way that I wanted to manage them ultimately was false, but you know When you look at that picture What you see there is is somebody that has been trying to do it on his own for a long time I had tried all ways available to mankind at that point Except a 12-step program and that's what worked for me not to say that's everybody's path Oh, that's what is gonna work for everybody but I had tried all the other things and and at the end of the day like I was just broken and You know my mother had taken that picture My last overdose that was my second overdose in two weeks. That was on September 7th in 2019 and I'd like to say that I know that day. I woke up in the hospital and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna be sober from here on out. That's not how that story looked you know, I I left there and and I got high again and and I struggled and and I struggled to maintain any kind of semblance of sobriety Until you know, I made a decision to to leave the situation that I was in and And really do something that was uncomfortable, which was you know leaving a relationship and my child and Going into you know in the sober living and and trying a new way of life Without that without that happening I wouldn't be here today Also without naloxone without without narkin. I'm not here today. So I'm so Big ups on the locks on yeah, and you you are somebody that Distributes naloxone. I am you carry it You know, you're involved with a lot of different organizations to help push the stuff, you know the the Advocacy of recovery you're part of the main recovery advocacy project You know recently we've all been working on the expand good Sam for main campaign. Yeah, you know It's not going as we'd hoped But honestly Just getting the information out there. We know can't potentially save a life Yes, you know people need to know that they can't call 9-1-1 We don't need to leave people alone To see what happens. Well, we don't need to push them out of our car So we don't get in trouble. We don't need to try to take them to the hospital anonymously, you know, we can call 9-1-1 and be You know, okay, and not have to worry about you know getting arrested getting charged For certain set of crimes, you know where our goal is to increase that list of crimes that it would protect people from as well as You know cover more people in the home Yeah, other than just the people that you know It only takes one person to call 9-1-1, right? But that's not to say that there's not three or four people trying to help the situation and You know as the law is today It protects the person that's on the phone. Yeah, so, you know, it makes sense to us Who have been in the situations we've seen it happen? You know to really expand that yes, you know our lawmakers need to hear that from us Because you know like I said, we've experienced we know what we're going through on the streets And I think what happened at the last session was, you know, people are more worried about people getting away with You know using substances, but I can guarantee you People who have a history of using substances Are going to use substances without a doubt and we're going to do what it takes You know, we don't choose to you know steal from our kids steal from our parents, you know It's a it becomes necessity to live the lifestyle that we're that we need to live, you know, right? So tell me a little bit about some of the other things you do, you know, there's the other organizations and How that helps you sure so I wear a couple different hats First and foremost the most important hat I wear is a personal long-term recovery I think that's you know, that's the first notable thing I can say is you know being a person of recovery is the the greatest Alignment that I have right the greatest allies of recovery community as as a whole I'm a father. I am a husband. I am a friend and Outside of all those things. I am also a board member on the chapter safe injection, which is a harm reduction organization. I am a an organizer with me and recovery advocacy project I I'm also a board member I've already be able to like to say that I'm the president of of recovery together, which is a a A Facebook recovery group that that does amazing things in the process of turning that to a non-profit 501c3 now So, you know, I get to be a part of those things. I'm also a part of the 12-step community and you know allied with recovery organizations all over and I think that's You know, that's a huge part of Why I am where I am today I think that Something that I searched for for a long time that I couldn't find and I think a lot of us have this is We search for a purpose placement somewhere we belong. It's why I felt so comfortable out there for so long Like maybe this was bad and maybe these people were doing things that weren't right but I was comfortable there and I knew my place there and I belonged and That was my people the people that were actively using drugs people who use drugs are my people They are similar to me in many ways I found my place there and I didn't think I would ever find my place and people like me anywhere else So by recovering loud by doing what we do we show that there are people like us that were there that are now here and I found my place again. It's it's very similar to my old lifestyle in a lot of ways, right? I I have a lot of connections I have a lot of people that I go to to get things I need and and and I think that leads us into the whole hope dealer part portion of kind of what where we're at right like You know, I I lived a lifestyle where I sold dope and you can define dope is whatever you want coke heroin weed whatever whatever it was I sold that I dabbled in that I did that and So as a dope dealer, I had what you were looking for on deck Right, I can get that I can get you if I don't have it. I can get it for you You know when I got into the recovery Advocacy and and connecting with people I applied the same principle. This is life knowledge It's it's life experience that I've gained and and I used it in the wrong way for a long time Right, and it made you who you are, right? I mean and you can't deny that right? No, not at all And I embrace that now. Yeah, exactly and we just redirect that right So if we direct we redirect, you know, and you know for anybody that's like me, right? My my addiction was a 24-hour job. I woke up. I had to find a substance I had to connect with people I had to figure out a scam a scheme. I had to lie had it It was exhausting. Yeah, it was exhausting to do and but I did it because you know, the end result was what I wanted You know, we turned that around and we put a portion of that drive that we put into ruining our lives into bettering our lives and we become these Goliaths of being able to get things done. I mean the resiliency and the ability to to come together and Get things done in the recovery community is bar none The best things may got going like as far as you know recovery As far as treatment goes and options and availability very low But when it comes to people in recovery showing up showing out and getting things accomplished We get that done and it's and it's a direct result of of the lifestyle that we lived up to this point So if we talk about going from a dope dealer to a hope dealer, it's a similar principle, right?  That's what I wanted to hope I just wanted to not be sick another day I wanted hope that I can get better and and you know, and we're all hope dealers the whole the whole community of us You know you recover allowed recovery on the road Rising grind like all of us that are out here really doing some work, man We have that thing right that that one thing That people want that we wanted so badly. I just wanted to be sober for a day and and because I'm able to stay sober today for somebody that can't Cannot find that way there that's hope so we got that on deck all day if you need if you need any reminder that there is hope Look at people that are in recovery We are living walking proof that hope does exist and in that way we're all hope dealers Hmm, and you know, it's grown way beyond that right and You know and all we're doing really is sharing stories of people like you who have been through it found a way to get out of it and You're reaching back into the darkness to help people out there's a lot of good nonprofits out there helping people all the time, but Find me another segment of the population Other than people in recovery that are out there doing this as much as hard as often And and we do it because we know the only real end To substance use disorder if we don't get out of it is it's death right might not be today and You know it might not be tomorrow But it's coming. It's coming and you know, that's You know, we we lose so many people in our community And it gets heavy and me personally I just I just took two days off from work this week and I had a stomach bug But I was so drained, you know, this work I work at at blue sky counseling as a certified recovery coach And you know, we have offices in Central Maine We just opened up one in millenocket at at my urging, you know And I'm just a county boy who knows that there's no help in the county And I went to to the owner of blue sky and I said, you know, they need help up north And you know, our furthest north office was Bangor and I said, can we go further and I found somewhere in Millenocket that was looking for a program to move up and And we took that step and now we're offering a program in Millenocket in the rural areas of Maine Helping people and you know to me just having that influence in that decision I It's so heavy, you know, and that's a good thing But you know when I when I sit back and think about it, you know the lives that are being saved I Also think about the lives that were lost up to now, you know, and we do what we do We recover loud for everyone in recovery today for everyone that's still using today Yeah, and for all those who are gonna pick up for the first time tomorrow, you know, because it's gonna happen and you know We can't prevent it Yeah, but we can provide that hope for them later on and you know the work you do the work other people do it's amazing stuff And I do want to thank you for coming today Ryan. Thank you for having me. I love you brother. I love you too My favorite. Thank you so much and likewise, you know, I'm glad you took the time to come on today It's a privilege really is thank you watch recover loud on YouTube as well as on PMC's channel 5 the greater Portland area Thursday nights at 7 and it's also rerun throughout the week If you'd like to support our program In the work that we do please send us an email at recovery OTR 18 at gmail.com You know, we are looking to become a non-profit organization ourselves To help the community in in more ways This was just a way that that happened, you know, it fell into my lap Hmm and you know, I wasn't even somebody that liked being on camera But here I am stepping out of my comfort zone because I know the potential that this this program Has you know, we have goals. We'd like to get into more markets, you know, we'd like to Get out and speak to people in schools You know, actually Randy Beard is setting that up now so we can get out there talking, you know, Randy was on the show Tyler Jones was on the show and the other night. I just got a clip this morning from Tyler The other night his program purpose pups made it on to The late show, but you know, that's that's people in our recovery community getting out there making progress Helping people and it's making a difference and I love seeing it. So thank you Tyler for what you do Thank you, Randy for what you're doing all of our guests on the show up to this point. This is our eighth show So I didn't I didn't think it would go beyond, you know, the first couple And I'm just blown away by the support and the love that we're getting.  Yeah So today We're gonna be shooting downtown Bitterford. That's where I'm from. It's hometown Let me shoot for the feel it project. That's a It's a public service announcement of sorts for those suffering through addiction people that we lost out it I'm hoping it becomes a big thing, you know, and people are able to to you know, memorialize people that they lost through this and That's what the attempt is, you know, try to give it back So I hope y'all enjoy the project Rest in peace I do it's coming. There's a chill in the air around here at this moment They're sick and addicted did it didn't sit opus that this nymph caused morality shift No thesis under siege everyone's killing teens no women and child every dream in between my hands are not clean I'm me out in tribute.  I'm still your soul Diction to prison locked up my whole town rest in peace. Sorry GCM Tito. Charlie anyone who lost someone they loved did this I'm sorry. I watched the tide change used to hustle buy things now It's a hustle just to get something to drive me.   I don't get it. It's a cold lonely role for the addicted